General Intelligence

Mammoth Sieamcr Grcal Britain. - Tüc Great Britain is a wonderful achievement. - She is 822 feet long,( from GO to 70 feet longer than the largest line-of-batlle-ships,) is 50 feet broad, and S2S feet in depth. She has four decks, each carry one thousand tons of merchandize, besides 1200 tons of coal. Her boiler iviïl be heated by L4 fires,and herfunnel (which does not look large until you get close to il) is 24 feet in circumference. She has six masts, all of whicli can be lowered from the deck in case of heavy head wind?, and her canvass covers about an acre and a half-of ground - a prclty fair quantily of sail for a steamer. She is built in six compartments. so that it is calculated if she were to strike and carry away a dozen feet of her bottom, the uninjured compartments would render her sufficinenlly buoyant to float - a rather important considrration for passengers,besides which, being built of iron she cannot take fire. Fifteen hundred tons of iron have been used in constructing this monster ! Her engiues are of one thousand horse power, and her average speed, it is calculaled will be twelve miles per hour - witha fair wind and her sails set, rhuch greater. She is without wheels, her rnode of propulsión being the Archimeuian screw - and this circumsiance adds greally to the anxiety with which her first trip is looked for war J to by scientific men. Herconsumplion of coal is estimated at fifty tons perday. She will nccommodate three hundred and sifcty passf;gers, allofwhom can sit down to the at once, besides carrying' about onohunilacd and thirty more persons as her crew. - :. n such a deck for dancing! - a walk a round it eight times being calculaicd as equni to a mile! Among other marvrls, it isstated that tour thousand troops can be maiicüuvered on that deck; but I confess myself among the sceptics on this point. - Cor. .V. T. Post. Tlie Law oJGndness. - "Don't speak po cross," eaid one little boy yeslerday in the street to another. "Don't speak so cross - there's no use in't." We happened to be passing at the time, and hearing tfie injunction, or rather the exhortation - for it was made in a hortatory tone and manner - we set the juvenile speaker down asan embryo Pbilpsopher. - In sooth, touching the point in volved in the boyisli difiiculty which made occasion for the remark, ho tnight prpperty be considered as at muturit%: What more could Solomon have?aid on the occasion? Truc he hae put it on record, ihat "a soft answer tumeth away wrath,'" and this being taken as true - and everybody knows it to be so - jt is evidence in favor of the supcriority of the law ofkindness over that of wratJi. But our young street philosopher said pretty much the same substantinlly, whcn he said, "don't epcak so cross - there's no use in't." No indeed - there is certainly no use in it. On the contrary, it fnvariably does much harm. Is a man angry? it inñ-mes his ire still more; and confirms in his enmity him who by a kind word, and a gentle and forbearing demeanor, nriightbe converted into a friend. It is in fact an addition of fuel to a (lame alreudy kindled. And what do any get by it? Nothing desirable, certainly, unless discord, strife, contention," be desirable. Lel the boy philofopher bc heard, then. He speaks 4the words of trnth and soborness."' "Don't speak so cross - there's no use in't." Mr . J. M. Howard, who travcrsed the State in 1840, and made stump speeches for "Tippecanoe and Ttler too," now expreeses his nlarm, through the Advortiscr, that the Presiden t he strove so hard to eleci is going to recommend the annexauon of Texas to the United States. We auppose the greatest anxiety Mr. Howard really has on this subject, is to get the abolition votes that are likely to be cast for Dr. Porter. Such eleventh hour deinagog-ueism, however, uill hardly avail any thing-. - Det. Frce Press. Nbw Shoe Machte- The N. Y. Evening Post gives the following description of the manner of making shoes by a machine owned by Mr. Ruggles, of 60 Gold street, in that city:The sole leather s first pressed between wooden rollers, which makes it extremely ürm and compact - much more so tlian hammering can do. It is then placed under a cutting machine, which at one opcration cuts it into the proper shape. Meantime another machine is busy making 6teel wire into screwa of about threc feet in length, all of which is done wilh surprismar celerity. A fourth machine punches the sole with holes, inserís the screw and cuts it off at the proper length. All that is then necessary is to rivet the screws by a few blows with a hammer on an anvil. The soles mannfacturec1 in this way are superior to the Napoleon, inasmuch as the rivets adhero better, and the leather is rendered more compact. Tliey are produced with infinitely less labor, and can be aflurded about fifty per cent cheaper. The Teraperance folks seem now to be ii the same condition that the Abolitionists have been - carrying on a war between themselve - political action men - legal suasionists - anc moral suasionists. -A New Iúnd of Pavemknt. - A Yankee name Ferry, has subinittcd to the Common Council of Boston a paper for paving the streets with iron. Wood has been tried and found unfit; stons has been considered too expensive, prepared in a saüsfactory manner. Anoïhcr Sign. - Tlie Boston Evening Bulletin, has come out for Daniel Webster for President. The Clay banners are lowering fast. The Russian Anny. - The Emperor Nicholas has Eet his army at work on the Russian Railroad. That's a good deal better iban the work of destroying human life.