New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-06-15


Who felt thy quiv'rng lifc-chords part
Bending in hcart-wrung grief above thee
For those poor babes whose wondering woe
Spoke volumes to the stricken iather,i
O, who, may their bereavement know
From whom shall he sweet solace gather?
No balm, but the Redeencrs love
Can bring relief to such sore anguish.
Then, mourner, lift thy thoughts above,
To Him that gave but TO remove,
And though thy heart may lonely languish
Yet He will bear thy spirit up
And with this promise comfort thee,
Even while thou drnkst the bitter cup,
Know as thy day thy strength shall be-
Relative Vai. .nd Of fr Lana under Slavery
JAMAIcA-S aims, Br0,rns Io1cn.-Most
of the landed property has risen IN value SINCE
the abolition Of Slavery. Fere.-Land has risen
in price since Freedom price of savanna land IN
former time. f2 2s. since Freedom, ~ rs. ;
cane land .El9 4S. per acre; indeed, land cannot
be obtained at any price in the parish OF We're
Cidreadon--Land has risen in value 400 per
cent. During Slavery, savanna land could be
bought for FL or f2, old currency; now, the
same land costs f6, ct and tS, old currency;
mountain land, which could formerly be bought
for e. now costs from E0 to clio; and in the
neighborhood of thriving villages, such as -Four
Paths. land will fetch from f20 to ESQ, old cur
renew ST. AIMS Bay.-Land has risen very
considerably; in some populous districts In the
vicinity of the estates, where the aborcrs are de-
srous OF locating, its value has doubled trcblcd
els sterling has been given per acre for land for
a township which, four years since, would not
have been valued at f6. This rise is TO be
attributed TO the fact that but few propretors OF
estates will sell land to the laborcrs although
attached TO some Of the estates there arc hun
drcds OF acres lying waste, and wholly unpro.
ductive. I'reiapneg.-(;cncrally speaking, 1t
has considerably risen. There may be exccp-
tlons.--as in the case of pinento properties,
that article having considerably fallen in price.
Spanish Toun-rhe value of landed property
has very considerably increased since the aboli-
lion of Slavery. Many of the properties are
worth one-third more than they would have been
valued at two or three years ago. Some urc
doubled in value; and lands which, during
Slavery, might have been purchased at I'D. 81
or .GI per acre, now obtain ready sale at from
,E3 to .e20 per acre. From ego TO ego per
acre have been asked for lands in the vicinity OF
towns which, u short time since, could have been
purchased for one-half, If not onc-third of that
amount. Cornoall.--Land has risen here, but
there is little offered for sale IN this parish
ST.. kIrrs-Shortly after Emancipation, The
value OF landed property became considerably
cnhanced but of late, III this Island and two OF
three of the smaller ones also, the great wan; o
capital to support the losses of estates through
continued seasons of drought, with the strong
fears entertained by many that the Imperial Par
lament will admit foreign or slave-grown Sugar
a; reduced duties, have somewhat operated fol
the present to doprociate the value of the soil.
DEMARARA.--'Fhc value OF land has greatly IN
creased since the abolition of Slavery. During
that period, the waste lands would have been
given to any one who would have kept in repair
the public road IN front Of the estate; and it is
notorious that abandoned estates or cattle farms
have III former times, been refused as free gift
on the like condition, In the village OF VII
Jamestown the land is leased at FIVE oes Ell IS
sterling} for lots of quarter of an acre; in Other
parts, at fifty dollars (ahout ten guneas) for hal
acre. The price of land, when sold TO ths
laborer, has varied from &c to fl00 per acre
according to situation, &c. The average price
may, however, be estimated at E25 per acre
ANTIQUITY OF SlrnoNS.-The greater part o
our ordinary machines cannot be traced TO :
higher source than Greece but Greece itself wa:
colonized by Egyptians; and however much III,
children of Cadmus may have refined on some
departments of the useful arts, the genera
mechanism of their ancestors is believed to hay,
passed through their hands to those of the Ro
mans and from the latter to us with little altera
ton This was certainly the case with then
hydraulic and hydro.pnsumatic devices. Tn,
siphon is an example. The name of this instru
ment is taken from Greek word, which signifies
simply tube: but il has been asccytained thai
the word is of q rcmo.er-of an oriental origin
being derived from sipa or s!f, to imbibo or draw
up with the breath, and whence comes our ex
preston to SIP. Now il it can be proved that the
siphon was in use, and was charged by sucking
before the times of Grecian history, we may
safely conclude that a more ancient people fur.
nished the Greeks with both the instrument and
Its name,
The researches of Rosslini and Wilkinson have
settled this point. These gentlemen have brought
TO light irresistible evidence that aphons were
used in Egypt at less, as early as l45o years be-
fore Christ In tomb at Ihebes, which bears
the name of Amunoph Ii, who reigned at the pc
rod just named, they are dehncated, and IN q
manner too distinct TO admit OF any doubts.
Several jars arc represented upona frame or stand
Into three of them siphons are inserted; two APP
parently III operation, and man Is IN the act OF
charging the other by sucking the contents OF
the Jars beng transferred into large vase sup
ported upon an ornamental stand
Other examples of the early use OF siphons are
mo. with In the tomb Of Renssss IJI ,,bo