The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1827-07-05
From The Conaecticut Mirror.

few miles and is told in plain language, as one
whose scene is laid afar off, and whose indict-
ments are described in a Scotch or an Irish dla-
lect' This last week, married woman in the
neighbering town Of ---, who had been
working I'M onfactory, missed, some hour or
so after sunset her lit,lc boy of about four years
old How long he had been gone could not be
told, for the woman had been hard at work all
the afternoon, and all others were too busy to
care for her or her child Her first search was
silent and alonc-hopiny to find him, and disk
ing 10 communicate mothers a?prchcnsions to
the other males and females of the cotton f-cto-
ry. The night grew very dark and the search
very hopeless, and resort was finally had to all
the men, women and children of the establish
mcnt, TO help her to find her boy. The build
ings, with all their sluiccs, wheels, bands buck
les, were searched with an awful apprehension
on the mother. and on the part OTHER assistant a
| yct more horrible though undcEnal,le hnpc, 1--WE
will out with the word though il shame human
nat,irc) of finding leg or an arm among some
! part of the machinery. Nothing, not even a
curl of his hair, was to be found on the well ex-
amned cogs. I.antherns were in vain carried
| in nice and minute search round all the premls-
es. Wordsworth, who SO truly to nature de-
cribes the loss of Lucy Gray,
"1hc sweetest thing that ever grew
| Beside human door"
could tell Of the agony Of the parent, and the
more useful because less agitated cxertions ot
her fellow laborcrs. But we will leave him and
return to the factory. Some one, when all 9TH
cr aid seemed to fail, proposed to ring the Fac
tory hell. ssit might he said sget more help,
and nirht awake the child who might be sleep
ing somewhere and might somehow be walked
up-at anv rate it could do no harm, and be-
sides there was nothing else they could do. =
The lantherns and the factory bell in the night,
aroused all the bells in the ncighborhooti, and
all the inhabitants of the contiguous e''y. me
cry Of fire and of swhere is it, was raised at
once.-Down came the engines--dewn came the
people, and best of all, down came the Fire
Warlens.
Joab Stark, hard working man i'll the day
time, and proportionaby hard sleeping man IN
the night, had heard nothing Of all this disturb
ance. though he lodged in the factory buildings,
and though they had been ransacked from ridge
pole to foundation, until he was aroused BY the
voice of an energetic Fircwardcn, who Tor once,
did not exactly know what he was about, with
the plain and intelgble command, 'torm q
line. !" At which he awoke, and inquired what
was the matter The warden couldn't tell him,
but the mother could--"she had lost her child
She said. .sher little Jim that he used TO play
with. and she couldn't find him and the Engines
had nothing TO do with it." "All firclock, P" said
Toab, "I went out on an errand this afternoon TO
the paper mills, and see Jim at Squire iiin
IIancock ocks-he'd run away, and he was too urea
to walk back, and | thought he'd better stay
there and I'd come back and tell the folks where
he was-and when come baca forgot sill about
it,"
S,eam Cayriace.-An extraordinary sensation
: was created on Thursday evening, IN the ncign-
borhood of the Regents Park, by the sudden
appearance Of (iuerney's newly invented steam
, carriage, or selfmovng machine, winch coursea
round part of the new road up the ascent OF the
Albany road, at the rate of ten miles an hour,
/. carving several persons inside and behind 1t
seemed to move with the most perfect ease, and
: without any appearance OF smoke whatever.-
The condt.cfeur evidently held the carriage tin-
/ der complete command; and whenever the crowd
which gathered about it became troublesome,
shooting away from them with speed equal to
that of a mail coach.--London O6Serrer.
Mr.. Duponceau, Of Philadelphia, has pub
lshed note, correcting the report which
is now circulating throughout the country,
that he had succeeded to the place lett va
can, by the death of Mr.. Jefferson, in the
National Institute of France, 81 have, in
deed" saws he, "been honored bv an cleo
5 tion to place of Corresponding Member 20
one of the Academies of which the Institute
is composed but that is not the place which
, was occupied by our illustrious Jefferson
He was one of only eight members who. by
f way of distinction. are styled Foreign 1850
f ciases. This place is still vacant, tho near
4 lv wear has elapsed since the death ofthat
: great man, which shows how diihcuit u
is 70 snd fit successor to him, even IN
Europe, and with all the world to choose
from"
Massachusetts gentleman, in Baltimore,
lately wrote that he had intended to send RASH
;onable Hat to his daughter but was afraid to
venture it on the deck of the packet, and could
not get il down the hatchvay.
!, The Hon. Frederick de Roos is preparing for
publication personal narrative OF his travels III
The United States, with observations on the mar
atme resources of America, particularly as relat
]: ,nr to emigration from England.
plc6ian Pleasantry.-An abbe, who wa'
very fat, coming late in the evening to a Tor
tilted city, and meeting with couutryman
!, .ske ed him if he could get in at the gate; ~
, believe so," said the peasant, looking al MN
: iocosely, for saw a wagon load OF nay 30 II
there this morning