Depth Of Mines

An Englisb journal, gives the following account of the depth to which the bowels of the earth have boea pierced in England; " The depth to which we mine for coal 8 already great. The pit at Duclienfiold, in Cheshire, is 2,004 feet below the surface to the point where it intersects the ' Black Mine Coa],' a seam wbich is four feet sis inches tbiok, and of the best quality for domestic and manufacturing purposes from this point a further depth of 500 feet has been attained by means of an engine plane in the bed of coal is now raised irom the enormous depth at 2.504 feet. At Pendleton, near Manchester, coal is daily worked from a depth of 2,135 feet; and the Carmel coal at Wigan is brought tío 1,773 feet below the surface. Many of the Durham oollieries are equally deep, and far more extended in their subterranean labyrinth. - Some of those, and others in Cutnberland, are worked out lar under the bed of the sea; and en both sides of the island we are rapidly extending our submarino burrowing. Dolcoatb tin mine in Cornwall, is now working at 1,800 feet from the surface, and is rapidly siuking deeper. The depth of Tresavean, a copper mine, is 2,180 feet. Many other tin and copper mines are approaehing these depthe, and are uuder the Atlantic waves. In Botalluck, Levani, and other mines, man is pursuing his labors daily at half a rnüo from Ihe shore. To aid the miner in these severo tasks, gigantic 8team engines, vvith cylinders 100 inchches in diameter, are employed in pumping water from those vast depths. - Winding engines, which are mastorpieues of meohanioal skill, are ever at work, raising the minoráis from each dark abyss, and "man engines," of considerable ingenuity - so called because ihey briog the vveary miner to the light of day, saving hirn irom the toil oj cümbing up perpendicular ladders- are introducid in raan of our most perfectly conducterl mines. Our coals cost us annually 1,000 lives, and more than doublé that number of our miners perish from accidents ia the mines, or at an utiusually early age--thirtytwo- irom diseuses contracted by the conditions of their tolls. By the industry cf our mining populaI tion, there is annually added to our national wealth considerably more than tliirty million sterling. This, when elaborately by the process of nuinufac ture, is increased in value ten-fold, 33P The United States Court in West moreland oounty, Pennsylvania, has made a decisión wliich is of interest to a numerous olass. James Anderson, who became tbrty-five years old subseipont to theenrollment, was drafted, and beforo being sworn into tho service olaimed ex emption on the ground of ago. lüs plea was byld to be valid. üyt" Govornor Solomon, of Wiscon sin fearing tbero will bc an organizad re sistanco to tho draft in the city of Mil wnukoo, bas issued a proclamation wam ing all thoso wlio contémplate such a inovcment of the conseruences whicb WÍll l'ulloff.