Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-07-07

~ them that their exAnJnef1o0 and report should
= plsced beio6s The board No one, hoWeseE made {
IL waS ever placed his possession nor did my
one promise to make an examination or profess TO
have made such an one, as would enable him to
present the facts by them collected to state that
was the cause any one cause tending to produce
rise in that lake Bot some Of ahem il they could
not exercise the art efsobseryaton, which, on our
earth, consists not in simply looking at facts which
are easily observable, in vague and loose manner.
could yet do other acis chat require some of them
less and others more, pains taking. They could
take account of the numbers and the influences
that might be expected to be found on each side up
question like this of causation springing up;
and they also knew that the time when the rise Of
water prevailed and its consequences, though not
yet felt, might be calculated, the proper time to
shake statements and draw differences and conclu-
sions which then would probably take and be held
to be vsed, although they might not las, nor their
fallacy evidently appear until subsistence Of the
water should have taken place. They also knew
that the fault, if any, could then be more likely
made to appear to lie at the door of others than at
their own door. Experience had taught them what
they might reasonably expect from Providence, or
the ordinary course of nature-and they kneg that
to cut model ditch did not dispense with the nee
essary labour of keeping it as it was when it was
completed. They also knew that the borderers hav
ing once received outside aid they might possibly,
if they could shape q case, cause even plain duty
Of helping themselves when able to do so. to be I'M
der:aken by other, and that although xhat had
been done by the Sovereign for them, was done at
q time when their condition and circumstances were
greatly different from what they now are, since the
work bad been done and they had derived the ben
eft and prospered greatly by reason of it. yet still
something might be effected by putting on bold,
confident and self-reliant air, and claiming relief as
due to them from some quarter.
They reasoned rightly, as they thought, when
they said taat the effect of an improvement was
none the less beneficial to them, whether made for
them by another procured by their own foresight,
their own energy and at their own cost that sue
cess, if it chance to come to is as much success
as if he had procured 1t by his own exertions; but
especially did they argue coherently that because
here is pregnant, e., plain and papable case OF
nuisance therefore, there is some one or more preg-
nant cause causes for it but they moreover raid
that if they could not divine the cause real, they
might find one that is imaginary, because to admit
the thought that they had been inert and sothfu
had committed any error and particularly fault, in
not doing, and that at proper times, what was COM
pletely in their own power and thereby to have
averted this state of things was to make confess
sion that their self-love se6shness would not su
fer them to do. There is blame too, said they,
some where, and some one must be found that is
blame worthy. But who among all these borderers
charged coucurred in imputing blame to the pro-
pretor Of the Alligator canal mill? did say that
1T was of the causes? Few in deed were they !;
and said that it did not it, at all at all
Others said that some suspected it to be one Of the
causes, but that they knew not how it could be
About the frs: day of June these borderers were
again surp, sed by sudden reaction subsistence
of the water of the largest lake its water, in the
of three weeks assuaged sixteen inches, and
the riparian propretors were again, as before its
RISE enabled to prepare their lands for and cult
| vate, the corn crops. Moreover those borderers
| who reside upon the northern part of the largest
lake have been for several years past engaged in
cutting a canal, and are now engaged in that work
with the aid of steam machinery which is intended
we'll TO drain their lands there as TO be used for
the purpose of transporting to market by means OF
it and the river Alligator. their surplus crops I'm
til this work shall be completed, said those border.
ers, no man of sense acquainted with the humid
of the rich lands to be drained by it. pretends
that the Lake-landng canal, it restored to its
condition and it when it first completed,
although aided by their present unfinished cana,
| could be relied on as protection against sudden
occasional risngs of the water Of the largest lake.
! 1t is obvious SAID they, to those who have paid
but small attention to the construction of aqueducts
or canals that such works must be very difficulty
executed according to the purpose which is intend
ed to be served by them for instance, if it be to
carry objects of a given burthen afoat upon its
surface from point to another, then it must be
| so constructed in respect to depth throughout the
whole line of it intended to be traversed, to hold
water of sufficient and equal depths throughout
that depth of the canals Sides and its bottom
ly even or level, are primary requisites in such a
wo,k-without the requisite depth of water the YES
sci could not foat and if it were not Of nearly
equal depths, then the vessel would drag or rest
upon the raised parts of the bottom, and in sailors
| phrase would be aground.
But when the purpose is simply by means of a
ditch aqueduct to reduce the water in a reservoir
| or lake to given quantity, it then resembles the
tapping of cask tube that contains too much of
| lin, AoNk hiatt ,sroA in no nf q
lake when water is kept together by an activity,
called its border is to select starting point at
point that is lower than the line of the water
intended to be reduced to that line and thence to
proceed upwards until the line of the lake water be
reached that being done, the gravity of the water
and atmospheric pressure, it is said, does all the
| rest
The point to be selected, may be, for the purpose
of economy, that by cutting from which the water
to be removed be drawn off by the shortest line
route but it may be desirable for the purpose Of
obtaining site sites for miil-works any other
useful subject of manufacture, to extend the line oil
the work so as to provide by this extra cutting for
| using BY means of dam cross the aqueduct, wa.
ter for such purposes, .oithout the retuent sOate,
caused by the dam at all preoenting the reduction
Of the ,oater Of the lake -. -.
| When the Sovereign's board gave their consent
that the dam placed across the Alligator canal by
the proprietor of the mill, might there remain unit
further order it established to their satisfaction
that 1t and its reuent soatss would not prevent the
water Of tile lake entering the canal from flowing
down and along it to the Pungo river that there
was mere diversion Of its water, made at . point
which in no wise affected the reduction. by means
of this canal of all the sohch entered 1t at
Junction with the lake. Upon the proprietor Of THU
mill appearing at last May Court before the director
who expected to look after the interest of tht
Sovereign in this matter he gave to him satisfactory
evidence that there was no extension upwards eth
Of the refuent wafer in the canal occasiOned By
the dam be had kept in it or by the re1ucnt watel