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' THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. BYCAT18ftTBDBMIEB. >? Hi8l)l8. Politics, anvitultwrc. nnt fflbecllnm,. mpeeabbto" YOL- X1IL SPARTANBURG, 8. O, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1856. 1\ O 25, THE CAROLINA SPARTAN. BY CAVIS & TRIMMLEft. T- 0. P. VERNON, Associate Editor. Prico Two Dollars per milium in advance, or .50 at the on J of the year, if net paitl until ; after the year expires $3.00. Payment will bu considered in advance if made within three month*. No subscription taken for less than six months. Money may bo remitted through postmasters at I our risk. Advertisements inserted at the usual rates, and | -contracts made on reasonable terms. The Sr.ARrAN circulates largely over this and i adjoining districts, and offer* ail admirable medium J to our friends to reach customers. Job work of all kiuiis promptly executed, lilaaks, Law and E'juitv, continually on hand or priutcd to order. ' THE MISSING LETTER. VII Four years more passed on. It was the ' dinner-hour nt Hill JIouso Farm, an hour after mid day. Mr, Storling, the farm's oc- j cupunt, and his daughter sat down to it -nlono. Tito farmer was sinking into years, .and latterly ho had been full of ailments,1 ? - -1 1 i ?< I.. .1, | | JiUU gruwu aiivi \> vi victim vn tho chest, and could not look after his out- ! <1oor pursuits as formerly. His daughter: was of quiet, gentle maimers, not beautiful, but full of earnest truth and kindness. It was singular that the farmer's only child, i who was admired wherever she was known, and who would be the inheritor of his substance, should have gained her six andtwentieth year without having changed her name, but sho laugh ingly answered, when joked about it, that she could not afford to , leave her father and mother. "Shall I carvo to day, father, or will you?" inquired Anne. "You carve, child. Cut for your mother first." Uut Anno chose lirsl of all to help her father. The dish was boiled beef, and she , was careful to cut it for him as lie be-t liked it. Appetite never failed with farmer Ster- ; ling. Sho then rose to tuko up her moth 1 er's dinner. "Ilallo, Anne!" ciied the farmer, "what , are you leaving the table for? Where's Molly, tliat she can't take that up 5" "Molly has so much to do to-day," was his daughter's reply. "There's Martha's > work, as well as her own; and with her weak kneo she will not he able to stir when night comes, if she has to run uj> and down stairs. 1 shall be there and back in a miti lite." When dinner was over, the farmer diew his arm chair close to the lire. Anne gave him his pipe and tobacco, scl his jug of ale beside liiui, and then went up to her moth ci's cimmber. 8hc smoothed tiie bed and .the pillows, changed her mother's cap for a smarter one, in case an) neighbors dropped in, put some lavender water on her hand kerchief, and gave her her usual glass of wine. "What else can 1 do, mother i"' she a.-kod. "Nothing, my dear. Sit down an.I be still?you must be tired helping Molly so much this morning?unless you will read a psalm. The book is hero." Anne Sterling took the prayer book, and read lite evening psalms for the day. llci accent and manner of reading were those of a gentlewoman, practically inured as she was, to inferior household occupations. She then sat talkiug, till, after a while, her mother seemed inclined to sleep; so Anno softly IcJl the room, and went down stairs 0 into the kitchen It was tlien four o'clock. " Well, Molly, how are you gelling on <" ' Oh, pretty well," responded the old servant, who was a lixturo in the family. "Martha hadn't need to go gadding out for a holiday every day, though. I'm oil' now into the dairy." "Is IUV fiiliier nrone into ll>.? finl.lv ? ' in. # J% ^v,,v *',v MV,MW " quired Miss Sterling. "I ha'u'l secu nor heer'd him since dinner." "What, nil this while! Then ho mn.-t have dropped asleep." As Anne spoke, she wont along the passage to the sitting room, nnd soon a wild shriek reached Molly's ears. The latter ran after her, as well as her lanio leg would allow. Farmer Sterling was in a lit. J l is pipe lay broken on the ground, and his head liad fallen on the elbow of his chair, his eyes starling, and froth issuing fiom his lips. Molly screamed out that it was apoplexy. "He'll bo gone," idio uttered, "unless something can Lo done, lie's going fast. However can we get tho doctor hero in time ?" Anno Sterling, pale as a shout, gathered dicr scared senses together. "I will run unto Laylon for tho doctor," she said; "you would never get there. Hold his head up ,<tnd rub his hand while 1 am gone. She darted off without bonnet or shawl .-across tho fold-yard into tho lane, which was tho nearest way to tho little town of jLnyton, flying along as if for !,or life. It was dirty, and tho mud splashed up with .every step. A laborer, in a smock frock, who was at work in a contiguous field, star .ed at her with astonishment, and strided to tho stile to look at her as she passed. 'Oh,' sho ciiod, as sho darted up to him, her heart leaping at the sight of a human being, ouo who might perhaps be of service, 'If you can run quicker than I, pray go for :.,i~ r ....i? *f.. c-.i i ill.. imu imm/ uajriuu. .\iy iniitur?i i ?:hi iiui /lotice that it was ycu,'?lic abruptly bi<d. oil; 'I beg your pardon.' And, swifter if' possible than before, she ilew on her way down tho lano. iii was scarcely more than thirty years .of ago, yet lines of care wcro in his face, aud si'ver was mixed will: his luxuriant j Lair, hut his coui.lenanco was open and pleasant to look upon. Jfo was a tall, agile man, and ho leaped the stile and overlook Anno. 'Miss Sterling! Miss Sterling!' ho imprcs-, sivcly said, as ho enmo tip with her, and ' stiango to say -strange when contrasted with nis dress and his menial occupation, his wordi and bearing woie those of an ednta ted and refined man; 'you are in some die tress. Though it is 1?myself: though I am a banned, persecuted outcast, need that neutralize any aid 1 can render? Surely no curse will follow that. What can I do j for you!' She hesitated, ller breath was getting short, her legs were aching, and sho felt she could not keep up this paeo long. What though ho was pointed at amongst his fellow-men as a criminal, who, by luck, not merit, had escaped tho hulks, was not her father dying for want of aid? Yes, she would waive prejudice at this timo of need. 'My father is in a lit,' slio panted. 'If you can got Mr. Jelf to hint quicker than I can, we should bo ever thankful to you. I fear it is apoplexy.' 'Apoplexy!' he repeated; 'then no timo should bo lost, Miss Sterling. It must bo half an hour before Mr. Jelf can be with him, even should ho bo at borne. 1 lo must be blod instantly. Is there no one in tho house who can do ill' ' She shook her head us she ran on, for slio had not halted in her pace. 'Not a soul in the house but Molly?save tny mother, who is bedridden.' < 'Thou I had better go back to your house I ?if it may be pctmitled mo to enter it,' i and bo spoke the last words with conscious i indecision. 'I may be able to do something: if you can go on for Mr. Jelf. 'He it so,'she answered. 'Lose no time.' lie sped back swiftly, and entered the house by way of the kitchen. Ho knew ] the locality well. Tliore was nootie about, ; but he hoard tho voice of Molly?he remembered that well, also?calling out in a ; sobbing, startling lone, to know who was I there. 1 Slio started much more win n lie went in and she saw who it was. A look of blank ] dismay, not unmixed with resentment, overspread her countenance. j 'What do you want, Master Lcdbitter? What brings you here?' '1 come to render aid?if any be in my power. By Miss Sterling's desire,' be add cd, distinctly. 'By tho timo the doctor got hero be would be past all aid,' ho continued ? vunm^ ah ma uiiivruiiiuiu *1 <01 11)0 H wash hand basin, and some linen tu make a bandage. Have you any hot water!' Von,' sobbed Molly, 4n bilcr full. 1 put it on to wash out my kitchen.' Then get a bucket of it, and bring in all the mustard you have in the house, while 1 lake oil* his shoes an?l stockings. Make liable. We may restore him yet.' John Ledbitter spoke with an air of nu thoi ity, and Molly, to her astonishment, I obeyed, much as she despised liiui. Little time lost lie. There was no lancet at hand. j j but ho bared the farmer's arm; and u-oJ his j j own sharp penknife, lie was an intolli- j gent man, knew something of surgery, and when Anne Sterling returned she found her father had been rescued from immediate daniri-r. Mr. Jclf was not with her; lie | 0 . ... was on the other side of J.iyton, visiting a i I patient, but they bad sent af er hi.n. A ! neighbor or two icturnod with Antic, j 'lie ain't in no favor with holiest t 'lk>, that John Ledbitter,' ivinukcd Muliy to! Miss Sterling, when she eame in; 'but -aire j as wc aie sinful creatures, you may thank bim, Miss Anno, that you have got a living latliet. He was at the last gasp.' He did more besides restoring him. lie | was sliong and active, and with little help from the women, ho got Mr. Sterling up stairs, undressed him, and placed him in bed. '1 will remain and watch him, with your permission,' lie said, looking at Anne, "till the suigeou comes.' i n \ ..u win Kinujy tio so,' >lio answered.1 j *1 am very grateful to you, indeed I am,' I she added, through her tears, assho kitally ; held out her hand to him. 'My mother v. ill not know how to thank you when -.lie hears that to you, under Heaven, he owes his life.' Mr. Ledhitter did not tako Iter otVered hand. Ho extended his own, and turned it round from sido to side, as if to exhibit its horny, rough texture, bearing the iin pross of hard, out door work, whilst a peeu- j iiar smiloof mockery and bitterness rose to ' his face. 'It is not so tilting as it once was to como in contact with a lady's,' ho ol> j served; these last sir. years have left their traces on it. Yvti would say, also, as the world says, that worse marks than those o! woik aio on it?that it bears tho impress of its crime, as Cain boro his.' She looked distressed. What was there that she could answer? 'And yet, Anne?pardon me, the familiar name rose inadvertantly, not from disro snect; I urod to call you so, and you have never since, in my mind, been anything but Anne Sterling?what if I were to assert that the traces ..gii usage are tinworst guilt of which that hand can right eouslv bo accused?that it is dyed with no deeper crime? What then?' 1 don't know,' she faltered. <i i.? i .v ' > x u?.'j itu .iii.iwjri'i. i CHI would lliloW 1 my assertion to the winds, as others did, and loavo tuo to toil, au<l blaucli, and die in them, rather than accord mo the sympathy so necessary fiom man lo man, even though it wero but tho sympathy of" pity. , A inossougor of Heaven might whispor such to a fallen angel.' VIII. ! Farmer Sterling got bettor, but only for i a liino, and n very short one -hardly long ] enough, as tho old gentleman himself said, ; lo make his pence with his Maker, lie 1 never left his bed again. Mr . Sterling, ] whoso disorder appeared to abate, and her strength lo rcvivo with the necessity of the case, now managed to reach her husband's I room daily, and to sit with him for several i hours. I About thrco weeks subsequently to tlw i farmer's attack, his daughter went to High- \ am by the morning coach, to see her cous- \ in, Mrs. Gramo. As she entered tho pas- I sage of tho house, tho oflico was on her 1 right, and Mr. Gramo was there, stamping r soino Utters. Anno waited a moment, . \ thinking ho might seo her, and die obsorv- s cd that his oye^ wero red, and his bauds j f sinking. I 'Good morning, "Walter,* sho said, at length. 'Is Selina up staiis?' The postmaster looked tip. 'What, is it you, Anne? You havo just come, I supposo. How is the old gentleman?' 'lie is belter, but gains 110 strength, and does not get up. This is tho first day ho has seemed sullieicntly comfortable for me to Ienvo him, or 1 should have been in to seo Selina before.' 'And 1 have been so bothered with one thing or other that I havo not had a minute to ride over. What tale's that about Ledbitter having saved his lite?' 'lie certainly did. My father must havo been dead before tho surgeon came, had it not been for John Ledbilter. lie applied tho necessary remedies, and bled him as handily and eflfeclually as Mr. Jelf could havo done.' 'Ah, women are easily frightened,' carolosslossly repeated tho postmaster. 'You camo across him, wo heard, as you were running into Lay ton for Jelf.' 'It was so.' 'Well, then 1 must tell you, Anne,that 1 contradicted that report-?for 1 never could believe that you would have permitted yourself to hold speech with such a character, still less to admit him inside the house.' 'Not to save my father?' returned Anno. 41 would use any means, any instrument, when his life was at stake.' 'You did not know it would save his life,' persisted Mr. (iimnc. 'I am astonished at your imprudence, Anne.' 'My father was dying for want of assistance,' sho retorted, war inly, 'lain thankful that L'rovidenco throw oven John Led bitter in my way to render it.' 'Providence!' sarcastically ejaculated the postmaster. 'Providence,' repeated Anno. "The longer 1 live, the moie plainly do 1 see the hand of Providence in every action of our lives?even in those which to us may appear significantly trivial at the moment of their occurrence.' 'You'll avow yourself 0 fatalist ucxt,' rejoined "the postmaster. 'llow is the baby?' inquired Anne, by way of turning the conversation. ?oi. ;r< it :? ?? V.I) .? U ??X>AA VU'MI-II, It VIIW III.U J11'1^^" by its squalling. J never heard a young one with such lungs. 1 think Solina must manage it badly. ^ ou'll find them all upstairs.' Miss Sterling ascended loan upper room, Mrs. (drama's l>cd cainhor, aud knocked at the door. l*ut there was so great a noise inside of children ey ing, that she found but little chaiico of being heard. She opened it. Mi-. (irame sat in a locking eliair, in an invalid wrapper and shwal, her coun tenanee ghastly from illness, pio.-cntiug so painful a contrast to the ot'cu blooming and lovely Selina Clecve, that few could have traced a resemblance. The infant in her arms was crying, as if ia pain; amain r little f*J!ow, *>f (wo year.*, stood by her l-na?( >o:nIn ^ til j ;'i in lepiner. Anne went u an 1 kis-'d her. 'What are you doing here, with these crying chil dieii, S. lina?' .-he sai 1. '< ?!?, dear, do 11y and utiiut them, Annel' Mis. (Irumo helplessly uttered, bursting into tear.-; 'my very life is harassed out of me. Since the nurse left, 1 have had the trouble of the,n all day.' Miss Sterling threw her bonnet and shawl on the bed, and taking a paper of home made cakes from her jxjeket, drew l(|r elder child's eye tow aid tin ill. 1 lie tears woie uirested halfway, the mouth remained open, and the noiso ceased. ' These cakes are for good little boys who d"ii't cry,' said Antic, seating the young <r< llth n ill on tin* t'oor. :L! 1 luiltin.r ** | ^ -W...V into his pinafore. i lieu sho took tfio iiif.uil from its mother, and carried it about ilio room. When soothed to silence and sloop, she sat down with it on her knee. Seiiua,' slie began, 'I am not going t?> till you now that you ate a bad manager, for 1 have told you that often < nou g1' when you woro well. Hut how comes it that you have no nurse!' 'Ask Walter,' replied Mrs. Guimc, a look of resentment escaping with h?-r tone. Now ho calm and speak cjuietly of things. You surely purpo-c taking a mai 1 for the children?' *7 purpose!' bitterly retorted Mrs. Gratue; 'It is of very little use what 1 purpose or wai t. Walter squanders the monoy away on his own pleasures, and we cannot all* >rd to koep two servants. Now you have the plain truth, Anne.' '1 have thought,' resumed Miss rling, after an awkward pause, "that y. u liava sometimes appeared not <piito at your ? ?-e as to money, llut a caso like this is nno of necessity: your health is at stake, and it is .Mr. Grnmo's duty t> provide an additional servant, if only for a few months.' 'Lis en Anne,' resumed Mrs. Grime, speaki ig with an excitement her cousin in vain endeavored t<> arrest. 'You thought I married well; that if W alter had boon living freely, as a young man, and anlici paled his inheritance, ho was steady thru, had a good home to biiug ino to, and a liberal salary. You thought this?mv undo and uuut thought it?I thought it. Uut what were the facts? lieforo thatchi'.l was horn'?ami she pointed t? the 1 i11 cakeeati r?'1 found ho was over head and tars in debt, and they have hoon augment ir.g ever since. His ipiarter's salary, w hen paid, only serves to stop the most pres.-in;-, uid supply liis piivato expenses, of which lie appears to have abundance. Such expenses are shameful for a married man.' Jto call i, Selina.' '(.'aim! how can I ho calm? I wish I lad Leon a thousand miles oil", before ! ronsented o marry him! i never did lovo im. I )on*t h><jk reprovingly at mo, Anne; t is the likth. I loved but one, and that ivr.s John I.odbittcr. When lie turned out vorlldoss I thought my heart should have jrokon, though 1 carried it oil'with a high and lo hit*, for I was bitterly inot.ii < ' igainst hiin. Titon came Walter (d one, villi his insinuating whisper* and handomo person, and tutirfl m-. into a liking or him. And then int^ n marriage Selina,' interrupted Miss Sterling, 'you i should not speak so of your husband, even ] to mo.' I 'x '1 shall speak to tho world, perhaps. l?y! and by; ho goads me enough for it. Night , : after night, night after night, since from a I few months after our marriage, does ho 1 spend away from mo. In "what society, tl think you! lie comes homo here towards | morning, sometimes sober, and then 1 I 0 j know where ho has been, for I have heard; ^ but oftenor ho conies staggering homo from j | the public house, primed witli drink and j c smoke. 1 least.* t| Miss Sterling wrung her hands, but she J j i could not stem the torrent of words. a 'I should not so much care now, for 1 c have grown inured to it, and my former re-1 i, proaciics?how useless they were!?have ^ given place to silent scorn and hatred, were t, i it not for the money these habits of his j consume. Circumstances have grow n very v bad w ith us; of money there scorns to be none; and it is with dilliculty wo provide ? for our daily wants, for tradespeople refuse js us credit. How then can I bring another j c servant into the house when wo can hardly | ' keep tho one wo have?', ! | 'This state of things must he killing her,'' c thought Anno Sterling, as she listened and ' s, I shiveicd. : j| i 4\\ hat it w ill come to I don't know,' pro- j ccoded the invalid, 'but a break up seems , inevitable, and then h<> will loso his sittia ^ lion as postmaster. In any ca^e, 1 don't ^ think he will keep it long, for if he could j, I stave oil' pecuniary ruin, his health is so ! , shattered that he is unfit to hold it. 1 now 1 | thank my dear aunt that she was firm in u I having my i.'l,oOO settled on myself. The s interest of ills not much, but, if tho worst i comes to the worst, it may buy dry bread to keep ino and these :?oor children from starvation, and j?av for a garret to lodge < i in.' ! |t 'Oil, Selina!' littered Miss Sterling, as the r tears ran down her cheeks, 'how terribly i , 1 you shock me!' '1 have never betrayed this to a human : being till now. Vou may have thought a ' me grown cold, capiicioit*, illnatured?no j ! doubt you have, Anne, often, when you ' a | have come here. Not long ago, you said . ! how marriage seemed so have altered me. < 1 Hut now you see what I have had to try I me, the soil of existence mine has been.' p 'What can I do for you??how can I help?' inquired Anne. 'Wero my father j well, I would take little Walter home with I lie, and lelievo you of him for a time, but w his state demands perfect quiet in the \ hou?e. M nev, ht-vond a trilfe, I have not, , i . it I of my own, to oiler; peihaps my mother, s, j when she knows, will ' '.Sin* must not know,' vehemently inter- ' ,] rupted Mis. (Irame. I forbid J'on to tell . her, Anne? 1 fob: 1 you to tell any one. . As u> m may, if you were to put a hundred 1 , ; pounds down before mo this minute, 1 ' , ! would say, throw it rather into the lirst j . i.lltoll you come to, for it would only ho 1 , ! ><i inudcu !, b\ him. ?* > ' >? i.i. * * O ^ * (J I debts. No, |< ' 1 e e - . no : the sooner i, J the belter. 11 it.gs mat he sun other after t it, a' any la'e quieter; tor as it is the house , is dunned by creditor*. ' >h, Ainu! it i* ( were not f?>r the.se children 1 would conic . j back and tlud peace at the farui, if you would give me shelter. lint n >w ?to go . ; from my own sellisli troubles ?tell me | , about my uncle. '1 > think that it &1. uiJ u be John l.o Ibiltor, of all people, who c uue < in to his help! Walter went on in a line I way about it, in one of his half-tipsy moods, lie has mi uncououeiable hailed it* him, as powcll'lll as it is lustilor. 1 on.n.x.. o - - ?ri-'-v ses Ironi h;s knowing 1 wns once so altaeh1 oil to him. j 'Selina,' i> turned M:-s Sterling, loweiing | | iter wieo,'you v\ ill say it is u strange fa: ey ( of mine, I .. from a low words John !. 1 hitler spoh to me, ilio i veiling of my fa j ill era atlaok, 1 have In oil doubting whothci | ; ho was guilt\.' 'W hat can volt in an.'* demanded Mis. ( (irano, with stailling fervor. 'What , irr nimla have vou! 1 ?i? 1 ho asscil his inno cencet* * |;| '< hi the contrary, ho seemed lath r to M let me assume Lis guilt llo said that of course 1 believed liiin guilty, liko tin- lost '' of the worl I .'.ill; and then followed a hint that ho con! f assort his inuoCiiioe. Hut |j his manner said more than his words. It was B- peculiar, so haughtily independent, betraying tho soil reliance of an iunocvi.t man, smarting under tinging sense of injury. 1 do believe?? j 41 >011*1 go on, Aune,' interposed Mrs. J (jrame, with a shudder. 'If it should over turn out that John l.cdbillcr wasaecustd unjustly, that 1, of all others, helped to re- U vile utid scorn him, my sum of misery " would ho complete, and I must go in i 1 or die. ! .-appose you L.?\o swu him but thitl once.' 'Indeed wo have. lie called the next day, and XJollv let him "o uit to so.. ini . . ? 1 - " "V v father. i 'lu Ins suiock frockl wtorposod Mis. j . liiaine, in a liaif derisive tone. 'W e have never >oeii him in ai.ythii g ' else, except on Sundays, and then he is dressed as a gentleman. lje comes every Jay now.' Ha'.' lie protlcrod his services to mo ran I inv p mother, if Ire toull l?o ul" any u>o about the j '' t'aim. We wuo at terrible fault f i intone l > rvplaeo my lather, and a few things ho unJcitook weie . > well c\ecilt< >1 that ' they I I to more. Now ho is rt otlarly ' \>01 king for u Mia. C.ramo leaia-U her head uj> m her " hand ami inu?ed. 'Js he mccli altered. < aire n?kud. ' '!i Vi a. His han is goii: ( g"?V, ' 1 '' his eolililenaiico has a ioo' I e'aio I i.evet thought to arc oil ono o smiling hii.1 sun | , ny ;is wa< -lohtl I J bitter's.' I III. I 'ONc Li ur.ii J > .. A -m?b>u Leviow, in answ.i t<> tli?< 11 .. sti.iii,"\\ hat is iimn;'' ays ''Chemically a speaking, a n.an is forty five pounds of oar- rc bo;i iin.l nitrogen, diffused through five and a half pails of water." lie that knows useful things,' n 1 not he oi that know, many thin:;*, io the w n m l < Railroad Survey. 'o the J*resident ami Directors of the (ircenville and Drench Brood Railroad Company. Gknilkmks: I have tho honor to lay bojro you the following report of tbo survey f iIjo inouutaiu division of your road: After making a thorough reconnoisance f all that section of country, lying between lie town of Columbus, on tho east, and >utt mountain, on the west, its tonographial features indicated tho possibility of lirco routes across the great spur of the liluo lidgo, which divides the waters of Green nd I'acolet rivers, and constitutes thopriuipal obstacle to tho passage of tho lliue lidgo with a railroad line. Wo will disnguish the threw routes by tho nomenclatics of I'acolet, Howard's Gap, and North nun. 'J'wo of these routes have been sureyed. Uii tho 24th of October last 1 oranixed a corps of Engineers, and commotiod Held operations near Columbus, which > situated immediately upon tho western xlrcmity of tho (Jowpcn ridge. With a iow of passing up I'acolet river, a inaxilum grade of 72 foot per mile was projectd, tracing the line along the slopes of tho oulh sido of Tryon mountain, cutting liroiigh tho high lidges and tilling up the cop ravines which tnako down from it. Uler extending tho line to a point opposite lie Howard's G.ip, where tho line through liat Gap will detlecl from tho I'acolet line, I was deemed advisab'o to discoutinuo peralions on this side of the inouutaiu, and tovc over to liutt mountain, that as much f tho line might ho completed on the north ido of the inouutaiu as possible whilst the .outlier was favorable. Commencing at Unit inouutaiu, the line .as cariicd in a southerly direction, desoening at the rate of GO feet per mile, to a uvol grade across a small branch of ban el Crock; theuco ascending upon a 40 feet ;rade to a gap ill the ridge at John McJ inn's, which divides llio waters of Laurel lid lleatliorly creeks; thcuce descending long llio slopes of the west -ido of Heathrly tidge, at the rate of GO feet per mile, to point near Green river, passing around lie end of llio ridge upon a curve of 030 let ra lius theuco upon easy and uudulai:g grades descending along the slopes of lie Croeii liver hills to tho crossing of that iver, at an elevation of 82 feet, and a biidge ">0 feet long. I'p to this point the line has been sciuo hat circtiitoil-, attaining a length of four libs 3,280 feet, and a descent of only 142 et iu that distance, when actually, ujk>ii a traigat line, the distance will not exceed 0 mile-. 1 am decidedly of the opinion, lit the lino back t>> Laurel creek is sus 1 t'tihic of \eiy great iinproveiuont in disnice. l'?y elevating the bridge over Crcen iver 20 feet higher than the present crossig, iho high rulgu which divides the wa:rs of that river and Laurel creek may be ut ihiovigh, or a rt-orl to tutt;viii.g may be eCC-.s.nv io acc iipiish that omoci; "mere y ?1ioiteuing tli distanco from Hull raounliti t the mcr at least two miles. From r n liver lite line i- tiaeed upon levol ml a cetiding giades if 10 feet per mile, > a gap in the lidgo which divides the raters of Camp creek and Corn's spring ranch; thence along the south side of Camp reek to a level grade across n small branch hi :h head- near Pace's gap; thence ascening said branch at the rate of 40 feet per rile, to l'ace's gap, in the ridge which diides the waters of tli ecu and Pacolct rivr-i. All three of the routes occupy the nil urouiul un to ilii*. n Gi.t at-t- - ?' cj . -j ...... pwi >> ) ? uivivtinVrV VM rules -1,310 feet from Dull raounluin. Itro I lie l'acolet lino falls into tlio lica 1 ot owl's brai. li, d sceuding al the ralo of 7 2 ? l Ji t it?ilo l ) l'acolet river, tbci.eo down 10 mountain >ioj>o. of ilio norlii side of lli.il v. t to it-, in tor section with lite lino near Low .Ifu'-. o.iji. The whole length of this lino from Hull loiintain is IP miles GSO Loot; maximum ra lo going east 10 fool, and coming we.st l! fool por inilo. The minimum radius < f uivaU.ro will be C30 feel. L'lio njijiroxilato o>?t of construction will bo as follows: T.i.iualiol), bri.t^ ng aii.l nilsoiuy, $J1G,700 I'l) u;.< : vti uc'.uro, w .tit U"tiU w. fehuig So tuns |k r in lo, 13.3,Sun Ou ?. ;k ia. tuMiuuin, waa.r tlai?.;.>, Dug ii. ir:ug an.I o .niiug, new*, 1'JO,COO 00 Tola) cost, $l,'MU,7lK) 00 Average oust |k-r mile, 01,600 00 1 lie liownid Oaj? lino deflects al race's aji from the l'a-olet lino; j>a?iug through u lidgo which divides llio waters of Jowl's lanch and (J no creek, it follows tbe crock |>uii an aaccndiug guide of GO feet jier uio to \\ oil i'.t Creek. 1 ho iuclcliieUCV f I ho wo.tthoi jirovuiiled a further jnosecu* it of the work dining th.j winter. .1 icld ojierations were sii>j>cnded on ike Jill of I .cen.ber last a ml not le.sunnd mi 1 lite tu l ot June, wLeu tlio lino fiom lull i'n CKck was uxU'ii led to 1 low aid's up oil level and ascending grades of ."'J ct | i mile; thence along the slop.* and .m il > of llie south siilo of Tryon M >1111 lit), ascending at tho into of UO loot per iilo to riioiiij>v.>u's t iaj??the eastern cxc.niiy it the mountain division. The n.'tii ct this line is 17 ."> miles. Maximum ra le 1 JO feel | t mile, (only used from want :> (. iji to 1 liomson's Cap. Miiiinnun rad.as of < uri.atnro from Ihitt >111 ill', ill to 11 'Ward's Cap is l>30 feet; oin Howard's Cap to Thomson's Cap 133 feet. Ili" approximate co.-t of construction ill he a > follows; . in.- . i. '.,; i , an I iii.is inry,.. .$f>l 1,'J.">0 0() i|H rslru. iure, I?0,o00 l>0 ? (>< *, water station*, turnout*, n.11. I iMIlliil^wllt... , IS! ,000 00 till CO.-1 i'J 12,000 00 V' r.i est ju r m.Ic o?,U0i) 00 Tho North Tryon lino deflects froin tlio oward's (lap at VYoit Pit creek. The only iv.intake to ho gained l?y this route, is a dintion of the orade from tiro increased ngth of line which is obtained hy its oil lit around the end of Whito Oak mom; in to Thomson'* Clap. I he length of this io hy tho survey of tho Cincinnati and i .iilciton V lilroad Company is _'3 miles 11122 feet. 'I lie maximum grade will not i exceed 60 feet to tlie mile. After complo- ' ; ting the Howard's Gap line, the corps of j ' K.ngineora move J over to Asheville, with a view of testing tho practicability of pawing r a lino through that town and connecting : * with the lino down the French LJroad riv- f j cr, below the Big Bend, at or uonr the mouth j ; of Keems' Creek. Front tho valley of the i i Hwaunanoa river (about 1-1 mile below the j L'latik road bridge) the line ascends a small ! branch at the rale of 52 feet per mile to a 1 ; narrow gap in the ridge, (south of Marcus c Krwiu's dwelling,) where a tunnel GUU feet I I long will be necessary; thence by Triplet's ' shops to Tenant's house and Clayton's steam ) i mill to a depression in tho ridge hear the ) fenialo College; then upon easy and undu- 1 bating grades to a gap in tho lidge which 1 ! divides tho waters of Feuverdam and Wood- ^ fin's mill creek; thence ascending upon a ! * | 52 feet grade along the hill sides slopes of r I Henverdani to its mouth above the llig u lJond. j r The elevation of the gap in the ridge at c the Kill place, which divides tho waters of * 1'eaverdam and Keems Creek, was found . ' to be so great, that the ascent to the valley r I of the French Uroad river at or near the j c mouth of Keems' Creek could no tbo ellect- i ^ ed: maximum grade used 52 feet per mile, j ! minimum radius of curvature 1-133 foot. ^ Averago Coot per in do $2 4,300. I ho superiority of this route over all oth- i * crs, for crossing the l?lue Kidgo, will be 1 readily scon, by instituting a comparison of ; ' | its grade, its curvature, its cost of construe ' j lion, and the length of its mountain divis- c I iolo with ill" til...-. _.i ' . ? ..j -- tuv \.?i tui v uiucr routes yet | proposed. Tlio mountain division of the North Carolina Western Railroad is 20.08 1 miles, and is estimated to costal 18,900 00 ^ per mile. Maximum giade 100 feet p?-r mile. The length to be tunneled is 2 1 2 . I miles. 1 ho mouutuin division of the projected line from tireenville S. C. to Unit Mountain, via, Cap Creek (jap, is 25 12' miles?maximum grade going East 52.8 j feet per mile; coming West 70 feet per mile , ?minimum radius of curvature 573 feet. 1 j j Cost of constructing 17 12 miles from Cap , Creek Cap towards Greenville 11,287,-I c 080 00; average cost per mile 73,547. j c From Gap Crock Gap to llutt Mountain is ' not estimated. There is no real necessity for a tunnel on *' tho whole length of your mountain divis- c j ion, although it might be expedient in some instances to resort to it for the sake of short j j etiir.g the lit:c. The Maps and Trollies of 1 " each of the linos surveyed accompany this j . report, all of which is respectfully submit- | ted. GEORGE W. TEAKE. i? _ i How ken Elizabeth'* 1>i .snick was j c Skuved Ci'.? A gentleman entered the c room hearing a rod, and along with him j c another, who had a tahlo-cloth,:which, after 1 v they had both kneeled three times with ' | the utmost veueration, he sp.oad trp??u the 1 a I od.lt* ami after kucciitur :n/a:n tlrcv both j u i retired. Then came two others, one with | * a rod again, the other with a salt cellar, a j plate, mi l bread; when they ha 1 kneeled b a> the others had done, and placed what j *1 w as brought upon the table, they too retired i with the same ceremonies performed hv ! c the first. At last came an unmarried hulv, j b ] (wo were told she was a cuunU-s.) and ti along with her a married one, bearing a ti tasting knife; the former was dressed in ii white silk, who, when she had prostrated , v herself throe times in the most graceful a manner, approached the tabic and rubbed , c the plates with the bread and salt with as s, j much aw e as if the Queen had been present, j s W lieu they had wailed thcro a little while, c j the ycoinen of the guard entered bare- j c he a led, cloth* 1 in scarlet, with a golden n i rose upon tiieir Lacks, bringing in at each o turn a course of twenty four dishes, served o I in a plate, most of it gilt; these dishes ' si ! wero received by a gentleman in the same ' p outer lliey were brought, an J placed upon 1 il l!ie table, while the l i ly la ter g ive to ii each of the guard a mouthful to cat of the p particular dish he had brought for fear of any prison. During the time that the guard, which consisted of tho tallest and stoutest men that can he f.uud in Kngland, ' 1' being carefully selected for this service, v were bringing dinner, twelve trumpets mid j t! two kettle drums made the hall ting for; w half tin hour together; at tho end of all tl this ceiciuoiiial, a in.ni ..f unmarried la s< dies appeared, who, with peculiar soleioni- o ty, Irt'led the meat OtF tho table and convey- l; en it into tho Queen's inner an 1 more pri ? vale chamber, whore, after bh~> has chosen ti for herself, tho rest goes to the ladies of c tho court. Tin: icon dines and sups b along with very few attendants, and it is it very seldom that any body, foreign or n.a- g live, is admitted at that time, and then on a lv at the intercession of somebody in power. '1 I iifuikqKaret ?nglttudt bg 0, \V. T!uru I ti iurj. j H ' Mi.t . Mi. at tuk Clifton Hoi st:.''?j u lliis is the popular l>\ word of the hour, . k1 and it seems likely, by <ij)ioj?>s allusions to ^ it, actually to "turn aw iv wrath" ill tempo > rary private tin uvdei-tandings between individuals from day ! . day, v.iih the same ' "summons to tho field.'' Many a jolly fol 1 u low may have occasion to say of Mr. liur lingaino "1 thank thee for that word," when ? he finds it happily savin g bin tr.-i.. in im- >t pending dillioulty. I'm there is a disp< si- ^ ti- n to improve ui>.>n Mr. 1 turlinjuriiuV hu.* . . ^ a j r? gtstion "J ft p ico ol nt-vlii ;? only seven ; s hundred miles !'i tu the -cat of the quarrel. ! p i Some morcenollv suggc l the coast of Lal? ! 0 m.lor, while ilie M issachusetU 1 'loughinan, 1 ,, j on the other h..n !, says ho might have nam, o<l Sevastopol with ni'?ro propriety than | ^ t'umidu, f i that place has long been devoted v | to the hu ii.c i of shooting human lyings, 1( and very recently it was lawful to shoot all ;i who were tot on the lijiht si lo. ?fialhnvn ? ! Suit. <?? > t< A tjrksnon ok Euqcktte.'?A corns is poiulcut puts the foilowintr pertiueut query c to us: "If the professor who went with Mr. 'i Dallas to tlje Queen's levee was a .Vahan, q ii that any reason v. y l.o should dr.-isl'ke , a B'hoy." ? 10' BbNTON ON til<i Stomp.?TIji? reterHii, >ut unscrupulous polilicial, ns notorious for tin public resentment ns amiable in other elation? of life, is stumping Missouri in faor of Buchanan for I'rosideul and himself or (Jovernor with singular enthusiasm, if iis special organ?the St. Louis Democrat ?is to believed. It says: "Through every village that he passes, housands (lock foith to hear the old man loquent. and to greet him with their np ?Inu?e. His journey from town to town ins been likon triumphal march, and ovaions crowd upon him with ,i weighty bearng, and vet ho never tires or atops. Travelng sixty or sevoofy miles a day, speaking wo hours and a half in the open air, making additional addresses l?y the wr?y side, loubling bis appointments as ho proceed*, oceiving the kindly greetings of the young, aid exchanging old memories with the iged ? pouring bitterness such as none ther can utter u|K>n tho heads of the secional agitators, yet forgetting personal auinosities in his zeal for tho public good; ousting everywhere tho patriotic feelings >f tho true and loyal, cheering tho downuist hopes of fricuds, converting enemies by lis courtesy, disbanding lodges by bis re>uke, swimming rivers, breaking down bores, wearing out younger companions by lis uiuhrinkipg energy, ho yet exclaims af* er all, that ho has not work enough to do. >ueh is the wonderful vcene now prosented 11 Missouii, and equally wonderful in tho fleet being produced." A Copper Statue ok Wasuinotov.? \. copper-smiih of this city, Mr. Johp Jjfeynaun, ha* recently completed a life size .tal'jo of Washington, made entirely of licet copper, and wrought by tho simplo mplements of his trade. The figure r<?nr??. ... *"r'~ levitH \v ashiiigtion standing in a dignified ittitude, his right hand resting upon n book nipportod by a light table, and bis left band langing easily by bis side. The result-of dr. Neumann's labors which have occupied ilk for threo years, show what natural talint, unwearied industry and perseverance an accomplish. The proportions of iUo tatue are very good, the acatomy and drapery quite correct, and the fentures life dike md expressive. Some idea may be gained >f the toil involved in this novel work of at, when wo state that the entire face and >ait of tbe back atul head were made from i single piece of copper, which, by the iaessant hammering and working, strcacbing n some parts and compressing in ethers, vas shaped into a countenance not inferior a accuracy of lineament to some of the narble representations of the same illuatriius subject. The entire figure, which is out posed of many pieces deftly put logethr, weighs about two hundred pounds. The cork will probably be placed on exhibition >efore long, and wo hope the self kiughp rtifct will receive some substantial token of ilblic appreciation.?-V. I7" Jour, of Com. M. Carricro reproduces Newton's ring* y letting fall uj?on a surface of water a ropof the solution of the bitumen of Juden, it a mi.vtu.ro of benzoin and naphtha. The olor^Jflfiist change rapidly, but finally eCbtue fixed by tho solidification of the lin, through oxydaliou. The film may bo xed on paper by laying the sheet below it, 1 the water, and gradually drawing olT the rater. To render the film more coherent, ud thus the colors more regular, a little aoulcliouc is mixed with the bitumen. Tho aiuo phenomenon may bo very briliiantiy aown by oxposingto the air warm and rocntly tittered ink, in which sugar is the cheMve ingredient. In this case the thickas of the film, which forms on thosuifaco f the ink, increases very slowly, till iho rder of the colors is plainly and freely hown, but it is very dillicult to fix it on riper, and it can only be done by allowing lie i:Sin to acquire great thickness, depositig it on nn-ized paper, and soaking the uer, before drying, with gelatine. Animals Hrcomb I'auknio too Karlv. -Victor Gilbert never allowed ewes to avo lambs until they had passed their third ear; and the bucks wero not used until li--v had arrived at full maturity. He, as fell as many other sagacious stock raisers, lint we might name, are probably convoriiit with the fact, that during the period f growth and development, up to maturiv, the re productive organs are domant, . hi!e at the same time the nutritive funcion was wholly engaged ia elaborating h'jle and blood for the development of >ne, muscle, and nerve; aad lhat by callig into requisition tbo ro productive or enoratiro organs, before the animal had llaincd t'ult growth, must necessarily divert lie elements of nrruter, intended for nutrii : . from th_ir ligitimate channel, and di ..... - .1 - ? - i. iiivm i" mi re prouucuvo organ*. Tina t precisely what lakes place. A loo early so of the ptm!y aniiual function, induces reaknoss and stunted growth. ? .<>/?. Vet. ' iiirttttf. l?u' . of viik Qiki.w.?Queen Victoria iloly received lLo returned Crimean regiH ills, lit r dress is thus described: "1 lor Majesty was equipped mora a la hk:'trc than over wo remember to have een tier. Or?r Iter riding habit was the hurt scarlet coatee, smaller, yet embroidsud iu tlio fa mo style as that v( a Gold martial. Crossing the left shoulder was a enernl's sash and tlio ribbon of the Order f the Carter; and she woro a small clemlly-slmpcd riding hat, ornamented with general's plume of red ami while feathers, iho rotle her favorite dark grcv chargor, illicit was superbly caparisoned ; ami or whole appear an co was both sinking nd beautiful." Fkedivw.?Always be regular and sysi>matic in fee.ling your stock. Regularity i tiio be>t balance wheel of Agricultural ntcrprise; durango this and the itaotune una down,"?Stated hours and specified, uantitios?graduatotl according tocircumtanoc* ? should tpfariably be observed by very fur-ucr.