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L* CHER AW GAZETTE. m. maclean, editor &. propcietoe. CHERAW, S. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1837. * vol. it. no. 12.: * . , . _______ ____ - / T. A. PETTEOREW, PRINTER. TERMS. If paid within throo months, - . - 3. 00 It paid within throe months afler the close ot the year, 3. 50 IT paid within twelve months afler the close of the year, 4. 00 If not paid within that time, . . . 5. 00 A company of ten persons taking the paper at the same Post Office, shall be entitled to it at 025, provided the names be forwarded together, accompanied by the money. No paper to be discontinued but at the option of the Editor till arrearages arc paid. Advertisements inserted for 75 cents per square the first time, and 37$ for each subsequent insertion. Persons sending in advertisements are requested to specify the number of times they ore to be inserted; otherwise they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. ffyThe Postage must be paid on all communications sept by mail. RURAL ECONOMY. From the New-York Farmer. PEACH TREES. Esteemed Friend?If the following method of destroying the worms which infest peach trees is worthy of insertion in the u Farmer," it is at thy service. The exj?eriment would probably succeed wherever it is tried. In a recent conversation with an individual concerning fruit trees, he remarked that lie had seen in the State of Pennsylvania, peach trees of such uncommon size, that he was induced to ask the owner what means he resorted to in raising them. After some hesitation, he informed him, that from the second year of the growth of the trees, he sought for traces of the gum, which is a sure indication of the worm beneath. He removed this so as to expose the aperture into the body of the tree, and then filled it with quick lime. This was repeated every month, the roots being carefully examined as well as the body. He also stated to my informant, that it would be impossible in many cases to find the worms <>n account of tlieir diminutive size, thev being so small at first as to be visible only with a powerful microscope^ The greater number of his peach trees were from ten to twelve years old, and seemingly as vigorous as any he had ever seen, with a large crop of fruit bending their branches to the ground. A peach tree, it is said, bears only three years, and is about that period in coming to maturity ; whereas by the above plan, it will continue to produce fruit for a much longer period. The high prices paid for peaches w . in our large cities, ought to induce farmers to give n little consideration to the best methods of preserving their trees. J. C. Burlington, Sept. 1st, 1836. \V e are much obliged to friend J. C. for his communication. We can testify the truth of his remarks from our own expericnce. We have seen a peach tree, that was considered to be past help, restored to fine condition by similar treatment. Any one can satisfy curiosity by inspecting a poor looking peach orchard. From Combe's Physiology of Digestion. THE RELATION BETWEEN WASTE AND APPETITE. The fact of nature having meant the inactive and indolent to eat and drink dess than the busy and laborious, is established not only by the diminished appetite and impaired digestion of human beings who load a .sedentary life, as contrasted with the keen relish and rapid digestion usually attendant on active exertion in the open air, but on a yet broader scale by the analogy of all other animals, lu noticing this relation, Dr. Roget remarks, that 44 the greater the energy' with which tiic more peculiarity animal functions of sensation and muscular action are exercised, the greater must be the demand for nourishment, in order to supply the expenditure of vital force created by tliesc exertions. Compared with the torpid and sluggish reptile, the active and vivacious bird or quadruped requires and consumes a much larger quantity of nutri. ment. The tortoise, the turtle, the toad, the frog, and the chameleon, will indeed live for montlis without taking any food."? 44 The rapidity of development," he continues, 44 has also great influence on the quantity of food which an animal requires. Thus, the caterpillar, which " ows very -quickly, and must repeatedly turow olf its integuments during its continuance in the larva state, consumes a vast quantity* of food compared with the size of its body; and ftiettcc we find it provided with a digestive ^apparatus of considerable size."* In thus insisting on regular bodilv and ... Q O mental activity as indispensable to the enjoyment of a good appetite and sound dijgestion, the attentive reader will not, I trust, be disposed to accuse me of inconsistency because, when treating of muscular exercise in the former volume,f I explained the bad effects, and inculcated the impropriety, .of indulging in any considerable exertion Immediately before or after a full meat. it is true, as there mentioned, that exercise, cither in excess or at an improper time, impairs the tone of the stomach; but it is not on that account the less true that bodily exertion, when seasonably and proj>e?*ly practised, is the best promoter of appetite and digestion which we possess ; and it is .only under the latter conditions that I now speak of it as beneficial, and even indispensable to health. Iua work like the present, it is obviously impossible to fence round every general proposition with tlie numerous limitations which an unusual combination of circumstances, or a departure from the s'atc of health, might demand. And,even if j*).?. sible, it would not 1)3 necessary, as the laws of exercise have been so fully explained ic '' e volume alluded to,'ha* their cussion here would unavoidably involve much repetition from its pages. At the same time, some. warning remark may be required to prevent any risk of misconception, as it might otherwise be plausibly argued, for example, that there can be no such relation as I alleged between waste and appetite, because a European, perspiring under a tropical sun, incurs great waste, and yet loses both nppeiitc and digestive power. To render this a valid exception, it must be shown that the European is intended by nature to live in a tropical climate; because, if he is not, his condition under such an influence must necessarily be more or less closely allied to the state of disease, and therefore beyond the sphere to which alone my remarks are meant to apply. Hut even in that instance there is less contradiction than might be supposed, for the waste of the system being chiefly fluid, excites?not appetite, but its kindred sensation?thirst, to repair l/\no ktr on ttnncnol /InmonJ ui<5 luoo uy uu uuuouai uuuuuu ivi luivou* ing liquids, i So true is it that the Creator has estab- i lished a relation between action and nutrition, that when we attempt for any length i of time to combine a full and nutritious diet i with systematic inactivity, the derangement i of health which generally ensues gives ample proof of the futility of struggling | against his laws. Individuals, indeed, may t be met with, who, from some peculiarity i of constitution, suffer less than the gener- i ality of mankind from making the experiment; But even those among them who ; escape best, generally owe their safety to the constant use of medicine, or to anatur- < al excess in some of the excretory functions, such as perspiration or the urinary or alvine discharges, by means of which the system is relieved much in the same way as by active exercise. In others, again, the day ' of reckoning is merely delayed, and there I is habitually present a state of repletion, < which clogs the bodily functions, and may ? lead to sudden dea'h by some acute diease, ; when the individual is apparently in the i highest health. I am acquainted with sev- 11 oral individuals of this description, who, s in the absence of all bodilv exercise, are i accustomed to live verv fullv,?to cat in j the- morning a hearty breakfast, with eggs, t /- t /i t i i' i i i :>i. i i nsn, or uesn,?a goou sona luncneon, wiui 11 wine or malt liquor, in the forenoon,?a |' most substantial dinner, with dessert and j 1 several glasses of wine, and afterward tea < and wine and water, in the evening,?and who nevertheless enjoy tolerably good di. t gestion. But this advantage is gained at < the expense of a very full habit of body, < and a liability to frequent and profuse per- 11 spirations; and to severe attacks of bowel < complaint, endangering life; so that even J i they cannot by any means be regarded as 1 real exceptions to the general rule. | j It is, then, no idle whim of the physician f \ to insist on active exercise as the best pro- ; < * c i ,i: ?. r , : moitrr ui uppiuue auu ui^suuu. mjAurcisw; i i is, in fact, the condition without which exha- j' lation and excretion cannot go on sufficiently 11 fast to clear the system of materials pre- < viously taken in; and where no waste is j incurred, no need of a fresh supply, and i consequently in a healthy state of the system ) ] no natural appetite, can exist. It is there-' j fore not less unreasonable than vain for an v j; one to insist on possessing, at the same 11 time, the incompatible enjoyments of lux- I urious indolence and a vigorous appetite,: t sound digestion of a hearty rneal, and gen- i i eral health of body; and no one who is aware ] of the relation subsisting between waste t1 and appetite can fail to perceive the fact, i and to wonder at the contrary notion having < ever been entertained. " 11 Among the operative part of the com- j 1 munity we meet with innumerable examples J1 of an opposite condition of the system, where, from excess of labor, a greater ex. 11 penditurc of energy and substance takes place than what their deficient diet is able : to repair. It is true that the disposition is generally not sufficient to cause that immcdiate wasting which accompanies actual j starvation, but its eficcts are nevertheless very palpably manifest in the depressed j i buoyancy, early old age, and shorter lives J J of the laboring clases. Few, indeed, of J those who are habitually subjected to con- j siderable and continued exertion survive ; i their forty-fifth or fiftieth year. Exhausted 1 at length by the constant recurrence of their daily task and imperfect nourishment, they j die of premature decay long belore at. j tabling the natural limit of human existence. ; In those states of the system, again such, j as fever, during the continuance of which most of the secretions are vitiated, and the I stomach itself is weakened, and where food would consequently he hurtful rather than j advantageous, appetite is scarcely felt, and ' loathing often occupies its place. Rut the j moment that, bv the diminution of thedis-j ease, the secretions and exhalations begin to return to their healthy state and nutrition 1 is resumed, appetite begins to be again felt, j and by-and-bv becomes abundantly vigor- ! ous, in order to restore the system to its 1 former state. The utmost caution, how. j ever, is still required in its gratification, as a premature indulgence is almost certain again to stop the secretions and to produce | a relapse. Ignorance of this principle: among the community at large, and the ! consequent error of giving food when there : is no demand for it, often do more to defeat j the best laiu plan of cure than the severity j of the disease itself. The sick man's j friends, in their anxiety to support his strength, too frequently turn a deaf car to every caution which is suggested, and steal-! : thily administer suslenance when the system does not require it, and when it serves only to aggravate the danger and increase ' the weakness]of the patient. Appetite, it ought to be observed, may,' like other sensations, bo educated or train- ' ! cd ' > considerable deviates from 4iv* or dinary standard of quantity and quality? and this obviously for the purpose of enabling man to live in different climates and under different circumstances, and avoid being fixed down to one occupation. In civilized life, however, we are accus'omed to take undue advantage of this capability, by training the appetite to desire a greater quantity of food than what the wants of the system require, and stimulating its cravings by a system of cookery little in harmony with the intentions of nature. But this is evidently an abuse, and no argument whatever against the sufficiency of its natural indications to lead us right. The most common source, however, of the errors into which we are apt to fall in takingappetite as our only guide, is unquestionably the confounding of appetite irrth taste, and continuing to eat for the gratification of the latter long after the former is satisfied. In fact, thn whnlp <jr>ionr\p r?f n skilful cook is expended in producing this ttilting mistake on our part; and he is considered decidedly the best artist whose dishes shall recommend themselves most irresistibly to the callous palate of the gourmand, and excite on it such a sensation as shall at least remind him of the enviable excellence of a natural appetite. If we were willing to limit the office of taste to its proper sphere, and to cease eating when appe. tite expressed content, indigestion would be a much rarer occurrence in civilized communities than it is observed to be. *Roget's Bridgewater Treatise on Animal Mid Vegetable Phvsiolo?v. vol. ii.. d. 112. O ^ O# r ' I fPrinciples of Physiology, &c., chapters IV. and V. POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS. (Continued.) The writer once knew a young man, who in sultry summer nights, rose from his t>ed to walk his chamber. As he rose he Dbservcd distinctly a man on the opposite side of the room. He was much alarmed ind stood still for a moment, looking at the man, and then softly slipped down behind the bed to watch his movements. As he stooped, the man stooped; when suddenly the young gentleman burst into a laugh, to find that he was watching his own reflection in the looking-glass. A person of feebler courage, or of nervous excitability, would have screamed * a ghost,' and would have forever declared that he could not discredit his own senses. We will mention another circumstance, to show how easily a person may be deceived, by an occurrence, which is capable of a nerfectlv natural exDlanation. An asred I V t ?_? II lady had long been sick, and was near her Jeath. One afternoon as she was sitting in her room with a young lady, a friend who was her constant attendant, the whole room seemed suddenly illuminated. The room faced the east. The sun was far Jown in the west, and could not shine into it. u What is that ?" said the aged lady. They both looked, and beheld the strange ight glittering upon the wall. Three successive times the mysterious illumination lppeared and vanished. A few moments -X* ? - ??.* C r.tM?il?p AntAwinry tko lllCr, SUII1U UllC ui iiiu toiiiuji biuvimg uiv room, the aged lady remarked, ** I have ust had a warning, which tells me that I 1m very near my end?a truth which certainly did not need any supernatural attestation." Had the sick lady seen the vision ilone, there would have been no difficulty in attributing it to a disordered imagination. But the young lady beheld it also, and she was one not easily alarmed. There was no way in which the occurrence could be explained, and there it rested. The aged lady felt perfectly satisfied, that she had been warned to prepare for death, and sha made her preparation accordingly, and in a week or two died. She left the world entirely convinced that she had witnessed a supernatural vision. You might as well have attempted to reason her out of the belief of her own consciousness, as to have reasoned away the reality of this apparition. A week or two after her death, the writer called at a house where some college students roomed, and found them amusing themselves, by easting reflections with a large looking glass into the houses of the village. In an instant, the whole mystery of the apparition was explained. These young men had thrown a reflection three times into the room, and thus had given it apparently a supernatural illumination. Any one who is acquainted with the wonderful powcts of ventriloquism, knows that a person may abuse that power, to the very serious annoyance of those who are easily alarmed. A ventriloquist can, without difficulty, cause unearthly sounds, groanings, knocking?, dec., to be heard in different parts of the house, and he can be all the time moving about with the family, an unsuspected spectator. Many a house has been thus haunted, to the extreme terror of its occupants, and to the great mirth r *i. ?_!_: :_i 01 me miscmevous jukuj. These princij>les will account for a vast number of those appearances, which seem to be supernatural. The man who is unacquainted wiih these laws, thinks at once, and very naturally, that there must be ghostly agency in the production of effects, which to him are so unaccountable,and he is therefore, too much alarmed to give the subject a cool investigation. We have, somcwlierc, met with anotlier ; account illustrative of the same principle. A ship was lying becalmed,one warm summer afternoon, in the middle of the Atlantic. The atmosphere was clear, and the skv serene, with the exception of a few clouds floating in their fleecy whiteness. As the officers of the ship were carelessly reclining upon the quarter deck, and the sailors j lolling in the listlcssness of a calm at sea, whistling for the wind, all wen? surprised bf seeing, far-^il in the horizon, where the skv and wit^r seemed met. sh:j> under full canvass, sailing along in the sky. The i ship was upside down, the masts pointing i towards the water. The vision was so distinct, that all perceived it, and marked : the peculiarities of her rigging. For some ( considerable time she continued in view, at- ( tracting the gaze of the whole ship's company, till finally she vanished. The sail. (; ors with their customary superstition, were t exceedingly alarmed. This was to them s a new kiud of navigation. They deemed b it the certain foreboding of their own dd- s struction. The officers, better informed a with regard to the laws of nature, saw in c the occurrence, a very surprising, and very t intftrmstinf* natural nhonmnpnnn. Rv ! ?? ?' O ?" f ? 7 M4W VI |>ecuiiar state of the air and the situation of J the clouds, a mirror was formed, in which by the natural operation of reflected light, F they saw the image of a ship, which had o not as yet ascended the horizon. There r are various. Jrinds of mirrors. Sometimes c they are ihade ofglass, sometimes of bur. tl nishcd steel. Tne tf&ter is a -mirror in n which you see the trees which wave lux. tl luxuriantly upon the river's banks, and from f< the vapors which float in the heavens, as tl from a looking glass, images are often re. fleeted. In a few hours after the appear- h .1 i l _!_ i Ip . ance 01 imc >isiuij, mc juuiiuuui snip nersen c made her appearance rising over the con- C vex waters. This was the ghost of a ship, p and the tale has probably been narrated, c with exaggerations of terror, to thousands p of seamen. tl Another case, somewhat similar, we g somewhere have met with, though we can- p not now recollect in what work, which s< shows how incidents, at first apparently su- p pernatural, may be explained by known principles. On a calm day, the sailors on E board a ship, many hundred miles from E land, and with no other sail in sight, had a their attention arrested by the distinct ring. C ing of a bell. They ascended the topmast, o but far as the eye could extend along the n unobstructed horizon,uothincr could be seen. C From whence could this sound proceed? sj No bell by the common conveyance of tl sound, could be heard the distance that n they could see. To the sailors, this apparently unearthly ringing, seemed to be the e: ship's funeral knell. The mournful morrot- u ony of those mysterious tones, sent pale- n ness into the cheek of many a hardy tarAnd surely, it was strange to hear such a sound in the solitude of the ocean. They thought it must come from the world of spirits, a monition of their ruin. Scientific 0 men on board accounted for it at once, s upon the well understood principle of an acoustic tube. As the report of a gun dis- tl charged upon some Alpine summit, is tl thrown in thundering reverberations from ti clifl* to cliffi so in the present case, the v clouds reflected the sound of the bell of a t< distant ship into the focus, in which they y were placed. In the tongueless^voices of every echo, there is just as much of a super- tl natural agency. The next day they met ti the ship, whose bell they had heard, and s found by inquiry, that at the hour they heard the sound, the crew had been vio- I lently ringing for their amusement. How s many of the apparently unnatural sounds t which are heard, are capable of an equally f simple explanation.?Scientific Tracts. r LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PASSED IN DECEM- J BER, 1836. I An Act to amend the Charter oj the Louisvi liey Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road ] Company. j Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and s House of Representatives, now met and sit- < ting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That the charter of the f Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Rail Road Company be, and the same is hereby t amended in the following particulars, that is to say:?Three of the twenty-four directors t of the said company shall be elected from stockholders residing in each of the States r of Kentucky, Tennessee, N. Carolina and c S. Carolina, and twelve of the directors may [ be elected from the stockholders at large, j without regard to their place of residence. 1 - - T" .i i n M n i /i md at Columbia on the first Monday in Mayi tnd fourth Monday in November. See. 6. That in all questions of Law, is distinguished from Equity, the Court of Jhancerv shall follow the decision of the ?ourt of Law. Sec. 7. That upon all constitutor si [uestions arising out of the Constitutions of his State, or the United States, an appeal hall lie to the whole of the Judges, assem>led to hear such appeals. That an appeal hall also lie to the whole of the Judges upon ill questions upon which cither of theCourts if Appeal shall be divided: or when any wo of the Judges of the court shall require hat a cause bo further heard by all the udges. Sec. 8. That the Judges of Law and Equity, when assembled as aforesaid, in ne chamber, shall form a Court for the cor. ection of all errors in law or equity, in the asos that may be heard before them: and lat it shall be the duty of the Judges to lake all proper rules and regulations for le practice of the said Court of ffrrors, and >r the mode of bringing causes before lem. Sec. 9. That each Chancellor shall avc power to hear at chambers, and to onfirm, or refuse to confirm, reports of lommissioners in Equity, and to make the roper orders thereon, in all matters of acount and partition, and shall likewise have ower to hear at chambers, and to make le proper orders thereon, all petitions for uardians: Provided, That in case any aplication to a Chancellor at chambers, reaonable notice thereof shall be given to the arty or parties in interest. Sec. 10. That all appeals in Law and Iquity, from the District Courts held in the district of Barnwell, shall hereafter be hear*' nd determined in Charleston, instead of, Columbia, as heretofore; and that the Clerk f the Appeal Court at Columbia shall translit to the Clerk of the Appeal Court in 'harleston, all cases from the District aforeEtid, which shall remain undisposed of at le adjournment of the Court of Appeals, ow sitting at uolumoia. Sec. II. That this act shall go into op. ration from and after the first day of Janary next: That all acts and parts of acts ^pugnant hereto, are hereby repealed. The following is a list of the mostimpor. int of the Acts passed by the Legislature f North Carolina, during the recent seesion. An Act concerning Corporate bodies in his State. (Limits all Corporations, where he Charters do not specify the length of ime they shall run, to 30 years; and proides that a failure to use the privileges gran2d by any Charter to any Company for two ears, shall work a forfeiture.) Authorizing Courts of Equity to direct he Clerks and Masters thereof, to execute tie for all property sold under decree of aid Courts. To incorporate the Edenton and Norfolk lail Road Company. (Incorporates an asociation to construct a Rail Road between he two points, but no appropriation is made rom the funds of the State.) Establishing Davie county. (Forms a lew county by this name, out of that part ot lowan county, heretofore known as the ?orks.) Incorporating the General Mining and Manufacturing Association. [Incorporates in association of gentlemen, for the purpoles mentioned with a Capital of One Million >f Dollars.] Concerning Brokers. [Reduces the Tax rom $200 to $25. Authorizing County Courts to settle dispued boundary lines between counties. Empowering County Courts of Record o change Names. ? 1 ? ? A AMflll/vrl AM A AI tho i o amenu an /vci cuuucu au au ivi ? ?* nore uniform and convenient administration >f Justice within this State, passed in 1806. Establishes a new Superior Circuit, com>osed of the counties of Macon, Haywood, ifancy, Buncombe, Rutherford and Burke. \lso fixes the salary of Judges at $1,950 iach, subject to a deduction of $100 for jvery Court they fail to attend.] Concerning the Public printing in this State. [Abolishes the Office of Public Printer, and directs the Secretary of State o let out the various printing ofthe State by contract to the lowest bidder.) Empowering the Halifax and Weldon [tail Road Company to subscribe their Stock o the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail Road Company. To amend the Charter of the Cape Fear, i'adkin and Pee Dee Rail Road Company. Changes the title to that of Fayetteville and Western Rail Road Company, increases the fio nnn nnn nnH authorizes the L/Clpliai IU v*)VW)vw ??? ? MM... __ construction of a Road from Fayetteville tc the Narrows ofthe Yadkin, with two branch es from thence?one to Wilksljoro,' and tin other to intersect the Cincinnati and Charles ton Road.] To amend the Charleston and Cincinnat Rail Road Company. (Confines the Roac to the French Broad River, and makes i cross the Blue Ridge into Rutherford conn ty, and reserves the privilege of joining th< Road in any of the States, through whicl it may pass.] To provide for draining the Mattamus keet Lake. [Appropriates the sum of 89, 000 for this pur|>ose from the State funds to be expended under the direction ofCom missioners.] Making an appropriation for completing the Capitol. [ Appropriates for this purpose the sum of 8120,000.] To incorporate the North .Carolina Cen trnl Rail Road Company. ^Incorporates! Company to construct a Road from Beau fort to Fayetteville.) Concerning the Public Arms. (Audio; k*es dtc P'tMi" Vms a* IfpWgh and Fa* Sec. 2. That tne said tvau noaa uorn- i pany shall be discharged from all obligation ( to construct any branches of the said Rail * Road in the State of Kentucky, or to extend the main road in the said State further than < from the southern line thereof, to Lexington ] in the said State. t Sec. 3. That whenever it shall be the ( unanimous vote of the general directors residing iu any State requiring it, the General ] Board of Directors shall apply the amount i subscribed by the State, or its citizens, in < the first place to the construction of such portions of the said road as may be within the 1 limits of that State. I Sec. 4. In case the State of Kentucky ' should not agree to the amendments above < proposed, the said Rail Road Company < shall be, and hereby is constituted a body | politic and corporate in the States ofSouth ( Carolina, North-Carolina, and Tennessee, , with all the powers, rights and privileges i granted to it by the Acts of the Legislaturcs of the last mentioned States, incorporating it, and discharged from all obligation to construct any road in the State of Kentucky, , or to have any directors therein, or to have more than twenty-one general directors, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to release the said company from the obligation to extend their road to the southcrn boundary of Kentucky. rar! of an act to organize the Courts of \ the Stair. Sec. f>. That all appeals from the Courts i of Law shall bo heard and determined in a , Court of Appeals, consisting of the Law i Judges?and that all appeals in Equity shall j he heard and determined in a Court of Ap-! peals, consisting of the Chancellors. That the said Courts shall meet ot the same time, and ho held as follows; that is to say: at ' f'hnrW,f>n r>n the first Mondavin lobrtnrv. , eitevilfe to be cleaned and stumped, and distributed amongst the several counties of tfe k State.) To encourage the culture and manufacture of Silk and Sugar. [Gives to individ-, uals tho privilege of forming associations for this purpose, with corporate powers.} To incorporate the Raleigh and Columbia Rail Road Company. [Provides for the construction of a Road from Raleigh to Columbia S. C. in continuatfoft of the Raleigh and Gaston Road.]' "* Fixing the time for perfecting titles t? land heretofore entered and paid for. Declaring that the shares of Stock in incoporated Companies shall be deemed and ; be taken as personal estate. Allowing Public officers or their Deputies to administer their Oaths. ? - To increase the Capital Stock of the Halifax and Weldon Rail Road Company. To aid Internal Improvements of the State. [Provides that the State shall subscribe two fifths of the Capital Stocks of the Cape Fear and Western Road, from rows of the Yxdkin-tico-fifik* of the Stock of the mn | " it Jgaof for the construction thereof from Wilmington ? ? to tho Roanoke-/tco.jS/fAf of the Capital Stock of the Central Rail Rood, for the coo* struct ion thereof from Beaufort Harbor 4o Fayetteville?Provided, that individuals shall first subscribe and pay, or secure to be paid, the remaining three fifth* of Mid Capital Stock in said Companies, & also expend in labor on the Road one-fourth of said three-fifth*.] To provide for the redemption of the Scrip issued by the Srate under the Act of Assembly, passed in 1835, and entitled an Act to provide for the subcription on tho shares reserved to the State id' the Charter of the Bank of the State. [Appropriates $400,000 of the Surplus Revenue for this purpose.] Concerning the Bank of Cape Fear, [Ed- ' targes its Capital Stock $700,000, of which the State is to take $300,000 and individuals $400,000.] ' To confer Banking privileges on the Stockholders of the Charleston a!nd Cincinnati Rail Road. To drain the Swamp Lands of the State, and to create a Fund for Common Schools. [Privates for the biennial appointment of a Board of Literature, of three persons, by the Governor and Council. Vests in the Board all the Swamp lands of tins State, not heretofore entered by i ndividuals, in trust as a public fund for Education, also* all the Stock owned by the State in the Bank of the State, except 1000 shares,'together with the Stock owned by the Literary Fund: also, Stock in Bank of Cape Feer, and the profits accruing therefrom. And authorizes the said Board to expend $200^ 000, or so much thereof as they think can be beneficially expended, in reclaiming said Swamp Lands, which, when reclaimed, it to enure to the benefit of said School Fundi} Concerning the^ Revised Statutes [Authorizes the publication of 5000 copies of the Revised Code, to be distributed amongst the Justices of the Peace, Members of Assembly, Clerks of Courts, dec. With the exception of the Acts specified in this law, the whole Revised Acts are suspended and declared not to be in force until Jan* 1888. The Work to be published under the earoef two Commissioners, to be appointed by the Governor.] PRIVATE ACT. To Incorporate the Mutual Insurance Company of Fayetteville. MILITARY COURT. Correspondence of the Baltimore Patriot, Frederick, Mr Jan. 13,1897. Present?Maj. Gen. A. Macomb, President. Brig. Gen. Atkinson, ) ' Brig. Gen. Brady. J Associate# Capt 8. Cooper, Judge Advocate. Continuation of Proceedings in relation to the failure of the Seminole and Creek ^ o.nJnM/ul kv wit fitjwt oampujgus, vuuuuvtvu u>.u>.in.u ,, and Scott. General Gaines entered the Court roam at a few minutes after 11 o'clock this morn* ing, when the President asked the General if he had any further interrogatories to propound to the witness (CapL Hitchcock.) The General said, "may it please the Court? I have a question to propose to the witness now before them, which is in connexion with the last interrogatory submittedyeoter* day ; I would place it before the Court, and if it meets their sanction the witness wiB i?nlu tn it." V|/?T ivr By Gen. Gaines.?"What circumstances occurred to change the feelings of Gca? I era! Gaines towards General Scott ?" t Answer?"When General Clinch arrived i at Camp Izard on the 6th of March, he ) brought letters from Gen. Scott addressed . to him, in which the conduct of General j Gaines uqderwent very severe strictures* . It was also reported, that General Scott had been in the habit of making extraordinary i remarks upon the movement of General i Gaines, even within the hearing of his volt untcers. One of the letters alluded to was . shown to General Gaines by Gen. Chock. ; The other I believe was not exhibited, in i consequence of the extraordinary nature of its contents, but the purport of it was matter . of general conversation in camp. General . Gaines was much inflamed and highly in, censed against these letters and rumors." Gen. Gaines then arose and observed, "that he understood that one of the fetters ? alluded to by tho witness was before the e Court, and he therefore desired that it might be examined jn order to show the Court . whether the officer sent by thoiVar lie, i partment to carry on the war in Florida* i. was most desirous to effect kit downfall, or ; that of Osrola!!" * The Judge Advocate was directed to read . I 'h? V'.t'T from G?p. Sc/yt fe (.*er* Clinch,