THE SPY & COLUMBIAN
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST f2B, 1847
AGENCIES
V. B. PALMER, North West corner of Third and
Chestnut streets, Philadelphia,
Tribune Buildings, (opposite. City Hali,) N. York.
South East corner of Baltimore and Calvert streets,
Baltimore, and
No. 12 State street, Boston.
JACOB M. WESTIIAEFFM, Lancaster city.
WILLIAM A. PIEBCE, Travelling Agent.
NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Wednes
day afternoon, about 6 o'clock, a. boy about 10 years
of age, son of John F. Houston, Esq., of :his
place, went to the river in company with another
boy, to bathe, Not being aware of the depth of the
water, he jumped from the wharf, and being unable
to swim, sank to the bottom after a short struggle.
No effectual assistance was rendered to rescue him
until Mr. GEORGE Boers arrived at the spot., who
immediately jumped in and commenced a search,
and after diving to the bottom three several times,
succeeded in discovering the boy. and raising him
to the surface. When taken from the water
respiration had ceased, and he was to all appearan
ces lifeless; but by the a pplication of the usual
remedies, such as friction &c., signs of returning
animation became visible, and under the treatment
of Dr. Clarkson, he was at length fully restored,
end conveyed home.
Too much credit cannot be awarded to Mr. Ho
ots for his disinterested exertions in rescuing a
fellow creature from a watery grave. A corms.
poudent,—whose communication will be found in
another column,—appropriately commends the act.
fusicat. DrrEnT.tINMEZIT.•'--.3/eNSI.S. Clark & For
tescue, late of the Pennsylvania Institute fur the
education of the 131 ind, will give a vocal and instru
mental Concert, at the Town Hall, on Tuesday even
ing the 91st inst. Messrs. C.& F. come to us highly
recommended, both as regards the txcelience of
their entertainments and the merits of their claims
upon the sympathies of the public. Their object
in giving these entertainments, is to raise the means
by which to complete their studies at the Institution.
An address will be delivered on the education of
the blind, and specimens of work performed by them
will be exhibited. We hope they will be liberally
encouraged.
Hoson TO TUC 13rtive..2-We understand that it is
the design of our citizens to give a public dinner to
Mr. Thomas Welsh, formerly of this place, in honor
of his services in the Mexican War. Mr. Welsh
was in the ranks at the battle of Buena Vista, where
he eminently distinguished himself for his courage
and bravery, being among the last to leave the
field. He then and there received a severe wound
in the leg which disabled him for active service, and
hence his return home. We arc pleased to learn
that the wound is doing well, and that there is a
prospect that Mr. W. will crc long regain the use of
his shattered limb.
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Park Benjamin's new paper, the "American
Mail" is discontinued, or merged in the "New
World," to commence in October next, under the
Fame management.
IID"Wc have received the first number of a new
paper called the "Blair County 1177ig," published
at Hollidaysburg, by J. L. Slcntz, Esq. It in of cnts
a neat appearance, and evinces talent and experi
ence in its conductor. Politics, Whig.
Professor McClintock of Dickinson College, has
been elected Principal of the Genesee Wesleyan
Seminary. The Carlisle Herald states, however,
that he will not leave his present post.
ANOTHER. CONVICTION FOR AIURDER. IN LANCAS-
TER.—John Hamilton, alias James Thacker, tried
for the murder of Jacob Hunter, (both colored,)
was convicted, on Sunday morning last at seven
o'clock. The jury in the case rendered a verdict of
0 guilty of murder in the first degree." Judge
Lewis, on Monday morning sentenced him to be
'hanged by the neck until dead. Hamilton ss of a
light brown color, with long straight black hair, and
the features of a white man.
TII6 UCTCRIVSONS.—The charming Abby has
written a letter to Mrs. Hewitt, which contains the
following account of some members of this inter
esting family. Abhy says:
"Asa has purchased the 'old home farm' from
father, and Judson has one adjoining it. John is
About a mile and a quarter from us in a little cottage
among the Elms, (nut the Elms, lower Clapton,)
but in the old tjranite State.' Asa was married
last Monday week and is very happy."
o, t3ive me," nays a recent vigorous writer, "the
money that has been spent in war, and I will pur
chase every foot of land upon the globe. I will
cloth every man, woman, and child in attire that
icings and queens would be proud or: 1 will build
to school-house upon every hill side and in every
valley over the whole habitable earth; I will supply
that school-house with a competent teacher ; I will
build an academy in every town, and endow it ; a
college in every State, and fill it with able pro.
tensors: I will crown every hill with a church con.
secreted to the promulgation of the go9cl of peace;
1. will support in its pulpit an able teacher of righte
ousness, so that on ever Sabbath morning the chime
.on one hill should answer to the chime on another
around the earth's broad circumference, and the
voice of prayer and the song of praise should ascend
like a universal holocaust to Heaven."
DEATH OP TII MIIII.IWIt FREI.34N.--The last
Auburn Advertiser says of rrecinan, the degraded
d imbecile negro, who committed the terrible
murder of a whole family, a few seasons since :---
P. This wretched being died at the county Jail in Otis
village, on Saturday morning Inst. 11c has been
in c most miserable condition for soma weeks past,
and all who have seen him within that time have
become satisfied that whatever he may have been
when he committed the horrid act for which lie has
been so long imprisoned, he had become a perfect
idiot.
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It is stated that Dr. Barton has gone to Mexico,
by special appoitmont of the President, for the
purpose of administering the lethron to womulcd
soldiers, in eases where it is necessary to restore to
03e knife
MASQUERADE. — There was a Grand Fancy Ball
at Saratoga Springs, on Friday night of last week,
which is represented as having been u splendid
affair. The New York Evening Express says:—
The room was tastefully decorated with flags and
wreaths, and when the company entered at 9 o'clock,
in their fancy dresses, and costumes,the coup trail
of Grandees, Savages, Peasants, Knights, Boatmen,
Lords, Chinese, Priests, Druids, Nuns, Friars, Sc.,
&c., was superb. It seemed as if all the nations
and tribes of the earth, with all its splendor and
poetry, and fact, mingling the past, too, with the
present, had suddenly dropt in here, at Saratoga,
and were about to hold high converse together.—
Cherokee walked arm in arm with Paysanne.—
Turk and Tartar shook hands with Britton and
Gaul. The I Gth century and the year one kept
company. The grave was opened, and the skies
dropped their planets down. Europe, Asia and
Mika were upon one floor. Heathen god and
Christian nun looked at each other, face to face.—
The proud, stately dame of the classic age of
France, and the prim, staid embodiment of Quaker
simplicity, were band in hand with Yankee cun
ning, and Scottish; highlander. Black Mute stood
before a mysterious Magician. The rays of the
Pilgrim of the Sun fell upon the dusky shades of
Night.—and curiously were interwoven the Real
and the Romance,—so curiously, that all general
description is worthless in daguerrcotyping the
ecenc.
Among the managers we observe the names of
Gov. Pratt, Hon. R. N. Martin, Gustav "irman,
Esq., and James J. S. Donnell, Esq., of Maryland.l
One of the greatest characters of the evening
was Herr Alexander, the Magician, Astrologer and
Conjurer. He came in splendid costume, and, from
from 9 o'clock till past midnight, was inexhaustible
in resources amid the admiring throng. A magic
wand was in his hand, and in that a magic fan.
On his head was a high silver tower. He waved
his wand, and rings and handkerchiefs wandered
from pocket to pocket under its sway. His fan he
would break to pieces, and lien by shaking, he
would mend it at will. The secret of his fan was
at last discovered,—and the lady discoverers were
rewarded %%all brilliant bonbons, pressed from its
folds for their genius in finding out his trick.
The ladies who gathered around ldm would con.
stantly find rings in other ladies dresses, or pockets,
or in gentlemen's vests, and these pledges of affec
tion were often in very suspicious places. He was
an invaluable addition to the amusement of the
lesening. We often have mock astrologers at
Fancy Halls, but never before have seen a real con
jurer on such a stage. Indeed, he was so very
popular that he had not a moment left to himself,
and he seemed exhaustless in his amusement and
in his tricks. Nearly every lady was supplied with
one of his mysterious flags. We saw him touch a
lady's marble white shoulder with his magic wand,
and forth there sprang from the divinity, the stars
and stripes of our country,—as if goddess born.—
The applause was great. Thus with iminmerable
and inexhaustible, the great Magician whiled away
the night.
A COMICAL. SIGIIT.—A friend fnforrncd us that
one of the most ridiculous sights he ever saw was
on the Ohio river. He was going up that beautiful
stream in a largo steamer, when the boat cncount.
ercd a vast raft, something more than a mile long,
and quite half a mile wide, with a small house in
the very centre of it. It was coming down rapidly
with the current, when the steamboat, notwith
standing her efforts to_uvoid the collision, found
herself in the " toils" of the raft, having caught in
such a way between its unevenly projecting timbers
as lo be quite incapable of extrication. And now
it was that the doughty captain upon the extremest
point of the bow of his boat, with doubled fists, and
"indignation in his aspect," apostrophized the navi
gator of the raft, and poured out. on his bead the
vials of his anger; while the proprietor of the
"well-wooded" floating acres, whose downward
course it was impossible to stern, was seen slowly
approaching in the distance, holding his hand be
hind his car, as if anxious to hear what "the cap
tain said." As soon as he came within hail, and
was made fully sensible of the anathemas that were
being hurled against him, he took a short black
pipe out of his mouth spat twice, and replied:—
" You go to the devil with your little steamboat!
I don't want any o' your sarce! Get out of the
way!" And resuming his pipe, he slowly wended
his way back to his cabin. After being borne
down some eight or ten miles, the steamer was at
length extricated, and the captain went on his way.
Knidc,bucker.
IGNORANCIC AND FaAen.—A correspondent of the
Nem York Commercial Advertiser, writing from
Europe, gives an account of the prominent relics
in the Cathedral of Aix la Chappelle viz:
The ':loth in which was wrapped the body of
Christ when laid in the tomb, a piece of his girdle,
a piece of the rope with which he was scourged, a
piece of the cross, the girdle of the Virgin Mary, a
piece of the sponge on which vinegar was given to
the Saviour on the cross; in fact we saw almost
everything pertaining to Christ,except the spear
and the nails with which he was pierced.
Multitudes regard these with veneration as veri
table realities. Hence a goon revenue to the
church. Who would not be ignorant and supersti.
tious ?
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Tll INDI VI roost.. " —As WC Were
passing along Broad street, yesterday noon, in
search of something like a "city item," we came
athwart a couple of burly darkics, between whom
the following colloquy occurred. " Look yeah,
Srm—you knows Roth G tau m 7" "Wall, I duzn't
know nobody else." " Wel, Roth an' dis chile halt
a 'spicy of scientific poozleistic, last night." "Wot
you call dem poozleistics 7" Wy, a set-to nig
gala." Whar 7" " Down Long \Varf." " Wal,
wet n' &it?" "Nutlin, 'ticular, Sam, on'y I 'spent
dis chile didn't make much by de speculaslen."—
"How's dat, Gumbo." "Wy, you scc, Sani, dat
same Roth Guttum wouldn't " treat" when dis nig
gala axe him, ctbdly, and an I jes pulls his shapo
down ober his foreword." " Wat den "Wy,
Sam—tell you de troof—l 'spect I licerd sump'n
drop on the pascmcnt, d'rec'ly arterwards—and
won I turn roue' to axe wat it was, I faun' it was
dis niggali, and nuflin shorter l—lli-yali."—Boston
Times.
ORDER. iv ResixEss.-:—A paper recently started in
New York, called the Dry Goods Reporter, de
signed expressly to promote the interests of all
engaged in the business of vending both foreign
and domestic goods, has an editorial in the last
number on the great advantages of order and regu
larity in stores, and particularly in retail stores,
in which, it is asserted, there is a great need of
improvement. In illustration of the subject the
editor gives the following description of the admi
rably arranged store of Messrs. T. Sharp:cm &
Son, Philadelphia, which it has been our good for
tuno to examine while on a visit to that city. The
editor of the Reporter expresses the belief that even
England cannot produce a store where such a per
fect system prevades the business in all its details.
We may add that the system has been explained to
us, and although the reader may at the first
glance suppose it to be very complicated, it is not
so by any means; and perhaps its chief merit con
sists in its great simplicity.—Bali. American.
The amount of sales made at this store is about •
$300,000 annally ; cacti department in the store is
alphabetically designated. The shelves and rows
of goods in each department arc numbered, and
upon the tag attached to the goods is marked the
letter of the department, the number of the shelf
and row on that shelf to which such a piece of
goods belongs. The cashier receives a certain sum
extra per week, and he is responsible for all worth
less money received. Books are kept in which the
sales of cach clerk are entered for the day, and
the salary of the clerk cast as a per centage on each
day, week and year, and at the foot of the page
the aggregate of the sales appears, and the per
centage that it has cost to effect these sales is easi.
ly calculated for each day, month or year. The
counters are designated by an imaginary color, as
the blue, green, brown, &c. counter. The yard
sticks and counter-brush belonging to it arc paint.
cd to correspond with the imaginary color of the
counter, so, by a very simple arrangement, each of
these necessaries is kept where it belongs, and
should any be missing the faulty clerks are easily
known. All wrapping paper coining into the store
is immediately taken to a counter in the basement,
where a lad attends with a pair of shears, whose
duty it is to cut the paper into pieces to correspond
with the size of th• parcels sold at the different de
partments to which he sees that it is transferred.
All pieces too small for this even down to the smal
lest scraps are by him put into a sack, and what is
usually thrown away by our merchants yields to
this systematic man sonic $OO per year. Tu one
part of the establishment is a tool chest with a
work-bench attached; the closet occupies but little
space, yet in it we noticed almost every useful
tool, and this is arranged with the handsaw to
form the centre and the smaller tools radiating,
from it in a sun form ; behind each article is paint
ed with black paint the shape of the tool belong
ing in that place.
It is consequently impossible that anything
should be out of place except through design, if any
tool is missing the wall will show the shadow with.
out the substance. Such is the salutary influence ex
erted by order that those who enter this employ
habitually careless and reckless are reformed entire•
ly, and system, which before was irksome, has be
come to them a second nature. The proprietor's
desk stands at th e farther end of the store, raised
on a platform facing the front, from which he can
see all the operations in each section of the retail
department. From the desk• run tubes connecting
with cacti department of the store, front the garret
to the cellar, so that if a person in any department,
either portion, retail or wholesale clerk wishes to
communicate with the employer he can do so with
out leaving his station. Pages arc kept in each
department who take the bill of parcels, together
with the money paid, and return the bill receipted,
and the charge, if any, to the customer. So that
the salesman is never obliged to leave the counter;
he is at all times ready either to introduce a new
article or watch that no goods arc taken from his
counter, excepting those accounted for.
His peculiar method of casting the per ccntage
of a clerk's salary on his sales, enables him at all
times, (coupling it with the clerk's general conduct
and the style of goods he is engaged in selling,) to
form a just estimate of the relative value of the
services of each, in proportion to his salary. By
the alphabetical arrangement of departments, num
bering of shelves, and form of the tools, any clerk,
no matter if he has not been in the store more tfilan
an hour, can arrange every article in its proper
place, and at any time, if inquired of, respecting, or
' referred to by any clerk, the proprietor is able to
speak understandingly of the capabilities and busi
ness qualities of his pmployees. He has brought
up some of the best merchants at present engaged
in the trade, and who do honor to the profession as
well as their tutor.
We have endeavored to give some faint idea of
this model store, and although the business of many
of our readers may not be in asituation to require or
pay for all this system at once, yet if a few of the
largest points could be introduced immediately and
the smaller ones as circumstances would allow, or
if the example of this successful merchant shall
induce even one man to systematize his efforts this
article will not have been penned in vain.
INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATION.—WC have been much
interested by a description of a German Association
residing seven miles East of Buffalo, on Buffido
creek, given in the New-York prints. They (wee.
py a domain consisting of about 7,200 acres of
generally level and productive land, a large portion
of which is cleared and in a state of cultivation.—
They are eminently industrious, apply themselves
to the various departments of labor, and seldom
find it necessary to go beyond the pale of their
Association for any article. One of their funds
mental principles is " Entire Comm unity of inter
est, an equality of possession and products, so long
as the relation shall subsist; but a strict account is
kept of each member's contribution of means to the
common stock, which he is entitled to claim when
ever he shall choose to withdraw from the fraterni
ty." They make a profession of Religion, are
systematic in forms of worship, and illustrate up
rightness and integrity in their " walk and conver
ration." They now number 700, and shortly ex
pect an accession from Germany, which will snake
an aggregate of 900.—Erie Gazelle.
The Yellow Fever is raging violently at New
Orleans,
Etta.rs Amu.: DIGESTION.—Many popular notions
about different articles of food, and there arc few
subjects upon which people indulge more notions,
are totally disproved •by scientific facts. We pro
pose to write down a few well established truths
respecting the relative quantity of nutriment in
different kinds of food, and the relative time occu
pied in their digestion.
In the first place, however, we would remind our
readers, that it is by no means the article contain
ing the greatest proportion of nutritious substance,
which takes soonest the form of blood and other
necessary elements of animal life. Neither is the
most physical strength supplied by the articles
containing the most nutriment. Nuts arc almost
entirely composed of nutritious material, oil ; pota
toes contain eighty-eight parts of wasted matter to
twelve of nutriment. Yet the latter impart far
more strength to the body than the former. Bread
is more nutritious than meat; but meat is stimulat
ing as well as nutritive, and is supposed to
strengthen the bodily functions more than bread.
Another important fact to be remembered in this
connection is, that all stomachs are not alike, and
that the calculations given below are applicable to
a healthy stomach. What proportion of healthy
stomachs there arc in the world, we do not know;
but the probability is, that in the majority of cases,
food is not digested as rapidly as here stated. In
some stomachs, food of particular kinds ferments,
which interferes with complete digestion. This
happens most frequently with regard to vegeta
bles—saw-dust doctors to the contrary notwith
standing.
In general, however, the most nutritious and the
most easily digested are the best for health and
strength
Wheat is the most nutritious of all substances
except oil; containing ninety-five parts of nutri
ment to five waste matter. Dry peas, nuts and
burly, are nearly as nutritious as wheat. Garden
vegetables stand lowest on the list, inasmuch as
they contain, when fresh, a large proportion of
water. The quantity of waste matter is more than
eight-tenths of the whole. Only one-fortieth of a
cucumber is capable of being converted into nutri
ment. The nutritious part of the different meats
varies from onc.fifth to one-eighth of the whole.—
Veal is the most nutritious; mutton next ; then
chicken; then beef; last pork. Fruits vary be.
tween two and ti.ree-tenths of nutritious matter,
and their order is as follows, the most nutritious
being placed first: plums, grapes, apricots. cher
ries, peaches, gooseberries, apples, strawberries,
melons. Milk contains less than one-tenth of nu
tritious matter, as it is mainly composed of water.
Of all the articles food, boiled rice is digested in
the shortest time—an hour. As it also contains
eight.tenths of nutritious matter, it is a valuable sub
stance of diet. Tripe and pies feet are digested
as rapidly. Apples, if sweet and ripe, are next
in order. Venison is digested almost as soon as
apples. Roasted potatoes, are digested in half the
the time required by the same vegetables boiled,
which occupy three hours and a half—tnorc than
beef or mutton! Bread occupies three hours and
a quarter. Stewed oysters and boiled eggs are di
gested in three hours and a half—an hour more
than is required by the same articles raw. Turkey
and goose are converted in two hours and a quarter,
an hour and a half sooner than chicken.
Roasted veal, pork, and salted beef, occupy five
hours and a half—the longest of alt articles of food.
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Pawnee is CHI:M.—The learned researches of
M. Julien have led him to disinter in Chinese
authors an invention of printing at an epoch far
anterior to that when the idea was germinating in
Europe. It is not the process known of old, which
consisted in reproducing proof. of a text engraved
on wood or stone; but it relates to a person who
conceived the idea, about the year 1041 or 1048, of
making use of characters, of moveable types, and
bringing them together to compose a tcxtin the man.
ncr it is dune at the present day. This ingenious
man belonged to the working class; he was a black
smith named Pi.ehing. It is surprising that Pl
ain', accustomed to work in metal, did not think
of forming metallic characters. lie made use of
a fine and delicate clay, undoubtedly on account of
the facility with which he was able to communi
cate to it the desired form, and when lie bad fash
ioned the types to his mind he baked them to give
hardness to them. He moreover joined them and
kept them together in frames of iron, as is done at
the present day, and except the substitution of
baked clay for metal, it may be said that the
chinese laborer had laid down the first principles of
the art of printing.
Ilut it is no advantage to be before one's age in
China any more than in Europe. When Pi.ching,
was dead his types passed into the hands of his
friends and heirs, who, far from making use of
them, preserved them as precious relics. They re.
turned to the ancient method of printing from en.
graved plates, nut certainly on account of the
imperfection of Pi.cliing's method, but because this
method lost all its advantages in being applied to
the Chinese language, the capital fault, as is well
known, of which is to call for the use of a con.
siderable number of different characters. It was
not until much later, about IGG2, the European
missionaries, making use of the credit they enjoyed
with the Kangki, Emperor, persuaded him to cause
to be engraved two hundred and fifty thousand
moveable copper types, and succeeded in naturaliz
ing in China Pi-ching's invention.
NEW FASHIONED RAIL/LOAM—M. Audrand, a gen-
I Roman well known in Paris for his unremitting
exertions, for the last seven years, to perfect a sys
tem of Railroad travelling by means of compressed
air, seems at length in a fair way to succeed. He
has laid down a way 100 yards long, upon which
HE LATE EARTHQUAKE It seems to be pretty
a carriage, built for the purpose, is impelled upon well settled that there was an earthquake in this
his new principle, with ease and smoothness hem-1 vicinity on Sunday morning, the Bth inst. An ac
tofore not attained on the ordinary Railroads.— ; curate observer of such things informs us that there
There is no locomotive necessary to move it, inas- ; were two shocks, very sensibly felt by him, at
moth as this is accomplished through a tube laid about 9 o'clock 45 minutes. The rattling of the
in the centre of the road, with a pipe by its side, , windows commenced in a south-west direction and
which keeps up the motive power. This system, proceeded in a north cast course. The rattling
the inventor undertakes to show, is vastly prefers. , from the first shock had ceased when that of the
ble, in all respects, to that of the atmospheric. It second shock commenced. The accounts from the
combines all of its advantages, while it is subject Eastward lead to the supposition that the shocks
to none of its imperfections. It unites entire safety were more violent in that direction than they were
with the capacity to run IS to .50 miles per hour. in this vicinity. In the neighborhood of Yarmouth,
The cast of keeping it in motion is stated to be less Mc., glass was broken and crockery shaken from
than one-hall of that of engine propelled carriages. the shelves in some instances.—Boston Trao,
TENACITY OF LIFE IN Ver.vunEs.—One day when
,we were out with our guns, one of the party shot
a large vulture that had perched upon the carcase
'of a dead sheep, and was certainly doing the neigh.
borhood a benefit by removing the nuisance. As
soon as the bird was shot, it fell and turned upon its
hack ; but, struggling a good deal, two of the at
tendants, of which each person of dux party had
one, was ordered to dispatch it with bamboos.—
This was accordingly done, and after receiving se
veral severe blows upon the head, it appeared to be
quite dead ; one of the men then took it upon his
shoulder, and we pursued the sport. We were out
several hours, the vulture hanging all the while
from the shoulder of the man, apparently lifeless,
its eyes closed and its bead much lacerated by the
shot and the strokes from the bamboos.
Upon our return, the man who carried the vul
ture, glad to get rid of his burthen, (for these birds
will sometimes Weigh as much as thirty pounds)
flung it upon the ground with a force of itself suf
ficient to kill it; but to our surprise, it seemed to
be reanimated by the shock; for, alter opening its
eyes, it suddenly turned, and was on its legs in a
moment. Advancing a step or two, it stretched out
its wings, rose heavily into the air, continuing to
rise until it was lost to our view in the distance.—
We were all so much astonished at thus so unex
pectedly beholding - the dead alive, that no one
thought of making an attempt to prevent its escape.
The tenaciousness of life which the vulture posses
ses, as this anecdote will show, is almost incredible ;
and so great is its rapacity, that when engaged in
devouring its prey, it will allow a person to approach
and seize it, though this is at. all times a dangerous
experiment.
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AN EVENTFUL Ilisvoay.—On the 28th of April,
there died, at llarlaston, Eng. Joseph Rose, in his
87th year. Nearly seventy years ago, Rose was
attended by an under sheriff, the officials of a pri.
sonar, and the loathed ontcast of the very dregs of
society, Jack Ketch. Upon a scaffold he was to
die, as a " moral example to wrongdoers," and
thousands were congregated to look upon, as a cu
riosity, the death struggles of a human creature.—
Ret,before the hangman had completed his pre
parations for the show, a horseman approached,
scarcely giving time for the multitude to open a
way for him,—ha had killed one horse on his jour
ney—with a reprieve for Rose. Yes! Joseph Rose
stood trembling on the very outer edge of eternity,
a few minutes more, and he would have been a
stiffened corpse; and yet be was innocent of the
charge imputed to him, innocent as the judge, who
decked in scarlet, and looking solemn in a black
cap, condemned him to an ignominious death. He
was tried for sheep stealing, was satisfactorily prov
ed to be innocent by Mr. Vernon, of Hinton, for
whom Rose was a favorite horse jockey. For
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nearly seventy years after, Joseph Rose, performed
the duties of his humble station (a farm laborer,) to
the satisfaction of his employers, and reared a
family of nine or ten children.
A BRUTAL OUTRAGIL-A letter published in the
Limerick (Ireland; Examiner, under date of July
23d, gives the particulars of a scene of ejectment in
Ireland, whieli for cruelly and brutality is un
equalled.
The scene of this outrage upon humanity was
near Charleville, in the county of Cork. On the 13th
of July, according to the statement, and in the vil
loge called "Glen," on the estate of the Earl of
Cork, cjectinents were executed by the sub-sheriff
of Cork, aided by the military and police force, on
forty-eight tenants. -Their houses or cabins were
thrown down, and the forty.eight families number
ing about ,four hundred human beings, were turned
out upon the high road. Of these it is alleged that
more than one hundred were suffering from fever.
They were obliged to take refuge in a neighboring
church-yard. The church-yard of Ballysally con
tains many flat tombstones and grass covered
graves; and among those graves the ejected families
slept for four consecutive nights, huddled together.
One poor woman was taken off her bed four days
after her confinement, and placed by the side of the
ditch with her infant, both in a state of helpless
exhaustion. Another woman had a family of
seven all suffering from fever. In a third family
there were ten persons in fever at the time of the
ejectment.
IVA!!!
WIIO CANNOT as Bien ?—A Polish woman, who
has a stand in the Franklin Market, found herself
about five years ago, a widow, with four young
children, and an estate of just one dollar and filly
cents in money. She did not however, turn her
steps towards the Almshouse, nor spend her time
in begging from door to door. Though embarras
sed by a very poor knowledge of our language, she
immediately inmsted her capital in some articles
which she could sell, and commenced operations,
employing the children as she could for her assist
ance. For a Year or two past, she has had the
market stall. A few months ago she learned that
the owner of a gond farm of seventy-five acres in
one of the central counties of the State was very
desirous to sell his farm for money. She examined
the lard), found a good house, barn, &c., and filly
acres under cultivation. tier twelve slcillings had
grown to Melee hundred dollars, all safe in the
Savings Bank, and she offered i,t for the farm, and
it was accepted,—for it was all in cash. The
Polish widow has now her country estate, but unwil.
ling to retire as yet, she has returned and resumed
her stall. What a fine provision for herself and
family has she secured by five years of determined
effort! What proof has she made, that this is the
land %here all may be rich who have health, and
where they only who have it not, are proper objects
of charity.--N. Y. Jour. Com.
Antrmtieric.—Arithmetic is a science as well as
an art; it:is therefore possible for one well ac
quainted with the properties and relations of num
bers wbcri I:question is proposed for solution, says
the Ohio SChool Journal, not only to be able after
two or three trials, to obtain the result by some
arbitrary rule, but to see readily if not at once, what
operations are required, and then to perform them
in the shortest manner and to obtain the required
result with the least possible number of figures.
Hence it is well known to the observing that many
of the processes required in the every day piactieo
Can - be greatly abbreviated. The contractions in
multiplication are numerous and important, but
most of them 'may be included in a few general
classes, of which we name.
1. Those based upon the decimal relations of
numbers. Of these the most numerous are the
multiplication by the aliquot parts of 10, 100, 1000,
Sze., all of which are governed by one general rule,
viz. annex one or more ciphers to the multiplicand
and divide that result by the denominator of the
common fraction denoting the aliquot part of 10;
100 or 1000, which the multiplier equals. Hence—
To multiply by
5, (1.2 of 10) annex 1 cipher and divide by 2
3 1-3 1.3 of 10 " le It• 3
2 1-2 1-4 of 10 . 44 0 4
I 1-2. 1-8 of 10 " 46 0 8
50 1-2 of 100 2 chiphers " 2
33 1-3 1.3 of 100" 46 . 3
25 1-4 of 100 " " u 4
16 2-3 1.6 of 100" 46 . 5
1212 1.8 of 100" " " 8
From these specimens the rule of multiplying by
the aliquot parts of 1000, 500, 333 1.3, 250, 166
2.3, 83 1.3, 62 1-2, can be easily formed. To mul
tiply by 9, 99, or any number nines, annex to the
multiplicand as many ciphers as there arc nines in
the multiplier and subtract the multiplicand from
that result. The process of multyplying by eleven
may slso be shortened. To multiply by 15, annex
a cypher to the multiplicand, and add one half the
multiplicand to that result.
LATER. rims! rile friend has shown
us a letter of a late date, from the Pioneer Campof
Mormon Emigrants. They had at length reached
the Great Salt Lake, near which they had made a
halt, and their wearied cattle were enjoying the
sweet grass and fresh water with which that region
is favored. They had made a new road from the
Omata country to near the base of the mountain,
which will no doubt be valuable to other emigrants
from the United States. It keeps north of the
Oregon trace, is said to be more direct than this,
and is carried, by substantial bridges, over most of
the principal streams which it meets. By the
Pioneers, it must have been traversed with diffieu I
ty, since they had evidently been subjected to great
hardships. After leaving Grand Island, however,
they had an abundant supply of buffalo beef, which
I greatly renewed the strength of those whose health
was suffering by forced abstinence. A single herd,
with which they fell in, was estimated to number
over 10,000, or, according to the calculation of ono
letter writer, must have contained front 8 to 10,-
000,000 pounds of meat; "a large supply," lie says,
"to be sent by Quails in the Desert." Should
Whitney's Railroad or any Gosernment works, be
undertaken along the line from Missouri to the
Pacific, they will find their best contractors and
workmen among the Mormons—hardy children of
persecution—who appear to despise difficulty and
danger.—Pennsylcaninti.
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EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE IN TILE LIVES OP A
ntanixo Scotch newspaper of the year
1777 gives the following as the extract of a letter
from Lanark: "Old William Douglass and his
wife are lately dead; you know that he and his
wife were born on the same day, within the same
hour, by the same midwife ; that they were con
stant companions, till nature aspired them with love
and friendship; and at the age of nineteen were
married with the consent of their parents, at the
church were they were christened. These arc not
the whole of the circumstances attending this ex
traordinary pair. They never knew a day's sick
ness until the day before their deaths; and the
day on which they died they were exactly one hun
dred years old. They died in one bed, and were
buried in one grave, close to the fount where they
were christened.
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Wonxixo vos. w Livm.—The following article in
thc"Offering," edited by the factory girls of Lowell.
breathes the right spirit :
" Whence origiriated the idea that it was deroga
tory to a lady's dignity, or a blot upon female char
acter, to labor? And who was the first to say
sneeringly, " Oh, she works for a living ?" Surely,
such ideas and expressions ought not to grow on
American soil! The time has been, when ladies of
the first rank were accustomed to busy in domestic
employment. Homer tells us of princes who used
to draw water from the springs, and wash with
their own hands the finest of the linens of their re
spective families. Lucretia used to spin in the midst
of her attendants, and the wife of Ulysses after tho
siege of Troy, employed herself in weaving until
her husband returned from Ithaca."
A DEcut.mt "Sucumt."—The Penn Yari Demo
crat tells a capital story of ¢ laborer of that village,
named John Kingsley, who has proved himself the
greatest "suck-egg" of the age. Halting ha front
of one of the village stores, where stood in full view
a pail of eggs, ho bantered the clerk to set a lump
ing price for as many us he could "suck." Tho
figure was finally fixed at twenty-five cents, chick
ens and all, and at it he went. After disposing of
twenty-one, he proposed to quit if the clerk would
give him fifty cents. The proposition was rejected,
and at it he went again, and with the cry that
"John Kingsley never surrenders," he kept up the
"fire in front," until he had swallowed forty-seven
eggs, when he left the field, declaring that it was
not his intention to make a hog of himself!
STRANGE DiscovEny.--Lately, in pulling down an
old church at Aia in Norway, an oblong box was
found containing the skeletons of a man and woman
with about 50 rods of hard wood lying between
them. On the cover was a brass plate with the
following inscription: "In this coffin repose the
remains of a man and woman, who, having lived
together in concubinage, were for their 111-conduct,
beaten to death, October 4,1404." It appear%
from an examination of the state of the law in Nor
way in the beginning of the 15 century, that that
above named crime was at that period punished by
death from castigation,