Cheap Paper or Dear Reading.
'he newspaper world is threatened with an
assault almost as formidable in its way as that
of the combined fleets on. Russia. Its very
"staff of lite" is at stake. For more than a
year the price of paper has been steadily ad.
vancing, and instead of exhibiting any sym
tome of a decline, threatens a still further rise.
In part the Evening Bulletin thinks this is to
be. attributed to the enormous consumption
which has increased the demand*eyond the
capacity of the supply, bet in part also to the
difficulty of obtaining rags. In fact tatters are
nt a premium. Old clothes grow scarcer every
day, a strange phenomenon, especially in
these times of prosperity, when every body ,
buys twice as many garmeate as they were
accustomed to formerly. Without old clothes,
there aro no rags, without rags, alas ! no paper,
‘Vhat will be the result, it would take a second
Solomon to tell. Certainly, if the price of pa
per continuos to advance, newspaperdom will
lind itself in a tight corner. People, by some
strange perversity, expect to get their journals
at the old price, no matter how much wages
may advance, or the price of paper rise. Yet,
it the increase continues much longer, a point
will be reached, with many newspapers,
where the cost of paper alone will consume
nearly the entire nett receipts; and it, such a
crises they must either advance their price or
stop altoLether.
13
It would be a curious fact, if the universal
prosperity, to which a good deal of this rise in
paper may be referred, should act filially , as a
practical extinguisher of the press. The im
position of a stamp duty, it is well known, kil.
41 Addison's "Specator." The advance in
paper will act like the stamp duty. It is true,
it is not so easy to kill a common newspaper
now as it was then, but then neithqr have we
Addisons to write for newspapers, so that, take
it all in all, the rise in paper is almost as se
rious en affair as was the stamp duty. Per.
haps, however, the inventive genius of our
countrymen may yet save the public horn the
alternative of having to pay two prices for its
newspapers or abstain from them entirely. All
that is wanted is, the discovery how to make
good printing paper out of some cheap mate
rial. -Straw has been talked of, and a story
went the rounds of the press, a few months
ago, that some manufacturer had even tsuc•
ceeded in making good printing paper out of
straw. 13ut of late we have heard nothing of
this straw paper. Where is Yankee ingenui
ty 1 Surely the men who can make first rate
hams out of old walnut, and capital nutmegs
out of ditty mahogany, ought to be able to
make white printing paper out of wheat straw,
of corn-sta!k lodder. The march of civilize.
tion demands this, as tho next Invention of the
age. Cheap paper or -dear journals—that is
the issue--and how shall we meet it
A Singular*Cure
A recent number of the Concordia Intel!igen
cer contains the following account of a case of
supposed consumption, and 4!s singular cure:
About Your years ago, a young gentleman in
Maine was attacked with a cough, and applied
to the most Ekil fu I of the medical profession in
his vicinity. But relief came not. The symp-
toms were pronounced sure indications of con
sumption. Ile wasted away gradually, losing
strength and energy ; and his physicians told
him he must die, as the consumption, which
was wasting him away, could not be cured or
even checked. Ha went to Cincinnati to avail
himself of the advice and great skill of the emi
nent physicians of that city. There he met no
encouragement, but, on the contrary, was told
his case was hopeless—that one lobe of his
lungs were already pile. As death approach.
ed, the love of life became stronger, and he re•
solved to come south, seeking some prineiple
of life from our generous climate. He has been
sojourning for a few months at the hospitable
mansion of ono of our eminent citizens, and
has visited the 'sugar plantation, inhaling the
saccharine vapors as a restorative to his west
irig lungs, but without relief.
But in an hour of despondency, when death
was looked upon as a welcome messenger, re•
lief came. About a week ago, in ono of his
violent and distressing fits of coughing, he
threw up a cuckle bur. Since the bur has been
ejected, he says he feels, like a new man ; and
as he frequently calls on us, we perceive a
very marked change and almost perceptible
daily improvement.
The young gentleman, we hope, will be soon
restored entirely to health and usefulness. The
cough, which has been for two or three year.•
very annoying and occasionally violent, has
almost entirely disappeared, appetite is return
ing, and a desire for exercise and active life
manifests itself. Ile swallowed the bur, arci•
dentally, about four years ago, but his physi-
cians laughed to scorn the idea of the bur re
maining in the
.throat, although the patient
strived to convince them that the cough was
caused by the lodgement of the bur, and not
from diseased lungs.
Remedy for the Bite nf a .11ad Dog.—As the cry
of Mad dogs has been raised, the lullmeing which
we clip from an exchange,
.may t: worth a pci
rusal :
"A Baron forester, named Gastell, now of the
venerable age of eightyliwo, unwilling to take to
the grave with him a secret of such import, has
made public to the ..Lelpsic Jourtiel," the means
which he has used for fitly years, and wherewith,
be affirms, he has rescued many human beings
and cattle from the fearful death of hydrophobia.
Take immediately warm vinegar or tepid water
wash the wound clean therewith, and then dry it,
then pour upon the wound a few drops of Muria'
tic acid, because mineral acids destroy the poisr
son or the saliva, by which means the evil'ef
f eets of the latter is neutralized." • .
. Fortunate.—Joseph Scoville, late private sec.
retary of Lola Monttz, and editor of the New
York Pick, has fallen heir to the large estate val•
ued at $200,000 left by the late Hun. Nathan
Preston of Litchfield, Corm.
el ) c frl)igi) Register.
A Milieu pi, Pa.
_ .
WEDNESDAY, bincit 59,1864.
iron onvEmiun:
JAMES POLLOCK, .
Of NorthumbPrland County.
PoR CANAL crmetssi .1“:11 .
GEORGE DARSIE,
Of Allegheny County.
FOR JCDGE(r TUE SUPREME C - URT.
DANIEL M. SMYSER,
Of Montgomery -County.
The Candidates and the Platform.
If those of the Opposition who have been
congratulating themselves for a year past, that
the Whig party is dead, had been at Harris
burg last Wednesday, on the occasion of the
assembling of the State Convention, they
would have had indisputable evidence of a
resurrection to even more than its pristine en.
ergy and vitality. Seldom, in their pahniest
day& have the Whigs appeared to better ail
vattlrge, or given a more hopeful assurance of
firm, united and concentrated action, and de.
votion to princiPle. In point of numbers it was
the largest, in intelligence the ablest ; and in
energy the most efficient body that has ever
assembled for a similar purpose. Of the 133
delegates composing a full Convention, one hun- I
dred and thirty were in attendance. The gal
lant Whigs of our extreme western, northern,
and southern boundaries, remote from the capi
tal, were duly represented by delegates of their
own choice, who had left their homes in 'the
busiest season of the year and travelled hun
dreds of miles, to alit in the great work of re
organizing for a new crusade against what is
called the Dernceratic party, and to select the
standard bearers for a fresh onslaught against
the common enemy. It was a sight to cheer
the hearts of the most desrontfing, and inspire
hope and confidence of bright future results.
Janes Pora.ccx, of Northumberland county,
is the nominee fir Governor. !leis a good,
I sound, conservative ‘Vhig, right on every ques
' tion of public policy now before the coutory,
and no less sound and true in all his apiece
, dents. Wo dely Locofucoism to say aught
against his private, public or intellectual char
actor, or his fitness for the station to which he
has been named, without a resort to the gross.
est libels. In voting for him, the people will
vote for a man in the full sense of the term.
As a jurist he is learned and able—as a states,
man, experienced ; wise, honest and eminent
ly patriotic. lie will make just such a Gayer.,
nor as the people want.
Of Gc. - du.a: DAI{SIE, all who know him per
sonally, or by reputation, whether Whigs or
Dernecrata, will say--stual say if they are can.
did—that fur the office of Canal Commissioner
no choice could be better. No man in the
State, probably, has devoted more time to the
examination of our improvement system, in
all its bearings, than he, or is better posted up
in the abuses that prevail, and the proper rem
edy to be applied in order to stop them. fie
has for many years been a leading, and em
phatically a working member of the Senate—
entertaining more enlarged views, more labor•
ious and conscientious in the discharge of his
duties, arid less swayed by party predilections,
than any of his colleagues in that branch of
the Government.
Of Judge Sstrscrt, of Montgomery, it is un
necessary to say a word. He is well known
by reputation and highly esteemed by the legal
profession, and all others capable of jadging,
as a jurist of ability, thoroughly qualified for
the high position for which he is named. A
more estimable man in his private and social
relations', than Judge Smvsra ; is not to be found
in the Commonwealth.
So much for the candidates. The platform
upon which they stand, it will be observed, is
composed of solid timber—true live oak (iire•
iaphorically speakii p) Isom the tree forest of
the North. There is not a plank in it upon
which any good Whig—or Dernoerat—cannot.
and ought not to stand. No rottonness is
there—no attempt at disguise, or concealment,
or doobledlealing, or shuffling to catch votes.
The resolutions speak right out and express
the true sentiment of patriotism, and adherence
no Pennsylvania interests, acid no Petinsylva•
than, if he is a true man, can plant his foot up
on any other.
, As a whole the tick et is good, the resolutions
are sound, and the prospects of success by no
means discouraging. Let the Whigs but re,
solve to deserve success this ) ear by energetic
action during the campaign, a nd
a a lull turn-out
on election day, and victory will mot aseured•
ly be their reward.—Reading Journal.
Frozen to Death.
On Friday last, as is customary in many parts
of the country, a wood chopping frolic took place
somewhere in Longswamp township, Dellis
county, at which liquor was dealt out, and at
which a poor inebriate, named Henry Weber, no
doubt partook freely. On leaving in the evening
full of the poisonous beverage, and but a short
distance from the place (tithe frolic, he laid clown
aside of a feuce, and there was found a Corpse
the next day. This, should serve as a warning
to liquor drinkers.
Escape from Jail
On Sunday niaht, Burney Donley, imprisoned by
Hoffman d r Seider,having hired a horse and not re•
turning the same according to contract made good
his escape by securing of the keys to the
prison yard. It appears Sheriff Weiler, has a
man to attend as ostler, who took off the
. lock
on the outside of the prison 'yard gate and
locked the same in the inside, he put the key
into his pocket, and retired to the room of Don,
ley ; after the ostler went to bed, and slept
soundly, Donley got up took out the keys from
the ostlers pocket and went out into the yard
unlocked the gate and escaped.
IThe "Lehigh Patriot."
Our neighbor of the “Patriot" is cooled down
some what, and in an indirect manner acknow
ledges the "guilt" we fastened upon him, by
the publication of the certificateln the"flegis.
ter" of the 18th instant. His efforts are now
directed to other matters not at issue, he is
caught in his OWII trap, and the only hottest
way to extricate himself, is hut to confess that
he has wronged us, and the matter shall be
dropped. To continue in a perversion of facts
.I
is simply ridiculous. Your allusion as to 0111'
writer is childish. You deeming us enworthy 1
of your notice, is a matter that your readers
knoW to be untrue, as you have made the at•
tack upon us and continued it in you issues of
the Bth and 22d, in an ungentlemanly and un.
neighborly manner. You charged us in a mat
ter you knew at the time you made it to be false,
you, however, persisted in the charge; we met
it and disproved it to the satisfaction of any hon.
est citizens, by the publication of a certificate'
of a person who delivered to you the proceed.
ings. You in your last issue admit that you
received the "proceedings" Which is the point
at issue, butcontentl that the same were not de
livered in the printing dice. The course you
have taken upon this point, makes you indeed
appear ridiculous in the eyes of your readers.
Does not every subscriber of yours, ant( all who
ever done business in your establishment knout,
that such is positively all done in your book.,
room or publication, and not in your printing
office? Then why not frankly admit that you
have wronged a fellow neighbor.
We will now proceed to answer ihe quo.
ties of the " Patriots : as he placed them in
regular order.
First—Our neighbor says, we should di,.
charge our writer,, as he placed us in a sad
predicament as regards a point of veracity, be•
ing ourselves at one time a partner in the es•
tabli,hrnent. True, we were a partner at •one
time, and during our connection. with the es.
tabli,hment, nearly dpuhled the sub , cription
but the awlul name of 1 2.figot Vattiot,' we
were not able to eratlicatedt being a matter with
the people, and not with us, it hangs like an
incubus upon the establishment, which nought
but a proper reipect fir truth ler many years
to eoine can blot out.
Second—The iot' indirectly Admits that
he received the proceedings, at the bookstore,
but in order to get out al the scrape, he tells
us, they were not delivered in the printing of
fice. Thus we see that you have tan only en
trapped, but made yourself supremely redicu.
lous in this affair.
Third—'Reuben' thinks we would be placed
in a "fix" should our writer take it into his head
to go on a "li.slM.g or !Willing excurvion," as ac
cording to his judgment we are not competent to
%Vhether the public consider
Write canoed)
you a competent j‘h.le IS for them to say, we
however, think
'•'l'tte God of wit to show. his grudge,
Clapp'd asses' ears upon the judge."
Foul th—Dear readers! We must ask your in•
dulgence for the space occupied in refuting the
malicious charges brought against us by this
specimen of humanity.
Frightful Fight.—lt is reported that a fight oc•
curved one day last week, between a patty of
Irish and German laborers on the Rail road near
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, which resulted
in the death of some dozen citizens. How the
quarrel originated we did not learn. If anything
of the kind has taken place, we shall hear ot
more at length and give particulars next week.
re" The Public SchAls of Allentown, will give
an Exhibition in ihe Odd Fellows' Hall, on Fri
day evening, March Slst. To Commence at 63
o'clock. Children will not be admitted.
Three Fires
On the 16.11 of Mllaruh , the house of Mr. Ed
ward Miller, near SiOlied's Bridge, in North
Ninietialt township, Lehigh county, took lire
and with all its contents was burned to the
ground: ills family being absent at the time,
nothing was saved. The loss will fall heavily
on Mr. Miller, being deprived of house and all
his furniture. Loss estimated 5600.
Ott Thursday last, the 17th of March, the
Frame Carpi:H.ler shop, of Mr. Jacob Rohe, jr.,
took fire and was totally destroyed. The lora
of Mr. Rube may reach $2OO. It is said it
origintited front the fact of several children
having taken tire, hom a brick.k de, and kin.
died it in front of the shop among the shm•
tugs. No person being in the shop at the time,
to warn of the youngsters. It is hoped. that
parents will be more careful, and charge their
children riot to play with fire.
On Wednesday noon, the 18th of Mareh, the
'citizens of our Borbugh were. again aroused by
the alarm of fire. We among the rest hurried
to the scene. The fire originated in the bunt
on the rear of the lot, owned by the heirs of
Air. limy Fetter, deceased, ill the occupancy 91
Mr. Thomas B. Weidner. The flames aided by
a bight wind blowing 'at the time, spread so
rapidly, that it was but the work of a few mu.
meats, and an adjoining house and barn. were
disci enveloped hit the names.
The house Was on the came lot , und
ed by Mr. Janne Grose, a colored men, %%Hu
lust Ms all, the other barn, Wild all Itle laltmli•
ed by Mr. Joseph Willman, in Upper Sauce
and occupied by the %%Mow Kern. ;Thu barn
el Mi. Wittman was insured for *2UO, in the
”Saticon lllutual," which will uot more 01411
cover hall ol the loss. 'Mr Weiditer'slotis can
not be less than 6600, having lost a very vale•
able horse, two new wagons, three tuns of hay,
&c. The loss of Fetter's estate may reach 6800.
The Firemen were actively engaged. and but
for their eflorts another barn filled with hay
which stood only a lew leer trom • tile lire,
would have burned down. They deserves the
thanks of the public , . .
tar The inhabitants of the globe profess more
than one thousand religions.
nr Moving fur a new trial—Courting for a
second wire.'
Sale of the Publio Works,
Whether the pUblic works of the state should
be sold or retained has become a question of
greatmoment—a question in which every citizen
of the state is interested. At an early period—
twelve or more years ago—the mismanagement of
the state officers connected with them, attracted
public attention to the subject, and in many sec.
lions of the state not immediately benefited by
them, meetings were called and resolutions in
favor 01 selling them passed. The rapid increase
of the public debt--the inability of the state, for
a short period, to pay the interest on it, serious•
ly alarmed the people—and we very well remem
ber that in Cumberland county a formidable par•
ty,assumtngthe name of AntirTax Party, sprung
up, the object of which was to force a sale by re•
fusing to pay all state taxes until the works were
disposed of. 'Nearly the same spirit, and to a far
stealer extent, prevails now. The state works,
as they have been managed, and as they are like•
ly to be managed, are a source of annoyance
and expense-- they corrupt the public" morals
and increase the state debt. Who, then, will
wonder at the feeling in favor or selling them to
individuals or companies. 'Experience has clear
ly proved that the state cannot manage them
with profit—nay, that under state control they
are a pecuniary loss and a source of corruption.
Let us, therefore dispose of them. We say this
after mature reflection. Up to this time we have
expressed no opinion on the question, hoping
that something might occur to satisfy us that
they might be profitably retained. But noth,
ing has thus far transpired so to satisfy us, and
on every hand, we perceive a growing feeling
in favor of getting rid of them upon almost any
terms, rather than run the risk of keeping them
any longer.
As early as 1814 more than twenty thousand
majority of the popular vote was cast in favor of
1 the sale—now, if a vote were taken, that majori
would be more than quadrupled. The reason
for this is obvious, The people have become
convinced, by long.and severe trials and experi
ence, that state maVageinent is but another name
fir robbery, and that under any system of state
control, likely to be invented, the commonwealth
must be plunged deeper and deeper into debt.—
Any one who looks at the figures, as given by
tthe state officers themselves, must be convinced
that so long, must we be a tax.ridden and oppres,
sed people. It is alleged that the Lace of Canal
CoMmissioner is worth, for the term, $lOO,OOO '
or more, depending upon the smartness
, and de
pravity of the incumbent—and from the fact that
so many seek for it to whom the mere honor and
salary could be no temptation, we are inclined
to believe 'hal the allegation is correct. Such
a sum, or any sum beyond the mere salary, can
'be made by no Other than dishonest means—and
if the board, the head of the whole machinery, is
corrupt, what can we expect but currupt, in all
the subordinates I
It is acknowleged that on the Allegheny Portage
in the term of a single year, we believe, the com•
moo wealth has been robbed of slo,ooo—perhaps
double or treble that amount would not reach the
sum actually stolen; on the Columbia road, the
Collector's (Zee at Philadelphia has been guilty
of peculation; these things are acknowleged—
they are known to the canal board—and yet, al
though months have elapsed since the facts be
came public, and since the attention of the
board has been drawn to them, nothing that we
are aware of has been done to ferret out and
punish the robbers.
Thus has the system of state management ever
worked, and thus will it ever work. It is cor
rapt in its head and to all its members, and there
can be no rational hope entered that it ever will
be otherwise. This, at least is the general im
pression, and this Impression leads to a strong
desire, on the part or the people, to dispose of
state improvements. But the figures are, after
all, the intliceS to direct the public mind to the
course properlo be pursued in relation to the
public works. 'Their actual cost has been $32,t
542,267.77 the interest pat..l 011 the same has
been F 35,167,796.13—the expense of conducting
them has been nineteen and a half millions, and
the entire revenue only $25,342,920.47. The to,
tai cost of the state works to the present time,
has been in round numbers, say $90,000,000, and
we can show to meet this is a revenue of less
than $26,000,000. When we add that new ap•
propriations are asked, amounting to over $6,"
000,1,100, the public may judge for themselves,
whether, under such management of affairs a,
we have had, and as we are likely to have, the
interest of the people would he best promoted by
retaining or disposing of the works. For our
own part, having nothing but the public interest
in view, we Say sell them, and it you Canna' sell
them give them away—do anything but keep
them longer.—Dernorralie Union,
"An Opinion is an Opinion•"
5 Washungton Star, good D. inocratte authority
-ays "the truth is, the management of the Pub.
he Works of Pennsylvania has been well nigh
as corrupt as that of the New York canals, the
politienins regurdi• g their revenues, contracts
in connection , with them, Sze., as legitimate
plunder at all times, anti under all circumstan
ces. Tne State treasury has been robbed by
them in all conceivable ways in their manage.
merit. To so great an extent have they curried
sy.tein, as hot only to defeat all revenue
nr clear profit front
,thepe sit expensive work,
hut also to tlemoratt-e all t , r,owltc, Me itnlit•
ut the Sate. The nut--m sof bolt parties
ate evidently tito , t iii,)(mit, b. sell Mit State
roada unit canals, in the hope that they may
thus get rid of this shocking source of getimal
demoralization, rho Democratic politician ,
ur too many of them. yet stand out against this
popular policy, and bid lair shortly to be prop.
arty paid for their FlVOlaft!{* o . ppoBllloll to the
plan of making .1.110114 eflorts to redeem their
management of their State affairs from the fn-
Ovation of dishonesty and inefficiency."
ladia Rubber Teel/4 —One of the West aehiev
menus in India rubber, is that ut a Boston den•
ifs?, Dr. J. W. Crummincs, who professes to have
succeeded in producing entire sets of teeth, plate
and denials, of rubber, vulcanized to the hard.
ness of ivory, and retaining the exactest possi.
hie adapliots to the Mont .
Legislative Proceedings.
SENATE.
March 17. Mr. Fry, calfed up thp bill to in
corporate thel.ehigh Mountain turnpilli com
pany, which passed finally.
March,'23. Mr. Fry, presented a remon
strance from Lehigh county, against any altera•
Hon in the charter of the Catasuqua and•Mau•
cunkie plank road company.
On motion of Mr: Fry, the supplement to the
act incorporafihg the Allentown railroad corn ,
pany, was taken up and passed finally.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
The Spealcer announced the Senate bill No.I OS,
an act to:provide for the sale of the public works
of Pennsylvania, and the reduction of the .Itate
debt, to be the spcial order of the day, and that
said bill was still in the hands of the committee.
Mr. Strong moved the committee be discharg.
ed from the further consideration of this bill. '
Mr. Scott, of Columbia, said he hoped.the corn,
mittee would not be discharged, but that the bill
should be allowed to take its regular course and
be printed for the use of the members, in order
to be considered understandingly.
Mr. Patterson, of Philadelphia, objected to the
committee being discharged. They had agreed
to repori the Senate bill this morning, but some
of its features being unconstitutional, it' was
deerrietPimproper at the present time.
Mr. Strong, of Philadelphia, said he hoped the
House would discharge the cOmmiftee of Ways
and Means, and proceed to the consideration of
the original bill that was first read by the gentler
man from Westmoreland, (Mr. Coos.)
Mr. Cook, offered to amend, by providing that
the further consideration of Senate bill No. 180,
be postponed until Wednesday next, and that it
be made the special order fur that day; which
was agreed to.
Mr. Laury moved to amend, by making it the
special order for every succeeding day until it
is disposed of.
After some remarks from ?gassers. Bigharn ,
Stiong, and Cook, the amendment was agreed
to as follows : Yeas-59. Nays- 7 .12.
The'motion as amemded, by Mr /Mary was
Men agreed to as follows: Yeas-67, Nay-23.
Practical Evidence (ff . the Benefit of Chloroform.
—The very clever and intelligent Pitris corres.
pondent of the New York Tirnes speaks as fob
lows of the use that this article has been brought
to. lie says.
The first experiment upon the local applicat
lion of chloroform has been made with entire
success at the Clinic Hospital. Mr. Paul I)ui
buffs introduced to a young girl an attendant at the
Hospital, to allow her wrist, upon which was a
virulent abscess to be fumigated with the vapor
of chloroform. The abscess iinmedietely be
came insensible and remained so fur three hours,
The patient, who before could not move her arth,
nor allowed the least contact With ihe sore, re
covered the entire use of her hand. On the sec.
and trial, when the abscess had come to a head,
M. Dubois plunged his instrument into it, and
the patient felt no pain whatever. The wound
is now healing, and a certain degree olio
ity consequent upon the fumigation, still exists
in the part;
Similar experiments have been made in this
country but, no important results have ever been
published,
A DefirMing Subscriber.— , Tdrson Brown low
in exposing a defaulting subscriber, who has,
• fled to parts unknown," owing him six dollars,
uses the following tall language:
Let hint be published in every journal in exis•
tence, until his defalcation is known ; and upon
the waves of Euxine let his meanness be borne
along with the shrieks of the drowning Austri
ans and the groans of the dying Turks! And
may the deep dyed waters of the Danube hide
his body from the eyes of man, when the sabre
of the Cossack and the 'Putt/ shall have drank
deeply of his blued! And may the close of 1 854
never permit the sun to shine upon another rns•
cal, who may abscond in our debt, too mean
and too dishonest even to write and promise to
pay.
Railroad on a New Plan.—Mr. henry Smith,
has invented a novel plan for a railroad.
proposes," says the National Deinoanl.'•laying
the rails on cast•tron posts 'or columns, instead
of wnc•drn sleepers sunk in the mud. The
length of the poSts will vary from fifteen feet, on
a level—and even as low as ten feet, in passing
over rising ground—in one hundred feet; the va,
Hatton of the length of the columns sbperseding
the necessity of grading, in a majority of caces.
The posts extend above the rail sufficiently to
admit of bracing and trussing to such an extent
as to insure stability anil perfect security•" A
speed of at least one hundred miles au hour is
expected on this aerial road!
Success of Me Eriuun.--We learn from the
New York papers that the Caloric ship of 'Mies.
son has succeeded in obtaining nine and ten rev,
olutions per minute with one only of her engines,
which has been improved to important respects
since the late experimental nip. Tilts secures
the same number of (nine or ten) miles per hour
in use. The other engtne will be gut in order
by the first week in April, and about the middle
of that month it is intended to diipatch the ship
to liarve, either direct or via Liverpool. The
owners now feel assured of a success surpassing
the most sanguine expeciatti.m, ever indulged by
the Inventor. . Il their hopes are as well found
ed as from this statement they appear to be, then
the great nautical revolution is indeed impend
mg.
A Good Sized Infiini.—'There is a boy living
near Elkton,TOdd county:Ky., who is obly eight
•
years old, ts four feet' eight and, a half inches
nigh, weighs one hundred and sixty-five pounds
and is retnarkably.sprighily and intel!igcni.
Heavy Ualibrry.—Y rorrday Mr. J. Price, a
merchant trim N Jrth Carolina, had his pocket
picked at ihe o.,lonrtur depai, corner of Broad
k Prime siietis,i.l twenty seven hundred dollars,
in loundred., , fiiiies, weniies, and lens, principal.
ly of ihe Bank of Cap► Pear, Wilmington.--
There were also some'notes of the Bank of Pa_
yetteville, and some of the Commercial Bank of
of Wilmington.—Nerili American of numbly.
•
The Policy of Great BrUlan.
Miss Pardoe, in an introduction to her adipira:
ble work, entitled "The Bosphorus and the Dan ,
ode," assigns these reasons for British interfer
ence between Russia and Turkey
"That the existence of an infidel empire on
the soil of Christian Europe is an anomaly can
not be denied; but it is not the less certain that
it is vitally essential as a bulwark against the
principle aggression of an equally uncivilized
and far more unscrupulous power. With Tur
key must necessary fall Egypt, and with Egypt;
England would loose her overland route to India,
should the intrigues of the Muscovites succeed
in seducing Persia, the last barrier would be
broken down between our Eastern possessions
and those of Russia; and were the fleets of the
Czar once to hold the Black Bea,all
both political and commercial, must be destroyed:
Thus, then, even setting aside every considera
tion of national honor, the fall of Turkey could
not fail deeply to affect the welfare of England
while on the other hand, every principle of hu,
manity, generosity, and dignity, calls upon her
to rescue a bravethearted And truthful people
and a lovely and fertile land, fron3.the iron rule
of a despot, who seeks to write his name in char
acters of blood above the portals of theirpalaces
to reduce their population to serfdom, and to
clutch within his Briarian arms not only Con
stantinople itself, but the whole of Western
Europe."
The New Haven Ried.—The particulars of this
affair show that the students were not the agues.
sors. On Friday night ahnut twenty of them'
were relurning peaceably, from a pl4e olainuse
men's, and when near the College grounds, were
attacl4(.l by about one hundred Irishmen, with
brickbats, stones and other missiles ; several .
students and others were seriouslyinjured, and
one Irishman, Patrick O'Neil, was killed.' The
students took refuge in the College. The as
sailants then left. It was supposed that there .
would be no further trouble. About one oclock
at night they received word that a large party
of Irishmen were advancing, with cannons. By .
this time all the .students were aroused. They
immediately closed :he windows, and barricaded
the. doors with planks. In a short time about
five hundred persons advanced, with two can
nons, loaded with grape shot. They threatened
to fire on the College, if the situleil by whose
hands O'Neil receivod his , death blow was not
forthcoming. This threat they woe ; prevented.
from executing by the arrival of the police, who
spiked the cannons. There is no doubt had they
been permitted to execute their purpose, serious
result would have ensued, as a large portion i w
the students were armed with pistols., 'There
Was great commotion in the streets all night; the
bells were all ringing, and certainly the most ex,
citing time in the streets of New Haven fur some
time. It is not known by whom O'Neil was
killed; it is not probable it will be.
A Cure for Drunkenness
The London Spectator mentions a curious
remedy now in use in Swedish hospitals, for that
form of madness which exhibits ibiclf in an un.
controllable appetite for alcoholic stimulents,
which wo commend to those of our readers who
profess an interest in the fate of the unfortunate
drunkard. The process is thus described:—
We will suppose that the liquor which the
patient is adscted to drinking, is the commonest
in the c sordry—say gin. When he .eaters the
hospital for treatment, he is supplied with his
favorite drink, and with no other; if anything
else is given to him, or any other food, it is 9a-'
vored with gin. He is in Heaven—the very at•
nanspherc is redolent of his favorite perfume !
His room is scented with gin ; his bed, clothes,
everything around him ; every mouthful he eats
or drinks, every thing he touches; every zephyr
that steals into his room, brings to him still gin,
He begins to grow tired of it—begins rather to
wish fur something else-begins to find the oppress
mon intolerable-hates it-cannot hear the sight or
scent of it—longs for emancipation, and is at last
emancipated; he issues into the freshltir a cured
man; dreading nothing so much as it return of
that loathed persecutor which would not leave
him an hour's rest in his confinement. "This
remedy," says our cotemporary. appears In have
been thorous,hly elfectual—so effectual, that per.
sons who deplored their uncontrollable propen^:
soy, have petitioned for admission to tfie hospi•
tab in order to be. cured; and they .have been•
cured."
GLEANINGS
CV"The first cold cut nail in the World was
made in 1777, by Jeremiah Wilkinson, of Cum.
berland, R. 1., who "still lives."
c - 3•A drowned man was found in the Delaware
Canal near Lamberion ; from papers in his pock.
, et, supposed to be a German named Fredericks..
OrThe greatest man has at least one weak
ness, which forms a connecting ling between him
and his ar.,
la" The appropriations asked'for: public
provements at the present session of the Legis
lature of Pennsylvania exceed }6,000,000.
rir Shad are selling in. Baltimore at 50 cents
per.pair. :
CW" Milton's • Paradise Lost' has been drama
tised fur the National Theatre, New Yorkp and
is now in rehearsal
CrSenator Douglas, who was burnt in effigy
at Chicago, Dl., a few days ago. was •aimilarly
honored at Waltham, Mass.. an Friday... •
ulomething fbr Me Ladica.:—A perfq".little
wocicr" has tinwares' out in Ohio, vit., a balo ,
we i g hing, at birth, just one pound!. 941 f the
Women in town," observes the Dannn.
"have been to see hitn, and the other ,half are
getting ready to gn." ..Lciok on that. picture.
then 'on this." Squire Health, uramong the .
White Mountains, has a youngster, six months
old. the( weighs fortijinine pounds,antl Is also
well proportilmed, very active, and ilfWeriss "
We understand Barnum left the city7tuddert
ly and MysteriouslY4 few days ago:lea plain
.
enough now! '
' Fire in ,Witraittton.y.--A . Frame Barti', belong
ing to VUlentine George, ih MaXate4hy •totbn.
hblp, perks county, was destroyed by fire on th•
eight of the 21st inst., with-ill Its crieleits.