General Intelligence

SihgUlar and Fortúnate Retctm. - We learn from Iho Exchange Reading Room Books, that thé scbooner lïerald, arnved at this port yesterday from Boston, feil in wilh, on the i9th uit. in lat. 3 40j long-. 72 SO, a brigautine bapsized and nfcarly full of water. The jschooner Washing-tbH, frorii North Carolina, was lying etir, and thetírews of the lwo vesel cut a hole througli thé bow bf Xhe brig, on3 to their great surprise found in the forecustie á little bóy twèlve years öf oge, whom tbej aoon released from his dark nnd eolitary Cötifmeinent. Whën found, he was 6tting on tbfi hëad of the caek, with his feet in water, Wat had plenty of provisions near him. As oon as hé eaw daylight, he commentíed 6inging uiörriiy ,arid was taken od board thecfaooaer tVtóhington. The boy stated that he was frötti Jamaica, but could not teil how long he had been in eonfinement, and Gupposed the rest of the rew of the brig hsd përished. The captain of the Herald did not tearri the rtame of the brig or that of the captain, but from the fact that a boat was picked op at sëa on the I4th -uit. with the captain and ere of the brig Sir Jüiojiel Smith, from New York frír Kingston, Jamaica, vhich vessei was capsizéd on the TOthult. nnd a boy drowned (ns was sdpposed,) in the wreek, it is reasonablc to infer that this is the same vessel. If so, the linie fellow must have been in a gloomy and Ion osome prison for nine days. Such a miraculou escape is scarceiy to be found on record. - Balt. Amer.The Potoer of Ëjcpression.--Dr. Johnson, & reported by Bo3well, observes, that from his carlmst years ho had nwardly resolved to .Teel in con versa tion; and to this end lie had never uttered a sentence without ííret endeavoring to moke it ás significant and correct as it wu in his power. 11 is unrivalied sfcill as a converaer, is undoubtedly tö be attributed to this habit. iGeneral Torn Thumb.- Gen. Tora Thumb closes his exhibition in London on the 20tb mst., after which he proceedí, to several of the most important provin cial towns, Ireland, Scotland, andFrance The general opened his exhibition at the Egyptian Hall on the 20th of March last, and thus he will have remained in London four consecutivo months. The number of this visitors up to Saturday night last, counting only the tickets sold, was 194,699, being an average of over 2,000 per day, besides which he has during the same time exhibited four nights at the Princess'd Theatre, four times at the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, at the Surrey Theatre, and other public Institutions, twenty-four nights at the RoyalAdelaide Gallery- thus increasing the number of his auditors to about 300,000. How many ladies the little general lias kissed, out of the number, we would hardly dareguess. The General has been three times before her majesty, twice before the queen dowager, (from both of whom he received valuable presents,) once before the duchess of Kent, emperor of Russia, and the Jing and queen of the Belgians. He has been visted by the dukes of Cambridge, Wellington, Devonshira, Buckingham, Bedford, and, in fact, by nearly all the nobility of England, as well as the foreign ministers, officers ofstate, &c. He has visited many of their mansions, and received a host of presents from persons of the highest distinction. - The general has purchased an elegant pair of ponies, and has ordered a splendid equipage, corresponding in size with himself; it has been building for several months, and will be completed in about three weeks, when the general will return to London to take possession of it, but will remain here only three or four days. - Globe ofJuly 15. The Ossificd Man of Dublin. - A writer in the Christian Advocate, under the head of 'Transatlantie Recollections,' speaking of the Museum at Dublin, remarks;-- 'What calis and rivets the nttentiun of every visitor, whether scietitific or other'vise, is the celebrated skeleton of an ossified man; it ia said to be the only instafice of ossification ever known. It Í8 the Ekeleton of a young man named Clark, who was of krge frame and strong constitution. Falling asleep in the open air during a state of pcrdpiration, ha caught a reveré cold, at which time it is aupposed, osaification commenced, and continued progressing for many years by slow degreess, till finally hewas ooiie, excepi me sKin, eyes and entraiís. For a long time before his deatb hís joints grew together 6o he could not move: and thus did death in tbis horrible and terrific form creep over him by elow degrees, unlil at Icngth his sight deparled, his tongue became stiff and useless, his teeth grew together in one solid mass of boue, so that to prolong his miserable existencenn aperture had been broken, thro' vhich to pour nutriment.' BURNING OF THE KENTUCKY STATE PRISON. A letter in the Tribune, dated Frankfort, Aug. SI, gjves the following account ot the burning of the Kentucky State Prison. Last night one of the greatest scènes of excitement took place here that have ever been witne6sed. About 10 o'clock the state prisonwos tííscovered to be on fire. There are in the prison more than one huudred and eixty convicta. The flames spread through the workshops so rapidly that there seemed to be but one way to save the lives of the prisonere, and tbat to open the cells and sliow all to lenve the prison walls. The young; men of the city railied at once - repaired to the arsen el - broke it open without ceremony, took out fonr or five hundred stand of arms- organized at once and put them9elves under the commandof the Governor. The imploring cries of the pnsonera for relief grew more and more earneat. Every building within the walls was in flanies except the building containing the celli, and the provisión house. The reservoir wbich supplies the city with water had been partially cleaned out on Priday, and the water, was nol let in until the alarm wasgiven and the flames were permitted to move on unchecked.The Governor arranged his men, entered the prison and addre&sed the convicts. He told ihem if they attemted to escape every man would be shot. They feil upon their knees begged but to be delivered from thal horrid death that threatehed thetw, and they would submit to any hing. Juat as the Governor was obout to open thé doors lo the convicts, a supply of waterwas obtained, and the entines begiin to play upon the building contain ing the cells. The Governor then lëft, assur ing the prisoners that they ehould be rescued if the building could nót be preserved. Fortunalely for all, they were successful iri preserving the buildings abuve named and keeping the prisoners within their cells. I have just visitod the ruins. NotLing has been saved of the machinery or meteríais of thé work shops. About fifty of the convicts were then at work quenching the fires in different parts of the yard. Most of them were from eighteerï to twenty-five yeare of oge. - They look excëedingly dejected.TVríiíe.- The locomotive on the Reading Railroad was struck by lightning a few duys ago, wJiile under full motion. The explosión waá terrible,1 tearing every joint asunder, and instontly killing Joseph Ward, engineer, Jaa. McCabe, conductor, Frank Tye and Peter Mahan, tiremen, whose lifelesa bodies were found in a few hoürs after, in a fnghtfuJ etnte of mutulation in tí field near by, in wliich also lay the boiler, which had been torn fioni tlie wheela with irresiatable force .-Nctbark Post. Bright. - 'I soy, my little son. wheradoes that right-hand rood go?' 'Don't know sir; 'taint lecn no-where since we hv'dhere.'