Mechanics', operatives', and laborers' advocate., 1837-01-16

ton for the prevention of paupersm. The Mercantile Journal says that it's object not to relieve but toI prevent the poverty, wretchedness and crime, which are too often met with in large cities Its object IS to reach the root of the ev and doubt not that the benefit which society will derive from its operations, will be very great
 Death ofa Printer.-Edmund s. Armstrong. prin- ter, when in the act of throwing bucket the guald of the steamboat Gen. Gaines" by the shock Of the current and the spperness of the deck unted was threw off his balance, and immediately preclpta- ted into the watery element and drowned
 In Europe patent has been taken out for manu- tacturng whacbone into cloth The cloth obtained from this process bears strong resemblance to silk, and is particularly adapted for making cravats waist coats ribbons, &c.
 A young rascal, scarcely dozen years of are, has been stealing lot of books, and large quantity of printing materials from the office of the Montpelier, Vt. Watchman. A press would have completed an establishment
 Tie machine shop belonging to the U. $. Arsenal. at Watertown, was destroyed with all its contents by fire Friday morning about sunrise
 There is yoke of Oxen in Tlverton R. l. years old. one weie ching 2l49 pounds, and the other lcC9 They were worked until some time in the past sum- mcr. They are mammoths in size, and the owner Mir B. Drayton, intends to keep them another year.
 High price of tucl in tue S0uth.-The New Orleans papers state that in consequence of the cold weather which prevailed at the beginning of the last month the price of coal had risen three hundred Der cent Wood was selling at twelve dollars the cord.
 Becoming Rcasonajie.-The rents in New York art falling to price somewhere within the bounds of jus tcc many stores in the |" burnt distlct can now bt had for half of what has Jeen demanded for them.
 f2ood ut Bu6alo-The city of Buffalo visto, by severe westerly gale the 2!st ut. which crca ted food nundatng the lower part Of the city, cal led the '' Flas The damages are estimated at j. iG 900.
 Insanity of Tcijors.-A work published in France states that no less than 75l insane taiors conn ed in one place alone; and that average. thcr
 are l35 mad tailors in every thousand Phy sician attribute it to their scdcntary hc5as-.}J .4dr. l Honib'e .4ccident-Ths morning about half pas ten o'clock, as fine intelligent lad about elG
 years of age, a son of J. Fisher Leaning, Esq.,, Wa
 skating or sliding in Walnut, little way bcIo' I Fourth street. he slip and fell. A carter who va
 passing with load of wood, drove directly over th l head of the child. He died almost on the instan
 -PhaIad. Gaz.
 FIRE-We learn that the Cotton Mill, owned b
 Christopher Whitman, Esq. in Coventry, was con sumed by fire yesterday morning; the cause o} til
 accident we understand is supposed to have nec some defect in the stove pipe. $1O0O on the mi
 was insured by the Manufacturers Mutual Fire In . surance Company of this city.-Prov. Heroid i SUBJECT FOR REFLECTION IN AMERICA Il r first and model rail road in use ln Germany, IS tina from Nuremberg to turth, on which, during the las f ten months it has been in operation, the cars hay J travelled 10O00 miles and carried 100000 passer
 gers without an accident or the least injury to tn
 rails.
 t DEAR RUN.-Burr, in q letter to General Ml!coi j. dated White Plains, New York; l79, says" ca 5 purchase rum here at twenty dollars gallon;' tn
 must have afforded good profit to distlIlers-the !. now manufacture it for but little than So man # cents
 ;s RARE DIsCoy ERy.-A HGUid has been dlscoye ed in France, with which any writing may be reln' ) ved from check, deed, or other instrument, leavm J. the paper or parchment pure aad fair, and lscept d ble of ahy other wording over the old signature
 An cnt;dote however, called paper de suIetle, IS Il st ented, from which aI or none of the Writing ml be removed, to escape nctlce TIE CoA DuTY-We arc advised from "
 nston, that the Committee of Ways and Means in the House of Representatives will shortly report
 bill for repeating altogether the duty on salt al d coal.
 
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