The North-Carolina standard., 1849-02-07
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.

i ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
a young French engineer, named M. Testud de
Bauregard, has invented steam engine by the
vapor Of water in what he its '.spherodia state
communication In La rese states that the boiler
placed in bath of melted lead, and water projected
in small quantities at time upon its heated surface,
the spherodia state is produced; and although the
temperature o. the water above 100 degrees
the elastic force of the vapor given off, found to be
far superior that of steam in its ordinary conditions
A Present from the Pope. The Secretary of State,
in his annual report to the Legislature, Tuesday,
acknowledges the receipt of six beautiful "medals
in gold, silver and brenze, present from Fns the
Ninth in return for valuable books transmitted to him
by M. Vattemare in the of the State of Massa-
chusetts; particularly the volumes of the geological
survey. Boston Courier.
The Taxes are, indeed, heavy-said Dr. Franklin
on oneoccasion-and if those laid on by the govern
ment were the ONLY ones we had to pay, we might
more easily discharge thenl--but we have many
others, and much more greyous to some of u.s. We
taxed twice much by our idleness, three times
much by pride, and four times as mueh-by our
folly and from these taxes the commissioners not
case or deliver US by allowing any abatement! SO
On Saturday last, a delegate, in urging the trans
cendant claims Of his nominee. avowed that he was
'sborn brave man and that he 'sdid not shine with
a phosphorescent glare from the grave of buried
ancestor!'' Richmond Times. =
Judge Dickey, of Chicago, has decided that the
master of slave escaping into Illinois has right
to remove said slave, regardless of Illinois statutes
the contrary, which declared to be unconsti-
tutiona.
In Iowa the manufacture of Cheese is becoming
quite business, and in short time, it is thought.
Iowa Cheese will have as good a character that
from Goshen or the Western Reserve.
An Athenian, who wanted eloquenee, but. was
very brave, when another had in long and brilliant
Speech promised great affairs, got up and said, Men
of Athens all that he has Sdid will do. ~
A Copper mine which is represented as Welding
large quantities of rich ore. has recently been dis
covered in Perry county, Ark, about twenty miles
from Little Rock.
| The gold which overlaid one room OF. Solomon's
Temple, the' sanctum sanctorum, thirty feet square
and thirty feet high, amounted to six hundred talents,
| or nearly $2l 100000.
Rev. J. Newland Mafitt is preaching in Little
Rock, Ark, to immense congregations.
New PROJECT. The New York capitalists are dis.
cussing the feasibility of organising Company there
under the general corporation law of the State,
consist of capitalists who to stay in New York
and manage the home business and fully organised
military body armed and equipped by the government,
to serve as miners in California and to assist in the
preservation of order in the gold regions The pro-
ceeds of the expedition are to be equally divided
/ The CANADAs. tits supposed that the next census
will show the population of Upper Canada to be
about 900. Lower Canada is estimated to contain
nearly 100000.
Now is de winter of dam uneasiness, -
Make into hot wedder by York's little boy -
Dat is vot you call de son of York >
And the dark cloud which stick at top =.
| Of de house, in de bottom of de sea, =
Dead and buried. But as for me; aha!
ave de bump upon my back-I ave
| Dam handy leg-I am questionable and
And for all dis de dam dog bow WOW at me,
AS walk by him.
singular epidemic is prevailing to great extent
! in Poughkeepsie, N. va kind of matrimonial
mania-which has carried off great number of young
men and women, and some boys young as II. 1t
has also affected some widows and old maids. One
church, 1t is said has not marrageable couple left
! A fit of the fever and ague has been defined to
be no more nor less than a personal earthquake.
At the top of Richmond Hill, on the right hand
side, is to be seen printed board which is plac-
ed in the window Preparatory School for Boys of
both sexes"
MECHANICS. A meeting of the Journeymen Me-
chaniCs of Petersburg, Virginia, held the Both
inst the object of which oppose the competi-
tion brought about by the employment of negro me-
chanics.
AN INFERENCE. A country editor, in speaking of
a steamboat, says: ''She had twelve berths in her
ladies' cabin" "Oh, life OF me" exclaimed an old
lady, upon reading the above, "what squaing there
must have been.1' .--
| CRIME IN LONDON. Ia London, there are $4,000
children regularly under training for crime, 10000
thieves, COCO receivers of stolen goods, 900 pick
ed up in state of drunkenness, $4,000 habitual GIN
drinkers, and l50000 persons of both leading
an abandoned life. 49,
| The tunnelling of the Alps, to which we alluded
some months ago, has been commenced. The Gazette
de France says that the engineer Mans, commenced
operations with his machine, perforatng rock to the
thickness of 49 in thirty five minutes If this
process applied to the Perforaton of Mont Gents.
is calculated that by working at the two opposite
ends three years woald be sufficient to complete the
work. thus opening free intercourse between Italy
and the continent. .-e-.
Hon. John M. Miles, now in the United States
Senate, is the free soil candidate for Governor of
Connecticut. ......-
i General Cass telegraphic despatch toa Buffalo
paper says, was to leave for Washington in about
ten minutes after his reelection the United States
Senate was announced. --- ..-.. "a
Coal FOR CALIFORNIA 1t is stated that large ship
ments of coal have been ordered from Eastern Penn
sylvania to California. The people of Oregon have
become so infatuated with the gold mania that they
do not work the coal Mines
The New-Haven (Conn.) Journal 5' Courier re-
commends TO all going to California to take with
them supply of good books-it considers them as
better safeguards than bowie knives and revolving
pistols. The American Tract Society, in conformity
with its liberal usages have caused nearly 100000
pages to be distributed gatuitously among the various
steamers and sailing vessels which have already
sailed, or are about to sail, from New ork.
Lynn, Mass, has population of less than $4,000,
vet 3, ,O0O, 900 pairs of boots and shoes made
there last year. Nearly 5000 of its inhabitants of
both sexes engaged in the business. The value