Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-05-21

! The ARTS. The Washington Union, speaking of
Mr.. Clarke Mills. the sculptor, who has been for
some time engaged on the work of colossal bronze
statue of General Jackson, says:
Mr.. Mills is a man of decided genius. If God
spares his life, and Mr.. Mills exerts his talents with
that devoted enthusiasm without which man can
attain to lofty eminence, we risk nothing in predict
Ing that he is destined attain brilliant distinction
among the finest artists of this glorious country We
have never seen man more struck with the genius
of another than Tupper with that Of MIR. Mills
He told that he had spent two agreeable hours in
his studio that he had found in him genius of high
order-an inventive power Of the greatest resources
And this man, who was common plaserer few
years ago in Charleston, has already struck out
of the boldest conceptions. He has made of his
equestrian statue and he has dispensed with the
OF the clay mould. He has made an equestrian stat
in which he has dispensed with any other support
to the horse except its own two feet And he has in
vented furnace for casting it, which economises and
preserves the caloric in a wonderful degree.'' Yet
so it is Such is another fruit of free and go-
rious institutions. In country where every man
can be any thing-where official honors and popular
applause are thrown open 10 every man who deserves
them-where many of the most distinguished men in
the republic have won their way TO the highest dis
tnction by the force of their merits and the vg-
or If their own wing-where the poor is able
pass the rich man in the of excellence, be-
the hereditary worth of the latter only paray
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tonishng that such men Powers and Mills should
W rite their names high the column of falne.'
New ENGINE. The New Orleans Courier has the
following account of new invention. "A steam
boat to travel on land or water " would indeed be
novelty:
A gentleman exhibited this morning in the Ly-
ceum Hall, while the assembled multitude waited TO
be organized into convention, model of Iocomo-
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land or water-for ploughing, fo any sort of RI
ding or travelling it can also be used FIRE engine
street sprinkler. He said it would throw water
three hundred three thousand feet high, according
to the size of the machine constructed and, if
had been in existence here the iiHe, the ST. Charles
fire could have been extinguished in five seconds af
ter the invention got upon the ground. The inventor
is one of the keenes at the same time uos gentle-
manly looking chaps in town and we believe he per-
suaded every body that his invention is the greatest
yet, The first engineers OF the city have examined
It, and pronounced that he has overcome every diff
Guilty IN the way Of travelling on land by steam. He
made the model move ahead, reirograde, turn round
and round every way with grace and ease. 1t is. in
deed wonderful to behold" ...,.. i.., =, ., -r
Qua CANDIDATE. We learn with pleasure that the
Hon, q. w. Caldwell announced himself at Union
Court as Candidate, in this District, for Congress.
The intelligence was received at late an hour to
enable us to speak OF it as we would wish. All that
have time to say now is, that he is decidedly our
choice-the very man to enter the field and bear the
banner of Democracy aoh through the close coaAict
which we believe will come. ......., .s.-..,..s -
Now is the time for the Democrats to gain the
District, as they have already the State With such
leader we have every thing TO hope for and but lit
tie to fear. lharlolie Hornets Nest.
| NATIONAL MONUMENT. Agranite block, for inser-
ton in the column, contribution from the Sons Of
Temperance of North Carolina, has been received at
Monument Place. 9,,,,.,q,,sg s*zA,..9a e.s7s.
Citizens Of Virginia are Prepasi9g s.lockef gran
ite from the towering Peaks Of Otter which are