THE SPY Sr, COLUMBIAN. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPT. 25, 1847 AGENCIES V. B. P...t.mr.e., North West corner of Third and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Tribune Buildings, (opposite City Hall,) N. York. South East corner of Baltimore and Calvert streets, Baltimore, and N 0.12 State street, Boston. JACOB AL. WESTIMEFFER., Lancaster city. Witusat A. Pierce, Travelling Agent. The attention of the public is directed to our advertising columns. Patronize those who adver tise, and yuu are sure to get tho worth of your money o — See Messrs. E. Connellee & C0,,.' advert:se latent, and patronize home manufacture. Finr..—Tte alarm on Tuesday night wsv cawed by the burning of an untenanted frame building in Filth street below Locust. The house nas cn ned by Mrs. Mary Fipps, and is supposed to have been fired by an incendisry. It was totally consumed. TH. SCIENTIFIC ]:eon..-sc.—This paper, recently commenced in New York and NVashingten, by Rufus Porter, Esq., is one which we can freely re. commend to all intelligence seeking, scientific and practical mechanics. It is we believe, the only .scientific paper new published in the United States conducted by an erperienectl practical as well as scientific mechanic, who is fan.thar liith practical wiience, and :capable of furnishing instruction in arts and trades. Every mechanic will find it to his advantage to subscribe for this paper. The “AltiminNic" is published weekly for One Dollar a year, by Ihet es Pewees, Esq., Sun Build. ings, New York, and C. H. BR Hanna, near the P.tt. ent Oflicc, Washington, D C. AVe learn from the Harrisburg Union, that the new Bridge at Harrisburg. has been completed, and was opened for general travel on Monday last.— 'rite old Brute was swept away by the great freshet of IS•16. ANOTIII. R TIIE.ATY or rtm. F": lit,lOßElL—Ttle New Orleans papers furnish the intollizence that negotiations for peace are going on swinnntagly, and that peace may be shortly expected. The principal articles ere that the 1:. Mates restore to Mcx:ico the Canforma.:, ;Ind all the port, cities and toslns that the American forces now oc cupy. The Unitcd States for ever to retain the territory of Texas, which is to be extend to the left bank of the In° dol. Norte, and comprise Matamoros by !IlearlS of a canal cut for that per. pose. This is probably an oar on the part of MeAlco, which will hardly be accepted by our government. The Picayune thinks it probable that d:plornatic arrang,cment, will yet be made, chancing Gur occu pancy of the ethforntans from that of conquest to that of purchaEe. MELANCI:OI.Y rrV.—..'• poor follow who has lost one hand, made a world of sport for the idle boat men at the Basin, one day het neck. Hari% , quaffed the ro,y" to rather "an uhirming ca tent," as a late worthy Recorder of New Yo city would have bald, he became rather Lel:igerant, and as nn boatman appeared anxious to fight him, as termed it sin2ic hrhied, he besot‘ght every passer. by to oblige him with a thra Eery plea was vain, and the poor fllsw hueatne dr=perare.— Throwing away his co-it, he rushed out, and when be met a man t: Lo lucked lute a promising subj,ct, he silently but energ.etie illy da rhed his lilt on the ground divested hini , elf of hMi is f n in the twinl,. ling of a lady's cye, and astonishtql hi> customer by the qucition, t ray, what do ynn want of old „lack, ch ?" nt the same Lam mils:mg. a dernon,tra. Lion with the mutilated stump of his artn—ter; much unlike Santa Anna. The last we saw of old Jack;' ho had izot his Toad and u tremendous tlwashin7, and was happily oblivious of all his trouliks, round aslei.p. LICITTING ov I.l.l'Cill Mr. Smite has 1 eecured a patent in London for rendering light available by electricity, a subject to which we base frequently directed attention through our columns. Mr. Staite has constructed an electric lamp and has produced a powerful volume of light from a battery of very snail power. Aniong , t several "p. plicattons which he contemplates, may be mention. ed one, viz: telegraphing by means cf flashes of light through colored media. With four sets of electrodes, for example, placed in glasses. colored white, red, green and blue, the whole alphabet, vt ith the numerals, are indicated by a very simple code of signals, and with astonishing rapidity. The key-board of the telegraph is so arranged that e tell key in the series is colored white red, green or blue ; and when either key is pressed down, it coin. plctes the circuit, with that particular electrode, at the distant station which exhibits the same colored flash. There may he any number of isey , , and one to strike a bell at the conclusion of each word, or for the ordinary purposes of drawing attention, &c. For night signal. on railways, Mr. S. proposes to have fixed, at required distances from the sta tions, a signal post on which two or more lamps may be fixed—say, one enclosed in a red glass, one in green, and one in white. The battery wires arc so arranged, that whichever lamp is required to shot , a light, the attendants at the station corn. pletos the circuit accordingly, and rice versa. The red light may indicate “danger," the green light " caution," and so on. These lights may be shown at any distance from the stations, and be under the perfect control, at the slime time, of the attendants at the station, a system calculated to be of great service in preventing accidents at night, especially in dark foggy weather. Mr. S. uses the self-sus. taining percolating battery of Messrs. Brett & Lit tle, Americana.—Scs. American. =I Miss Martineau has made au earne , t eprocal to the people of England, to start a general euh,.erip Lion for the purchase of Shakspeare's liotbe at Stratford. A Vermonter has obtained a patent for a pocket telescope that will bring cows trespas‘ang in his cornfield mo near, that he can shoot them with a pocket pistol. Somebody advertises its an exchange piper a lost wallet, " bele:4o4 to a gentleman made of calf skin 1" ToM. CORWIN—PRACTICAL LEGISLATION.—Judge H-, an old and respectable citizen of Frank. lin county, related to us some years since the fol. low ing anecdote of Gov. Corwin, which we do not recollect to have ever seen in print. At the time the Wagon Boy" was first sent to the Legislature of the gond people of Warren, he found a law on the Statue book providing for the punishment of certain offences by public whipping. It was no unusual thing at that day, to see a whip. ping poet in every Court House yard, where, when. ever occasion required, the stealers of pigs and chickens were drawn up by the Sheriff, and received "thirty-nine lashes on the bare back, well laid on." ITom was made chairman of the Judiciary Corn. mince in the House; and being, as is well known, ! a man ia ho is dead set against all such relics of barbarism as public whipping, forthwith brought in a bill to repeal the aforesaid enactment. I This bill met with con , iderable opposition from the "Old Hunkers," among whom was one old gentleman from the 1,1;cl-tern Reserve, who was particularly horrified at the idea of repealing what he termed the wisest and most practical enactment in Our whole criminal code. Corwin made an eloquent speech when the gees , lion of engrossment was before the House, appeal. ing to tire members as Christian Legislators and enlightened freemen of the nineteenth century to come up and erase this relict of the dark ages from the Statute Book of the State of Ohio. He took has seat—the llon,e comple.tely electrified with the !eloquent [powers of the young orator. The old Yankee aro , c and replied .4 Me. SPEAR:Eu-21u the gentleman from Warren has said well enough in its way. 1 am glad to sec the young men of our State growing up inspired with these feelings of phdanthrophy which the gentleman has 5o eloquently given utterance tn.— But that is not tl.c thing. We must look at tile matter in a pr ictical lig at. Now I eau glee one illustration in favor of my side of the question that will entirely up-et all the geatletntn's fine spun theories. Sou know, Mr. Speaker, I teas born and raised in id, State o: Conneetient. A law similar to ti-is had been for years in force in that State, where its ettect, are met oalutsry. You once ex pose a rascal to the ignointutous disgrace of a public whipping, and he cic.tri out—leaves the State, and you are never troubl , d with him alter wards. t tt of hundreds I have known to be whipped Chore, I never knew one of thew to show i.os face in Clint community itaorwardf." Th. old gcntleinan sat . Jour satkad that 1114 "practical illostration" tva9 a clincher, and would Lill the bill. Corn in arcs. very gravely, and re. (....0 t f .- •• 1 I:a•c oftcn endeavored Mr. Speaker, to 5 ,. .1v,2 the on..c+ - nn is by there was such immense emmig,ra • tion front Cor.heetwut to the West. but always tit tit now, with( , tt sIICCeS4. The gentleman has explained it to my entire satisfaction." Curt ,, in's bill passed! The precipitation of metals by Galrankm, or Electrotyping, was the subject of conversation at a late meeting, of one of the Scientific societies of Newjersey, the preces,, as described to the Newark Advertiser, is as fc;lows: The original, and very simple method of eiTeet. ing the precipitation is to have a vessel with two apartments, the division being made of a piece or leather, or any porous substance : into one apart ment pour a weak solution of sulpliur,e acid arid water, and into the other a saturated solution of e.opper (blue vitriol.) Then place zinc, fastened to a piece of copper arc, into the acid, and upon the ether end of the is ire fasten a coin, or any article to be copied or coateia, and bead it over cons to rest in the solution in the other apartment. The metal will gradually be precipitated upon the coin, and torn short tune will form a thich copper scale, hoeing s perli.et copy of the face of the coin. If any part of the coin is vat:licked or covered with wax, the metal will not touch that part. So accu rate will Lc the copy that the most minute lines vvill appear—even the marks of macs thumb—if kit upon the coin—copies of daguerreotype pictures I the lines which arc too fine to be felt, have also been taken• It has also been used to take copies of engraved plates, giving as perfect pictures as the original plate. The copper can also be precipitated upon paper in the same manner, if the paper be previously lightly coated with plurnbage. Mr. Faraday, the English philosopher, made an improvement by which any metal may be precipi. tated, and Mr. Cornelius, of Philadelphia, a lamp maker, has al ,a made some improvements by which he gilds and silvers his articles in such a manner that they can be burnished. .1 button-malcer in New York is also miiking what he calls treble gilt buttons in this way, and they are considered as durable as if gilded in thc old way. But in these cases a galvanic battery is used, and by this it is estimated that a sixpenny piece can ho made to coat a surface Cot crinz an acre. Piatins has been also precipitated, and thoso ishing a rnetril not vulncrable to acids, can, by coating it with platina, prevent it front being acted upoii, even by concentrate nitric acid. THE KILLED AM) WorNDED.—We copy from the. Delta a ln.t of killed and wounded officers and privatcc, in the various divisions and brigades of eta Army, in the late battles before the city of Mexico. The killed, we are gratified to find, are not an numerous an we supposed, and finny of the wounded are but slightly hurt. The recapitulation is as follows: K.. W ..11. Gon. Worth's Division, 37 286 10 Gen Twig. do, 10 :.." 1 12 Second Brigade, 23 325 Q. Engineer Company 4 1 Company K. Ist Artillery, 2 23 Gen. Pillow's Div i,.ion, 12 325 4 2d Brigade, Volnver and Howitzer Compiny's 6 .25 2 Palmetto Regiment, 13 124 GCL. QL:11 man's Divi.ion 16 88 A clergyman in the north, very homely in his adJrc , s,chose for his text a passage in the rsdins— " I s-td in my haste all int.n arc li.irs." Ay," prem,td his reverence by way or introduction, "ye said It in your haste, Da%id, did ye? gen ye had been here, ye bight have said it at your leisure, re; nz:n." Theodore Boob s,,ys of r.tlroads and steamboats, they annihilate Ppeco and tirno, not to mention passengers. DELIRIUM TREMEN HALATION Communicated from the Boston :Medical and Sur gical Jou William Perry, an Irishman, 48 years of age, is of sanguine temperament, strong e: d robust frame, and has generally enjoyed firm health. lie is a hostler by occupation, and has been a. man of in• temperate habits for many years. On Monday, July was committed to the. House of Correc • [ion, having for several days previously been drink ing very freely, according to his own statement. On the same day he presented himself to the hos pital as tan out patient fur chronic ulcer on the leg. At that time lie showed no indications of delirium tremens, o ith the exception of slight tremors, manifested, particularly about the hands Towards evening gretv wild and uneasy, tremors increased and became general. Slept but little during the night, and was found next morning in a state of MO. excitement, smith tongue thiclsly coated,pu pHs d:hited, lips tremulous, muscles nnivt rsally agita ted, pacing his cell, talking incessantly, and raving incoherently. During the following twer.ty-four hours the pa tient showed all the usual sprint,' Ms of delirium tremens in a marked degree. He dept noire, but walked the floor without intermission, talked dis connectedly, and, as is usual in lilac cases, busied himself in the performance of imaginary tasks.— He was constantly pressing, against the walls of his cell, or endeavoring, with the fancied assistance of to remove the iron dour. Meanwhile, if questioned, he would answer ro the best of his ability, and obey directions with alacrity fur the moment, but immediately relapsed into his previous stale of delir inns . This, at tames, assumed a violent form, so that it was deemed necessary to take away his bed and all other moveable articles within his retch, and keep attendants by him day and night to protect him front injury. For the suceeding forty-eght hours this state of things continued smith but little variation, all the grave symptoms increasing in severity. Th e usual treatim alt having failed, and large and repeated doses of morphia pros int; utterly powerless to produce sleep, the patient was found on Friday morning still in a state of wa hefulness and high delirium, but so much exhatis.ted as to make it a inattor of the highest moment to induce sleep int. inediately. In this condition it was thonglit cx pcdient, as a list resort, to wane a trial of ethereal inhalation—and the ether was accordingly ad ministered l•y the spoor. The patient was very refractory, and required to be held by assistants, an the meanwhile stritgg,lint*, raving Lund cursing. Aft , r inh.hng the v spur for the spice of ten or twelve mi n utes, he appeared quiet, and was thought to be fully under the ethereal influence; but upon the reinoval of the sponge be sprang up and commenced rasing anew. 'Pile process was repeated, and continued for ten minutes more, at the: end of which time the patient was brought fairly under the desired influence, and fell asleep. Flom this state of artificial sleep he lie passed, ir.thout wakintz, into a quiet, deep, and untroubled slumber, Mitch continued, mahout in. ' If, 71113:6 MI, for four and a half hours. lie was seen scetral tunesduring the continuance of this sleep, and within a few mint-des after he awoke. Ile then appc-red perfectly rational, cal. led for cold watt r, and asked to have his leg dress. cd ;he had Lrurcd it badly during the delirium.)— In the course of half an hour Le ;cll again (as WJ4 antietpa ter!) Into a quiet sleep. whit!) continued, with Urse intermissions, during the afternoon and Tins morning (Saturday) he appears perirctly rationii and well, thought weak. Ilas no recollec tion of anything that has happened, i'roin nightfall oat Monday to tlw tune of lass first waking on the Friday afternomi. Cinely.—Would the ether have brought about the same result in an eerier stage of the disease, before exhaustion supervened I If not, would a. repetition of the same have been more effectual ? A S - raxer Sei'ee —The other day, as I came (101511 Broome street, I saw a street musician, play• ing near the door of a genteel dwelling. 'rile organ was uncommonly sweet and mellow, and its toms were =low and plaintive, and I fancied that I saw in the woman's Italian face t.n expression that in• d)cated entlicient refinement to prefer the tender and melancholy to the lively " trainer tunes" in vogue with the populace. She looked like one who had suffered much, and the sorrowful music seemed tier own appropriate voice. A little girl clung to her scanty garments as if afraid all things but her mother. As I looked on them, a young lady of pleasing countenance opened the window, and be gan to sing like a bird, in keeping with the street organ. The other young girls came and leaned on her shoulder, and still she sang on. Blessing on her gentle heart. It was evidently the spontaneous gush of human love and sympathy. The beauty of the incident attracted attention. A group of gentlemen gradually collected round the organist, land ever as the time ended, they bowed respectfully to the w indow, and called out," more if you please !" One whom I knew fur the kindest and truest soul, passed round his hat; hearts were kindled and the silver fell in freely. In a minute four or five dollars were collected finr the poor woinnn. She spike no word of gratitude, but she gave Fuel) a look " Will yon go the next street and play to a friend ,or mine' , " said my kind hearted friend. She an ...erred in tones expressing tho deepest emotion, "No, ; God bless you all, (she stepped back and , stood sheltered by the curtain of the is indow,) " I will go home now." The tears trickled deesn her cheeks, and as she walked away, she ever and anon wiped her eyes with the corner of her shawl. The group of gentlemen lingered a moment to look after her; then turning to the now closed vs indow, they gave three enthusiastic cheers and then de parted better than they came. Tim pavement on which they stood had been a church to them ; and for the next hour nt least, their hearts were more tban usually prepared far deeds of gentleness and mercy. Why are such things sn uncommon Why do we thus repress our sympathies end (-hill the gentle current of nature Tly formal observances and restraints 7 —Mrs. Child. 128 866 33 A gentleman write 4 that he dined at the St Charles Hotel, New Orleans, With Lut one other person at the table, co thinned off is the population by fear of the epidemic. S TREATED BY LN. OF ETHER. BY .7. B. 177.17 AM, 71. D., BOSTON FALL or METEOsIc Sro:s:Es is lows.—From the lost number of Silliman's Journal of Science, we copy the following letter from Rev. Reuben Gay lord, of Hartford, Desmoines Co, lowa, to Charles U. Shepard, Professor of Chemistry in Amherst College, Mass: On the 28th of February, 1647, at about ten minutes before three o'clock in the afternoon, the attention of the people in this region was arrested by a rumbling noise as of distant thunder; then three reports were heard one after another in quick succession, like the blasting of rocks or the firing of a heavy cannon half a mile distant. These were scceedcd by several fainter reports, like fir ing of small arms in platoons. Then there was a whizzing sound heard in different directions,a2 of bullets pa4sing through the air. Two men were standing together where they were at work; they followed. with their eyc the di rection of one of these sounds, and they saw about seventy rods from them the snow fly. They went to the spot. A stone had fallen upon the snow, had bounded twice, the first lime as supposed about teight feet, and the second time about two feet.— The stone weighed two pounds and ten ounces.— The persmts heard another stone strike as it fell, supposed to Le small, but they could not find it Some tune in the spring another stone was found about one mile and a quarter west from the place where this fell. It was in two pieces lying together, weighing - forty-six pounds. Another fragment, a portion of the same rock, %vas found about half a mile from the former, which from the description I had of it, I judge would weigh about fifty pounds. These were coated with a thin black covering.— The principal ingredient in their composition seem ed to be sandstone. They are full of minute brilliant particles, and occasionally a small lump of sonic octal is to be found. Inclosed in this shot I send you three or four small 0::C9. Some were ta%eri out nearly as large as a grain of corn. A roan from whom I obtained a fragment, insisted that they were silver. lie had ground up a con siderable portion of the rock to obtain this silver, and he thought he had saved enough to make fifty cents (half a dollar.) The above stones are all that have been found, as faa as I could learn. The atmosphere at the time of this phenomenon was ino:tly clear, somewhat hazy, so warm as to cause the snow on the ground to be sotnewhat soft. The noise was heal, distinctly to a distance of fifteen miles in tverp direction. At a distance of ten miles in each direction the sound was like the rol -1 ling of a heavy wagon passing swiftly over frozen ground. Smoke was oven in the direction from which the sound seemed to proceed. The sinolse appeared in two place:2, apparently about sic or Ltglt t feet a rt , above the %ation of light clouds, and MiTing a eimular motion. The motion of the meteoric body was supposed, from the reports v.bich were heard, to be towards the smitheast, or rather the south of east. Hartford, July 12th, IS 17. $ FORCZ OF PROJECTILE' COMFOU•aA —The words I strong and strengM are very fallacious, and theme tore the notion which the public have of projectile weapons and projectile compounds iv, among other things, very incorrect. An ounce of powder fired loosely scarce makes a noise—a little smoke, a little smell of sulphtwous gas, and all is mer ; yet the slow ounce of ponder in a musket would lie a charge far more necessary to urge the deadly effect a Iteaty lead ball. An ounce of fulminating silver, o n the other hand—nay, but who would dare tc• handle an ounce of such substance? —say the ninety-sixth part of an ounce, or just five grains ; well, five grains of fidminatilig silver are taken out of a paper with much fear and trembling, touched with no bard substance for fear of explosion, then gently laid on a piece of metal, say a penny piece ; then suppose it ignited by means of a very lung stick with a match at one end, and begging the ' operator's pardon, with a somewhat rash man at the other—what is the result , A terrible crash, which deafens the operator for sonic days and the penny piece is bent almost double ? ]low strong ! (exclaims a non-chemical operator,) how well this will project. a ball:" lie tries a small charge in a musket, and what are the results? Why the gun is burst, the iron literally rent into threads and fragments, the ball is perhaps projected but to a very inconsiderable distance—if of lead, flattened as if by a hammer ; if of cast iron, broken into fragments: Now, which shall we say is the strongest substance, gunpowder or fulminating, sil ver? The force of all explosive bodies on the gas es which arc liberated during the explosion, and the peculiar effects of their explosion depend on two seperate circumstances, the total quantity of gas thininated, and the rapidity of its ctimivalian Gunpowder, perhaps, compared weight for weight with fulminating surer, liberates wore gas of the two, but not so rapidly,the liberation is progressive nut instantancons.—Hence its immediate disinte grating effects are not so considerable as those of fulminating siker, but as a projectile agent arc inure sullicient.—Polyterhilie Magazine. Lieut. WASHINGTON MEkne, who died at Tam pico last month belonged to the 11th regiment Infantry, Col. Ramsey's, and was a resident of Hopewell township, York county, where his family now live. == SPURIOUS QUARTER EAGLES, admirably executed, have made their appearance in New York. The nteehaninl execution of thebe counterfeits is said to fully equal to that of the U. S..NI int. It is said of Melancthon, that when he made an appointment, he expected nut only the hour but the minute to be fixed, that no time might be wasted in idleness or suspeisse; and of Washington, that whin his secretary being repeated late in his at tendance, laid the blame on his watch, he said, You must get another watch, or 1 another accre. tary. =IM!= A Judge out Nest has recently decided that it might he insanity to •ign another man's name to a check, instead or your own, but that to drawing the money on the check and spending it, there is a great deal of sanity, JENKS' Lria PorA - rons.L.A fine sample of pota toes St ith blue ryes, says an Exeter paper, were cried up with this name through the street last week, at 10d per score. The idea of se score of Jenny Linde for 10d. Tnc BLACKSMITII'S BOY.—Some years ago we were travelling through the interior of Pennsylvania, and had occasion to stop for the night in. a small town. During the evening, we went into a store Ifor the purpose of purchsing some articles of which we stood in need. While there, our attention was attracted by a little boy, whose clothes were be. grimmed with soot and coal from working in a blacksmith's shop, (for he was a blacksmith's ap prentice.) lie brought to the merchant a small hammer which he had made out of small pieces of iron given to him by his master. Said he, " Sir, will you be so kind as to give rue a spelling book for this hammer? I want to learn to read, and I have not the money to buy a book.' The merchant was so pleased, that he gave him the book, and allowed him to-keep his hammer too. This was an exam. plc of perseverance worthy the iiiiitatiorr of every boy in the land. We took down the name of that boy in our memorandum book, expecting to hear of him again ; and eve have heard of him since, for we were told but lately, that he has made wonder ful proficiency in bin studies, and we believe that a high position is in reservation for that humble blacksmiths apprentice, rind those who live long enough will surely hear of him in time to come.— Errharig - e paper. =MI RECA :MED.-A mon the pieces of artillery captured at Churubusco, were the twopieccs belong ing to Lieut. O'Brien's company, which he was compelled to abandon at Buena Vista, and which fell into Mexican hands. They were recaptured by the very company to which they originally be longed, thus having proved that their loss on a former oecflsion was no want of valor on their part, but one of those accidents the best troops some. times arc compelled to submit to. Nothing could exceed the enthusiasm of the men when they saw their well known pieces. They all but hugged and embraced them, and rent the air with huzzas, while drawing peals of eloquence front the objects of their devotion. =ME:FIE: CURIOUS PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT.—The N. York Herald says :—" The M. e sriu on board the junk, Mr. Keysing, states what we consider to be a curi ous fact, that his qucuc has grown faster for the short time he has been in New York than it would in a year in China. On this account he it desir ous of remaining here a month or too longer, so he will be enabled to astonish his brctlicrn at home with his long hair. Ile actually asked the captain to stay here on this account, but the rest of the Chinamen arc so anxious to get honie the latter said he could not gratify him." TIM FIRE UR Inc FLINT.—The Shawneatown Demacrat, concludes an article upon the speech of Lord Paimen.ton—threatening the non• paying American States with the power of Eng- land—in the following manner. We take it his Lerdship would rather have the money, at some future day, than fight it out, even upon such Ju• rorable terms The Suckers—with the fait understanding that if they flogged the array of hungry Britons, the debt would be cancelled—would up• and at 'em ❑nd ere old Sel flung Ins golden beams upon the western hills, Illinois tc refiec from debt! Mur der will out—and we aro bold to say that although there is an ardent desire on 'he part of our people to meet the r just li4bilitieq, still, were it possible to cancel the hoary debt hanging over our Stale by a resort to the briutling panoply of war, the Suckers would cheerfully fight out the whole four teen millions at six cents a thy. That is just their game ! HoW do yon like the bustle and confusion of Boston 1" asked the shopkeeper, as Mrs.Partington stood by the counter. "It gives me confusion to see 'cm," said the old lady ; "folks didn't do so when I was a girl; and besides, what art awful sight of bran and cotton it takes, to say nothing of their awkwardness, when they get bli pped on one side—" "I mean," brake in the shopkeeper, " tits bustle and confusion of the streets." "Olt!" said Mrs. P., "that is quite another thing and imme• diatcly left the store.—Boston Post. EncANistirv.—Every 011 C who has read the story of the philosopher who, when his dog Diamond had destroyed the work of years, merely told the quad• roped that he didn't know the mischief he had done; which no doubt was true; and perhaps the little rascal knew as much of philosophy as he did of they:aced) made to him on the occasion. Such instances of equanimity are rare. Probably but one other case has transpired since then, and this was when the cat ran off with Mrs. Parting. ton's steak, which she had just prepared for dinnci. When informed of it by her niece, the old lady smiled as she spoke—" That cat always was agree. able to my cooking; some people's vittles she wouldn't touch; we must put ourselves on a regi. ment to-day, Lucy." What a lesson fur indulgers in domestic whirlwinds. Errec-rs or St.svray.—The Charleston Mercury in an article headed "The Ruin of the Slaveholder and the Slave," has the following informatioa : "The thirteen original States of the Union corn. prised an area of 371,121 square miles, of which the six Slave States contained 226,000, or 22 37ths of the whole, and the non-Slaveholding States 1.15,12-1, or 15-17ths. Now, the entire extent of our common country is 2,920,000 square miles, of which the Slave State possess 860,000, not quite 11-37ths; being a growth in the latter of fourteen times their original size, while in the same period of time the Slave States have not quadrupled theirs." The difference of increase in population and wealth has been still greater than that of territory. What better argument could be offered than this, of the superior advantages of free over slave labor.? Sister Mnry Delphina, (formerly Miss C. Zieg. lee,) died on the 2tith ult., at New Orleans of yeh low fe% er, contracted whilst in attendance upon the sick at the llrspital in that city, her relatives reside at Columbia, Pa., of which place she is a resident, Another martyr to the sacred cause of charity. A gentleman in Howard County. Va., has entered T ETTERS testamentary having been granted Li to the undersigned on the estate of Martha cd into the novel speculation of raising black cats, Forrcy, late of the Borough of Columbia, deceased. and has purchased an island in the Chcsapcak bey, AN persons indebted to the said estate are requested which he has stocked with these animals. The to make payment immediately—those having object is to raise them to; their for, which is quite claims to present the same fir settlement. JOHN BRUNER, Executor. valuable. Columbia, Sept. 24, 1847.-60 ABDICATION OF KINGS AND EMPERORS.—Through out the history of Europe there never existed ritni. lar examples of so many sovereigns threatening to resign their thrones as at the present moment. No fewer than three'or four potentates are declared to entertain serious intentions of abdicating their power and authority. This is good news. The time is coming when birth-right crowns will have to go a begging for heads. The poor creatures who have become tired of their sceptres, arc the Emperor of Russia,. the Ring of Belgians, and the prince of Orange. A JEWEL OF A LETTERWRITER.—The Louisville Journal thus serves up one of his contemporaries in, Cincinnati " He is the roscol,,who, a few years ago acted as. the Cincinnati correspondent of the Louisville Jour nal and Penn's Louisville Advertiser, writing NVliig letters fur the one, and Locofoco letters fcir for the other. In one case the scoundrel wrote to the Journal that a certain state election. would go iti favor of the Whigs, and at the same time wrote to the Advertiser that it would certainly gee for the Democrats ; and, after the election was over, he wrote to the Journal that it actually had gone, for the Whigs, and at the same time tee the Adver tiser that it actually had gone for the Democrats!!! We detected the villian, and at once exposed him, and dismissed him-from our employment. He is just fit for the - - uses, and the- - is just fit for his. LIPROVED COTTON GINS.-A valuable improve. has been made in. Cotton Gins, by E. T. Tay* or & Co., of Girard, Georgia, which consists in a new arrangement in the machine for tightening or loosening the main band without cutting or altering the length. Istraor SI•1:01NO JENNY.-A valuable improve ment has been made on the Bale Rope Jenny, by Measrs. Bland & White, of Louisville, Kentucky, which can spin 1000 lbs. per hour, attended by one spinner and two pieccrs. This netv Jenny can be made, it is said, for five hundred dollars. The flour from the new wheat is said to be very superior this year, from the fact that the uncxampi. ed demand for breadstuff's during the last year has thrown into market the surplus on hand, so that the tt , ual custom of mixing ofd with new wheat, grind ing it together and sending it to market as new flour, it is largely diminished if not entirely pre vented. Sit°Ft LA.—Weight's Indisrr Vegetable will tin `nu od a radical rare for every kind of •scrof.ta, because thet not only i leanse and parity the body of all bad bu nion; and ever) throg that is opposed to health, but they restore the digestive organs to it healthy tone, and im part stiLli an energy to the clretilltion. that health and vigor are gut en to the whole frame. Prom Iwo to four of said Indian Vegetable Pills, takote every. night nn go ing to bed, will soon in be a perfect cure of the most else of Scrofula ; at the rune time the ronstitu t,aln w ill undergo such a radical change that scrofula, a n ell as every oilier complaint, will he banished from the body, and new life and vigor Will be given to the it hole fr., in r. Bee:are of Counterfeits ofall kinds: Some are coated with snort others made :in sees nada to outward ap pearance the original medicine. The saf,st con roe i., to purchase from the regular agents only, one or more of linen tray be famed in every village and ion n in the State. "vim The genuine for sale by FRY & SPANGLER. and .Ins. M. Watts, who are the only alit hnrized Agents for eniunihrt A Inn, hr cgei to athierthied in another ealiiniri. Principal Odic° 160 Rare Street., Philadelphia. The Ladies' Faith in Railway's Chinese Medicated Soup. •. I know my face Is sadly spreckled Mali pimples, tan, sun burn, and freckles,. Erysipelas, scurvy and salt rheum Upnn my cuticle assume Tn 'Neu with full antlenrity. 'I hese bi.•nushes I soon w ill cure And make my akin huh fair and pure r Try a snap of superior quality, The scalp I've spoken of. a.herr stated, It, Radst ay's Cbvuvr •Medicated, Foe toilet purposes 'tin said To he better Ilia. any other made; So now in) friends I will buy A cake of Railway's snap and try." The lady fur she spoke the truth She found the snap the friend of youth And henuiy once mare took its place And shone a ith filth upon her face, She ever after held her hope In Railway's Medizated Soap. Its wonderful effects in speedily removing tan. sun burn, pimples, blotches, pustules, bites of murroitoes, totter, &c, softening, purifying and cleansing the skln from all impurities, and udding beauty to the complexion. of ail who use it. places it beyond the reach of rivalry. It is cheaper and warranted better than any other toilet or medicated soap ever ott.red In the paid w. Sold for 121 small, and 25 rents for large cakes. by Zaino & Jackonn, George A. 51111er, and John F. Long, Lancaster; Bell & Son, Ilarrisborg; Morris & Co. York; R, Williams, Columbia. J. &R. G RA IMAY. No. 2 roorillml etrf,t N. 1 350 :nr sale SACKS ziton fine. Ground , h S v alt. 50 sacks scpt?.l'l7•tf 11. E. ATKINS & CO. lOn 13b1:.. Mackerel, No. 1,2, rind 3. 50 bblo For stile by 5ci0.21 . 47.tf 11.-E. ATKINS & CO. THE LADIES are partiruhrly invited to Pd 11 early and examine tlin.o beautiful Bon. net Ribbons, all new, Fall Style, now opening at the BEE HIVE, North Queen at. Sept..t.'4—tf -100 PIECES Alpachas and Lustres, prices tram IS cents and npwards per yard, note opening at the BEE HIVE, North Queen at. Sept. 21—tf Hair Oil, ➢lair Oil. CIIICASSIAN OlL—a superior article for pro [tinting the growth. bea u ty and puri fying tho hair—warranted. Ox Marrow and Bear's oil. For sale by LEADER. sept24'47.tf ifIiOUBLE EXTRACT OF MUSK just received and for sale at LEADER'S. sept3.4'47 tr. TIAYSON'S INDELIBLE INK for marking linen, silk and cotton without the preparation. For stile by W. A. LEADER. ITCTIV/4.
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