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..__ two dollars per annum in advance t|yi*lii . . omenta inserted at 1 per square for the first o cents fir each subsequent insertion court or ed 25 per cent higher . „,„ of 33j per cent will be made to those - ''>• ,! "" from the national intelligencer paptain fremont's report the prospects ol the party were gloomy '. on the 23th julv when a very dis 0 g picture of the country thev l boul t explore was given them by . party of indian ofthe oglallah band if sioux the j-rc-i drought and the plague of grass uppers had swept it so thai scarce a blade of us wa to be seen and there was not a buf , ,,, be found in tiie whole region their rf-ople they furlher said had been nearly starv ith and we would find their road mark i |, v lodges which they had thrown away in move mon rapidly and by the carcass 3 of the horses which they had eaten or which hed by starvation such was the rt before us i called up mj men and communicated to information i had just received sed to them my fixed determina pi iceed to the end of the enterprise on ich i had been sent ; bui as the situation of try gave me sume reason to apprehend at it might be attended with an unfortunate ro rne of us i would leave it optional with em to conlinue with me or to return among them were some five or six who 1 iew would remain we bad still ten days ivisions : and should no game be found ien this stock was expended we had our bors and mules which we could eat when other n of subsistence failed lint not a man iched from the undertaking * we'll eat the lies said basil lajeunesse ; and thereupon shoo hands with our interpreter and his in ns tnd parted du tbe 30th tho narrative states — we saw here numerous herds of mountain ep and frequently heard the volley of rat ,,.: stones which accompanied iheir rapidde ent down the steep hills tliis was the first ire at which wc had killed any of these ani i|s and in consequence of this circum ince and of the abundance of these shorn or iats for llicy are called by each name we ■■to our encampment the name of i loat land their flesh is much esteemed by the e hunters and has very much the flavor ofthe lleghany mountain sheep i have frequently en the horns of this animal three feci lon id seventeen inch in circumference at the ise weighing eleven pounds j ut two or ii f these won killed by our party at this lace and ol these the horns were small the se of these horns seems to be to protect tbe nimal's head in pitching down precipices to void pursuing wolves — their only safety beinw i placi s where they cannot be followed the s are very strong and solid the marrow oc upying hut a very small portion of lhe bone in leleg.about the thickness of a rye straw — he hair is short resembling the winter color i i ur common deer which it nearly approach * in size and appearance excepl in tin mrns it ins no resemblance whatever to the j ii the latitude this t\-.\y was '*._ decrees 3 27 longitude 107 degrees 13 29 seconds u augitsl 1 — the hunters went ahead ihis i irning as b iflalo appi ared tolerably abund ii*.and i was desirous to secure a small stock i provisii ns : and we moved about seen miles p the valley and encamped one mile below i . in lepi ndence this is an isolated granite ut six hundred and fifty yards long and ""•• height except in a depression id the i-iiiiiiit where a little soil supports a scanty rowili of shrubs with a solitary dwarf pine it s entirely bare every where within six or i.'lii feel of lhe ground where tbe surface is iufficientlj smooth and in some places sixty or ngbty feel above the reck \< inscribed with the lames of travellers many famous in the his nryol tins country and some well known to icience are to be found mixed among those of be traders and of travellers for pleasure and unosily and ol missionaries among the sav ges some of these have been washed away '•'} lit rain but lhe greater number arc stiil 1 " r . legible the position of llii rod is in bgitude 107 degrees 5g minutes latitude 12 es 29 min 36 si c we had to night no shelter from the rain 1 ' ■'■'■■nmenccd with squalls of t in i about iimset th ■country here is exceedingly pic tesque on either side of the valh y which ! four or five miles broad the mountains rise lhe height ol twelve and fifteen bundn d or o thousand feet on the south si le the range v ns to be timbered and to-nighl is itimin ms with fires probably the work of the indi is who have just passed through the valley d the north broken and granite masses rise fi nn tbe greens ard of the river ter b i ting in a line of broken - nun its excei ; ii the cre ice • i f lhe rock and here and there a ledge or bench of the mountain where a w hardy pines have cluster 1 togcthi r tie so lie perfectly bare and destitute of veg tation " ai mg these m i - es w '. ire th y are bes isolated hills a:i 1 ri iges green • pen in upon the river which weeps the base i these mountains for thirty-six miles every where its deep verdure am i of beauti ul flowers is in pleasing contrast with the ste ur of tin rock and the barrenness of l e sandy plain which fro.n the righl bank of i , » i e river sweeps up to the mountain range that "' i1 - its s luthern boundary the great evap wion on the sandy soil of this elevated plain ft ad the saline efllorescences which whiten lhe ground and shine like lakes reflecting the sun ate a soil wholly unfit for cultivation august 3 — several bands of buffalo made tlle jr appearance to-day with herds of antelope : j n grizzly bear — the only one we eucoun ere d during the journey — was seen scrambling ",'' aiftong the rocks * as we passed over a se near the river we caught the first ew ol the wind river mountains appearing pthis distance of about seventy miles to be a °* ud dark mountainous ridge the view sipated in a moment the pictures which had . en ceated in our minds by many descrip m i travellers who have compared these jj nla na to the alps in switzerland and sneak jj s 1 '." 0 i 1 g peaks which rise in the icy ma j s y amidst the eternal glaciers nine or ten | ousand feet into the region of eternal snows he nakedness ofthe river was relieved by s oves ot widows where we encamped at night er a majch of twenty-six miles ; and numer i bruner & james ) editors <*• proprietors ( " keep a rnfck rpox all your ' l ) is safe s hew series rulers do this and liberty < gen i harrison ) number 18 of volume ii salis_bury,_y l c august 30 18457 f 1 -" »*.*-..- .■..■_ maue ine river b im look gay as a garden we found here a horse which had been abandoned by lhe in dians because his hoofs had bee so much worn that he was unable to travel ; and during the night a dog came into the camp " august 4 — our camp was at lhe foot of the granite mountains which we climbed this morning to take some barometrical heights and here among the rocks was seen the first magpie on our return we saw one at the mouth of the platte river we lefl here one of our horses which was unable to proceed fur ther august 7 — the expedition camped near the south pass ofthe rocky moun tains about six miles from our encampment brought us to the summit the ascent had been so gradual lhat with all the intimate knowledge possessed by carson who had made this country his home for seventeen years we were obliged to watch very closely lo find the place al which we had reached the culminating point this was between two hills rising on either hand fifty or sixty feet when i looked bark at thein from lhe foot of iho immediate slope on the western plain iheir summits ap peared to be about one hundred and twenty feet above from the impression ai mv mind at this time and subsequently on our return i should compare the elevation which we sur mounted immediately at the pass to the ascenl of lhe capilol l.iil from the avenue at wash ington it is difficultfor me to fix positively the breadth of this pass from the broken ground where it commences at lhe foot of the wind river chain the view to the southeast is over a champaign country broken at the dis tance of nineteen miles by the table rock ; which with the other isolated hills in its vicini ty seems to stand on a comparative plain this i judged to la its termination lhe*ridge reci v ering its rugged character wiih the table rock it will be seen that it in no manner resembles the places to which the term is commonly ap plied — nothing ofthe gorge-like character and winding ascents ul the alleghany passes in america nothing id the great st bernard and simplon pa>ses in europe approaching it from the mouth of the sweet water a sail ly plain one hundred and twenty miles long con ducts by a gradual and regular ascent to the summit about seven thousand feet above ihe sea ; and the traveller without being reminded of anv change by ti ilsome ascents suddenly finds himself on the waters which flow to the pacific ocean l.y the route we had travelled tin distance from fort laramie is three hun dred and twenty miles or nine hundred and fifty from the mouth of the kansas " continuing our march we reached in eight miles from t e pass the little sandy one ofthe tributaries oi the colorado or green river of the gulf california the weather has grown line during tin morning and we remained here the rest of the day to dry our baggage and take some astronomical observations i'he stream was about forty feet wide and two or three deep with clear water and a bill swift current over a sandy bed it was timbered wiih a growth of low bushy and dense willows among which were little verdant spots which gave our a mils fine grass and where 1 found a number < f i ileresting plants among the neighboring hill i noticed fragments of granite containing magnetic iron longitude of the camp was 109 degrees i7 min ".<) sec and latitute 42 degrees 27 min 3 1 sec " angus 10 — the air a sunrise is clear and nine and the morning extremely cold but beau tiful a lofty snow-peak of ihe mountain is glittering in the iir_.t rays ofthe sun which has not yet reached us the long mountain wall to the cast rising two thousand feet abruptly from the plain behind which we see the peaks is still dark and cuts clear against the glowing sky a fog jusl risen from the river liesalong •■':.: !•.; e of the mc-untain a little before sun ns • ihe ihei m m er was at 35 degrees and at sunrise 33 degrees water froze last night and fires ne very comfortable the scenery become hourly more interesting and grand and the view here 1 truly magnificent but indeed it needs sora thing la icpay iho long prairie journey of a thou and miles the sun lias jusl shol above the wail and makes a ulri ca change ; lhe wh de valley is glowing and bright and all the mountain peaks are gleam ing like silver though these snow mountains are not the alps they have theirown character md ur a d m ignifieence and will doubt le i fmd pens and pencils to do them justice — in the scene before us we feel how much wood improves a view the pines on the mountain seemed tn give it much additional beauty i was agreeably disappointed in the character of streams on this side of the ridge instead of the en cks which descrip*ion had led me lo ex pect 1 find bold broad streams with three or four feet water and a rapid current the fork on which we are encamped is upwards of a hun dred feet wide timbered with groves or thick ets ofthe low willow we wovo now ap proaching the loftiest part of lhe wind river chain : and i left the valley a few miles from our encampment intending to penetrate the mountains as far as possible with tie whole party wc were soon involved in very broken groun i among long ridges covered with frag ments of granite winding our way up aloti ravine we cam unexpectedly into view ofa mi si bi autiful lake - a like a gem in the moun tains the sheet vf water lay transversely across the direction we bad been pursuing and descending the steep rocky ridge where it was necessary to lead onr horses we followed its banks to the southern extremity here a view of the utmost magnificence and grandeur burst upon our eyes with nothing between ns and their feet to lessen the effect ofthe whole height a grand bed of snow-capped mountains rose before us pile upon pile glowing in the bright light of an august day immediately below them lay the lake between two ridges covered with dark pines which swept down from the main chain to the spot where we stood here where the lake glittered in tbe open sunlight its banks of yellow sand and the light foliage of aspen groves contrasted well wiih the gloomy pines acver before said mr prucss in this country or in europe have i seen such grand rocks i was so much pleased with the beauty of the place that i determined to make lhe main camp here where our animals would find good pasturage and explore the mountains with a small party of men proceeding a line further we came suddenly upon the outlet of lhe lake where it found its way through a narrow pas-age between low hills dark pines which overhung the stream and masses ol rock where the water foamed along gave it much romantic beauty where wc crossed which was imme diately at lhe outlet it is two bundled and fifty leet wide and so deep that with difficulty we were able to ford ii its bed was an accumula tion of rocks boulders and broad labs and large angular fragments among which the ani mals fell repeatedly the current was very swift and the water cold and of a crystal puri ty ' silver mixes ix x carolina prior to 1s38 but little silver ore had been obtained from mines in the i nited states indeed it was not known to ex ist in this country iti its native state ; but is mostly contained in the argentiferous lead ores from which it was sometimes extracted indeed it is generally from lead ores the annual product in great britain from these ores is about 10,000 lbs valued at some 14 or 815,000 it seems however from an article iu the last number of hunt's merchants magazine that the washington mining company incorporated by the assembly of north carolina in 1839 have been operating at the mines discovered a short time previ ous in davidson county with considera ble success the washington mine it seems is situated about eighty miles from raleigh the capital ofthe state and the present terminus of he great chain of rail-road from the north from decem ber is 1:3 to december 18 il silver had been extracted from the ore to the value of 24,000 and of gold 7,253 this a mount of ore has produced from about 160,000 lbs of lead making an average produce of over 24'j ounces of silver to the ion 4000 lbs of lead from the com mencement of the mining operations up to november 1st 1812 a period of 27 months the actual product was 2861 pigs of argentiferous lead yielding silver and gold to the amount of 13,288 this being the nett value after deducting the charges ofthe united slates mint for separating the gold from the silver and alloy requi site to reduce it to the standard coinage from the 13th of october 1843 to the 1st oft c.ober 1844 the produce of the wash ington mine has been 810,371 as follows : amount of silver received 30,902 70 lead " 3.59 27 " scoria " 2,550 70 " silver in port 1,478 05 lead " 030 18 " litharge " 75 00 " metal and scoriae in transmission 1,152 01 810,370 17 la 1842 r c taylor esq of phila delphia made a report of these mines which is embodied in the article in hunts magazine in which it is stated tlmt at tbe forty feet level the yield of the ore when dressed was aboul 50 per cent of lead and from 20 to 120 ounces of silver to the ton ol lead the value of the sil ver varied from 81 81 to 2 80 per ounce its price being enhanced by ihe large pro portion of gold found in combination with it at ibis depth at the sixty feet level the ore increas ed in richnsss but was irregular in its value ai iis lies and must remarkable point it yielded as much as 5,030 ounces to the ton such points were however fv\v and small forming exceptions to the prevailing richness of the lode the gen eral average is stated to lie 128 ouncesof silver to the ton of metal here : lie sul phuret of lead or galena was first met with in small quantities bui the bulk of the ere continued similar to ihe forty ft el level being a carbonate of lead with the exception of the proportion of gold which gradually diminished but was recovered again at the 160 feet level arriving at the hundred feet level the galena predominated ; but in other re spects the mine presented the same as pf ct as at the 60 feet increasing in regu larity at the one hundred and sixty feet level the vein is nearly all sulphuret as regards the lead and the area is enlarged it was estimated that this argentiferous ore lo cally termed ** the black ore produced on an average from 87 50 to 109 per ton in equal proportions as to value of the lead and the silver alter deducting the expenses of smelting it was here that some masses of extraordinary rich blue galena were met with worth at the rate of 1,000 pet ton — new york paper lowell — this town is not quite twenty five vcars old and already ninety-one mill-powers have been sold there and a bout all the mill powers have been ex hausted steam however is to be used for more extensive manufacturing purpo ses a great deal of the present water power it is said will also be saved by what is called mule-spinning it is net easy to imagine what may be the ultimate growth of a town like this express extraordinary case of clair "\ oyance in caswell county x c doctors comer and anderson of this county were recently called to see miss , it is unnecessary to name the lady living in the soulh part of caswell who they found under great nervous debility and in a mesmeric state tlio patient slept a great deal — she seemed to have fallen a victim to strong lethargic spells — now coming now going — but her spells of repose were lengthy while she found it impossible to keep awake but a very short time comparatively when asleep she was always in a clairvoyic state oa visiting her and finding her asleep to all intents and purposes the two attending physicians tested her clairvoyic by blind folding her so that she could not possibly " sink a wink even though she were not asleep from this experiment grew the following results dr comer gave patient's sister a pocket knife to present her with the inquiry whose knife is it — the knife was put in the patient's hand and the question asked when she answered ** dr comer's patient had not seen dr comer nor his knife dr c then slipt a pen knife of bis in the sister's hand who put it in the hand ofthe patient and ask ed ** whose knife is this ?" dr anderson present patient passed the knife to her nose smelt of it and replied " this too is dr comer's knife dr anderson acci dentally spied patient's mother at a dis tance going to the spring — asked patient as to the whereabouts of her mother ? — she replied " going to the spring the mother was seen returning from the spring with a pail of water on her head and a jug of milk in one hand patient was a gain interrogated about her mother and she minutely described her returning from the spring — told about the vessel of water on her mother's head the jug of milk and in which hand she held it she was ask ed where the horses of doctors c and a were . patient replied that her father had put them in the stables and then told the particular stable in which each man's horse had been put patient was then asked when it had rained at dr comer's . dr c lives a long distance from patient and had not beep home for several days moreover he was not aware that it had rained at his house the day before her reply was " yesterday patient was call ed on to say when it had rained at duct anderson's — she answered the same time it rained at dr comer's she was asked to state at which of the two places fell the most rain ? her reply was that " it rained very little at dr comer's but . a great deal at dr anderson's all this was found to be precisely as she stated patient had no knowledge not the least idea of any thing she said or of the pre sence of the physicians while she reposed when she afterwards awoke from her sleep and denied having held any conver sation a arious other questions were ask ed the patient and all that related to any thing that had taken place or then in pro cess of occurrence she answered and told about it with the greatest accuracy pa tient couldn't tell about the future — knew nothing about the occurrences behind the curtain of time to come the above is no hoax but true to the letter : we " speak by the card if you know how that is and if you don't we shall not trouble ourself to tell you suffice it to say that no man will question the ve racity of either of the above named phy sicians and that tbey will bear testimony to the truth of all the material comical itics set forth as above — milton chron icle bcf 3 if miss had not smelt of the pen knife could she have told to whom it belonged ? does dr coiner smell very diiierent from dr anderson ? — we just don't understand the smelling part of this story — eds watchman f poor must be provided for — in all portions ofthe country where the drought l:i prevailed with withering eflect it is an imperious duty upon the substantial and influential citizens to take measures immediately for furnishing the needy with the stall of life their own interest and safety demand this of them it is not to be supposed that a parent will hear his children cry for bread whatever privations he himself might be induced by a sense of honesty to submit to and make no ef fort even against the laws themselves to obtain it for them then if humanity can not stir the wealthy up to a sense of their duty interest and the prevention of crime will certainly cause them to move imme diately in this matter there is no time for delay many at this time are without money or bread and they must have their necessities provided for or perish many would move away to where provisions are abundant but lay are not able to get oft fcr *• the london punch "' has another lit at his devoted readers on this side ofthe water punch must have his joke he says : u another young one a new journal has been started at new york called young amer ica we believe the principles it advocates are — universal republican mint-julaps no tax es and a tarnation thrashing to all the world f the pensacola gazette states that a man named nickerson was seized and carried effby shark whilst drawing a seine near that place miss america vespucci one of the editors of the detroit adver tiser writing from i gdensburgbj thus dis courses relative to this personage out ofthe business line its most notice able '* lion is tiie ex-countess america '• vespucci who has taken shekel from the ingratitude of congress under the wing of a mr , a single gentleman of ogdens burgh the residence of the soi — disant descendant of old americus is a semi ital ian villa enclosed by convent walls — from the top of our hotel we could look down into its superbly arranged garden with pleasant arbors and its oriel win dows wiih gaudy-colored projecting sun curtains — giving a most indolent and ital ian air to the mansion and bearing testi mony to the national habits and tastes of its mistress the foot-passer along the street however is excluded from a sight of anything but the upper story of the build ing by a wall at least ten feet high if miss america be indeed as she pretends a descendant of the renowned vespuc cius she is playing a role that exhibits as little respect for her renowned ancestry as for the many fashionable and distin guished people in this country who feast ed and followed her a few years since in addition to the foregoing we find the following notice of the vespucci family who were visited by mr lester lale con sul to genoa from this it would seem that the lady referred to is an old sinner " the vespucci family are poor two daughters are engaged in teaching school while the son the only lineal male de scendant is employed in the treasury de partment of the government at a salary less than a hundred dollars the duke of tuscany however supplies the wants of the family from bis own pocket mr l was the first american that had ever called on the family and they were deep ; ly affected by the compliment as ihey had been before mortified at the neglect of our countrymen they are deeply chagrined at the conduct of their sister who after having been lhe mistress of some dozen men had the impudence to ask our gov ernment for a grant of land to herself as the only descendant uf the vespucci fam ily so are we ever destined to be humbug ged in this country until our ridiculous mania for everything foreign shall be ful ly cured we recollect very well the fi gure this woman cut through two seasons at washington ; how flattered by the men how envied by the women how feasted by the rich how talked about by the poor how courted by cabinets how gallanted by senators how lionized by a she was and we suppose is still beautiful in person accomplished in mind and engag ing in manners she had the address to push her interests almost to the success ful point but was deterred liy the inter position of one of those lucky accidents in legislation which often defeat the best laid plans of the kind we have reason in deed to congratulate ourselves in this case that such obsiac.es do sometimes su pervene lt would no be a very credita ble record in our annals that we bad been bejuggled out ofa large grant of the na tional domain by tin meretricious arts of the mistress ofa hundred men if this title at the time mr lester was in italy was o plainly and proverbially applied to this person how came it it is pertinent to ask that such a fact was no earlier known in this country .' that it did no transpire during ibe time ihat this adventuress was t xperimenting < n v.to gullibility ofthe greal lull at washing ton and elsewhere in the united stati > i her application to congress was public < ' 1 1 «_> ; i ___:" 1 1 : her position at court notori ous enough : she was talked about and written about enough was then not one who could have spoken bad he listed — and saved society from io\i a compro mise of its character .' we fear that there were those there who knew about it yet spoke nor for various reasons — r asons as disgraceful to them as men as ameri cans v ii.it was the true character ol the person alluded to appeared at once after the total failure of her experi upon the treasury of the government — the next we hear of her and al we hear of her ever since is thai she is living in a walled villa on the frontier of the coun try the kept mistress of its owner a pn '- ty position for the descendant of ibe man who gave his name to a continent : for a claimant in his name ofthe grateful boun ty ofthe nation called after him — amer ica — new york expre k david w si me has resigned bis office as cash ■■;' the branch of cape fear if ok at raleigh to take eflb ; 1st october he in tends removing to baltimore fzp robert dale owen lias been elected to congic-ss again this i one of the fzlorious triumphs of democracy and free inquiry co we have word from capt tin rynders the notorious chief of th empire club that b intends to come •■;;' here and give us a thrash ing we hope that if he com 1 ? on such an amiable mission he will n . k.'jor under tbe same disadvantages iu regai i i a n>t ii__ht as , when be last travelled thiough our ciiy the . scoundrel was then hand-evfed — louisvil'e journal anecdote of mr proffit the following anecdote of mr proffit is furnished to the providence journal by a correspondent : in the early political life of proffit when a member of tbe legislature of indiana he exhibited the same modest assurance ! and self-esteem that has since made bim j so conspicuous in more elevated stations ; he was foremost in every debate — seek ing a conflict in the wordy warfare with ; every member friend or foe that rose on j the floor this cacoethcs loquendi was so ; strong a passion that bis attention was ] not confined to public measures and gen era laws but descended to every private act or local bill brought before the house , not a proposition to remove the seat of justice or change the lines of a countiy to appropriate the local school fund to change or establish an election precinct : to incorporate a village or restrain geese and bogs from running at large in any town or village in the state could be made in the house by any member but mr proffit had divers pros or cons to urge in ! lavor or against lhe measure as suited the humor ofthe moment ; and he gener ally claimed to be belter informed on these local subjects than the representative of the particular districts whose constitu ents weie to be affected by the measure oue day when he had been more than : usually busy in lhe intermeddling in mea ! sines ofa purely local character the man agement of which was always left by : courtesy to the representatives of the coun ties interested an old member from dear born who had several times experienced 1 the annoyance of prof-it's impertinence arose as mr p seated himself and with : a grave air said the gentleman from pe terborough had displayed during the ses sion a most minute knowledge of nearly every county town and village in the state and a very intimate acquaintance with the local interests and feelings of lhe inhabitants of every section of it the hon gentleman he thought must have been an itinerant throughout the state the last year : and be would wilh the con sent ofthe house ask information of the gentleman from peterborough which he : could probably give on a subject of deep interest and concern to one of his constit ; uents if he would be kind enough to re i ply to the inquiry mr proffit graciously i nodded an assent and tin house having ' uttered a general cry of * consent 4 con sent the member from dearborn said he ! would make the inquiry by reading a pa per sent to him that morning mr proliit moving to a seat near the member from dearborn the latter read as follows know all men by these presents that i j william turner late of culpepper county state of virginia send greeting take notice strayed or stolen out of my high mead ow and a low bottom a large grizzly grey 1 ram — wilh a bald face — one glass eye — a straight horn and a crooked one — wool ; on the gelling up side aud hair on the down lying the skin and im at grown fast to the hone — he trots behind and pa ces before vow whosoever will take up said ram and deliver tiie sume to j william tinner living at the foot of the blue ridge and has run away for horse stealing and gone io indinna shall receive eighteen pounds virginia currency civ en under my hand an i seal this sixth day . of january a d i ***'.'-. 1 wm turner turnin_r to proffit to ask him if he could aid him in securing ttie reward he disco vered the peterborough member with hat in hand making long strides for llie door amid a general roar of laughter from all sides of the 1 rouse private and local le gislation was wonderfully facilitated by this occurrence during the sessiotf a cast if ( onscit net . — an instance oc curred on saturday singularly illustrative ofthe power and force of conscience a stranger walked into a store in franklin t and informed the proprietor that he owed him a sum of money ate desired » pay it he stated that twelve years he had trusted bim a bill the non-pay ment ol which had constantly rested on his conscience : he requested i.i account and obstinately insist 1 ihat tioelve years i uli rist should be added therein which was accordingly done paid and accepted the individual a he had two mo th - iti paying the bill first that as a german he was i tern i that no act of his should r ' upon his count rvmen > ial ho lic he wi ll knew lhat it be did nol pay principal and !:.'• rt 1 1 in this work he would hav lo pav principal and interest nth to come t the ex t of d cotton g , : |; son i _ /,' tics and i 5 ... 2 1 . . \ li ... sumatra .... 3 70 '• ■■° :.. v mai •"' li ' 1 : st.petera ■• <• 7 .... 1,673 june .... 2475 t • ' ■• ~ .'-'■ar . ■16,5-h •; d 5 to do ■-■. ..-..: 11 - th - increase in -■" ■— but ot one lh - ae — l.oiribos tr.-i will we have n ■'.• n '. be more than eowte-tateae . a by perafn.r.5 ''."• rnere
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1845-08-30 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 30 |
Year | 1845 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 18 |
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Creator | Bruner and James |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The August 30, 1845 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
OCLC number | 601552868 |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1845-08-30 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 30 |
Year | 1845 |
Volume | 2 |
Issue | 18 |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
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Creator | Bruner and James "Editors and Proprietors" |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | Bruner and James |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
Type | Text |
Source | Microfilm |
Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The August 30, 1845 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
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"" from the national intelligencer paptain fremont's report the prospects ol the party were gloomy '. on the 23th julv when a very dis 0 g picture of the country thev l boul t explore was given them by . party of indian ofthe oglallah band if sioux the j-rc-i drought and the plague of grass uppers had swept it so thai scarce a blade of us wa to be seen and there was not a buf , ,,, be found in tiie whole region their rf-ople they furlher said had been nearly starv ith and we would find their road mark i |, v lodges which they had thrown away in move mon rapidly and by the carcass 3 of the horses which they had eaten or which hed by starvation such was the rt before us i called up mj men and communicated to information i had just received sed to them my fixed determina pi iceed to the end of the enterprise on ich i had been sent ; bui as the situation of try gave me sume reason to apprehend at it might be attended with an unfortunate ro rne of us i would leave it optional with em to conlinue with me or to return among them were some five or six who 1 iew would remain we bad still ten days ivisions : and should no game be found ien this stock was expended we had our bors and mules which we could eat when other n of subsistence failed lint not a man iched from the undertaking * we'll eat the lies said basil lajeunesse ; and thereupon shoo hands with our interpreter and his in ns tnd parted du tbe 30th tho narrative states — we saw here numerous herds of mountain ep and frequently heard the volley of rat ,,.: stones which accompanied iheir rapidde ent down the steep hills tliis was the first ire at which wc had killed any of these ani i|s and in consequence of this circum ince and of the abundance of these shorn or iats for llicy are called by each name we ■■to our encampment the name of i loat land their flesh is much esteemed by the e hunters and has very much the flavor ofthe lleghany mountain sheep i have frequently en the horns of this animal three feci lon id seventeen inch in circumference at the ise weighing eleven pounds j ut two or ii f these won killed by our party at this lace and ol these the horns were small the se of these horns seems to be to protect tbe nimal's head in pitching down precipices to void pursuing wolves — their only safety beinw i placi s where they cannot be followed the s are very strong and solid the marrow oc upying hut a very small portion of lhe bone in leleg.about the thickness of a rye straw — he hair is short resembling the winter color i i ur common deer which it nearly approach * in size and appearance excepl in tin mrns it ins no resemblance whatever to the j ii the latitude this t\-.\y was '*._ decrees 3 27 longitude 107 degrees 13 29 seconds u augitsl 1 — the hunters went ahead ihis i irning as b iflalo appi ared tolerably abund ii*.and i was desirous to secure a small stock i provisii ns : and we moved about seen miles p the valley and encamped one mile below i . in lepi ndence this is an isolated granite ut six hundred and fifty yards long and ""•• height except in a depression id the i-iiiiiiit where a little soil supports a scanty rowili of shrubs with a solitary dwarf pine it s entirely bare every where within six or i.'lii feel of lhe ground where tbe surface is iufficientlj smooth and in some places sixty or ngbty feel above the reck \< inscribed with the lames of travellers many famous in the his nryol tins country and some well known to icience are to be found mixed among those of be traders and of travellers for pleasure and unosily and ol missionaries among the sav ges some of these have been washed away '•'} lit rain but lhe greater number arc stiil 1 " r . legible the position of llii rod is in bgitude 107 degrees 5g minutes latitude 12 es 29 min 36 si c we had to night no shelter from the rain 1 ' ■'■'■■nmenccd with squalls of t in i about iimset th ■country here is exceedingly pic tesque on either side of the valh y which ! four or five miles broad the mountains rise lhe height ol twelve and fifteen bundn d or o thousand feet on the south si le the range v ns to be timbered and to-nighl is itimin ms with fires probably the work of the indi is who have just passed through the valley d the north broken and granite masses rise fi nn tbe greens ard of the river ter b i ting in a line of broken - nun its excei ; ii the cre ice • i f lhe rock and here and there a ledge or bench of the mountain where a w hardy pines have cluster 1 togcthi r tie so lie perfectly bare and destitute of veg tation " ai mg these m i - es w '. ire th y are bes isolated hills a:i 1 ri iges green • pen in upon the river which weeps the base i these mountains for thirty-six miles every where its deep verdure am i of beauti ul flowers is in pleasing contrast with the ste ur of tin rock and the barrenness of l e sandy plain which fro.n the righl bank of i , » i e river sweeps up to the mountain range that "' i1 - its s luthern boundary the great evap wion on the sandy soil of this elevated plain ft ad the saline efllorescences which whiten lhe ground and shine like lakes reflecting the sun ate a soil wholly unfit for cultivation august 3 — several bands of buffalo made tlle jr appearance to-day with herds of antelope : j n grizzly bear — the only one we eucoun ere d during the journey — was seen scrambling ",'' aiftong the rocks * as we passed over a se near the river we caught the first ew ol the wind river mountains appearing pthis distance of about seventy miles to be a °* ud dark mountainous ridge the view sipated in a moment the pictures which had . en ceated in our minds by many descrip m i travellers who have compared these jj nla na to the alps in switzerland and sneak jj s 1 '." 0 i 1 g peaks which rise in the icy ma j s y amidst the eternal glaciers nine or ten | ousand feet into the region of eternal snows he nakedness ofthe river was relieved by s oves ot widows where we encamped at night er a majch of twenty-six miles ; and numer i bruner & james ) editors <*• proprietors ( " keep a rnfck rpox all your ' l ) is safe s hew series rulers do this and liberty < gen i harrison ) number 18 of volume ii salis_bury,_y l c august 30 18457 f 1 -" »*.*-..- .■..■_ maue ine river b im look gay as a garden we found here a horse which had been abandoned by lhe in dians because his hoofs had bee so much worn that he was unable to travel ; and during the night a dog came into the camp " august 4 — our camp was at lhe foot of the granite mountains which we climbed this morning to take some barometrical heights and here among the rocks was seen the first magpie on our return we saw one at the mouth of the platte river we lefl here one of our horses which was unable to proceed fur ther august 7 — the expedition camped near the south pass ofthe rocky moun tains about six miles from our encampment brought us to the summit the ascent had been so gradual lhat with all the intimate knowledge possessed by carson who had made this country his home for seventeen years we were obliged to watch very closely lo find the place al which we had reached the culminating point this was between two hills rising on either hand fifty or sixty feet when i looked bark at thein from lhe foot of iho immediate slope on the western plain iheir summits ap peared to be about one hundred and twenty feet above from the impression ai mv mind at this time and subsequently on our return i should compare the elevation which we sur mounted immediately at the pass to the ascenl of lhe capilol l.iil from the avenue at wash ington it is difficultfor me to fix positively the breadth of this pass from the broken ground where it commences at lhe foot of the wind river chain the view to the southeast is over a champaign country broken at the dis tance of nineteen miles by the table rock ; which with the other isolated hills in its vicini ty seems to stand on a comparative plain this i judged to la its termination lhe*ridge reci v ering its rugged character wiih the table rock it will be seen that it in no manner resembles the places to which the term is commonly ap plied — nothing ofthe gorge-like character and winding ascents ul the alleghany passes in america nothing id the great st bernard and simplon pa>ses in europe approaching it from the mouth of the sweet water a sail ly plain one hundred and twenty miles long con ducts by a gradual and regular ascent to the summit about seven thousand feet above ihe sea ; and the traveller without being reminded of anv change by ti ilsome ascents suddenly finds himself on the waters which flow to the pacific ocean l.y the route we had travelled tin distance from fort laramie is three hun dred and twenty miles or nine hundred and fifty from the mouth of the kansas " continuing our march we reached in eight miles from t e pass the little sandy one ofthe tributaries oi the colorado or green river of the gulf california the weather has grown line during tin morning and we remained here the rest of the day to dry our baggage and take some astronomical observations i'he stream was about forty feet wide and two or three deep with clear water and a bill swift current over a sandy bed it was timbered wiih a growth of low bushy and dense willows among which were little verdant spots which gave our a mils fine grass and where 1 found a number < f i ileresting plants among the neighboring hill i noticed fragments of granite containing magnetic iron longitude of the camp was 109 degrees i7 min ".<) sec and latitute 42 degrees 27 min 3 1 sec " angus 10 — the air a sunrise is clear and nine and the morning extremely cold but beau tiful a lofty snow-peak of ihe mountain is glittering in the iir_.t rays ofthe sun which has not yet reached us the long mountain wall to the cast rising two thousand feet abruptly from the plain behind which we see the peaks is still dark and cuts clear against the glowing sky a fog jusl risen from the river liesalong •■':.: !•.; e of the mc-untain a little before sun ns • ihe ihei m m er was at 35 degrees and at sunrise 33 degrees water froze last night and fires ne very comfortable the scenery become hourly more interesting and grand and the view here 1 truly magnificent but indeed it needs sora thing la icpay iho long prairie journey of a thou and miles the sun lias jusl shol above the wail and makes a ulri ca change ; lhe wh de valley is glowing and bright and all the mountain peaks are gleam ing like silver though these snow mountains are not the alps they have theirown character md ur a d m ignifieence and will doubt le i fmd pens and pencils to do them justice — in the scene before us we feel how much wood improves a view the pines on the mountain seemed tn give it much additional beauty i was agreeably disappointed in the character of streams on this side of the ridge instead of the en cks which descrip*ion had led me lo ex pect 1 find bold broad streams with three or four feet water and a rapid current the fork on which we are encamped is upwards of a hun dred feet wide timbered with groves or thick ets ofthe low willow we wovo now ap proaching the loftiest part of lhe wind river chain : and i left the valley a few miles from our encampment intending to penetrate the mountains as far as possible with tie whole party wc were soon involved in very broken groun i among long ridges covered with frag ments of granite winding our way up aloti ravine we cam unexpectedly into view ofa mi si bi autiful lake - a like a gem in the moun tains the sheet vf water lay transversely across the direction we bad been pursuing and descending the steep rocky ridge where it was necessary to lead onr horses we followed its banks to the southern extremity here a view of the utmost magnificence and grandeur burst upon our eyes with nothing between ns and their feet to lessen the effect ofthe whole height a grand bed of snow-capped mountains rose before us pile upon pile glowing in the bright light of an august day immediately below them lay the lake between two ridges covered with dark pines which swept down from the main chain to the spot where we stood here where the lake glittered in tbe open sunlight its banks of yellow sand and the light foliage of aspen groves contrasted well wiih the gloomy pines acver before said mr prucss in this country or in europe have i seen such grand rocks i was so much pleased with the beauty of the place that i determined to make lhe main camp here where our animals would find good pasturage and explore the mountains with a small party of men proceeding a line further we came suddenly upon the outlet of lhe lake where it found its way through a narrow pas-age between low hills dark pines which overhung the stream and masses ol rock where the water foamed along gave it much romantic beauty where wc crossed which was imme diately at lhe outlet it is two bundled and fifty leet wide and so deep that with difficulty we were able to ford ii its bed was an accumula tion of rocks boulders and broad labs and large angular fragments among which the ani mals fell repeatedly the current was very swift and the water cold and of a crystal puri ty ' silver mixes ix x carolina prior to 1s38 but little silver ore had been obtained from mines in the i nited states indeed it was not known to ex ist in this country iti its native state ; but is mostly contained in the argentiferous lead ores from which it was sometimes extracted indeed it is generally from lead ores the annual product in great britain from these ores is about 10,000 lbs valued at some 14 or 815,000 it seems however from an article iu the last number of hunt's merchants magazine that the washington mining company incorporated by the assembly of north carolina in 1839 have been operating at the mines discovered a short time previ ous in davidson county with considera ble success the washington mine it seems is situated about eighty miles from raleigh the capital ofthe state and the present terminus of he great chain of rail-road from the north from decem ber is 1:3 to december 18 il silver had been extracted from the ore to the value of 24,000 and of gold 7,253 this a mount of ore has produced from about 160,000 lbs of lead making an average produce of over 24'j ounces of silver to the ion 4000 lbs of lead from the com mencement of the mining operations up to november 1st 1812 a period of 27 months the actual product was 2861 pigs of argentiferous lead yielding silver and gold to the amount of 13,288 this being the nett value after deducting the charges ofthe united slates mint for separating the gold from the silver and alloy requi site to reduce it to the standard coinage from the 13th of october 1843 to the 1st oft c.ober 1844 the produce of the wash ington mine has been 810,371 as follows : amount of silver received 30,902 70 lead " 3.59 27 " scoria " 2,550 70 " silver in port 1,478 05 lead " 030 18 " litharge " 75 00 " metal and scoriae in transmission 1,152 01 810,370 17 la 1842 r c taylor esq of phila delphia made a report of these mines which is embodied in the article in hunts magazine in which it is stated tlmt at tbe forty feet level the yield of the ore when dressed was aboul 50 per cent of lead and from 20 to 120 ounces of silver to the ton ol lead the value of the sil ver varied from 81 81 to 2 80 per ounce its price being enhanced by ihe large pro portion of gold found in combination with it at ibis depth at the sixty feet level the ore increas ed in richnsss but was irregular in its value ai iis lies and must remarkable point it yielded as much as 5,030 ounces to the ton such points were however fv\v and small forming exceptions to the prevailing richness of the lode the gen eral average is stated to lie 128 ouncesof silver to the ton of metal here : lie sul phuret of lead or galena was first met with in small quantities bui the bulk of the ere continued similar to ihe forty ft el level being a carbonate of lead with the exception of the proportion of gold which gradually diminished but was recovered again at the 160 feet level arriving at the hundred feet level the galena predominated ; but in other re spects the mine presented the same as pf ct as at the 60 feet increasing in regu larity at the one hundred and sixty feet level the vein is nearly all sulphuret as regards the lead and the area is enlarged it was estimated that this argentiferous ore lo cally termed ** the black ore produced on an average from 87 50 to 109 per ton in equal proportions as to value of the lead and the silver alter deducting the expenses of smelting it was here that some masses of extraordinary rich blue galena were met with worth at the rate of 1,000 pet ton — new york paper lowell — this town is not quite twenty five vcars old and already ninety-one mill-powers have been sold there and a bout all the mill powers have been ex hausted steam however is to be used for more extensive manufacturing purpo ses a great deal of the present water power it is said will also be saved by what is called mule-spinning it is net easy to imagine what may be the ultimate growth of a town like this express extraordinary case of clair "\ oyance in caswell county x c doctors comer and anderson of this county were recently called to see miss , it is unnecessary to name the lady living in the soulh part of caswell who they found under great nervous debility and in a mesmeric state tlio patient slept a great deal — she seemed to have fallen a victim to strong lethargic spells — now coming now going — but her spells of repose were lengthy while she found it impossible to keep awake but a very short time comparatively when asleep she was always in a clairvoyic state oa visiting her and finding her asleep to all intents and purposes the two attending physicians tested her clairvoyic by blind folding her so that she could not possibly " sink a wink even though she were not asleep from this experiment grew the following results dr comer gave patient's sister a pocket knife to present her with the inquiry whose knife is it — the knife was put in the patient's hand and the question asked when she answered ** dr comer's patient had not seen dr comer nor his knife dr c then slipt a pen knife of bis in the sister's hand who put it in the hand ofthe patient and ask ed ** whose knife is this ?" dr anderson present patient passed the knife to her nose smelt of it and replied " this too is dr comer's knife dr anderson acci dentally spied patient's mother at a dis tance going to the spring — asked patient as to the whereabouts of her mother ? — she replied " going to the spring the mother was seen returning from the spring with a pail of water on her head and a jug of milk in one hand patient was a gain interrogated about her mother and she minutely described her returning from the spring — told about the vessel of water on her mother's head the jug of milk and in which hand she held it she was ask ed where the horses of doctors c and a were . patient replied that her father had put them in the stables and then told the particular stable in which each man's horse had been put patient was then asked when it had rained at dr comer's . dr c lives a long distance from patient and had not beep home for several days moreover he was not aware that it had rained at his house the day before her reply was " yesterday patient was call ed on to say when it had rained at duct anderson's — she answered the same time it rained at dr comer's she was asked to state at which of the two places fell the most rain ? her reply was that " it rained very little at dr comer's but . a great deal at dr anderson's all this was found to be precisely as she stated patient had no knowledge not the least idea of any thing she said or of the pre sence of the physicians while she reposed when she afterwards awoke from her sleep and denied having held any conver sation a arious other questions were ask ed the patient and all that related to any thing that had taken place or then in pro cess of occurrence she answered and told about it with the greatest accuracy pa tient couldn't tell about the future — knew nothing about the occurrences behind the curtain of time to come the above is no hoax but true to the letter : we " speak by the card if you know how that is and if you don't we shall not trouble ourself to tell you suffice it to say that no man will question the ve racity of either of the above named phy sicians and that tbey will bear testimony to the truth of all the material comical itics set forth as above — milton chron icle bcf 3 if miss had not smelt of the pen knife could she have told to whom it belonged ? does dr coiner smell very diiierent from dr anderson ? — we just don't understand the smelling part of this story — eds watchman f poor must be provided for — in all portions ofthe country where the drought l:i prevailed with withering eflect it is an imperious duty upon the substantial and influential citizens to take measures immediately for furnishing the needy with the stall of life their own interest and safety demand this of them it is not to be supposed that a parent will hear his children cry for bread whatever privations he himself might be induced by a sense of honesty to submit to and make no ef fort even against the laws themselves to obtain it for them then if humanity can not stir the wealthy up to a sense of their duty interest and the prevention of crime will certainly cause them to move imme diately in this matter there is no time for delay many at this time are without money or bread and they must have their necessities provided for or perish many would move away to where provisions are abundant but lay are not able to get oft fcr *• the london punch "' has another lit at his devoted readers on this side ofthe water punch must have his joke he says : u another young one a new journal has been started at new york called young amer ica we believe the principles it advocates are — universal republican mint-julaps no tax es and a tarnation thrashing to all the world f the pensacola gazette states that a man named nickerson was seized and carried effby shark whilst drawing a seine near that place miss america vespucci one of the editors of the detroit adver tiser writing from i gdensburgbj thus dis courses relative to this personage out ofthe business line its most notice able '* lion is tiie ex-countess america '• vespucci who has taken shekel from the ingratitude of congress under the wing of a mr , a single gentleman of ogdens burgh the residence of the soi — disant descendant of old americus is a semi ital ian villa enclosed by convent walls — from the top of our hotel we could look down into its superbly arranged garden with pleasant arbors and its oriel win dows wiih gaudy-colored projecting sun curtains — giving a most indolent and ital ian air to the mansion and bearing testi mony to the national habits and tastes of its mistress the foot-passer along the street however is excluded from a sight of anything but the upper story of the build ing by a wall at least ten feet high if miss america be indeed as she pretends a descendant of the renowned vespuc cius she is playing a role that exhibits as little respect for her renowned ancestry as for the many fashionable and distin guished people in this country who feast ed and followed her a few years since in addition to the foregoing we find the following notice of the vespucci family who were visited by mr lester lale con sul to genoa from this it would seem that the lady referred to is an old sinner " the vespucci family are poor two daughters are engaged in teaching school while the son the only lineal male de scendant is employed in the treasury de partment of the government at a salary less than a hundred dollars the duke of tuscany however supplies the wants of the family from bis own pocket mr l was the first american that had ever called on the family and they were deep ; ly affected by the compliment as ihey had been before mortified at the neglect of our countrymen they are deeply chagrined at the conduct of their sister who after having been lhe mistress of some dozen men had the impudence to ask our gov ernment for a grant of land to herself as the only descendant uf the vespucci fam ily so are we ever destined to be humbug ged in this country until our ridiculous mania for everything foreign shall be ful ly cured we recollect very well the fi gure this woman cut through two seasons at washington ; how flattered by the men how envied by the women how feasted by the rich how talked about by the poor how courted by cabinets how gallanted by senators how lionized by a she was and we suppose is still beautiful in person accomplished in mind and engag ing in manners she had the address to push her interests almost to the success ful point but was deterred liy the inter position of one of those lucky accidents in legislation which often defeat the best laid plans of the kind we have reason in deed to congratulate ourselves in this case that such obsiac.es do sometimes su pervene lt would no be a very credita ble record in our annals that we bad been bejuggled out ofa large grant of the na tional domain by tin meretricious arts of the mistress ofa hundred men if this title at the time mr lester was in italy was o plainly and proverbially applied to this person how came it it is pertinent to ask that such a fact was no earlier known in this country .' that it did no transpire during ibe time ihat this adventuress was t xperimenting < n v.to gullibility ofthe greal lull at washing ton and elsewhere in the united stati > i her application to congress was public < ' 1 1 «_> ; i ___:" 1 1 : her position at court notori ous enough : she was talked about and written about enough was then not one who could have spoken bad he listed — and saved society from io\i a compro mise of its character .' we fear that there were those there who knew about it yet spoke nor for various reasons — r asons as disgraceful to them as men as ameri cans v ii.it was the true character ol the person alluded to appeared at once after the total failure of her experi upon the treasury of the government — the next we hear of her and al we hear of her ever since is thai she is living in a walled villa on the frontier of the coun try the kept mistress of its owner a pn '- ty position for the descendant of ibe man who gave his name to a continent : for a claimant in his name ofthe grateful boun ty ofthe nation called after him — amer ica — new york expre k david w si me has resigned bis office as cash ■■;' the branch of cape fear if ok at raleigh to take eflb ; 1st october he in tends removing to baltimore fzp robert dale owen lias been elected to congic-ss again this i one of the fzlorious triumphs of democracy and free inquiry co we have word from capt tin rynders the notorious chief of th empire club that b intends to come •■;;' here and give us a thrash ing we hope that if he com 1 ? on such an amiable mission he will n . k.'jor under tbe same disadvantages iu regai i i a n>t ii__ht as , when be last travelled thiough our ciiy the . scoundrel was then hand-evfed — louisvil'e journal anecdote of mr proffit the following anecdote of mr proffit is furnished to the providence journal by a correspondent : in the early political life of proffit when a member of tbe legislature of indiana he exhibited the same modest assurance ! and self-esteem that has since made bim j so conspicuous in more elevated stations ; he was foremost in every debate — seek ing a conflict in the wordy warfare with ; every member friend or foe that rose on j the floor this cacoethcs loquendi was so ; strong a passion that bis attention was ] not confined to public measures and gen era laws but descended to every private act or local bill brought before the house , not a proposition to remove the seat of justice or change the lines of a countiy to appropriate the local school fund to change or establish an election precinct : to incorporate a village or restrain geese and bogs from running at large in any town or village in the state could be made in the house by any member but mr proffit had divers pros or cons to urge in ! lavor or against lhe measure as suited the humor ofthe moment ; and he gener ally claimed to be belter informed on these local subjects than the representative of the particular districts whose constitu ents weie to be affected by the measure oue day when he had been more than : usually busy in lhe intermeddling in mea ! sines ofa purely local character the man agement of which was always left by : courtesy to the representatives of the coun ties interested an old member from dear born who had several times experienced 1 the annoyance of prof-it's impertinence arose as mr p seated himself and with : a grave air said the gentleman from pe terborough had displayed during the ses sion a most minute knowledge of nearly every county town and village in the state and a very intimate acquaintance with the local interests and feelings of lhe inhabitants of every section of it the hon gentleman he thought must have been an itinerant throughout the state the last year : and be would wilh the con sent ofthe house ask information of the gentleman from peterborough which he : could probably give on a subject of deep interest and concern to one of his constit ; uents if he would be kind enough to re i ply to the inquiry mr proffit graciously i nodded an assent and tin house having ' uttered a general cry of * consent 4 con sent the member from dearborn said he ! would make the inquiry by reading a pa per sent to him that morning mr proliit moving to a seat near the member from dearborn the latter read as follows know all men by these presents that i j william turner late of culpepper county state of virginia send greeting take notice strayed or stolen out of my high mead ow and a low bottom a large grizzly grey 1 ram — wilh a bald face — one glass eye — a straight horn and a crooked one — wool ; on the gelling up side aud hair on the down lying the skin and im at grown fast to the hone — he trots behind and pa ces before vow whosoever will take up said ram and deliver tiie sume to j william tinner living at the foot of the blue ridge and has run away for horse stealing and gone io indinna shall receive eighteen pounds virginia currency civ en under my hand an i seal this sixth day . of january a d i ***'.'-. 1 wm turner turnin_r to proffit to ask him if he could aid him in securing ttie reward he disco vered the peterborough member with hat in hand making long strides for llie door amid a general roar of laughter from all sides of the 1 rouse private and local le gislation was wonderfully facilitated by this occurrence during the sessiotf a cast if ( onscit net . — an instance oc curred on saturday singularly illustrative ofthe power and force of conscience a stranger walked into a store in franklin t and informed the proprietor that he owed him a sum of money ate desired » pay it he stated that twelve years he had trusted bim a bill the non-pay ment ol which had constantly rested on his conscience : he requested i.i account and obstinately insist 1 ihat tioelve years i uli rist should be added therein which was accordingly done paid and accepted the individual a he had two mo th - iti paying the bill first that as a german he was i tern i that no act of his should r ' upon his count rvmen > ial ho lic he wi ll knew lhat it be did nol pay principal and !:.'• rt 1 1 in this work he would hav lo pav principal and interest nth to come t the ex t of d cotton g , : |; son i _ /,' tics and i 5 ... 2 1 . . \ li ... sumatra .... 3 70 '• ■■° :.. v mai •"' li ' 1 : st.petera ■• <• 7 .... 1,673 june .... 2475 t • ' ■• ~ .'-'■ar . ■16,5-h •; d 5 to do ■-■. ..-..: 11 - th - increase in -■" ■— but ot one lh - ae — l.oiribos tr.-i will we have n ■'.• n '. be more than eowte-tateae . a by perafn.r.5 ''."• rnere |