General Intelligence

An Intcnlion. - Mr. ChilcL of the New York Anti-slavery Standard," describes a new iavention recently made by Dr-Drake Of Philadelphia. It consists in the use of a chemical agency as amechanïcal force; and is called an "Ignition Engine." We annex his description of it: "Suppose that on a coramon steam cylinder a small cupola is erected communicating in a concealed manner with the .hollow of the cylinder, and without by a sliding valve. In this cupola or lantern, are brought together, through tubes, comnjon air, supplied by a forcing pump, driven by the engine itself. and any kind of inflammable gas in thé proportion of ftve parts atmospheric air and one of gas. - The sliding valve being opened, and a match applied to this mixed air, ignition takes place, and in one minute the engine is in operátion. the light of 'a lamp is scarcely sooncr diflused through a chamber, than the piston is propelled through 'the chamber of the cylinder. Thiq eifectis produced by an instantarteous and powerful expansión of the aforesaid mixed air, consequent tipon combustión. How the combustión ís eflccted, and the pressure from the rarified and compressed air brought to act successively on the opposite ends of the piston so1 as to give it a rcciprocafíng motion, capable of being increased, (one would almost think,) to the velocity of lightning, is what the inventor has not disclsed, The effect anybody may behold in a small operatire machine of about thrce horse power, working witli the regularity of a clock, but suspending, inöreasing, or diminishing íts actíon at flie touch of the engineer. Tlie smoke arining from the combustión, passed oiT under and around a reservoir of tlie■■■■■-■ - . tibie, and converts it into the íbrm of an elastic -fluid, fast enough to feod the combustión." It is stated that Dr. Drakc has had a machine in operation fbr'two years, and vvith satisfactory results for one year. Philanthropist. The Dulce of Wellington.- kxWiut WelIcíley wns born at üangan Castle, in the coun ly of Meath Ireland, May lst, 1769, the tburth son of the eail of Morington, a poor Irish Peer, educated at Eton, tben üent to France to the mihtury school at Angers. He entered the army as an Ensign in the 41st regiment, but soon becanie Lieutenant Colonel of the SOth over the heads of m;my old oflicere, through pqrchase nnd family interest- went on the recruiting service in Ireland- fought and slaughtered wholesnle, in In'Ma,- became Secretary for Ireland, and a memfaer of Parlia ment- joined the army in Portugal- was raised to the chief command- fought the battles of Ta!avera,Viltona, Fuentes d'Onor, and Toulouse- was created a Duke and two millions of dollars were voted to him by ParJia ment - went to France as Ambassador gained the battle ot Waterloo with superior numbers, aud by the opportune arrival and assistance of Bulow and Bhicher- advanced to Paris- urged the nócessity of eending Napoleon to thedietant rock St. Helena, contrary to law andevery honorable and manly principie - commanded the foreign armes wiio garrisoned France, had another million of dollars voted to him from the pocket s of the hard worked people of Britain- becarrte Commander in Chief of the arsnies of Britain, then prime minister of England, when he yielded Catholic emancipation because it was found that the army could not be depended on to hinder it. In 1830 he gave way to the Whigs, and now again holds office with Peel.The Duke is a sliglrt, feeble built man, in his 75th year - températe n hin habite, rather penurious, possessed of much good sense, a skilful military captin, but said to be excessivel y shy of powdcr and 6hot. Fo Canada he recomtnended a strong1 goverument patronage [corruption] and the absence of the real popular influence. Paper money he detests, and the quibbles and tedious jargons of the lawyers are his abomination. A host of his poor relatives have pensions, and his titles of honor would fili one of these columns. - Mackenicie's Examiner. An Editor. - The business of an editor who attempts to give to his readers something new every day of publication, we believe is greatly underrated, especially by the more learned of mankind. They think it a very easy matter to write for a newspaper. Let them try it. Let some of our ablest men or women, make the attempt to write for us, one single article each day, without fail - an article, mind, which they shall not hesitate to put their name to, and let the world know it is theirs. We verily believe that they would find it no easy matter. Yetsuch is the position of an editor. With only a modicum of brains, perhaps, he must not write one article but a half a dozen; and what it more and worse too, his name goes out attached to them all. Really. the public should judge charitably of an editor's efforts. It would be strange if he never said a silly thing - very strange if he never said an unwise one - passing strange if he never said an erroneous one. His opinions of transpiring events are expressed hastily, frequently on the spur of the moment, before time is given for thorough examination, and the wonder is, that they are so uniformly such as their authors are willing to stand by after mature deliberation.Websier and the Soulh. - The Whig party at the Norlh hns shown mucli relenting in the case of Mr. Webster. It seems disposed to takc liim backto its bosom: and the Whigs in the West to receive lus advances kindly. - But.Sothern Wbigs are more stubborn. Hear the Richmond Wbitf. ♦'Andsliüll the Whig party again receive in comiuunion this Arch Apostate - this troitor to every thing that men of honor hold dear - thia associale and actual head of a Cabinet whose touch is pollution, and whose interior is one enormous lazar house of corruptionJ Nol if he brought one hundred thousand voles at his back; not if, coupled vih his own acknowledged abiíif es, he bore, in his own personj Ihe talents of nll the great men this country has produced since thp. landing at Jamestow, down to this present y ear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty th ree!On Saturday last, sixty oï tho Episcopal clergy, of the diocese of New-York, marched in a body to the residence of Bishop Onderdonk, Franklin-street, and, through an eloquent addrese, delivered by the able and excellent Dr. Waimvright, thanked him for the tírm, and orthodox, and rnanly marnier in which he-sustained himsslf during the tryiiig days of tho late Convention. The reverend bishop received the reverend cúrales and rectors most graciously, after which the clergy all knelt before him and received his benediclion. Such a scene has not been vvitnessed since the time of the pilgrimage to Cunterbury by St. Augustine and his monke, or since theduy ihat Cardinal VVolsey received the regerend abbots and their reiinue at Westminster.- A. Y. Cor. Morning Post.Lard Candlcs.-Messrs. Buxton k, Russel of Ohio City, O., exhibited at the recent Mechanics' Fair of this city,some beautiful specimens of lard candles, Trom their mamifactory. They have engaged extensively in the business and the quaJity of the ariicles which they pro duced is superior to any thing of the kind we ever savw In appearance they are eqüal to the best sperm-some of thetrr being so transparent that the wicfcs cnn be easily eeen through the lard. Of iheic lightiug quolities, we ure assured by thosc who liave uscd thtm, that theybum 'long nnd well.' iBelrayal and Deallu- The Philadelphi papers of yestcrday morning chronicle the su icide of a young woman, the adopted daughter of a respeciobJe tradesman, The cause i eufficiently ndicated in the following letter which Bhe had written and left upon the table in lier room. "Let no one attempt to use any cup, turnbier or spoon that u on Ihid table. This is to inform all who see il, that no one is chargeable with my dentli- thnt Is, with having in aiy form murdered me - I die by my own hand. I hnve been the viclim of a cruel deceiver, who, afier leading me into the greatest distreee, has left me destitute of rnoney, friends and clothes. I know not which wny to ti;rn. This has caused me to commit the rash act. May God have mercy on my soul! ït is my last request that Dr. E may be madetocoine and gaze on the cold clay of her he bo ruined and cruelly deserted. My name is . I nm the adopted daugh ter of Mr. , South Twelfth street. I had, when I lay very low, the promise of Mr. D. sts , tolie in the Magdalen burial ground. It has been my early wish in life- it is in death. I Uiink if some one would cali upon him, [he is a very benevolent man,] that he would let me lie there. R "It is my earneet request that no efforts be made to restore life. I have no tie to bind me here. I long to be cold. A prostitute's life I cannot bear to lead- no other resource is left." One of the papers gives at large the name of the "cruel deceiver." Dr. Eldridge, somewhat notorious for past doings here and in Europe - JY. Y. Com. Adv..Wrongs Redrcssing. - Recently a large meeting of tailors and tailoresses, and others friendly to the rights of the working classes was held in Fañeuit HalL It is said there was good speaking and good sense uttered The object was toredress the wrongs of laboring women, Now they are almost at th mercy of their eraployers, mere drudges from morning till night, nnd barely able to obtai a docent livel ihood, ,viih no time for monta improvement, and scarcely anythin to lay b foran hour of need. God never designed in telügent creatures for such a life, and it i time there waB a reform in this direction, ant we are glad the spirit of righting wrongs ha taken hold of this case. It 'u a spirit tha must prevalí. Freemen's Righia. - A letter from the Buf falo correspondent of the New Vork Courie and Enquirer, dated September 1 1, after describing the Liberty Convention, gives the following incident. Horrible! "To day has shown up a new feature o amalgamation. The Recorder's Court com menced its session this morning, and afle swearing in the grand jurors for the term, th panel of petit jurors was calfed, when among others who answered to their names, was Ab ■ ner H. Francis, a black man, who has had the wool shaved oif his head, and lis place svipplied by n wig of straight black hair.- The first case tried was on action of replevin nnd among the first jurors lrawn was thi black; and vvhiie I write he sits cheek byjow in the jury box wilh eleven white men." They Love Darkness Rallier than L'ght We understand that the copies of the Repor of the doings of the meeting of the Unitarian Association, held in this city in May last which were forwarded to Charleston, S. C. have all been relurned, in consequence of t hei containing the speech of Rev. John Parkman of Dunvers, N. H., in favor of an anti-slavery resolution. Let it ftbt be said that the South is anxious to be rid of slavery, when its most liberal sect refuse to read an imporrant document because it contains a proposition for the abolition of thaL institution, and remarks in tlefence of that proposa l,from one of the worthest, ablest, aye, and gentlest members of that liberal denomina tion.' - Likcrator. More Duelling. - We are 6orry to record that two of our fellow citizens, with two others to help them, ho.ve been perpetrating the folly of proposing to íight a duel - the nctual exchange of shot having been prevented by the arrest of one pair, on Iheir way to the ground selected for the purpof-e. Tlie wouldbe combatants were Messrs. Edward Paterson nnd Henry P. Wammnker - thesecond,Meesrs. Bernard S. Burling and Hiram Rich. The quarrel was political, or at least had origin at a political meeting heldin Tanimany Hall. - Mr. Paterson and his second were put under bonds, and the same wotild havo been done to the oiher two,if the officers could have found them; bui it is said that neiiher of them was any where in the heighborJiood of the fighting place en the day cppoiated for the duel.- JV. Y. Commercial.Theo Currcnts.. - At the present time, there are two strong opposite currents in the religious world. The one is in the direction of semi-papacy, and tends to religious despotism. The other, (and it üay be caused by the former,) is in the direction of opposition to all religious restraints, and tends to religious anarchy. Bible Christianity lies midway between the two, and has nothing in comraon .with either. It gives freedom from despotism, but not fromthosc rightful restraints which all men need. - Obcrlin Evangelist. Another S'ign. - At a dinner reeèntly given in King william County, Va. to Hon. R. M. T. HunLer, a letler wns read from Henry A. VVise, the standard -beorer of John Tyler'ö administration. It s entirely filled with express ions of alarm at the 6uspected design of 'Eng land with regard to slavery in the United Suites, ond concludes with tho followiog significant words: - "S.o I would noïv say to EnJand; you shall not interpose at all to the injury of, or interference with, our institutions ia any way whatever: if you do, it shall be at your peril and cost. t will cefend my own iaslitutioRs, at least, against your intervention." How? Texas is bonk of our bonb a'd flesu of oür flesh."A bcautiful body of Divinüy. - The Rev. Wm. T. Hamilton, D. D., of Mobile, declares that, as to the morality of the thing, he can seo no more sin in the purchase of a servant (a human being created in the image of God,) than in the purchase of a good horse, or any thing else! Of course not. A blind mind and a hard heart can not perceive a great many things which are sufficiently obvious to others. But should such a shameless man-stealcr be recognized as a Christian brother, by our churches at the North?- H o is. - CL Freeman. Cour Is of Honor. - The King of Prussia has directed courts of honor to be established in all the garrisons, which have jurisdiction over offences and disputes coming within the rules of honor and usually settled by duels. These courts are authorized to inflict punishments according to the nature of the offence. In case the parties will not submit to the decisión óf the court of honor they are authorized to fight in presence of the coúrt, and be subject to pnnishment in proportion to the injury inflicted upon each other. The Atmosplieric Railway. - Several trials were this day made in the short line from Kingston to Dalkley, and the trains passed along at the rate of 50 miles an hour. No stoppage or interruption took place, and several trips were made with as much regularity as if the concern had been long established. The principie is now proved to be eminently successful, and there is no doubt that it will, in many instances, supersede the present one. Hein-p and Repeal. - The New Orleans Tropic of the 2d inst. sends greeting to O'Connell as follows: 'When O'Connell sends his missionaries to Loisiana, we hope to be prepared for them. The hemp erop of Kentucky has been very good ior sotne years,"and the supply of rope will be quite sufficient for our purposes.' Hogs and PorJc Packing. - The Cincinnati Gazette States that the stock of Hogs ia fully an average one throughout the región dependent upon Cincinnaü for a market, especially in Kenlucky, and that preparations for both packing and slaughtering are more extensivc this year than we ever before noticed. Thore are eight or ten slaughtering establishments at Cincinnati, that are competent to slaughler and dress from 3 to 10,000 Hogs daily, and some 33 Pork honses, that can disposo of at least 25,000 Hogs per day were it necessary . The Gazette hazards no opinión as to the probable price, but statea that the average price Jast season was a fraction undei $2,00 per 100. {tThe Hon. Caleb Cushing, Ambassador from the United Stutes to China, left Gibralter, early last month in the Oriental for Alexandria, under a salute of fifteen guns from the garrison. His excellency will proceed to India by the over land route, and thence to China as he best can. The wreek of the unfortunate Missouri, which was originally destined to carry the Ambassador, is just visible over the surface of the water. The United States Consul has advertised for tenders to fish up the cannon, machinery, and remains of the sunken frigate, and it is hoped that all will be cleared away by November, as the wreek causes a great obstruction to the navigation. Exporis to England.- The Provisión trade with England is certainly on the advance. The following is part of the cargo of the ship Cambridge, which very recently sailed from New Yoik for Liverpool Boxes Cheese, 3,779 Lard, bbls., 765 Casks do 137 Beef do 234 Bacon Hams, 700 Flour, do 420 Casks Beeswax, 17 Apples, do 279 Naval Stores, bbls, 1,867' Clocks, boxeg, 54 Piano Forte . , 1 Oarriage, Conseqvence of Mobs - The Philadelphia Ledger says: "Yesterday the Supreme Courl, n the suit of J. Harper and Son ogainst the County, for damages on account of the desruction of their brick works, some months ago by the mob, the jury gave a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs fór the sum of $3,758 54. So much for an indeninity law.Winter in Earnest. - We supposed that vre vore doing pretty well in getting up a 12 lours enow-stomx on the 2iid of October. - lat it was nothing to what Vermont friends ccomplished on the same day. We are inebted 10 the polilenese of our Post-mastcr, Mr. Wasson, for a slip from the East Ranolph (Vt.) P. O. to the following effect:- Jtlb. Eve. Journal. East Ruvdolph, Vt. Oct. 24. Snow felï )iere veslerdiiy two feet. It s now, on a level vhé.re it bas not drifted, twe.ntï iNCHKs! Tlie dfjAs in eoine places, are four fëkt derp! ALFRED flEBARD, P. M.Freedom of the Press and the Mail Last spring, we.learn by a letter from a citizen of Baltimore, publishod in the Ban gor Gazette, the court in that city "sum moned the Post-masters to come forwart to testiiy whether any abolition documents had come to their offices - shewing a determinaron to crush the freedom of the press." Mr. Ncal, Eilitorofthe Philadelphia Pensylvanian ain] Mr. Kiniiey, of tlie Newark Daily Advertiser,have bof h been candidates for Congress, at the recent elcctions, and both urisuècesfm Tlie United Stntes GazeUe thinKs tliisnot to be regrctled, as t is much easier to siipply the place of a Congresstnan han of a good editor.What Next!- The N. Y. Sun says there is now in the American Museum exhibition room, a littie machine, worked by a dog, making stockings at the rate of dozens per day! The excellence of the hose made by this machine, and the economy by which it may be managed, defies all competition. Hitlierto, the Europeans have been able to manufacture hosiery far cheaper than we could, but now we can compete with them successfully. - The invention of this rotary knitting machinewas perfected last winter by a young man named French, of Cabotville, Mass. It is a remarkable contrivance. We have seen some of the canine race go to a distant field, drive up the cows, churn butter, and pound clothes by walking on a tread wheel: but dogs knitting stockings goes far ahead of our mechanics. - Buff. Patriot. The Iron Eevenve Cutter. - Mesors F ree man, Totten &. Co. have finished and forwarded one of these vessels to the kkes, and the othcr is now on the stocks. The amouni and vanety of niachinery brought into plny, by which Iroo is dressed, as a carpenter dresses wood, is highly interesting to o visitor. - Mr. Totteh has made several valuable improvements in the progress of his work, tendïng toremove those difficullies which always occur in new and important branches of business. The establishment of these gentlemen ia very extensive with grounds affording every facility for carrying on the largest ecale of work. William C. Bouck, tlie present Chief Magistrate of New York, and whose office is only second in importance and influence to thatof the President of the Union, says he has often gone to the plough before daylight, and from it after dark,while laboring in his younger days upon his father's farm. From his boyhood until he was twenty-two years of age, he says no common laborer on his father's farm done more work than himself, either in clearing land or in the harvest field. - IV. Y. Sun. A petition presented by Mr. Hume agains the Factory Bill, states, among many olhe allegations against the elergy of tlxe Estab lishment, "that tbe petitioner has good reaso to believe that very few of them raake their ovvo sermons, but buy them ready made of their London agents . That your petitioner could name a lady, a Dissenter, who employs all her leisure hours in composing sermons for the clergy, for which ebe obtains half a guinea each, and gives th proceeús to the London Missionary Society." "Judge MsLean in a late letter, makes the followmg statement concerning the polittcal parties and their acts. In my Judgement, nothing can reecue our government from this, the common fitte of republics, but a change in its polittcal actlon. This action itiUst be elevated. It must reach and rouse tbe moral tone of the nalion. Instead of adminietering to the proslitutedappetites of demagoguesjit musí rest on a virtuous and enlightened public opinión. It mast gather strength by its acts - moral strength. lts aim should be the general good.'rProductive Farming. - A gentleman paid $1,990 for a cranberry raeadow near Boston, built a dam so as to flood it at pleasure, (for $150) and thereby protect the vines from frosts; and this season lie has had a erop of seven hundred bushels, worth $1,400 in this market. We have this on the authority of the New England Farmer. Literalure Going Ahcad.- James Arlington Bennett, L. L. D., sold to the Harpers, publishers, last Friday Afternoon, the copyright of his celebrated work on Book Keeping, for the sum of forty thousand dollars. We heartily wish success to these enterprising gentlemen in their liberal support of American authors. N. Y. Sun. East and West. - From B úñalo East, is a continuous line of rail road to various points of New England, extending 1100 miles. The completion of the Sandusky and Cincinnati road will virtually extend the Great Western Rail Road, fifteen hundred miles into the Mississippi valley, and Cincinnati will be brought within sixty-one hours travel of New York and Boston!!Navy of Great Britain. - We notice that the expenses of the Navy of England, for the year ending 5th Ju] y 1843, amcharged L6,557,210,142 pounds sterling, which in round numbers fall but little short of 30,000:000. The Navy consists of 165 shipsof theline; 117 frigates; 64 war steamers, and 324 smaller vessels; employing 27,000 seamen, 05,000 marinero. Shoe Pegs. - Tlie Portland Advertiser says that a quantity of fresh-cut birck ivood is now coming down the canal, amounting to about tioenty cords, all of which is destined for Lynn and Ipswich, Mass., to be manufactured into shoe pegs. An interesting example of the uses of the raw 1 terial, and an indication of much activity in the shoe manufacture.Do you Chatv? - In the United States, j with a population of 17,000,000, the annual consumption of tobáceo ís 108.000,000 pounds - equal to seven pounds for every man, woman and suckling in the country. No wonder the spitting business is so good, W hy, if we set ourselves about it, wc couldsquirt an enemy to death.Exlemporary Milk. - The London Lancet says that "aRussian chemisthas found out a method of insuríng a supply of milk extemporaneously." He evaporates newy drawn milk, at a gentle heat, until it is converted into a fine powder, which is cept in closely stopped bottles; and aflbrds good milk on being mixed with water. ven after a considerable lapse of time. J"ew Bank at Bvffalo. - We onderstand bat Henry B. Gibson, Esq. of Canandaigua, s about establisijing a private Bank in the city of Btiffalo, to be ovvned by himself exclusivey, and to be rnnnngeJ by liimself in pereon, he bilis for which bove heaJy been ordered hrough the Comptroller. This will be an mportant acquisition to tbe rapidly inereasing )usiness nnü wculih of that great city. -.The pru eminent abijity with which Mr. Gjbson has conducted. the Ontario Bank for be last twenty-five ycars, with big g;eat buiness experjence, sagacity and wealth, will nsure to the citizens of Buffdlo, sound and egitimate banking, and the increased faciliie8 its growing commerce demande,-- Ilbany irgvs. Southern Jdstice. - A black man, named Gridley, had been committing depredations upon property, in the neighborhood of Raymond, Mississippi, when be was hunted down by dogs, and taken into the woods and hung. So a company of the "chivalry" of tbe South, n tbeir great zeal as conservators of the aws, ferociously hunt men with dogg, &, then crown their diaboJism by tbe comnission of murder! - tlius furnishing au excellent illustration of Southein morality. Runa wav. - One of John Tyler's chattels personal' has run away from hia farm at Willlamsburgh, Va . What wil! our Democratie President do, if he is thus bereft of his slaves? He bas never manifested any friendship to the "repeal of the Union'' between the slaveholder and his victim, though he is loud-mouthed against British oppression - the titled hypocrite! - Ch. F reeman. Democracy, - The Legislatura of Alabama has passed an act to raise revenue, taxing wlúte males between 21 and 45, 25 cents each - and free colored persons, without any regard to age, $1 each! This is chivalry. Rob net the poor, says the Bible, because he is poor. - Philanthropist. Texas. - The southern papers are pushing the annexation of Texas upon the country. Senator WaUcer has been sei lected as the man to introduce the bill al the coming session of Congress. They ; seem to feel that Slaverydemandsprorïipt action, and they are resolved to obey its i behests. The "Liberty Meeting," last night was fully attended. Mr. Birney spoke with müch eloquence, and commanded the close attention of the large audience. - He was followed by Mr. Stanton, who made an excellent speech, containing many noble sentiments. Francis Jackson presided at the meeting. - Mercantile Journal. (ÍThe Vatican. - The Vatican, in Rome, is more than 1,000 feetlong, nearly 800 feet wide - contains eight grand stair cases and 200 smaller ones. 20 courts and 4,422 apartments - and a library of 387.000 printed volumes and 28,000 manuscripts. Indictment of a Governo:- Governor Bigger of Indiana, was lately indicted fonpardoning, on soücitation of the pcopie of Clay County, a man named Reed, before he was tned for crimes commited in Posey county. This is tbe same Governor that pardoned a couple of kidnappers, whose victims was eold n Kentucky to pay jail feee! Very Good. - A. little girl, says the IMeroantile, while playing on tlie shed of a house in Leverett street, near the jail, was addressed by an inmate of the jail as follows: "Little girl, doesyour niother know you are out?'1 "Hey! hey ! sir, does your mother know you are n?" was tho ready reply of the little Miss. Mexican hulcmnity. - The Secretary of the Treasury gives notice that $148,555,01 of the Mexican Indemnity is ready for distribution to claimants on presentation of their certiiicates at the Bank of the Metropolis.