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23
Month
October
Year
1847
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(Ílóiues of War. - A gentleman feottnected with ihe ni-my, wriles home tó St. Louis, as follows, in relation to the recent battles : "The 2Oth of August, 1847, wil! be a dny never to be forgntien. lts history is wriiten in lilood, and the halo of glory ihat t wieiihes upon thé nnns of our c untry, is too deeply ensangnineJ with the blood of Americans, to rejoice the army thal ha coverrd itself with imperishable renown. Out" camp is fuH of ni'iiiniing, and tho refloction that 'be grea'or yriel is yet to be cairietl to the i.eurihs and homes of those who have lallen, is too sal tn utierance. W'lint c.irnige íbr. a single dny ! The sun llint rose U on llie '2ÜU), slied lts ghtd 1 glit upjn 700(1 mm full of ligia and hoe, who si re Wed iho baltle fieH with iheir scatterfd HmDii nn.i corpseji when night c'osed in! Tlie day was luinult, revengeful m,d bloody, the m'glit gloomy, feaiTul, and lark - the siillness only brofcen by the groan of the wcrandeJ and the d)ing." Sad Intelliof.ncK. - The Si. Louis papers pubiiah inlell gence ol' the snpposed murder, or deith from starvation, ol 100 em 'grants fioni Ilünois and liidnn-i, wlio had taken th Suulbern route to Omgnn. Tliey wpre induced to take ihis, un nnuequented rood, by the repre.-.entnlions of some Orpgon speculator--, who wishpd to have them seitlfi on iheirlanHs ; and :hey have not bejaheard from sin'-e, except bv a report from the Indians thnt a party ofOregon emigrant wers killed on this route. American Dollars and Mexican Pills. - Thftre was a curious scène yeslerdny nt the Bank of Missouri. It seems lliat about two hundred litile bo_s areemlloyed nt the arsennl n the filüng of csrtridges, and yesterday, having received Ilio pmprr documents, they marched up 'm a body to the bank to make a draw upon Uneïo Sam. The wholc neighborhood was lively as a bee hive, and the jingle of silver made music of the merriost kind. Tliere were hnlf dollars in has, h.'ilf dollars in handkerchiefs - pantaloon pockets were ripped, and coat tails torn ofTbythe weight óf the treasure. The floor of the bank, within, was completely covered by squads of urchins who were busily counting over their p'les. Such a run on the b;ink has been unknown since the graiid smnsh which inlroduced shiopiasters. "How much do you getaday t" demnnded a bystander of a 'cute looking archín, "Oh, somet'inps moresomeiimes less," wns the reply. "Pendsa good deal upon how hard you woik - can vou mak? a dollar a day ?" "Dollar n day ! wnss'n that, I rockon." "A dollar and a half?" "And a quarter better, I kin." "VVhat do you cali yourwork?" 'Makin' Mexican Pilis !" "AndUncleSam is a gond paymaster. eh 1" "VVell, he ain't anything else. h'iss !" and off ran the litile rasoal, jinglüng all over with dollars. - Si. Louis purper. Newspaper Circulation - The issues of all the morning p&pnrt in New York City, ajnounts to 75,000 sheets daily. Transcendental Lanouage. - The Middleaex Fifenan, in an ariicle upon the dectïi of Silas Wright, uses the following lofiy language : "Humanitv In. ments when sucli a man p isses awny frons te ttato of natu'e ti the state of e-sence: the sia'o of fuluess lo the stnte of' vtiid, the sïate of v sibil it y to tie state of invisibil.tv, the state of mamfestntion to the stite without nnn:festation." But the gist of the matter is.thnt he has been tak n ofll oí tw State of New York. - Akxandria Gazette. Cholera ix Rlssia. - The Paris Constutionnl stnte-i that th Cholera is r.-iging with inten-e spverity ninongst the RuMta-o armv of the Caucasus. Yankhe Pi.ows. - An Americnn merrlvint at the C.ipe of Good Hope hns within twelve yeftM so d a lumdred thouMlid Yankee Plow-, chiefly to the Üutch for the use of their virteyords. They l'ormeily used a heavv Dmcli Plow, and re lused to buy the Varikee Plows, sayingthov ivere önly rmde as children's toys.- Finally a fnrmer was persuaded to lake one gratis, and try it. He &sen came back nnd bought a half dozen of the first imporlalion,and aftcr making the bargaii. aid he wnuld not have sol.l the one he took firs', without the opportunity of ge', ting anothe", for six hu.idrnd ri.x do'lars. Siuce ihat date the Plows have sold freely. A Dksideratum. A mfchanirt in Bos ton has hit upon a plan of const ucling umbrellas, say.s the Bcston Atlas, whicli will almost prevent their being slolen ! - VVI:ei) it s shiü, the end of the liandliC'in be unscrewed, taken off, and put into the pocket, and n taking it off", it lock llie umbrell so thal t cannol be opened. A Taut Ëeply.- Á lady whopresumed to make some observations, while a physician was recommending der husbsnd toa beller world, was told by the doctor, that f some women were admitled there, iheir tonges would make paradise a purgitory. lAnd if some physioinns" replied ihe lady, "were to be admitted theie, they would make itadeseit." The American Bible Society keep three hundred nands daily emplnyed in the mu o U facture of Bibles nnd Testamenta and turn out about 2000 volumes per d;iy. Arm y Letters. - A private letter from the se:U of war, contains tho followiug paragraph, by Vbicfa it will be seen how difficult and cosily it is for army officers to gei a letter sent homo : - "The onh wuy of sending letters is to hirc n Mexican expre-s, and pny hitti ona hundred dollars. Fifiy offlc rs club togetlier, and each one is alloived to write half á sv et of 1 hifi lettpr paper, so that the expres. rider can srcret thein to avoid d tection, wliich would ba cenairi death in case he should fall ilrto the hands of the giierilla. SnARKê. Tlipse fi-h are very abaadant this soasan, nnd hundreds of tlmm aie 'i.iily takn by onr fisliermen. Bui th s;reatesl qumtity ever taken by one bont, at one tiiT)p, w.is on Tuesdny last, whei forty were taken, from ten to twelve feet in length, on nn avar.ige. One shark, tiken on the same diy bv another boftt, eghed 500 ounds. Tbat strangeis rnay have some idea of these shnrks, we would talo that one was caught in thi town, lat yé&f which had sw.dlowed u iellow shai'k of over one yard iii lengih, the tail of vvhich wa.s visible in the inonter's raouth. - Vineyard GazelleThk Cost.- Col. Doniphan's regiment consisf'd ol 1000 men. VVhen they re turned home, each ofthem recriveti 'SC5( for bis pny, hortes &o. and his Innd scrip he-id"s, so that Ihe expedition cost ii these particular 8750,000, thrr& fourfhs of n mülion of MiDSHIPJJAN POLLOCK. TIlO Case of this young man fof an a=sault on Mr. Jeivett of" iho Búfalo Commercial was subrniPed 10 the jury on FriJay last who returned a vi relict of gui'.iy. Previously to tho passing nf senten'-e opon the prisoner, Mr. Jewett, bpgged the indulgence of the Gottrt to smv that standing in the characier of the party attacked, he had no fefling of revenga or animosity to gratify - andthat llie absence ofsuch feelng a rose, no do-ubt, from the fact that no serious injury bad been received - that whilsi he claimed to have been governed by good tnotives in ihe matlers which led to tliis transaclion, and under similar circumstances shouM act in the same way, he was vet willing to bfilieve, simply from the declarations of tho prisoner to olher parlies, and nut from th evidenr-e oflered in the case,that thero was no iutnt to take life. He staled that he should feel pleased f the Court in awardingsentence would make the penoa of impiisonment as limited as tbjtfjr could feel justified in doing, considering all the circumstances of llie cuse ; andthat hu m;de these remnrks without the knowle )ge or instigation of any other person, and f they involved any rnpropriety the blfime rested entirely wiih himself. The Court 'hereupon sentenced him to be confined at harri labor in the Siae Piison a Auburn for the term of 5 years. -Bet. Free Press. Trade in Applks - One hundred barrels of magnificent pippin apples, f rom the Palham ('arm, Ulster county, N. Y., nre now shipping from Boston for China. This ia the firt shipment pver mrnte óf this pxcellant fruit t that dst;int part of the globe. The trade with China in apples may y et be equal lo that wiih EngLmd. The Louisvitlff, Ky. Examiner is urging the opponents of Siavpry in th& Slnveholding States to insis', whenever new Ccnsiitutions nredopted for their States, Uion having a provisión that any County may hpcome free fron SI iveiy, whenevor a rmj irily of legal votan shall so dotern)i:ie. Tiie King of Greece ha? conferred ilie cross of the Order of Redeinption upnti Baron Meyer Charlen de RothschiiH, who is probahly the fi'St Jew that ever received tliat decurntion. House'8 Telegrapii. - The Board of A'dermen last night gve permission to flouse &; Downing, to Btretch a Telegrnphic wire over the House topa on nbtiining tlïo pfrmission of the owners ; olj cting. nnd very properly, too, to the ncrense "f unsightly poles liks lhose supporting the wires f Morse's Teie gmph. Tho np.t s'ep shonld be to order the rpmoval of the posts which disgrace the streets nnd transfer the wires to the tops of the hnuses. - Cour. & Enq. One hundred nné Iwenty-two Companies have been firmpd for mining in the Lake Superior mining región. Partridses ure so abundant in town, thnt one individual at Burlington last yea.i') took 13,820 of them, the ye;ir bef.ire 9000, and ihis fall expecis to tnk! 10,000 - forall of which, a ready tnarke! is found in New Oiiean, New Application of India Rubber. - Tlie Liverpool Albion describes an ingenious pplication of cnoutchoucli, or prepared India Rubber, and wliicK shows the expanding power of the preparatiotl ; it has been rnadë and patehted by Mr. Sangster, of Regent Slreet, to a very useful purpose. It is to the supérsëding spr'ng of metal for the expansión of parasols, and compressing the ribs of them, and similar articles. The India Rubber is prepared by a cho'nical process, or by sume process of science rmde inlo the shape of a small pipe or hose ; t is also vulcanized. By these means thö plastic power and the tenacity of the guiri nre ndreased toaperfectly rharvellousdegrer. A srrial! ring of lh material so prepared, less in ividth than the eiglilh of un inch, is out fmm the pipe, nnd placed around the töp of tho ribs. VV hen tlie ribs are expanded, the etastiti powpr öf the ring enables it to he stretched so as tosuit the exigfiiicy, while its leverage anH power of coniriclion are so greal, lh;it directly the power iá rerKoVed by which the expnnsion is wou red, it f ircos the ribs togethe' nnd fteeps hei firrnly compressed. Ao an nriplicaiion of science to n pra tica' ■idvnningp, it is very curióos and convenient. Dear Me. - The Providericö Transcript says there is a lady in that city ko aristocratie that she refuses to take anew.spnpef lipfcsuse the paper is mida of rags. She studiously avoids everylhing of ;i low origin. Fat, isa Mathew Coming. - In a leí ter received frotn this vénérnble Irisb pi ilanthropist, by the last steamer, he says : - Next spring, God permiting, I slvill prticeed to your glorious Repuhüo, to give expression in person to the gratitude that swells my bosotn." Valué op Smoke. A tunnel-chimney, ihree miles in lengih, hts been r.recleö in Annandile. lis f.imes wül yie.ld inany thmsands of pounds sterling per antium. Trnly, here it mny ba snid lhat "smoke does not end in smoke." Abundance. - The Philadelphia Inquirer ia informeel on good aiithority, ihat i ilie corn erop in 'he stotns of Tenncssce, Kentiicky, Illinois:, Indiana, and Oliio, is i Rt least otie tbr.) more in e.tenl ofgraund i llian t was last year ; nnd thal a fiuer and ; more promising erop for excellence and abundance lias not been remenbred for a ] gencration. I Aoes op Statrsmsn. - Of our dUtinguibhed public men, John Quincy Adams, born n 1767, is the Nestor. Hö is 80 yen rs of age. Ilenry Clay comes next, being 70 years old on ihe 15th of April. Martin Van Buren, R. M. Johnson, J. C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass.and Daniel Webster, singularly ep.ough.were all born in 1782, and of course nre 65 years of age. - Tyler is 8 yparsyounger - born n 1790. Polk is about the sume ng. D.illas 2 years younger ye!, born n 1793. üen. Taylor iá nearly 60. The rest of our prominent public men are general'y younger in years. lf we cross the Atlant:c vo find a statpsman in Wellington, unimpaired in intellect nt the age of 78. The nge of Peel corresponds with ihat of Gen. Taylor, as thal of Lurd Johu Russell does with that of Dallas. Brouglvun is the youngest of the fust grade of public charnciers, bingbarely born in the last century. - Cist's Advertiser. The Magnetic Telkgraph. - Wel! ! we are soon io have a connection with tho lightning line. Th roe weeks hencp, nnd we, the ciiizens of this godly city, v:ll be ble to ge our tliought-, not to the winds nnd waves, the breees and Zpphyrs, the tn-es and wild woods; but to the wire-1. The mei. til highwav ovpr which invisible locomotive--, prope'1-d bv the "brig'.it spirit of t'ie thtinder c!u I" are to travel, wi;h tfieswiftness of thongh', will soon be here, and we Shafll be participatora in l'ie beneñts and noveltifs, of tiip great discovery of the age. To speak plainly - the te'pgraph will ba cnmplp.ted to this place in about threa weeks. - Toledo Dlade. I The la'R King of Denmark is snid to have ordersd' horse-flssh to be served a.' his own table. New Invention-. - A new nnl i nportant invention, whioli does awav with the present system of rope makin, ha3 just been ma. 'e bv Mr. Wtfipple,ofProvjdence, R. 1. By this process, rope can be made in the piece a müe long, or to an indeficiite lengih in a square room - 'lius doing away the npcessity for long ronewalk. Two twists are made at one revolution, without twisting or turning the end of lliê rnpe, ns is tl-, a rustoin The strnnd s formed and rope lnid ín a] more perfect mnnner, nnd at fnr greiter speed than is now ailainnd. From 150 lo '200 feet of t'.vo inch rope can be ihus made in a minuto ; smaller sizes muuh fnster. One man, ciülii tcnd a number of these mach' nes at once. Ifthis invet, - tion is cirried on, a procpss wil! s om bel in US8, not only tloing nway fireign i ï penations and c;.n r Iing our ovr4 market, bnt evporting to other couutries. ïwii thirdi of all the cordage made in thU country is from dew-rotied American hemp, at an average value of 5 ets. tïiough the present rato is 7 ets. - Piladelpldd Ledger. Oh Dear ! - The folio wing is Oom ihe South Carolinian. What wil! we poór fellowsdo whën the VVilmot Proviso is pa-ised, to escape the vengeance of South Carolina, wilh her majoiity ofslave peoplfi ? "Wheri the vote of mnd fanatioism is to be taken, every Schil hem representative should depart from the Capítol, nnd folding their arms in disgust at the treachery of the North, retut-n lo tlnir constituent the trust confided to them, and the South must büild up for hersplf neV altars of devotion, upon which tn p esërve invi.ilate our rights and th'at irosperity denied to us in the bonds nf the cornmon Union. The motto of thé South must be, a Di.ssolution of the Union, as soon as the VVilmot Proviso is passed." There is a fmö old gentleman now residing ín Caaibridge, wlio is at present the hnppy father of twenty-ono cliildreii, a'l of whum are livii:g. Legalized Nuisances. - The Mnyni and Aldiineti of Net York hno a ■:- ihorized three ihius.md uve hundred and sfvcn'.y-tito iri&u and woman to put the cup lo their np.iglilj'Ts lips. Tlie folliwing reselu ion was pnsseri at " ihe colored people's Edu.'ni ional Convunlion, " recently htld in ihis city: ' Resolved, That the whiie ppnle of ihis Smte ought nol to repronch im vvith biiiig ignorant, (iegraded, and poor,vhile they tax our property to support their o.vn pooi-, and iheir Llind, daf, nd inone, and edpeate. their own c! i!d en, while den;, ing to Vúirs llie brnefiu and blpMsings conTerrad by this taxation." - Lid. Scnlincl. Legal Dixisïun. - The SupremeCoart of hidian.i lias decided that thn Black Laws of ihat Stnte fnaking it a crime f ..r a mulatto or negro to emigróte 10 and i-ettle within that State, without giving Uori(), are unconslilutiona!. " Rougli and Ready " is the tiile of a new pnper just MaiteH iti Nftv Yurk !ly, avowing it.-elf as tlie orga-n of the Taylor movement. Tlie editar gocs mo tlio work with a ronghii'ss n:id rcndiness altfigellier uiipreiecJprited. H"p'iysin his prospectus, ikEcery pnsi-mnster icio cxp?cls o bs re-appi'in'.il, wiil act as agent and procure subscribers."

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