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{F ioin the Miih'dgeviiie Recorder.J
Wuahjeply regret, (hat as faithful chrnni
• itrs of (lie limes, we are compelled to in
form Jim people, that in the Convention
■ iiicn has jAst terminated its session, their
liojxjS and expectations and wishes, that
management should have been dis
>• irjed, and its action strictly confined to
" hat van just to the people of the whole
; tale, and beneficial to their interests, have
. :v'*i signally defeated. Notwithstanding
I the pretences set op before the election,
of discarding merp party purposes in the 1
p rforwrance of the important duties de- i
'■ dr;f!j on this hotly— notwithstanding
the "eneral de»ire of live people that such
;'WTT ‘t>ethfecharacter of the Convention,
*'• plainly indicated try the elections, yet
• regret to say that it was very soon ob
tous So the most casual observer, that
; l»c majority no sooner realized tint they
•u«* the majority, than they determined 1
make it tell, in its effects on the politi
cal parties and power in the State. Such
■.as even in some instances, openly avow
ed m }he Convention. And in conformity
:*h such resolutions, the people haft; on
-1 ■ to cast their eyes over the arrangement
'if Hie Senatorial districts proposed, to feel
" irr ! thtt these objects have been car
i de it in all their enormity. By the
•-! !cul ition that can now he arrived
; State Rights party will he probably
iced in the hopeless minority in the I
date'of from eight to ten, and in the I
I use in a certain minority—probably of!
b u to what extent wo cannot yet tell.
X , the people have only to reflect on
* !'ar.*s, that by the elections of the two
1 ;■-! \ ears, the Governor’s election and the
! ngres.sional election, hath by a general
■• 1 : of the people of the State; and the
i-t Senatorial elections, by n vote of the
lividual counties, the Slate Rights party
■ vrol to hr a majority of the prop!: of
>7: —and then to reflect that by
■ party arrangement, this majority of
jieonlc is thrown into an almost hope
si n nority in the Ilegislature—to feel
1 t fin Convention lias struck a deadly
the very first principle of Rcpubli
• .i i/overnuienl, —overturning lliu primary
• ■ti;'i])!o of our institutions, by ordaining
a t *1 subserve party purposes, the mi
ourrv of the people stivu. govern
no control Tits majority of tih: peg
‘ I'll \T Till: r IttV SII \GOVERN Tlir.
The very distinguishing cliarac
■ lie, «:id essence of Aristocracy.
NV was this monstrous outrage com
■ ted because the same reduction could j
•: be more equally effected. By way of j
iuatrati in, lot us take one example: It
"ii: be a. esi that tl»e majority have tied to-J
other Ihe counties of Troup and Harris
a one <1 -tries, and .Meriwether and Tal-
I .ii as another. Now it is only necessary
> cast our eyes on the map of the State
that the counties thus tied to
. ;her, arc most inconveniently unite.?:
'iou tains, even, separate’ them. It was
juj ito remedy the evil by making 1
more natural union of the Comities of;
s 1 ip and Meriwether on the one hand, |
iluiiis and Talbot on the other, the J
■ ! .ro arse between which districts would j
.. m easy and uninterrupted. el
ii w: . standing the overwhelming tnnjori
. led for the minority party of the
' hv the general arrangement, as this
-a! might operate to give the. Stale
: party a chance of carrying these |
i as in the Senate, still leaving tin* I
. ..tv in the decided majority in that |
and in the Legislature, and notwilli-j
• ig the almost absolute necessity lor
change in order to suit the con- j
ee of the people of the districts cre
. • .et tlie aristocratic principle was ton
u-iful; the appeal was unavailing: party !
im : tli uould be slightly »•!!•• ted, find
j, iposal was rejected. 77 iis in the
? ,:f the People $ Conrrntion, to re
• i’a: Legislature upon fa'r cut! imp:tr- ■
. r / • iuriplrsl This the justice of the
,'y party of the Slotwho by the
sy credulity of t!u p op!." hare 0. cn
to for.n the majority in the re
. >' •irmtioii.
it .ust not be understood that wo in-:
in mr condemnation, those oft lit*
bait Rights party who finally voted in :
ivor of tins measure; it was not the child !
~f tl.rir love; be it understood, that they 1
. for it, not because it was what they |
..i a have wished, but because it was 1
tin: best they could obtain Ironi the un
yielding patty selfishness ol our political j
opponents to effect the great object dosir- 1
ea l»y'ihe people. Tor this attempt to su!i- j
vt-rronr. government m iis fan i >;ne.it. .l
principle, that of live majority governing j
—for 1 hi* attempt to fasten the very es- 1
scnce of Aristocracy upon the free people I
us Georgia, lhat the few shall rule tli ■
tnanv —Sir all this, tiic Union Danner a. :• '
of Georgia, have to account to the fre
mi l tntightened people of Georgia, and in
their hands we most cheerfully leave them.
Although the Union Party has thus
striven t’o defeat the Reduction desired by
the people, by making the measure so
..lCtpial and unjust in its operation on the
>).,;■( ieal parties of the State; and notwith
m ’mg the entire inequality of represen
-1 .::iii:i itseif.'as it is left by this measure,
: b. i nes our friends to weigh the mat
vvon defibdraitatr, iie&rn they decide
■; Mi their course in reference to it. A
smaller Legislature is so essential, both on
, : are ul economy and of wltolsomc
.i:-1 ition, that much will be borne, both
ij. injustice and inconvenience, ratine titan
• hat these objects should not be effected.
TflrejveppJc after due deliberation, will im
doubt do in the premises what »*
and with ihctn wc cltecrfiljjLjfeadWl
‘treasure. ' * ' p-'j
i • ' -ei,‘ '*• - . ■
TXT
We leave tire subject" for the present,
but shall continue its discussion in subse
quent papers, for there is quite a sufficien
cy remaining untold, both to interest and
astonish the reflecting.
Mistaking a Hisband —ln August,
1837, a man, named Barclay Flauiganlus,
led to the altar a young female, named
Lliza Crockett, whom the Rev. Or. Ben
son, by virtue of authority in him vested,
united in marriage, and as he thought,
I tirnily wedded into one. Miss Crockett
was a good industrious girl, and by her
application in business as a servant in the
Astor House, and her habits of rigid econ
omy, had ainasswJ soveral hundred dollars
in money, which she had laid by in cash
in her brother’s house, wire also, by his
industry, had been able to accumulate sev
eral hundred dollars more. After a short
period of connubial enjoyment, tiic hus
band of Kliza become suddenly solic t
ous to leave the city, and settle in some
more southern and sunny clime with his
loving wife, in order theb'tterto adva ce
their fortunes, and to make provisions in
season lor any little unseen responsibili
ties that might chance to thrust their
heads into this unfeeliu'' world.
With tl iis story he so beguiled bis bride
that she really believed hu was in earn
est, and was induced to place her money
ia a situation that her- anxious husband
could find it at any time. Satisfied with
this state of things, the husband (Barclay)
rose one morning early, and telling Ins
wife he was going down to the wharf to
engage a passage for New Orleans (if she
remembered rightly,) stole all the money
of Ids wife and of her brother, amountin'
to nearly eight hundred dollars and w.th
it hastily left the city, and notwithstand
ing the most anxious inquiries of his wife
aided by the police, has never since been
se.Mi in this city:—Eliza, as was to be
supposed, was wrapped in grief, and near
ly crazed with sorrow, as she had in a
single day 1 >st not only her much loved
husband, but also all her money, and was
thrown pennvless upon the war and to be
gin her course anew.
By the assistance of a disinterested
friend she procured a service place, for a
lime, and finally, in the progress of events
she found herself in the American Hotel
as a servant, in the receipt of excellent
wages, where she was pushing her for
tunes onward again, with as much cheer
fulness, as if nothing had ever occurred
to mar her hope or dissipate her days.
An event however occurred a few days
since that aroused the latent fires of Eli
za’s tranquil mind into ardent action. A
gentleman of ample fortune and lolly fame
arrived in this city from the Island of
.Madeira, and supplied himself with lodg
ings at the American Hotel, There for
a time he remained unsuspected and tin
disturbed, as lie deserved to he. On Mon
day evening however, the vision of his
face and form passed before Eliza’s eyes,
and she fancied, in that gay and gallant
stranger she recognized her juice loved
husband. Full of this belief she went to
her brother who saw l lie stranger, and also
believed in his identity: and determined
to make an example of him for the bene
fit of all future wives who happen to be
robbed and then deserted—she hurried
to the Police Office and there complained
of the gc. : tleinaii, whom she called her
husband Bare! iv and straightway had him
arrested ami carried before the police
magistrate. There the charge was stated,
Eliza was positive, ami her brother sin
cerely believed that the stranger was the
wicked brother-in-law who had robbed
him and his sister, and then absconded,
and the gentleman, who bad never been
in oar city or country before, was aston
ished ami indignant that he should lie
charged with having married an Irish ser
vmt oirl, and then robbing her and her
brother of the money they had earned.
The positive Eliza stated as proofth.it he
had a scar on Lis side, and the gentleman
submitted to bo examined, and behold, no
scar was to he found. In short, the stran
ger exhibited ample evidence to establish
his entire innocence—and was discharg
ed—-while the disappointed Lliza went
murmuring away, still secretly believing
that the man, though ch mged, was still
her long lost husband.-—[N. \ . Sun.
Important Spugipal Operation.
Yesterday morning one of the men em
ployed in Mrs. Burnham's Steam Bakery,
at Roxbury, had the misfortune to get his
hand caught between a fluted roller and
a copper platform, on which the dough
is kneaded, nnd in an instant ol time the
arm was drawn in above the elbow, and
most horribly crushed. Although the eu
' gme i ■■ a six horse power machine, it was
actually slopped. l)r. Winslow Lewis,
Jr. ol ibis citv, was sent for immediately.
He soon ascertained that an amputation
at iliti shoulder joint, was necessary, as the
only hope. Although the muscles were
shockiugly lacerated, be first took up the
great axillary artery in the armpit, and
separated the mangled limb at the joint.
We understand that this is the first time
this very important operation has been
performed in this part of the country.
[Boston Trans. *
When Daniel Webster was in Chicago
two or three years since, Mr. B , an
eccentric and wfell known "citizen, on be
ing introduced to the distinguished states
man, addressed him as follows — *‘l have
read your spelling-hook and Dictionary,
[Mr. Wubster, but I'never before had the
Npleaaure of your acquaintance!"—-£Chica
j go Atocricau.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE-
j Coldest Climates'. — The earth has
no spot on its surface, either habitable or
otherwise, which is so cold as Yanutsli,
I a paltry yet principal town oLcaatern Si
beria, where a few wooden houses arc
intermixed with numerous huts, plastered
over wfrti cow-dung, and windowed with
icc. In this dreary and remote region,
the earth is always frozen, the summer's
thaw never reaching below three feet
1 frofh the surface, the subterranean ice
, having a computed depth of 200 yards.
In January the thermometer has been
fknown to sink IS degrees below the bit
terest cold experienced by Ross during
his last expedition; and yet the inhabit-,
ants, favored by a warm though short,
summer, reap both wheat and barley, and
I cultivate successfully potatoes and various i
! other hardy vegetables.
Imposition. —An abolitionist named
Bufthaui returning from the meeting of
abolitionists in New York, took passage'
onboard the Massachusetts for himself
I and some three or four colored damsels
; lie had with him. The tickets were pro
cured from tlie captain without intimation
to him that the “ladies” were of the sable
: race, ami so they took their berths in the j
' ladies cabin with as much consequence j
as any on board, and kept them all night,
1 in spite of the chambermaid w ho attempt- 1
! ed to oust them.
In the morning the captain was made!
acquainted with the facts, and gave Mr. !
Bulfhaui a regular blowing up, for all of
; which that worthy probably cared not a I
straw, as he said lie had done the same"
thing before and persisted that he would j
do it again. A vote of censure was finally i
1 passed upon his conduct bv the passen
gers instead of putting him ashore, as
they should have done, and there the mat
ter ended. —[Baltimore Post.
A Novel Divorce Case. —The N. Y.
i Gazette says: A petition is before the
Legislature of Connecticut, which excites
a great deal ol interest, and as it appears
to us a good deal of ill feeling. It is an 1
application of the lady of the Rev. Samuel '
F. Jarvis, D. I). L. L. D., for a divorce!
from her husband, and for the settlement
of an alimony of five thousand dollars per I
annum from his estate. The lady urges
the measure on the ground of unhusban-:
like and illiberal treatment—nignrdliness
and impccuniositv of provisions for her 1
maiiitainancc. The friends of the Rev. 1
respondent, who is sou of the late Bishop!
Jarvis, and a clergyman of the Episcopal
Church, enjoying a very high reputation
for bis talents and excellent character, in- 1
sist upon the vixen disposition of the pe
titioner. They say she is an uneasy, un- j
comfortable and extravagant woman, I
whose conjugal conduct affords much
stronger grounds, for an application for n
divorce on the part of the husband, than
she can claim herself. She, too, belongs
to one of'be most respectable families in
Connecticut, and her sisters are married
to some of the most distinguished men in
the country.
Cot.n Water for Cuilur&x.—Coining
as we know it does from a physician of
standing in this city, we have no hesita
tion in publishing the annexed communi
cation.—f.\. Y. Com. Adv.
During the prevalence of this hot wea
ther, there is nothing so grateful to in
fants as cold water; these little creatures!
suffer equally with adults from thirst, es-!
pccially at night, yet strange to say, the j
mother cither neglects, or fears to offer
cold w ater. In my practice, in several
instances, I have been called to see chil
dren laboring under fever from the ef
fects of thirst, and, upon giving cold wa
ter. have had the pleasure of seeing them
recover in a very short time, a free pres
piration following the use of this natural
remedy. Real thirst cannot be allayed
by anything as well as by water. When
a child is feverish at niglft, it will, in a
majority of cases, be cured by freely
sponging its face and with tepid
water, and allowing it to drink cold wa
ter. Let parents who have sickly children
of anv age try this plan, if it does no good
it will produce no evil; but I am certain
it will arrest much suffering by a very
"simple and grateful remedy.”
A Bisini'ss lloax.—A journeyman tai
lor has been paying Jeremy Diddler 011 a
large scale among the Baltimore mer
chants. He made his appearance among
them under the name of James './ebb, put
ting up at the Globe Hotel, and represent
ing himself to he a merchant in pursuit
of goods, he went about making large as
sortments for which be was to make cash
, payments. The Sun says that at one
house lie selected goods to the value of
85.05K1, at another $ 1,000; Ac. until he
had made engagements to the value ot
f?3J,000. lie did not ask to have posses
sion of the goods until lie should pay for
them, and the delighted merchants laid
the articles carefully aside to await his
planking up the needful. Every one was
in ecstacies at having such a customer, so
! accommodating, so affable, so genteel,
' and so rich, lie was feasted and flatter
' ed, dinner parties were given in it is hon
■ r»r; a sea ui champaign was quaffed to his
j health and many a ride and pleasure ex
cursion did he take at their expense.
If Mr. Webb expressed fatigue, a do
zen carriages were at his disposal, and
I the owners felt honored at his condescend
! ing to ride in them; if he expressed a de-
Uire to engage in any amusement, busi
ness was thrown aside to attend upon higj
■ and promote hie enjoyment. He liv«l
like a lighting cock, and he was th««ock
of the walk for some dajrs- At length
one morning the geiltleman was Missing;
•dinner time came and he was wot to be
fqgwi, and at supper time the truth ap
peared erident that Mr* Webb had gone
ofilmhout bidding his friends farewell,
or paying his landlord’s bill. It was af
terwards ascertained that the gentleman
had been playing a practical joke upon
those who had been pampering him, lor
so far from being a rich merchant he
was a poor journeyman tailor, without five
dollars in the world, and no capital but
unblushing effrontery;" plausible address,
ami a good suit of clothes. The tracks
lie made, according to the Sun, pointed
hitherward.—[N. $ Sun.
. ~ —-
Instruction and amusement are more
blended than the world in general is apt
to imagine. Uninstructive amusement
may be afforded for a moment by a ludi
crous anecdote, by which no knowledge is
conveyed to the mind of the hearer or
reader; but the man who would amsM
others for an hour, either by his writing
or bis conversation, must tell his heareFS
or his readers something that they do not
know, or suggest to them some new' re
flection upon the knowledge they have
previously acquired. The more the knowl
edge bears upon their pursuits, upon
their occupations, or upon their interests,
the more attractive it will be, and the more
entitled to be called useful.
[From the Journal of Commerce.]
Massachusetts a Century ago. —The
Boston Transcript copies the following ad
vertisements from the “New England
Weekly Journal” for February 24th.
March 17th, and April 21st, 1729. They
exhibit not only a slave-holding communi
ty, but a slave-importing community.—
Had tlie climate of Massachusetts been
like that of South Carolina and Georgia,
who can say that she would not have'been
a slave-holding State to this day? At
1 ast there is room for charity towards the
Southern States, whether it be Old Eng
land or New England that judge them.
As for Old England, history is full of
proof that she forced slavery upon her
American colonies, both on the continent
and in the West India Islands. In 1700,
the colony of South Carolina passed an
act to prohibit the further importation of
slaves. Great Britain rejected with in
dignation; reprimanded the Governor, and
sent a circular to all the other Govern
ments, warning them against a similar of
fence. We annex the advertisements a
bove alluded to.
{£7“ Avery likely Young Negro Woman,
seasoned to the Counfry, to be sold, in
quire to the printer hereof.
Horses and a Cart with several
Negro Men, fit for any Business, To be
Sold, inquire of the Printer hereof.
(fT’An Indian Woman’s time for about
2 years, who can do all sorts of House
hold Work, to be disposed of, inquire of
the Printer hereof.
very little Negro Girl about 14
years of Age, can speak good English, has
been 2 Years in the Country, To be Sold,
inquire of the Printer hereof.
be Sold, a little Negro Boy a
bout Thirteen Years of Age, lias been 8
M ontlis in the Country, inquire of Mr.
James Boyer. Jeweller, over against the
Governor’s.
TIIE GREAT BOUNDARY BATTLE.
Now tell us all about the war,
And what they slew eacli other for.'
Southey’s Blenheim.
The author of the original Jacl: Down
ing Letters [Sun a Smith, Esq. of Port
land, Maine,] has been of late engaged
in a correspondence from near the disput
ed territory, with his brother officer Gen.
Morris, of the New York Mirror, the most
of which, under the head of “Letters from
John S.nit/'i, of Smitliville, Down East,
in the State of Maine,” is comprised of
epistles from his s»n, a private in the bor
der army during the late terrible cam*
l ,a 'S»- j* .f
These letters have been published in
book form, illustrated with. etchings, and
no doubt will meet with as an extensive a
sale ns the Letters of “Mayor Jack Down
ing.”
The following is the sketch of a dread
ful discharge of musketry over the bound
ary line, which must have carried dismay
into every kingdom in England. It is
told inimitably. We must premise that
having nothing to do, a detachment of the
main army, fired with valor, determined
to seek the boundary line and toe the
same. Mr. William Wigginsclomb atree
to get the first view.— (Nat. lilt.
“What upon earth,” said Sargent John
son, “is Billy arter now?”
“A squirrel, I guess,” said I; "I’ll bet
a potatoe, Billy has treed a sqpirrel.”
When we got along up a little nearer,
Sargent Johnson called out to him to
know what he was doing up there.
“I’m jest a looking off here to see if I
can see the line,” said Billy, stretching
his heed way to tbetiastward, and looking
with all the eyes in his head.
“Welt do you see it?” said Sargent
Johnson.
“See it? no.” sasa Lo'y; “t don't see
nothing but woods, and woods as far as I
, see.”
Sargent Johnson told him he guessed he
would aee it quicker if he was on the
ground, than he would up there. So Billy
pome down again, and we jogged along,
lotme by we come to a tree that has some
! Aid marks and spots 3>n two sides of it
And we looked along north and south of
this tree, for SnrgenT Johnsbn said the line
runs due north from the momimeat, and
•e found some trees marked and spotted
jest' m» it
“Ah, ’ says Sargent Johnson, “we’ve
found it. This is the boundary line; we’ve
got it at last. Now look and see if you can
see the British on ’totlier ide of it; and let
every man hold on to his gun and be rea
dy to fire, if I say tire word.”
We looked across' the line, and looked
and looked, but we couldn’t see nothin’
but trees and bushes, and woods and
swamps. We hollered across the line as
hard as we could holler, to see if we could
raise any of the British, for we all felt as
if xye wanted to have a brush. And we
thought at first they answered us; but
when we came to holler again, we found
it was only the echo of our own voices,
that come baclefrom the hills a little ways
off. So xve marched along the line two
or three miles, but we couldn’t see nor
hear nothin’ of nobody. At last we sot
down, and got the victuals out of our
knapsacks and eat our dinners and rested
When we got ready to start
Agtatn. to go back to our fort, Sargent
Joftrtson said we would give the British
one broadside before wc left ’em, jest to
let ’em know what the Y’ankee boys are
made of. Sf be told us to see that our
guns was all right; and then he ordered
us to stand up all in a row, and toe the
line, facing to the British vide; and then
lie give us off the word —
“Make ready! take aim!—fire!”
“There,” says Sargent Johnson, “now
I can go home contented, war or no war;
for tee’vc poured one good grist into their
territory, and they may help themselves if
they can.”
This account, which is doubtless from
life, is the oniy record of a battle during
the whole campaign.
INTERESTING TO LOAFERS.
Loafers’ Positions for June, 1839.
Morning Dress. Second or third hand
coat, ventilated at the elbows, color to
suit the fancy or circumstances; vest full
buttoned in front, especially in the ab
sence of a shirt or false bosom, hat “shock
ing bad,” little or no nap, with the brim
ramified and placed slantindicularly on
the head: a lock of hair in either eye, sor
rel-top whiskers, a crab orchard beard,
pantaloons of various colors, or rather
short, with two square latteral patches,
partly concealed by the skirts of the coat:
boots without legs, down at the heels, well
polished with mud, arid in a laughing con
dition; stockings very little worn; a cigar
should protrude from the frontal orifice,
and brandy or gin take the place of eau
de cologne. Care should be taken not to
make a too frequent use of profanity to pre
vent being stigmatized as a gentleman.
Dinner Dress— above.
Er* tting ~Df%Ss —Ditto.
[From the Albany Evening Journal.]
GENERAL BANKING LAW.
We publish to-day aTable prepared by
the comptroller, showing tiic rise ant!
progress of Banking Associations formed
and forming under the General Law pass
ed by the Legislature of fB3B.
The forty-three Banking Associations
which had been formed on the 30th April,
have deposited 82,137,090 in State stocks
and 8381,316,13 in Bonds and Mortgages,
making a total of $2,99(5,406,13 as securi
ty for the redemption of their notes. Up
to the same period, the notes delivered by
the Bank Department, to these 43 Banks,
for circulation, amounted to $1,590,818.
Of-tjiis sum there were 67,500 notes of
of one d011ar— 162,848,
of tw denomination of two dollars—2l,-
61 l, of the denomination of three dollars
—174,300 of the denomination of five
dollars— 2l,6lo, of the denomination of
ten dollars—and 450 of the denomination
of one hundred dollars.
The amount of notes ordered by these
43 Associations is $4,251,111.
So far it will be seen, only about a mil
lion and a half of dollars have been added'
by the Associations to our circulation.—
This moderate increase will quiet the ap
prehensions of those who apprehend an in
fjation of the currency.
. Tire General Banking law, so fur, works
well. That it will work well, for the Peo
ple, we have entire confidence. But that
it will work as well for its stockholders, is
less certain. But of this, after a year’s
experience, we shall have better informa
tion.
Several of the Associations mentioned
in the table, have, since the 30th April
deposited their securities and received
their* notes for circulation. Among these
are the Bank of Commerce, New York;
the Howard Trust and Banking Company,
of Troy; the Bailston Spa Bunk, the Fort
Plain Bank, the Bank of Vernon, &.c.
s
[From the Mobile Journal.]
The. Lever Cotton Press, the progress
of which has been watched with so much
attention by the cotton dealers in this ci
ty, has been finished at last and is now
ready for work. At this distance from
the foundries, where parts of the machine
ry could be altered and fitted to suit the
! progress of experiment, great delays ne-
I occur in perfecting any work of
magnitude. This has been severely felt
by the gentlemen engaged in construct
ing this press. They have, however, at
last succeeded in potting the principle of
the lever into satisfactory operation; and
have so arranged matters* that any little
defect that might exist ia the machinery
can be remedied on the spetf and ail ne
cessary repairs can be made without delay.
We congratulate them upon tire result ol
their labors and expenses, and wish them
■»*boada«t reward for their
pulfta aptrrt aad enterprise. Tbit aea-
Pr th * m nacb °p
portumty but another seaso£
for which they w.fl be prepare* , t lhe
set, will give them the follest Opportniritv
of testing the advantage, which the# claim
for their machinery over the Strew Press
now in use. **H‘ - -
The principle is that of
lever, worked by a steam wfioeT 'The
mechanical details cannot be understood
by general readers, even had we the abil
ity to describe them scientifically, without
diagrams. They look, however, very sim
ple, and can be' inspected at the press,
at the foot of State street, on Townsend’s
wharf. We saw it in operation the other
day, and to our unpractised qye, its work
ings were simple, rapid mafe efficient.
Four presses were driven en
gine, of five-horse power anymore could
be worked advantageously. Superiority
is claimed for it over the common presain
the following particulars:
The first cost construction is less
(ban one-half of a screw press of the same
capacity;
Owing to its strength and simplicity
where the strain is applied, the cost of re
pairs will not amount to one-fourlhof that
of the screw press;
The presses being separate from each
other, there is great saving of time—the
hands tying one bale while the next is
pressed, and so on.
Sixty bales per hour can be pressed,
tied and delivered, with ease, requiring
not more than twenty hands to man the
whole. This is the ordinary work-of the
machine, which could be quickened if de
sirable.
An engine of five horse power will
drive the four presses now up, at an ex
penditure ol one cord of wood for twelve
hours, applying to each bale a pressure
equal to four hundred tons.
Our readers who are more familiar than
we can pretend to be with press opera
tions can compare these results with those
attained under tire present system.
A Generous Reward tor a Noble
Action. —Yesterdr '* afternoon, two per
sons were riding iis Ifowdoin square
in a one horse •' * when one of tire
wheels came oli■wh^lO'€rig , ’• ■••'d »he liof&e
who started off at koo spaed mown CourL
street, to the imniiufanl danger of the two .
individuals in the yebicle —and in spite of 7
their combined efforts to stop him. None ’
of the persons pwsiag along the street,
were disposed to visit iheir lives in an at
tempt to seize horse, until the horse
and wagon, uiufo (qjjj speed, were, met
by Patrick an industrious and
noble hearted Irishman. He sprung im-' '
mediately before the horse, and thrust ap g
open umbrella, w hich he held in his hancf *
towards the affrighted animal. This,
caused him to slacken bis speed, and :
swerve aside, when Patrick seized him
by the bridle, and after a severe struggle
succeeded in stopping him. The genlla-v
men in the wagon appeared quite grateful it.
tor t he timely rescue, and expressed their
acknowledgments to Patrick for his in*
trepidity and good Reeling in thus attempt-"*
ing to save their lives at the risk of his '
own. Indeed one of them was so over-'
come by the generous act, that he actu
ally put his hand in his pocket, drew forth
and tendered to the astonished
who wished for 110 reward for doing sd J
generous an 1106011, the enormous sum nla
sir and a quarter cents. —[Boston' Journalil
Lide.v, or Lain Tree.— A giganticH
lime tree is now in existence at a little di* J
tance from the village of Ivory, half 1 1
league from Salina. It is ten feet higl
from the ground to the commencement 0
the branches, and thirty-five feet in circum .A
ference at that part. Its entire height in'®
nearly one hundred feet, and the circle
formed by its branches amounts to twr*
hundred and forty-five feet. Its trunk
consists of a thick bark, under which is.
a iayerof wood, from fifteen to twenty
inches thick; the intrffior surface is alsir
covered with a bark, which rises from be
low, and comes down from above; till the.
two have, in some places, met. The in
habitants ascribed to it the age of eight
hundred years, and have cut a door in the
trunk, by which mcaus eight people haveiij
(lined within at a round table. This treell
is the more remarkable, as the lime is ifo jfl
famed for its longevity. r •
“ Thou Gad seest me,"' —As the
lain in the Wethersfield State’s prisoA.
passing the cell of a-c* —wit, who wasp!
ing his bible, he was accosted thus: f jki|H>
I bad only known these words
committed crime, I had not been for i
years a tenant of the Stat.e Prison/’ Yfi
words? said the chaplain. Why these)
Gen. XVI, 13. the words of Hagar, “Thou
God scest me.” And he was not the on
ly prisoner who made similar statements,
to the chaplain. A number told him that
they found it impossible to perpetiate the)
crimes for which they were sent there,
til they had banished the thought of thg|
omniscient and omnipresent God
their minds.—[New Uavei^Rec^B^*'^^
■ c
Answering a duasriON.—A sportiM
man, coursing, lost a hare, and hastily
costed a shepherd boy. Boy, did yoal
see a hare running by here?’ ‘A hare-1
sir?’ ‘Yes fool.’ ‘What! a thing that run*
fast, with long ears'?* ‘Yes.’ ‘That
loppety, loppety lop?’ ‘Yes, yea, my gooP~
fellow.’ ‘What, very long ears?’ "Ye®,
dolt,’J!Ah, tlreu’. said the boy*‘l didn't,!
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