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NHoekEs MAGAZINE for September; New Yori

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DICTIONARY OF MECHANICS ES0Ns Work ESsI
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COLONEL BENTON
ON THE PROPOSED NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC
ORGAN AND THE MISSOURI ELECTION.

The 81. LOms Union Of the 18th publishes
the following letter of Old Bullion to one of his
friends in which he rights certain matters
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The Senate took up the Civil and Diplomatic
BILL returned from the House with amendments,
and resolved to insist upon its own amendments.
The bill relating to the safety of passengers on
board steamboats, was postponed till next session.
message was received from the House, an
nouncng its concurrence in the amendments Of
the Senate TO the Land Bounty bill, except "a and
9th, extending the bouDties TO the officers and
seamen Of the navy and marines.
The naval appropriation BIN was considered,
and several amendments rejected.
Mr. Mason moved 10 strike out the proyiso In
serted by the House, abolishing logging ia the
navy.
A short, spirited debate sprung up in which
Mr.. Hale made strong appeal 10 the Senate
against the brutal practice of Hoagng and insist.
ell upon the rejection OF the amendment lie
was sustained by Mr. IIamlin, and opposed by
Messrs. Dawson, Yulee, Pearce, Davis Of Missis-
sippi, and Butler.
MIR Yulee, with view TO embarrass the pro-
viso, moved to add after the word navy "and
on board vessels Of commerce. This was adopt
ed-yeas %, nays Is.
The question on striking out The proyiso as
amended was then taken by yeas and nays with
the following result:
YgAs-M essrs. Atchison, Badger, Bell, Berrien,
Butler, Davis Of Mississippi, Dawson, Dayton,
Downs, Houston, Hunter King, MaDgum, Mason,
Morton, Pearce, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Smith,
Sprnance, TurDcy Wales, and Yuee-2i,
NAYs--Messr.. Baldwin, Benton, Bright, Cass,
Chase, Clarke, Davis Of Massachusetts,, Dickin.
son, Dodge Of Wisconsin, Dodge Of Iowa, Felch,
Fremont, Hale, Hamlin, Jones, Norris, Seward,
Soul6, Sturgeon Underwood Walker, Whitcomb,
and Winthrop-23.
Soon after, Mr.. Hale rose to n question Of
privilege The Journal showed that, in striking
out the proviso, twenty-four had voted In the
Affirmative, and twenty-thrce in the negative /;
while the name Of Mr.. Greene OF Rhode Island,
who voted no, was not recorded ut all lie asked
that the Journal be corrected
Mr.. Greene said that when his name was called
he responded "No,n and he did not know that
his name WAS not recorded till bis attention was
called 10 II by one Of the reporters.
The point Of order was raised, whether the
name Of the Senator could be recorded At this
stage, and WAS debated
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Magic Hair Powder.

The following droll story is told by the
Sarannah Republican, of Finn, the comic
actor Henry j. Finn was greater wit
even than he was an actor, which is pay
ing his intellect acomp!iment by no means
small. Since his dreadful death at the
burning of the steamer Lexington, his
widow, a wise and accomplished lady has,
labored in the vocation of private school
teacher. 1t is said that in his early days
the elder Finn was applied to by some
colored fashonables for some advice as to
arrangements for grand ball, which they
had projected. Hair powder had not
quite passed out Of use, and among other
things he suggested to' the attentive commit
tee that perhaps it would be little more
like white folks if they should powder
their heads. The colored gentlemen
caught eagerly at the idea, where should
they procure the powder The wag
readily agreed to get this for them, as he
could obtain it from friend on the "I
Wharf" at wholesale prices. According
", on the evening of the party he sup
piled the unsuspecting committee with
Quantity of finely powdered unslaked
lime, with which they er o0icio whltened
the heads Of the ticket holders. Every
thing wen! on smoothly for time. The
colored ladies were i'll high feather, figur-
alive as we'll as literally. The colored
gentlemen felt like educated and accom-
plished Hannbals. They were all very
proud of their powder-no words can tell
how proud. Presently the general dignl-
ty began to give way under the exhllera-
ting effect of two fiddes, bass horn and
clarionet. pigeon-wing cuts and double
shuilics became universal-both sexes
danced as only coiored people can. Am
nation is naturally succeeded 10y rerspi-
ration, and the latter had notable effect
on their hair powder. /: made them itch;
the scratching grew as general no" as
the pigeon-wing had been before. Eaten
by the lime the hair came off in their
hands, ard ere long the whole party pre-
sened such an array of oald heads as led
to general outburst of Indignation, and
an early dispersion of little group Of
Laughing 2 spectators, of whom, it is need
less to say, Finn was one.
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Anamalculae Found in the Human Eye.

The following curious account Of a lit
tie animal sometimes found in the human
eye, we take from Sharpe's London Mag
azine. 1t has been found in four cases,
and has received the name Of Cysticercus
ceIluiosa. 1t is found in the watery hu-
NOR Immediately behind the clear window
which the center of the eye presents, and
is described as a hydatid, having head
furnished with four suckers, Joined to a
neck which terminates in sac, or stom-
ach.-ED. TRANSCRIPT.
a girl aged sixteen, applied at the
Glasgow Infirmary in September, l848,
on account of obscurity Of vision in the
left eye. A spherical body, about one
eighth of an inch in diameter, was obser-
we'd lying close in front OF the pupil in the
interior chamber, and this proved on clo-
ser inspection to be Cysticercus cellulo-
sa. The patient stated that in June the
left eye had been the subject Of infama
ton, which occurred Immediately before the
appearance Of the strange thing in her eye.
Objects placed in direct line before the
eye, or below it, she saw very indistinct-
ly, but in moderate light the expansion
Of the pupil left one-third, at its upper
part, unobscured. The position of the
hydatid varied to certain extent, and it
was an object Of curiosity to many. Its
Opaque body, its tail, vesicle, and restel-
lum, together with its four lateral suckers
could be distinctly made out, and it was OBJ
served to be the most lively in the morn
ing and when the patient was warm. She
was quite unconscious Of the motions ofthe
animal, and did not appear to suffer pain
from its presence.
On the 18th of October, the little animal
was dislodged from its comfortable water
nest. An opening was made with a del
licate knife through the little horny win
dow in front Of the eye, small hook was
introduced, and the cysticercus drawn out,
1t was placed in tepid water, and contin-
ued to move fully forty minutes after its
removal from the eye. Had the water
been of the same quality and temperature
as that in the eye, there seems no reason
why it should not have lived on, unless
indeed, as was probable, it was wounded
by the hook.
Viewed through a compound microscope
the transparent range OF claws surround
ing the rosteiIum were distinctly seen as
were also the corpuscles scattered over
! its neck and on the four lateral suckers.
DR. Mackenzie states it as his opinion
that the attack of opthalmia in June, i'm
mediately preceding the appearance of the
hydatid, was owing TO the development Of
its oyum in one OF the blood d-yessels Of the
Iris or an adjoining structure, and that
the inflammation ceased suddenly as soon as
the hydatid dropped into the anterior
chamber, where i, lived at its ease ant
throve on the aqueous humor. Can W,
p''ssieiy i'.~s:-aE saz.t shsrns may he i,
this fl uid animalcules still more minute
which furnished nourshment to this lit
tie animal? 1t is pleasant TO learn th'
fact, and it must have been gratifying Il
the eminent surgeon himself, that no bat
symptom followed the operation, and tha
the girl was quite well in week.
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A Timely H1Sr-WHIcH DIscoN-
cERrEp A GREAT rORAToR.-Many anec-
dotes have been told bearing pretty hard
upon the late ] ohm Randolph, some wholly
fictitious, others not. Among them is the
following:
On one occasion, wien the subject of
making appropriations for the public
buildings was under consideration in
Congress, Mr. Randolph rose and as usual
spoke in opposition to it-appropr'a'lons
had been frequently asked and granted
and still the buildings went up with a
s,eal,hy pace he wanted to see the end OF
it, and for this purpose he moved to refer
the subject to the committee on unfinished
business. A workman in the gallery close
by, irri,a,ed a, the opposition Mr. r. had
shown to what was to constitute his sup
port, and unable to bear this taunt, cried
ont in voice somew hat like RS. "And
| move, Mr. Speaker that The gentleman be
referred to the same committee" This
severe retort upon the i'll formed and badly
made orator from Virginia, set the whole
House in roar, and the sergeant at arms
was Immediately dispatched TO arrest the
offender, but he disappeared and could not
be found.
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american Eon.-A friend who has been
for some time collecting statistics Of the
present state OF the Iron business through
out Pennsylvania, has ascertained that Of
six hundred Furnaces in that State, two
hundred and seventy five are now in the
hands of the Sheriff, and of three hundred
and twenty iron forges, one hundred and
six are likewise in the Sheriff's hands
A great iron master the Sheriff would
seem TO be. Now is it possible that fools
are such fools that anybody believes oil
these failures and stoppsges are conirived
by the Iron men in ordeTto raise elanor
for the revision Of the TARIFF
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levelled pixies, pressed sternly forward
amid the carnage, bearing down all oppo-
sition At that rnomenf the cavalry came

levelled pixies, pressed sternly forward
amid the carnage, bearing down all oppo-
sition. At that moment the cavalry came
laundering on the Scotch paused in ter
ror, the next moment the Gathering temp
est was upon them. Over the brook and
over the hostile ranks they went trampling
down the steady battalions like grass be-
meath their feet, and bearing three thou
sand souls to the next world in their fierce
passage. In the midst of this terrible
charge, on which Cromwell's eye rested
! with the deepest anxiety, the sun rose
over the naked hills, and struggled through
the mis-, that was gently moving away from
the battle field, sending his level beams
athwart the commingled hot.
| So did the sun rise on Napoleon at
Borodino, as he stood and surveyed the
field on which 26O, 900 men were moving
to battle and, the sublime expression burst
from his lips, "Behold the sun Of Auster-
lhzw But Cromwell, carried away by a
higher sentiment than glory; gave vent to
his emotions in subl;mer language. AS
the blazing tireball rose slowly into view,
and poured its light over the scene, he
burst forth, "Let God arise and let His
enemies be scattered" The right wing,
broken and disordered, was rolled in a
confused mass upon the main body of the
army and the panic spreading. those
twenty thousand men were sweeping hith-
er and thither over the field. AT the base
of Door Hill, on which the enemy had been
encamped, Cromwell ordered a general
halt and while the horse could be rallied
for the chase babe the army sing the one
hundred and seventeenth psalm. AT the
foot Of Door Hill, there we uplift it to the
tune Of Bangor, or some still higher score,
and roll it strong and great against the sky
As the mighty anthem died away on the
field, the shout OF battle was again heard
and the fierce cavalry drove amid the bro.
ken ranks, riding down the fugitives, and
sabreing them without mercy till the
ground was covered with the dead.
Three thousand were slain, and ten
thousand stand OF arms, two hundred stand,
of colors and twenty-seven cannon re.
mained as spoil to the victors. 1t was al
utter rou. OF the Scotch the whole country
round became covered with a disorderly
multitude, through which the steady
squadrons Of the republican galloped with
out resistance.
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FRUIT. sc AT THE SouTH. The
Strawberry season has passed at Charles
ton, S. c., and blackberries are in the
market in abundance. Six hundred bush
els of green peas and five hundred quarts
of Strawberries, were shipped on Satur-
day from Norfolk, by steamer for Bal.i-
more, and about an eq'ial amount to Wash
in1ton and Alexandria.
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From the Louisville Courier.
STANZAS.
BY j. II. BARRACK.

BY J. II. BARRACK.
It is the solemn hush of night;
A calm is on the air;
The sun has drawn from earth his light,
And heavens without star
The world is wrapt in slumber deep
All mortals wed to dreams,
While pleasures o'er their fancies creep,
In rainbow-tinted CLEANS.
I hear the nightbird's lonely lay,
Midst grove of shrub and flower:
hear the winds and zephyrs stray,
In midnight's solemn hour;
lay me on my couch to sleep,
But gentle sleep has flown;
Alas! my spirit vigils keep,
In thought Of years agone.
Alas for all, that sleep, nor dreams,
Nor buoyant hope can bring,
The bliss that on my vision CLEANS,
Like sunshine on the spring;
Or that my youth again might be,
A path mid Eden bowers;
To roam again in fancy free,
And Gull its fairy flowers.
Alone with sadness and despair,
As vanes and woodbines rest,
When still is every sound Of air
Thus care, within my breast
Doth still its phantom form conceal,
Till death might come on me,
Nor /, in all life's journey feel
Ought but its misery.
When am old, and death draws near,
With twilight shade and gloom
When life has nought on earth to cheer
But the inviting tomb
May none lament-for hopes bright eyes
u. ~ ,,,l
And JOY from earth mid sorrow flies,
To seek brighter cline.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

AN ExcL1sH SHEER REBUKED.-Car-
lyle in his last pamphlet, speaking OF a.
merica, asks:
"What great human soul, what great
noble thing that one could worship or
LOYALTY admire, has yet been produced
there ?'' "What great human soul ?"-
WAsu,xcroN. "What great thought -
LIBERTY. "What great noble thing? A
home for the homeless. Bread for the
starving. Protection for the oppressed
We do not know that these are things
wh ich sycophants could worship, or 10y
ality admire, but the fame of the first, the
sacredness of the second, and the uncir-
cumscribed extent of the third, are what
feemen admire, and intend to defend.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

UNPUBLISHED LINES BY SourHEy.-We are in
debted to Redding 4 Company for Dickens ssHouse-
hold Words, No =" from which we extract the fol-
lowing lines by Robert Southey, ''from an unpub-
lshed autograph:'-[Boston Transcript.
The days of Infancy all dream,
How fair, but oh! how short they seem
'Tis Lifes sweet opening Spring
The days of Youth advance:
The bounding limb. the ardent glance,
The kindling soul they bring
It is Life's burning Summer time.
Manhood--matured with wisdom's fruit,
Reward of Learning's deep pursuit.
Succeeds, as AUTUMN follows Summers prime
And that, and that, alas goes by;
And what ensues? The languid eye,
The failing frame, the soul o'ercast;
'Tis Winters sickening, whitening blast,
Life,s bles essed season-for it is the last.
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Culture of Beans.

The best field beans TO plant, If refer
ence ne had to market, is the small white,
a; as it sells most readily, and bring. the
highest price. The general mode Of plant
ing is in drills or hills; usually the latter.
When planted in hills, there should be
about six plants in hill, and The hills
about two feet apart. Judge Buel states
that the largest crop he ever raised (forty-
eight bushels to the acre. was in rows.
The bean is partial to a quick, dry soil
1t is very tender plant, and will not beat
the slightest frost. 1t is therefore unsafe
TO plant them until frost is no longer to be
apprehended. Thirty bushels to the acre
would be good crop. though much larger
crops have been raised, and much larger
might he very easily, r...
When the beans are fully formed, and
there is danger of frost, pull and throw
them into heaps, in which condition the
frost scarcely effects them. Ii the ground
is not wanted for other uses, they may
stand till the latest pods assume yellow
color. They are pulled with ease when
the plant is mature, as the fbres Of tho
root are by that time dead. This is mors
quickly accomplished with an iron hook
rake, or if the stalks are partially green,
they can be mown or cut with sickle
If the vines are not dry, let them remain!
for while in small heaps, and afterwards
collect in large piles, around stakes set at
convenient distances, with the roots in the,
center and secured at the top by a wisp
Of straw. When well dried, thresh, and
clean and spread them, till they are quite
free from dampness. -. ..
The price of beans range from six to
twelve shillings bushel. Nine shillings
is now the price in this market. They
generally find ready sale. The time .
crop could be got off must depend much
on the season. The long garden white
bean, and the China bean with red eye,
ripen earlier than many others, and are
very productive.-[Genesee Farmer.
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A Shronshire farmer went along wit

A Shropshire farmer went along with
his son to tea-party. A young female
happened to be there, with whom he
wished his son to become acquainted.-
He told him to go and speak to her
What shall l say to her, fey,her % ask
ed his son. "Why, say soft things John
n.y." Johnny, with great simplicity, look:
ed her in the face, and said, "Masheo
turnips, Miss"
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T. Barnum, of Museum notoriety, has q
country seat at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He has given some attention to farming
and gardening Of late, and was elected
President of the Fairfield County Agrieul-.
tural Society. We give his experience
in farming in his own words:
Selling Pototoes.- the fall Of I840,"
said he, "ny head gardener reported that
l had eighty bushels of potatoes to spare,
so of course l directed them to be sold.--
They brought sixty-seven cents bushsl.
But, like most small farmers, he sold the
largest, and left us nothing but "small
potatoes" TO eat at home. But the worst
is to come. In March we had not evena
dish of small potatoes. So we bought
more than we sold, and paid 81 70 >
bu.tei : .h-.l- Ny experience therefore
how much he wants Tor his owl vuns uinP-
ton before he sends his produce TO cheap
Market
Trimming Fruit Trees by an .aaateur.
Another of Mr. Barnum's experiments
was in the horticultural line, and was re-
lated with such good humor that his large
audience was nearly convulsed with
laughter. "Having been elected Pre:i-
dent of the Fairfield County Agricultural
Society,"" continued he, II felt the impor-
tance OF my having little, practical ex-
perience as farmer. Having read lit
tie about pruning, and watched my gar
dener awhile, l armed myself with a keen
edged carving knife and set 10 work On
my own hook. My first essay was upon
lot of young cherry trees. Half an hour,
and my sharp knife gave them quite .
symmetrical appearance, and removed all
redundant limbs and sap-a absorbing sprouts
and suckers; and l prided myself upon
this first effort as pruner, and Of course
suitable commentators from my garden
er for the labor | had saved him. Judge
my astonishment, then, as he approached
with rueful countenance, and express
sion of "Well, sir, you have done it now!"
"Why, yes, l fancy have. How do you
like my work ?" said I. "Like i'll.
Why, sir, yoa're cut off all the gratis :"
This was a sad blow 10 my farming as
pirations. But, as l never despair, 1
shall continue to 60 ahead with improve
men,s, but shall be a little more cautious
how use the pruning knife until learn
to know sprout from a graft. ! hope
tha, the relation Of my experience as
farmer won't deter many others from
seeking the same employment for u they
are capable o: using the pruning knife at
ALL | think they are capable of learning to
distinguish, perhaps at less cost than did,
the useful from the useless; and il they
did not, perhaps little sprouting, a ID
mode in our young days, might help 10
improve their education
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

A'SSurF-TAKlNG STATUTE.-An En-
elish officer, in Venice, walking one day
from the Dodge's Palace, thought he OBJ
served one of the figures on the clock tow
er of St Marks stoop and take up some
thing. He looked up again, and positive
ly saw the figure take pinch OF smut :
The officer confess ed that he was appre-
hepsive he was losing his senses, or 'ha'
his vision was deranged; When an old
woman, observing his consterna'lon' sooI
explained the seeming miracle, by 'e''lhe
him that one of the figures that struck the
hour being out of repair, her nephew J''
capo, was engaged as substitute till the
machinery was put in order.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

The English orange trade, employs at
present two hundred and thirty schooners,
first class vessels generally, plying to
Spain and the Azores. Some Of these
vessels carry seven hundred and thirty
chests of oranges. Two hundred millions
of this frui, are annually consumed IN
England.
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

THE DEFENDANTS OF RopEr BURNs.-
"Fcr some time,' says the London DAILY
News, ''there has been travelling IN the IN
terior of the remote island Of Borneo, and
sojourning among its ru6e people OF head
hunters young man ofthe name OF Burns
and this young man is the grandson OF
Robert Burns and ''bonny JEAN This
adventurous youth has no, only been hos
pitably and kindly treated 10y the rude
Dyaks, but a prince of the Kayan nation
the most powerful Of the island, has gwen
him one of his daughters to wife; so that
the future biographers of Robert Burns
will. in all likelihood, be able to enumerate
among his defendants those also of Bor-
mean Prince. Mr. Burns has discovered
mines of an'imony and coal fields in bor,
neo more extensive tha:, any IN the world
out of America. lie seems, moreover 10
he not only person of great enterprise,
but also a man Of Intelligence and good
education for he has written and publish
ed bv far the best and most authentic ac
count of Eorneo which has hitherto been
given to the public"
Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1850-06-13

Byron is said TO have remarked that
.the greatest trial to a woman's beauty is
the ungracelul act of eating eggs Some
Yankee remarks that the poet could never
have seen a lady hanging on by the teeth
to blazing hot corn cob.