Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-23

marry any TOyd1
family of Europe, but to take wife from the people,
he has proved himself capable of proitng by the
-misakes of another well as by his experience.
Such is our opinion of the course and character of
Louis Napoleon, drawn from his life by the BERKE-
LEY MEN.
MORE GALPHINIsN1 Senator Borland referred on
Monday to SEINE supendous frauds in the lighthouse
contracts, and he stated, Tuesday, that upwards
of $500 1000, than third of the 5000 200, ap-
propriGted by Congress for the erection of the new
wings of the U. S. Capitol has been misapplied and
embrZzled. The facts have been developed by staff
~ evidence before the Senate committee of investi-
CATION, with Senator Hunter at its head. According
TO the Union, the witnesses testify to various forms
OF NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as various as the operations
to be performed in constructing such immense edi
fee as the Capitol enlargement. The grosSest i'm
Propriety in giving out contracts. and wrong
uremeqt in paying for work have been testified to.
The of inferior materials, concealment of defects
in the work; the employment Of labor paid for by
the government in aid of contractors and of nechan-
les and materials for private purposes, making con-
siderable aggregate of plumber, brought light.
The testimony states that ldborers employed at
high wages, with an understanding that they should
pay over large portlon-in some instances severity
five cents, and in others one dollar day-from wag-
es of two dollars and quarter and, in addition,
that certificates were given for longer periods than
the laborers had been in employment, which pay
was drawn. This system of frauds, carried on in the
face of the government, accompanied by efforts
TO raise mobs 10 insult senators and members of Con-
gress who opposed the five million appropriation of
last session. Attempts were made 10 induce the la
borers to burn in effigy Senators Borland and Walk
er, and Mr.. McNar of the House of Representatives
because of their opposition to that appropriation
Taking all the features of this system of frauds in
10 consideration, it is unparalleled in our history.
But better Gays are at hand. Four years vf expe-
riment have fully satisfied the people of the value
of wing protestations OF purity, Virtue and patri
olism; and in few days administration will
be installed which will expose the corrupt practi-
reg of DInndPTjn0 Xrh Ich yrhi
ty has quartered on the public treasury.
Richmond Enquirer.
JOHN ERIcssoN. The name of Ericsson now takes
rank with franklin, Fulton, Watt, Morse, and other
great benefactors of mankind. He is man of SO
years of age, of muscular, well developed, and
strongly knit frame, he is of middle size, has firm
tread person who gives the assurance of reserved
strength. and head with all the proper intellectual
developments, the high forehead and prominent brow,
marking the man of thought and the philosopher he
has dark complexion, hair somewhat whiened by
time, black eyes retrospective reflective rather
than observing, decisive mouth, and the mixed
perament combining the nervous and bilious, which
distinguishes the powerful in action and steady iu
endurance. His head rises in chronological sum
nit of benevolence; he was heard TO remark, the
only sign he gave OF selfgratuation his triumph,
that he was proud 10 be the means, through his
vention, OF saving life.
He was born in Sweden, in 1909 He early showed
taste for mechanics, and the age of eleven at.
traced the notice of Count Platen, who obtained for
him cadetshlP In an engineer corps. He afterwards
entered the Swedish army, and employed in the |
survey of northern Sweden. While occupied with
his favore of mechanics, he projected his flame en-
CINE. In 1896, he visited England. While there |
in 1929, he competed for the prize offered by the Liv-
pool and Manchester railway for the best locomotive
and produced an engine that accomplished the won
derful speed that time. of fifty miles an hour His
propeller, his semi ndrcal engine his centrifugal
blower, his distance instrument for measuring dis
ances sea, his highdrostac guage, his pyrometer
md other ingenious inventions, have already made
he name of Ericsson famous in the scientific world.
The Caloric Engine, which has now arrived at the
of success, was first brought before
he scientific word of London twenty years ago, and
was rejected by men of science impracticabili-
y, and involving the absurdity of perpetual mo-
ion. Faraday, Brunei, and Ure, after smart ress-
ance, finally conceded the praclcabiy of the nven-
ion and Faraday endorsed the calorc engine in those
amous lectures of his, before the London Institution
Fox, whose is identified for the success of the
london Exhibition, was pupil of Ericsson.
LIT. WOrld.