The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-11-12
[ NUMBER Z.
STATE LANps-puNGo LAKE.

+, A bali vas given al Leachvlle on Tues
e day. to celebrate the completion Of Pung'
. Canal.
| Our readers are aware that this cana
4. has been cut by cur late fellow-,owDsmaD
, MAJ. Walter Gwynn, for the purpose Of
! draining, IN part, the hiattamuskeet lands.
. which the State is now engaged in reclaim.
} ing.
) The lands, as we have before stated, lie
chiefly in the counties of Hyde, Washing.
ton and Tyrrel, constituting body of 10
or So, 900 acres, which is nov being drained
under The direction OF the Literary Board,
for the benefit of the State. The canal
which is just completed is between and :
miles long and connects Pungo lake with
Pungo river.
Besides this canal, Maj. GNynn is cut.
ting one of the same length, from Alligator
lake 10 Rutman's creek. The land through
which these canals pass canuo, be exeelied
in fertility, being purely vegetable mould
upon clay subsiratum.
The value of these lands 10 The State
may be readily estimated when We assure
the reader that those already prepared for
cultivation by private individuals, sell read.
ily at $40 per acre, and the whole cost ct
FeclarnIns them is put down al $l3O,o00.
Besides these lands, North CGrollua
owns valuable tracts IN Jones, CaEleret,
Brunsw lck, and Columbus, which she cor
templates subjecting 70 the same system Of
damages and se doubt not move will be-
made in the next legislature upon this sub
ject.- Wilmington Advertiser.
/ Northern " LiterdrieS." That will be
a happy day for Southern publishers, when
southern readers chershtrue pride sufficient
to encourage, with their approval and their
means, the latent talent and the dormant
energy which exis, among themselves
4 That is dear sort Of economy which anna.
ally sends thousands upon thousands 10 the
North for newspaper intelligence which
would be with proper encouragement, serv-
ed up as well 10 the generality Of readers
al home. And that taste needs correction,
which is only graiiied with newspapers as
large as a horse blanket, filed with silly
slckening romances about love and murder,
and all that "Oh !" exclaims the southern
mau with northern newspapers, shut they
come so cheap, here is the Brother iona.
Than, (or some other huge humbug,) three
or four times as big as southern paper,
and don't cos. a bit more !" True, it is
cheap-cheap Gas the dirt beneath our
feet" And to many of them may be appli.
ed the succeeding line of the good poet
mschevous as hell" Some of these
boosted and Boosting family papers" are
inspired with q peculiar knack Of creating
morbid literary appetite, and then with the
power Of contributing to il in mischievous
abundance. To endeavor TO ill the long.
ing stomach of tale reader with the huge,
trashy, polniless, milk aud water produe.
lions Of the northern literary press, is like
pouring water into riddle with the hope
of filing il.
Good farmer of North Carolina, living in
the free independence and unsophis,ica,ed
simplicity of the olden time-wha. IS to be
expected Of that family paper" which
every week brings to your daughters IFS
dozen or twenty dense colours of Syren
tales, about the Quixotic adventures of
handsome aud lordly young gentlemen, and
The silly lovers Of iauciful young ladies p
What sort Of stories are these to be i'm
pressed upon the highly susceptible facul-
ties Of youth with the regular return of ev.
cry week aud which become eventually TO
be devoured with that passionate lus, of
mind which characterzes the gambler play
ing for the shifting stake
Too few of them long. winded but fascin.
aLng stories represent life aud nature as
they are, in the language Of simplicity and
truth they are woven together Of the I'm.
natural sentiments and far.ietched fancies
Of writers, Who write for the bread which
they ought TO earn by some homes. calling.
We have southern papers, high toned,
solid, dlgnitied: calculated to be emnen.ly
useful and nnocently entertaining that
might live and go Oh from Improvement 10
Improvement on 1.-THE Of the money which
goes out Of their neighborhood to the North
for publications of infinitely less worth -
yet they ere compelled to waste their en-.
ergies, and drivei out a hopeless existence,
because, !orsooth, 1t bath passed into pro-
verb that no good can come out Of Nazareth!
-GreenSborough Patriot.
Robin 4ddir. IL was TO an enter.
tainmen, of this description .e. convivial
meeting that we are indebted for the beau
tiful air Of Robin Adair. No gentleman
ever thought of paying bis debts; and the
extensive house of Aldridge, Adair, & But.
Ter, wine merchants in Dublin, sent clerk
TO Connaught to collect money due to tho
firm; the clerk returned, protesting be was
half dead with feas,iug, and might have
toasted there as long as he pleased-but as
for money, he could re, none. The menu
bers of the house were very angry at him,
and ROBIN Adair, who was one of them,
went down fully determined no, to be pu, off.
He arrived at the house Of his principal debt.
or Just in time for dinner, and found large
party assembled. In the course Of the eve.
ming the following song was composed and
sung.