General Intelligence

Stampbd Lbtteu Evklopks. - Wheri we get the modern SYSTliM of postage establiyhed, viz., TWO CENTS PER HALF OUNCE FOR ALL DISTA NCES, all letter?, nearly, wiil be prepaie. and a very large part will be endosed in envelopes for grenter gecurity. To facilítate this, there are two kinds of stnmps or L.bels - one on sheets gummed at the bock, nnd Ihe labe.vs tobe cut apart and eiuck on the bic'k of your letter, and the oí lier kind impressed on the back of envelopes ready for use. In preparing theso s'ompsgreat skill is employed in engraving, to prevent cotinlerfehing, and it is iben printed with u peeular ink, wh'ich cannot bechanged. No counlerfeiting is known in England of postoffice stamps. The labels are first engrared on Perkïns' pa (ent steel rollers, (Aihèrtcan ingenuity con tributes ihis aidio the Bnlish systernj and are l'hen transferred to soft steel jila es, which are Itardened, nnd used in prin'ing. Each engraving on the roller will afford 1630 transfers to soft stoei plates; these ngnin will, when hardened. admit of 60,000 imprefsions being pulled npon eacli , so thnt one original will nfford 100,800,000 impression of labels Tbe envelopes are mannfactured by machínery; the paper being cut into lozenges, by th engine ofM:. VVilson, with the utmost piecis ion, at. the rale of 60 or 30,000 a minute. Previous to being stamped,each lozenge has a notcll ent in each side for the convenience öf folding; this is donr Ly an angular chisel, The envelopes are ihen stamped at Somerest House, by a machine which combines the operatioe of printir.g aud embossing - the invention of the Inte Sir W. Congreve. Tiic last process, the folding and gumming, is periormed by the Messrs. De La Rue, who employ thirty-nine folders on nn average; and a quick hand can fold 3,500. Twelve years ago common envolopes wei e sold at Is. the dozen; novv Uie postuge envelope, witii ils medalüon, may be bonght, whole-sule at half a íarthing, exclusive of the stamp; and yet, though the manufacturéis peculiarly coslly, it returns a small profit to the government. The envelopes used by our M. C.'s were cut by hand, until last winter, when a cu:nbersoine machine was introduced into the capitol for cutting them. They are stül folded in the capítol, chiefly by men, who are pa id at the rate of oneand ahalf to three dnllars per day. That is economy.' Bilt il afibrds an opportunity for small demagognes to reward small parlisnns. The nevv postage system will easily cure inany of these paltry jobs, by substituting contracis, on open bid, for the present favonUsm. - Boston Ckrouicle. Morse's Telcgraph. - This wonderful invention continúes to opérate daily with perfpet accuracy and facility, nnd with a rrpidity which it is difïïcult to realize. The Baltimore American snys, in a few moments after the arrival of the mails fom the East at Baltimorr, or from the South at Washington, the election returns are transmitled from one city to another with thefleetness of thought. The intervening space of some forty miles is thus lit erally annihilated, anti Baltimore and Washington are virlually mergod into each othcr. On frequent occasions recently. tbe election returns were transmitted from Baltimore to Washington and from Washington to Ballimore at the same mrenent of time - for wliilc each assistent was communicaling to the oth er, the simple and ingenious apparetuaat each station was abo secoiicing the information tranmitted from the other. Communnications, it will be recollected, can be mado at any hour of the day or night,nnd it is not requisito, when intelligenoce is transmitted from either slation, that any person should be in attendonce at the other - inasmuch as the cominunicniions, be they long or short are recordedby the appa ratus on paper, and are thus preeerved for any length of time. - JV. Y. Plebeian. An application at on insurance office in Boaton, for the policy oFSSOOO on a shipment of eleven thousand dozen eggs from Sheepscot river, Maine, to Boston, was recently decliued, princpally on account of ts novelty, and the variety of queationg that might arise in case the merchandize should not reach its destination in marketable condición. It issaid that Mr. Tyler, aflcr the expiratíos of hie term pronose to go Europe. i iConviction of a Kensington Murderer. - John Paul, charged with the murder of Lewis Greble during the Kensington riots, has been found guilty of murder iti the second degree. The Jury rendered their verdict on Pridny. The prisoner was ably defended, any relied upon an acquital. - JV. T. American. King Bernadotte used to lie in bed till noon, and enjoyed his crown to the age of eighly. It must remembered, however, that ho .von his crown by early rising under Napoleon, soys the Boston Post. Ten Rvles of Life. - The following rules of practical iife, givenby Mr. Jefferson, canuotbe too often kept before the people. 1. Never put oíFtill to-inorro'v whatcan be done today. 2. Never tronble others to do what you can do yourselves. 3. Never spend yourmoney before y.u have it. 4. Never buy what you do not wantbecause t chenp. 5. Pride co6ts as miich as hunger, thirst and cold. 6. We never renent of eating too little. ?. Not hing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8. How much pain those evüs cost us which never happen! 9. Take things by their smooth hnndle. 10. When ongry, alwnye count ten before you speak. (tAccording to a census recently tnken the county of St. Louíb has a populalion of 47,668. Population of the city alone, S4,140.Royal Murder. - "The capture of Jaffa vas brilliant. Four thousand öf the best roñps of Djezzar was put to the sword," At Inffa, the garrison consisted of about 4000 of lie best troops; 2000 were pui the sword, an-i J000 T onlered to be shot witin twenty-foür jours.'' - Bonaparte. The telescope designed for the Cincinnati Observatory, has a magnifying pow2r oi' 1400 times - a local distance of 17 feet, and weighs about 2.000 pounds. lt left Munich, where it was made, packed in 16 boxes on the 14th of September last, for Bremen, to the care of the American Consul, to be shipped thence to New Orleansj it will probably reach its destination in December. The value of the ground, four acres, buildings, instruments, &c. is aboul $25,000.The President of Texas. - Dr. Ansnn Jones was formerly a schoolmaster in t!ie upper part of ihe town of Wheeüng. Legal Suas07i in .A1. H.- We learn from the Am'iersl Cnninet that at th late session of the Court of Common P!eas in ihat plnce, the following rases wcre tried. In two instances the Runeller was committed to Jai!. Edward Barrington of Manchester, on 12 severai unís round ut Jast Term of violaüons of Jicense law. Entered a Nolo contendere - was fined $áj on each, and cost, all of which he paid. Lorenzo D. Pcrry, on two bilis of a similar - en ce red the same plea and was finpd and cashed over. James A. Stearns, on 18 similar bills,pnfered a similar plea. - was fioed $25 on each, and cost? - and stands committed untïl sentence be performed- went into jail. Asa WenlworLh, of Manchester, nn 13 similar bilis, - snme proceeding, senteneed - and went to jail. A correspondent of the National Intelligencer says that "full one third of the pnpulution of Paris live together without marriage. ' - About one third of ihe population of the whole South in tliis country, olso livetógether without marriage. - Ein. Hej-ald. For two mornings, says the Nashville Gazeite of the L5th uit., the skies liove been literally hid from view by immense flocks of wild piorenns - so lieavy ihnt tliey can only be computsd by cquore miles and ncres. Powder and shot are in great demnnd in consequence, and many an oíd fosee has been put in shooling order t'or the occasion. Quarrkt.t.ing. - lf nnylhing in the world wil makc a ninn feel badly, exccpt pincbing his fingers in the cmck oï a door, it is, unquestionably, a qúarrel. We mean a naturally clever goodhenrted man. No rnnn of itiis sort ever faiis to tliink less of himself alter, than belbre a qunrrcl. The truih is, ihe more quietly and peaccably wo a!l gct nn, the becer for us, and the beiter for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten, the wisesi coiksc is, if u man chent you, to qiiit dealrng wilh him; if he is abusive, quit his company; il lie alander you. takc care to live so thot nobodv will believe him. No matter who he is. or how ho uiisuses you - ihe wisest wny is just to let hi:n alone.