The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-02-24 00:00:00

SILVER MINE.

EXTRACT Or A LETTER 1110111 ZANZIVIII.LE.
OHIO. DATED JANUARY 7, RECEIVED 1$ EMU.

LADBLPHIA:--

•• One of our neighbour', at 190 feet, has struck
swum of silver ore, sit feet thick, of the purest
quality, said to be equal to AlUrrielll dollar.. A
large company is formed to Mg • mitre; so you
may expect to hear or the establishment ut • mutt
in our "tooth' to equalise the western with the
eastern currency. . The public are on the tiptoe of
expectancy, though 1 am by no means sangnitie of
their success. It is well known silver ore doe* not
lay horizontally but perpendicular, therefore the
stratum may be very narrow."
We are assured by a Representative in Congress,
that the following statement of facts sway he relied
upon as substantially true.—(l%utiu•al I•telli-
genccr.J

g' (01110), JAIIIOIIIIT S.
" Mr. Samuel Chandler, who was boring for
salt, on his land on Salt Creek, about 11 miles
fruit this town, having penetrated to the depth of
130 fret from the suffice, came to something
unusually hard and difficult to penetrate, and the
hard substance, when raised to the outface -by the
process usually made use of when boring fur salt,
proved to be a metallic substance which excited no
great curiosity fur some time, till last week a (plu-
my of this metallic substance was brought to Put-
nam, where it was tested by an ing elver.
smith, amid analyted by one of the soot learned
chemists in the Western country, and both unite
in pronouncing the specimen offered them to be
silver, nearly as pure as the common silver coin
now in circulation. It is ascertained that the stra-
tum of silver, at the place where the auger pene-
trated, is six feet seven inches thick. Some of
our readers may wish to know how the thickness
of the stratum was ascertained with so much pre-
cision.

4' The instrument called the sugar. is from 13
to 18 inches in length, to which a pole of *WIN-
ble size and convenient length is firmly attached.
and, as occasion requiem, an additional pole is at-
tached to the preceding one till they descend. in
some instances. more than 500 feet in a rock which
extends all through this part of the country, with
generally from 10 to 40 feet of good soil covering
it. The depth of the rock is unknown ; bat as far
as it has been penetrated is found to be mostly
free of sand-stone ; but in boring it. whenever the
suger strikes a stratum of flint. lime-stone, or any
other very herd substance, it is instantly known by
those who manage the auger. and the auger-pole is
marked; stud it is as easily known when they get
through, arid thus the thickness of any hard stratum
is accurately ascertained.
•' A company is now forming to sink a shaft to
the above-mentioned ore."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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rsaavami
Railed thaghotis, Middleton, fur Jamaica ; and the Grey-
bound cutlen on a cruise.
rcymowrie, Pulittmay
Arrived the Thomas and Ann, Cesium, frum Owens'
for Lowdoo.
SaileJ the Tom Cud, Harm; Prudent, Quinton; sad Ride-
ford, APPlamars, for London.
Passed up Clummel the Eunice. Sterlimg ; sad Belts, Hun-
lisidea, from Charleston fur Haves.

stitamieu, WEB/WARY ft.
Sailed the Earl of Leicester packet for Honied; timid
illsoustoy 'packet foe Cluthavety—bath With moils.
The Gettysburg isail still rrrasias is port.

uvettoool., v summer W.
The Thaws, which arrivtal from Valparaiso • kw Mils
ago, kft Owe am the Illib Dekilier the followise British WM..
eel,—Good Rope, A•drrwa, fur India; Anna Roberts..,
Ikow•,nod [amiss, Worthy, for Rio Janeiro; Anna. DOWIPIII,
far Ilse cow of Pena; Aiwa. Phillips, for Lowitim; Tilos',
Ward, for the omit of Chili ; T►ais, Robsoa, from Loodwit ;
Mars, Heppe!, from Buenos Ayres; also bis Majesty** ship
A.drom•ebe. The Maury sloop of war sailed for Callao a
to days after the sqoadrea, wbicb kft Valparaiso lbe Itib
September.
DIAL, rinaawaair IS.
Famed by Ilse baelt of the Goodwin Semi tits ()ryas, Ue
Valeugia, from Rotterdam fur Vairassuili.

The Port or Sooderbisd, Brevet, Goat Iffirsasiebi sod
Mnryport to Kirkerdbrlghts was totally wrecked oil the Isle
of Wbithors shoot the 19th iwitiost—pet of the cargo es.
pretett to be speed.

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ZIBRRAL kayo P. .
A gasrieely nweling of the Worcester Inlicosary, bolding
• /her Aar arts the eery nomeniaely ettenalsal, ib awe-
. issOke *Coo ooPeel•A alert a thirtget4 he the Illethodieto to
intro/Wee their &nets, Mid Is sooetisio the presence of any of
• their society who might choose to preneh sod pray with the
patients. The Bishop wee in the chair. Afore expatiating
for sower time on the facilities to be offered to every pa-
tient, of whatever feltgidea persuasive he might be, tu re.
eel,/ the assistance 6f his ripperlier teacher, his Lordship
said, " Were I in this boom, and iefoirened 'lsere was a Ca.
Shone who wished foe the assistance of his Priest, if there
was no one I could send, I would myself set out in searcher?
him, nor would I give user my search till I had found him :
having tossed him, I would my, yonder lies • poor felts's/-
creature @Article/4 on the bed of sickness,, parker@ of death;
he wishes foe row assistance, Mater to afford it bin'. Were
the Priest sick or infirm, I would lend him my arm, and
having conducted bias to the threshold of Ike door, I wash)
thew take my leave of him, but rot without baying Arid es.
Pressed on ordeal wish and offered a Finley fur his success."
During the whole of his Lordship's address he was repeat-
edly cheered by a large majority of his bearers, awl the re.
solution be proposed to the above effect .waa carried mosist.
moody. These are teatimes,* highly creditable to a Chris.
lien Minister; this is acting the part of the good Samaritan.
G., reader, and do thou likewise.