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Juuo 82, 1830.
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EYKEH
llatt?r NM(M-inltf,
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C'ONTINCK to mate and sell a finer and more
J duralile Hat far the money than any other
establishment i" the United taf s atandard
price of Hats $'3 00. Gents and Uny's Cluth and
(ilaxcd Caps. Umbrellas, Carpet CulaTy
Panama and Straw Hats at equally low prices.
May 25, 1850 ly
josi y v. i'As:e: a.
Co.
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. ' "Watches, Jewelry, Plnted Ware,
ill Chisnut St , betieeett 3d If 4lh Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
ALWAYS keep on hand an excellent assort
ment of the attovo articles, which they will
all on terms as low as any in the city.'
June 13, 18.r)0. liin
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PHI ALA DELPHI A WINE St LIQUOR STORE.
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OFFER for sale, the cheapest and best assort
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Brandies of the choicest brands, viz I
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July 13. 1850 , . . .
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
; ; ;CHA$, DUMIrlXG,
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FuiLiDSLrati.
TMPORTER. and Manufacturer of all kinds of
- Musical In.trumenu, r ancy Arucies and Toys.
Hie price, art lower than those of any other store
in Philadelphia. All kinds of Musical Inatritt
menu repaired in tire beat workmanship, and also
taken In trade - . t
Philadelphia, May M, 1130 ly
SELECT POETRY.
, HOW LOVE BECAME BLIND. ;
! BX fREDBRIO SOWtOM.
Litlln Cupid vrn ffitlina one day u-ilh Mn, ,
Putting lipa to his arrows and proving his
" " bow ;
For hs mpnni next ly, if allowed by his Pa,
On a loxopholitical ramble lo go.
"MammH, whal'g lhat spol on your beautiful
cheek !"
Ha exi'laimeil, ns ha paused for a moment to
ttx '. .
" :Tis a freckle, 1 vow faiih, old Sol in a
pi(lle, , '
Has Bcorrh(i you wilh one of his envious
rays !' , . .-.!!. .' . :
Now It happened lhat Venus wan going that
niaht ' "
To ineel well I needn't sny whom for a
stroll ;
And wiihlnir lo look more lhan commonly
briirht. ' "
Was annnyeii at the spot, from the depth of
her soul i 1 ' ' ' . 1 :
Ami she cried in
hen reil
a raze, "Well, if ever 1
Such an impudent child ! It's a
lied!
parcel of
You shall find faull no more Ihough I
' mil inv wnnl " 1
give
And she threw a whole handful of dnst in his
., eyes. ., . . :
luflnmation ensued
plied, :
there were leeches ap-
CoM watpr, rnllvriiims, poullices, loo,
But ihuuch all the means I hey could think of
vrpre Iripil,
The optics grew worse, and the occulists
blue.
(11 a week, so inflamed was each delicate
ball,
That every hope of hissisht was resinned ;
In a mouth he could scarcely (ItMiniruish at
all,
And now the poor fellow is totally blind.
To amuse him they still let him play wilh
his bow
Though 'lis worse for the world, I believe I
may say
For, as he can't aim where his arrow should
go,
Why he shoots I hem at random lo fall where
they may.
Aud the consequence is that these random
(hot darts
Are the cause of pain, Ihou'gh intended for
good ;
Thpy are iue to alight on the wrong people's
hearts,
They fall where they shouldn't and not where
they fliould. '
Skctcl).
ELEPHANT FIGHT.
raOM Cl'MMIN'G'd "AFRICAN TOUR."
In a lew minutes one of those who had
gone off to our lef came running breath
less to say that he had seen the mighty
game. I halted lor a minute, and instruct
ed Isaac, who carried the big Dutch rifle,
to act independently of me, while Klein
boy was to assist me in the chase ; but, as
usual, when the row began, my followers
thought only of number one. I bared my
arms to the shoulder, and having; imbibed a
draught of aqua pura from the calabash of
one ol the spnorers, 1 grasped my trusty
two-grooved rifle, and told my guide to
go ahead. We proceeded silently as might
be expected, lor t few hundred yards, .fol
lowing the guide, when he suddenly point
ed, exclaiming 'Klow ! and before us stood
a herd of mighty bull elephants packed to
gether beneath a shadv grove about a hun
dred and fifty yards in advance. ' I rode
slowly towards them ; and as soon as they
observed me, they made a loud rumbling
noise, and, tossing their trunks, wheeled
right about, and made off in one direction,
crushing through the forest, and leaving a
cloud of dust behind them. I wa accom
panied by a detachment oi . my dogs, who
assisted me in the pursuit.
The distance I had come, and the diffi
culties I had undergone to behold these ele
phants, rose fresh before me.- 1 determined
that, on this occasion at least, I would do
my duly, and, dashing my spurs into Sun
day's ribs, I was very soon much too close
in their rear for safety. The elephants
now made an inclination t my left, where
by I obtained a good view of the ivory.
The herd crfhsisted of six hulls; lour ol
them were loll-srrown first rate elephants;
the other two were fine fellows, but had
not yet arrived at mature stature. Of the
four old fellows, two had much finer tusks
than the rest, and lor a few seconds I was
undecided which of thee two I would fol
low; when, suddenly, the one which I
fancied had the stoniest tusks broke from
his comrades, and I at once felt convinced
hat he was the patriarch ot the herd, and
fdlowed him accordingly. Cantering
alongside, I was about to fire, when he In
stantly turned, and, uttering a trumpet so
strong and shrill that the earth seemed to
vibrate beneath my feet, he charged furi
ously after me for several hundred yards in
a oirect line, not altering his course in the
slightest degree for the tree of the forest,
which he snapped and overthrew like reeds
in his headlong career.
When he pulled up in his charee I like
wise halted, and as he slowlv turned to re
treat I let By at his shoulder,' Sunday caper
ing ana prancing, and giving me much
trouble. On receiving the ball the ele-
phant shrugged his shoulder,' and made off
at a Iree majestic Walk." This shot brought
several of the dogs to my assistance, which
had been following the other rlephants;
and on their coming up and barking,' an
other headlong charge was the result, ac
companied by the never-failing trumpet at
before.' In his charge tie passed close' to
me, when I saluted him with, a second bul
let in the shoulder,' of which, be did not
take the slightest notice. ' I now detrrmin
ed not to fir again until I could make
steady shot ; but although the elephant
turned repeatedly. Sunday invariably dis
appointed me, capering so that it was im
possible to fire. At length exasperated, i
became reckless of the danger, and, spring
ing from the saddle, I approached the ele
phant under cover of a tree, and gave
him a bullet in the side of his head, when
trumpeting so shrilly that the forest tremb
led, . he charged among the dogs, from
whom he seemed to lancy that the blow
had come ;. after which he took up a posi
tion in a grove of thorns, with his head to
wards me. I walked up very near, and,
as he was in the act of charging, I (being
in those days under wrong impressions as
to the impracticability of bringing down an
elephant with a shot in the forehead) stood
coolly in his paih until he was within fif
teen paces of me, and let drive at the hol
low of his forehead, in the vain expecta
tion that by so doing I should end his ca
reer. The shot only served to increase his
fury an effect which, I had remarked,
shots in the head invariably produced ; and,
continuing his charge with incredible
quickness and impetuosiiy, he all but ter
minated my elephant-hunting for ever. "A
large ' party of the Bechuanas, who had
come up, yelled out instantaneously, im
agining I was killed, for the elephant was
at one moment almost on the' top of me ; I
however escaped by my : activity, and by
dodging round the bushy trees. At the
elephant was charging, an enormous thorn
ran deep into the sole of my foot the old
Badenoch brogues, which I that day sport
ed, being worn through ; and this caused
me severe pain, laming me throughout the
rest of the conflict.
"The elephant held on through the for
est at a sweeping pace; but, he was hardly
out of sight when I was loaded and in the
saddle, and soon once more alongside.
About this time heard Isaac blazing away
at another bull : but when the elephant
charged, his cowardly heart failed him, and
he very soon made his appearance at a safe
distance in my rear. My elephant kept
crashing along at a steady pace, with blood
streaming from his wounds; the dogs,
which were knocked up with fatigue and
thirst, no longer barked around him,' but
had dropped astern." It was long before I
again fired, for I was afraid to dismount,
and Sunday was extremely troubh-some.
At length I fired sharp right and left from
the saddle; he got both balls behind the
shoulder, and made a long charge after me,
rumbling and trumpeting as before. The
whole body of the iiainan?wate men had
now come up, and were following a short
distance behind me. Among these was
Mollyeon, who volunteered to help; and
being a very swill and active fellow, he
rendered me important serice by holding
my hdgetty horse's head while I fired and
loaded. I then fired six broadsides from
the saddle, the elephant charging almost
every time,1 and pursuing us back to the
main body in our rear, who fled in all di
rections as he approached.
"I he sun had now sunk behind the tops
of the trees ; it would soon be very dark,
and the elephant did not seem much dis
tressed, notwithstanding all he had received.
I recollected that my time was short, there
fore at once resolved to fire no more from
the saddle but to go close up to him and
fire on four. Hiding up to him, I dismount
Al, and approaching very near, I gave it
him right and. left in the side ot the head,
upon which he made a long determined
charge after me; hut I was now very reck
less of his charges, for I saw that he could
not overtake me ; and in a twinkling I was
loaded, and, aaain ' approaching, I nred
sharp right and left behind his shoulder.
Again he charged with a terrific trumpet,
which sent Sunday flyinsr through the lor-
est. . This was his last charge. The
wounds which he had received began to
tell on his constitution, and he now stood
at bay beside a thorny tree, with the dogs
harking around him. Jhese, refreshed by
the evening breeze, and perceiving that it
was nearly over. with the elephant, had once
more come to my assistance. Having load
ed, I drew up and fired right and left at his
forehead. On receiving these shots, in
stead of charging, he tossed his trunk up
and down, and by various sounds and mo
tions, most gratifying to the hungry na
tives, evinced (hat his demise was near.
A sain I loaded, and fired mv last shot be
hind his shoulder ; on receiving it, he turn
ed round the bushy Ire besides which he
stood, and I ran around to give him the
other barrel, but the mighty old monarch
of the forest needed no more; before I
could clear the bushy tree he fell heavily
on his side, and his spirit had fled. My
feelings at this moment can only be under
stood by a few brother Nimrods, who have
had the good fortune to enjoy a similar en-
counter. I never felt so gratified on any
occasion as I did then."
To PKr.sr.HVE Buttbr. Sink it in the
Mississippi River ' Lately some kegs of but
,er were broueht up by diving bells from the
wreck ot the steamer Neptune, sunk twenty
years ago, and it was as sweet and good as
ever.
First Love. Tha conversation at Holland
Huane turned upon fiat Jove, Tom, Moore
oompared it Ip potalo, "because it shools
from the eyes." ''Or, rather," exclaimed
Byron, "because it becomes less by pair-
iug i ... : '' i ....
A well known Pianist recently played
some of his most astonishing pieces before
the Grand Seinor, At the conclusion of the
performance, (he Sultan, who had been pbser
ving him with great apparent admiration)
said lo hitnl ,
"1 have heard ThalberR a low bow of the
anist, and a modest smile) I have also heard
Lizsi ( siill lower' bow and devout alien
lion) but no onVbf all that have played be
fore rot ptripirtd as much as you do,
THE NEWSPAPER.
The oltl farm-house Jore a quiet, pleas
ant look, as the setting sun gilded its small
windows, .over which the luxurient grape
vines were carefully trained. In the open
door sat the farmer,, wilh a little morocco
covered book in his hand, on which his at
tention had been fixed for the last hall hour.
He was a man of method, and brder ld
Richard Heath and aside from his regular
acconnt books, which were kept wilh scru
pulous care, he always set down in thia
little book, in the simplest manner possi
ble, all his expense's, (no very complicated
account, by the way,) and all he received
during the year, "in the real metal," us he
said, "not by way 6' trade."
This last account he had just reckoned
tip, and the result was highly satisfactory,
one might judge from the pleasant expres
sion of his face, as he fumed to his wife
and addressed her by her pretty old-fashioned
name. '
1 "Millicent," said he, "this has been a
lucky year. How littie We thought when
we moved on this place, twenty-five years
ago, that we should ever get five hundred a
year out of this rocky, barren farm."
"It does pay for a good deal of hard
work," said she,' "to see how different
things look from what they'did then.,'
"Now I'm going to figtir-1 up how much
we've spent," said Mr. Heath; "don't
make a noise with your knittin' needles,
cause it puts me out.". ;
His wife laid down her knitting in per
fect good humor, and gazed out over the
broad rich fields of waving grain, which
grew so tall around the laden apple trees,
that they looked like massive piles of foli
age. Hearing her own name thus kindly
spoken, led her thoughts far back to the
past ; for after the lapse of twenty-five
years, the simple sound of the name she
.bore in youth means more to a wile than
all the puling epithets of dearest love, and
darling, so lavishly uttered in a long-past
courtship.
Very peasant was this retrospect to Mil
licent Heath. The picture of the past had
on it some rough places, and some hard tri
als, but no domestic strife or discontent
marred its sunny aspect.' There were
smiling faces on it happy children's fa
ces, without which no lile-plctitre is beau
tiful. Soft blue eyes shone with unclouded
gladness, and wavy hair floating carelessly
over unwritten foreheads. She forgot for
a moment how they were changed, and al
most fancied herself, azain the young mo
ther, and tiny hands stole lovingly over her
bosom, and young heads, nestled a of old.
The illusion vanished quickly, and . she
sighed as she thought of her youngest born,
the reckless hoy who left her three years
before, for home on the sea. Once only
had tidings reached her of the wanderer.
The letter poke of hardship and home-sickness,
in that light and careless way that
reached the mother's heart more surely
than repining and complaint To know
that he suffered wilh a strong heart, with
noble, unyielding resolution, gave her a
feeling of pleasure, not unmixed with pride.
"He will surely come back," murmured
the affectionate mother lo herself; "and I
read the paper so carefully every week,
that if it says anything about the ship Al
fred sailed in I shall be sure to see it"
"Mrs. Heath," said her husband, inter
rupting her meditations somewhat rudely,
"we've spent thirty dollars more lhan usual
this year: where can it have gone to 1"
"The . new harness," suggested Mrs.
Heath, "That don't come every year, you
"Well, there's twenty dollars accounted
for."
"We had the carriage fixed up when you
bought the harness," continued the wife.
"Well that was eight dollars ; that
wenty-eight dollars that we don't spend
very year; but the other two where can
they have gone ?" Glancing his eye has.
ily over the pages of the memorandum
book, he continued : "I'll tell you what
lis, the newspaper cost just two dollars,
and we can do without it. It isn't any
thing to eat, or drink, or wear. I don't do
nvthing with it, and you always lay it up
n the chamber. It may as well be left out
as not, and I'll stop my subscription, right
awav. '
"Oh," said the wife, "you dont't know
how much I set by the newspaper I al
ways have a sort of good feeling when I
see you take it out of vour hat and lav it
on the kitchen manllepiecey- just as I do
when some of the: children come home.J
And when I'm lired, I set down with my
knitting work ond read, (I can knit just as
fast when 1 am reading,) and feel so con'
ented. I don't . believe Queen Victory
herself takes more solid comfort than I do,
sitting by the east window, of a summer af
ternoon, readjng my newspaper."
"But you'd be just as well off without it,"
answered her husband, for the want of any
thing wiser to say.
"I never neglect anything else for, my
reading, do II" aked Mrs. Healh, mildly.
"No, I dont know at you do," answered
her husband ; "but it seems to me an extra
like; thall tiop U." he added, in a tone
that showed plainly enough he wished to
stop the conversation too.
"I shall take the paper," remarked ni
wife, "if I have to go out washing to pay
This was not spoken angrily," but so
firmly that Mr. Heath n iticed it, though
bv no means remarkable for-discernment
in most matters. It sounded to different
from her usual quiet "as you think best,"
that he actually stopped a moment to con
aider whether it was at all likely she would
do as sbe said. Mr. Heath was. a. kind
husband, as. that, indefinite . description
is generally, understood; that is ht did
not beat hn wife, and alw'i gave her
enough to eat. , More than this, he had
certain regard for her happiness ' whlc
made him already feel half ashamed? hit
derision, but, like many other men who
have more obstinacy than wisdom, he could
hot bear to retract anything, and above all,
to be convinced that he was wrong by a
Woman., : i .' '! .'
.., However, , with a commendable wish to
remove the unhappiness he had caused, he
suggested that "as the papers were care
fully saved, and as she had found them In
teresting, she could read them all over
again, beginning at January, and taking
one a week clear through the year they
would come out even," he concluded, as if
it were a singular fact that they should do
so.' '
' Notwithstanding this admirable proposi
tion, he still felt some uneasiness. It fol
lowed him as he walked up the pleasant
lane to the pasture, and it made him speak
more sharply than he was wont, if the
caws stopped while he was driving them
home, to crop the grass where it looked
the greenest and sweetest on the sunny
slope.. It troubled him till he heard his
wife call him to supper in such a cheerful
lone, that he concluded she did not care
mch about the newspaper after all. '
About a week after this, as Mr. Heath
was mowing one morning, he was surpri
sed to see his wife, coming out dressed as if
for a visit, "I am going," said she, "to
spend the day with Mrs. BroWn I've left
plenty for you to eat." And so saying,
she walked rapidly on.' '
Air. Heath thought about it just long
enough to say to himself, "She don't go
isitin' to stay all dav, once a year hardly,
and it is strange she should go in hay
time." '
Very long the day seemed to him ; to
go in tor luncheon, dinner and supper, and
ave nobody to speak to; to find every
thing so still. The old clock ticked stiller
than usual, he thought, the brood of pretty
white chickens, that were always peering
round the door, had wandered off some-
here, and left it sliller yet ; he even mis
sed the busy clink of the knitting needles,
that were apt to nut him out so when he
was doing any figuring. ' ' '"
'I'm glad," he said to himself, as he be
gan to look down the road at sunset, "that
Millicent don't go a visitinj all the time, as
some women do there, she is just com
ing." - J.i - ...
"How tired you look,"; said he, as she
came up ; "why did'nt you speak about it,
nd I'd have harnessed up and came after
ou."
, "I'm not very tired," she answered ; but
er looks belied her; indeed, her husband
eclared she looked tired like for a day or
two after. ' I
What was his amazement to see her go
awav the next Tuesday in the same man
ner as before, without saying much ' about
t before she started.
To his great dissatisfaction, everything
seemed: that day to partake of his wife's
new propensity for going away Irom home.
"A man don't want cold feed in hay-
time," grumbled he, as he sat down alone
lo dinner. In the same grumbling mood
e recounted the mishaps of the morning,
which seemed much alter the manner set
forth in a certain legend of old time, for he
mbellished his recital by allusion to
"The slieep'. in the meadow,
The cow's iu the corn."
adding that they wouln'nt have been there
I Mrs. Heath had been at home, because
she'd have seen 'em before they got in, and
hollered. She would have seen the oxen
too, before they got across the river, and
saved him the trouble of getting them back.
Hut after tracking all these outward events
to her absence, he said to himself, consol-
nS'y "I guess she won't go any more ; she
always was a home body."
Mrs. Heath did go again though, and
again ; and the day she went tor tne tounn
time, her husband took counsel with him
self as to what he should do to ."stop this
gadding." Seated on the door step, in the
shade of the old trees, he spent an hour or
two devising ways and measures, talking
aloud all the time, having the satisiaction
of nobody to dispute him. '
"It's hard lo think ol her to he gemn' io
be a visitin woman," said he, "and it's clear
t an't right. Keep her at home,' I've
read in the Bible, (Old Richard's Bible
knowledge was somewhat confused, and
his quotations varied , slightly from the
scriptural phrase 'keepers at home,') but it
says, too," he added, with the true science
ol a sincere man, "that husbands must set
great store by their wives, and treat 'em
well. I won't scold Millicent; I'll har
ness up and go after her to-night, and corn
in' home I'll talk it over with her, and tell
her how bad it makes me feel ; and if that
don't do I'll try something else."
Jn accordance with this praiseworthy
resolution, he might have been seen about
sunset hitching his horse at Mr. Brown's
door; for strange enough, Mrs. Heath's
visits had all been made at the same place.
Going up to the door, he stopped in amaze- j
ment at seeing his wife in the kitchen ta
king off a great woolen wash-apron, and
pulling down her sleeves, which had been
rolled upas if for washing. He listened:
and heard her say as she took some money
trom Mrs. brown, "It won't be so that I.
can do your washing again." . i
"It has been a great- favor to have you
do it while I've been so poorly," answer
ed Mrs. Brown, "and I am glad to pay for
it. This makes four times, and here's two
dollars. ' 'Tis just as well that you can't
come again, for I think I shall be well
enough to do it myself." . ; :u
, "Two dollara--jtiat the price of the
newspaper !" exclaimed Mr, Heath, as the
truth flashed across him. ,.,
. Rather a silent ride, home they had, til)
at last he said io hit wife, "J never, was so
ashamed." . V "." ' ' , w
"Of what," asked Ma wife. '
"Why to have you go out wash in'. 1
ain't so poor as that comes to.
" "Well,' I don't know, replied his wife
"when a man ii too poor to take a newt-
s
paper, bis wife ought not to feej above go-"
tog out washing," , ,. .,. . ... .: , ..
Nothing more was said on the subject at
that time) though some ill teeling lingered
in the heart; of each.;.. The "making up"
was no mawkish scene of kissing, embra
cing and crying, such as romance writers
build their useless fabrics With but as Mrs.
Heath was finishing her household duties
for the night, she said quietly '.
"I don't think 1" did: quite tight, Rich
ard." :.: n '
"I don't think I did, either," responded
the husband. yj , ;" ZZT. " ''
And so the spark was quenched which
might have become a scorching flame,
blighting all domestic peace tinder their
humble root. He subscribed for the
"American" forthwith. ?
PROF. WEBSTER'S FAMILY.
t tii' .
Daily, even to the present period, you may
see persons driving up to the dwelling house
of Mrs. Websterj Cambridge for the purpose
of at least looking at the outside of the holme
where her late husband lived. The day af
ter the execution, a carriage drove up, and a
lady, (at least appearently one) Btid her two
daughters, (a Mrs. P.) from New York, alight
ed, and desired to enter and ee the corpse,
stating that they had come on purpose.
When the application was objected to gently,
they insisted upon entering, till they were
more peremptorily refused.
Among the mass of communications and
letters which the family have received since
his arrext, (and they have been so numerous
that the postage alone which they have been
obliged to pay, might have supported them for
half a year,) was one from a Baptist clergy
man of Kentucky, who offered, if the family
would send him on money to pay bis travel
ling expenses, to come and use his Influence
with the Parkman family, as his deceased
wife has been a distant relation of theirs, and
with Governor Briggs, who ' belongs to the
Baptist persuasion, to procure a pardon for
the convict. '
Another man presented himself at tha
house, a short time before the execution, and
desired an interview with Mrs. Webster, for
ihe purpose as he stated, of making some im
portant communication to her. They proved
to be, that he had hit upon a scheme to ef
fect the prisoners escape, that a vessel was
ready to sail and bring him away in safety,
and all he desired was the co-operation of the
family.
A scamp, whose name is not known, per
petrated Ihe viPany of sending, after the ex.
edition, a newspaper lo the house, directed
to Mrs. W., which contained a wood cut of
the execution in detail.
'Two Sundays ago, when the family ap
peared in the parish church; to attend publio
worship, ihe minister, (who was not the regu,
lar clergyman of , the parish, but preached
there merely by way of exchange,) although
he had been expressly told by the regular
minister to be careful in regard to his sub,
ject, because the unfortunate family might
perhaps attend ; chose the edifying subject
of "the execution of criminals," beginning
wilh crucifixions. I could add other incidents
as flattering to human nature as these ; but
the heart sickens to think of ihAii. Cor. N.
1. t'cnwig Poif. .
COPPF.n ORES AND MANCFACTLER.
There are now three large copper smelling
establishments in Ihe United Slates--one at
Boston, one in New York, and one at Haiti
more. The furnace at Baltimore requires 5,
000 tons ore annually. The Boston works
about the same.' The annual consumption
of smelted copper ia 6,000 tons, of which the
Lake Superior mines furnish 4,000.! i,
Until the year 1842, Ihe town of Swansea.
in Wales, possessed a monopoly of the copper
ttade.
The copper ores of Chili and Cuba, the late
Australian discoveries, have constituted new
sources of supply. '
England manufactures 25,000 tons of refin
ed copper annually; the county of Cornwall
alone furnishes ores for 12,000 tons. Ireland
North Wales and Devonshire, for 3,000 more
Her own mines therefore supply 15,000 tons,
and foreign mine 10,000 ions- Great Brittain
exports 28,000 tons refined copper annually
India is ber largest customer, France , next,
and, then Ihe United Mates. In the year
1844 we imported from England 2,145 Ions
ond in 1846, 2,171 tons being over a million
of dollars its value annually.' ' ''
It is believed that the Superior mines can
supply the American market, though it is
doubtful whatever the market can ever be
glutted, the demand increases the cheapness
of ihe material.
The mines cf Chili will probably rival iu
productiveness those pf the Lake Superior re
gion. Free Press '
Thb Pbsksyitania Coal Minss The re
cent disaster lo the Schuylkill Canal, and the
difficulties to which the constant use of that
work for the transportation of cal is subject,
on account of the freshets, ha revived the
project, which it I now said will be carried
opt, of tbe early eompleiion of a railway con.
fiecting tbe Anthracite coal field of Pennsyl
vania wilh New York Harbor,' It is said that
the coal lands" formerly belonging to Hare
Powell, Esq!, tn 1h neighborhood of Beaver
Meadow) embracing 13,000 acres,' hava' re
cently been iold: at a very large advance to
some European capitalist,.'. ! V. i
pill. 4 Iu. ! '" .1 .'' ' V " 1 ' -:.:J--
. Ts GaAra; CaerThe .lending Prtst es
timate l,he )oa on the. Grape crop it Ibis
county, during ihe presont year, at not leu
lhan! 1 20,000.' Tbe erop t said to ka an al
most total Mluie. : '.'' V' '
. OEJIEALOQVOr ADAM.,.,.,,
.Tbe Rev.,. Dr. Smith, who for noma time
pat, has been advocating, with great learning
ana power, te doctrine of the strict unity of
the human race, thou refers to Adam and bis
immediate descendants:
"Id the genealogy of Adam, but three of
is children,. Cain, Abel and Seth, are men
tioned by name,- and a few only of his remo
ter descendants appear in ihe record. In the
830 years he walked upon the earth, his fam-
ly must have been far more numerous lhan
this, and bis other children are expressly al
luded to in ihe words, "and he begat sons
and daughters." "The mother of all living,
was doubtless a fruitful vine," and both she
nd Adam were in the vigor of Iheir lives for
length of years which ibe postidiluviana
now nothing of, 7 Cain waa a mariied man
when he slew Abel, and was then, not loss,
probably, than 120 years of age. Seth who
was appointed by God to occupy ihe place of
Abel whom Cain slew, waa born to Adam
when he was 150 years old. The natural in
crease of tbe race of man is exlremely rapid
when no . hinderance is interposed. "An
island, first occupied by a few ahipwrecked
English in 1589, and discovered by a Dutch
vessel in 1667, is said to have been found
peopled after 80 years by 15.000 souls, all tha
escendants of four mothers.",, When tbe
Creator undertook to people a world,, we may
suppose that his providence arranged for thia
end, and no hindrance was to interpose. It ia
oeueveu mat tne death or Abel waa the first
which occurred in the family of roan. It is
not an unreasonable supposiiion, therefore, a
ngures will demonstrate, that the family of
Adam embraced 190,000 lo 200,000 people at
the banishment of Cain. ,. ,
i
How many of these adhered to the fortune
of Cain, from whom a large share descended
or whether any, we are not informed, uor are
told when he built his city. If he lived a
ong as father Adam, and built it in the clos
ing period of his life, bis own descendant
born in the land of Nod, j.,e. in the land of
his flight, which the name denotes, were far
more numerous lhan Ihe.nombers above men
loned would indicate. The same remark
will also apply to Nimrod. Though he. may
be, as is said in these lectures but of "ihe
second generation from Ham," there was
abundant lime for a population to have arisen
ou the. earth, afiera flood, sufficiently numer
ous lo build cities and form kingdoms., .The
city Cain built was not probably extraordi-
naty (pr size, but at first, at least, a mere
stockade, earthwork, or fortress. Rome was
not built in a day. It was onoe a hamlet or
blockhouse on the Capi'.oline Mountain, and.
as only tbe "beginning" of the kingdom found-,
ed by Ninevah, Rehoboth, Caleb and Reson,
of which the historian speaks.
Jensy'j Lap Dog. The Boston Post per
petrates the following : :
O, Jenny, sweetest child of song.
Why iliil you bring that pup alonn f
'Twas quite a needles weight.
And much the same as taking coal . ,
To Lehigh, mine., upon my soul,
Or fi.h to BiKingpitc t
"Give me a bid, gentlemen some one
start the carl do give us a bid, if you please
anything to start Ihe cart."
Cried an excited Auctioneer, who stood in
the cart he was endeavoring lo sell.
"Anything you please, to sfart it."
"If data all you wants, I'll slhart her for
you," exclaimed a broad-backed countryman
applying bis shoulder to the wheel, and giv
ing the cart a sudden push forward, tumbled
the Auctioneer over Ihe side. : By the time
the fallen Auctioneer regained his feet, the
countryman had starred too. - -
Thc subscription books of the Hudson Gut
ta Percha Company are now open at the
Trenton Bank., . The Gazette says this ia the
only Gutta Percha Company in thia country.
They have lately purchased the Somervilla
Water Power .for $150,000. Their capital
is to be 300,000, and $10,000 are open for
subscription in New Jerttey. ,
Da. McClintock, editor of the Methodist
Quarterly Review, who has been aboard for
his health, returned by the Asia, looking per
fectly bale and fresh. He has passed most of
his time in Germany. , , . , . . ,
A Puzzle. Two boys were asked who
they were, arid answered in this way ;
. ( . v l .' - ' ' - '. .
We are two brothers burn
'' Also two sisters' sons 1
Our lather is out grandfuUwr
How queer oar kindred raits. x
Tall . Candidates. Juges Johnson and
Wood, and the Rev. Mr. Edwards, are the
Whig, Democratic, an.d Ftee Soil candidate
for Governor of Ohio. Tbe three met at
Cleveland a short time since, aud It was fonnd
that they measured nineteen feet.
Curtailment or FicToaT Butsmass.
Tbe Lowell Courier says lhat it ha been deci-'
ded to reduce ihe actual business operation
of three of the manufacturing corporal lone'
uf that city about one-half, via 1 ihe Suffolk
Hamilton and Appleton Mill. ' v;
Ti AraiCAH Kino or Dahomt A letter
from Sierra Loa y; monarch has or,
dered tba taiMiortaries and recaptured slave
at "Undefstowa" 4 Uava the country before
tha 1st of October, i If tbey do , sot, be aay
that he will bthtad them all, commencing
with thf roiasiooarin. . . n ui. . .' vk
Axoko the paaaengera by-, tba West India,
mail-packet Avon, arrived at gautbamtou, in
England, were tbra grisly bear fraro Cali
fornia. -