The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-12-02
VOL. l...NO. E9S.

CEdltu III pe WOCQS, uley Ildu seen tiiC
and his family going 10 church.
The body Of the dead Tory taken up and
buried by the sexton of the church, as he had no
relations in that vicinity.
After the absence of two hours of whereabouts,
the negroes returned having succeeded in captur-
ing Finley and one of the strangers, who were
that mig hit confined, and the next morning, at the
earnest solicitation of Judge V, liberated on
promise of mending their lives.
It was in the month OF October, Of the same
year, that Catharine v, was sitting by an
upper back window of her fathers house knit
ting; though autR mn, the weather was mild ,and
the window was hoisted about three inches. A.
bout sixty or seventy feet from the rear of the
house was the barn, huge ediice with upper
and lower doors; the lower doors were closed,
and accidentally casting her eyes towards the
| barn, she saw a small back door on range
with the front door and window at which She
was sitting open, and a number Of men en-
ter.
The occurrence Of the summer Immediately
presented itself to her, and the fact that her a-
Their and the other males of the family were at
work in a field some distance from the house,
led her to suspect that the opportunity had been
improved, probably by some of Van Zandts
friends to plunder and revenge his death-Con-
cealing hsrself, therefore, behind the curtains,
she narrowly watched their movements. She
.
and apparently accommodating the premises-it
was Finley's Their object now evident.
Going to the Sarmory,' she selected well loaded
musaet and resumed her place by the window.
! Kneeling upon the floor, she laid the muzzle of
| the weapon upon the window still between the
curtains, and taking deliberate aim, she fired.
| What effect she produced she knew not, but saw
| sey eral mcn hurrying out of the barn, by the
same door they entered I'hereport again brought
| her father and his workmen to the house, and On
| going into the barn, the dead body of Finley
| lay upon the floor.
| Catharine v, afterwards married cap
tain of the Continental army, ard she still lives,
| the honored mother of numerous and respecta-
| Bile line of descendants. The old house is also
in the Gand of the living and has been the scene
of many pranl; Of the writer of this tale in the
| heyday OF his mischevious boyhotod.
Mica as q substitute for Wtndog Glass,in
the Butterfly Iron WORKS, Eag.-In the win
dows at the Butterfly Iron Works so much glass
was broken by the clippings of lion, that sub
| stitute was sought which should resist mod
crate blow, and vet be translucent. A quantity
| Of sheets oil mica were procured from Calcutta,
which. when fixed into the cast iron window
flames, were found to resist the blow Of chip
ping of iron driven off by the chsel with such
force as would have shiyered pane ef glass.
Mica possesses both toughness and elasuci ty
when a iece Of iron do penetrate it,
merely hole is made large enough to allow
the piece to pass, while the other parts remain
uniniured. 1t is not quite so transparent as
glass, but it is not so much less so as to be OBJ
| iectionable; but this circumstance is not so I'M
| portant at Butterfly, as, in consequence of the
quantity of fuoric acid gas in the blast furnaces,
| the glass in the windowsis speedily acted upon,
and assumes the appearance Of being ground
Mica is little more expensive than common
glass; but, as its duration promises to be much
longer, it must be more economical; and if an
extensive use of it could be induced, more
ready supply would be obtained-probably from
| Pennsylvania or from Russia, where it is COM
monty used for windows in farm houses, and
also on board ships Of war, as it is less liable
to be fractured by the conclusion of the air du-
ling the discharge of heavy artillery. 1t can
be procured ofalmost any dimensions necessary
for ordinary purposes, as it has been found in
Russia in masses of three feet diameter 1t is
susceptible of very minute subdivision, as, ac-
cordng to Hauy, it may be divided into plates
no thicker than one three hundred-thousandth
pdft of an inch.