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: wonderful movement, the Lon-
This great fair, to which all nations are
invited to send their manufactures, will
be one of the mightiest events of the
Prom the Knickerbocker for October.
JfeatK a$ Sixteen.
.N OLD CONTRIBUTOR.
arts, but also to politics,
morals, and the
extension of civiliza-
Oh! I am voting to die!
1 tain would live through one
more
Tra-
summer’s day
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I shall hav^assed away!
Mv father, where art thou?
Wouldlmight hear thy voice and touch
The way grows very dark and lonely
now
Into the Unseen Land.
Alas, it may not. be!
Far, far away, bow little dost thou
know
That the companion of thine age, that
Yet father, do dot weep;
pai n,
And oh, how gladly shall I fall asleep,
And be at rest again!
As thou hast seen me in my childhood,
borne
Before the nightfall to my lonely bed,
Beyond that noonday sun.
And with the Almighty in IBs dwelling
Thou shalt behold my face.
Mart, my only friend
"While Inourjoyous girlhood, thou and I
We deemed not friends could die.
Oh! that my head might rest
Oli! that upon thy pure and loving
I might, recline once rhore!
Dearest, remember me;
Not mournfully, not with a tearor sigh,
But when thou bearest some old melouy
We loved in days gone by.
With many a lost bright thing;
ful breath,
With the dead flower
ten spring,
otes.
tion. France, Germany
and the Uni-
lations, in add
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seen
door oi
gent lent
his ey;
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tion Io .
readme
whole litter
e a piece of
true
without shutting
Stood at the. hymenia! altar.
lady said wire she
mostmagnideent of its kind
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the work
The erect ion of a building for the
accommodation of this exhibition early
attracted the attention of the British
Government. It was at once seen that
no edifice in London was capacious e-
nough for the purpose. Even the ob
taining of a site sufficiently large, yet
central, was difficult. Alter much de
liberation it was determined to appro
priate a portion of the Park for this pur
pose. The next step was to arrange
the plan of the building, and fix the ma
terial of which it should be erected.—
The use of stone, brick, or even wood,
involved a vast and unnecessary ex
pense, since the edifice was needed on
ly for a few months. It, was finally
arranged to const
ict it of
iron
The building will be 1,848 feet long,
(why not three feet more, that it might
have symbolized in its figure the great
named) by 408 feet broad and 66 feet
high; and another feature is, that it can
be entirely' prepared away from its des
tined site/and will want merely putting
together on the ground. The long line
n o w
joint
the
ered in by the first of January next.—
The contractors are Messrs. Fox, Hen
derson & Co. Arrangements are al
ready in progress to provide accommo
dations,for the working classes wh"
may visit London to take part in the ex
hi bii ion.
A register is to be openeq
by the Secretary/ of the executive com
mittee,in which will be entered the
names and addresses of persons dis
posed to accommodate artisans from
the country; and other arrangements
are under consideration for guiding the
working classes, on their arrival by
the trains, to the lodgings they" may se
lect.
The erection of this stupendous edi
fice, out of materials comparatively hl-
in building
is still undetermined whether to ter tire
structure remain, after the exhibition
is over, or to take it down. Thousands
of people from the United States, it is
thought, will cross the oeea
Pretty Good.—“Mother, why does
Pa call you honey?”
“Because, my dear, he loves me!”
“No, Ma, that, isn’t it.”
“What is it then?”
“I know.”
“Well, what is it?”
“Why it’s because you have so much
comb in your head—that’s why.”
‘Who are yeou; asked a long legged
Connecticute, of a rather over-bearing
Conductor on the New Haven railroad.
“I am the conductor of these cars.” “And
all the folks in ’em, I spose?” “Yes!”
[Shorter than pie crust.] “Wal, Iswow!
if that ain’ta poorly go! Yeou a conduc
tor of other folks, and don’t know how to
conduct yourself. Gosh!”
An anxious parent lately introduced
his son, a chuckle headed lout, to a vil
lage doctor, and told him he thought
the lad had been disposed to the small
pox, and should like to have him ventil-
lated, ifit would not cost too much.
Centre as to divide the length into 948
feet on the one side, and 909 feet on the
other. In addition to the timber for
joists, flooring, &c',tho glass and sup
ports of iron comprise the entire struc-
ture. The columns are similar in form
throughout. The same may be said of
each of the sash bars and of each pane
Of glass. 1 tie iiuiax>6x’-of -•.«->x..-■> • ~
ingfrom 14 feet 6 inches to 20 feet, is
3,230. There are 2 214 cast-iron gird
ers for supporting galleries and rools,
besides 1,128 intermediate bearers or
binders, 358 wrought-iron trusses for
sapportins roof, 3-1 miles of gutter for
waler
stand on about 18
d the columns, 202
and 900,000 superfT
The building will
teres of ground, giv-
‘"^ win. n-w fr^'q^M „
surface of21 acres; but provision will
be made for a large increase of galle
ries, if necessary. The gallery will be
24 feet wide, and will extend nearly a
mile. The length of tables, or table
space, for exhibiting will be about 8
unprecedentecl quantity of materials
that will be employed in this edifice
from the fact, that the glass alone will
weigh upwards of.400 tons.
Already explained, the exhibiting’
surface will occupy a spaca of about 21
acres. The total cubic contents ofthe
building will be 32,100,090 feet. The
total amount of contract for use, waste
A native of Washington has just in
vented a new system of short hand. In a
speech of an hour’s duration the reporter
was enabled to get twenty mintes ahead
ofthe speaker.
They talk of getting up a musquito
hunt in Jersey. The next Legislature
is to be petitioned to offer a bounty for
the scalps. Anything for a specula
tion.
pushing the same object which may
hereafter be discovered and patented,
there be appropriated the sum of twen
ty-five thousand dollars.
For specimens of ores and coins, to be
reserved at the Mint, three hundred dol
lars. The Secretary of the Treasury
be, and he is hereby authorized and di
rected to contract upon the most rea
sonable terms with the proprietors of
same well established assaying work
now in successful operation in Califor
nia, upon satisfactory security, to be
judged by the Secretary of the Treasu
ry, who shall, under the supervision of
the United States Assayer, to be ap-
pointed by the President, by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate,
and in forming the same into bars, as
shall bo described by the Secretary of
the Treasury; and that the said United
States Assayer shall cause the stamp
1 of the United States, indicating the de-
sent at this display; while hundreds of g
thousands will repair to London from
the Continent. Days will be required
for a proper visit of this great fair. It
is remarkable that the hint for this
building was taken from the celebrated
glass conservatory at Chatsworth, be
longing to the Duke of Devonshire, and
erected by Mr. Paxton. In conclusion
we wish all success to the magnificent
scheme of the World’s Industrial Exhi
bition, and its Palace of Glass.
Science
Prom the Phil. Sat. Gazette.
Tell
'aph mades* Wailea**
We gave, last week, a picture of the
Palace of Glass for the great Industrial
Convention of 1851, to be held in Lon
don, and, this week, we give an engra
ving of another wonder ofthis nine
teenth century, the “paying' out” of the.
electric wire of the sub-marine tele
graph between Doverand Calais. Inis
feat was performed by the Goliah stea
mer, attended by other steam vessels.
The wire, enveloped in gutta pereha,
was wound on an immense reel, as seen
in the picture
nd run off carefully as
the vessel moved along.
The steamers
started at Dover, making directly lor
Cape Grinez on the French coast.—
The only conjectured difficulty on the
route was at a point in mid-cnanncl.
another inequality caTTea the v arn?,,
both well known and dreaded by navi-
gators, there is a deep sub-marine va ■
ley, surrounded by shifting sands, th'
one being seventeen miles and the orb-
length. Here ship:
lose, their anchor,
her twelve miles ii
encounter danger,
and drift; and troll
ing nets offishermeh
are frequently lost. The sub-marm:
telegraph line was,however successtu-
ly submerged. On nearing Cape Grii
ez the sounding became very ruggel,
and the coast dangerous; but by steack
and cautious manipulation, the Golmli
delivered her cargo of wire to be safety’
connected with the end of the tubing
which had been laid at Cape Grinef,
and run up to the cliff to a temporary
little more than nine-sixteenths of a
penny per foot cube. The total value
ofthe building, were it to be perma
nently retained, would bs £150,000, or
rather less than one penny and one-
twelth of a penny per foot cube.
To provide against, rains, the glass
roof will be made of a series of ridges
or vallies, exactly eight feet wide. A-
long the sloping sides without and
within, the water is conducted into
gutters at the head of each column,
whence it escapes through the columns
themselves. In no instance has the wa
ter more than 12 feet to run before it is
delivered into the vallies. Thus the
roof of this gigantic edifice will be as
easily drained as the roof of the smallest
house. The provision for the ventila
tion ofthe building is also admirable.
The whole edifice will be fitted with
buffer boards, so placed as to admit air,
but exclude rain. The roof and south
side ofthe building will be covered with
canvas; and in very hot weather this
canvass may be wet, and so the edifice
kept cool. In the trancept alone there
will be above five thousand superficial
feet of ventilators provided. By cover
ing the roof and south side with can
vass, a gentle light will be thrown over
the entire structure; and the whole of
the glass ofthe northern side will give
a direct light to the interior. Indeed,
whether regarded as a whole, or stu
died in its details, the building reflects
high credit on the genius of its project--
or, Mr. Paxton. The dream of Aladdin
indeed, seems to be realized in this Pa
lace ofGlass.
If the edifice had been constructed of
bricks, as was contemplated at first—
fifteen millions of bricks would have
been required. The entire building gi
gantic as it is, will be finished, and cov-
ree offineness and value, to be affixed
to each bar or ingot of
old that may
station at
plated the
ts summit. This was conf
same evening, and every ac
commodation was
Horded by the ofli-
to Mount Pleasant, Cabarrus county.
From the Warm Springs, N. C., to
Newport, Tennessee.
From St. John’s, in Hertford county,
via Britton’s Cross Roads, to Scotland
Neck, in Halifax county.
From Powell’s Point to Roanoke Isl
and, Currituck.
From Clinton, Sampson county, to
Pittsborough, Chatham county, via
Averysborough.”
The SMstrict Slave Trade ®51L
The, following is the bill to suppress
the slave trade in the District ot’Co-
liimbia, as it has passed the Senate.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
,and House of Representatives ofthe U-
nited States ol America in Congress as-
be issued from the establishment; Pro
vided, That the United States shall not
be held responsible for the loss of any
gold deposited with said proprietors for
assay: And provided further, That, the
salary of said Assayer shall be fixed by
theSecretary ofthe Treasury, not to ex
ceed five thousand dollars.
At Charlotte, North Carolina.
. For salaries of Superintendent, Coin
er, Assayer, and Clerk, six thousand
dollars
For wages of workmen, three thou
sand five hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expen
ses, including fuel, materials, stationa
ry, repairs, and wastage, two thousand
one hundred dollars.
For repairing the wall of the ditch
in front of the Mint, and for making
other repairs in and about the lot, and
for painting, one thousand dollars.
At Dahlonega, Georgia.
For salaries of Superintendent, Coin-
'■r, Assayer
Ibllars.
gie to seem to be whet she is not, with-
out loosing that strict, regard for truth
which is one of the brightest ornaments
of a female’s character. Better, far
better, be frank and honest! Poverty is
nothing to be ashamed of, while de-
celt find extravagance are.
If we were
a young man, we would avoid all fam
ilies in which we detected this effort
to be “genteel,” for we should be sure
that we would run great danger of
marrying an extravagant and foolish
wife, if nothing worse.--Sect Gazette.
iitiaceihnr
day of January next, it shall not be law
ful to bring into the District oi Colum
bia any slave whatever, for the purpose
of being sold as merchandise. And if
any slave shall be bro’t into the said
district by itsowner, or by the author
ity or consent of its owner, contrary to
the provisions ofthis act, such skive
shall thereupon become liberated and
free.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That it shall and may be lawful for
each of the the corporations ofthe cities
of Washington and Georgetown, from
time to time, and as often as may be
necessary, to abate, break up, and abol
ish any depot, or place of confinement of
slaves brought into the said District as
merchandize, contrary to the provisions
ofthis act, by appropriate means as
may appear to either of the said cor
porations expedient and proper. And
the same power is hereby vested in the
levy court of Washington county, if any
attempt shall be made within its juris
dictional limits, to establish a depot or
place of confinement for slaves brought
into the said District as merchandize
for sale contrary to this act.
Rabies Wepanment.
, six thousand
For wages of workmen, throe thou
sand six hundred dollars
For incidental and contingent expen
ses, including fuel, materials, stationa
ry, repairs, and wastage, two thousand
dollars.
FoT^upeH^Tendent, Treasurer, As-
sayer Coiner, Melter and Refiner, and
Clerks, seventeen thousand three hun-
dred dolla
alary of the Treasur-
er being hereby increased from first Ju
ly, 1850, to four 'thousand dollars; the
salary of chief clerk to eighteen hun
dred dollars; of the other clerk to fif
teen hundred dollars; and the employ
ment of an additional clerk at fifteen
hundred dollars is hereby authorized.
For wages of workmen, twenty five
thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expen
ses, in addition to available funds on
hand, twenty-three thousand seven hun ¬
dred and seventy-seven dollars.
For new machinery, thirteen thou
sand dollars.
cials at the lighthouse, in the use ^i
lanterns and lamps, so that at nine o’
clock the same evening (the 28th pi
August) a message was printed, ui leg
ible Roman letters, upon a long sn ip o:
paper, by Mr. Jacob Brett’s printing
telegraph, in the station on the Frauen
coast, in the sight of a numerous au
dience ofthe French officials and oth
ers, amidst tremendous cheers of all
present at the success; and three times
three resounds on all sides for the Queen
of Great Britain, and Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte and the French nation. The
line has worked well ever since, with
the exception of a short period, when
the wire wore oil by friction on some
rocks near the French coast. The po
sition of the wire was immediately chan
ged, however, and there is every prob
ability that hereafter the sub-marine
telegraph will continue in working or
der. This may be considered one of
the greatest feats ofthe age.
Congress*
~ Masal oFghe WHed SSaSes.
At Philadelphia.
For salaries of the Director, Treasu
rer, chief Coiner, Assayer, Melter and
Refiner, Engraver, Assistant Assayer,
and their clerks, twenty-one thousand
dollars, and the employment of an ad
ditional clerk, at twelve hundred dol
lars per annum,- is hereby authorized.
For wages of workmen, thirty-two
thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expen
ses, including fuel, materials, stationary,
water rent, repairs and wastage, in ad
dition to available funds on hand, 25,-
000 dollars. Provided, That to enable
the President ofthe United States to ob
tain for the United States, if he shall
deem it expedient to do so, the right to
use the improved methods oi relining
argentiferous gold bullion, recently dis
covered and being patented to R. S.
McCulloh and J. C. Boothe, or the right
to use any other method of accom-
l^ew M^H morales.
The following new Mail Routes have
been established in North Carolina, by
the late Congress:
“From Ivy to Longmire’s Washing
ton county, Tennessee.
From Marion to Limestone.
From Wilmington, via Whitesville,
Fair Bluff, Marion Court-house, Mar's
Bluff, Bradleyville, and Sumpterville,
to Manchester, S. C.
From Burnsville to Elizabethtown,
Tennessee.
From Burnsville to Big Rock Creek.
From Watauga Court-house to Cran
berry Forge.
From Cleinonsville, via Smith Grove
Mocksville and Oak Forest, to States
ville, Iredell county.
From McNeill’s Ferry to Summer
ville.
From Shelby, via Birchettsville, San
dy Run, Grassy Pond, South Carolina,
Corohens, to Spartanburg.
From Rock Fish Village, via Lum
berbridge, to Philadclphius.
From Murphy, Cherokee county, to
Ellijay, Gilmer ^county, Georgia.
From Paint Rock to Newport, Cocke
county, Tennessee.
From Edneyville, via Mills’ Gap, to
Rutherford.
From Grassy Creek to Elizabethtown
Tennessee. . „
From Franklin, via Harris Cnoss
Roads, to Hall’s Cross Roads, Franklin
county.
From Salem, via Clemmonsville and
Panther Creek, to Huntsville, Surry
county.
From Eagle Rock, in Wake county,
to Nahunta, in Wayne county.
From Durham’s Creek, in Beaufort
county, by way of South Creek, to Bay
River, in Craven county.
From Hamptonville, in Surry county
N. C., via Lovelace, to Wilkesborough,
Wilkes county, in said State.
From Carthage Creek to George
town, Macon county. , ,
From Fayetteville, via Averysboro
Village, to Smithfield.
From Salisbury, via Organ Church,
Dsath ^IMh-s oldest mao io
the ^aHed States.
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Register of
■’• • 121k says: “A friend at New Mar
ket informs us Hint' MT. j Awi Vunhoo^r
(whose extraordinary longevity has
heretofore been noticed in this paper)
died at his residence n^ar that place
about the 1st of August. Mr. Van-
hoozer was about one hundred and
twenty years old, and was, without,
doubt, the oldest man in the United
States.’’
FraF. Pasal IF. Eve.
The numerous friends ofthis gentle-
map who basso long and satisfactorily
filled the Chair of Surgery In the Medi
cal College of Georgia, will regret to
learn that he has resigned his Professor
ship to accept asimilar position in
Louisville, Ky., This feeling will not
only be indulged by his personal friends,
but by the friends of our Medical Col
lege—for the establishment of which he
has devoted his energies and talents for
a series of years—will likewise partici
pate, and be will carry with him to his
new home,- the warm wishes of a host
of personal and professional friends.—
Chron. & Sentinel.
Desk's off a ?®eBiaber off Congress.
Hon. Chester Butler, Representative
from Ilia Ill’ll Congressional District of
I Pennsylvania; died on the 3d inst;
ded in a “genteel boarding house,” in
Louisville; there were two Indies and a
piano in the house—ball and parlors
handsomely furbished. The eldest
young lady, the belle, wore a summer
bonnet at ten dollars—a silk and blond
concern that could not last more than
three months—silk
satin dresses
and five dollars apiece for making them
and the. entire family, women, boys,
and babies, slept in one little room,
with two dirty bags of pins sbarmings,
two straw bolsters, and three dirty
quilts, for bedding, no slipsand there
on the wall hung the pea green and
white satin, the rich silk lawn dresses.
on the piano, acordeon am
nearly broke their hearts th
we
who lived just as they did, called 0:1
them, with a great clumsy gold chain
on her neck. None of them had one,
and Miss. Lablinds, the belle, could eat
no supper, and had a fit of skulk, to
conSoleher for the want of a chain.—
Pittsburg Saltirday fis’idr.
We fear this description would suit
the latitude of other places besides Lou
isville. The endeavor to be “genteel”
is the cause of too many of the inhabit
ants ofour relo-s and villages. Weak
mothers will frequently' do the most
meihal offices, and deny themselves
comforts absolutely necessary to health,
in order that selfish daughters may
dress above their means, and spend
their time in idleness and in fashiona
ble gossip. The inducement to all this
is, that the daughters m y make splendid
matches; in other words, marry young-
men with more money than brains,and
morecredit than either. In nine cases
out of ten, the effort fails, and the girls
remain unmarried, thus increasing the
number of those discontented old maids,
who mistakenly think that a single
life posseses nothing honorable, but who
have only themselves to blame for
their fate,since they despised the hon
est men wdo would have had them, in
the vain hope to get others who scorn
ed them in turn.
T here is nothing more foolish, indeed,
than this trying to be “genteel.” The
word itself is vulgar, and has no real
meaning, at least in a republican coun
try. We have no gentility here, as
they have in England. Every man is
on an equality. The honest day-labor
er, who serves his God, pays his debts,
and does his duty to his neighbor, is as
worthy of respect as the richest citizen.
A respectable’operative, though poor, is
far more estimable than either the fash
ionable dandy, who lives by cheating
his tailor, or the extravagant merchant
who spends more than his income- In
common parlance; “genteel people”
more generally belong to the spend
thrift class than the realy wealthy; to
the. vain and empty fools, who live lor
show, than to the intelligent, honorable
and worthy. Io endeavor to ape the
rich, by an extravagant expenditure of
narrow means, is what'most weak per
sons do. who wish to be considered
“genteel.” It is our deliberate opinion
that no young woman can live this life
of pretty hypocrisy, this constant strug-
The Bounty Land Bill.-Ji is stated
upon respectable authority that the
number of names on the roll in the Ad
jutant General's office, of persons enti
tled under the recent act, is not less
than six hundred thousand, which will
not appear so extravagant when we re-
mernber that those rolls contain the
names of every individual who has
been for any period in the military
service oftheUnited States, for the fif
ty-seven years prior to 1846;
Some forty years ago, when a man’s
respectability depended much on his ta
king a newspaper, a certain shrewd old
fellow was-one morning enjoying the
luxury of perusing his paper, (although
he labored under the great disadvan
tage of not knowing a letter of the al
phabet.) when a more knowing neigh
bor of his happened in, perhaps to bor
row his paper, observed to him that he
had bis paper wrong end up. The old
gentleman, drawing himself up in all
the pomposity of affronted dignity, ex
claimed; “I would have you to know,
sir, that if I take a paper, and pay for
it, I have a right to read it with which
end up I please.”
Death of the Kentucky Fat Boy.-
Andrew Brand, the Kentucky Fat Boy,
died in Albany last week, after an ill
ness of about four weeks. He was a
native ofthe town of Calhoun, Davis
county, Ky., and was in the 16th year
of his age. He was probably the lar
gest human being in existence, weigh
ing nolesstban 536 pounds. He came
to this city for the purpose of attending
the State Fair, but was immediately
attacked with his last illness. Ile was
accompanied by a brother and other
friends, and everything that human
wisdom could suggest was done to pro
long his existence and alleviate his suf-
A curious fact is thus told in one of
our exchange papers: “Take a string
that will reach twice around the neck
of a young lady—let her hold the ends
in her teeth--and then if the noose will
slip over her head to the back of her
neck, it a certain indication that she is
married, or wants to be.” Try it young
’uns.
The following paragraph is charac
teristic of Bulwer:—
“When poverty begs the dogs bark
at it, and when poverty is ill the doc
tors mangle it; and when poverty is dy
ing the priests scold at it, and when pov-
ertp is dead nobody weeps for it.”
Front and Breadth.—A lawyer went
the other day, into one ofour bar
ber shops to procure a wig. In taking
the dimension ofthe lawyer’s head, the
boy exclaimed, “why bow long your
head is, sir.” “Yes,” replied our wor
thy friend, “we lawyers must have long
heads.” The boy proceeded in his voca
tion, but at length exclaimed, “Lord, sir,
your head is as thi k as it is long.—
'The lawyer mizzled.
Why is the price current like a young
lady’s back? Because it shows the rise
in cotton.