The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-06-27

NoRTu CARoLlNA.--A grand celebration
|of the completion of the state capital and the
Raleigh and CASTOR rail road, commenced at
Raleigh on Wednesday last week, and was
keptup for three days, IN dinners, balls and
;fail road excursions. Seven hundred guests
were present
The Wilmington and Raleigh rail road
company have made an arrangement with the
post office department by which the company
agree to light Cape Fear river, so as to enable
their boat to 60 out at night in consideration
OF which their yearly pay for transporting the
mail is to be increased $500 'Fhe arrange
nent serves to expedite the mails between
New York and Charleston, twenty hours
within contract time.
THE corner stone of an institution for the
education of the deaf and dumb, and of the
blind, is to be laid al Staunton Va on the 9th
of July.
The Athens Geo. manufacturing compa-
ny suffered a loss of about 1928 900 bv the
late flood. One end of the principal building
was undermined and fell in, with all the
machneryin that part Of the structure Their
saw mill was carried away entirely.
Unostentatious Generosity Monroe Ed
wards, Esq, of the parish of Ibervile, Louis
lana, has ma1lmnitted one hztnd1ed and sipta,
slu0es. He is now in this city, and has lust
mad the deed OF manumssion prepared at
Wright and Walkers office, from whom we
derive the ntormation.-C in Gu..
The governor of Illinois has received a
letter from Messrs Wright s. Co. of London,
IN which the Legislature of that state is severe,
handled for tie Ja,+
ence to1ts public works, its state debt, and the
contract with themfor the sale of statebo -
Sun,
Adihe is the name given be the French ex-
Iplorlng expedition, in honor 70 their Queen
to an island which they have discovered, ey.
tending from lat. IS to 81 S. and from lone
80 30 to lS5 30 E. of Paris It is complete-
ly' protected by an icey barrier extending
many miles into the sea.
ANTHRACITE IRoN.-Maleable iron has
been made from pigs formed at the anthracite
furnace at Roaring creek, Pa This is q
most important result.
TRADE WITH ARAB1A-We learn that our
esteemed fellow citizen, Capt Drinker, has
bcen appointed to the command of the sultan
OF Muscats ship now fitting out at the New
York navy yard. His sultaa,ic majesty pro-
poses placing ship of GOO tons in the trade
with tins country, and it is understood that
Capt ID, IS toAsall her, Phil. North. Amer
My THRoNE.-I sit on vast arch HIGHER
than q thousand rainbows 1t is Fnaeination
summon before me, and they come at nv
bidding, ten thousand shapes of exceeding
beauty. My sceptre is Fancy | see uncoun-
ted and Unreasonable wealth piled up to the
top of the golden edged clouds. 1t is not
mine. am poor!
ANEcDoTE OF JUDGE PEAsE.-Whie this
distinguished jurist was upon the bench, Mr..
g. barrister; was celebrated for his elo-
quence and flights of imagination. On one
occasion when the latter had INDUCED his fam
cv more than usual; and rowing in an ecstacv,
through the Elysian fields and unreasonable
wilds of either, the Judge suddenly called out
to him, ''stop, Mr.. G., you are going beyond
the jurisdiction of this court" with an EXPIRES
sion and manner so irresistiyly ludicrous as to
convulse both the bar and the audience with
iaughter.-Sandushy Wig.
WAGES IN FRANcE.-Calais, common la
horers I'D. per day, with board and without
dwelling; Boulogne, 3d. per day do do.
-'o't"', ~" PCi uoy1 Wiluout bOdIl illu WlLll-
ont dwelling; Marseilles, 4d to I'd. per dav.
with board and without dwelling.
| The food in some districts, Consists in rye
bread: soup made otmillet, cakes made of Indi-
an corn, nor and then some salt provisions
and vegetables; rarely, if ever, butchers meat
In others, wheaton bread, soup made with
vegetables, and a little grease or lard twice
a day, potatoes or other vegetables, but sell
dom butchers meat.
Life According to an Arabic proverb, is
composed of two parts; that which is past,
drean, and that which is to come, a wish.
This is exceedingly well exemplfed in the
lives OF all OF us. We regard past experience
as but dream, and worth no more considera-
ton. Our future life, wish, is in no measure
regulated by the past, till we grow SO old asto
look to no future this side the grave. Then
we say, at we could but live over again"
The Baltimore American saws "Phljp