Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-01-22

lew government in the suppression of the slave
rade, which she has already declared to be pira-
~. As affording new openings for our COM
merce there must spring many advantages from
this treaty. Texas should be, from position, the
greatest cotton growing country in the world,
which pursuit, joined with her great agricultur-
al resources must preclude for centuries any
rivalry with our manufactures. 1t will be, of
course, the policy of the new state to improve
that intercourse by low and moderate duties.
As Teras increases in population and pouer, ii is
not anticipating too much TO hope that she may
form that counterpoise in the south which the
Canadas are in the north to the po,oer Of the Uni
ted States.
Among the new discoveries, methods, &c.
we find the most interesting to be the follow
ing
Of a Printing Press.-A Mr.. Lenormand, a
French mechanic, has discovered the means Of
printing on one cylinder both sides of the same
sheet, which enables his mechanical press to act
with quickness double any hitherto known,
and can produce 1900 copies in an hour.
Ola Ne,c Method to Clean G,ass.-Powder
finely indigo, and dip into it mostened rag,
with which smear the glass, and wipe it off
with a dry cloth. Very finely sifted ashes, APP
piled by a rag dipped in spirit, will also answer
well; but Spanish white is apt to roughen the
glass,
To PRESERVE TIMBER.-It has been ascer-
tanned that timber soaked for some days in lime
water, will resist dry rot much longer than tim
Der not similarly treated. After it is taken out
of lime water, it should be allowed to dry and
season.
In LITHoGRAPHY.-The London Athena un,
says: A report has reached us of an extraordi-
nary discovery by Mr.. Hullmandel, who had al.
ready done much to improve llthography, of a
new mode of producing pictorial effects on itho-
graphic stone by tnts washed with a brush, like
sepia drawing, which yield impressions SO per.
ecty resembling original sketches, that the
difference is not dscernable. The painters, we
are told will now have at their command means
OF multiplying their own works, which their ha-
btual practice renders available without altering
their style of handling; for this new mode Of
llthoe apply, or rather painting on stone, is just
as If the sketch were made Oh stone, instead Of
on paper. The variety and delicacy of the tnts
the freedom and facility with which they are
produced, and modified as well, and their dura.
bity under the printing process, are among the
advantages attril uted to this discovery, of which
some trial specimens, by Mr. Harding, have
been handed about privately, but not yet pub
shed ; the patents by which Mr.. Hullmanded
has secured to himself the benefit of the inven.
ton not being yet completed.
INTERESTING TO FIREMEN AND oTnERs.-A
Mr. Wallace has invented an apparatus for ena-
bling persons to enter places on fire without
danger from smoke, by means of breathing
through water. A box of lin Containing The
water is placed on the mans back wit. tubes
connected, forming ring round the body aIt
straps for the shoulders. A hood of M'Intosl
cloth glazed in front is put on the head, ant
being attached to the side tubes, four gallons o
water Will enable person to bear the denses
smoke for twenty minutes. Several member.
expressed their high opinion Of the protector
and explained its analogy to some other plans il
present use n London and elsewhere
To prevent the pickering caused by paste Of
glue, substitute thick solution Of catoutchouc
which being applied to the edges of the paper
is allowed little time to get dry and stick,
before the sheets are joined together.
THE Law OF DEoDANDs, a wise provision
which it would be well to introduce into Thu
country, is exciting some attention in England
and it is proposed so to alter it that the penalties
or deodands shall go to the party injured or t,
his or her relatives:
AT present. if from any negligence of the dri
yer or the proprietors of stage coach or railway
train the foss Of life ensues, and penalty il
imposed upon the delinquent party, that penal
ty is given by the law to the King or Queen o
to the of the Manor, instead of the parties more
Immediately affected by the death of the sufferer
namely, his wife or children, or near relations
although the consequence of the bereavement
may be to reduce his family to beggary 1t i
| trup. inunnI that tho Stata 10. :,
the life of every one Of its subjects, but it is no
a pecuniary interest, it is a political interest
The enforcement of demands, so far as the,
induce caution over persons instructed with the
lives OF the people is highly salutary in produc
ing caution; and, therefore, we would not re
peal but amend the law, by making it conducive
as tar as 1t is possible, to repair or alleviat,
those suiferngs which neglect frequently oc
casons, but which no amount of penalty can, il
some cases, adequately compensate.
Some workmen digging a new pit nea
Amlwch, Cheshire, discovered within three fee
OF the surface, stone urn, on opening whcl
they found human skeleton, in hiph state O
preservation, measuring the extraordinary lengt
of seven feet six inches. The skeleton through
out was quite proportional to its length, and il
a very perfect condition. The urn appears t.
have been made from the Abcrdovey limestone
and had the appearance of being very much cor
roded by time. 1t bears no inscription to throw
on It's history any rays If information to gratif
the inquiries of the curious respecting this gi
gantc ''remnant of departed years" From TIN
rude nature of this urn or coffin, it seems pro
bable that the body had been first laid in tn
grave, and imestones placed round its side, am
on the top only, which, from the length of tim
they had laid under ground, had become con
nected together.
Largest Volcano in The World From commu
nicatons Just made to the Geographical Society
it appears that Kiruca, burning mountain i
Owyhee. one of the Sandwich Islands, has
era er OF more than nine miles in circumference
and lately threw forth lake Of liquid lava on
mile long by half mile broad, emitting intens
heat, and glowing with extreme brilliancy.
| INUNDATroNs IN FRANCE. The late new
furnishes some dismal details concerning tn
people along the shores of the Rhone and tn
Soane. From authentic accounts whole village
have disappeared, bridges have been swcp,