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Day
24
Month
June
Year
1844
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JEngtisk Capital. - The correspondent of the Boston Chronicle writes from London: "The vast accumilation of capital in this country is what strikes a stranger from the backwoods with the greatest astonishment. - There are lines of roiïroad here which cost $100,000 p2r mile, and snrme miles have cost more than L100,000 sterling. For, ia addition to the most 6ubtantial constraction and the mosl undaunted tunnelJing and excavation, immense sums have to be expended tb purchase the land, and perhops buildings that are io ba removed. The Great Western Raifway, recently opened to Exeter, is an example of the substantial way in which things are done here. Tbe massive rails, instead of being laid tipon disconnected sleepers, are laid upon a very heavy frame work of timber, so as to prevent any inequality of level from taking place by concussion. On this railvvay, Mr. Brunei, the engineer, with a party of member of Parlia ment, have actually tmvelled at the rate oT fifty-six miles an hour, and he ie con - fident thai even greater speed can b safely attained. And whiïe this party was travelling at the rapid rate, one of tbem, as secretary, was wnting s report, qmte undistorbed by the motio. Indeed the train glides as smoothly as a bal! npon a billiard table. Railway6 are 'going ahead' here more than ever berore. A large numbcr of new line are project ed.and vet there is a capital to spare - millions of capital that would jump at a sae iavestwent at three per cent.Wool Gathering Machine. - Within a short time past, a machine of English invention, has been introduced into this country, which is likelj' to effect important results upon the wool business, the old clothes trades, and the home manufacture of cloth. lt is asimple and vcry complete contrivance for reconverting old clothes, blankets, petticoats, stocking, &c. &c., into wool, and the facility, ease and despatch with which it perforrns this operation is truly surprising. The worst looking, moth-eaten, ragged, patched and unclean things, in the shape of woollen garments, carpeta or bed-clothes, are passed through the machine and reduced into wool with a speed that almost surpasses belief. The instrument that periorms this work is nothing but a large, broad wheel, on the circumference of which a multitude of small, blunt spikes are fixed like nails in the collar of a tanner's dog. The rags are laid in a flat trough or feeder, and are drawn towards the wheel, where by the rapid revolution of the latter againsl their edges, they are soon "undone" as rags, and done up into wool. The machine is driveu by steam, and performs an incredible amount of labor in a day. - Phil. Ledger. The Board of Inspection of the Military Academy at West Point, this year, is composed exclusively of officers of the U. S. Army. At their head is Major General Winfield Scott. Of course we shall have a favorable, because interested report ! A rupture has laken place among the Mormons ; quite a number of the most intelligent have secededfrom the authority of the Prophet, Gen. Joseph Smith. - They still believe that he was once a true prophet, bui no longer worthy to remain at the head of the true church.The Harpers have a very large printing establishment. They employ eighty compsitors, one hundred and fifty girls in iolding books, besides numbers of persons in the other parts of the business. To how many families must such an establishment give support. Beginning with the poor people who go about the streets picking up rags for the paper makers, perhaps it is not too much to say that three hundred families, full fifteen hundred persons are clothad and fed by the work of this single house. Woodtn Parement. - The Pittsburgh Gazeite considers the experiment of wooden puvemenie, which have been laid in some of the etreeis there. a failure. In St. Clair street, they are so worn intorutsand holes, that they mustsoon be removed; and the minsm evolved, during their decumposition, is regarded as very unwholesme. The blocks which were laid clown in Federal street, Alleghany city, have long been removed.Improved Plough. - A new plough lias been inverueti and patented by William Kilburn of Tioga county, Pa., which nppears admirably calculnted to answer the purpose of te invention.- it is so fashioned as to iurrow,drop the grain and cover as it runs. marking off the nexl furrow at the same time. Loto Fares. - The New York Herald says, tha; the boats. the Cleopatra & Worcester. have been purchasedby a company in Providence. and will be run to ihat ci(y in opposition to the Sionnington boa.8. Fare from Boston to New York $2,50. Jmprisovineiit for Debt. - A bilí has been introduced in the House of Lords, ( Eng. ) by Lord Attenham, abolishing imprisonment for debt under any cireumstances. His Lordship was loudly cheered througliout bis speech, and, aa Lords Lyndhurst, Brougharn, CampbeM, and the Duke of Richmond spoke in favor of the'bill, it will undoubtedly pass by nu al most unanimous vote. There are 10,306 Distilleries in the TJ. S. of whïch New York has 212, and Pennsylvonia 1010; Delaware has none; North Carolina 580S; Lotiisiana 5. &c. fee. New York produces 11,992 gallons; Massachusetts has 27, and rnakes 2,177,716 gallons. Cottages oj Unburnt B riek. -Mr. EIlsworth, Commi86ioner of Patents, says the experiment of cheap cottages of unburnt brick has succeeded admirably. The cottage erec ted by himself at Washington, in view of the Capítol, and which is two stories in height, stands well, and appears as hrfndpome as the best brick bouses; ond is warm in the winter and cool in the Summer. Some have doubted the policy of erecting such houses in cold climates, but in Canada these buildings have been successfully proveo". Claytoo. - Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen made a most thrilling address, at the anniverpary of the Missionary Society of the M . E. Church, in the presence of a large body of the delégate. A gentleman remarked ♦That address will give hitu many a Methodist vote. But, said a delégate, you know that four years ago, it was Tipfkcanob and Ttler too.' - You cannot vote for one alone; if you vote for the saint, you must vote for Clat too.' - O! said he,so we mnst; I did not think of that. The new Militia Late.- The principal features of the new act, recently paesed by the Legislature of this State are.1. All Stute exempt laws are repealed. 2. All white ma)e able-bodies persons from 18 to 45 yeare old, to perform two days' duty, as at present, or pay 50 cents for the company day,and 75 cents for the regimental day. This fiucj.is ts be collected tbro' the County Commissioneis, with the State tax, and paid into the treasnry, 3. No Court6 of Appeal wiíl be heíd; r.o flags ; no musical instruments to be purchased by the State; no boys taught to play tfie m6trurneits at the charge of Common wealth; nothing to be paid tbr üncampments. - Pen. F'reeman.Perseverance. - It is not those who hav what is called a liberal educa don, who are th most upeful men in the world, and who alü occupy stotions of trust aud honor. On th contrary, the most talentèd men in our country belong to that class, who reccived thei edncation at the work bench, the plougb, the prese and the anvil. Who nre the most pi ominent men in our Congressional and Legislative halls - in the pulpit and at the bar? - Those vho were crcdled in poverty. and fouglit their wny throngh much sorrow and Uibulation - who met with hard rubs on cvery side - who were deepised and reproached and sneered at by the proud and the rich. - Poor and frirndless young men, did you ever feel discournged? Did you sometimes t-ink to the earth in despair? Suffer not the indulgence of these feeiings, but renew your energy by perusing the histories and following the footatepö of those who have gone before you. You have not more to contend with than olhere, and the prospoct ie Lnght and glorious in the far distant future. Hope on and persevere.Grcat Wickednessrn JYtw York. - The Hera'd says there are ín that city 500 thieves, 300 burglars and robbers, 4C0 receivers of stolen goods, 150 venders of counterfeit money, 400 wharf pilferers, 200 pockets and watch 6tuiïèrs, 100 beggar thieves, 3000 houses ofill-fome, 5000 white prostiiutes, and gamblers or'all kinde 3000. This cert8inly is a rnelancholy picture, but most likely is true, ns the board of Aldermen state ihat there are 350 houses of' ill-fame in the 5th ward alone. No wonder the city authorities 6hould derise laws to pnniah these offences. 300 tippling houses in New York are knownto contribute to the state of crime. Surely do rogues of this and other countries here congrégate.- Olive Branch. Anecdote oJohn Randolph. - When Henry Cía y was Speaker of the House of Representatives and John Randolph a member of that body, the Jatter indulged himself in drawidg a fancy picture in soraething like the following words:'We will suppose, Mr Speaker, a young man born in Virginia, destitute of principie, who has spent his patrimony in dissipation and gambling, removes to Kentucky, and by sonie lucky chance i clectcd to the State Legislatura. We will go further, sir, and suppose him elected a merober of this House, and still further, sir, and suppose him raised to the elevated station of the piesiding officer of this very House; and suppose he now sits in the chair' - pointing his long careaste finger to Clay, who immediately called Mr. Randolph to order. Mr. R. appealed to the House, which supported the cali to order by the Speaker. Mr. R. then rose, and in a manner peculiar to himself, observed: "I drew a picture from imagination- you applied it to yourself- and the House has confirmed its application.'At the late Common School Convention Mr. Randall offered a resolution for the entire abolition ofcurporeal purushment in common schools. A resolution was adopted in its stead recommending the bubstitution of moral, instead of corporeal punishment, as rapidly as will consist with the preservation of good order! - This is an abolilion age. The American invention for making hooks and eyes. has reduced the price from one dollar and fifty cents the gross to twenty cents. At one establishment in New Britain, (Conn.) nearly one hundred thousands pairs per áay are made plated, by a golvanic battery, or what is called the cold silver process. The value of the article consumed 'm the United States, is said to be seven hundred and fifty thousatul dollars annually.Type. - A correspondent of the PbiladeJphia Ledger, who bas for many years been engaged in the manufacture of printing materials, says that there is annually manufacturcd in the United States, of various descriptions, 267,150,000 types. Supposing this number to be 'set up,' ihe area covered by them woold be equal (o 13,612 square feet; and fhouíd fonr nnflions of impressions be taken from them, which conld be done ere they lost their fair 'faces,' 1757 square miles of reading matter wonld be annually funrisbed to the American community from cast types alone leaving otit of consideration the large amoont of reading matter produeed from stereotyped p la tes. The same writer computesr that 56,655,982 9cnbes would be necessary, eoch forming 60, - 000 writen letters in a day, to produce annually the earne amount of readrng matter that is now furnished by the prees arnually in this country.Paddya Erpedient jor Reducing a Hole.- An Irisli weaver just imported from sister isle took to his employer in Kilmarnock, the other day, the first cloth he had woven since his urrival. His employer detected in the cloth two small hoïes within half an inch of each other, and told him he must pay a fine of a shilling for achole. 'And plaze ye,' returned Pat, Ms it by the number of holes, or by the size of them, that you pat the fine on us?' 'By the number of hoïes, to be sure.' 'And a big hole and a small hole is the same piicel' Yes, a shilling for each hole, big or lmle. 'Then give me a hould of the piece,' replied Paddy; and getting the cloth into his hand, he tore the two small holes into one, and exclaimed, 'By the hill of Howth and that saves me a shilling, anyhowP ÜT A minuto examinatron of the censúa oí 1840 shows that there are 116 town in the tree States, in which are Total Coloredperson?, 000 Colored Insano persons, 186 Colorcti BlinJ persons, 3S Colored Dcnf and Dumb, 36 These errors are most egregioua. Sam Slicfc says, there are 2 languages that are universal- the language of love and the language of money ; the gals understand the one, and the men the other, the wide world Over.

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