The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-10-27

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rendering my fervent wishes that the Con-
vention at Raleigh may realise all the hopes of
its friend, and my thanks for our liiend COIL
sideIailon OF me, am, g~ntlemen, faithfully,
Your obedlent serv't, II. CLAY.
a correspondent vi The Pnlladel phia Inquirer
writing from Liverpool under date of the 7tiI
August, says
1.-The principal things which struck me in
England, in The way OF Improvement since my
last visit, were the railroads. The Galvanlc Tele-
graph, the Bude Light, (uuy Few one) aud
the glass and silk Manufacture Tor curtains and
drapery. OF the first, the raIlIoad. may be
said, think, 10 approach perfection as yearly
as possible. They are quilt for ages, reuark-
able for their nlassVeness and magnfcenee
aichitecturally, and Tor the taste, comfort and
solldity OF the cars and locomotives travelled
on all that are yet opened. The Liverpool and
Birmingham, the Birmingham and l. indon, the
London and Southampton, and, as lar as tinlsl-
ed, the Great Western, which is much superior
IN every point OF view to any yet constructed.
travelled at the rate OF 40 miles an hour upon
one, breakfastlng in Reading, BeIks, at half past
eTght, and walking the streets IN London before
ten! Ii was not without interest TO me, that on
a branch road from Birmingham % Cheiterhaln,
just opened, was whiIed along by ocomo-
tive made By Norris in Philadelphia.
The Galvanic telegraph is in use on the
London and Blackwell RailWay-the cars OF
which are worked with a rope-dnd when FULL
a ga'vanic wire is touched, and successfully
rapid as two ticks on watch, is the signal and
the motion Of the Cars. The distance IS four
miles, and were ii four thousand, am assured
tie signal would be as instantaneous and faith
Jul They are laying one down to Windsor for
state purposes; and il is expected they will b..
in use all over England, Do we not live in an
age OF necroInancY, and are not the men OF
science the only pure and lawful aristocracy OF
human nature? the Dude Llght is a beautiful
thing in its way 1 produces an atmosphere o.
light, concealing the means by which it is done.
Passing by the horse guards, | exclaimed
Chow brightly the moon shines! You can reaC
the clock by it," Con-" replied my friend as
cool as moonshine-"that's the Bude Light.'
l begged explanation, and apparently as
tonished at my Innocence, he gave ii.
Lime and gas are brought into some peculiar
contact, and the effect as it struck me, was
that OF intensely bright moonlight The Hos
ses of Lords and Commons are lit ia this man
ner, and it is to be introduced into the Thea
tres.-It is very beauuiul-and dc not think
me "noonsiuck," when tell you that the
chiiliness and repose oil moonshine reminded
me sensibly while regarding it, that Juliet's
apostrophe, ''Come thou day in night, " is no
realized. Alas! for the Imaginative race, III
matter OF fact people upset every thing in this
manner. rit
The new manufacture for curtains and other
draperles, is very gorgeous affair. The rich
damask pattern is woven in glass and silk
producing dazzling eilect-beyond silver or
gold in richness Of display.
A capital invention is used for the foundation
OF houses, an invention toe, the more valuable
on account Of its simplicity. The clay that.is
dnf NJ Of no fou al
paratien of lime on the very ground ofthe build
ing, and thus hardened or .'caleined" into
strong substance, makes the best and certainly
the cheapest material for foundations, yet dis
covered 1t is now universally used in England.
WrTcHcRAfT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY,
The following is the detail of an actual case o
witchcralt, which was deposed to on oath by
witness in of ''F'ogvell VS.. Clarke" in
the inquiry before an arbitrator at the present
Devonshire assizcs. The witness was produced
by the plaintiffs TO support the evidence Of pre-
vious witness whose testimony had been con-
siderably shaken upon cross-examination the day
before. Mr.. Slade, counsel for the defendants,
| asked him how the plaintiff came TO get hold of
him? why says he, It B. came to me
last night and said, Tom, they have been and
proved me a LIAR sWhy, you must have pref
ty strong power Of belief saws the learned coun-
sell, 'to believe him anything else. Are YOU be-
| lieverby acciaent in wichcraft" q have good
| reasons to believe in it, says the witnessl sAs
how? sWhy, saw white woman at two
o'clork in the morning, nine years ago, drawing
circles in the air, and the next day my month was
drawn up to my eye. went to Dr.----, and
he gave me a charm which cured me Immediate
| iy. / gave him IS for it. What it was is best
known toihimself; he told me that | should go
TO sea for seven years. and that at the end of that
time should have my mouth drawn up again,
and so it was. went to sea for seven years,
and that very day seven years my mouth was
again drawnup, The doctor was gone to Amerl-
ca, so could not get it charmed away, and lay
on my sick bed for a twelyemonth.' The roars
of laughter with which this curious account was
received by numerous auditory may we'll be
imagined, especially when the rough honest ex-
terror of thewitness "a saior) is considered, and
| the implicit and unfeigned belief which he gave
i to the ori@in of his illness 49,