General Intelligence

A Surgical Operation on tJie Prairies - A few days before the caravan hac reached Walnut Creek, a Mr. Broadus, in attempting to draw his rifle from a wagon, muzzle foremost, discharged its contents into his arm. The bone being draadfully shattered, the unfortunnte man was advised to submit to an amputation at once; otherwise, it being in the month of August, and excessively warm, mortiftcation would certainly ensue. But Broadus obslinately refused to consent to this course, tiJl death began to stare him in the face. By this time, however, the whole arm had become gangreñed, some spots having already appeared above the place where the operation should have been performed. The invalid's case was therefore considered perfectly hopeless, and he was given up by his comrades, who thought of Jittle else than to consign him to the grave. But being unwilling to resign himself to the fate which apeared frowning over him, without a last eflbrt, he oblained the consent of two or three of the party, who undertook to ampútate his arm, merely to gratify the wishes of the dying man, for in such a ight they viewed him. Their only 'case of instruments' consisted of a handsaw, a utcher's knife, and a large iron bolt. - The teeth of the saw being considered oo coarse, they went to work and soon md a set of fine teeth filed on the back. The knife having been whetted keen, and the iron bolt laid upon the fire, they commenced the operation; and in less time than it takes to teil it, the arm was opened round the bone, which wnsalmost in an instant sawed off, and with the whizzing hot iron the whole stump was so effectually seared as to close the arteries completely. Bandages were now applied, and the whole company proceeded on their journey as though nothing had occurred. The arm commenced healing rapidly, and in a few weeks the patiënt was sound and well, and is perhaps still iving to bear witness to the success of 'hot iron" over ligatures in "taking up" arteries. - Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies. Two Cents Postage and Two Cents Mileage. - In England, the penny postage is folowed by an net of parliament, that all new raihvay companies shall be obliged to run one cheap train every day, at a fare not exceeding one penny sterling per mile. The penny post-' ge which has so re-a'.vakened the social af'ficiions of the people, and set them to writing etters, is soon followed by the penny mileage, which allows them to visit each other at a heap rate. So it will be bere. - Bost. Ckroncle. The new State Prison located. - We learn rom tbe Argus thnf the governor, comptroller nd attorney general have decided to purchase he mines of Gen. Skinner, in Clinton coun y, as a site for the new State Prison. These nine8 are situated about fourteen miles in a reet line nearly west of Plattsburgh. Crotoing in Frenck. - The Courier, of New Drleans, which is pnblished in French, exresses its joy at the result of the Georgiu lection in the following terms:ijrKonGiE. - uocuroco-Ko ko ko (Jocoroco noooo." The figure of n rooster, crowing, ompletes the picture. - Jour. of Com. l The petsons wbo undertook to rnise the t vreck of the stem frignte Missouri, in the b arbor of Gibralter have given it up as a hopei ess job. t A JYetc Move. - Incidente are constantly r ccurring throug-hout the land, which serve to , nark the ad vanee of the age in almost every epartment of science and art. At the late r lolitical mos8 meeting at Albany, N. Y., Dan el Webster was to deliver an address. A 0 'eep interest was feit in the eastern cities to e the first to press with it, and ( he N . York j ierald and other papers, had their reporters f n the ground, and the speech written out c eady for publication on their progresa down he Hudson. But they were out-flatiked by a troke ofgeneralship in the Tribune office. - ' Phat periodical had a font of type, with the T ïecessary furnilure, and had three composit rs on board, and by the time the bont liwded t it New York, the form was locked np, cort ected, and ready for the press. The Tribune t ffice netted more than a thousand dollars by ' he mo vemen t. s Professor Olmstead related the foüowine :xcellent anecdote, at a meeting of the New iavèn W. T. A. Society: A farmer Jaid in i i keg of the 9timulant for himself end wife - i nd for fear it might be exhausted and no f neans left to replenish it, they ogreed thai one ehould be drank unless it was paid for. The old man was soon tbirsty, took his dram, i ind gave his wife six cents. Soon the old ] ady had occasion to drink, and paid six cents ƒ o her husband. In this way they continucdlerncieiy u uniiK, aiways pnying1 six cents; c -und soon t appeared that the keg: ivasemp t r, and the liq-ior had been paid tbr with the c ime 6xpence.' Remedy fot tlie 7iooihacRe.---An English , aper says that Caoutchouc (Iridian RubBer) r i an excellent remedy for tooth nche. After ie cavity of the tooth ia cleaned, a piece of 'aoutehotic is put ona wire, anH being sof0 ;ned on the ñames of a candle, is pressed hilé' w arm inlo" thfe tooth. Thus the air is ;, :pt froto the nervj and tho caUse of loütht :he removed. t Oh demolish'ari'antíient tornan Cath'o c Chapel recently at Wnrsaw, tw.ó barrels J lied witfi gold lo the valüë of $600,000, ere discovered in the foundation. It is to be c nployéd' iri the const uction óf a fine Harigt g bridge over ttío "ietilla . Wtnchendcn Buckels.-There passed tbro' Fitchburg, last week, six loaded teams from Winchenden alone, with contents as follows: - 14,052 water pails.200 nests of painfed tubs, 6 in a nest, - loo nests small tnbs, 4 in a nest, - 427 gross of clothes pius, (61,4.88.) with flour buckets, barrel covers, dippers, &c. On one wagon alone therc were 3640 pails. Punch etiys the Iowa Indiana n o v exhibí tng in Londou nrc nn honest race, and not to be conföunded with the l O U's, who are natives of Pennsylvania, and bear a very opposite character. Dnrinsr the first 8 months of the year 1848, the quniuity of lndinn corn exported to EngInnd amoimted tn 35,000 biiihfJs. Durinff !he same period this yenr,the quanlity amountid to 190.000 btishels. Af'er all, the market jCG reat Britain would be of someconsequence :o iis if fairly opened. Odd Fellotcs-- The Maine Methodist Conerencc have decidedthat it is'highly impropïr fnr their inernhers to join the Odd Fellows )r any other secret society. A Good Totm.-- Beverly is said to be the nost moral town in Massachusett?, if nol in he Union. With five ihousand inhabiiants, here has not been a person convicted of crime 'or flve years. An Arknnsos hero was lately convicted of lorse-stealing, and when sentence had been rassed on him, he took a 6iirvey of the court oom, and gave vent to his feelinga ofter the nllowing tnanner: - Well, tliis is rather the iriskest place I ever did see. Traveled fif een miles this moming - stood n electiop, nd unanimously voted by twelve men, to be naintained at the public cost for ten years. New Rail Road.- The city of New York ire about building a Rail Rood in Broadvvay, br tbe accommodation of passengere. The oad is to be built b)r the city and the proceeds ased for the payment of the public debt. There will be two tracks and two locomolives. - Cin. Rerald.Ji Live Yankee, - The London correspon!ent ofthe Boston Atlas payts: "I had the pleaure of meeting1 at Catlin's gallery, a notive )rLynn,Massachu8etts,Mr. John B. NewhaJl, vho, however, now hails from the 'boundless West.' He has been iraveiling through trance and Belgium, and tlie greater part of ngland II is tour was a pedestrian one, tbr he most part, ond he speaks of it with enthuiasm. With only a small bundie in Lis hand uid nol twenly words of bad French, he Iroteb along from one town to another on the Continent, and was quite independent of cusom- house officers and Government officials, vlio allowed hitn freequently to paes gates f towns, supposing him to be a resident!" Borrowing a Hat to Hurrrah with. - ïenry C. Wright, in one nfhis letters from )ublin to the Boston Liberator, gives a des nption of the scène which followod O'Coneirs liberatjon. All the people he eays} eemed franfic with joy. " Thote who had no aps or hots to swing and throw up, waved the ittercd skirfs of llieir old coats, gowus nnd loaks. One old woman, withered and ahriv lied and bent all up, in her frantic extncy, auld get hold of nothingto swing, reached up er witliered arm, and seized the hat of a 'ell-dresped gentleman who was pushing his ray piet her, pulled it off, and swung it about er head, and gave three cheers end huzzas r the Liberator; then coóüy replaced the hat ain on his head - the gentleman folding his ruis, and letting the old woman swing his at to her hearfs content. ' Jlnimal Magnelism. - We have ntely seen i the New York papers, notices of wonderjI experiments performed in Animal Magneem. Scepticism on this subject appears lo e giving woy. In this city, M. de Bonneville i going on with his private classes, composec) f very intelligent gentlemen, who are deeply iterested in the subject. The teacher is a ïan of nn agreeable and a ready wit; and, lthough we are emong those who havearrivd at no settled conclusions in relation tothis ïatter, we cannoi but be interested in hie igenious way of commnnicating information, nd answering objections. By the way, ii ;ould require no great strerch of imagination br a person, on entering the room, tosuppo&e imself fallen into a company of old magiiana. - Cm. Herald.Ji Wagón Load of Beauty. - A üentlemnn f m his way from Manchesier to Arlington, 7t. met, bounri to a Whig Mass Convention n MnsGachusetts, an enorsnous wagon draw t y six oxen, on which was seated, on ' lenches raised on a rack one above the other, f krec hundred beautiful young girls, all dad ' n white. Ie must have been an interesting j pectacle. i Removal of t ivo Brick Houses. - A block ' ftwo brick houses in Liixoln street, three , tories high, was sai'ely ond successfully re noved ihis morning ten feet and bix inches rom their old foundation, to the rear. This 1 vork was accomplished on a plan furniöhed t iy Alderman Pri?6ton, a niember of the com, nittee for widening streetp, by Mr. Moses i 'arker, who is justly entitlod to great credit ' or the entire success of this new enterprise. c The modus operandi was this: Concave f asl-iron platee are prepared, the foundation oj lie wall cut nway, and two plates faciag each l ther, inserled wkh cannon baila between l)enr. These plates nnd balls b?ing plated underall !ie walls, thé wiiole buüding rests upóñ them. 'hree screws are applied, and the whole ' nilding is rolled upo them any deirable c istance. These plates and balk are removed n ne by one, and the brick replaced and tlie luiWing left in trie originad state, without any b ijury to Ihé struclure. R ier estimated that fl liis blóck weighed 700 tons, and was rolled n aiid1 accompliahed, after the e lates wèrë set, in' áBbut tvö' höurs time, - ? ioslwv Ti'Ctnscript. y Says Thoihh AÏorrip, the trué Öhio Demon "The baüot box can never be used for á d aoré noble purposé thari to restore toman bie uaiienablerights."Abandoning Children. - The Commissioners of the Alms-house, N. Y. have offered a reward of $100 for theapprehension and conviction of any person guilty af the crime of abandoningchildren. The punishment is imprisonment in the State prison for a period not exceeding seven rears, or in the county juil not exceeding one year. flCEühu Btirritt, the learned Blocksmith, ins been niminated by the Liberty party in Worcesler Coiinty, as caiididate for the Sen-. iíp.