The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1836-01-23

lieu OF their bills, are their widow Iandla-
dy. their poor washer rwoman, their bill
sticker, the landlord Of Musical Fund
Hall, (where they exhibited) and last,
(oh, how shall we mention i'll The Printer
our humble self. Concarn and darn
the flea varmint, we say, hence forth and
forever Take them as you will, they
are biting, hopping race--well described
by that sensible Irishman, who said,
"whe never you'd lay your finger on them
they are not there, at all-at all ~
! SoUALL IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LHcrsk
LATURE. Gov. Ritner has thrown a rock.
ct in the House of Representatives of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, IN the shape Of
veto upon bill in relation to some mi-
nor question Of internal Improvement A
sharp debate arose on the question Of
printing the message, in which the COVER,
nor was assalled by friends and foes SO
that his excellency found himself in a
terrible hornets nest ~. Y. Com. i'd
ceriiser.
fD>A woman before the Police Court
in New York on Monday, being charged
with leaving husband alive in Ireland,
denied it pIumplv, and could, she said,
swear to his death, because she had re-
ceived letter from HIM giving her an ac-
count Of it.
DEAD CoDFIsn are caught up here
with. the same eagerness a great squash
or pumpkin are in Boston. Last Wednes-
day, an immence team arrived IN town
from that citv, with nearly four thousand
pounds of fresh Goldfish. They were
frozen as stiff as poker. They seemed
to have CONCEALED in all sorts of attitudes.
Some, as if they had just curved their
tails for q fresh dive, and others with their
mouths open in the very act of taking a
long respiration. Poor fellows thought
we, how their sensbilties must have been
pihched up, how they must have suffered.
This man sold his load readily, and his
cargo must have brought him not far from
Sl70-no bad Yankee speculation -
We say to the Cape Cod fellows, bring
on your fresh fish, if you want em eaten.
Northampton Courier.
DESTRUCTION To SAVE. The New
York American gives the following de-
scription of the method pursued in blow
ing up, or rather down, buildings at the
great fire of the 18th Of December.--
There can be no doubt that powder was
an efficacious and valuable instrument in
checking the progress of the flames. 1t
may not be uninteresting. or without use,
to state the mode Of proceeding adopted
in blowing up stores Two barrels Of pow
der, generally of 100 pounds each,
were put into the cellar ofthe devoted
building, and placed about the center Of
it, at, small distance apart; the heads
of the barrels were then knocked out, and
a train, by means Of planks, or long pieces
of calico or linen Of which too many
were lying about in the streets, was
formed from the barrels to the exteri-
or Of the cellar door on this straw--of
which the crates from the crockery stores
supplied enough--was laid, and sprinkled
pentilully with powder the doors were
then closed, and all persons desired TO
retire from the vicinity Of the building,
except the persons who was to fire the
train this was done by laying burn
ing brand on the straw projecting from
the celler-way, and on which loot or
two no powder was sprinkled. After a
few moments of intense suspense, sud-
den flash, rumbling explosion, a slight
tremor Of the earth, the audible shivcring
of glass windows for hundred yards "a
round. a dense cloud Of sullerous smoke,
and shapeless heap Of ruins-told how
we'll the work had been done. The ef-
feet of these explosions was not TO pro-
ject any thing to distance, for IN no IN
stance probably, was fragment OF any
size thrown from the buildings but rath-
er as il would seem, to liit and expand
the wnlls-so that beams, floors, merchan-
die and roof, all fell at once, and upon
them covering them up, the walls them
selves. Hence it was Immediately per-
ceived, that the danger opprehended by
some, Of killing and wound'ng many per-
sons by the materials which such explo-
sions would, il was supposed, scatter far
and wide, was not incurred and that more
over, from the compact heap in which the
ruins lay, little or no additional alimen
was afforded TO tho flames.
"Give a man pension" said De Foe,
aand he'll never de-" The same may
be said Of the tender sex. Lady Mary
Dorchester ia annually in the receipt Of
fii5 I9s Cd, ever since Jan, l764, a Pc
Rod Of upwards Of scventy.two years!
Halley's Comet has re-appearsd 70 the
east visible only with the assis, ancs Of a
telescope.