General Intelligence

illí wonH Pay." - Hear what the Learned Blacksmith says on cheap postage: "But wehear the mercenary ejaculation from Congress, "lt toorCt Pay!" O! indeed! it won't pay, will it? then "Hung be the heavens with black!" What if the Crotón water, that purifies the very atmosphere of New York city, should fail to pay? W hat if common schools and the preaching of the gospel should not pay? The people, we think, will ere long have a day of reckoning with the government, when it will be shown to theworld whether they have not paid enough to give the franking privilege to every man, woman and child in the United States, who can write a letter. Let us transcribe an item or two from the people's ledger. The people - some body's people - paid into the treasury of the government, from 1836 to March 3, 1843, $195,135,572 71. ís that not enough, in all conscience, to pay for as cheap postage as a tax burdened monarchy gives to its subjects? What has become of this vast amount oí money paid to the government? One hundred and fifty-tliree milHons nine hundred and fifty-four thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars of this sum have been expended in appropriations for the íiriny and navy! Have thearmy and navy paid? Have they added one acre to ourterritory, or defended one, or saved the life of a single man, orthe cargo of a single fishing smack, during that period? Why this mercenary distinction between these departments of the government? - Must one starve himself to death in seïfdefence? The people want cheap postage, and they will have it payor no pay. Their eyes are opened to the enormous prodigality with whicb the revenue of the country is squandered upon preparations for war in time of peace. They will demaní that a part of that proslituted revenue shall be rescued from a base to a better end."A Steam Balloon. - A patent has recently been obtained by J. H. Pennington for a machine to navigate the air by We have before us a view of one of these machines, representing ten section balloonsjinstead of one entire balloon, a very obvious improvement. The engine is proposed to be placed in the upper story of the car appended to the balloon, and will be of about one and a half horse xiwer. The steerage power is a rudder or an oar connected with the bottom baloon. To secure a light constraction, care has been taken to select only such materials as combine great strength with with comparatively little weight. - Cin. Gazelte. The report of the superintendent of common schools for the State of New York says tbere are over one rnilMon of books now in the district school libraries in the State. There are seven hundred thousand children Of all ages taught in the schools, being an increase öf fifty thousand since last year's report 1 This s a proud feature in the state's history. The way we 'Enlighten' Europe.-A snle of American candles in Liverpool is noticed as a great Boveky, and the opening of additiona! branch of Araeriean trade. The United Stales nrmy consista of 8000 men, and costs the govemment ike unnual suin of 8,000,009. A large majority of this army is employed (or rather for it has ïpt much employmenl aivy where,) in the slave States. JDinner to Mr. Cuslang. -The merchante of New York propose a dinner to Mr. Cushng for lus services to the country in1 negociating- the treaty of 4 Wang Hija. aAn English nobleman, who was jn thia country and eaw Eiihu Burritt, copied from his Journal the following account of Mr. B.'s labore forfive days in 1838: "June 5. Read 50 Iines of Hebrew, 37 of CelMc; six hours of forging. - June 6. Read 37 linee of Hebrew, 40 of Celtic; six hours of forging - June 7. Read 60 lines of Hebrew, 4ü linea of Celtic, 45 pages of French, 20 names of stars, five hours of forging. - June 8. Read 51 lines of Hebrew, 50 lines of Celtic, 40 pages of French, 15 names of stars: eighl bours of forging. - June lO(Sunday) Read 100 lines of Hebrew, 85 pages of French; four services at the Chuich: Bible elass at noon." Dr. Combe, the eminent phrenologist says: - "One thing is obvious, Ihat the uecessity for forging saved this stuJenl's life. If he had not been foiced, by necnessity, to labor, he would, in all probability, have devoted himself eo inceasantly to his booksthat he would have ruined hts health,and been carried to a premature grave." A JYrw Discovery. - A physician of Paris, named Raspail, has made the astonishing discovery that all the oliscases "which fiesh is heir to," are caused by the attacks of parasitic animáis upon the various organs of hutnanity. He has tlierefore invented little tubes made of qnills, in which he inserís bits of camphor to destroy the epiza. All Paris may be seen with these quilla in their moutbs. Popu lat ion. - America con ld support niño hundred and thirty millions of people, without being so densely populated as Europe now is. The present populatio of Europe is about 233 Millions; of America 55 millions; of the whole earth, 1,100 millions.Oíd Lato of Conrtship.-Oct. 27, 1647,- The General Court enact "that if any young man attempt to nddress any young woman, without the consent of her parents or the Coxtn ly Court, he ehall be fined 5 pounds for the first offence, 10 pounds for the eecond, and imprisonment for the third." Sept. 11,1646, "Mathew Stanley was tried for drawing the affections of John Tarbox's daughter without the consent of her parents. He was fined 5 pounds- fees 2s. 6d., and 6s. for three days altendance by the parents." In the same month " three marned women wero fined 5s. a piece for scoldingj' Quere - What would or should have been the penalty for unmarried women for this ama offence - Salem Gazetle. Belwm of the Exiles - Last Thursday mormng, says the St.'Albuns,Vt., Republican, the quiet of our little villnge was suddenly broken in upon by the arrival, from the south, of thirty-eight of the Canadians, e.xiled to Van Dieman's Land for participating in the troubles of '37. Jt is nearly two years eince the British Government pardoned their offencee and gave them Überty to return to their hornea . Since that time ihey have been ut woik to earn the necessary funda to enab!e them lo reach their own shores. They appeared heaU thy, well dresaed and in high spirits, and epoke well of their ireatment they had received from the British authorities. Two of them on returning to their homes, where they had expected to mee! the miles and joyful tears of their wives, found that these last had supplied their places with other lords. We have just received n cali from an Agent from Charleston. S. C. It is only twenty one days since he lei't that place. His name is Francis Shoemake, aboirt 20 yeafs of age and nppears vary intelligent. He did not come by the especial direetmn of the goternor, but on his own hooft. The narration of his escape and sufferings is very interesting. He escaped by secretmg himself in a vessel and was not discovered until a 6hort lime before he rea ched Providence, R. - The Captain gave him a few lashes and told hta he would tnfre him back, but the sailors assisted him in getting away. He was ève days & nights without food, prevroos to bis being discovered. - Granite Freernan.Plank Roads.--A CaTiadian corespondent of the Rochester Democrat, vriting from Montreal, Jan. 6' f845, bears the foJIbwing testimony to the' titility, darability and cheapness of the Plank RoadB in Carxaáa. He writes: "Plank Roads ore tioyt beeomïng general tbrough the Provine?. Expeiiments have fuily proved their cheapness over McAdam roads. The plank road eral of Toronto toards Kingston, has been in operation eight years, and has required but ïittle repairirïg. It is supposed it wil] last tvo or tbree years longer, before new planking will be required. After leaving the planks, you go on to a MeAdara road,whch has co8t more per mile.to keep in repair for eight years thaiï il did to construct the plank road. The McAdam part of the road is now being planked as matter of ecoñomy. Three corda of pine wood are eaBÜy drawn by a span of horses on the piank road.' GREAT MASSACRE OF MORMONS, We clip the following from the Rncine Advocate: ♦A rumor is noticed in the Lee County Iowa) Democrat, and also in the Warsaw Signa), that the party of Murmons who recently eft Nauvoo for the purpoee of settling in the 'pinery,' (high up the M6sissippi river,) have ill been murdered ! Having got into a dispute at a French trading establishment about the price of eome provisions, which they thought exhorbitant, they unceremoniously helped ihemeelves to wha;t th"y wanted - wbich so exasperated the Frenehmen tht they called in the aid of the Indiuns, and massacred the vvhole of the Mormon party, omounting to three or four hundred souls!" Theabove íb fulíy coiifinned. OVer a hundred Mormons were ehot.- Green. Bay Republican, Jan. 14. 1 bbw fan to-day in a faney valued at nine dollars, but another roan ba6 theua os high as eighty or a nundred dollars. They are beautifully ornamented with precious stones and oblong mirrors of the size of a dollar, and sometimos in addition, a minute gold pencil and ivory tabléts on the sidc of the handlc- Letter Jrom .Vcir York.They have a singular and summary way of doing things down South. A young man named Wilson, was arrested at Mobile some days since, on suspicion of being a dangerous character and of having robbed a fellow passenger, on board of a steamboat sometime since, of $4000. He declared at the time of his arrest that he was penniless, but on being searched, the sum of $300, in current money, was found sewed in one of the legs of his pantaloons. There was no proof of his having obtained this dishonestly, but as he was not liked, a pólice officer escorted him to a New Orleans steamboat, and ordered him instantly to quit the city, which he did. - Boston Bee. The Manufacturing Interest. - The following extract from the money article of the New York Express of Feb. 1, indicates that the manufacturing business in New England is highly prosperous: "The Randolph Manufacturing Company, of Franklinsville, N. C. have divided fifteen per cent on their capital of $35,000 besides reserving six per cent for contingencies. The Cotton manufacturing interests of the country are now in a more prosperous condition than ever before. Preparations for an extensive business are every where making, and it will not be long before we shall have factories enough to make goods for half the world. A Company at Boston have secured the land on the Merrimac river, at Andover, and are to erect a large number of manufactories. The additions to the milis at Lowell the past year have been very large, which is also the case at Nashua, Manchester, N. H., and at Saco. The milis at Brunswick, Me., and those near Portland, are under full way at a profit. The result of the Presidential election, it was thought, would check these enterprises, but it has not been the case to the extent anticipated. - The Boot Mills Company,at Lowell, have declared a dividend of 8 per cent, for six months; the Salisbury Manufacturing Company, a dividend of five per cent, and the Great Falls Company, a dividend of twenty dollars on each share." We learn from the Baptist Advocate, tha the Board of Aldermen of the city of New Yor have directed the Comptroller not to pay ou any of the public moneys to those schooi which have excluded the Bible. Capital Punishmetit. - William MilJer, th man convicted of the murder of George West was hung on Wednesday of last week. U 'o the Jast moment of his ljfe, when adjnre by the sberiffto say whether he was guilty of the murder of said West, he denied it, and called God to witnees that he was guiltless. The next moment he was in eiernity. - Albany Patriot. The interest with which the proceedings of the Co rt for the trial of Bishop Ooderdonk was Jooked for, may be inferred from the facl that up to yesterday morning, the Appletons had sold thirty thousand copies.- JY. Y. American. The density of the population in England to that of Mexico, is as 30 to l. If Mexico was ss thickly peopled as England, the inhobitants would exceed in number two hundred mllions, more than the populatiion of Europe. A negro was found secreted on the J. M. White, on her last trip up from New Orleans, and put in irons for safe keeping, on the súj&position that he was a rünaway slave. Yesterday morning the irons vvere found brocen on the deck, but the negro was gone. - SL Louis Rep.oiare or not, ne is more deserví ng ot Iiberty than those who1 chained him. A Steap.-Mr. Snooks Was asfced the other day how he could account for Nature's forming h rm so ugly . 'Nature Was not to' blame,' said he, for when I was two months old, 1 was c'onsidered the handsomest child in the neigbborhood; but my nïirse, the slut, one day swapped me atoay for another boy, just to to pleasc a friend of hers whose chtld was rather plaiiïfoolsing." Strange Infaíiution.-Cfne hondred guns were fireö on Boston Cotnmon, añfí in f he city of New York, ín bon'or of the passage of the Texas Joint Resoiutlon! Suicides beïtg so numierotïs in PrvtB&ti, owng to imprieonment for debt, the government iave it in eonteniplntion to aboüah thrat mode of satisfyjng the creditoi'. There are in Trance,' say one of tíe journnls, 'S, 500 actors, 2,900 actresses, and 16,000 individuáis attached ïn one way or other o the t heat res.' One of fïoe's beet prrnting pressés, was sent to Oregon last week, With tj'pe, printing nk, etc, tbr the newspaper about to be esablished in Oregon. The paper is to be connected wilh the Missionary station there. In eix months, there have been landed at lio Janeiro eighteen thousand eiaves! These elaves were landed t'rom vessels bearing the American flag, thirty-si in all, with' average of live hutalred elaves eactiv Chaitging her JVame.- In tb Missouri jegislature a petition was presented from ccrain parents St. Louis, to change the name of their daughter from Georgiana Frelingïuysen to Ma-rtha Jane Dallas. Mr. Buford moved its reference to the Committee on the Tobacco WáTohoüse! There are nino thousand thrce hundred and seventy-eiíiht and' a half miles of railroade in1 the Üiutedi States.JYcw Diacovery.- The correspondent of the Western Citizen writes frctn New Vo-k: 'Before taking leare of New ifork altosrether for sonio weeks or perhaps months to some, I must not forget to mention a fact which I think will interest your eorn-growing, pork-fattening people not a litile, that te, if it should ultimately prove to be of as mach importance ae it now promises; and, for a won der, it is one about which, to my knowledge, nothing hns yet been snid in the papers. A discovery fias been made by which the curing of beef and pork, now a long anti tedious process, can be effected, with comparattvely little labor or trouble, in twenty, or, at most, tweni.y-four bours. A lurge establishment forthis purpose wae beingfitled up just before I left, and several hundred barrels had already been prepared by this process for foreign exportation. The proprietor is n gentleman of ampie capital, and he bas associated with him [)r. Lardner, who has brought his vast ecientific knowledge to bear succesefully upon ihis branch of agriculturaleconomy. A friend of the proprietor, who has been permittrd to go over the establishment, assures me that meal s fur better cured in this new mode than by llie oíd one, every fibre being thoroughly im - jregnaied with salt, and retaining an excelent flnvor. The vwdvs operavdi will remato i secret until a patent has been obtained for the discovery. All I have been informed concerning the process is, that the brine is chemically prepared in large vatp, kept moderitely warm, and, as occasion may require applied to the meat in vcssels, from which the ïir has been excluded. At the end of the ibove specified time the aire is complete. The jnterprising proprietor already talks of a iranch establishment somewhere in the Valey of the Mississippi, in order to prepare neat for shipment via New Orleans.' The Hyena. - Ignatius Pallme, in histravels in Dordofau, vindicate6 the hyena fiom the charge of ferocily and cruelty, usually brought ogainst it by writers on natural hieto ry - most of wbom assert that the animal ie untameable. He says - In the court of a house in Lobeid, I saw a hye& running about quite domesticated. The children of the proprietor teased it, took the meat thrown to it for food out of its jaws, and puttheir hands even inlo its throat without receiving the least injury. When we took our meals in the open air, to enjoy the breeze, as was our general custoni during the hot season, this animal approached the table without fear, snapped up the peaces that were thrown to it like a dog, and did not evihee the slightest symptom of timidity. - A full grown hyena and her two cubs were, on a nolher occasion, brought to rae for sale; the latler weie carried in arms, as you migUt carry a lamb, and were not even mnzzled. - The old one, it is true, had a rope round it snout, but it had been led a disfance of twelve miles by a single man, witho'it having offered the slightest resistance. The Africans of this qnarter do not even recSon the hyena among the wíld beasts of their country, for they are not afraid of'it. Türmno nm Tables. - The following shows how the white people Hke to be trsated as they treat the tin ves: A White Woman Crüelly Tortvred by a Slave - Pauline, o slave, a griflè in color, about 25 years of age, vas yesterday arrested by the First Municipality poíice on the charge of most cruelly - we mighrt say irrbumanly maltreating a white woman, named Madame Redeck. The circumstences, as wé hnve been tpld them, are these: Madame Redeck lives on the Bayou road; her husband, by whom she has three children, is a Germán. Some months since he purchased PWline, to whom he evidently transferred his aflections from his wife, who s a Prench woman. He re cently went up the country, business calüng him to the West, and in going, gave charge of his house and business to PauJine, placing in hrer hands the money to pay rent, current expenses, &c, thus muking his wife the slave of his slave. The Jatter, with instinctive barbar ity, at once commenced a series of most revoltWig crnelties on her unfortunate victim and lier children. She confined them' in a smal], dark closet, in vvhich there was no venilation, gave tbem but little and inferior food, an m fact, alnrost Öayed them alive by du il y flagellation. Tl'ie perpetra'tor of these wícked atrocities is now in the hands of the iaw, and we trust tfhat adequate punishment will be doled out to her. - JY. O. Picayune, Jan. 17. A lard factory is to be estabïished at Can Eótf. The Orinese bogs are said lo bv uncommonly oily.