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Day
10
Month
July
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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A New Sourceof RbvbKUí.- Mehmet Ali. the Pacha of Egypt, hfsjust discovere.d a new source of revenue. It is sta'ed hat lie has determined to have ihe c!aC'imbs worked like mines, fur the purpis3 ofhavingthe Hnen ín which the nriüinmiei are wrapped, fii-st converted into rags, then paper, and tlien, by salo, into moiiey. It s eitimiled ih it frora the yenr 2097 B. C. to the year I of our era, fuur hutirlred anJ tweuty millioiis o!' Ëgyptiana Inve d:ed in tlie course, o:' naiure in the "Valoy of the Nile." All these inillinns were eml),-.!merl, and al! wrnpppd more or les fully in linen; and ihere they lie t this hour, Rtired "p "in tlte crypts excnva'ed in the Arabinn nni ftgypiian chaiiis." Tiiink of the inass! O'ilv eslhmting it at the ra:e of 2 kilogi'iirnes per rnum.-ny, lliere would lo Itmiiil, ol the clolhs rmployed io env Itipe t'icm, n tot il qumtity of 840,6ai,000 kilognimmes or 8,40U,000 rnetrical quintalsof clotl), which may Ue used for the manufacture of pnper. Ethiopia, thougb nciently a land of enbaliners, k left o n of the ca'culation; so arp the hree ceuturifs that elapsed befora Egypt was Christianized, and lipgan to bury iis dead without spices, papyri and painted cases. Tha speculator did not vvisli lo "over state ihe quaritity," so he takes only hilf the amount as his basis. and fixes it at "4,200,000 nvtrical q'iintals." Then cnmes the great question: what wili be the value of ihcse resucítate] wraopings? It is Ihi-i answered: The cloth which endosen the mummies is of the finest üuen; aii'i everyhody I knows how superior the pipe1" lurol fro'ii ynrn is tothal m-ide from olher su'ostinces. Tne rngs that serve for the prepar.ition of pnper are now sold in France at the ra' e of 200 piastres (50f) ! per metrical quintal. Snbtracting from this sum 100 piastres Por expense, or rather more, to keep always below ai) imp ossible minimum, theré wil) nevenhrless rsmain atotal of 42;j,0ö0,U00 pinstres, or 105,000,000f or 21,000,000 dollars, (nbout Lt,OJO,OOi) s'e.rïins. ) Only admitting ihe half of this rsuli, viz: 10,500, 000 d iljars, every one will ngree ttia: this industrial rpsource, rrduced to t very lowest proporlions, would, nevertheless, yield nn immense prolit t the Government of his Hig'iness, the Pacha of Egypt. - English Paper. The Milwaukie Sentinel says : We are indebled to D. T. Tillotson of Itbicfl, New York, agent for the 1 tractor, Col. Sieed, and the ïru-lees of the company, for full nfcrmation ín lalion to this very deeply interest ing subject. The whole line from Detroit to Milwaukie will b npened nnd in use at leasl by the fust of Feb. 1848, and the contractor has s.;me reason to anticípate even earlier. The stock is so far taken that the complet'.on of the whole line is in any event ensured. Il is to be built in the very bet marmer, of iron wire, 330 poundstothe mile. By the contract they are only obliged to put down 20 post-i to a mile, of oak, ash, chesnut or tamarack. The batteries are to be of sufficient power to opérate the whole line from Detroit to Milwaukie. This is a very important conKideralion, as in some ol' thu routes in this country the batteries fail when pres-ed with business. The length of the whole line from Detroit to Milwaukie is 400 miles. The stock for tlie ensiern división from Buffalo to Detroit, having been secured, arrangetnents ore mak ing at the east to press forward that portioti of the line and get it completed simultane ously with the western división.

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Signal of Liberty
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