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Federal Extravagance. , The debate which occurred in the Senate on Monday, with reference to the extension of the Capitol, is worthy of a passing comment. The discussion was begun by Mr. Borland, who objected to the half million appropriation, not only because the work was badly done, but on gen- i eral principles. In a word, lie was opposed to i the growing extravagance of Congress, and ; thought this one of the questions where that ! ' ' 1 ' * -1?-Ml- At.. A to, lavisn "xpenuiuue snouio ue met. .ui. ?... , followed in a somewhat similar strain. He recol- i loeted, he said, when one admin.-tration was 1 turned out for spending thirteen million ; a year,! j whereas now the expenditure had risen fo fifty- j ' two millions, with every prospect of its still go- ] ing higher. The extravagance on which these honorah' Senators commented is indeed an alarming fact. No republic can continue pure, j which squanders money as ours has been doing < lately; and when republics become corrupt, they , soon cease to be free except in name. We are | glad, therefore, to see two Senators of opposite . parties unite to deplore this departure from ( the original economy of the government. Mr. , Borland, indeed, wishes to throw the blame oti the Whigs; and Mr. Manguni, not to be out- j done, labors to shift it on the Democrats. But the truth is that both parties are equally to blame, and tlmh nartlv in the endeavor to sustain what . appear meritorious objects, and partly from sheer ostentation, the extravagance of the federal gov- : ernmeiit has grown beyond endurance. In fact, a period has arrived not unlike, in many respects, that which was cotemporary with , John Quiucv Adams' election to the Presidency. The federal treasury is regarded as an inexhaustible fountain; to which everybody may resort, who . has tact in making money, or who is too indo- ( lent to work. Does an impoverished inventor wish to be repaid for labors originally underta- ' ken out of love of science ??he goes to Wash- ( ington, and bores in Congress till he obtains a , grant which makes him a man of fortune. Does ( a princely merchant plan a line of steamers, by , which to make him a millionaire ??he petitions , Congress for an appropriation, und^r the plea of carrying the mails, and gains his end at once. . Does a covetous and grasping city become ambi- ( tious of being the Paris or London of America ? it sends committee on committee to Washington, , to ask that a sister city may be robbed of a great national institution. In a word, from the ] private citizen up to the wealthy municipality. ] everybody and everything seeks to live on the ( federal treasury, and grow wealthy and great , without the trouble of work. In this grand . scheme of plunder, A helps B, and C assists ( both, on tiie pledge 01 ceing supported in mrn. , It is only honest men and good republicans? ( those who scorn to pilfer, and those who think , extravagance unconstitutional?that get nothing ] in this scramble. . Had Senators Mangum and Borland, instead of as-ailing each other's polititical principles, in- ( veighed against the prevailing corru]?tion, and , chilled on Congress to refuse any and every pri- f vate appropriation, we should have thought bet- ^ ter of both of them. We trust that when the ( subject comes up again they will take this manly and patriotic ground. Neither of them can have forgotten that Patrick Henry and John ^ Randolph, with a host of early statesmen, foresaw this "evil day." Both must renn-mber that the objections which the first had originally to f the federal constitution were principally from J these fears. It is certain that the most extra va- , gant monarchies of Europe fall liehitid the United Slates government in squandering money on private jobs ; and yet it was a chief effort with the framers of the government to tie up Con- , gross so that economy would be ineviable. Let us return before it is too late to the original principles of the republic. We want more patriotism both in and out of Congress. But we want also a return to the far-reaching and ' statesman-like views of the early fathers of the Constitution, those noble men who abhorred j class legislation, and who detected and exposed it, no matter how lovely the disguise it assumed, j Philadelphia Bulletin. Money-Jiorth and South. The present relative condition of the money market South and North is anomalous. Money ' is easily attainable in Northern cities at reasona- i( t.lo <>f interest Tn the Southern cities it is comparatively scarce. There are no causes to | J( produce its scarcity in the latter that should not | | operate in the former. In fact, there are circum- t stances to enhance the value of money at the i ^ North which must have more limited influence j at the South. Schemes of railroad and manu- j ^ facturing improvement, as well as commercial J ^ adventure, absorb large amounts of capital in the | ^ Northern States, which are constantly pressing i 0 on their resources. In the South we haw much i " fewer calls for money in any of the departments j | of enterprise, public and private. The South ! possesses the largest means of payment. This I section contributes two-thirds in \alue of the na tional exports. Its staples are equal to the prcscious metals ;is means of remittance. I 0 What then should contract the accommoda- i '] tion that facilitates business, that is necessary I r to prevent the stagnation of enterprise? Are we I ' in the South so extravagant in our habits that 1 ^ we constantly anticipate our annual revenues.'? ! u Or do we contract debts for property?for land 11 and slaves?disproportioned to the market value j ' of the products of which they are the instruments j ^ of production? Some part of the pecuniary pres- j ^ sure which has l>een experienced recently in the ! ? r?mtr V.rt CO AAfl tA tlllC lfJCt / ! ?V?? | ?f?<f <1 tlfU? ! 0 fcfujuul iijuv uc nciu u w 1,111.1 ki.iv vuvuiii?vi?iiv< ' The price of negroes has been far lievond their a value, a< compared with the value of the article 11 which principally regulates that price. There is ; 1 no due proportion between slaves at ?800, and ' fi cotton at 8 cents per pound. This want of pro- * j?ortionate value between our chief staple ofagri- ? culture and the value of labor purchased to pro- 0 ducc it, has no doubt caused serious embarrass- 1 merit. Payments from the country have con-; " seouently been slack. The resources of our banks a 1 Sl jiop<.nr>f>(l ;it, th^Jresen^eSon^nc^^^^^yond the period to which all looked for relief. We at the South, with the possession of a pro-' duct which is the great medium of purchasing power abroad for the whole Union, should not; experience any but the most temporary pecuniary ' ^ embarrassment. While money bears a high price at the North, the North will require prompt liquidation of their Southern balances. But money is now becoming redundant all over the world. In England it is worth but two percent. . per annum. Large sums are crossing the Atlantic for investment in our securities. The same causes which cheapen money abroad, should tend, a at loa>:t, to render it easier at the South. If our r* ai.+,-*follTT out frntn tlio-if* I ^ UUIII1I II VUITO ?UU IVUIIU tun Vl? - ~ g moans by which the facilities, through moneyed negotiations, are obtained?if wo wore wullerj in by a Chinese policy?we could scarcely exhibit a /rente; anomaly than a difficult money market, whilst all tlie world besides are suffering under a 1 plethora.?[Charleston Xat's. Remarkable Instance of Longevity.?On Sunday, the 21st of December, the Rev. John c Sawyer, of Garland, who is more than three t months in his ninety-seventh year, preached ? two sermons in the Hajjtist and CongregatioP.alist meeting house in Exeter. The forenoon clis- r course occupied about forty-five minutes?the jafternoon, about thirty-five. They were delivered in a voice audible to every car. The building, ^ indeed was not large i but the aged speacker j would have sufficiently filled a much hirger house. After reading a hymn twice in the forenoon service, and none presented themselves to sing, the preacher struck up an appropriate air, singing a v verse each time alone. j Mr. Saw* or graduated at Dartmouth College j in the year 178.5, having received the full course of four years. Among his fellow members in College was the virtuous and rigidly correct C'a leb Bringham, whose dialogues ridiculed folly | c and condemned vicious principles?the author \ of a set of school books, among which wore those popular readers, the American Preceptor, and Columbian Orator, so suited and amusing to the childhood and youth of by-gone days. Anti- ., thesis presents to view another character on this h occasion, who was not only in College a pail of mate with Mr, Sawyer?the ingloriously noto- t rious Stephen Burroughs, v Mr. Sawyer can relate many things of Stephen, ^ ;vs lie was wont to call him, which the autobiography did not see fit to give to the world. Mr Sawyer's class in College included twenty a members, and he was the eldest except one.? All of them have passed awav but himself. lie ^ reads readily* by the help of glasses, and to be s heard by him a person of feeble voice is not re- 6 quired to make a great effort. But his physical n ibilities are not so well preserved :ls his mental ^ ind they have rendered less so by a fall from his carriage a few years since. By aid of a staff he walks without difficulty, on a level surface; but :o take a seat and rise from it, requires of him h usual exertions. He ascends shorts steps of J limself, and even gets in and out of his cariinge F done. Such a remarkable instance of longevity, where lie scenes and faculties of the mind are preserved so, as to make lite desirable receives a hies- tl iug from a benevolent heart, especially when t! hat has been incessantly devoted to the cause of e: 'ducation, virtue and religion.?Maine Fanner, g p Land "Warkasts maub Assmjnaiilf.?The ? >ill for this purpose, finally passed both Houses tl if Congress on Thursday and will, no doubt, re- $ eive the approval of lit I'rosidnt. It must n five increased value to the warrants, as it will j U acititate the location of tiem on the public land, j rite bill provides that the assignment may be . tl nade by deed or instrument of writing, according v o such form, and pursuant to such regulations.-is c. nay l>e prescribed by the Commissioner of the t< eneral Land Office, so as to vest the assignee ivith all the rights of the original owners of the warrant or location. The benefits of the original act, with the supdement are extended to the officers and soldiers fr >f any militia, volunteers or troops, wVo were a: silled into military service, and whose services h lave been paid by the United States subsequent o the eighteenth of June, eighteen hundred and welve. The following arc the provisions of the bill for fr ocating the warrants: I tl Any person entitled to pre-emption right to my land shall be entitled to use any such land currants, in payment of the same, at ?1,25 per icre, for the quantity of land therein specified: Provided, That the warrants which have been P >r may hereafter be issued in pursuance of said aws, or of this act, may b* located, according to r< he legal subdivisions of the public lands, in one | ti >ody, upon nny lands of the U. States, subject to b rivate entry at the time of such location, at the o iiinimmu price: Provided, further, That when si aid warrants shall he located on lands which are tl object to entry at a greater minimum than *1,- w !5 per acre, the locator of said warrants shall ay to the United States in cash, the difference j etween the value, of such warrants at ?1,25 per n ere, and the tract of land located on it. ti ? 01 California Pfulic Lands.?The Committee tc n Public Lands in the California Legislature k lave presented a report, reiterating opinions in fa egard to the propriety of donations of and by u Congress to settlers in this State, and submit- ci ing a resolution very similar in character to that m riginally proposed by Mr. Wood. The com- x nittee say, in their report that the area of the 0, >tate of California embraces 93,922,400 acres. ], )f this quantity 52,000,000 acres are mineral p. md and other lands unfit for cultivation; 2,>2'2,000 acres arc tuleor swamplands ; and 19,'00,000 are lands which cannot be irrigated, ml arc therefore unfit for cultivation, being val able only for grazing purposes. There remains, ^ hen, only 20.000,000 acres susceptible of irri;ation and cultivation. But a portion of this u 0,000,000 acres is covered by private claims, Spanish grants. The coininittec are therefore of pinion that the quantity of agricultural land in his State, belonging to the United States, does ot exceed l.r>,000,000 acres. If, then, 320 nl civs were donated to each settler, a homestead Si rouid only be secured to 46.874 persons ; while | ^ 100 acrcs^ssfhe amount donated to each |" ttlcr. it would give a homestead to 93,748 perons. The committee, therefore, intro duce a resolution directing the California Senator, <tc., i Congress, to endeavor to procure the passage m f a law donating 160 acres to each settler.? 111 south. Carolinian. Snow in the woods, above Moorehead lake in Oi laine is still five feet deep. or THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2G, 1852. THO. J. WARREN, Editor. Our Market. The Cotton Market has been inactivo since our last nd a decline has taken place, extremes ranging frorr > 1-2 to 7 3-4. All articles in the provision lino an carce and high. New Goods for Spring. Our neighbors, the Messrs. Kexxedy, are now open ng their Xew Spring Goods, embracing a choice anc veil selected stock suitable for the market arid season n the Gentlemen's department, they have Cashmerets )rap d'Etn, Summer Cloths, Fancy Linen, Drills "estings, and some of the handsomest Ready Madi iummer Coats we have ever seen. Jn the Hat line hoy have the usual variety, with now and then an a/< Kossuth." Our other mercantile friends are in town also, witl lew Goods, of which due notice will of course be givci iy the parties interested. Our market is one of the best in tho State for thi mrchaso of Cotton and other produce, and for the sell incr of Goods on reasonable terms, denv it who mav. Facts for the People. Road the communication in another column?likelj ou may tind some now thought upon an old subject 'or our part we are perfectly satisfied that a Plan! load must be made, or we arc gone as sure as fate. Hon. W. F. Colcock. We beg to return our thanks to Hon. W. F. Col OCK, for his recent kind attention in Congrcssiona ivors. The Next President. Nominations from various quarters are being made nd it is more than likely that in duo courso of time ijmards of several Candidates will bo fairly out. W< co it stated that the Democratic Convention of Ken ucky, has appointed Delegates to tho Baltimore Con ention, instructed to support the nomination of Gen Iass. The Democratic State Convention of Louisiana, havi !so elected Delegates for the same purpose. On tho Whig side Mr. Fillmore is decidedly mos rominciit. The whole Kentucky Whig press, with i ingle exception, and that the Louisville Courier, it ij tated, urge the nomination of Mr. Fillmore for tin ext Presidency, and the nomination of Mr. F. in th< Vliig State Convention was unanimous. Another Richmond of the Democratic stock Is men ioncd. The Democratic Stato Convention of Indiana, lately eld at Indianapolis, expressed its preference for Gen osEi'ii Lake as the Democratic candidate for the nexi 'residency. Our Neighbors Are at work, and it is but reasonable to coneludi iat, at no distant day, a connection with Union ant 10 upper Districts of the State, will be formed by oui ntcrprising neighbors, the Columbians. They are ir ood earnest, ar.d will no doubt succeed in the enter rise under consideration. The Carolinian, in speak lg of the probable cost of construction per mile foi te Union Iload, puts the estimate at the highest poini 2000. "We are satisfied that ours would not cosl lore than three-fourths (if so much) as tho Uniot load. The Carolinian says: ' We have only to add, for tho benefit of our readers iat similar enterprises elsewhere have paid well as in estments, besides conferring great benefits on the to itions through which they pass, as well as on the >wns at their termini." Kossuth Again! Several little girls in Cincinnati recently presented 'ossuth with $100 which they had collected by going om door to door. lie lato ly exhibited at Louisville lid charged one dollar for a ticket of admission. He as now got the babies to beg for him. "What next ? The Ladys' Book. This interesting parlor companion has been received ir April, containing as usual a variety of reading foi to Ladies. Influence. Every one, be his situation what it may, has an in irest, though he may not perceive it, in tho moral imrovement of society. Could wo remove the curtain iat separates time from eternity, and look into the jalitios of that world "from whence no traveller re> jrns," and could we be permitted to see what shall c hereafter, then might we know the full effects oi ur words and actions,?comprehend the result of the nallest exertions in the cause of virtue, and realize ic awful consequences of even a word or look thai ould deter from the path of rectitude. Our conduct affects first ourselves and those immoiately around us, then, through them, others more re' lole, and still onward like the circlo in the water, un 1 the influence is lost to our view in the distance; all ur words and actions should be governed by a regard > this momentous truth. "What a sad retrospect tc iok on a life spent without usefulness, and what it r worse, the influence we exercised over our fellows, sed to promote no good cause, to incite to no benefb al purpose, perchance employed to encourage other? i vine or in tnrninfr them from the rinth of virtue.? his is a sad thought, of some it may bo true; let each no who reads, consider for himself; and sec that ol im it may never be said, that he turned any from the nth of rectitude. * * Alteration in Mail Ronte. By t'10 following notification addressed by the As. stant Postmaster General to the President of the "ilmington Railroad, it will be seen that the Sunday lorning trip front Wilmington, N. C., and Sunday afinioon from Wcldon, on the Mail route No. 2,825, ill bo for the present discontinued. Post Office Department, ) Contract Office, March 17th, 1852. j Sir: You arc hereby authorized to omit the Sunday ornipg (8 A. M.) trip from Wilmington, N. C., and unday afternoon (1 1-2 P. M.) trip from Weldon, on ail route No. 2,825, until further orders. Respect11)' your ob't sorv'f, E. L. Ciiii.n.s, for 2d Ass't. P. M. Gen'l. A ?.? Vf?/?!? ?v Wilmincrfnn M H UVII. ?* 0-??, A writer in the Philadelphia Sun thinks that as echanies and laborers are liable to a penalty for workg 011 tho Sabbath, bar-keepers and their employers do >t merit exemption from like penalties. Ohio.?.Notice has oeen given in tho Legislature of hio of a bill to prevent any farther settlement of coled people in that Stato. A SMALL LOT OP SUNDRIES. Jenny Lind is still very much annoyed, it appears, by all sorts of applications for money. Thoy say that one man, of whom she had ncyer heard before, an eno<Mrnsa?>rl 11 letter informing her, that un less she sends him ten thousand dollars immediately ho ' shftll bo under the necessity of going into insolvency! ; Chicago is the most rapidly-growing city in the "Western country. It has now a population of 40,000, (although but 28,000 in 1850,) and real estate is selling at higher prices than can be obtained any where else. A lady died recently in England, who had been mar1 ried 08 years to the husband that survives her. She was a hundred years old, and her husband is ninetyi three. ' The whole number of Germans in the United States is estimated at 5,000,000, being over one-fifth and ncar' ly one-fourth of the whole population of the country, 1 which is estimated at 23,000,000. l Return* Day.?Our Sheriff with a sorrowing look 1 ami downcast countenance has informed us that he has had but live writs left in his office for sen-ice, and that B they wero in four different remote parts of the District. _ What is to become of the unfortunate lawyers resident in Georgetown under such circumstances is a question not easily answered. The Clerk of the Court is in favor of selling out if a purchaser offers who will not ask r too much to take the office.? Georgetown (S. C.) Obser? ver. c A new Territory is proposed comprising that portion of Wisconsin lying nortli of the 45th degree of north latitude, and that portion of Michigan lying west of Lake Michigan. Central Ohio Railroad.?The business of the I thirty-six miles of railroad between Zancsvillo and Newark is said to be already very extensive. A new Post-Office has been established at Donaldsville, Abbeville District, in this State, and Samuel Don' aid appointed Postmaster. ? , Only $130,000 have been collected, in sixteen years, . in tho Untted States, for the Washington National . Monument. Prof. Park says there is annually preached in the United States, an amount which, if published, would 3 make 120.000,000 octavo pages. The Harpers pay Dickens $2,000 for a copy of a new t novel which he is about publishing in England. Ii Money Miscarried.?All who have lost money in 3 transmitting it by mail had better apply to tho Post 3 Office Department, as ten thousand dollars have been 3 found in the dead letter office during the present quarter. " . Whales.?A gentleman attached to the steamer I Gordon, says the Charleston Standard of Wcdnesdav 1 which arrived here yesterday from Savannah, informs us that he saw several whales between Stono Breakers ' and the Bar. They appeared to bo tame, and it is thought might be easily captured. Manufacturers, North and South.?Some of thc s wool and cotton manufacturers at the North complain j of dull trade and declining business. Thc cotton manr ufactures at the South, however, are prospering ama ^ zinglv, and increasing all the time. For the Camden Journal. r The roads of a country are tests of civilizat tiou, the veins and arteries through which nutrit rnent is received. Without them the richest productions of nature would be valuless, and society relapse into barbarism. Frequent intercourse and constant in.erchauge of coin modi ties, ' constitute as essential elements of prosperity to communities, as the circulation of life's purple current to the body. Ilence, i iesc veins and ar! teries are essential to a prosperous country, and they always co-exist as cause and effect, perpetually acting. Roads are furnished according to j the demand for them, to every producing section p of country. The struggle always is between trading communities or market towns, to open new avenues and more favorable ducts, to drain ' the producing reservoir of its rich contents. To superior enterprise the palm is awarded always. " Palrnam gui meruit fcrat. To that town or I market place rendered most accessible, the producer will ever drive his team. Therefore every town has an immediate and tangible interest, in I.. c .1 ,1 u .. ;.c tnc improvement 01 uic ronus connecting it nun tlio region of country with which it trades. But there are other considerations rendering good roads important objects to the entire com j munity. Suppose a road ascends 100 tcet in 2000, one twentieth part of every load carried up that ascent is lifted up 2000 feet. On such a [ slope a horse can draw only half what he could j. on a level; hence, if the road is leveled one half the cost of carriage is dispensed with; but on a hard surface a horse can draw three times as much as ou an ordinary level road. Hence by ! laying down a hard surface, two thirds of the horses necessary at first to transport agiven quantity of produce, would be saved. If such an improvement can lie made for a sum of money, the " interest of which will be less than the total l nf tlie .mnii.il savinir in labor, the com I ? - O , 1 I munity ought to make the improvement. Plank ' roads are the best ever yet discovered ; they are ! farmers' Railroads. Their locomotives and cars j are ever at hand, under their own mangemcnt I and control, easy, safe and expeditious. A horse i: can draw on a Plank Road two or three times as much as on a McAdamized road. Two horses i can draw six tons, or from four to five tons 30 F miles per diem continuously, and fatten on it. ! i The friction is two and three-fourths to one in favor of Plank over McAdamized roads, llow much more over sands beds and clay hills, imagination cannot compass. Plank Roads are in good order at all seasons of the year. Lands are en, hanced in value to an extravagant degree, because, those who are contiguous to it, can go to a more distant market, can sell cheaper and <?ain more. The consumer of all marketable produce, lumber, fire-wood Arc., gets a better supply and at a lower price, and store keepers carry on an active trade, all the while. In the language of another, "a Plank Road is one of those few business arrangements by which all parts gain, and which, in the words of Clinton, 'augment the public wealth."' A few items upon the cost, mode of construction and value of Plank Roads are subjoined, taken from a work of high authority, to which particular reference shall be made hereafter. There should bo a ditch on each side, dnnn onnitrrb tn drain tho riind lv?d Tlio wii lib * o" i should be 20 feet between the ditches. The whole of this space is graded ; but one side is })lanked, the other is used as a turn out. One oot in sixteen and a half is the greatest rise in an important road in New York which penetrates a primeval forest. The earthen road or turn-out should be from twelve to eighteen feet wide. Formerly the plank roads were wider, say from nine to twelve feet, but then one-third was lost. Over a single track in 2?. Y. 1G1000 wagons passed in one year or 220 per diem ; and it was found sufficient. The turn-out is sloped to the ditch and should be kept in good order. This is not difficult, because h seldom occurs that two wagons turn out in the same track, hence no ruts are made. The sleepers rrpon which the planks are laid should be six inches square to wide roads. To eight feet roads two sleepers four inches square are amply sufficient, but twelve by three arc recommended. A road in Canada three miles long does well without sleepers. They are used of different lengths, 13, 1G or 20 feet. The road should not be wider than necessary for the track of ther wheels. The width differs in different sections of the country. The planks should be 3 or 4 inches thick, but it is better to take from the plank and add to the sleeper*?3 inches thick: enough. Thicker will do, provided the travel is sufficient to wear it out above, before it rots below. It is a disadvantage to spike down. It should be covered one inch thick with grave! or sand?saw-dust and tan-bark are used also. The timber, with the work, are the chief items of * cost The following are estimates realized from experience. If timber can be had at 70 cents, it will make it still lower. These are quite high enough to cover any probable outlay, even at the minimum charge. The charge for gate houses is altogether too high, even at the lowest figures: ESTIMATE PER MILE. Plank 8X 3* 5280 .... 126,620ft Sleepers 2* 1* 3* 5280 - - - 31,680ft Sa>- 160 M. ft. lumber at $8 to 10 - 1280 to 1600 Grading and Laying from - - - 100 " 300 Gato Houses, - - - - - 50 " 150 Engineering and Supcrintendance - 100 " 100 Contingencies 100 ' 200 $1630 $2350 The Syracuse and Central Plank Road cost $1487 Rome and Oswego " " " 1300 Detroit " " " 1500 The first named road was built by days work and cost less than the bids of contractors. The road should be built in sections of a quarter of a mile each, and the timber contracted for tc be delivered at each section along the line. An intelligent Engineer is necessary, and hands should be liired and placed under his superintcndance. The wear of a pine road travelled by 50,000 two horse teams per annum, in two years, was 1-1 inch, and this was attributed to the want of sanding the first year. It was estimated that the wear on that road would not destroy it in 10 years. The greatest wear is at first After being used, the sand is ground into the fibres of the wood, and becomes very hard and wears but little. A road worn out by travel, will have paid I from 100 to 200 per cent, on its first cost. No I plank road has ever yet been worn out The above items have been culled from a most interesting and able work of Professor Gillespie, of N. Y., on the subject of roads generally. The data upon which he bases his calculations, are of the most satisfactory character, and if the writer of this shall have been the means of calling the attention of intelligent and patriotic citizens of Camdeu, to the Professor's unanswerable arguments and inducements to improve our avenues of tr.ide, he will be amply repaid for whatever labor he may have incurred. For no such person can investigate the subject, as treated of in the work referred to, without lending his aid to arrest the ruin of our beloved Town, now impending, in the only way left to us. The profits of every plank road heretofore constructed, have surpassed all expectation. Even in the first enterprises of this character, the stock has paid handsome dividends, and there is no plank road, now in operation, which pays a less dividend than 10 percent, per annum. But recently a paper came accidentally into the hands of your correspondent, stating that there were four or five plank roads running from Chicago ; the longest not over 30 miles, and the shortest not more than 5, and perhaps not one of them finished, yet they paid last year from 10 to 40 per cent. The prospect of remuneration is as great as can be afforded in any investment. In the adjoining State of North Carolina, a road not yet completed, running from Fayetteville, paid 14 per cent, last year. Where are our capitalists ? Real Estate in Camden has diminished more in 12 months past, than the amount which would be required to be raised hero, to secure the Plank Road to Concord. This was foreseen and predicted, but without effect. Hear another prediction ! If con fidence is not restored in some way, before the frst day of September, 1853, Camden will have lost one-half her mercantile capital. It is time to talk plainly. There may be some who, having no local affinities, or imagining themselves independent of the fortunes of our town, feel but little interest in the subI ject, but not to A NATIVE. I Macreadv's Opinion of the Sta :e as a j School of Morals.?Mr. Macreadv, the TrageI dian, now resides at Sherborne, in the bosom of a most interesting family of twelve children.? Among may excellent rules for the government of his family, is one, from which, it is said, he has never deviated. It is, that no one of his children should ever, on any pretence, enter a Theatre, or have any visiting connection whatever, with actors or actresses. From Singapore.?The Salem Register gives some extracts from late Singapore papers, received at that office, from which we quote the following:? We are sorry to learn that fearful ravages are being made in the rural and planting districts by tlie numerous tigers infesting the jungle. Two coroner's inquests were held hist week on view of the remains of persons killed by these ferocious animals. In most instances no portion of the body is * recovered to enable us to determine the exact jj number of persons carried off, but a considera- j ble number of natives employed in planting op- I erations are missing. The present rewards and I other aids being manifestly inadequate to arrest I the mischief, it behooves the Executive to take a immediate and active measures to rid the jungle J of these savage beasts, or planting operations m will cease in parts beyond the immediate vicini- jN ty of the town. On the 15th, a Malay man jB was carried off at Passier Rice, near Ckangi. jg