1 V Xr.cPIKE, Editor and Publisher. rK IS A rmNIK VIIOM THE TRCTn MIKES FREE, AXD ALL AXB SLAVES BESIDE.' TermD, S2 per year, In advance- YOIX'ME VI. EBENSBUIIG, PA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1S73. NUMBER 49. r-M fW w if irp if si ft 1 THE WORLD. 4B73. iiiical era ! opening before the f "!" , prole of our pontics n lonmiwei ii - ,, thruiiith eivll war, socihI rio ti !" , ,i, soi der. and huend.d inifiv- 14 ,.. iii'.i''j ; , jr miiiions of the negro race, ii 1 V , , t to 's aaiiii inuit-s. er chanaretb, yielding place to '- thl, new era will come home 1 if r ";,-c". j,,,..,,,- and bosoin as never le tvi .. ,i i',, pnrute prosperity and the . - l.lll1 .tin Itnlinliliil t ' , f a Detiioci ; . the iiiaiiiroia encr oacnmenis ., -nite pnwersHiid oT both upon ',iv of American freemen now us '. :..;.i with fenceless viitilance; ' 1 . . . . .. Innil u.If-irr.vertimeiO 1 1 1" ' 1,1 ft fill . . . . g ..... . ... 'j'i.i he maintained tor the best 1(11 " i.n n -4 1 jtj , ,.. jf-. :ne iuttrie8 or peace wDlc-0 i" i'-k'" o ' ::it every ndvmitaire which V.W V. " 'free institutions coma aair . k .. i. :,.i, !,. Vw-winr of the coun 4--i i:-, ,,, ii iv. enciimtiers all our nulus ...ok !C '' .,,i,iiriii n. NuverthelebS '.'i Viiii ii'"! an State Taxation .' ur.d'delraua ihe poor toit-K- rrleiep"iir t vulfin of Fva . j. ti on infamous n.ntMerpieee ,;. t ., macit v. iut to the i U Uses Vm.1 lnvoines Aiul ttiievtf. us . ii- j-rnceii model n oil iliza '4 v'i wuli hi- met In also I' tax . ",ts Mim.ur.t. piiri zed the in ', ,.' nd aioi.R wiih th 'iriff, . i' ..",.-. i-iirt f our uiaiiuiMC- i irii.. er of cur industries, ' ' ... . i limits troui nil r si i-i---.oCr , r'.ir i.fl :lM 1 li ' r.i : t ,i - ;l SM ' a-' V v .rs i. .,.. tr ' it ' l e riNh s-euc. and filches . I lino it mil. t . ;' .' .'Tr;-:'stiy. 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BY virtue or a. decree of the District Court ot the Coifed States for tlie Western District or Pennsylvania, the undersigned will sell ul public outcry, on the premises, cotnmeuciujr AT IO 0fI.OIi, A. 91., OX WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1S73, the fol lowing described Heal und rersoual Pro perty, to wit: A Largo New PLANING MILL 80 bv f0 reet, two stories and basement, with a Boiler sUied sn bv 10 feet nTtached. coiitatnintr a new i HflllrsE-POWEIt FNG I NK. Inrire doubk flue BOILER. BALLKS I Ell MACHINE, CIH CULAK SAWS, LATHES, and the, necessnry Pullevs. Shaftiuv. ileitinsr. ic rrontinjr on tne Fbenibura- ht-1 Creson Kailrond with about ONE ACHE OK G HOUND, on wbieh the above described property stands. Tne Mill and .Ma chinery are nearly all new and constructed tn the most complete and modern style for man ufactuiinit Handles, Brush Blocks, Stair 1U1 lesters. Ac. Also. j li ill Lot ofGronnd (V5 bv 254 feet, fronting on HUh ftret. harinr thereon erected a two story FK A M ED v 1,1, u IXO HOUSE. STABLE, and OL I Bl. ILDINGS. with a large number of choice fruit trees, etc. Also, 5 Acres and 100 rerches of Land situate in Cambria township, about one-fourth mile from Ebensburir, well fenced and in good condition. Very desirable for meadow or pas ture. Also, O Lots or Ground Fltuafe at the forksof the Huntingdon. Indiana and PittsburtfTurnpikcs. pxrtly in the borouii of Ebensburir, known by the Nos. 1. b. ana i' on Myers plan; tenceuaim - :". Very desirable as builditur lota. There is a one-and-a-halt story FKAME DWELLING HOL&E STABLE, &.c, on Lot No. 10. A)j, at t ime time and place, the following Valuable Personal Property! will be offered for sale, to wit: 1 Alcott Ei centrie Iitlio. 1 Saw Mandril. 3 Cast Iron jul leys, 1 Mortising- Machine. Circular Saws. Coal Stoves. Grate. Bars, Tie Yarn. See. Also, 150.orJ0 feet of Cherrv, Ash, Mapleand Poplar Lumber, 4.IX-0 Cherry Ballesters, K.COO IJaodles, -J08 uross of planed ash Scrub. Horse and Shoe Brush Blocks, &c. &c. in and about the Mill. tifAll which Heal Estate and Personal Pro perty will be sold clenr of nil mortices, liens, writs and eucumbruuees. By order of tba suiu Court. Terms made known on dav of sale. GEORGE HUNTLEY. A4f(M! of Onros J. KxiQT. . rhriurir. Te. lST.-w , , UVKKTON ni.lULSS' llEFEXCE. You musn't allow that Ore DingesS (that's me) in a general way, Is quite seen a fool kine of creetur, as some folks are given to say ; Cut I own what I dil for Peter Adkins, about which it seems you liav beerd. TVas saft; yet in like snckunistauces I'd do it agiu' I'm.afeerd. Pete lives on the mouth of TJig Cany, Jes whar" it comes out on Gnyan ; An' all of the neighbor around Iiiin, tbey jeilge. lie a a quarrelsome man ; Au' vritli me, that was sot down as fiieu'ly j by every one thar' on the crick, j lie alius was nglj- an spiteful, au' striving ; a quarrel to pick. 'Twas he went an' limnMrnng my heifer, be- kase in his pastur she brokw ; Shot two of my shoats in tlie holler, which was pwine pooty lur lor a joke ; I An' let in Sam Farley's four cow-beasts, and j bis mar', in my corn-field one night An'jthe waytheydistroyed an' theytrotnpled, the neighbors, they Raid, v. as a sight. "Well las' June was a fresh in the river : it j riz thirty fet, sun ah' sun. Guy an it went bust in' and whootrin" ; 'twas whss'ii a race-hf.ss to run. I've heerd of the Fails of Kiag'ry, with all of its rushin' atul roar ; Eut, ef it is whss'ii Guyau was, I don't want to wade it, for shore. The dreens in the mountings were branches; the branch it swelled up to a crick ; The crick it turned into a river" the river got ragiii' an' thick. It riz an' it riz tell I reckont its risiu 'd nuv- ver be done, 'Tliotit it got to the tops of the ridgei, an' drowued us out uvry one. I stood thar' fernent the ole eabin, a-watch- in' the drift an' the dirt, As they shot to the head of the rapids in a rigular quarfer-ho.ss spirf, Wlieu along on bis mar' come Pete Adkins, an' him bustiii' drunk, I could see, Slap down to the ford wbar' the water was rushin' as swift as could be. lie sot on the sickle-hammed clay-bank he got when he married his wife. I don't s'pose the auiuiil uvver Led bed a good bait in her life ; An from her pars' nal ix f.ericnce she couldn't as uvry one knows A curry-cotnb tell from a broad-axe, nor hay from a suit of store-clo'es. I know it was none of my beezness, but see- ! in' him gwine on a path A kinder short cut to his ruin, an' bilin mad in its wrath I sung out : "The river's past fordin' !" But he was so awful fool beut, He tole me to go to a hot place, an', spurriu' his mar', iu he went. . Jes' thar there's a bend in the river a crook like a boss-shoe, yott know So I took a short shoot through the lottom, as quick as a scairt yearlin" floe ; But, quick as I was, I jes' got thar', an' into the river I lep', An' bed n't struck out tnore'n a minute, 'fore right by my lingers be swep'. He was suttingly scairt to deestr.iction, an' made a smart grab at my b'ar; Ef he'd ketcht it, good-by to 6ve Dingess we'd both of us drownded fight, thar'. So I fetcht him a lick powerful despnt, au' stunted hiiu some with the blow Xbar' wasn't no time for politcucss, as any fool cretur' might know. The v'TV we went over them rapids was aw ful to Ivel an' to see ; I allowed 'tiore'n wunst I was drownded it sutl.ig'y seemed so to me ; An' uvry der.'i .'wl thing an mean thing I'd done froi-i ray earliest years, They all seemed " -roine up afore me, while waier was filliu' "O' tars. We shot like a ball iVom a rifle, the p'ar of us ili.l flown tbf pi CTe Even now when I think o.' tbe purril, I feel uvry narve in me lope But I bilt'iny head on ten tlie w,'tvT t wan't r.f use a try in to swim ; I kept all rny mind on my beezness, arf ' kept a good holt on to hiiu. An' when we had got down the rapids, tbe current it ger us a spin, An' sw irled us around in the eddy I jeiZged that when fust I jurnpt in ; I kept up a right master struggle, as into the bank thar we run ; I grabbed a long limb Kwingin" over, an then all the danger was done. I let down my feet an teti-ht bottom, an foun' it was j.onty firm prouii ; In less time than I ki:i norate n, my wif an' the neighbors come rotin'. An' mebbe my Nance didn't scold uie,a set- 1 in her long tongue to go, Alongside of which, when it's started, a flutter-wheel runs rather slow. She Faid that a man with nine childrir.g, 'thout savin' a word for his wife, Had no right, for a chap like Pete Adkins, to run su h a risk of his life ; That I oughtn't to be quite so gin'roua giu- erosity weemeu condemn, Leastwise that's my pars'nal ixperience, ix- cep' when you're giu'rous to them. She said that I'd ruined my clothiu', an' it made of factory jain She'd cut her right foot on the fence-rail, the place whar she junipt in the laDe I'd ruther sarve Pete than iny fam'ly ; she wished she'd ha" laid down and died ; But she conldn't rind words for the subjec', an' so she jest hugged me an' cried. An' Pete, on his back for a fortnight, kep' lyiu' a rasslin' with death It raefly seemed the half drowndiu' had tuck away half of his breath So I turned in an' nust the poor cretur, an' sot with him thar night an" day, Till myself an' the doctor, we dragged him from the grave, as a lwdy may say. The neighbors hev all sot agin me for doin' so much in the case ; An' yit I dunno ef they wouldn't her done the same thing in my place ; It was proberbly salt to go reskiu' my life for a cretur like him, But how on the yeth could I help it, me knowin' that he couldn't swim ? My smoke-house was jam full of bacon he hedn't a side to his name ; Ef I'd let them pore childring go hungry, I allow I'd hev felt it a shame. An' my Nancy a mighty fine woman, ef she has a quick tongue in her bead She done for them motherless creturs, an' kep' them in coffee an' bread. As for Pete, the affa'r was a, lesson, a bless in' to bim an' his kin ; lie 6w'ars that the blue-headed borrils ho nuvver '11 sample ag'in ; 1 allow ef he'll stick to that notion, an stick to his work like a man, It's all that I'll seek for the trouble of pull in' hiin outen Guyan. AT Liverpool the great sensation now is a woman wno ten pa inrn j bv her toes, holds ly her teeth a man suspended in raid-air. Te don't see any basis for the sensation here. It is a common thing for woyiou to keep J rnefl In anspwisa. REM ARK A RLE E VENTS. COMPII.KU FOR THE CAMP.TttA FF.tntAX BV JOBS LILLY, OF COAL CITY. 1587. Virginia Day born the first child boru of Christian parent in United States. 1G0S. John Ityilon married lo Ann Iittr rass the first Christian marriage in Virginia and iu the Uuitcd States. 1G10. Famine in Virginia. Of nearly T.00 colonists, all but CO perished in the course of six months. ltUti. Tobacco first cultivated by the Eng lish in Virginia. Great pestilence destroyed most of the ludians from Naragausett to Penobscot. 1619. 20,000 pounds of tobacco exported from Virginia to England. 1029. African slaves first brought into Virginia by a Dutch ship and sold tothe col onists. Peregrine' White, the first English child, bom in New England. lOlll. Edward Winslow and Susannah White married the lirst Christian marriage in New England. lbL'3. George Sandys, of Virgiuia, trans lated "Ovid's Metamorphosis" the first literary production of the Eugli.-li colonltls in America. Ji'i24. The first cattle brought into New England by Edward Winslow, agent for Ihe Plymouth colour. ic.')0. Gov. Winthrop first abolished Ihe custom of firiiskir.fr healths. John Ellington executed for taurtter tl.e first, execution "in Plymouth colony. it31. First vessel built in Massachusetts, called "The lih ssing of the Bay." l(j;J2. Magistrates of the co'ot;y of ?.f assa chusetts first chosen by the freemen in tin colony. The magistrates ordered that no tobacco should be used publicly. The gen eral court of Plymouth passed an net that whoever should refuse Ihe office of Governor should pay a tine of $20, unless ebojen two years successively. lf.;4. First merchant's shop opened in Boston. It;:..".. Great storm of 'wind and rain in New England ; lide rose 20 feet perpendicu larly, August l.'th. lbou. "The Desire," a ship of 120 tons, built at Marble-head the br-t Amcri.an ship lhat made a voyage to England.- The tirst. court held in Connecticut, April SOU;. Ib37. A synod con veiled at Newtown Mass., the first synod hoidon in America. They condemn S2 erroneous opinions which had liecn propagated in New England. Ki.X. Great eai 'ihiiiake in Now-England, June 1st. Two tremendous storms in Au gust and Decemlier; the tide rose 11 feet above the springtides at Naragansett and flowed twice in six hours. The "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company" formed at Boston, 10:58. Three Englishmen executed by the Plymouth colony for the murder of an Indi an. UY.IO. First general election in Hartford Conn. John H.ivnes first Governor. First Baptist church in America formed at Provi dence, II. I. Severe tempest and rain Con necticut river rose 10 feet above the mead ows in Manh. First printing in North America at Cambridge, Mass., by Samuel Green; the first thing printed vas1he "Free man's Oath." House of Assembly estab lished in Maryland. ltUd. The general court of Massachusetts prohibited the use of tobacco. Kill. Severe winter. Boston and Chesapeake-bays frozen. Boston bay past-able for carts, horses, etc., for five weeks. First com mencement at Harvard College ; nine can didates took tlie degree of A. B. lClfi. Mr. Elliot commenced his labors among the Indians. The Friends or Qua kers first came to Massachusetts. Laws passed against them. Four executed in 1051). 1047. First influenza, mentioned in the annals of America. 1(48. La ws of Massachusetts first printed. Margaret Jones executed for witchcraft. The government of Massachusetts with the assistants signed a declaration against men's wearing long hair as nnscrip! oral. Kltl. The Legislature of Massachusetts passed laws against extravagance in dress. lG!j2. The province of Maine taken under the protection of Massachusetts. The first mint for coining money erected. lG.'jii. Miles Standis.h, the hero of New Ei'glaml, died. liltiO. At this time the colonics of Virgin ia, New England and Maryland Wore sup ..u.'cd to contain only SO.ooO inhabitants. Gor-" rtid Whaiey, the regicides, arrived iu Boston". 1(501. S ociety for prorogating Ihe gospel anion-' the Indians in New England incor porated bv Carles II. 10;2. Chart. cf Connecticut granted by Charles II. The Legislature of Massachu setts appointed tvo licensers ot the press. Tlie asKeiiiOly M.lawl ..ti.iici....i o t in t hat colony. , , la;3. Great earthquake n Canada and New England. . , . 14. Elliot's Indian Bill printed in Cambridge, Mass., the first 1. Lie printed in America. A large comet see-' m Ncw Eng'.and. . , lbbVi. New Haven and Connecticut in. "u into one colony. At this time the miUtia t'l Massachusetts consisted of 4.40O men. The government of Bhoile Island issued an or der out-lawing Quakers for refusing to lear arms. lt!72. Laws of Connecticut pr.nted; every famil v ordered to have a law book. ' 167J. New England at ibis time contain ed about 12O,0U0 inhabitants, and Virginia about .r0,0()0. 1683. The Governor of Virgiuia ordered that no printing press should be used iu that colony "on anv occasion whatever. 10S7. Charter of Connecticut bid iu a hol low oak from Audros, and saved. 1C88. New York anil Hie Jerseys added to the jurisdiction of New England. Andros appointed Captain-General and Vice-Admiral over the whole. 1GH0. Bills of credit issued by the govern ernment of Massachusetts the first ever is sued in the American colonics. The whale fishery commenced at. Nantucket. 10H2. Nineteen persons executed for witch craft in Massachusetts. Edmund Andios, the tyrant of New England, made Governor of Virginia. 1614 Legislature of Massachusetts caused the names of drunkards in the several towns to le posted up in the public houses and im posed a fine for giving them entertainment. 1G'J5. Kice introduced into Carolina. lu.Mi. Thirty Indian churches m New England at this time. 101)7. Severe winter. Delaware river fro zen over. . . . 1G'8 Seat of government in lrginia re moved to Williamsburg, ihc s,re,;,V) . were laid out in the form of a "W , in hon or of William, king of England. 1G9U. Yellow level in Philadelphia. 1700 The Legislature made a law in New York to "hang every Popish psiest who should come into the province. 2(.',000 in habitants in the American colonies at the beginning of this century. 1704 FiTSt newspaper in America, pub lished in Boston, called the Boston News Letter. 1701) First issue of paper currency iu New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, ' 1717. Greatest snow-storm ever known occurred in February. 171S. William Penn, the foundrofPenn ,li,.,l iii Encrland. 1721. First inoculation for the sraall-pox th America. t Hoton. - benefactor of Yale College, died in Eng'and, 1723. 20 pirates executed at Newport! It, l' . Pa?er currency first Issued in Penr.s lvania. 1725. First newspaper printed in New ! York by Win. Bradford. 1727. Great earthquake in Nw England, ' Oct. 2Cth. 172S. Drouth and hurricane ::i Carolina and yellow fever in Charleston. 17:12. Corn and tobacco made a legal ten der in Maryland. Corn nt twenty pence per bushel, tobacco at one penny a pound. Snow-Storms of the Past. Amoncj the great snow-storms of the past few days none were move extended in their range or more disastrous to lifo and property than that of Jauutry 17, lo"7. It lasli tl'iu aily twenty-five hours, and was accompanied by a furious gale and very cld wiuthe-r. It extended as far west as the plains and v.as bounded 0:1 tfic sonth by 5 lie Olii; a nil Potomac, although Sunie of its oPcrrts leached to Hampton Itoaus. Aiunher severe storm occurred on the 2!'th. Wrecks were piled up along the coast anil scores of lives were lost. Many persons were l.o- ! wildered in the snow and q-iito a tiionlicr i frozen to death, especially in .New-1 'ngl.itu.l. Among these was Com mod -ve G. C. iJialcc, w In got l.c wiVieicd in goitig to Ids home in the subuil.s of Eoston and took refuge in a hut. lie, never icca'.cicd from tl.e I shttck of the exposure. 1 From two to four fect of snow fell I throughout the .Middle States. Four feet : was the reported depth iu I'iitslnng, and as it was much drilled, the eon.-C'in; nee was an interruption of communication bc ! tween Ihe cities and the country i'.ir sev eral days. Many people were barricaded in their houses. Steamboats were kept in : port, rail-cars were snow-bound, and mails ' were delayed iu a remarkable manner. i There was no icgu'.ar communication be ' tween New York and Boston for four days. ! The records of the paBt contain accounts ; of many singular storms, but Ihc most s'.i'tking facts concerning them were, nat u 1 rally observed in New England, j The storm of January IK, ISo", stopped : all the railroads of .New England. The Stonington road was not opened until Jan uary 27. Trains did not commence run- niug between Hartford and Providence ; until the same day. In some parts of t'on ncetieut the thermometer was UO degrees 1 below zeio. . I In t he storm of December 28. 1S"3. the j snow began falling at eleven o'clock Wed nesday morning and continued till four ; o'clock Thursday afternoon. The snow j was drifted as high as the tops of the cars. I A train of three locomotives stalled IV0111 ' a neighboring town toward Boston anil ! was embedded in a drift, at ihe end of the j seventh mile. The next day a tram of ! three locomotives occupied from morning till night in accomplishing live miles, j The great snow-storm of January 15, ' 18t)l, was a stupendous or.e. The ituov I was drifted in some places in the citits to the depth of fifteen feet. The churches ( were generally closed on the following Sunday ; partly because the snow was piled so high against the doors that they could ' not be opened. i Iu Febiuary, 1SC0, so heavy a snow fell I that many persons engaged in festivities i commemorative of Washington's binl.dav j throughout the country, were snowed up i in various hr.lls and had torciuaiu iu ti.c-111 for days. Historic Floods. There is no country in tho world which is safe against these sudden shocks of misfortune; but there are some which have a fatal pre-eminence in the records of lloods and inuudntious. Even as we find that nearly every river i-i England has at some time or other over flowed its hanks t'i;tl wrought ruin, but that certain rivers such, for example as the Severn, the lluinber, the Midway nr.d the Tweed have acquired an evi: notorie ty in this respect, so theie are certain coun tries which have, ever since history had a voice, been noted forthe frequency of these cnlumit ics. Holland, the districts forming-tlie water- slu ds of the Alps, the south of France, r.nd the country through which the I)aiiuh: iinds its way into the Bhiek Se;t. are iiuia- Lle instances. England, considering its size, the height of its mountains, "and the short course of its rivets, hns suffered nidsi neve it iv ; one 01 me earnest lmino'a- tious on recoid having, in the fourth ccn- tuiy, drowned over 0,1 iOU people iu Ches. hiie. Three hundred years later the Clydn rose to such and extent at Glasgow tint 4X families lost their lives in the tloods. Camden has iteolihd the submersion of t.b'Otl neres belonging to that Fail Godwin, w-'iose name is now borne by the Godwin ffUtii:?, which were formed by this inroad of the sea. Then we hear of the -'great wafers of the fifteen.!! century, when the Severn rose to an extraordinary height, inflicting the most terrible damage. During the present century Engird has suffered heav ily from inundations, the tost recently re membered being those in Yorkshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire, ii: 1HV. For tunately, however, we have iuti.iog iu our insular history to compare with t iio loss of life which has occurred iu other eotin tiies from Hits cause. Again and aain the dikes of Holland have given way to the sea, which has swept oft" thousands of hu man lives in its course. Every one must recall the awful inunda tion in the fifteenth century, at Dodrechf, in which a hundred thousand persons are said to have perished. A generation later, fifty thousand persons were drowned in Catalonia. In later times, tho Oder, the Danube and the Vistula have contributed I their thousands to this fatal list; and there are still alive spectators of those terrible risings of the Saone, Hie Iihone, and the Loire, which devastated the south anil w est of France some thirty years ago. It is but. twenty-three months ago that the inhab itant s of certain districts iu Koine were be-iii"- furnished by the authorities with ra tions of bread forwarded to their dwellings iu boats. Thf.y have just had a very interesting brcach-of-proniise suit iu Kansas City, Missouri. We allude to it here for the purpose of supplying a warning to w id ew ers. The plaintiff in the case, a widow, testifieii that the defendant, a widower, ate some pi at ber house, one day, and while his mouth was full, he sueldenly re membered that the pie tasted exactly like the pie his wife used to make. This dooeled liia minel with recollections and feeling, and in the frenzy of the moment he burst into tears and proposed to the widow. Tax teenier of gravity an eld joat. J'c lent- Ojjicc, J:t riositics. It. is the general opinion of those yl:o study our patent system a? a science, that we are just upon the eige of new discov eries that shall benciit (1-e woild more than any past invention. We have lui l ed the lightnitipf and taught it to catty n.cssnges; but supposo the a v. ful force of elect: icity, that can crush ihe huidcst rock :ii:d bring a mine tieiuer.ilous power to bear iitV.ai.t aneousiy on a given point thru; any known motor, should be :is subject to our c-.-ntsol as steam i: in that imiar.t the mi.:ie P;wer :f the wot id is more than doubled. Within twenty jears the burden t-f sewing hns been taken oiT the mother and sister and ) ut on the machine. Suppose the liv ing wind thai bov rsoter our oofV; : -houid bu impi : soucd ai d s-. used tlnit it ilumld I ci fol 111 all our domestic l.ilvr li-1'..ic tb ai'V eupuve should 'escape '. There is no .wcr on anil o ;:t. . ) steady, so ma ' wue eaclt icevuriiig ve. a.". 1 i;e t:d 1.. tlay it lifts tlie whole body 01 tea water a 11 uniber i f feet iiiu air. it j enetiates up cveiy creek and : tii am and ii ci, f ji c'u.g lite v.;;'.r t tise and ovi-rw hc'in the solid land. Siu'idd this im tnentc umouut of tidal power, that cii. h-pes the whole woild, be-e-.p.e .-ubjei-t to Ihc wiil of man and forced to i'.j his bidding, we .-ho.ihl have au in stt nnien'.ality t I -ear the turiii-ns of lnan kii.il intinitily more powerful and moiC gci.eial than r.nj t Ling now in u.-e. Y.'e travel to day on solid i.uth; should t'oiiie of the r.umeK't'1.1 a j.j, hern's for patents for the use f balloons or living machines bap 1 en to succeed, and we should till lake to traveling upon the wings of the wind, w hat wouid become of 1 iiili i-aiis and turnpikes atul steamboats'.' Nor are these idle spec ulations. The employment of lightning, of wind, of tide, of air. will not seem so S.tr.!ige to our t iilightci.i d children as the tclcgiaph, the sevving-muchi'.'e, the rail road and the steamboat seemed to their gtanilpaient.s. The child may now be liv 1 ing w iio will yet -see them ail the willing : slaves, of 111.111. joyous to d. his bidding in ' the service of humanity. ! The vast majority ot patents contain no j remarkable invention ; they merely make some slight progress upon existing fact, i Not in one great tida 01' invention itoes im ! provenient come, but rather in small, gun- tie waves, each advancing ahuost iiiij.er ! eejitibly further than its piedccessor. And I it is that, slight dil'i'eience that gives sue j cess to patents. The inventive mind is so ! constantly on thesticteh that similar ch'.i.ns ! aie constantly made by rival inventor. : When petroleum first began to enlighten ! our darkness there vvcie tweuu live ci.tiin- , i ants at one time be-fore the oitiee, all a-,k-; ing for sub-alautially the sau;.- n;.--c"ie f l;.ls ' ing oil out of the solid earth. And whe-n 1 veh eipci'.es so suddenly leaped itiio f.ir-'.ii.ui I a few years ago. 4-j- applications for veW-i-i pede patents were tiled within four mouths, I and of the.-e thirty-three were e intcu.po 1 rary ch-.i.ns fr tlie sumo ivl.it. J.very ! sj'i itig bring.-, forth a crop of stove patents, j each matiufactaici- preparing Ijv the cj'u ' i:ig winter by strivinjj to s-.trj ass Lis livaia I iu t'ne prcr-.ie.-t pattern auei the j-yeaie.-t ! warmth giving power, l'evv pev-.ons think j mr.cli of th-j l'oiui e f the 1 a . 1 j ihey buy ; ,et hit.ip patents are. icncwctl o-.eij At one tune llie student hi-.:;., wilii gatiil burne r, yields its l.mnuta sniall fortune ; I Jim next year s ,11.0 v ea r. au aire;- a o.it,.- nate eciiiu-; notices that two wicks give au iniperee tibly hiigcr l.gii. ih.r.i t..e argaud; r.nd the 1 atent he ohtai.-sb. i..;-., bin; j ruin- I inenee in ail the lamp n.-arke:-. . ti c c u.i- try. Une of the most h-m u il elements in patents is noveity ; yet timialiy mailt: for j uun old a.the Christ ..-r.i e in the ii;-t ccnlury. i for l.eaeling grain asl. the plains of Gaul : auc appiic.i s. are cjii s ij.i--v:d on ieicaMtS a. 1 liny, wiiting serines haivesteis en in existence 0.1 I'ahieiius mentions them a";tiii in the fourth century: bat b.,i h ; of these lacked some idea that would ad.ij t I them to gein rai use. T;.iiors' machines I were in sniooth running 01 tier in Paris 1ng ! bel'orti Hunt and liov.c periecte-d the- l.'.es- cut invention, ieaus lo !::!: ie-ri.tilc s,c.e thl i t ; 1 nniined f r 1 he i'nc tioiuesiie caies oilier ..f the oughr-ul- the vvcihh .mos-i 1 le.:i-l.g.... - rtier : 1 1 it . i . 1 1 111 oie .i li.i.rr. ti in il j.Iicatioii. Tot a patent of wide u-e, how ever sin;.:! the lie.;. '.iy it pav-S b ue-.lts ti.o happv inventor with a Logo lt oat . Itsven- i, ...1.'' ",.. :-'r j-...-.-. .uicn one com p-;u:y makes about tinee tii- o-aiid a week : inventions f r the use .f ito.l i:t 111b Ler, for agtienltuial iiLpiemcjils, lire-aims and iik d.;oe.itions t,f leather and ) aper, have aee-r.iuulr.teel foi tur.t s. Nor is it pos sible lo tell tho e.itent of tho KiiniiicatioMS of a patent. A fc-vr years since- all the den tists of the country vju.bined to break an inula rubber patent; every erne of them had to pay a royalty whenever h inserted a set of teeth em vulcanized rul-ben Their combination failiel, anel the loyalty is still paid, (hie ef the most profitable patents ever issued in this country was for the manufacture ef horseshces. In England one of the most lucrative h;;s been the Ilessemer linuiufactuie of steel. Must pat ents concern themselves with agiieidture or domestic labor. In one year two hun dred and twenty patents were granted for cuiiivators, two hundred and ten for plows, one huudi-cd and eighty for churns, one hundred and seventy-live for vvashiiig-ma--hines. firm bundled and lifty-one for sew- hig"-maehiiies, one hundred and forty for I sioecs anel another one huneheel and forty ' for ';nes. Nearly eighteen hundred pat - ontsluive been isucd for sewing-inachines land their attachments; and ilia appliea I tions for newer inventions conic m daily, j For these appJications for patent rights iucrease mucii laster than, the population. In lSol there were two thousand of them : iu 1S70 nineteen thousand one hundred anil seventy-one, of which thirteen thou.-aiul three hu nd reel and twenty-one were grant eel. Inventive skill tloes not depend upon eilucation. Prussia is as well educated as this country ; but in ls?t7 only one hundred anel three patents were issuctl in Prussia, as agair.st thirteen thousand in this coun try. Vermont has as good schools as Mass achusetts; but the Bay State secures ten per cent, of all the patents granted to the nation, while the Green Mountain Str.te lias less than one ikt cent. To cjuieken the inventive mine! demands a large amount of capital engaged in manufacture, a ski'l ed boely ot workmen, and a prolit 1 the improvement ef manufactures. U heie these coexist patents are in demand- As a geneial rule, valuable inventions arc the result of long years of close thought ar.d mucii expeiuliture of time and money, Capital never offers itdf t the inventor without the promise of an enlarged and 1 - lai.L... i.ri.l srieceiv return. . m uu 1 aiu.iu.5 n invwm u ' enter the niud of the outsider on any sub- jet. Alru-ahani Llucola d a veL &U lawyer of libn.rs v. lien iu May. ll-', he obtained a patent for ViV-ri steam I outs i over river bars. but. it may e- doubted if I that patent hasevrr been used, or would ' have been appri d for bv a ira; i;iu engineer, j The amount of n.Napflii. d taU-nt viig;i. d on inventions th::t can never be v.-d is as : w. ".derful a it is proliilV. Tln-ic is a lu ! fl.ciotis c'.cn-.ent in mr.tiy of the patents, and nmre of tl.e aj.phc.oi jn.- which is well ; worth investigation, and v.e extiact from ' the ric-jiils.f llie I'nteJU lJiV.cc :t u account -f M.me of these that show more genius ' th.-. i common sense, and have produced" I more jar..., tit er than pio-rt. ; In l:'Tu the- owner of ccriain beehives, ' irritated by ti:e lo s of his honey by the ' Li-e looth. iskcd f .r a patent for a co:t; i hii.rd ben-i.Mi- t and beehive. He had no ticed tl it the bee rv.-Wt ttavets at t':;v t, while the busy Lie wo:!s .y .1.1V. lo.- -sire, therH'm-c. was for a device that should admit tl.e wi.ikerby ii iy and keep out ihe thief by night. This his. ingenuity elhcl cd by the election of a l.i-n re.ti-1 pivoted I'prni u beehive proviikd with gates. The bees weie expected to Inj in their cells just bef.ue duk : the her. -, lighting 11 their roosts, were then to ei se the pates of tho hive anl l.it pt'uim shut all i.iL-hi. Tho Cii t i v lisin '-i-f the- f..r!- v,.-..... .1 aii'om.'it;- cai oe I i 1 1 : e at c i ..in ise tLe aiis of lie re-' boes their h.-u till salc- the lieaven and the llov.eis en eeived his patent. A no. her ai-phcant asked for a patent right for an niuf-'ial moon, that should h.;ht each town that used it without ex pense. His eyes had often been struck by the lel'ceiioii id' distant w indows at sunset, and how far that light traveled. lie fhere foie propo.-rd a balloon for each town, suf ficiently large to raise a htnp- re ilector that was to be hoist eel every evening at dusk (about the time tlie hens had .-hut in the bees".. The reilcctions of the sun's lays, ca:-t down ward upon the vibage was sure to light it through ail the ihukoess of night. Fortunately for himself, this inventor pre sented hisappyicaikm through a patent at torney, who b.'.d him it was eloubtful if it could be obtained. In the fall of 1'1 J. a gentleonan. probably from Calil'oiiua, applied for and received a patent for building Lou-cs on wheels or roller.--, so that in ci-e of earth p.i -.l.es they miLc'iit loll forward or baekvv.utl, but not be shaken t pieces. Only three years have passe d aw ay since: a very ingenious gentleman from the iiual districts applied for ;i patent to prevent cows from switching their tails! He pre sented two model.-. o:;i" sl.::-d like n. bot tle, around the nee, of which the cow's tail was to be curled : the other c-'lisi-tenl e f a sq-Uiie Mock, with a hole through tho ctmie. vvi.e-.cin the tail was to be put. and then tied in a 'knot, so that the. aniniai c-juiei lejt wiiiidraw it. Noticing l'.'j'.v vi-sscis are delayed by the m.ces.-iiy -f pu:-hh.g aside the water that ub.-r'. met" s th. ii- w;:y, an ingenious gentle- man asked for a I atr ut lor putting m in.ut ol llie ve el a scries of hollow wheels, i.i.i'i! ; t as paddles. 1 hose ift the water so s;i dily out it tl.e vessel wouM have to he -iii. This in. -lion of the ive t'.ie wheels an. it her titrti. .j:; e-.'s vr- uld ouee in-re lift r and thus draw the vessel vrh' ..---; blal V. heelj v.-o'. ed' the wav :- Si hi 1 lb; lush in to !';il ti vis.-ei would gi and ih'.ui ihe v a.r.v the w itf on. ' Ai d so th turn lie v; i.e . 1 ino'.-ofi ol t.ie ves-el vvou el and tit.- turn of the wheels won ! . en ; ,c v e -s ei L in- a: .cant tor .et e nal motion was so cerl.t'oi ot saect ss that, to pioviile f.rthe ooly eli;Vi.viity lie e itiiei foies.ee .whi- li was in the loo rapid iu oi ton of the' ve.-.-' i. tii.it would tear U3e!f itii a fj ii'iices lie e-.iiiti I e t ) tt. t ! its to.) r :c;n.t for .ed au a-; lor, v. Sj-li Ves ; cao fi -i. .ai n-i luignt enecii too ipid spceel. .it :i n. nca.il lor a ;tu,.i ior woue a 1 at en I ior i;neii;c:its j io;-..-ed to uiof.iit each I h ci; e:t' v.o ul 0:1 springs. He claimed that this v. eui.i remove ah jar in riding, and obviate tho i.ece o'.tv of tprings on eat 1 i,ig;-s. Aii..ther yentletnnn apj Heel for a patent for healing carta's by steam, so that '-:.:-ing could go on in winter aswtiir.s in .-..t.:i. liter. Theoi'tlco dccitletl that tins inv-i;-tioii witi vvv'.'.iiy of protect -en, and hiitl his patent. Another applied for a c.'-mhiuat;..n of clock and bi d, su in o..jO.it.-;y c-. um-e i tli.it- !-' 'ie c.'.'-ck sirtick, tins hot teml tlie be d tl.oj.ped our. He claimt tl thrt this plan would jnobiihly awaken the siee n. Speaking ef con. bui.ii ions, hi; musi liavo ci'mie fioni ii-;.-itri or Jvausas w I.o a-hed for a patent f. ra coi.rl.iiiaf 1 -u of cainn.u and plow. For this purpose lie ii.Vd tlireo aj-plications, making t he elongated handles of the plow hollow, so as to form two can nons. These weie to be kept loaded until the guerillas were after him ; the eri'iiions wore then to be fired, the guerillas shot down, anel the fanner to goon his plowing way, rejoicing. And he. to... mu-t have come from tho borders w ho asked for a '.atent of a e .mbi n.it hm of trunk and house, 'llie trunk was made with triple sides, mewing up and down. Doing duty all day in gua.fiiiig clothes, when night c.imo on, and no cabin near, the goods were to be taken our, the triple walls elevated into one. and tho be nighted traveler safely hou--il. As early as 11 lb Mr. .lames Pashile pstt entcel a swivel-guu in England. Tl.e nov elty of 1 his plan was that his gun fired two kinds of ball a squaie ball and a round one. The round ball was to be usee! in all fights against Christian nations; the square balls, that would inang'e the I'csh more, only in contests with Turks and other hea then. This gentleman of old must have been the ancestor of Matk Twain, of this country, who so lost his temper because th Secretary if War refused to le con-mend his gun for a patent. Mr. Twain's idea was to have a swivel gnu that should load at the centre and lire off at both ends. In case of a siegu he proposed to had fiegun, set if a who ling, anel dron it J'-- outside the citv wall. BeP-tv tl.e balls left the mouth of the etnuoii ouid acquire such a rotary motion '-');!t ,;,e.v "edd sweep round the walls (."f-ide of the town, killing off all of the U sieging host. e must ao kuowlcib c. however, that we have looked j,, v.,;;) the ivc.irds i f the office for Mr. 1 ""..I'-i'-s name, and hence we infer he never Fteived his ltcut.AppLloit i JuumuL 1 A TOrEit get so m.ich 011 his steirnach , the other day that said onrati renel-ed the J load. As he leaned against a lamp post vomiting, a little tlog happened to stop by him, whereupon he indulged in this sohlo- quy : "Well, now, he-re's a conundrum. I know where I ate the baked lieans 1 ''- member where I ft te that lob'er. 1 recah. lt I T f... t icti w uere 1 gor inai rum. "- " t'svirgeei if I cu ia'ji where I ate that Lltle j allrff ,d. "'
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