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the British Army. . |
The Atlantic brings intelligence of a
wholesale refon- in the liritisu army, the
consequence, partly of the battles in the
Crimea, ana partly, also, of the allianco with
France. A Government order has just been
issued, directing L6rd Raglan to select one
sorgentfrom each regiment for promotion to
an ehsigncr, the sergeant, in each cause, to be
that one who has displayed conspicuous gallantry
in the Crimea. A London juuruat
justly compares this to a return to the practice
in vogue during the eld martial days of
England, of conferring knighthood on the
field of battle; for the commissions, with
delicate tact, aro all to date from the
fifth of November, the day of Iukerman.?
This raising men from tho ranks by wholesale,
and not merely in rare exceptions, as
has beeu the caso heretofore in the English
service, will add new stamina to tho array,
as well as prove a fresh incentive to recruiting
in future, a British private will have
something more to aspire after than a retreat
for old age in a public hospital as the reward
of a life devoted to arms. lie may
-IswvU fv. .1 A- 1 1
iw* luinnru vu promotion, ii ne is uravo
and capable, and. perhaps, hope, if very successful,
to rise to he a general officer. It is
not to be concealed, however, that this reform
has been forced on the British aristocracy.
But for the example of Hie French
array, and the necessity of a new bounty to
recruits, we do not believe this step towards
popularizing the service would have bten
made.
Yet it was in a precisely similar manner
that 'the haughtiest of the British became
what they aro. To have "come over at the
conquest" is considered the proudest boast
. of an English family. But the men who
came over at tho conquest, and who, by the
confiscation of the Saxon estates, became the
landed proprietors of mediaeval England,
were notoriously mere adventurers. Of
course there were Norman noblemen among
the followers of William, and even wealthy
counts and knights from other European
countries, but tho great bulk of the army was
composed of comparatively penniless men?
such, in fact, as make up the majority of
modern filibustering expedition*. Their
bravery in battle, however, coupled with the
success of the enterprise, con veiled them into
lords of English manors, and subsequently
# into powerful barons. Very few of the
haughty British aristocracy, even if they arc
able to trace their families to the conquest,
can go much beyond it, without reaching
what they now call, contemptuously, an "obscure
parentage.'. The Conqueror himself
was the grandson of a tanner. The first of
the proud Plnutagencts was a mechanic, a
goou aeai iiouesier malt wan most, of Ins
successors. Families of lesser magnitude,
but now amongst the most exclusive in
Great Uritaiu, sprung from peasant-;, burghers,
and even highwaymen.
.For several centuries after the conquest,
the ranks of the aristocracy were recruited,
in a similar manner, from brave soldiers who
had especially distinguished themselves.?
The great Earl of Warwick, surnained the
"King Maker," came from a family originally
humble, but which, after various elevations,
culminated by a marriage with the
heiress of the Beauchainps. After the accession
of Ilenry the seventh, the nobility
began to receive accession from the elevation
to the peerage of distinguished civilians;
and this practice has continued down to the
present day. Most of those thus distinguished
were conventionally well born, however,
being the younger sons of noble houses, or
the cadets of country squires, the latter often
having a more undisputed genealogy,
traceable to the conquest, than many a
princely baron. At present, a vast majority
of the English nobility arc of comparatively
new creation, few ]>eerngea dating back beyond
the reign of Ilenry the Seventh, and
the hulk not rising above James the First's.
The British oligarchy have no reason,
Consequently, to succr, as they have done,
at the idea of promotions from the ranks.?
The heroic sergeants of Inkerinan were quite
as deserving as me adventurers who tought
at Hastings, and who, as we have shown,
were the ancestors of the most fur-descended
of the British nobility. It is scarcely probable
that any of these sergents will ever rise
to a peerage. But, if one did, he would only
achieve for himself what the English
aristocracy had achieved for them bv ancestors
who lived centuries ago.?Philadelphia.
Ledger.
The Crimes and Casualties ok the
1?ast Year.?We find in rtur Qxohanges
tabular statements of the different crimes
and casualties in the United States during
the year wkudi Wiajust closed. The footings
up arc a?i<>llows:
The total amount of property destroyed
by fire is estimated, in round numbers, at
twsSjJfc'fivo millions of dollars.
Tho number of persons whose lives have
been sacrificed by burning buildings is put
down at one hundred and seventy-one.
There have been one hundred and ninetv-three
railroad accidents, killing one hundred
and eighty-six persons, and wounding
five hundred and eighty-nine.
There haveAlso been forty-eight steamboat
accidents, killing five hundred and
eighty-seven persons, and wounding two
hundred and twenty-five.
During the year six hundred And eightytwo
murders were committed, and eightyfour
persons were executed. In the Stnto
of New York alone there Avcrc seventy-four
murders and seven executions, and in Cali
fornin sixty four murders and fifteen executions.
Terrible Tragedy.?The New York
Mirror, of January 2, says, Joseph Ilall, a
young man, 21 years of age, had a difficulty
last evening with William O'Brien, at the
store corner of Laurense and Grand streets,
when he fired three bullets into Lis body.?
O'Brien was taken to the hospital, where ht
lay this morning in a critical condition.-^
Ilall, immediately after shooting his adverse
ry, shot himself but not fatally.
SOUTBERNENTERPRISE.
S? (3.
Friday Morning, Jan. 12,1856.
AQKNT8.
E. W. QARR, N. W. cor. of Walnnt and TlurJ-et.
PhUaddphin, is our authorized Agent.
A. M. PFOEN, Fairview P. O.f Greenville Dist
WM, C. BAILEY, Pleasant Grove, Greenville,
j W. W, SMITH, Morritsville, Greenville District. |
I 0, P. M'KINNEY, Slabtown, P. O., Anderson Dist.
| ' 1 Removal.
J^~The office of the Enterprise will hereafter
be next door west from the New Court-1 louse, !
where we hope to receive the favors of our patrons
and fricrtds.
To Correspondents.
" Ciiamana.'*?In removing our office vour nr
tide was misplaced. So soon as found it will !
appear, in the meantime, for fear of our being
unable to find it, you bad better send a duplicate.
W. R., Lexington.?Thorc is no situation of
the kind yon refer to open in our village.
' Karmi.f.y."?Your artielo is published to day.
Favor us again in that department.
THE MAILS.
We arc gratified to learn (says the Carolinian
of Wednesday last,) by a private despatch
that the I'ost Oilico Department and
the Railroad Company have come to terms,
and that on and after Monday next the mails
will he regularly conveyed over the South j
Carolina lload.
FARMER AND PLANTER.
Owing to tho non-reception of paper in
tended for the January number of this periodical.
a delay has necessarily occurred in
the transmissission of that number. We j
' have been requested by its editor, Maj. Ska- |
iiokxe, to make this announcement, in order!
j that the subscribers to it might learn the
| the cause of delay.
OUR NFWTFFICE.
The llntcrprixc is now published where
flic g<>od old Mountaineer flourished something
over a quarter of a century ago, the
shadows of which are still visible in and
about the place. Times have changed since
then, and things h'avo undergone a transformation
equal to the times in which wo live.
Men have had their day, and passed frotn
, earth, and although wo occupy the place
once used for printing, and follow the same
1 calling, one would scarcely recognize it as
being the same business. The old Damage
| Press has fallen into disuse, and in its stead |
is found n neater and more expeditious improvement.
The halls linve given place to
an elastic composition roller, whilst everything
in a measure has advanced by improvement.
Our ofiice is not quite underway yet. It
has been an effort upon our part to get out
this number in time, having been compelled
to remove at a very unseasonable time, and
| when a portion of our force was unable to
aid us. In a short while wo will have all
things right, when we hope to make our paper
as blight as a new dollar.
Come friends, let us havo your eo-operation
during the year so shortly entered ! A
number have sent in their names since our
removal, and wo are anxious to have the aid
of the good and true everywhere. Let each |
one of our present subscribers endeavor to |
send us another, and we will still try and I
j furnish a paper worthy their continued sup- j
I port. If our efforts to please and instruct j
prove abortivo, we are willing to vacate in j
favor of those who may bo better qualified J
to discharge tho-duties of the station. Hut
until a generous public shall decide for such
n move we still shall cling to the Enterprise,
and leave no efforts wanting or pains spared
to prove it acceptable to all chisses.
A NEW SOCIETY.
Wb understand that our village boasts, j
among other things, anew organization, aj
name for which its projectors have not, as i
yet, found anything appropriate. We have
not been initiated, but have taken some pains
to find out "a tiling or two'1 in relation to
it. If what we liavo gathered be correct.
(and we do not doubt the information,) it in
by no means to bo discountenanced. We
regard it even better than tho society of
Know Nothings or I'ay Nothings?they say
they Drink Nothing, and their order bids
lair to have its day, provided the classes of
which it is now composed flock to the standard.
Among its members are found a few
disaffected 44 Sons," a still larger number who
from tho tightness of tho times have been
compelled to abandon their cups, whilst the
remainder are those whose cretttt for the "staple
article" is not known upon Change.
Thegnecessity for such an aljiauce is quite
plausible. " In union tltero is strength," and
by forming themselves into a tangible shape,
they may be enablod, at no distant day, to
produce the great object?tho dessideratum
of the times: a reduction in the price of
liquor. A strike is anticipated, and when it
is made, it w ill be a Mnin(e) one:
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A RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT.1^
AtTHOUon'we have from time to time derated
some of our space to the diffusion of |
religious reading and intelligence, we have ^
concluded to have a column or two each
week devoted to " Sunday reading," and request
all who are prone to tffiting upon the 1
subject, to favor us with their productions.
They will be. graciously received, provided
they breathe not a spirit of denominational
pride. Our paper, in this respect, shall be
open to none but those whose desire is to
advanco tbe groat cause by the surest and
best means. We nave determined to do so
from repeated invitations from different parts
of the State, and from a knowledge that our
efforts so far has met with general favor, as
the following extract, which we take the liberty
of publishing, will testify :
. Jftn 1855>
" Mr. tV. P. Price :?For a long time I have
noticed innny instructive, moral and religious articles
in vour paper, much to my gratification
and I believe to the welfare of many of vour
readers. Your little paper is now looked for
with pleasure by many a hoiuo circle, and in the
coming year may be productive of much good,
and I trust with profit to its proprietor. C."
COLUMBIA CORRESPONDENCE.
Owing to domestic affliction oar Columbia
correspondent has been prevented from
furnishing us with bis usual weekly letters
from the capitol. lie will, however, resume
his duties next week.
CENSUS OF GREENVILLE.
From tho Compendium of the Seventh
Census of the Uuited States, wo extract tho
following statistics respecting our District:
There are male whites, 6,048?female whites,
0,722?Total 13,370; free colored, 95?
slaves, 6,691?Total population, *20,150,
showing an increaso in population since
1840 of 2,317. Dwellings. 2,351; families,
2,351 ; 150 pupils at colleges, academics,
and private schools; 900 pupils at public
schools?total number attending colleges,
academies, private and public schools, 1,950;
whites over 20 years old unable to read,
1,821; farms, 1,068; acres improved land,
i ju, < - < ; ununproveu, ^ay.v ao; value with
improvements an J implements, $2,102,038 ;
horses, asses and mules, 4,312; cattie.l 4,047;
sheep, 9,252; swine 30,525 ; wheat, 60,082
bushels; rye and oats, 111,071 bushels;
Indian ecorn, 037,784 bushels; Irish and
sweet potatoes, 88,510 bushels; peas and
beans, 19,803 bushels; butler and cheese,
110,903 pounds; hay 22 tons ; rieo 15,782
pounds; tobacco, 12 505; ginned cotton,
bales < f 400 lbs. 2,452 ; wool, 15,760 lbs.;
beeswax and honey, 5,724 poouds; valuo of
animals slaughtered, $104,077 ; capital employed
in manufactures, $170,S50, hands
employed, 290 ; annual product, $213,510.
Sport tikkoiie Seiiastopol,?Wo give
the following from a dairy of the seige of Sebastopol
:
441 luring the day the Russians llro on the
British about one gun every live minutes.?
The English look out. A man cries, Tower,
Redan, or Garden battery, and the shot is returned
; but tho lire on tlio French is much
more lively, and is kept tip with some effect
on their earth work and parallel. Every night
about nine o'clock, the Flagstaff, Quarantine,
and Wall batteries open a furious cannonade,
which, for from twenty to forty-five minutes,
is as hard as the men can load, right into the
French lines, and then follows instantly a
sally, the result of which is invariably the
same. The Russians push a strong column
out of the.place, rush toward the first lino,
drive in'the pickets and ritlcmen get up to
the first parallel?sometimes into it, occasionally
beyond it, and close to the second
parallel?when they are received, as they
advance, by tho French covering parties with
a deadly tiro ; they halt and tiro in rftm n,
aro charged by the French, who rout and
pursue them into the town, but who aro obliged
to retire by the Hank lire of the batteries
and street guns. In this way the French
lose forty or fifty men ; but the loss of the
Russians in these alertca must bo considera
ble. Frequently, about day-break, the Russians
repeat the peiforniauce."
liaro sport, that!
Five Cents Dearly Earned!?A man i
named Crocker some months since applied to 1
the railroad ticket ofliee to pay his fair, but (
finding it closed, he entered the cars with the
intention of going to New London : though I
lie had only lifty cents with which to pay |
his passage. The conductor demanded an
additional tivo cents, otherwise he would
be compelled to put him out of the cars.?
Several j?erson? employed on the train assisted
in thrusting Croker out. J lis knee
f>an was broken, but ho managed, by crawing,
to reach a house three-quarters of a
inile distant, and subsequently brought suit
This was recently trior!, and the jury brought
in a verdict of $8,200 damages against the
lluilroad Company. j
A gentleman in Alabama, in exertinrr
himself ono clay, felt a sudden pain, and
fearing his internal machinery had been
thrown out of gear, sent for n negro on his
plantation, who made some pretensions to
medical skill, to preacribo for him. The ne
pro, having investigated the cause, prepared
and administered a dose to his patient with
utmost confidence of a speedy cure. No relief
being experienced, however, the gentleman
sent for a physician, who, on arriving,1
enquired of the negro what medicine lie had
given his master. Bob promptly responded,
ilosin and alnm, sir!' "What did you
givo them for?'continued the doctor. *Whyf
replied Bob, "de alnm to draw the pagtltogedder,
and de rosin to aodder um. The
patient eventually recovered. '
Dividends.
The Dividends of oar Banks and other in(tttutiona
providing 6ouroes of investment
dgnahze a state of prosperity which favorably
compare with similar institutions in other
parts of the Union:
Bank of Charleston, 4 psr rent, for the last
six months.
Planters' and Mechanics' Bank, cents
per share, at .the rate of 7 por cent per anuum.
State Bank, foifr per ceut. for the last six
months.
Union Bank, $1,75 per share, at the rate
of 7 per cent, per annum.
South Carolina Bank, a semi-annual dividend
of VI,Ut) per share.
Tho Pooples Bank, a semi-annual dividend
of 75 Cents per share.
The Bank of Georgetown, a semi-annual
dividend of81.25 per share.
The South Carolina Insurance Company,
a semi-annual dividend of$l per share.
The Commercial Bank of Columbia, a
seini-annual dividend of $1 per share.
And the Columbia Gas Company, a dividend
of one dollar and rifty cents per share
of $25 for the past six months.
Advertisement Extraordinary.?The
New York Express contains tho following
ad vertisetnen t extraordiuary :
Later from Cuha.? Wanted, 5,000 Emigrants
to one of the most delightful parts i
of the World.?Gov. Marey, Secretary of
Statu, having decided in relation to tho
u Kinney expedition." that inasmuch as he
haa no knowledge or information, other than
that said expedition is with the intention of
effecting a settlement in New Grenada, for
mining und agricultural purposes?the Government
of the United States has no right
to interfere, the emigrants intending to become
bona fide citizens of New Grenada, and
of course subject to her laws.
Therefore, the Cuban junta, having purchased
largo tracts of ianu in the island of
Cuba, would invite those desirous of having
a home in that delightful Islaud, to send in
their names forthwith.
Attack on Liquor Snops ar Women.?
The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Telegraph furnishes
the particulars of a descent made on the
groggcries of Otsego, by tho women of that
place, in consequence of an insult offered by
a dealer to a female whose drunken husband
visited his house. Tho Telegraph says:
"The woniF.n of the village, to the number
of 38, armed with axes and hatchets,
firmed a procession and marched upon the
destroyers of their domestic peace. Proceeding
to tho hotel, they commenced a
general demolition of decanters, jugs, tumblers
and barrels, when the proprietor, be
seeching them to desist, came to terms, ami
gave bonds not to sell any inoro liquor for
six months, after which they quietly withdrew.
They then proceeded to several retail
groceries. One of the keepers, after a
j portion of his stock had been destroyed,
signed the required bond. Another refused,
when
uors, amidst tne gi
ing the operation, the proprietor rudely
grasped one of the females and hurled her
back, whereupon ho was seized and most
thoroughly drenched ;n his own liquor, lie
received several very severe injuries in the
melee. After.having accomplished this, the
women quietly dispersed."
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Tnv: Rights ok Citizenship Anno \n.?
The following is the hill passed by the House
of Representatives, last session, and the Senate
this session, to secure the right of citizenship
to children of citizens of the United
States born out of the limits thereof:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of tho United States of
America in Congress assembled, that per
sons Heretofore Horn, or hereafter to he horn,
out of the limits ami jurisdiction of the
United States, whose fathers wero, or shall
ho at the time of their birth, citizens of the
United States, shall be deemed and considered,
and are hereby declared, to he citizens
of the United States, Provided, hoyrevcr, that
j the rights of citizenship shall not descend to
jwrsons whose fathers never resided in the
I United States.
Pmcr ok Laiior at tiif. North and
I South.'?It is strange that while there is
j such a decline in price of white labor at the
North, there continues to l?o a scarctity of
slave labor at the South, where prices are ex1
orhitantly high. The last Norfolk Aryua
says:
4,In both town and county, servants of different
ages bring very high priecs. "Cornfield"
bands readily command $150. In the
city, cooks and honso servants are in great
demand, the prices being $50 to $75.'
The New York Erprena refers to a late
sale of nhtves in \ irgi?iia, where a woman,
and a child eight months old. brought $1.
010, and says it is liko the ground," and must
produce a re-action. It addst
"$1,310 for a negro woman and child
gives an interest, at 7 per cent, of $91 70?
and this, with life insurance. 3 per cent., $39
30 taxes, doctors' bills, and clothing and food,
must run up the cost of such a negro to at
least $225 per annum. Now we pay for our
woman servants from 5 to $7 per month?
which averages onlr $72 per annum. Children
we would. not take with the woman if
lliey were given to us. The South cannot,
then, it is certain, stand for any length of
time this sort of competition in labor; and
tlio cost of the negro slave must come down
decidedly down : and thenco we give the
warning, from under."
A Rhode Island Hoo.?The Woonsock(R.I.,)
Patriot sa^tiliat Mr. Jonathan
Br*?es,of Woonsodkct, had a hog slanghtered
last week which was leas titan eleven
months old, and weighed four hundred and
eighty-one pounds. Rrom tho date of his
purchase Jo the time of his death, which included
a "number of .months, his average
gain in weigliU per day wa* about three
l*xmds.
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What Should he the Chief Crops of the
South 1 j
Corn ast> cotton in the bottom planting
States have, by common custom, become the
universal crop of extensive cultivation. How
far this shift is correct, is not entirely proved
by its universality, nor by the prejudices
which sustain it in minds of planters. Indian
corn, indigenuous to the soil was perhaps
the most convenient and profitable when
the country was first settled, and when an
abundant aud easily prepaiou crop, to s;;p
ply the wants of both man and beast, was' a
requirement of the times. In* this relative
value. It still is the. most valuable cropgrowu
on the virgin soils of the Middle ana Southern
of the Western States, foi- it luxurates
upon tl?c vegetable matter abounding in new
soil, and with littlo preparation and indifferent
culture, yields large returns for labor bostowed.
Such, however, is not the case in
the older States, where the cream of the hind
has been stolen away imperceptibly by the
a -..1 : a ' a' ...1 *1. * ml - 1 51
must e.MutuMmg s vstum wiui-u tuieu son
has ever been subjected: and hiking ten
years' cropping together,* the Indian corn
crop is the moat uncertain. we can plant. It
is difficult to grow pn any but virgin or alluvial
soil, and the droughts of an miner except
in extraordinary and luost favorable seasons,
cut it off to a ruinous extent The corn crib
is called the store-house of the planter in the
South, and indeed it is bis main dependence,
but this only because he is not accustomed
to interweave other crops* with the cultivation
of cotton.
On the improved and well prepared soil
barley and wheat would yield irioro bushels
of grain of more value to the planter than
Indian corn. In fact, barley is the most
valuable which we cultivate at the South.?
If sown at tho proper season, it readily perfects
it-self from the winter moisture in the
earth, and yields heavily. It is fine soiling
for all kinds of stocks, and comes into liarvest
in May, a time when a few days can be
spared from tho cottou crop without detriment
to its growth or production. Its grain
is so well protected, that it is not liable to be
spoiled by exposure to tho weather, and it
may bo any length of timo in the straw,
whqn duly housed, without being injured.?
A I 1... !<L ii. J
;v uanc) crup huwu wan giiuuu, cuitun seeu
or well compared compost manure, after the
cotton crop is gathered in December and
January, would conic sufliciently early to
sow stubble down in peas to be turned under
in autumn, and the rotation of small grain
with this system pursued, would bo the best
and most efficient mode of improving our
lands. It would also bo fitted to the economical
and easy cultivation of the after
cotton crop, by the ploughing under of the
herbage in the fall, which would bo thoroughly
decomposed by the next spring.
Barley, groundand mixed with water reduced
to chaff by a cutting machine, is better
feed for horses and cattle than any prcj
paration of Indian com, and for these persons
I who have not mills, simply soaking the grain
in water is a fine preparation for feeding to
horses. Swine fatten and keep incondilion
more easily on barley than 011 corn. As a
'conclusive argument in its favor, more barley
can be cheaply grown on an acre of improved
dry upland, than wo can grow of corn.
Wheat, sown with guano, in like manner after
the cotton crop, would come in at a seaon
when the harvesting could be attended to
without detriment, and after the cotton crop
is laid, and in the interval between that time
and tilt* ennnnpnivmont of llm
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thrashing and preparing it for market or the
mill could he attended to without hinderancc.
The middlings, shorts and bran of n
large wheat corp, all mixed togethor, would
go far to feed the plantation stock ; negr*es
would reli-di wheaten bread as a change for
the corn bread usually allowed to thcin.
Wo would, from these reasons.stated, and
many more needless to mention, recommend
the reduction of the coru corp to such a degree
as would throw all land not naturally
producing Indian corn well, into wheat, barley,
rye and oats. We should then cultivate
our tilled crops well and easily, and the rev
enues of tho system wuul.l soon repay for the
experiment. We know that those recommendations
will bo mat with by all tho objections
which prejudice and the tyranny ol
custom engenders in those who cleave to old
practices and theories; but as they are convictions
of tho true policy, we have no hesitation
in making them.? Southern Agriculturalist.
Tlie Miser.
Or all the creatures upon earth, nono is ?c
despicable as the miser. It is not impossible
that the profligate may have a fVicnd, foi
there is usually left about him some toucli
of humanity?some unbroken cord of lh<
finer feelings of our nature ; but tho inisei
meets with no sympathy. Even the itrna
who is hired attend him in his latest Whirs
lotlis the ghastly occupation, and longs toi
me moment 01 iter release ; lor although tin
death damp is already gathering on his brow
tho thoughts of the departing sinner are stil
upon his gold ; at the mere jingling of a kej
he starts from his torpor in a paroxysm of
terror, lest a surreptitious attempt is being
made upon the sancti^Fof his strong box;
There are no praycrs'of the orphan or th<
widow for him?not a solitary voice has evei
breathed his name to heav-m as a benefactor
Ono poor penny gigen away in the spirit o
true charity, would now l>o worth more U
him thun all the gold the world contains
but, notwithstanding that he was a church
going inan, and familiar from his infancy
with those awful texts in which the worshij
of Mammon is denounced and tho punish
nient of Uives told, ho has never yet beer
.able to divorce himself from his solitary lov<
of lucre, or to part with one atom of his pelf
And so, from a miserable life, detested ant
despised, lie passes into a dreary eternity
and those whom lie has neglected < r] mistia
ed, make merry with the hoards of Uie miser
The Editor of the llawosville, (II!.,) Ea
git invites a man who had taken offence ai
one of his articles, to walk up to his sane
turn and get kicked out I
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jj Br a simple experiment, it is easy to di?
cover to what aniinal atiy kind df blood or.
spots of blood belonged. The process is as
follows ;?Put a few drops of blood, or the
scum of blood, into a glass, and concentrated
sulphuric acid, to the amount of one-third or
onfc?half the quantity of blood, and stir the
wiioie together "wilu a gltw. rvd; by this
means the Odoriferous principle peculiar ?to
tlie species of animal to which the blood belonged,
is evolved; thus, for instance, the blood *
of man disengages a strong odor of the pres.pi
ration of man, which it is impossible to confound
with any other ; that of a woman a
similar odor, hnt much weaker ; that of a
sheep th e well known smell of greasy wool
of a pig, the disugreeab|o odor of a piggery ; *
and so on. Even the blood ot a frog has
given out the peculiar smell of marshy rdeds,
and that of a carb the peculiar smell of a
fresh water lisli. Upon trial mado to ascertain
whether spots of blood could be distinguish- .
ed and referred to their source, it was found.
that to n certain extent a pretty Rure judgement
can be given even after fifteen days.
The spotted linen is to be cut out, put Into a .
watch glass, and being moisten with a little
water, left for a sllorl timo at rest, and well
soaked ; a little sulphuric acid is to be added
and atirmd ?brii!* ? ?!? wwl tKa nm^n,
liar odor will then be recognized; but tins experiment
should be performed without delay,
tor a fortnight the odor is scnrcely preceptible.
Ambrotype Likeness.
A most valuable improvement in tho art
of producing likenesses has recently been in1
trodueed by Messrs. (putting ?fc liowdoin, of
| Boston. Tho picture taken upon plate-glass,
j ufier which a similar glass is placed over it,
and the two are cemented together by an indestructible
gum, rendering tho picture en
Li rely impervious to atmostpheric influence,
and securing to it tiie most perfect durability.
The great sujxjriority of this new process
is manifest, in as much as by it tho
most perfect, minute and life-like delineations
are produced, cither in miuiaturo or of full
size, and capable of retaining a perpetual
brilliancy. The pictures are not reversed, as
in tho ordinary dnguerreotyping process and
they are immediately perceptible in any light
without the necessity of change of position.
Mr. Cutting, the senior partner, is tho inventor
of this process, and patents have already
been secured, in tho United States,
Great Britain and France. It may, with
perfect truth, bo urged that this is tho most
important discovery in the art of photography
that has yet been made.?Atlaz.
A Valuable Inventoin.
The Baltimore American says :
" Mr. William Dilhhunt, of this city, a
i practical mechanic, foreman in the cabinet
making establishment of Messrs. J. & J.
Williams Si Co., has, for n year past. employed
his leisure hours in constructing a
working model of a machine of his owfl invention,
to supply a great desideratum to the
press,'and especially the newspaper press.?
It is called a 4 feeding machine,' being in(
tended to take up a sheet of paper wet and
( ready for printing, separato it from the sheet
i next on the pile, carry it forward a distance
i of twelve or fifteen inches, aud deliver it to
i tho 4 lingers' of the cylinder of the press At
> a given moment, without the possibility of
i delay or failure to perform its work.
4' We linve examined the machine of Mr.
i Dillehuut, in company with our own press
man and several others of the most experienced
practical pressmen of tho citv, all of
I whom were unanimous in their verdict as
I to its perfect utility and success, l>oyond nil
fenr of failure?and were equally confident
that no human* hands could perform the
work with such unerring certainty nnd prc>
cision.
l Mr. Dillehunt's apparatus is of most sirn
pie construction, occupies but a small space,
could bo cpnfined to the weight of fifty
pounds, if necessary, is elevated over the
r heap of paper, and will raiso and carry the
1 last sheet of a thousand with as much cer
tainty as the first, and without the slightest
attention from the pressman, it being at
tachcd to tho press by a cog-wheel, and requiring
no more power to drive it than is necessary
to blow a small pair of bellows. In
short, it is tho ' finishing ' of Colonel lloe'a
, great cylindrical Printing Presses."
Surgical Operation o* the Chest?
Displacino the Heart in a Liviko Body.
' ?On tho 3d of the present month, Mr. Als
phonso Hickford^of Palmyre, Mc, had his
> chest tapped, and the almost incredible
s amount 01 nino pints ot fluid, in all its cliar,
acteristics resembling pun, taken therefrom,
r The Portland Advtriitier say* i
5 "The operation <ras performed by Dr. J.
, C. Manson, of Pittsiield, advised and assisted
I by Dr. lionson, of Newport. The fluid was elf
i situated in the left side of the chest, and consequently
tho heart was very much diplaced;
r so innch so that it was distinctly felt beating
two inches upon the right of the sturnum or
? medium line of the body. It however gradr
ually receded during the operation, and af.
tcr the entiro evacuation, was found beating
f in nearly its natural position. Tha patient
> immediately began to amend, and is at prea;
edt doing well. IDs case baa for some time
- past been considered hopeless, but there is
r now a prospect of his recovery.
JStoxqmv in Kxpexditurk.?Economy
i should be the first point in all families, what5
ever be their circumstances. A prudent
, housckeeperwill regulate the ordinary ex|
pensea of a family, according to the annual
j sum allowed for housekeeping. By this
. means tho provision will be uniformly good,
, and it will not bo requisite to practice meanness
on many occasiqps, for the sake of meeting
extra expenses on cpe. The best check
upon ontrutaiingim income is to pay' tyUs
1 weekly, Tor yon may then retrench in
* This practice is likewise a salutary check tfpou
the correctness (/the accounts themselves.
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