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if Bride in the Wrong Elf mm VOL. IQ-No. 20,1 ASHEVILLE, N. TtfURSD. WHOLE No.

494. vantage in our airrimhnrsl lahnra whiLLi Jir Correspondence or the Mews. Atlakta, Georgia, Dec. 1859. Editor News As ike Legislature of my na2a Slate has been in session over a month, I have looked with great anxiety to see some step towards removing the restrictions from the Western Extension, so that the whole line of road from Morgaoton to Paint Rock can be put under contract at once, and let it be said for one time in the history of the State that Eastern men are disposed to deal jostly with their Western brethren, and obliterate from her fair fame the soubriquet of 'Rip Van Winkle of the South." My feelings were somewhat mortified the other day at this comments of some of the papers of this State on the defeat of the Coal Fields Road bill in the Senate, that North Carolina was opposed to developing her great and varied resources, lest sin should lose the title of the "Sleeping State." Why don't the friends of the Wilmington.

Charlotte and Rutherford Boad consent to tap the Western Extension in Catawba, Burke or McDowell, and both roads cross at the Swan- 7, aisro corn or loaaer, or picKiug cotton, in kdi Mum mo uc i vi 3 i tue ubi Or fin-liOUsp. -in irarrrinor eooA manna 7 IT nre wood, about the plantation, and transporting produce and goods to and fro wi.4 ui '-LiL i jLatTLTTrw -r-v I We have the Cincinnati Enquirer as er tor the following til A newly married cer House thev wei -OriO hatTleft so taxing ner si herjfst article -returned JC awa Wo the Man MonliulAd of the-Spencerit looked a lit- Ppenc-bPPPes, o't Unn, 7 told him to lead her to 48 fiTot into bed- pected her husba menUrilyfel asleep i heocc pan lV Sf, an, Indiana theatrea litUe roomto bed to ret inrht miti, slep The ao oceeca How long the tW reposed there side sola with A I 1 TW1 Ky oi space between them. otberTs not exlctly known, presence, probably about an hour, when a trem ous noise was" hrifeJl in the apartment, a fr which female screams and ceaseless! vy- hoUl and guests, 3rea8d at the door rI in a few minutes, bloc VwuT- a8kin other 'eagerly, "What 18 the matter "EV. n-jtT9 rf tell us whatrs the trouble." The of this outcry may be imagined. The bride had awakened about midniZht and putting her handover her husband, it fell upon the Indianian's face, and the soft warm touch aroused him at once.

lie did not understand it exactly, though he did not otsltfea it, and ia a moment more Mrs said "My dearest husband, where have 'you been all this while "Husband." echoed the merchant, begging to see, like Lord Tinsel, that he had -made a small mistake here;" am nobody's husband, I reckon, my dear madam, you're in the wrong bed." In the wrong bed horror of horrors, thought the bride. What would her lord what would the world say And Mrs. R. screamed terribly and sprang from be couch just as her companion did the same, lie was fully as much alarmed as she, and entreated her to give him time and he 'would leave the apartment, although it was the one he had engaged he'd make oath to that. Scream, scream, scream, was the onlv reply to the kind proposition.

"My God, madam, don't yell sol youTll wake the house. Be reasonable; I swear it's onlv a mistake. Have some thought of the consequences. I don't- want to you I swear, I won't say what." Just at this juncture, the throng outside presented itself at the door, and beheld Mrs. R.

cowering in one corner, exercUing hr lungs magnificently, with a sheet wrapped over her head and form, and the India ni Jo in the middle of the room enveloped in a coverlet, and ejaculating: "Mv God. madam, don't The Junior proprietor, Dr. CaWll, saw there must be some mistake, snd requesting the others to retire, called" the merchant out, went with him into another room, and there learned the whole story. The Doctor then sent one of the ladies of the hotel to Mrs. and the entire afftir was explained greatly to her relief, though she was overwhelmed with confusion at a circumstance that might have ru her reputation forever.

Under the escort of the Doctor she was conveyed to the "Spencer," where the husband was found pacing the corridors with frantic mein, and half-crazed with grief at the mysterious disappearance of his wife whom he believed had been spirited away by a villian, or murdered for her jewels in this "infernal city," where, as he expressed.it, "they would kill a man for a dollar any time." As soon as he beheld his spouse he caught hor to his bosom and wept like a child. He was melted with happiness at her discovery, and told her that he had scoured the city for intelligence of Jier whearabouts in vain. The New Census. The appointment for members of Congress, under the census of 1860 will make a great change in the representation of several States, judging from the votes at the recent election in some of the Western States. Illinois, with nine members of Congress, has given 1 50,000 votes, while Massachusetts, with eleven Representatives, gave only 1 20,000.

Wisconsin, with only three Representatives, has given a vote within a fraction of tiat of Massachusetts. Compared with the votes of many otber States, the discrepancy is still greater. The elections at the West were, however, held under greater excitement and called out a fuller vote than in most of the old State. Washington Star. Mrs, X.

U. Sigourney, the authoress, furnished fifty poor families with turkeys or fowl us, ana pumpicin pies, or tue best quality, for a thanksgiving dinner1. too The collections for missionary purposes in the South Carolina Conference, during the past year, have amounted to the hand" some sum of $25,300. A. M.

Hunt, of Columbia, offers a fifty dollar silver pitcher for the best specimen of a native African imported in the years 1858-9, and exhibRed at the next State fair, A slave woman of S. Jones, of Georgia, who was pursuaded to desert her master and mistress while on a visit to New York last summer, has just voluntarily returned home to slavery heartily siek ofnprthero freedom" and "freedom shr inkers." The Mississppi Legislature has passed a law granting divorcee -toj al parties who have lived separate three years, A tide of emigration may be expected to set towards Mississippi. Indiana is about out of the business. A number of bogus "gold" dollars have made their appearance recently, which are easily "shoved off" on the unwary. took out for them.

The total value of steamers afloat on the Mississippi and its tributaries is more than They number as many as fif-teen hundred more than twice the steam boat lonage of England, and equal to that of all other parts of the world. Brazil has 62 vessels of war as many as the United States 30 of which are fine steamers. Her standing arm numbers 25,00 meo, and her national guard 400,000, oeu ana JANUARY 13, 1859. i THE CAMEL. Xafure, Habits, Uses.

iSnr ngton, iNovember 29. National intelligencer: bserved in the National 24 instant, a re publica- ro the Alabama Sentinel, mels, by a correspond- Jatros. lh purpose luce inquiry as to the 1 in the production of mm on our plantations gen er ng been occupied now ten years wu exnferimenl ot introducing nmol 1 country, permit me to. offer, through your columns, brifely to "Jatros" and other inquirers a few of the results of reading, observation, and thought upon these points. To do so concisely, and at the same time suf ficiently, I will follow them in their order, as presented bj your correspondent.

The climative range of the camel, within which he hat been known, indisputably, to live, thrive, and be useful, may be stated at from 50o to 52o of North latitude. The mean temperature of this zone may be rated, at from 50o 68o Fahrenheit. As animals, we know, are diffused over the globe, first, according to zones of climate, and, second according to degrees of longitude; and as we know that "camel land" and the United States are included in the same zone of climate; and as, further, the secondary order of arrangemeut (by' longitude) is but of trivial importance, your correspondent is right in his supposition "that the camels would flourish in any latkude within the United States." The cost of a camel, a good and serviceable one, landed at Mobile or Pensacola, may be put down at from $150 to $200 not more, I think, if the purchase and transporta tiou are judiciously managed. The greatest expense in general will be the freight. In any project, therefore, for the introduction of the animal, this mut be the main item for close calculation.

So far as the voyage iis concerned, there need be no apprehension, for I know of no animal so little troublesome and ao comfortable at seaj as the camel. I speak from a tolerably laj-ge experience in the transportation of horses and mules during our war with Mexico. far as the motion df the vessel goes, whetfier in calm or in gale, one hundred camels would not cause as much anxiety or give as much trouble as ten horses. The carael does no consume more fpod than a horse or mule prefers a coarser diet; satisfies itself readily with either scanty grassing or browning; reqiiires feeding but once a day, bing a ruminant; 'and would be with difficuxy distressed fof water. It requires no close stable; only a shM protecting it fifom cold oftberfy winds iand, fromjallino weath er; and requires no grooming, though certain ly heatbier ai(d better, like ali other am- mais, iLr a cieau sKim ine camol is un 1 I r-m- doubtedly a hardier ahd tougher animal than the ho-se; not surpassed, if equalled, in these respects, by the mule; and with half the forage of either, and with two or three hours of giaang or browsing, can be kept in Con dition.

In addition to the economy of forage, tne use of the cornel saves the outlay for wagons and carts, harness, shoes and the necessfry repairs of tliem. The pack saddle being so simple in its construction as toj be readily made on the plantations, its cost will be bui trifling. ls weiglit, moreover, com pared with that of a Wagon or cart, increases the physical energy devoted to the trfljns-pOrtaQon of goods. or short distances, say about a plantation, or for six or eight miles on the road, a will carry oh an averngo from eibt humored to one thousand pounds. File Tiulus jf Asia-Mtnor, the pro- 3 double huiinped Bactiian male on duce of the tne single nuropea Araoian remaie, will lav- 1 A I i erage, for the same distance, from one thou sand to fifteen hundred pounds.

All of the statements, in my official report of what ijras donvi by the camels kinder my direction in Texas are made from accurate weights and closely computed distances. So far, the general advantages from using camels may be summejd up as follows Tkey will flourish as well in the United States as either horses- or mules. They may be introduced at Mobjilejor Pensacola at rates notjgreater, certainlv not much greater, than the present prices IfoV good mules. Thev are not as expensive to feed as horses pr mules. They require no clcise stables or groom in sr.

They are as tough and hardy as ei Iher horse or mule. T-hej save a heavy outlay for wagons, carts, harness, and shoes, and; a constant tax for their Their physical energy is not largely drawn upon tor the draught pf a wagon or cart, and therefore is proportionately given mere usefully to the transportation of goods. They will do more ork at the same cost and keeping than either horse or mule. These are the general advantages thai I think may be claimed jfbr the camel. Now let us examine how far this animal, with these advantages, may be suitable for okir plantation or farm uses.

In Egvpt I have seen the camel used ioj i ii- i I 1.n.,Mt.u..D, fields and oDjthe road, for every purpose that horses and mules are ued with ns. 1 seen them transporting bricks and broken stono from yards and duarries for buildinors, sleejrs, rafters, scantling, boards for floor- I ing, Ac. I have seen" ped 8tra fodder, merchandise corn, cotton of all kinds, men, women and children, and with their burdens stepping out of clumsey rerry ana i nave een mem useiui.y in rrvinir Knyians nn trio Ama and check banks of rice plantations. I there any thing more than these uses that our plantations and farms require 4a 'vuuiL' limn, LUI II, A a a Snnlkarn man imm a jmIIaki nn.n and rice growing section, I believe that many respects we might use camels with id-' Guines. The whole island could be easily stocked with them.

lemmgos, parrot9, paro- quets, and other plumage, wild ge of the most erorcreous nd ducks, a variety of partndges, quail pigeons, doves, drc, are abundant ruped was found the island by era larger than thai wood rat, no a single poisonoutj snake or dead of any kind to be found upon i hprses of Cuba, descend ed from the lusian stock, are small, but well shaped and hardy, and of a remarkably eaRy git. The oxen are very fine, and pasturage is ever green and to be found in abundance I wherever there is a clearing. ugar, con 'e and tooacco are the great leading staples of Coba, and fbti which berJ wealth and power are principally based. Cacao, indigo, rice, plantains, cotton, sago, and Indian corn, are also cultivated to more or less extent. The consumption of corn and rice is, however, so enormous that the production is wholly inadequate to the demand.

Among the vegetable productions of the tropics which abound in Cuba, and which supply, with the Sdutb American jerk beef, the best food, are the plantains, yams, manioc, malanga and sweet potatoes, and some of them as the yam, for instance attain ponderous size. Cuba abounds in woods of the roost precious kind, and the best timber for the. construction of ships or buildings. Mahogany, ebony, the tropical red cedar, and among the former, and among the latter are the yaba, the acana, the guayacan, the guao, and others without number, unrivaled for strength and durability. Some of the best ships of the Spanish navy have beer, built at Havana I believe as many as twenty ships of the line among these the Santicima Trinidad-of one Uuindred and thirty guns, the flag-ship at 1 ratalgnr.

Among the beautiful as well as useful trees of Cuba may be numbered, first the pride of the tropics, the royal palm tree, which attaius sometimes an elevation of over a hundred ftet, and gjves grace and character to the Cuban landscape; the cocoanut tree, the tamarind, the roamey, the mango, the orange-tree and many others, which, besides furnishing delicious fruit, adorn villages and plantations with picturesque and stately avenues. Its principal fruits are the much renowned pine not to be had in perfection but under the Caban sky, the orange, many species of bananas, the mange, mamey, guanabana, guava, pomegranate, anon, tnam-on, zapote, tamarind, chirimoya, shaddock, citron, lime, lemon, fig, cocoa, rose apple and bread fruit. In no capital of Asia, Europe or Antfr-rica will the traveler find such a varietv -f rich sherbets and confectionery as he wifl at the Havana. As to flowers, to use the language of an lAmerican writer, "they are a drug." The fields are covered with them from New rear to Christmas. Latest From the Railroad Disaster.

CoLUMnts, Jan. 1 Noon. Twelve dead bodies have been taken from the wreck of the disaster on the Muscogee railroad, which occurred on yesterday morning. Seven bodies more are now missing, and dilligent search is making for them. No additional information has been re ceived, as to the names and residences of persons killed, than has already been coinmuui cated.

The road is badly washed in many place, over a line of about forty miles, but the most energetic means is being employed to promptly restore the road to good and safe traveling condition. STILL LATER. Columbus. Jan. 1-The reporter for the Columbus -Night.

Sun has just returned from the scene of the railroad disaster, and reports the following as the list of the killed Mrs. Leverett and three children, from Rapid Parish, her husband escaped. Mrs. Smith, from Texas. Two Misses Guy, from Alabama.

Mr. Miller, the Engineer. Mr. Bouche, a fireman. W.

II. Snell, a train hand the three latter were from Columbus. All the bodies have been recovered, with the exception of Mrs. Leverett's infant. The race horse Moidore was on the train and was killed.

The cars fell a distance of thirty feet, and were smashed up, and emptied most of the passengers into the stream. The first reports were greatly exaggerated, although the true report of the disaster is appalling enough. One of the Lawyers. Governor S- of South Carolina, was a splendid lawyer, and culd talk a jmy out of their seven sen- TV mm L''- es. lie was especially noted for his success nf in criminal cases, always clearing his client.

He was once counsel for a man accused of horse stealing. He made a long, eloquent. and touching spnech. The jury retired, but returned in a few moments, and proclaimed the man not guilty. An old acquaintance stepped up to the prisoner and said "Jem, the danger is past; and now, honor bright didu't vou steal that horse To which Jem replied, "Well, Tom, IVe all along thought I took that horse, but since I've heard the Governor's speech I don't believe I did." f.

Not Dead. The reported death of Albert Pike, of Arkansas, is all a mistake, the Col onel, only a few days since, having set out from rort Smith on a buffalo hunt. This is the third time Pike has been killed" by the newspapers within the past year. A fellow who was drunk on election day, i i it was owing to his efforts to put down party spirit." The fact that a man's word it at a discount is no indication that his note will be discounted in bank. At bica hda I find your old townsman, Du J.

D. Boyd, late proprietor of the Eagle Hotel in Ashe-, ville, in this city, occupying the Trout House', and keeping a most excellent Hotel. In my future rambles I will occasionally address you a letter for publication; but fron what point cannot say, as I am, like the wandering Arabs, without a home; and in the true sense of the term never did and never expect to have, yet there is no one who would enjoy such a thing more than I. Home, sweet home, there is no place like home." C. Cuba.

As It Is. and As It Might JBe. Nature, in no part of the habitable globe, has lavished euch wealth of soil, climate and capacity for production, as upon Cuba. There, however, us with the natives of all tropical countries, the people are measurably indolent, and comparatively content with what nature provides for their physical wants. 0 To; say that the American people do not desire this island to become a part of their domain, is foolish; to say that it would not be to our interest to possess and control it is absurd; to eay thai wo will not, "in the course of human events," acquire it, through peaceful purchase or as a trophy of war, is only blinding our minds to the shadow of a surely coming event.

As the acquisition Cuba is destined to be more prominently mixed in with the politics of the country, the movements of Congress and the action the. government, the public mind of the Unitejd States can not too soon be made reliably intelligent upon the character of the country over which we one day may unfur the American flag. Take the following ex tract, from a letter to the Detroit Free Press, as a first impression, and we will not be slow to believe that the gem of the West Iudies is a morsel worthy of possession The soil jof Cuba is almost exclusively i .1.1 -iT uwueu oy tue natives, ine aescenuanis OLine conqueiors and early settlers. With the ex ception of about thirty thousand Spaniards, distributed among the larger towns mer chants, tradesmen and business men and about thirty thousand more, composing the army and navy of Spain, the whites are Cubans and natives of the Canary Islands. The better educated comprise the liberal pro fessions and the class of planters; the small fr.mers, tobacco manufacturers, overseers and employees the plantations, and white coun try laborers and mechanics, the remainder of the native race.

Of the Coolies, recently introduced, and of the Indians from Yucatan, I shall spi ak in a future article when treating ot the Africanization oi Cuba. A chain of mountains, attaining in the Eastern Department the height of the Apalachian range, of rare fertility, and affording from the base to their summit almost every variety of clime and temperature, runs through its whole extent from east to west, softening into a sloping country as it passes through the central portion ot the island. It may be cailed its spine, and the streams which, from sboth sides, flow into the deep blue sea, are. owing to the narrowness of the island, short water courses of rapid curreut at)ttgAveled bottom, foiining no marshes, and, consequent ly, creating no malaria, the bane of the white man in our rice and cotton growing States. Ileiice, the planter ot whatever country can, in Cuba, reside on his plantation during the whole year, free not only from our "country fever," but from the yellow fever, which prevails during the summer months in the large cities on the coast.

The advantages ot this constant supervision over bis agricu tural interests will be readily appreciated by those Americans to whom they are denied in our Southern States. The air is peculiarly light, making its inhalation, according to all travelers, a positive pleasure, and, owinff to the perennial flora of Cuba, is fragrant and aromatic. This, together with the softness, mildness and equableness of the clime, which, according to Dr. Fmley, has in its hottest months, July and August, a mean tempera tu re of from 80 to 83. Fahrenheit, the absence of mist or chilliness by day or night, and the balmy iufluence of the trade winds.

renders Cuba tue desideratum, in our winter and spring months, for the American invalid. The aky has the deep blue tint of (hat of Naples, and the waters the transparency of those of the Arctic seas. However warm trie sun, its heat is tempered by the cooling sea breeze from eight or ten in the morning Until sunset, after which the land breeze, called ''terraf," sets in and aff rds nights in variably cool and peculiarly refreshing. Frosts do not come to stop or interrupt the progress of the planter, and ice and snow are limited to but a rare visit to the mountain tops. Such is the salubrity of the island even for foreigners, apart the sea boaid, towDs, that unaccliraated merchants at Ha vanaiare enabled, by spending their nights two or three miles in the country, for which unsurpassed turnpikes offer the best facilities, to attend daily to their business in the city during the summer months.

Cuba abounds in the finest salt and freshwater fib. "The fi-di market of Havana," savs Ballou, "aff probably, the best variety of this article of any city in the world. The long marble counters display the most novel and tempting array that one can well im agine. Every hue of the rainbow is represented, and a great variety of shapes. But, plenty and fine as it is, it is made a government monopoly," Game is abundant, but, owing to the want of game laws, is fast disappearing from the cultivated districts.

Deer has been introduced, and have become abundant ro the vicinity of the railway or market. So far as the is concerned; I am satisfied, from a edge of the nature and habits of both, 'tBa no animal better suited to him in all-respects than the camel can be given to his management. That the proceeding may prove otinterest enough to find a place in your columns, and result in benefit to our country, that section of it we both hail from, is apoKgy treeprving upon you. Votf respectfully, your obedient servant, HELNRY C. WAYNE, Major United States Armyj.

"Go in, Tiare." The residents of North Water street Were afforded no little amusement, a few days since, by the narrated to Us in substance as follows A countryman, the owner of a large but usually goodhialured dog, drove in town on the day stated. Near the railroad crossing on Water street, "Tiger" fell into bad company and al regular muss ensued. Taken suddenly and almost unawares, the countryman's dog seemed hardly to comprehend whether it wias a "free 6ght" in earnest or only the rough sort of play of village "hounds," Until lie found himself in a "throat to mouth" contest with a regular fighting character, in the shape of a trained bull dog, and getting the worst of it. His master, however, by this time comprehended the nature of the muss, and springing from his wagon, caught the bull dog by his "narrative" and endeavored to separate the combatants. "Let that dog alone, or I'll lam you over the head growled a rough and excited looking customer standing by who proved to be the owner of the bull.

i "Oh, then you want era to fight, do ye ejaculated homespun, dropping the end, and then at the top of his voice, shouted "Go in Tige lw And Tige (did "go in." Instantly the tide of battle was turned Tige secured and was making good use ot his vantage-ground, when Bull's owner suddenly became converted to a peace maker! Suitisg the action to the idea, he made a feint to release his dog from the jaws of Tiger. "Let that dog alone, or I'll lam you over the head shouted the countryman; and he straightened; up and swelled out to such huge proportions, that "Rock street" desisted, terror stricken at the menace. Tiger pursued his work in hand until the piteous "ty yi or his assailant seemed to produce pity in the dog's heart of the former, tor he relaxed his hold and the latter slunk away, with the appearance of three legs behind. As the countryman jumped into his wagon, he called out) to buil dogs master "When ever you want another bnt, tit sav the word as me and Tige alters travels together. Geneva Gazette.

I How ifloiiiber of Consrress used to get to flic Reminiscence. A Washington correspondent of the Phil adelphia Inquirer thus brings to our mind the recollection of the manner in which our Western members were compelled to travel to the national capital. He brings up, in a long trairL many reminiscences of the past. 4 In olden Jm when Western men ued to come to Congress on horseback, a waiter riding another, and started from twenty to thirty days previous to the first Monday of December, members came scattering in, some reaching here a week "or two before the com mencement of the session, and some not till a week or two after. Thus used Mr.

Clay to travel to Washington during the first years of his membership. Tfius came all the mem bers from Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and the western part of Virginia. Some years after, stages began to run, and members used then to crowd into them, to the great peril of life and limb, as the stages, in crossing the mountains, were frequently overturned. Mr. Clay Once remarked to me that he seldom ever crossed the mountains in a stage and he had done so some thirty or forty times that.

lie did not meet with an accident, sometimes such an one as periled his life. The last individual I ever heard of coming all the way from the 4far West," or what used to be so called, to this city on horseback, was Col. John Johnson, of Piqua, Qhi who came here to be nt auguration of his old friend and companion, Gen. Harrison. I am not sure, indeed, that he was not one of the Ohio Presidential Elec tors and the bearer of the vote of tha State to the seat off Col.

Johnson was as true a man and as true a Whig as was ever sent into the world, or taken from it, and, among all his admirers, Henry Clay had not a more sincere and disinterested one than he was. In these early horeback days, the great er portion of the members used to board in Georgetown, and come over and return in 8t or hacks. A small two story house roaa ii- Btaniino. nflr fh rmrtl, oast nor wu. Wkt r.intnn nd A fw nf hr used to mess CoL John8rt 18 8llIJ lmn a vigor ous old patriarch, and a sptended specimen of that memorable race of men who conquer ed rft, men of the Mfar West an(j re claimed an immense domain from the rifle and the tomahawk, to be devoted to the plow and the harvest.

I Boasters are cousins to liars. I Confettions of a fault make fclf amendf. naooa Gap The present Legislature should, bv all means, make an appropriation to con- tinue the Survey from Asheville on through the counties Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Cherokee to the Tennessee line, in the direction of Cleaveland. By the time North Carolina (were she as progressive ks other States) could build this great line of Road, from Salisbury to Dock Town, the Southern Pacific Road, from Memphis through ykan sas and Texas to the Pacific Ocean, would be completed. Then who could -predict the amount of freight and travel that would pass over this Road, from Cherokee to Beaufort? North Carolina would then command five hundred miles of the great thoroughfare across the Continent.

was a short time since submitting these views to a very intelli gent gentleman cV this State, who, many years ago, resided In Buncombe. He remark "you are right; if North Carolina would adopt yoUr views, she would in a few years be one oft the first States in the South, and command at least four or five hundred miles of the great thoroughfare across this Continent, and over two bundredof it passing over the most beautiful, sublime and grand mountain scenery in the world," Writh such system of internal improvements completed, who could predict the measure of the prosperity of North Carolina There is water power sufficient in the western part of the State (now running idly by) to propel the, machinery of the world, and which would be brought into operation and made available if this great railway system was perfected. But I need r.ot comment on what ray be loved ualive State be, in comparison with Georgia, the "Empire State of the South." Here they have fur years been steadily pushing forward their: various Railroads, until the State is chequered all over. They are running into everynook and corner. Tli Leg islature which has just, adjourned, granted State aid to the Road branching off from the Western and Atlantic, up through Canton to Elhjay in Gilmer county, penetrating almost every little mountain valley with her great system of Railroads, of which she now has twelve hundred miles in -successful operation, in tie aggregate paying about 7 per and in a short time will hae completed 200 miles more.

Tlie Western land Atlantic RoadV running from this city to within eight mites of Chattanooga a distance of 138 miles cost six millions of dollars, and was built entirely by the State. This Road is now and has been fur the last twelve months under the management of the able and effi-ciettt Superintendent, Dr. Lewis, paying into the Treasury $25,000 per month, or netting to the State of Geurgin three hundred thousand dollars'per annum. The Dr. says he would be willing to take this Rood for seven or ten years, and, annually pay the taxes of the State, and be bound at the end of the term to return the Road to the State in first rate order inevery particular.

I am told by. many most intelligent Georgians that this Road cost the State two millions more than it should have done; yet they say that it is the best investment the State ever made, and wOuld be se never realized a cent for the six millions! invented, as it has given her an outlet to thfe Western trade, and largely increased thejalue of real estate in North Western Georgia. When will North Carolina take the slime wise view I have beei in this city for some weeks. and am rather pleased with its location in this high, undulating country, though it is awfully laid off. The streets run in every direction, with sharp corners, and crook with a "cireumbendatow scute." I think it remarkably healthy, and contains about twelve thousand inhahitants.

It is a place ofcon-iderable business, with some ten or twelve Churches of the various denominations and a fine Medical College. Georgia is a great State for Doctors and Judges, nearly every other man you meet being one of the other. Standing in the car shed the other day, looking on at the arrival and departure of the different trains, I thought of the benefits that bad been conferred on man by Fulton, the inventor of the steam engine; that it had revolutionised the commerce of the world, and brought civilization and refinement to a state which, without its aid, it could not have attained in a thousand years, and yet bis name is not known or revered, except by the fow. How ungrateful is man.