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"confessions or a sword swal- I hare been connected with the conjuring and tumbling professions, and every branch of them, for FortyRtX yean. I lost my moth er when a child, and my father was a car center, and allowed me to go with the turn bier. I continued totablia twenty three or twenty-four year. It was neverwhat yovl call a good business, only living. I got f1 a w1r rrfainlv. at onfe time, and anm. times i ; but you pad to live up to it, or you were nothing thought of; that is to say, if you kept "good ' company." - NowUhere is not a living to be. made at the trade. Six and . twenty years ago I began to practice sword swallowing against the celebrated Ra. mo Samee, who was then getting 25 or 30 a week. I first practised with a cane, and found it difficult to get the cane down. When I first did it with the cane, I thought I was a dead man. There's an aperture in the chest. which opens and shuts ; and it keeps opening and shutting, as I understand it ; but I knew nothing about what they call anatomy, and never thought about such things. Well, if the cane or sword goes down upon this aperture when shut, it can go no further, and the pain is dreadful. If it's open the weapon can go through, the aper ture closing on the weapon. The first time I put down the cane I got it back easily, but put my head on the table and was very sick, Tomiting dreadfully. I tried again the same afternoon, however, three or four hours after- Wards, and did it without pain. I did it two or three times more, and the next day boldly . '.j : :,u - . i i ... ----J. ,1 Tk. word was blunt, and was thirtr-six inches long, an inch wide, and perhaps a sixth of an inch thick. I felt frightened with the cane, but not with the sword. Before the sword was used, it was rubbed with a hand kerchief, and made warm bv friction. I swallowed swords for fourteen years. At one time I used to swallow three swords, a knife, and two forks, of course keeping the handles in my mouth, and having all the blades in my stomach together. I felt no pain. No doubt many of the audience felt more pain in seeing it than I did in doing it. I wore a Turkish dress both in the streets and in the theatres. I never saw ladies faint at my performance no, there was no non sense of that kind. Gentlemen often pulled the sword and knives by their handles out of my mouth, to convince themselves thai -it was real, and they found it was real, though the people to this day generally believe it is not. I've sometimes seen people shudder at ray performance,' but I generally had loud applause. I used to hold my head back with the swords in my stomach for two or three ''minutes. I've had a guinea a day for sword swallowing. This guinea a day was only for a few days at fair times. I was with old "salt,Jox" Brown, too, and swallowed swords and conjured with him. I swallowed swords with him thirty times a day ; more than one each time sometimes three or four. I had a third of the profits , Brown had two thirds. We divided after all the expenses were paid. My third might have been thirty shillings a week, but it wouldn't be half as much now, if I could swallow swords still. If I could swallow a tea-kettle now, the people would scarcely look at me. Sometimes indeed, a great many times say twenty I have brought np oysters out oi my stomacn alter eating them, just as I swallowed them, on the end of the sword. At other times there was blood on the end of the blade. I always felt faint after the blood, and used to take gin or anything I could get at hand to relieve me, which it did for a time. At last I in jured my health so much that I was obliged to so to the doctor's. I used to eat well, and dnnlc too. ; When I found myself injured by the swal lowing, I had Tost my appetite, and the doc tor' advised me to take honey and liquids, tea, beer, and sometimes a drop of grog. At three months' end, he told me if I swallow ed swords it would be my death ; but for all I was forced to swallow swords to get a meal to swallow. I kept shallowing swords three or four years after this, not feeling any great suffering. I then thought I would swallow a live snake. I'd never heard of any one, Indian or anybody, swallowing a live snake. It came into my head once by catching a grass snake in the fields in Norfolk. I said to myself as I held it by the neck. "There seems to be no harm in this fellow ; I'll try if I can swallow him." I tried then and there, and I did swallow him. It felt cold and slimy as it went down. I didn't feel afraid, for I kept tight hold of him by the tail ; and no one has any right to - be afraid of a grass snake. When I brought the snake up again in about three minutes, it seemed dead. After that I introduced nake-swallowing into my public perform ance, and did so for about four years. I - nave taken five shillings, and as low as one : annuo?, wnen l ivuowea snaices in ine - streets of London. . I catched my own snakes a few roues from London, and kmed very few through swallowing on'em. Six snakes, crone riv fed on milk, lasted me a year. "The snakes never injured me ; and I should'nt have given it up, but tne performance grew stale, and the people would not give any - thing for it. I have swallowed swords in the streets thirty to forty times a da;, and snakes - -as often. both in town aad-oow4T. I thought once I couldn't have followed any other sort of Lie ; you see I d been so long accustomed to public life ; besides, I may have liked it far - better than labor as roost young men do, but no' labor can be harder ihan mine has been If my father had been what he ought, he .Lit -i i J v:u- t j . . jnigni nave cuecneu uij cuuuiia aoings ana wishes. I have tried other things though, in the hope of bettering my self. ,1 have tried shoemaking for five or six years, but couldn't get a living at it 1 wasn't competent for it that s two years ago so I'm now musician to a school of acrobats. Very m iny like me remain in the street business, tx cause they can't get out of it, that's the fact, Whilst I wallowed swords and snakes I played the fire-eater. I did it once or twice last week. I eat red-hot cinders from the grate ; at least I have put them in my mouth. I only use a bit of chalk.' I chalk my palate, tongue and fingers ; it hardens the skin of the ton gue and palate, but . that's all. Fire-eating affects the taste for a time, or rather It pre vents one tasting anything particularly. I've eaten fire for twenty Tears in the streets and in public places. It hasn't brought any mo ney of late years. I wasn't afraid when I - first tried it by eating a lighted link a small flambeau 1 felt no inconvenience. The chalk did every thing that was right. You may stroke a red hot poker with chalked - hnds and not be burnt I mak (he lame as the acrobats; perhaps I average 12s. a week, and have k wif W ai children, the oldest under eleven, to maintain out of thai. Sm? n to upon nothing.- Ythen I was slipper making I had from 3. 6d. ....... ' . tr - j" - - -- to 4i.dozcjirthe bindery coiling me It. 6d., leaving ' rrjfct 2: for a. dozen. I eould only clear 6s. eek by it ; that's nil I got -out of the slop-shops. Therr i one thing coming from sword wallowing thit I thought to men ilnn. I'm satisfied that Ramo Samee and I gave the docton their notions about a stomach pump. Edinburg Magazine.-. I JL s From the London Times. A CHARACTERS AND CAREERS OF PEEL AND BROUGHAM. Twenty years ago, the rival parties in of fice and opposition were led by two tnen the most dissimilar in character and sentiment, but who might equally claim the merit of having raised themselves by their own abili ty and perseverance to the distinguished po sitions which they held. Sir Robert Peel was ministerial leader of the House of Com mons ; and Henry Brougham was chief of the liberal opposition. Both have since pas sed away from popular sight, though hardly as yet from popular remembrance. Both have ceased to sway the thoughts and acts of men. The one by a premature fate has ab solutely been removed from the turmoil of a troubled world, while the other, by a still more heavy dispensation, has been allowed to survive in the flesh his own moral and po litical extinction. It hardly violates, therefore, the maxim of the classic sage, that the true estimate of men cannot be formed until their career in life has closed, if we venture to compare the characters of these distinguished individuals, and to contrast their relative services to their country. Circumstances gave each an early opportunity of displaying the peculiar gifts where-with nature had endowed him. Be fore entering the arena of public life, th one had gained as high a reputation for classical scholarship as the other had for scientific at tainments. Both seemed at starting to pos sess in an emiMnVdegree the faculty of elo quence ; and it wefe"difficult to say which of the two was the more indefatigbiy indus- trious. Between tucir entry into rariiameni . ti i il.:. i r . t. i- a there was no great interval of time. The Oxonian started as a supnoiter of the Tory occupants of power ; the Edinburg Reviewer avowed himself a candidate for the post of future spokesman of the powerless, and at that time, almost hopeless Whigs. Bigotry was imputed to reel as a reproach; sedition was the muttered taunt perpetually on the lips of Brougham's enemies. Neith er probably was just. The youthful secreta ry for Ireland found himself flung into a lion's den, and the accusation against him is that he made friends of the Orange beasts of prey, and eventually tamed them. In like man ner, when a meeting at the Crown and An chor or a crowd at a contested election was to be amused, excited, and sent quietly home without doing themselves or any body else any mischiet, liroustiam was tne readiest and verbally the most reckless man. Where steam was to be got up, and at the same time et off. noisily but harmlessly, there was scarcely to be found a match for him. He was at once boiler and safety-valve ; and this double function was well understood and ap preciated by the calmer and more earnest men of the party whose colors he wore. It is a curious and not uninstructive point of re semblance, however, that, while the two champions were for years the most applauded ana caressea men in ineir respective camps, neither was ever able to win that personal loyalty which many persons confessedly their inferiors in every intellectual respect are known to have inspired, i rom some cause or other, personal confidence appears to have been always wanting. Peel seldom convers ed, and still more rarely wrote, even to his most intimate friends, the platitudes about church ascendancy or the maintenance of landlord monopoly, which twice a year his position required him to put forth in his place in Parliament. The zealots dated not repu diate, and yet they could not cordially trust him. They tried to persuade one another that it was all consummate shrewdness on their illustrious leader's part ; but they were incessantly anxious, perplexed, and unhappy at his marvellous mystenousnes. ho has forgotten the early impatience of the celebra ted routineer, who was ultimately destined to overthrow the dictatorship of conversation? Or who does not remember, the fitful cries of warning that at intervals arose during his long reign, that "the cause was in danger?' So, too, with the vehement clamorer of the vindication of an injured Queen the ir resistible advocate of education reform and the exultant boaster, when candidate for the West Riding, that he sought the suffrages of the people-on the ground that he possessed " neither property, station, nor influence." Had his laugh at his colleagues for their re ally thinking their royal client innocent never been overheard had his future deser tion of the cause of four universities never been foretold had his latent longing after title and rank not been self-betrayed to all who had opportunities of judging Henry Brougham would still have failed to win the affection or confidence of the better men of his party. The fundamental cause of this result in both instances was doubtless the same. Both were egotists egotists not in the vulgar sense oi the terml, but in the deep er and subtler meaning of the phrase men thoroughly self engrossed and un sympathi zing, wrapt up in their own views, projects and thoughts, not without sincere opinions for the time being, but essentially without fixed or rooted faith in any. opinion. And mankind are wisely furnished with an instinct that forbids them to put much faith in those who have little in themselves. Peel in his latter dayi seemed to have keenly felt and silently to have mourned over his his political isolation. But, even to the last, he knew not now to confide frankly or affec tionately ; the habit had never been formed in early life, and when the solace of chival rous and intimate sympathy would have been priceless to him, it came not, for it could not come. As for the contemporary with whom we have been com pan ng him, it may be enough to say that the difference between them in this essential respect was, that while Peel listened to every friend's thoughts with out disclosing his own, Brougham was ever ready to tell every one all that came into his mind, without caring to hear what any one felt, or thought, or. desired. The physical propensity was the most opposite ; but the moral want and tendency was the same. ineir arearos ana ineir aspirations, woo snail venture to surmise t .The eagerness of the one to snatch a coronet, and the interdict im posed by the other on his family receiving we oisuncuon oi ennooiement, are ratner in dications of diversity of temperament than proof of diversity of feeling.; It is too soon to pry too curiously into these things. ; Fsugmkct or Arabic Postet- An Arabian having brought a blush to' a maiden's cheek by the earnestness of his gaze, said to her: My loofcs bav planted roses in your, cheeks j why forbid me to father them? The law permits him who sows to reap lb harvest" . ANALYSIS OF THE VOTE ON MR. PEaRCE'S BILL. ' ? An examination of the vote in the Senate of the United States, opon the passage of the Pearce ad justmeat of the Texas boundary bill, may not be uninteresting at tab juncture. -.-.--, First, in reference to the population of the sev eral States voting for and against the bill, and of those whose Senators were absent. If each Sen ator from each State be considered as representing half the population of his State, and the census of 1840 be taken as the basis of the calculation, it Will be found, that the population of the States for snd against the bill and absent, will stand as follows : For the bill, in round numbers, 8,500,000 Against the bill, 6.650.000 Absent, " 1,924.000 So that, if the absent Senators be regarded as opposed to the biM, it would have a small majori ty of the population against it; but there is little or no doubt, that if Mr. Clay, Mr. Downs, Mr. Pratt nd Mr. Mangum, had been present, they would have voted far the bill. In that event, the popular vote for and against the bill and absent would stand thus: For the bill, in round numbers, 9.678,000 Against the bill, " 6,650.000 Absent, " 746.000 If, therefore, these absent Senators would have voted, had they been present, as here supposed, then the majority of the population for the bill would have been 2282,000! But, a glance at the votes of the Senators a gainst the bill, is sufficient to satisfy the most cur sory reader, that they have not represented their constituents faithfully upon the passage of this measure. If the question could be put to the peo ple of the States, whose voice is recorded against this bill, whether their Senators voted their senti ments and opinions, it would not be going too far to predict, that every one of them would be left in a woful minority, not even excepting the rotten borough of South Carolina, with its twenty-five thousand voters out of the population of a quarter of a million of inhabitants ten years ago. Indeed, it may be safely said, and so posterity will view the case, that the Pearce adjustment of the Texas boundary bill would have received the unanimous vote of the United Slates Senate, had the States voting in the negative not been misrepresented, or had their Senators done their duty to their con stituents. But secondly, let the vote be examined in re ference to the supposed views of Senators, in re lation to the next Presidency. This will bean in structive chapter. The following whigs voted for the bill, viz: Messrs. Badeer, of North Carolina ; Bell, of Ten nessee; Berrien and Dawson, of Georgia; Clarke and Greene; of Khode Island , Cooper, ol Penn sylvania: Davis and Wintlirop. of Massachusetts ; Pearce, of Maryland : Phelps, of Vermont ; Smith, of Connecticut; and Suruance and Wales, of Delaware. All these gentlemen are understood now lo be in favor of a Whig National Conven tion to select a Whig Presidential candidate, aud with a view to the strengthening of the whig par ty, they have determined to support the present whig administration with all their power. Neither of these gentlemen looks to himself as tlie proba ble candidate, and their ambition therefore is limi ted to the continuance of the whig party in pow er. Four out of five of the whig absentees, viz : Messrs. Mangum, of North Carolina ; Pratt, of Maryland; and Miller and Dayton, of New Jer sey, stand in the same category. I he reasons for the absence of Messrs. Mangum and Pratt, are entirely personal, and it is said they are for it Messrs. Miller and Dayton, it is well known, oc cupied peculiar ground upon the lexas boundary question, and the presumption is, they did not wish to separate from the administration. The whigs who voted against the bill, are, Messrs Baldwin, of Connecticut : Ewinj;, of Ohio ; Sew ard, of New York; Underwood, of Kentucky, Morton, of Florida; and Upham, of Vermont. 1 he well known relations of Messrs. Ualdwin Morton, Underwood, and Upham to the bill, wil sufficiently explain their votes, and leave them in ihe same category with their political brethren who voted for the bill ; but the opposition of Mr. lowing to the measure must be set down to two circumstances foreign to the considerations that operated upon other whigs ; and they are a com mittal to the Taylor policy, while he was Secreta ry of the Interior, and aspirations for the next Presidency upon ihe strength of that policy, which he believes will yet command the popular judg ment. Governor Seward's vote against the bill was a natural one. He is not the man to play secoud nddle to any body. He is looking to the tre?i- dency, not now, but at some distant day, and his chief purpose is, evidently, to so vole upon all public measures as to anticipate the feelings of the public mind hereafter. He is for himself and for no other man, for the President, unless it should be, that he can inke the preseut a stepping -stone io ine tuiure. lie will support tne administra tion, his friends openly say, only so far as he con siders it to be his own personal interest to do so. Some of them think, however, he has missed the mark in not going lor this bill. v i i air. lays ansence, everyDoay Knows, was owing to the state of his health. The Pearce bill was one of the best planks of the Clay adjustment scneme, and that Mr. May would nave voted for it, the whole nation is well assured. His relation to the next Presidency is too well known to refer lo it. 1 hat he will be the candidate of the whi party at the next election, it living, convention or no convention, no man in his senses doubts. If erer he was the embodiment of whig principles and the object of whig affections, he is so now. There is no man in the whig party who can hope to receive the vote of that party, at the next trial, before Mr. Clay. The democrats who voted for the bill are Messrs. Norris, of New Hampshire ; Bradbury, of Maine ; Bright and VVhiicomb, of Indiana; Douglass and Shields, of Illinois ; Cass and Felch, of Michigan; King and Clemens, of Alabama: Sturgeon, of l ennsyivama; Uodge, of Iowa ; Koote of Missis sippi; Houston and Rusk, of Texas, and Dickin son, of New York. All these gentlemen are for Gen. Cass for ihe next Presidency. Messrs. King, of Alabama, Foote, of Mississippi, and General Houston, of Texas, are prominent candidates for the Vice Presidency upon the Cass ticket. Of the democratic absentees. Messrs. Hamlin, of Maine, Jones, of Iowa, and Downs, of Louisiana, are also lor Gen. Cass, though not so warmly, perhaps, as they might be. They incline, it is said, rather to Mr. Dickinson, of New York, for the next Presidential democratic candidate. The democra tic Senators who veted asainst the bill, are Messrs. Turney, oi Twew ; Atchison ad Beaton, of. Missouri; Barnwell and Butler, oi boutn laroJiaa; Chase of Ohio ; Davis, of Mississippi ; Dodge and W alker, of Wisconsin : Hale of New Hampshire; Mason and Hunter, of Virginia ; Soule, of Louis ana, and Yulee, of Florida. A U these gentlemen, except Messrs. Benton, Chase and Hale, are warmly for Mr. Buchanan Tor the next Presiden cy. Messrs. Borland and Sebastian, of Arkansas, are also included among Mr. Buchanan's friends. Col. Benton is tor himself for President. Messrs. Chase and Hale do not hope to see any man. whom they prefer, put in nomination ; and they are therefore ready to side with the strongest par ty, if they can be benefitted by the act Their vote against the bill astonishes no one. It was in con sonance with their extreme opinions. The promi nent candidates for Vice President amongst these Buchanan men, opon his ticket, are Col. Davis, of Mississippi, Mr. Mason, of Virginia, Mr. But ler, of South Carolina, and Mr. Yulee, of Flor ida. It will be seen, from this examination into the political predilecUons and ambition of Senators, that the contest in the ranks of the arty, is between the friends of Gen." Cass and lr. Buchanan for the nomination, and ht ih great body of the Whig Senators has rallied and m rallying to the support of the administration, and ts looking to the perpetuation of the Whir L parly in power. ifatt. Clipper. SoPTHian Association. A State Rights As sociation has been organized at Jackson, Miss, The President of the association is Hon. J. A. Quitman, Governor Of the State. It will be re collected that there is some probability of Gov. Q, having to answer to the United States as to alleg ed connection .with the Cuba invasion, and this State Rights-movement, with the Governor at the head of nv looks something-tike actingon the prin ciple that " self-preservation is the first law of natlre." KOSSUTH'S, LETTER TO iuau " . CASS. : " ' EyTALYA, (Asia Minor.) May 25' 18?. General: It is already teu months that 1 have the anguish of exile to endure. - o.V ; Nature has man's mind witn wonaenui elas o . ..... j.e..i ticity endowed. It yields to many changes ot fate, and gets accustomed even to aaversuy. But to one thing the patriot's heart never learns to inure itself to the pangs oine. You remember yon patrician of Venice, who, when banished, feigned high treason, that he might at least from the scaffold cast over the Rialto a glanc once more. This fond desire can easily unaersiana. I can so the more because yon Venetian, though exiled, knew his fartherland to be happy and great ; but I, sir, carry the dolor of millions, the pains of a down-trodden country in my wounded breast, witnout nav ing even the sad consolation to think that it could not otherwise be. Oh I had Divine Providence only from treason designed me to preserve, I swear to Almighty God the threatening billows of despotism would have fallen like foam from the rock of my brave people's breasts. To have this firm convic . . ... . - ,ii j tion. sir. and. instead ot tne weu-aeservea victory of freedom, to find one's self in exile, the fatherland in chains, is a profound sor-S row, a nameless rriei. Neither have I the consolation to have found mitigations of this grief at the hospita ble hearth of a exeat free people, the contem plation of which, by the imposing view of freedom s wonderful powers, warms tne des- oondent heart, makin? it in the destiny of mankind believe, It is Dot a coward lamentation which mbeS mfe say all this, General, but the lively sense of gratitude and thankful acknowledgments for your generous sympathy. I Wanted to sketch the darkness of my destiny, that you might feel what benefit must have been to me your beam of light, by which you, from the capital of free America, have heightened my night. It was in Broussa, General, that the notice of your imposing speech has reached me : in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal bewailed his country's mischief, and foretold the fall of its oppressors Hannibal, exiled like my self, but still unhappier, as he was accompa nied in exile by the ingratitude of his people, but I by the love of mine. Yes, General, your powerful speech was not only the inspiration of sympathy for un merited misfortune, so natural to noble, fee ling hearts ; it was the revelation of the jus tice of God it was a leaf from the book of fate, unveiled to the world. On that day, General, j-ou were s.UtiflS. in the name of mankind, in tribunal, passing judgment on despotism and the despots of the world ; and as sure as the God of justice lives, your ver dict will be accomplished. Shall I yet have my share in this great work or not ? I do not know. Once al most an efficient instrument in the hands of Providence, I am now buried alive. With humble heart will I accept the call to action should I be deemed worthy of it, or submit to the doom of inactive sufferings, if it must be so. But, be it one or the other, I know that your sentence will be fulfilled. I know thai aged Europe, at the sun of freedom's young America, wi'l herself grow young a gain. I know that my people who proved so worthy of liberty, will yet, notwithstand ing their present degradation, weigh heavy in this balance of fate ; and I know that, as long as one Hungarian lives.your name, Gen eral, will be counted among the most cher ished in my native land, as the distinguish ed man who, a worthy interpreter of the generous sentiments of the great American people, has upon us poor Hungarians the consolation bestowed of a confident hope, at a moment when Europe's decrepit politics seemed our unmerited fate forever to seal. May you be pleased, General, to accept the most fervent thanks of an honest friend of freedom. Let me hope that should Mr. Ujhazy, (my oldest and best friend, and pre sent representative to the United States,) in the interest of the holy cause to which you have so generously jour protection accorded, address himself to you for something which you might, in your wisdom, judge conve nient and practicable, you will not withhold from us your powerful support ; and please to accept the assurance of my high esteem and most peculiar veneration. L. KOSSUTH, Anc. Gov. of Hungary. To tlie Hon. the Gen. Cass, Washington. I hope you will excuse my bad English. I thought it my duty to -address you in your own language. THE LATE PRESIDENT. A Rexixisccnce. General Taylor was elevated to the Presidency of the Republic under peculiar circumstances. Before his nomination as a candidate for that office, but little was known to the public of his political sentiments, and the prevailing opinion was that he had never acted as a partisan. An incident with which we became ac quainted many years since led us to form a high estimate of the character of the late President As this incident has never been made public to our knowledge, and as its publication now may contribute something to the truth of history, and work no possible harm in any quarter, we take the liberty to refer to it. About sixteen years ago, the Hon. Abijah Mann, jr., then a representative in Congress from the district.c9mnosed.0f this and Lewis county, made an attempt to introduce certain reforms into the army service. We do not re member even the outlines much less the de tails of his plan; but we know thit Mr. Mann and his proposed reforms were assailed with great earnestness, not to say virulence, by the army officers sojourning at Washington. With characteristic energy and persever ance, Mr. M persisted in urging his points, against fearful odds, when, to his surprise, he received a letter from Zachary Taylor then colonel commandingat Prairie Du Chien, and an utter straneer personally to himself-. pressing in strong terms his approbation of Air.xuann 1 course, and frankly tendenngthe aid of such suggestions as his experience in the service woald enable him to make. This letter hating been properly acknowledged, was followed by another covering some sixty pages closely written, jn which the proposed reform of the army vu discusted elaborately, and the arguments of its adversaries in detail. At the ooocjaslon ho ibis letter,, the writer avowed himself in favor of a searchinar reform of all the abuses of the several departments of in service ana recommenaea as a remedy for those abuses a return to the first principles of our Governmentsimplicity and economy. His declaration of principles of political e conomy, announced pro rottro, by Micbeal Hoffman or Samuel Young, would have crea ted ; no surprise J but coming from a veteran soldier, one- whose -whole life had been spent amid the rough and -hazardous duties of the frontier, it gave evidence of peculiar mind and of an extraordinary character, y Mohawk Courier. ELECTRO-MAGNETISM AS;A MO- rt ; v- e TI VE POWER. t The inporiant . Question' SeI- Profes sor Page, in theilectures which he is deliver ing before the Smithsonian Institution, itates that there is no longer any doubt of the ap plication of this power as a substitute . for steam. The National Intelligencer says : He exhibited the most imposing experi ments ever witnessed in this branch of science. An immense bar of iron, weighing one hun dred and sixty pounds, was made to spring up by magnetic action, and to move rapidly up and down, dancing like a feather in the air, without any visible support. The force one ratio? upon this bar is stated to average three hundred pounds through ten inches of its motion. He said ne couia raise tms oar one hundred feet as readily as through ten inches, and he expected no difficulty in do ing the same with a bar weighing one ton, or a hundred tons. He could make a pile driver, or a forge-hammer, with great sim plicity, and could make an engine with a stroke of six, twelve, twenty, or any num ber of feet The most beautiful experiment we ever witnessed was the loud sound and brilliant flash from the galvanic spark, when produ ced near a certain point in his great magnet. Each snap was as loud as a pistol ; aud when he produced the same spark at a little dis tance from this point, it made no noise at all. The recent discovery he stated to have a practical bearing upon the construction of an electro-magnetic engine. Truly, a great power is here ; and where is the limit to it ? ' He then exhibited his engtna, of between four ana five horse power, operated by a battery contained within a space of three cu bic feet. It looked very unlike a magnetic machine. It was a reciprocating engine of two feet stroke, and the whole engine and battery weighed about one ton. When the power was thrown on by the motion of the lever, the engine started off magnificently, making one hundred, and fourteen strokes per minute ; though, when it drove a circu lar saw ten inches in diameter, sawing up boards an inch and a quarter thick into laths, the engine made but about eighty strokes per minute. There was great anxiety on the part of the spectators to obtain speci mens of these lathg, to preserve as trophies of this great mechanical triumph. 1 The force operating upon this magnetic cylinder throughout the whole motion of two feet, was stated to be six hundred pounds when the engine was moving very slowly, but he had not been able to ascertain what the force was when the engine was running at a working speed, though it was considera bly less. The most important and interes ting point, however, is the expense of the power. Professor Page stated that he had reduced the cost so far, that it was less than steam under many and most conditions, though not so low as the cheapest steam en- gines. tv un an tne imperieciions 01 tne en gine, the consumption of three pounds of zinc per day would produce one horse pow er. The larger his engines (contrary to what has been known before) the greater the e conomy. Professor Page was himself sur prised at the result. There were yet practi cal difficulties to be overcome ; the battery had yet to be improved; and it remained yet to try the experiment on a grander scale, to make a power of one hundred horses or more ." THE FAILURE IN THE SENATE OF THE COMPROMISE. The combination of hostile extremes prov ed too strong for the union of national and temperate Statesman. Men who agree in nothing besides, found.in '.he illusion of a com mon, though irreconcilable ultraism, motives to co-operate against moderate, wise and just councils. It was a combination more remarkable than that which Burke has ren dered memorable. Soule and Chase, Mason and Hale, Butler and Seward, constitute stri king parts of the tesselated Mosaic, and were the white and b'ack stones, which stood their places against Webster and Cass, Ciay and Dickinson, Foote and Cooper. It is not the first time that hostile factions have combined to baffle the efforts of patriotic men to extin guish the grounds of intestine agitation and discord. Incapable of acting together, in any temperate efforts to reconcile their an gry differences, factions do not refuse to com bine against moderate and comprehensive views interposed to preserve the peace of the State. Rich. Whig. Denmark akd the Dcchies The war has now commenced in earnest. On the 25th the two armies met, and after some skirmishing, a regular engagement ensued, in which the Danes were victorious. The battle bejan at dawn of day, and lasted eleven hours. The Danes attack ed with about 25,000 men, and the insurrection ary army was about 20,000 strong. The centre of the Schleswig Holsteiners, under Gen. Willi sen, occupied tlie village of Iustedt, a little distance north of the town of Schleswig. Tlie Danes at tacked both wings of their enemies, and after a combat which lasted eight hours, brought all their disposable strength against the centre of Willisen's troops.ant! at length forced him to return through Schleswig towards Rendsburg. But the defeat was most signal, and the result must be highly important for the Danes. By dates from Hamburg of the 27th, we leam that the killed, wounded and missing in the battle of Ids ted t, are now stated at 7,000, of which the greater share has fallen on the Danes. The num ber in action is estimated at 40.000 Dan, and 1 30,000 Holsteiners. The " Borsenhalle" states that Gen. Von Wil lisen refused to accept the Danish General's offer of three days truce. , On the 29th the Danes had advanced to within a few miles of the Eider, near Cropos. Of the sixteen guns at Ekenford, the Holsteiners carried off two and spiked and abandoned the others. A Danish war steamer was seized, but released 06 learning that she was manned by Russians. It was stated that Col, Von Zatn and his corps had rejoined the main body of the insurgent army, but the news wants confirmation. The Danes are now in possession of the town of Schleswig, where they have formed their head quarters. . Gin. Taylor's Death Meeting of Ame ricans in London! On hearing of the death of GenTaylor.'lhe American citizens sojour ning in London, held a meeting at the Ame rican Legation, to consider what steps should be taken on the occasion. On the motion of Mr. Dudley Seldon, of Iew xorlc,' Lis lixcellency the American Minister took" the chair ; and on the motion of Mr.' Davis, Mr. Charles Levi Woodbury, of Massachusetts, was chosen Secretary. . -The Hon. David Hoffman, of Maryland, the Hon. John W. Davis, of Indiana, U. States' Commissioner to China, Mr George Peabody, of London, Colonel Isaac O. Barnes of Mas sachusetts, and Mr. Dudley Seldon, of New York, were appointed a Committee to prepare ani report resolutions expressing ' the sense of the meeting on the event which had caused it to be called. Thev reported a series of reso lutions which were, on the motion of Col. Aspinwall, U. States Consul at London, un animously adopted. Mr. Lawrence, our minister at London, has been making an Agricultural speech, at the banquet of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, held at.jGxeter tin the 18th July. From the following extract it appears that some other distinguished Americans were in attendance : " : ri ; I am happy to state to'you on this occasion, that the United States is not represented alone by me. I have, on my right one of the most distin guished statesmen of the United States, and, what is better, one of the best and greatest farmers of the United States. Cheers and cnes of Name. The gentleman is the: American Ambassador at Paris, and came here to meet you, cheers jj his excellency William C. Rites, of Virginia. Mr. Rives and myself are not he only representatives of the United States. -Iam roudtosay that in this room there is a gentleman, one of the greatest breeders of stock. Col. Morris, the vice president of the New York Agricultural Association a gentleman who has been purchasing the stock of England very largely, that we in the western world may improve our own. Cheers. What ever you may think of these on this side of the Atlantic, lean only state to you, as their repre sentative, that they are proud of their origin, and rejoice to be descended from Devonshire men. I hope at no distant day, increasing as we dojat the rate of a million a year in population and we rejaice that we do increase, (cheers,) for we have room enough, and food enough, and labor enough for all cheers I say, I hope at no distant day, that we, your humbletwusins, may return to you the farmers of England, to some considerable ex tent, (it must be done by instalments,) the debt that we owe you in the agricultural line, for the improvements that you have made.for the instruc tions we have received, and the great benefit the whole country has derived from your exhibi tions. I beg to thank the president and council for the opportunity afforded me to-day of being in this old Roman city of Exeter, and in this renowned county of Devon, distinguished for its rich red soil, its beautiful red cattle, and in olden time for its fine and beautiful red cloaks, celebrated in poe try as well as in prose, f Cheers. 1 This is the land of that great and mighty man, Sir Walter Raleigh (cheers) the man who first went to the country of my respected friend, Mr. Rives a man renowned in English history, and who will live as long as history exists. I cannot sit down without offering my humble thanks to the inhabi tants of the city of Exeter, wherein this exhibition has taken place. (Cheers.) I think you fortun ate in finding a city presenting so much neat ness, so much simplicity, so much taste, and so much cheerfulness, that one feels at home the mo ment one comes here. (Loud cheers.) It is the first time that I have ever set my foot in the re nowned county of Devon. I hope that it will not be the last. (Loud cheers.) FILING NEWSPAPERS. One of the many things which I regret when I review my past life is, that did not, from ear liest youth, at least as soon as I was able to do it, take and preserve (f believe the technical word is "file") some good newspaper. How interesting it would be to a sexagenarian to look into the pa per which he read wheu he was twelve, or six teen, or twenty years old ! How many events would this call to mind which he has entirely for gotten ! How many interesting associations and feelings would it revive! What a view it would give one of past years ! What a knowledge it would preserve by assisting the memory ! And how many valuable purposes of a literary kind even might it be rendered subservient to ! How much I wish I could look into such a record, while composing this article. dir. British Bail. THE ASSAM TEA COMPANY, 136 Greenwich Street, New York. T HE proprietors beg to call the attention of to toe choick and rare selection of Tens imported by them, and hitherto unknown in this country, whiub, by their fragrance and delicacy, combined with virgin purity and strength, product an infu sion of tirpaMinji richnega aud flavor THK TEAS OFFERED ARE THE FOL LOWING. Th JodJo Blom a Black Tea. at $1 00 per lb. Niphon Diari, Osacca, Too-tsiaa, Ticki-tsiaa, do do a Green Tea, do 75 50 00 75 50 it 1. ti do Ud-fi Mixture, acompouud or tlie tnoit rure and choice Teas grown on the fertile 8nd genial boil of Assam, ,! 1 00 With a view to encourage the introduction of their m itehles Teas, it is the intention of the proprietor 10 distributes by lot, among tha purchuaers, a quae tity of Tea equal to TUB F1UST YEARS' PROFITS ON THE SALES EFFECTED. Each purchaser will receie enclosed in the pack age, a u umbered certificate, entitling him to One Chance inthe Distribution!!! EVERY FIFTY CENTS J$ laid out, and on the receipts amounting to $20,000, . the uhdernientioned parcels of Tea, to the value fien per cent., or TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS, WILL BE GIVEN AWAY AS BONUSES ! ! ! ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING rnmf SO Iks. 20 25 r TEA rack at 100 fcrlk. SSOIk. t 50 100 250 10 5 1 u it u (a (t 500 " 500 500 500 250 ' 250. u 425 Prizes in all. 2,00011)3 S2,000. Those persons who prefer lower priced Teas, can receive their prizra iu proportion, OR THEY WILL BE RE PURCHASED FOR CASH, AT A DEDUCTION OF 10 PER CENT. K7 Country Agents required. Applieatons to be addressed (post paid,) to the Company's Depot, is above. June 2nd, 1850. 45 Pianos! Pianos ! Pianos ! THE undersigned respectfully informs the La dies and the Public generally that he is daily putting up Pianos in different parts of the Slate. He will send Instruments to any part of North Carolina; and if they do not give satisfaction, they will be taken back and no charge made for the transporta tion. All orders and letters must be addressed lto ANTHONY KUHN, Baltimore. No. 75, Baltivorjc St. LIST OF PRICES. Pianos in beautiful Mshognny and Rosewood ea ses, built of the finest material, of the latest atvU. and improvements, metallic plate, and entire metallic ramea, com as ronows : 8 Octave ISO to $230 ; 250 to $300 ' J 250 to $300 : 275 to $350 6 300 to $350 ; 300 to $500 Grand Pianos, from $500 to 9 1000." The above uamed Piauosare oenstantly manofae tared at my Establishment, nd are not to be sur passed. I would particularly recommend those with entire metallic Irams; as tbey can be readily trans ported a ay distance, wrlaonf jarring 01 beur nut oat of tone. , - . A K. Jane, 1st 1850. . . 42 Armistcad'a f Iuc Chewing Tobacco. W' J08 eelted 52 boxea and half boxes Armistead'i fine Chewing Tobacco. r . , BRITTON & TODD February 14th, 1850. l5 STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION BETWFi, PATETTETILLE iSD WILSIXCTOJ. uanno onaeisignearroprietorsof th.n Steam Boat i Company be, le,,' J their thanks to the pubbe for th. i;i. . 10 bA. received daring the last season, snd i.fc. w m luimui wi pairuos and tt) puhlie "!. lo navigate me. rivet; at all stages of w.te,0" shippers by this line decided advantage in,'N their foods np without delay,' especislly s ' F!'H " season, when the River ia usually t00 ow f ''I Boau.of ordiuary draught to run. ar The Boats comporing this Line art The Steamer Gov Graham, 24 ve. ., Chatbsm nw 014 Tow Boat. Mike Brown 2y..4 Telegraph do Cumberland New. EPre do All the above Boats are in the very he.i tion for the Fall business. The unLT.- ? warranted in appealing to the - - - K such an increased patronaeeas will remmJ!!!. . to some extent at least for ths additional e.wi r vested, and promise with every confide ,ce tlw j," per l-y t iu Line shall be as well if not better J!Ii than they csn be by any other on the Rier The arrangements by the Copartuen art iBttt(uj to be permanent, and should experience surge,, tU necessity of any further increase of hnm. ik. - . . may rely upon iheir being put on the Ki'wr w.tiJ! delay. Our rates fir Freight st all times will b the ra rent lates charged by others. Bills of Lading for goods intended to come U A" Line should be filled op to the ' rare ot n Fear Steamboat Co., Wilmington.' One eou, T ing sent by mail toT. C. Worth, Agent atthuL!" DIBBLE & BROTHERS'! m' T. C. WORTH, 1 . A. P. HUKT, frfoP'ietow. ' J. D. WILLIAMS. J Johk. D. Williams, Agent, Cape Fear StetmliM Company, FayettevHIe. July 19. 1850. g.M RAIL ROAD HOTEL. HENDERSON N. C. THE Subscriber having taken the ibovt House, recently kept by Mrs. M. Nut. all, would respectfully inform his friends, ind ttt public generally, that the house is now open for tk, reception of Rsil Road Passengers, and others, wbt mny favor him with a call. Merchants, and othera going North or elsewhere, sre informed thsthu bles are large and comfortable, well furnished, sndti experienced Ostler in constant attendance tiontt taken by the day, week or month, on term whkk shall be satisfactory. No electioneering will ber sorted to by him or his servants on ike qrrml of Cars, every person being left to his ownehoictti patronise any house in the place he mny chotm. No charge will be made for mea's, or anything d unless full satisfaction is given in every instance. JAMES GRESHAM. Henderson, July 8th 1S53. 55-lm MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GE0RGLI THE ANNUAL COURSE of Lectutei j commence on the first Monday in Novembrr next, and continue until first of March. G M. NEWTON, M. D. Anatomy. L A. DUG AS, M. D. Physiology and Pthe logical Auatomy. ALh. A. A IN Uh.ll MciAIMS, m. D.Cliemistrjisi Pharmacy L. P. GARVIN, M. D. Materia Medics. The apeuiics, and Medical J urisprudeoce. P. F. EVE. M. D Surgery. . L D FORD, M. D. Institutes and Pnctictof Medicine. J. A EVE, M. D. Obstetrics snd DUeun tf Womeu and hi Hints. H. F. CAMPBELL, M D. Demonstrator of Ai atomy. ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D. Auistait D monstrator. . Clinical Instruction will be given as htretofwt without extra charge. The fee for the entire courss is $115 W Matriculation, taken once.) S 00 Demonstration Ticket, optional 1 10 00 G. M. NEWTON, M D. Deis. August 7th, 1850. 9w2av63. the: college of st.ja.ties. Washington County, Md. The Diosesan College of the Protestant fni copal Church. THE Ninth Annual Session will open on Met day, October 7th, 1850, rind continue till to next Commencement Day," the last Thurrfurii July, ISM. New students are recommended to ti ter at the opening of the session, hut are received it any time they apply, and the charge is eiuiMtd from the date of their entrance. The College has the usual number of cl.iiw. fords all the opportunities for a complete educatioi, and, at the succesful termination of the collegwts course, confers upon its graduates tbt usual scute mical degrees. The Grammar School, immediately adjoining tin College, and under the immediate supervision of Rector, but under distinct discipline, receires Wj at the beginning of their academical coarse, in prepares them lor the collegiate classes. Theow sight and direction of the Profeasoisof the Collep secure special advsotages to the pupils is the Gt mar School. In the Mercantile Classes the study of the Grw language is omitted, and Its place supplied byw ditional studies in Modern Languages, Book tap ing, Commercial Arithmetic, Statistics, f e. t The location of the College is eutirely heslllMi and, by its distance from tow us and villages, TO? favorable to good morals and order. The whole annual charge (the same in tne Q lege and Grammar School) for the sessign of W months is two hundred aud twenty-five dolUn,pJ" able semi-annually in advance. Applications t Dade to inHV R KF.RFOOT. Mi Auira8t7th. 6') 2" University of Maryland, MOS- ' UCl ilCiAl OCiOQIUil Will UCfc'- - , A DAY, the 14th day of October, 1850. close 1st March. 1831. Nathan R. Smith, M. D., Surgery. YVm. E. A. Aiken, M. D., Chemistry anil rtf Samuel Chew, M. D., Thuapeutic, Mstertt ioa and Hygiene. . . ' Joseph Koby, M. D.- Anatomy snd Phy0lPj. Wm. Power, M. D., Theory and Practice IM icine. n Richard H. Thomas. M. D, Midwifery vw eases of Women and Children. , .- George, M. Wittenberger, M. P""10!" Auatomy. otkl The most ample opportunities for the piwew of Practical Anatomy at a moderate expew- Chemical Lectures five times a week. b.'4Jr.. sors Smith and Power, in the Baltimore ,B"$. with the privilege of daily visits to its wr out charge to the student for the ticket ' Fees for the Lectures $90 to 93 i P0''?! torn $10 : Matriculation $5; Graduation WILLIAM E. A. AHLfiKi National Hotel, , NO 5 CQURTLAND STREET, NEW WJ UfXillS ESTABLISHMENT ua'us r 6Jn the hands of Mr Geo. Seeley. 'fZ eastern Pearl St. House, has been recently w by the addition of And haw also been thoroughly re-fiued I sua " isbed for the accomodation of the Public It is the aim of the Proprietor to NATIONAL ouile equal to any of-iu 5, raries iae.il those essentials that e.ot" reputation, of a well conducted 'and we" HoteL 1,1. loc The Hoose is of the large sixe. el6lby Ls within three doors of Broadwsy, sad a "jj(s conveniently arranged to promote in convenience of Guests. Persons 'S'!10V. ,i ate respectfully invited to make their Hotel during their stay in the City. ry mat they nave-added over fifty per c.nf , " 0fflT its! Stock cj ihe Company, ;ia w 't!.' of thNr"8teamboaC Uhatbn, -New York. June 28, 1850-
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