United States Senate ot frly first election in IS2O—his name was Benton Boone, and so named after my father. Abhorrence of debt, public and private dislike of banks and love of hard money— love of justice and love of country, were rul ing passions with Jackson, and of these he gave constant evidence in all the situations of his life. "Of private debts, he contracted none of his own, and made any sacrifices to get out of those incurred for others. Of this he gave a signal instance not long before the war of 1812-selling the improved part of his estate, with the best buildings of the country upon it, to ray a debt incurred in a mercantile adventure to assist a young rela tive, and going into log houses in the forest part to begin a new home and a farm. Ile was attached to his friends and to his country, and never believed any report to the discredit of either, until compelled by proof. Ile would not believe in the first.re port of the surrender of General . 1 - lull, and became sad and oppressed when forced to bilieve it. lie never gave up a friend in a doubtful case, or from policy of calculation. .11e Was a firm beliver in the goodness of su perintending Providence and in the event ful right, jadgment• and justice of the peo ple. 1 have seen him in the most desper ate part of his fortunes, and never saw him waver in the belief that all would come right in the end. In the time of Cromwell he would have been a Puritan. The character of his mind was that of . judgment, with a rapid and almost intuitive preception, followed by instant and decisive action. It uas that which made him a Gen eral and a Presidi nt for the times in which he served. He had vigorous thoughts, but not the faculty of arranging them in a regu lar compositien, t Hier written or spoken ; and in formal papers usually gave his manu script to an aid, a friend, or a secretary, to be written over—often to tho loss of vigor.— But the thoughts were his own, vigorously expressed, and without effort, writing with a rapid pen, and never blotting or altering ; but, as Carlyle says of Cromwell, hittini , the nail 'upon the head as he went. I have a great deal of his writing now, some on pub lic affairs and covering several sheets of pa per, rind no erasures or interlineations any where. His conversation was like his write ing, a vigorous, flowing current, apparently without the trouble of thinking, and always impressive. His conclusions were rapid and immovable, when he was under strong convictions, though often yielding in minor points to his friends. And no man yielded quicker when he was convinced ; perfectly illustrating the difference between firmness and obstinacy. Of all the Presidents who have done me the honor to listen to my opin ions, there was no one' to whom I spoke with more confidence when I felt myself to be in the right. He had a load to carry all his life, result ing from a temper which refused comprom ise and bargins, and went for a clean victory or a clean defeat, in every case. Hence every step he took was a contest, and it may be added, every cpntcst was a victory. I have already said that he was elected a Ma jor General in Tennessee—an election on which so much afterwards depended—by one vote. His appointment in the United States regular army was a conquest from the administration, which had twice refused to appoint hint a Brigadier, and once disbanded him as a vounteer General, and yielded to his military victories. Ilis election as Presi dent was a victory over politicians—as was every leading event of his administration. India Rubber Shoes. The following interesting article dcscrib ing the manner of making India Rubber Shoes, now so much in demand, we find in the N. York ”Journal of Commerce." Contrary to the general impression India Rubber, in the process of manufacture, is not melted, but is passed through heated iron rollers, the heaviest of which weigh 20 tone, and thus worked or kneaded, as dough is at a bakery. The rubber is near ly all procured from the mouth of the Ama zon, in Brazil, to which pint it is sent from the interior. Its form, upon arrival, is gen erally that of a jug or pouch, es the natives use clay moulds of that shape, which they repeatedly dip into the liquid substance until a coatjng of the desired thickness ac cumulates, when the clay is broken and emptied out. 'The rubber, after being washed, chopped fine, and rolled to a pu-tty-like consistency. is mixed with a compound of metaiic sub stance, principally white lead and sniping. to give it body or firmness. ThoSe sheets designed for the soles of shoes are passed nuclei rnilcrs having a diamond-figured sur face. Prom these the soh s are cut by hand .and the several pieces required to perfect the shoe ate put together by females, on a last. The mitural ndheshm of the rubber joins the seams, 'l'ho shoes are next var nished and haled in an oven capable of hold ing about 2000 pairs, and heated to about :3000 degrees, were they remain seven or eight hours. This is called the .vulcaniz ing' process, by which the rubber is hard ened. "A large quantity of cotton cloth and cot ton flaurel is used to line shoes, and is ap plied to the surface of the rubber while it is yet in sheets. Not a particle of any of these materials is lost. The scraps of rubber are remelted, and the bits of cloth are chopped up with a small quantity of rubber, and roi led out into a substance resembling paste board, to form the inner sole. The profits of this business have been somewhat cur tailed - of - Inte, by the prevailing high price of rubber, which has varied within a year from twenty to sixty cents per pound. The demand, however is very large. A species of rubber shoe lined with flannel is exten sively used in acme parts of the country as a substitute for the let:them shoe." Mort &ker.—Collector Hastings, of Pittsburg, has received $90.000 in silver frotn the Becreta iy of the Treasury. which he purposei distribut. ing Among the community for gold, at the rate V. 3000 per weik, until the whole is disposed af. This wakes ~$55,000 sent to Pittsburgh for aifte,bution within a feW months,. 411)e liegioter. Allenfou i 9,. Pa. IVEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 8,1854. The Mail Carriage of Newspapers. fly the follov‘ing extract Irem the Message Washington to Congress on the 3d of De cember 1793 it will be seen be Has the first advocate of free mail carriage to News—pacers and Public documents—a measure which has never yet been fully curried out. Weekly newspapers are only free to citizens of the county in which they are printed—but daily papers are not sent free to any. Extract from the Message : '•llut here I cannot forbear to recommend •' the repeal of the tax on the transportation of " public prints. There is no resource so firm "for the Government of the United Slates, as " the affections of the People, guided by an en " lightened policy ; and to this primary good, " nothing can conduce more, than a faithful rep " resentation of public proceedings, diffused •' without . restraint, through out the United "States." The wise men at ',Vashington city, after an experience of (illy years have not been able to -ee as far as the great "Father of his Country." Court Proceedings January 30:11, Court met pursuant to public notice. All the Judges in their seats. Reuben Ross, was appointed to attend to the Grand Ju ly, and Henry F. Nagel and George H. Carl, as tip•siales. Commonw,:olth is fleecy Hetrick —This was an action of fornication and haidardy on oath 4. 1 Et:ina Dull. Tne Jury found a verdict for fornication but not of bastardy. The court sent- fenced defendant to pay a line of twenty•five dollars and cost of prosecution. ' Coninionzvee/th r•s. David Schciret—Case of fornication and bastardy on oath of Leah Schneck. Continued to next term. Ccnunonuto/th vs. Jacob Sat—Fornication and bastardy on oath of Mary Ann Niess. Verdict guilty. The Court sentenced Sell to pay a fine of one dollar, costs, twenty-five dollars expen ses up to date, and give security to pay fifty cents a week until the child arrives to the age of seven years. • Two ocher cases of fornication and bastardy were continued to next term. Comnionwea/th vs. John Johnsto» —This was a case of assault and battery on oath of Elizabeth lVolfenberger. The-Grand Jury returned no bill and the case was discharged the county to pay the costs. Commonwealth vs. John Moran —Stith). of the peace on oath of William Richards. On hear• ing the complaint, the Coon dismissed the case, and ordered each party to pay hallo( the costs. Commonwealth is Pah id: Ward —AsFault and battery on oath of William Chase. Continued to neat week. Commonwealth rs Edward Crampsey —Case of larceny on oath of Daniel Stettler. The defen• dant was indicted for stealing a silver watch, the properly of Daniel Stettler. The Jury found a verdict against defendant. Sentence deferred until next week. Conmrot.u•c.dtle vs. John Gross —lndictment for resisting the Constable of Hanover township. ft appears in evidence that Richard Miller, the Constable of Ilanover township, Lehigh coun ty, had an attachment issued at the instance of Andrew Kratzer against John Gross the defen dant, by Michael Ritter, a Justice of the Peace cf said township,by virtue of which he attempt• ed to take w horse from the defendant ; who re fused to give him up, alledging that the horse belonged to ,a man in New York ; the Jury on hearing the evidence thought otherwise and found defendant guilty in the mariner and form 4.1 - 4 he stood indicted. The court sentenced (; I n F ,,-; to pay a fine of one dollar and the costs. n it ea,;s in the Common Pleas were cow itteitt iod with t.O Monday last, February C. The courtadjourned on ‘Vednesday morning to meet again on 'Monday February 6, 1851. Sensible Remarks A 00f reF.pomient et lb,. Delaware County Republican communicate:: to that paper the fol lowing gond and timely advice. Every word true to the letter: Stilicrihe tel n Poper —The preseot is a fa vorable period tor those alto wish to take a pa er, to subscribe for one. The long evenings which arcompany the present season give all (lasses an abundance of time for reading, es pvehilly those in the country. It is to the in tore -t of all persons, if they properly understand it, to u bNe tibe lor thti paper published in their vicioity or caunty,bevaase it contains the local news oh the county or district—the marriages and tienths of their relatives, friends and au quaintances—notices of the settlements of es tates—notices of religious, political and other meetings—pruceedingsoltheir courts of justice —nominations and elections of township,cOuri ty and state drivers—public and private sales of real estate, and personal property by them• selves and their neighbors, by executors, ad ministrators, trustees or assignees—besides the general news of the day, extracted from other journals. It is a great satisfaction to read and ponder over the latest intelligence from every quarter of the globe, upon, all subjects of gen eral interest. I doubt whether two dollars per year, when applied in any other Manner, can yield a rational being more satisfaction, or a greater equivalent for his money. Then would say, send on your. names. 1 Font le Noklitr.—The Washington cones pondendeni of the Baltimore Sun says that there is now before Congress a petition from Mrs Eliz abeth C. Smith, of Missouri, who in 1846, under the assumed name of "Ben. Newman," volun teered in the Mexican war, where she served faithfully for ten months, when her sex was dis. covered and she was discharged from the•ser• vice. "Ben" has since married, and now applies to soldiers and not to men, this female soldier may be successful. Frauds on the Columbia Railroad. We last week published a paragraph, taken froin the Harrisburg Union, in which allusion was made to alleged frauds on this road, in the Collector's Office at Philadelphia. The Wing party for years have contended that the grossest frauds and peuelations were frequently corn milted by acme of the horde of officers who had charge of the public: improvements of the State. The admission is now made by, the organ ol the locofoco party of Pennsylvania, and the in vestigation demanded may bring to light some startling disclosures. The "leaven will soon leaven the whole loaf," and we still hope to see the day w hen this school of moral pollution, political degradation, and robbery of the people's money shalrfor ever be broken up. But the most startling dis• closure has turned.up in a few days—namely, that the grossest frauds and defalcations have been discovered among the officers on the Co lumbia Rat We have heard• intimations of this state of affairs °riffle Columbia Railroad, but have not felt authorized to mentioc it pub-. licly, until the whole affair is now in every per son's month. Tire "Union" of last week with a show of honesty rather unexpected, calls for an investigation of their reports. and the expo sure and punishment of the guilty persons.— Report says defalcations to the amount of $6O. 000, in several instances have been discovered, and that almost every officer on the whole rorAl was implicated in this grand scheme of robbe ry and villainy. Is it not tr sad picture for the overburdetted taxpayer to contemplate the system of defaleation, fraud and corruption dai• 1 .) : practised on every mile of our Public 1:11- provements! Does not the Governor adroit in his Message that the system of inalo: 4 :;;;; Public Works is very imper feet and exi•oses the Treasury to fraud ? Does not the lt , port ol the Canal Board frankly admit that fraud has been practised on the Portage Railroad, and that it is impossible to prevent it tinder the present system 7 Is there a man who is in the least acquainted with these matters, Le lie Whig or Lccoleco, but will confess that these rffices are but stepping stones to fortunes, by pilfer - I ing the Treasury 7 Why the people will be so blinded to their interests, and suffer such a state of things to exist, as too strange. 'They do not do so for want of evidence to convince them ol the facts, for the reports of the Audi:ot Genet- 1 and Canal Board, arid the Message of the Gov. enter afford ample testimony of these facts ? The late disclosure on the Columbia Railroad, no doubt will undergo investigation, and we a ill be able to judge of the extent of the vil lainy practised there, unless, as is too freqdently the ease, this investigating committee devotes its time to smoothing over these defalcations, instead of exposing their deformi.ies. As one ' discovery leads to another, we may expect more along the line of our Public Improvements. An insight into the way things are managed cm the Portage Railroad, would, we imagine, star tle the "natives considerably," and wake up the liell-bountl taxpayers; We will await the action of our Locoloco friends to exploit these matters, as it seems "a waste of the raw mate. vial,'' for a Whig to charge corruption en these officers. Perhaps the people will believe it, if they are convicted before a locofoco jury. Serious and Nearly Fatal Mistake A few days since, a German, named Juhe Halvaur, called at the Drug Store of Mr. Jacob S. Lawrence, in Minersville, and asked in brok• en English for Saleratus, but, the Clerk under stood him to ask for " Poison for Rats," and accordingly dealt him out a portion of Arsenic*. This Mr. flalvaur took home and his wife mix ed it with the Cakes which were served up for slipper. The family partook of the Cakes and ware all taken suddenly ill one of the chil dren being so much efloctcd that its life was despaired of. Nledical aid wa4 immedimely called in and they all happily recovered. This ease we trust will prove a suborn). 10-son to Druggist generally.—Patsvillo Emporium end Press. Benton on Dons/ass —Some one asked Col. Benton a dad• or two ago, Fay a lVashington correspondent of the Trilmne, why he had nor. or Mulled into the Little Giant. ' ' Mr. Dong. lass, Sir, Mr. Douglass, Sir," said the Colonel; "Ah, lie reminds me of a awry. A man her. ing a haetions bull and desiring to kill him, was ut.abled to roach hint in his prarming and :;•iping. An old negro standing by asking his master why he was so anxious to hit the bull? 'Lei him alone, Massa, and by and by he jnmp so Inch he break his own neck in the " 'Again, 'speaking, of the Nebraska bill, fen• ton is reported as saying: Douglass, sir, is politically dead,•sir: I; he fails to carry his bill, the South will kick him in the rear, sir and if he does carry it, the North will beat his brains out. That's all sir.'' A Neu: 'Plunder' Paper.—;tudrew Hopkins, E4q., tins issued proposals to establish on cr abunt the 22d of February instant, a now 'Dem ocratic' paper. at Hariisburg,, to be called the Pennsylvania pariol. Mr. llopkins is the son of Col. William Hopkins, one of the present board of Locofoco Canal Commissioners. The object of the paper, it may therefore he rvidily, surmised, is to back up the rascatities of plunderers on the public works. As there is no lack of Locoloco patriots who lire by stealings, the new paper will perhaps have a large cir culation, and ho acknowledged as the true or gan of the party itt the Commonwealth. . The .NrAt Agricultural Fair.—The Pennsy va• nia State Agricultural Society have..fixed the time of holding the next Slaw Fair arv ii m 27th, 28th, and 29111 of SeMember,and appoint. ed a committee to receive propositions from the cities and towns of the Commonwealth, for the place of the Exhibition. Harrisburg and Philadelphia, so far, appear to be the only pla. ces that have manifested any disposition to of fer proposals for the Fair. Harrisburg Will prob ably bo chosen again. Legislative Proceedings. SENATE. .ranuary 30. Mr. Fry moved that the commu, pication be referred to theCommittec onFinance• He understood that frauds had been commnh•d and offered the resolution because he thought i; to be his duty. He wanted to know who had committed these frauds, and their names. When he came here, it was to represent his constituents and not the interests of certain gentlemen about Harrisburg. He wanted to know if these (leper_ dations could be committed with impunity, and (hemlines withheld from the Senate. If they had done wrong, their names should be held up to the community as gudty of what is commonly caked stealing, and it was his belref that a good deal of it was done. The motion to refer was agrerd to Mr. Fry, a memorial fr,,m emi L ly against a prohibitory liqui•r law. Which was read, January, 31. On leave give n. Mr. Hamilton presented a petition from Lehigh and Northamp, ion counties, for the incorporation of a bank at Cala sa tut 11 a. February 2. The bill to empower Courts of Common Pleas to incorporate Scientific and 'Ag ricultural Associations, was also considered and passed. . HOUSE OF PEPIiEsENTATIVES. January, 31. The bill relative to ibediviirce of Aaron and Dianna Druclienmiller, being before the Douse. Mr. Hart called for the reasons, in favor, of the passage of the bill. Mi. Laney pave an explanation of the nature of the bill, and had the record of the court rt ad at thug ferdi his conviction for larceny, and sub- SC fluently for arson. Ile stated the particulars of the case, and the bill passed second and final reiiiling, without oprishi,n, Impurbint Invention.— .I.lin Gins, of P o tisro!, has invented an Important and valuable machine tor cutting stone. Its capacity lor labor per day is equal to forty men, It is constructed on a principle differing altogether front anything ever heretofore tried. The sit nes, when finished on the faces will be equal to the finest tooling. It is able to cat the smallest mouldings, without either breaking, or stunning any of the members. Application is about being made for a patent.— Mr. Ging is a ptatical stone cutter, and thorough. ly understands the wants of this branch of bust ness.-211incriseille The Cenfral Railroad Pussuge Il o •urrgh the Tunnel.—.We learn by a despatch front Mr. Ilauro the Superintendent of the great Pennsylvania R itlroad, that on Friday morning a locomotive and cars, from Pittsburg, passed through the tunnel and over the whole road to Altoona, at the eastern base of the Alleghanies, thus cdmpleitng the entire line of the Great Central Railway route, and placing, Philadelpia within 14 hours of the city of Pittsburg. This is, indeed, gratify ing intelligence, and it comes at an opportune moment, at the commencement of the Spring Trade.— B;ckor Ine Rep. Longevily of Parmers.—lt appearqi from the Massachusetts register of and deaths, that the 'duration of the lives of agriculturists was thirteen years above the general average, nearly nineteen above that of common laborcr,, and nineteen per cent. above the average age at death of mechanics. Sakeriplion to the North Peons!,lrani° Roilrowl . —The Board of Commissioners of the District of Northern Liberties at a meeting held last evening subscribed for ten thousand shares in the capita! stool; of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Co. A Slerp Railroad Grade.—The steepest railroad grade in Europe is upon the Piedmontese Rail road, between Tunis and Genoa. It is near the town of Gleni, and the ascent is rne hundred and eighly•five lent to they mile ! Experiment, which ha re been Mad, 11 Iry ' O n,p that I 1.••• ninon:lves, drawing a tiain ot sax cats, weighing, altog,gther WOO mn , ,:,,ean, 1 ,,,1 . thr grade pot a time whcn•the rails were exceedingly wet and sl , pprry. at a ,r-ed ma l es an hoe 'l't. ,, is a lea' nnpreeedeuriii in radrnad The engines used w , re a f pre..thar w..ne t. a Lai don r, atter plan, furnished lip the P:rdmon , e,e engineer of the road. Saiioday 1.1-4 ill, -1 it in, Mr. Jaws Levan, a is-ident ot Schuylkill Schuylkill comoy, , came to Ids death in ii :rightful maimer. It appears he left home in a 11u4gy on that day, and came over the Blue Nlountain into Lynn towin.hip, county, to boy a hon.e. Returning he tied the horse to his vehicle, rtd in going down the mountain. it is r.uppoed they took flight, and ran away. They were taken up by some person, who went in ,catch of the owner ; and found him lying insensible, about halt way up the mountain.— He after being taken up spoke a few words and expired. Mr. Levan leaves a family, and sev• eralehildren to mourn his loss. Mots Next to agriculture, the shoe. making business is tiro most important and profitable pursuit in Massachusetts, and has the largest number of persons engaged in it.— The Andover Advertiser 'says that the aggre gate value of boots and shoes manufacted in Alassechusetts is 537,000,000, or more than•that of all the other States combined and far exceed ing that of any other manufacture in the Com monwealth. About one•third of 'the above amount is shipped to New York, and the re mainder is sent to the SJuth and West, to Cal• ifornia, the West Indies, South America Aus tralia, the Sandwich Islands. England, and the European continent. Lynn is more extensive ly engaged in this business than any other town, making nearly five ritillions of pairs an• mall'. Then come in succession, Danvers, Stoneham and Grafton. In the latter town, a single manufacturer uses 01111 hundred bushels of shoe' pegs every year.. The pegs used in this immense business are mostly made in New klamshire ;' they. are, cut by machinery, and one firm manufactures fifty bushels per day. Machinery is also now teed to a crnsid• orable oxtentifor sewing & stitching the leather: I Terrible Explosion. • About ten minutes past I . it'clock on Saturday afternoon, the patent cartridge manufactory own ' ed by Mr. French, at Ravenswood, Long Island. wan blown up, and some Mimi or twenty prrstio., mostly boys and females, were instantly killed. The shock occasioned ny the r was Tremendous, and was sensild; re: , :it a di,t.uu:, of six cr eig,ht milts ; and dui noon, a report %vas current iu 1 , ...1i;;;;,; , 1.t0t, and Brooklyn, !hat an eal , htiltal:e It-. 1 taken id.te, somewhere nport the ',laud 'l'he scene at R:ivens‘vo., , l ireetipw,l I v :11r. 1,,r manatir•iare Fr.•nell's ra a one•story wend boil tiny , iwrnty•five fret squvre which was blown into fragments, and not a sin• gle suck could be found that a child could not There wrre about loeniy persons—mmtst boys and le males—en Me building. engaged m fillet and packing earwili2es, nll of whom, with obe or two rxerrnions, were in•tantly The following persons xverc so serioukly Hui nil that it is thought impossible fur thou to re MEI Andrew Carney, a Set tch boy ; had a rota n, of his bowtls.and lungs I lawn away : he caned MEM John Swill], a voting man, who has been in ihe employment of Mr. French but two or ihtee days u•as literally blown to pieces, having his arms and legs broken . , and his body and tare dread!ully mangled. lle was conveyed to the New Hospital. Chrishipher Casey, a young man, was so bad ly injured that it is considered impossille for hint recover. ft is supposed that there wrre about Nit toy persons in the building, and but three were known to have been taken out alive. . it is :aid that the fire originated in the north east corner of the building, in the opposite end of the building from the 'stove, but from what cause is unknown. There were over 50,000 bail cartridges made up in the building, beside a considerable gionti ty of powder. The cartridses nearly ally:titbit]. cd, and the balk were thrown in every direr lion but providentially no person out of the building was seriously injured. One of the balk passed ihrough a pane of glass into the library room of Mr. Bodine, a distance of one eight of a mile, and shattered the chandelier. At the time of the accident Mr. French was en gaged at work in a small htuse some fiheen rods distant, and narrowly• escaped wilt) his life. A furnace near where he was standing was broken to pieces, and Ili.; hat was carried away and could not be found; he also received several slight bruises about the flee and body from miss sites, which were hurled in all directions. The shock of the explosion was felt about halt past one o'clock. It is Si(3. that the 501111.1 heard at 11'illiatnsburty„ a distance of several miles. 'nie neighborh...i, as map be itnagint was thrown into instant comm o ti o n, and er,wd. of persons hurried at once to the place. Crowd , of people instantly gathered around the 'rum, and the scene; that, transpired are sat,' to have been truly heart rending. The but!ding Ilse!! stood in the intik! of a spacious open Ito, ;Ind.'. use the language of a bystander, was alto s literally covered with frigiornisothittnan bodie, • Some of the unfortunate victim , appeared to hay. been absolutt ly torn into shod-, until all folio and likerles, of liumaniv had desert!,! Ili, in.-- On one stile lay a lira] ::carted it s and at a little distance 1 ty rs mut' 1.10,1 menthe!.. Mids, lee!, and scraps, of where all over the h-Is. ' tievrral of ndinhing and int,•ri,l,l dents which accompany every arva: f ibis kind look place. Neal ly a:I We tvere young men or tmys, and youn..! g•i! , ; 1110 aeolly Of 111(' 11( . 11' 'Vett rill , •111 , 011 1110 Np.ki •i, Int! •“111 ,. 1ra n nol %%16,'1 p. rhap. a:I IP ;.:: d 'scribNl lit•rt• , ratclitA ant r 4,1 wt.pi au: tv, , hr 1: fII el Cap pr. r I:fdes.: linoamint of hi. h was and ito-re a mother. dvtiroot. won !Zrier. taintu showers of tears upon Ore rrinain• of a chi which only the trite maternal heart ,‘ a. title n. recognize. An affecting incident was told of a poor wonran,h native of Ireland, who bad a son to the bud ling. Or hearihg of the catastrophe, though old and infirm, she hastened with tortur ing steps to the dreadful scam. They told tier son was among the dead—her srn, to whom she had looked fur support and aft Ilion, and whom she had idolized, perhaps, as fondly as many of h'gh , r birth and largvr Meanc. The spectators aitt tripled to keep her back, but her strong love was cut to Le thus °erre. me. E'l.e forced her way until she stood in the midst of the fearful scene and then began her mournful seach, Finally she espied a headless trunk, with the vertebtai protruding from the gory neck,and this she recognised as the sole remains of him who hail been so suddenly cut down in the midst of life and health. Illackeiti'd, disfigured and bereaved she'sull knew her offspring. Those who witnessed the scene say that a spectale more liar. rowing, even to the coldest heart, was never wit. nessed. Such scenes as this were common ; probably no calamity since the the dreadful steamboat ex plosion on the North river, has beets so prolific in incidents ol this nature. The immediate cause of the explosion is not yet known, and it is nut likely that it will ever be ascertained. The people of the village cen sure Mr. French severly for not employing a greater degree of caution in his dangerous man ufactory, and especially for not appointing a ju dicious and expeiienced superintendent over his juvenile wothman, many of whom were of thyler years, seine of them being under twelve,hnd otv ly two or three adults among them, if we are rightly informed. Several of the Irish residents of the place became, shaft!) , after the occurrenc quite riotous on. the subject, and one was heard tO threaten to "string op" Mr. F. Perhaps, in consequence of these threats, that gentleman with his family, have left the place temporarily, , Somc idea of the tremendous force of the es. plosion may be conceived when we say that ev• ery dwellingehouse in the immediate neighbor hood was shaken almost to their foundations.— Rev. Nr. Waite, al Episcopal clergyman, rest• . ding near the manufactory, was forced to remove with his family to a neighbor's house, some dis tance MT to obtain shelter from the inclement weather, every window in his own dwelling be tog blotto comp!. tely nut. All the dwellings in vlc:atiy sere in the sane stale. Curiously en-togh, a stage happened to be passing at the tune c xp:osion, and lie concussion was so great that the ;classes in the windows on one side were shattered Imo a thousand pieces. We are odd that had the magazine, which was . , simaied at a sh..h distance fr . orn the main build ing, became ignited, the consequentes would, have been still more disastrous. The magazine contained between two and three tons of powder. Fortunately for the poor sufferers, medical re bel was instantly at hand, and everytinne war .1. tie that prolt - -,h,nal skill could devise. The Colonel's inqueSt lakes place to day, at R.n•cnswood, when the full particulars of thit: dreadful affair will be ascertained. \ fine elk calf was °served up" in Louis ville, last w r•k. The flesh is said to be ddiclous. re' Daniel 111cLood, an old bachelor, was fro: ,:en Cu death in his bed:at Aid waukie, Wisconsin on the 22.1. COMlnissioners of Laurence county have signed the coupon bonds for $150,000, for .he Piusburg and 1 7 .; . ie Rtilruad . Company, and are now ready for delivery. Gam' It was just seventy.. , ne years on the Ist of Pebrdary 1854, since George Washington, the first President of ihe United States, was inaugut, rated into I dice. Fir The nettpie of tire aFP vlnidllng. the High. cr I.:tw, inasmuch as it is there laid down that the straight and narrow path is the one. ll'/,• t • do Toth Drc Ill.—All the theories that time and again have been advanced in answer to this'enquiry, have long since vanished before the true doctrine of the action of external corro sive agents: The great and all powerful desttoi. . of the human teeth is acid, vegetable or min eral, and it matters not whether that acid is form ed in the mouth by the decomposition of panic• les of food lefr between and around the teeth, or whether it i..vapplied directly to the organs them selves; the result is the same, the enamel is dis solved, corroded, and the tooth, destroyed. Moe h very much of the decay in teeth may be attri buted to the corrosive effects of acetic acid, which is not only in common use as a condiment in the form of vin-ior, but •it is generated by the lecay and decomposition of any and every vari ety of vegetable matter. When we consider how very few persons corriparitivt•ly, take especial pains to remove every particle of food from be iween and around Cleir teeth immediately after eating, can we won ler that diseased teeth are so common, an i ill a Ilwir early loss is so frrquent .l.l.l,,red.—Praclic,i nr.+l. Irehbv,'s Agrieull ire.— Alt official return has oven made 01 the toial agricultural produce Ireland, of the number of acre, undi r cultivation, and the amount of stock in p issession of the population, durinz, the year 1552. Owing to the extensive emigration to America an I Australia the number of holding., the extent of land under tilovation, and the rptantoy of crops sown have otlergiine a considerable diminution, as compar• .1 with the previous year,and yet the aggregate. ,di duce of the country is largely increased. .ybeat, oats and other crops, in which the dimin• 0.1ic,1 cultivation has taken place, have been ',roil to exceed the produce of the previous year, ,i;,l a sinnlar plienomena is observable in nearly • r, re department which ha, been brought under In the article of mock the returns show ire.• .t.er. ase. ihmumen/.—The amount .1 1,1 1853 r; 3,d in the ctttooructiott of this =I nothing with ❑ balance of t Ilan I ;it ihr beginoing of the yenr, litiel :11it,020.31. ()I' this ante, ', 4 311 45 , 1,9 t }, , 01 cormatitee, :mil ;10,000 Cti:P t al molest with Alessri. Corcoran and One or t other small bills were also ihe of January the amount due itchw•a>?'lil.l2. EMI al 1 Wurk Know' ng.—The first Newspaper publish ed in England, was entitled the Ytiblic Inielli" genccr, in the year 1663, only one hundred and navy years ago. The first in America, was the Boston News Letter, issued in 1704,0ne hundred and lilly years ago. The second was the Bolton l;azcite, issued in 1719, one hundred and thirty four years ago. The Ciatia Pereha Trade. The-history of gotta percha is brief, but evt-niful. Previous to 1844, the very name of gutta percha was unknown to Eu ropean commerce. In that year two cwt. of it was shipped experimentally from Singe ? . pore. The VNportation of gutta percha from that port rose in 1845 to 100 piculs, (the picul is 1381 lbs.;) in 1810, to 5,304 ; in IS4li, to 9,296 ; and in the seven months of 1818, io - 6,768 piculs. ln the first four and a half yearS of the trade, 21,598 piculs of gutta percha; valued at $274,100, were Shipped at Singapore, the whole of which were sent to England, with the exception of 15 piculs to Mauritius, 470 to the continent of Europe, and 922 to the United States:' But this rapid growth of the new trade con veys only a faint idea of the commotion it' created among the native inhabitants of the Indian Archipelago. The jungles of the Joboro were the scenes of the earliest gath , - eripgs i and they were soon ransacked in eOl cry direction'by parties of Ma!ays and Chi nese, while theindigerfousgaVe themselves up to search witli d tinanimity . and idol' on ly to-be quilled by thin. which made rait way jobbers of every man, woman, 'and child in England about the same time. The knowledge of the ankle stirring the avidity of the gatherers, gradually. spread from Sin. gapore northward as far as Feliang, south. ward along the east coast of Sumatra to Java, eastward to Borneo, where it was found at Brune, Sarawalc; and Pontiannk, on the west coast, at Keti and Passer on the east- GLEANINGS
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