Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-09-28

AMERICAN LOVE OF oCcUPATIoN.-There
is probably no people on earth with whom
business constitutes pleasure and industry
amusementin an equal degree with the IN
habitants of the United States of America.
Active occupation is not only the princiPai
source of their happiness and the iounda-
ton Of their national greatness, butthey are
absolutely wretched without it. Business
is the very soul of an American /; he pur-
sues it not merely as means Of procuring
for himself and his family the necessary
comforts Of life but and as the foundation
Of all human fe icity. From the earliest
hour in the morning until late at night the
streets are thronged by men of all trades
and professions, each following his own
vocatons, as if he never dreamed of a ces-
So ton from labor or the possibility o! be-
coming fatgued. Neither is this hurry Of
business confined to the large cities !: it
communicates itself in every village and
hamlet and extends TO and penetratcs the
western forests 1t is as if all America were
but one gigantic workshop, over the en-
trance Of which there is the blazing in
scripton, No admittance except on business.
English Wriier.
BaNoons.-An experiment ofthe high
est interest been performed at the Cha
teau be Niletaneuse near StlJennis. M.
S. and his son had for sometime past an
nounced publicly that they had succeeded
in the means Of directing balloons in tho
air, and several experiments on small
scale, in the court yard Of the Ecole Mill
taire, in Paris, had been attended with sat-
islacto ry results. The experiment Of Mon
day has verified all their hopes. NJ. S.
jun. after rising TO a height Of about $50
metres with balloon constructed by HIM
self and his father, set at work their inge-
NOUS mechanism, and Immediately the bal
loon proceeded to the west Notwithstanding
a pretty strong wind blowing from that
point. He then returned, and sailed about
in varions directions, the balloon rising or
lowering at the will of the aeronaut, with
out the apparent use of any kind Of ballast
The experiments lasted for three hours, at
the expiration of which time Nj. S. descen-
ded at the point from W hich he had started,
amidst the acclamatiohs Of the spectators.
Moniteu Partisan.
The bank Of England covers FIVE acres
Of ground, and employs over nine hum
dred clerks. Every thing for the use Of the
bank is made on its own premises. and the
printing of its notes is large item. A
note once returned to the bank is never re-
issued, but is filed away. and at the end of
ten years burnt. The workmen are bus
ly atwork every day afthe year, save Sun
day, in printing notes. At the annual burn
ing, two days are required, with a large fire
to destroy the old notes and it employs two
men constantly in feeding the fires.
A Pair.-'Fm terribly troubled with
the prickly heat this season, said fat
butcher in the market Yesterday.
'And so am L. responded full Shout
dered vegetable woman.
'Wel,' said a .wag who was passing,
'you are the largest specimens of .prickly
pair that have seen since | left Mexico.
Ores. City.
Lghtning.-Wet clothes are good con-
ductors Of lightning, and if flash in its
way to the ground should strike PERSONS
head, whose clothes are wet, it will run IN
the wet clothes over the surface Of the
body whereas if the clothes were dry, 1t
would 20 through the body and occasion
death.
Mr. Stomer, q mehcanician Of Leipsio, is
making IN electro magnetic engine, which,
if Mr.. Wagner, the inventor, be correct IN
his calculation, is to serve as the locomotive
for three ordinary wagons on the railway
from Leipsic 10 Dresden. The cost of one
Of these engines is only one-sevcnth OF
those now in use, and the daily cost Of
working an electro magnetic engine will
not it is said, exceed four francs per day.
Der Gleucks Verein.'-Thc caption at
the head Of this article denotes the name of
a new German Society, lately organized
in Philadelphia, and already numbering
great many members. The object of this
society, if not singular, is to say The least,
unique. Each member, on his entrance
pays the sum Of one hundred dollars. With
the fund thus collected, lands are to be pur-
chased in the far west on which they in
tend to settle. Each member is TO work
no more than six hours per day; the labor
however, to be so divided that when one
half are resting tho other half arc working
The Society. tho Ledger says, has already
acquired sufficient funds to purchase large
tract ef land. 1t consists Of some Of the
most respectable German residents of the