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Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-10-18
MACHINE FOR spIsruo OysrrRs.-The edI

MACHINE FOR sPLNIsG OysTHRs.-The edi-
tor of the Evening Post, now travelling in
Europe, says that the old fashioned way Of
rapping the shell Of an oyster, forcing knife
into ,he. e.body of tho unfortunate animal, and
fetching him to ligh, with " How many
sir % has been superseded in Paris by a mach
inc. 4" Mr.. Baudon with his rcAILLERxs, re-
forms the barbarities altogether. The oyster
is laid over gently in groove-,he screw is
turned once, twice-Lr VOLATILE uncsn-
sCious oyster is befare you blinded by the light,
withou. gaping wound. There is no Sc
ries of raps TO warn the oyster of his doom
no portion OF tho castle 10 preached but the
vice is turned, the valves fly apart blinded
and bewidered tho live oystH is consigned to
tickle your palate with his dying agonios."
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CALIFORNIA GOLD IN LoNDoN.-On Satur.
day last We received our first enormous install
mont of California gold. On that day seven
.een Wagons, containing seventy tons of gold
dust, and three millions sterling in dollars,
drawn by eighty-hve horses, and escorted by
police, arrived from the railway terminus, Lon
don bridge, at the Bank Of England, in the
vaults of which this large quantity Of bullion,
representing .f5,OOO,O0O was deposlted.--
The immense treasure attracted grea. curiosl.
ty as it passed along the streets. II was land
ed from her rkajes.y's ship Calypso, a, Ports
mouth London Gazette, Sept. 90.
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Tuesday, Oct. l6

The London Times. in an article on the dis
covery OF gold in California and the conse-
quen, excitement, gives history Of the fran
tic exci,emen, Of mining spscu uston IN Eng
land in 1921, and concludes The article in this
anguago -
Our m mes Of gold have been mockery
and a snare Our mines of COAL OF lin. and
OF iron have repaid our losses ,cnfod. Hafiled
in our search after the shining mineral in It's
native caves, we have decoyed il 70 our shores
by The homelier attractions Of our cottons, our
ooens, and our hardware. Birmingham,
Bradford and Manchester have been our Poio
81 and FL Dorado. Our philosopher stone
has been fused in the fro Of birmingham and
fashioned in the crucibles Of Sheffield. Fail
ing in The immediate grasp, we have succeed
ed in tho indirect acquisition Of wealth. Our
exports have increased in valus since 1924
from 39 millions to 6S millions Of pounds
We have since that time called into existence
three colonial settlements in the South Pacific
anu lHuIdH OSoaHs' vi sHoec, wv Ho' oH'y
consume the manufactures oil the metropolitan
state, but produce abundanlly the raw mater
ials of which they are made 90 that, even in
the event of the most wild hopes being realz-
cd by the aurierous fertility of California, and
he golden harvest Of the Sacramento, that
wealth will return in grateful exchange to the
farmers and wool.dressers Of Australia or
Now Zealand and the comforts Of civiliza'
,ion, as we'll as the means ofsubsistence, will
be supplied 10 the exiled adventurers Of the
Transatlantic Republic by the kindred and
coeval communities oftwo great and dlssimi-
lar islands, planted--as was that vast republic
i,self--by the indomitable courage and reso-
ute perseverance Of oar common Saxon race.
A large track Of trackless and barren waste
has expanded into two dependencies, rich in
corn, rich in fruits, rich in metal. At home,
the impulse Of foreign trade has created new
port, which is destined 10 rival Liverpool
All this has been done by the ordinary ener-
ges OF commercial perseverance. Even at
the sntipodes, England proclaims the lesson
which sho was taught at home-tha, the real
opulcnce Of country exists in the strong arm
and strong will OF its inhabitants and that,
without, these, tho diamonds Of Brazil are
mockery, and the treasures Of Pizauo a
splendid beggary
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MopE GoLD.--We learn tina, Capt Joseph
Wheldsn, Of Dartmouth has RENTED to his
family $4,000 in California Gold which arrived
safely las, week. Capt. w. sailed from this
port for California inDec. last, in tho schooner
Favori,e Of aton 80 tons buIthon, and since
her arrival has earned abou, one thousand dol
lars per month in carrying passengers and
freight on tho Sacramento river. A cargo Of
Now England rum which he carried ou, We
arc bu, little sorry to loarn proved bad ship
men,.-Neo Bedford Mercury.
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The following from a correspondent Of the
Newark Advertiser, in a letter from Bram-
field, Ct.
A lady from New York was up here, hav-
ing been spending tho summer in tho country.
AS this was 10 be the last Sabbath of her Wis
it she took her son, child Of four years old,
to church with her for tho first time As soon
as tho organ commenced its strains, the little
follow started up with delight: no looked
back to the gallery, no stretched his neck he
got up on the cushions and raised himself to
his very talest his mother demonstrated with
him, and told hun TO sit down. But he 10.
fused, and continued gazing aloft with s,rain-
ing eyes, Sit down." said his mother. " ]
WON'T" he cried, 30 as TO be heard all around
4" rant 10 see the mankey'
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From Tie ". o. Pieayune, OCT 4.

The LEvEr Considerable anxiety is felt
by the people of Carol,on and Freeport in re-
gard 10 the levees in that vicinity. The river
continues 10 fall and lindslides are feared
along the whole line above mentioned. The
last slide which took place On Friday last
opposite the Carrolion Hotel aud gardens,
carried of stip OF ground about two hun
dred and fifty feet in length and from sixty to
seventy feet in width. A large quantity OF
cord wood was lost. as was also a vaean,
building, which had been deserted by it's ten
ants only few days previously. Two large
RATS were broken up and sent adrif, by the
a ccident
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BY Telegraph from London to Liverpool.
ToNnos SAINT %


LONDON, Sept 90.
From the I'd edition Of Me Times efto-doy.
CoSsrANTiNoPLR, Sept 18th. En-.
peror Of Russia employs no argument in
Court for his demand for delivery the Pol
ish and Hungarian refugees at Widdin, but
says in his letters that he will consider the
escape Of one Of them AZ a c0sus bsM. 1.-THE
Sultan did not give simple yes or no TO the
aid.de-camp, he threatened to return TO War
saw. The Sultan persists in his resolution,
and is backed by the Foreign Minister, tho
Grand Vizier. the Seraskier, snd Mahomst
Ali Pasha, but the great majority ofthe Coun.
Gil is alarmed at the threatning tone OF the
Cars note, and no official announcement Of
the Councils decision had consequently besn
made There is reason 10 believe that the
Turkish Government, urged on BY tho Eng
lish and French Envoys. will reject the do
mand
1t is supposed rha, the Emperor will put
his threa, Of war into execution should tho
answer be negative. Although nearly the
whole OF the Turkish fleet is in the Golden
Horn, quite ready for service, and could de-
fend the entrance Of the Bosphorus, the Turk
ish army bears no proportion 10 the forces the
Emperor could march against the Turkish
frontiers in a few days. SIXTY thousand
Turkish troops are concentrated round Con-
stantinople, but the English feet could not
reach the Golden Horn sooner than fifteen
or seventeen days. A Russian feet could be
in the Bosphorus within twenty.four hours.
British subjects arc among the refugees CON-
fined in Widdn. Cen. Guyon. Gen. Long
worth and Gen. O'Donnel.
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The WIFE OF A COMMUNICATIONS cir-
ums tances peculiar 10 the California enter
rise-,he length and peris Of the voyage, The
mul,ifarious character Of the adventures, the
anomalous condition Of society there, tho IN
ce r,ain prospect e individual success at the
Understanding from great and sudden wealth
down to fla, disappointment. the conflicting re-
ports that are daily arriving, render every ar
ryal from that country one Of intense interest,"
10 the PERSONAL friends Of the adventures -
A ylung wife, whose husband sailed from h"re
last February has been anxious!y looking for
his arrival at San Francisco. Eight months
had assed away. and yet she got no sidlnGs
Of him, except that he wrote her in April from
Rio Janeiro, having put in there for repairs
As she went 10 the railroad Office, TO see u
friend of in the cars, yesterday, sewsboy ap-
preached with a bundle Of extras. Her eye,
ever on the lookout, caught the picture OF The
steamer, which headed the paper, as proclaim
ing some foreign mail arrival. "What paper
is that o. said she, to me, with mixture Of
surprise and eagerness q It's the Empire
City," / replied. She snatched the paper
from the boy, and begged me show her the list
Of arIivals a, San Francisco. She ian 1t half
over and throwing up her hands exclaimed,
:" Here i, is here it is Bark -, Capt
Aug. 81, l9i.days.from New York;
Her dear husband had reached his haven, or
at least the vessel had. in which his sailed. A
good providence had been over him, he had
been carried safely through the storms ofthe
Atlantic, the perils Of the Cape, and tho worse
than " laws delays" Of the Pacifice, and was
in por, She fastened her eyes On tha. little
item Of commercial news, read, and re-read
il, wiped away the mis,s that gathered before
her, and read il again and twenty times more,
as j. TO assure herself i, was not an Illusion
Yhe heavins bosom, the face, glowing at one
moment, and pale the next, the !altcring voice.
showed the intensity of her emotion, and the
depth of young wile's devotion. took the
paper from her hand and folded il up for con-
venience, but che Immediately unfo!dod it
az ain, and paced her finger on the inere ting
item as if there were danger Of i. escaping
from her Had tina, paper been filed with
accounts of fresh revolutions in Europe, or the
discovery of a continent i, would have been
nothinc W her. walked home with Ter, rung
tho bell vigorously, as if there was haste and
urccnry to enter, and as turned down tho
steps, heard her in the hall shouting the
news up tho stairway to her mother in the
parlor above. E.r. pap.
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Tur STATE or DsssRT.-The Mormons in
the noiphborhood Of the Great Sal, Lake have
adopted a State Constitution and actually or
ganired State Government, under ,he above
appelation, according to the ST. Louis RePub.
,icsn, and will apply to tho next Congress for
admission into tho Union. The Constitution
makes no allusion to Slavery. The ugly
name stands in tho Mormon iargon irr Hon
~ ller
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TUNNEL THROUGH THE BLUE RfDor.-T

TUNNEL THROUGH THE BLUE RfDon.-The
con,rac. for this great work (426O feet in
lengthy was awarded by the Board of Public
Works on Saturday last to Messrs. John Ru,-
Ter g. Co., Of the State Of New York, ,hoy
being tho lowest bidders for the same. Those
gentlemen produced the most ample tes,imo-
malls Of the energy, skill, faithfulncss and
punc,uali,y with which they have executed
other important Tunnels in the United
States. s.-kiehmond Enquirer.
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DREADFUL TORNADO IN CAPE MAY.-The
mos, destructive whrlwind that has occurred
in New Jersey since the memorable tornado
at New Brunswick, many years ago, appears
to have swept over tho upper part of Cape
May County, on Thursday morning last. A
letter from Dennisyille, some miles from
Deleware Bay, to the State Gazette, says it
frs, struck a new two-story house belonging
to Willis Godfrey, which was torn from its
foundations and dashed to pieces, Mrs. G. and
two children miraculously escaping:
"A few rods farther if came in contact with
4 new story and half house, in which were
the ife Of Jones Corson, lately married, and
her sister, both in one bed. Everything is
swept clean where this house stood; it was en-.
tirely demolished. Mrs. Carson was found
dead in ;he limbs of an old oak tree that was
blown down some 10 yards from the site o.
the houss. But little hopes are entertained Of
the recovery Of her sister, who wac terribly
,nutilatcd
From this point It parsed onward, carrying
fences, trees, &c, before it had breadth oi
10 yards, quarter Ct milo further, whore it
encountered largo two-s,ory house, in which
were the widow Of Daniel Young, her daush-
ter and three others. The house met no bet
ter fate than those above mentioned, yet,
strange to say, the inmates received bu. slight
injury.
At the end Of another quarter of mile il
struck large barn, and wha, it did not take
of entirely, j, scattered il every direction.-
From this point it upset some small buildings,
and threw others Of the blocks, until it reached
Grea, Egg Har, or Bay, near Beesley's Point,
no doubt making magnificent water spout in
ito passage over the water. A part Of roof
was found on tho point Of Psck's beach, four
miles from the scene Of disaster, and a hat six
miles of. A scy:ho without, snaih, was
carried three-iour,hs Of mile"
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DsArH ORA MnnR.-Tho Picayune ssys.

DsArH orA MpnR.-Tho Pcayune ssys.
that an old miser, planter, died at A,tsks.
psas, lately, who was worth. In ,nosey, land.
and negroes, at leas, 5000 900. lie had
his coffin made before his death, OF rough, un-
hewed plinks in which were found, after his
death, some two or three thousand dollars IN
gold Sccro,oi IN the ceiling Of the house
was found si5 900 in gold, and in an iron
chest, alsc. a very large amount IN gold and
paper
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Pride may sometimes be a useful spring
board to tho aspiring soul, but il is much more
frequently destructive s.umbling-block.
Men Of the world bold that it is impossible
to do dsinterestod action, oxcep. from an in
torested motive; for tho sake Of admiration,
if for no g,osser, more tangible gain. Doubt
less they are also convinced, that, when tho
sun is showering light from tho sky, he is on
ly standing there to be stared at.
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e N s

II OuT Sdltty iOo o'no"S ~"'
comme endatops Of the dead.
Great men lose some what OF their greatness
BY being near us ordinary men gain much.
A letter timely writ, is rivei to the chain
of affection, and a letter, untimely delayed, is
as rust to The soldier.
As gold which he cannot spend will make
no man rich, SO knowledge which he cannot
apply will make no man wise.
Truth is the object ofphilosophy.
The goodly outside is excellent. when no,
falsely assumed but the worst natural face
that natures journeyman ever left unfinished
is better than the brayest mask
A weak mind sinks under prosperity as
well as under adversely. A strong and deep
mind has two highest tides, when the moon
is at tho full, and when there is no moon.
The only way to be permanently safe is to
be habilually honest
| Half of fact is q whole falsehoOd.
Cicero was dis,ing aished from almost all
great men Of whom we know much, by one
egasive virtue, so rare that human nature
bushes while it is announced he had no en-
emy
Sorrows are the pulses Of spiritual life az
ter each beat we pause, only that We may
gather strength for the next
The truest love is the truest benevolenoe ;
il acquires an infinite patience out of the very
excess of i.s suffering, and is content to merge
its egotism in the idea of the beloved object
lie that does not know this does not know
what love is, whatever he may know Of pas
sion.
To raise, and then 10 disappont reasonable
expectations, 10 degree of cruelty which no
terms Of indignation can sufficiently repro
bate.
Snow fell in considerable quantity in Otscgo
90. N. Y. on Sunday last.
Thanksgiving in Connecticut i /. on the Goth
Of November.
The y. S. Distrc, Cour: or Rhode Island
District, held its October term in this
town Tuesday.
A barn belonging to Mr.. George. le..s,andng
in tho rear of Coles Hotel Warren, was des-
.royed by fire on Friday night.
Tho Teachers Institute whie was TO have
been held at North Scitua,e, Oct. 22d, 10
postponed for a fow weeks.
Real life frequently looses its briliancy TO-
such degree that one is many a time forced
to polish it up again with the vsrnish Of fic-
ton
Nuns TAXING RAILROAD SToCK.-The
Gley Sisters, or " Seurs Crisis" a communi.
ty of nuns in Quebec have taken f2OO 900
worth Of stock in q projected railroad from
Qubec to Halifax.
A GREAT CHANCE FOR BARNUM The Nat
ural B:dgo in Virginia is, up in the Marke,
for sale. As it is great curiosity, Baruum
will ofcourso be disposed to add it to one Of
his museums.
NAvAL.-The U. S. friga,o Independence,
Captain Conover, sailed on the 9th of Scptem-
Der from Malta for Naples, and the Cumber-
land, Captain Latimer, 80 days from New
York arrived in the bay on the 18th.
Ono ELscTIos.-A ,elegraphic communi.
cation from Cincinnati, dated tho 18th inst,
says that tho Wings have elected rnajority
of the Senate, and that the returns as far as
received show gain Of Representatives on the
part Of the Wings.
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A CARpgNrER's TEsTiMoMY.-A worthy
carpenter, the other day, in giving evidence in
a case Of fraud, said that he planc-ly saw the
defendants object was to chi,cl the plaintiff on,
of his property, etc. and for his part he hk.
cd fair play AMI no gouging."
And shoemaker called upon the same side
plaintiffs duL and TO SEQ him up, at last.
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CosT or ARMIEs.-The Constitutional CO

Cosr or ARMIEs.-The Constitutional COT
respondent, by way Of refu,ing the reproach-
es addressed to Prussia for keeping up too s1-
pensive an army, makes the following com.
parson "A soldier costs the State annually
in Prussia GO dollars F; in Russia, GO in Aus
tria 70; in France, ll2 in England. l7O
and in the United States of North America
1871. Even in the petty states of Germany,
as well as in Sweden, the armies cost much
more in proportion than in Prussia.
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MAN KILLED ON THE WORCESTER RAIL-
RoAD.-About IL O'Clock to-day, an Irishman,
brakeman on the Worcester Railroad-u hose
name we are unable to ascertain. was knocked
from the top Of car while passing under
Harrison Avenue bridge, and instantly killed.
The body Of tho unfortunate man was liter
ally carved into pieces, and the flesh and bones
scattered along the rails for some distance -
Boston Transcript l2h.
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DESCENDANTS OF Rev. THOMAS HooKER.-
II is stated in the life Of this eminent New
England divine, tina, among his pos'erity there
arc forty ministers of the gospel, and for
ty more who married his female descendants,
nine professors, authors, and poots forty who
have occupied important public Offices ; four
teen members of the bar, not included in the
proceeding, and seventeen doctors Of medi-
cino.
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CALIFORNIA ITEMS.

Letters received at Boston make a tew ad-
duions to the California news we have already
published.
The following account Of the suffer ngs en-
,ounrered by the overland ndvcn,urers is from
l. tier in the Traveller, dated August -
News came on Tuesday evening last, that
up'oss relief was Immediately extended, :he
suHer,pp of the wU,nen aud children must be
terrible indeed Some OF tho party just In
t.y tina, they were obliged to ca. the flesh
of their mules to keep them from starvation,
and that those long in the rear must perish,
in sight Of the bones Of those poor creatures
Who p'rished some time since, the accounts
Of which we read in the papers last winter II
: mistake not. he horses and mules are
billed and eaten but The cticf amount OF sui
terng VIII no for want Of water, for aa soon
Is the way worn traveller entors the desert
or D ain, he has before him sixty long and 'e-
dlous miles to travel, with only one spring
and tht no, sulphur ono, to supply HIM
self aud the weary jaded beast on which he
rides. u. 70 is TO be the great danger and
distress for unless the toll worn mother and
child cau find water to qucnch their thirst, I'm
mcnsc suffering and ultimate death will be
the result.
A meeting TO aid the sufferers was held this
morning and committee with full powers
appointed, to obtain money and Immediately
send the desired relief so awful is the way
that 40 one can be found, as yet, who came
that way, TO return to aid those IN distress
II vas stated by Judge -, who arrived
this morning, that FIVE hundred teams were
on their way across this desert.
Last Sabbath, for the fret time in San Fran
CISCO, a religious meeting for scanen was held;
and on Tuesday evening last public meeting
took place to devise measures to build Beth
el,' where the sailor can worship God in a
place set apart for tina, special purpose. A
constitution was read and adopted, and Off
GERS chosen for the year, and committee sP-
pointed to obtain subscription Immediately, To-
build the Bethel, dc.
To show that the Sabbath is beginning 90
more regarded than ever before. l will
mention tina, the gamblers, yes, tho gamblers
of San Francisco, have unanimously como to
the determination TO have their tables closed
on the Sabbath When ] tell you that there
are more gambling shops than any other do
psr,men, Of business, you will a, once SEQ the
Importance Of the movement.
The Paeiie Weekly Ners Of September
ha. Tho following notice Of measures taken
for the relief Of the overland parties -
We learn iha, General Porsifer +. Smith
has ,c,cd most promptly aud nobly in making
provision for the relief Of emigrants crossing
tho plains TO California. Major Rucker, Of
the Is, drseoons, has been directed to make
Jepo,s Of provisions, horses and men, at in.
,er,a's Of about three days distance from the
Sacramento Valley, eastward, to extend to
the desert beyond Salmon front River. Gen.
sm,,h las placed At tho command OF MAJ
r,ucker the ,um Of sio,OOo. besides larco
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Los or A CALIFORNIA VEsstL.-lhe steam
chip Alabama, at New Orleans, from Chasres,
br,nss intelligence of the loss Of the schoon-
or John A. Sut,er, Capt Ed y, from Wal
red, X. l., March OH, for California, upon a
rocky shoro in the straits Of Magellan, on
29,h Of June, during severe gale and sn'w
storm. The Captain and crew were carried
INTO Calao on the i7th of ofAusust.
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"My frend," said the keeper Of hotel, to
an over-voracious boarder, A" you eat so much
,ha, I shall certainly have to charge you an
extra half dollar" "An extra half dollar"
replied his bearder with q coun,onancs the
very picture Of. dispair. "For goodness sake
don't do that; I'm mos, dead now eating
thee dollar, worth and if you pu, an extra
half dollars worth on, shall certainly bus.
II shall" II"
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GRAPES AT ALL SEAsoSs.-Mr. J. F. Allen,
of Salem, Massachusetts, is said TO be the
creates, producer Of grapes by artificial heat
in the United States, having nine grapsries.
Some of his lighthouses are over 100 feet in
length, and ripe grapes Of the choicest varie,
lies a. hanging on the vines every month in
tho year.
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I, has been remarked in London, that, no
death nor case Of cholera had occurred in any
of tho Gas manufactures 1t 10 presumed,
therefore, iha, the coal gas is destructive 10
the poison in tho atmosphere which produces
9holera
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UOno Of tho greatest improvements Of the
age is Chcovers Fire Kinder, it will kindle a
fire Of either coal or wood in half the time and
with much less trouble than chips or charcoal.
We use it to kindlo our coal fires and have
never failed to have good fire in fifteen min
u,es after il is lit, it requires no shaviugs ard
is free from dirt or litter, aud needs only to
bo known to bo generally used. II may be
obtained at RIDERS.