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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,