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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-30

SHERIFFs sALEBy virtue Of an wiz Of eteclton 70 rs 81
lreced and delivered. will expose a. fuo" eli5
WEDNEsDAY the sh day of February ISL at n ococs 10 ns
foeno' No 81 CoegsPsce oil The right u, e. ana
the Lease and 1t No 20 College place also h,uo an
Lot College Place, the lsase having about, i9af s n,
~ va VI '''N BOOT
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
Imprisonment of Witnesses.

Ii certainly seems as if, among our numer.
ous lawmakers, some one might arise, with
sufficient humanity and ingenuity, to put an
end to this crue! injustice. Several Of the
crew Of the bark Lewis, who had The misfor-
tune 10 witness the murder of their officer,
the ili-fated johnson, have been committed
TO Salem Jail, iu order that they may he in
readiness 10 give their testimony. at the time
when it may be convenient to 60 on with the
trial.
A very gross case OF this legal wrong has
occurred the present year, at Newburyport,
where poor, simple minded fellow was
made the victim OF conspiracy, by couple
OF rascals, who drugged the poor creature,
and then robbed him, stripping the clothes
from hrs back. When he awoke, he sue
ceede'l in giving the police such information
as led TO the capture Of the thieves, and the
recovery Of the clothes. But this success
only led 10 greater misforiunes on the part Of
admitted to bail, and suffered to go at large
to solace themselves with any further vilIany
which they might be able 10 devise; while
their victim, having neither money nor
friends, was put into close Jail, and there
confined four months, in order that he might
be ready to give his evidence, when it might
be wanted by the Court. His sufferings
were more aggravated by the circumstance
that the clothes Of which he had been rob-
bed were also kept, 10 be used as evidence.
sentenced TO three months Imprisonment in
the House of Correction--l thus escaping with
d far less severe punishment for their crime,
than the law had compelled the victim Of
that crime 10 suffer- Salem Gazette.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
Honesty at a Discount.

We find the following in the New York
correspondence Of The New Orleans Com.
mercial Bulletin:
"The failures of yesterduy-one Of an ex-
tensive carpet manufacturer and dealer, and
another dry goods house Of excellent stand.
ing few days ago-are the great staple OF
down town talk this morning. Cheseboro,
Stearns Il Co., (who failed a few days ago,
but which hesitated then 10 name 10 you, J
are TO declare to-day how much they can
pay on their 100000 Of liability. They
will pay 25 per cent, heard clerk in a
store say this morning. '1'hey will be -
fools, if they do exclaimed his employer,
an old man in gold spectacIes. i suppose,
sir, he added, turning TO me, that you will
think it strange that should say SO. But
they had better stow away all they can
They can as well put away two hundred
thousand dollars as not, and The world will
think better of them for doing it. Their
honesty will not keep them from being de-
spised if they are poor. Look at my own
case! he continued. On the night of the
Great Fire in this city, was worth $780,
600. The next morning the contents Of my
store. worth oil that, were destroyed, and
only $4,000 insured. gave up nll had in
the world to my creditors, including home
in Warren-st., worth $4,000. Not cent
was reserved And was my honesty appre-
cated? Not at all. My poverty rendered
me .despised. One mau whom owed &c.
900, which l paid, principal and interest,
called me "scoundrel," though paid hun
dred cents on a dollar. That man, rich as
he then was. has broken to pieces, and paid
only twelve 4 half cents on dollar. There
is my friend -, who failed at the same
time did, and saved $I5O,O00, and there is
neighbor so and SO, a similar CASE And he
went on and named some half dozen weal>
Thy men, who have got rich by bankruptcy.
They ride in their carriages, and here am
keeping this little shop told him would
much rather be in his shoes than theirs, for
conscious meanness must mar all their pleas
ure. The world don't agree with YOU be
rejoned bitterly. was sorry TO see the old
man have SO much feeling OH the subject
The rich men whom lie named may flourish
for time, but verify they will have their
reward
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
Portrait of Columbus,

A correspondent of the New York Her
aid, writing from Rome, August 25th, 1851,
says
" An original portrait of Columbus has just
been found. The circumstances connected with
this discovery, as they were impaired to me,
are as follows -
Mr.. Cass, the U. S. Minister, while travel
ing, not long since, in the Abruzzi mountains,
near which stands convent of the Passionists.
He was received into this convent, and remain
ed there some time. The monks showed him
their collection of manuscripts and paintings,
among which was the picture in question. 1t
was purchased by MIR. Cass, and arrived here a
few days ago. have just returned from in
specting it, and, certainly, the historical inter-
est attaching to it renders it one of the most
interesting objects have ever seen. To an
American 1t is priceless-of inestinable value.
The painting is of large size-about fonr feet
by three, and represents scene at the port of
Palos, in Spain. AT the very edge of the wa
ter is erected a temporary canopy, composed Of
sails, supported by oar blades, under which a
priest is standing before pris dieu, with light
ed candles before him, celebrating mass con-
sPicnous in the foreground, richly appareiled.
with rapier by his side, and plumed hat in
his hand, appears Columbus, kneelng upon
one knee, while to the right, kneeling upon
both knees, in attitudes of profound devotion,
are TO be seen three or four officers of inferior
degree, together with other mariners scat
tered in the back ground are several Indians,
natives of the newly discovered Islands, one Of
whom is holding a large hound, while others
are bound with manacles In the of1inp: rid.
ing at anchor, with the flag of Spain flying
from her mast head, appears ship, the sigh,
of which would throw Baltimore clipper in
to fits. The costly sastellated, and elaborate
ly carved stern, and the still more lofty and
elaborately carved lamp sustained above it,
give US an idea of naval architecture in the 18th
century. Her decks are crowded with sailors,
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
The Mother of NAPOLEON,

HARPERs' MAGAZINE for October commences
with continuation of the Life of Napoleon
Bonaparte, by John S. G. Abbott; containing
history of the first campaign in in Italy, with
six illustrations from original designs. The
following beautiful tribute to the virtues and
piety of The mother Of Napoleon, we copy from
the number before US:
From what source did this young soldier
imbibe these elevated principles. Licentious-
ness, irreligion, gambling had been the trinity
of revolutionary France-the substitute which
rampant in6delity had adopted, for beniguant
Father, pleading Saviour, a sanctifying Spirit.
Napoleon was reared in the midst of these de-
moralizing influences. And yet how unsullied
does his character appear when compared with
that of his companions in the camp and on the
throne Napoleon informs US that to his
mother he was indebted for every pure and no
bic sentiment which inspired his bosom.
Letitia, the mother of Napoleon, was wo-
man Of extraordinary endowments. She had
herself hardly passed the period of childhood,
being but nineteen years Of age, when she
heard the first wailing cry Of Napoleon, her
second born, and pressed the helpless babe,
with thanksgiving and prayer to her maternal
bosom. She was young mother to train and
educate such child for his unknown and ex-
alted destiny. She encircled, in protecting
arms, the nursing babe, as it fondled mother
bosom with those little hands, which, in after
years, grasped sceptres, and uphove thrones,
and hewed down armies with resistless sword.
She taught those infant lips to lisp papa
mamma those lips at whose subsequent com
mand all Europe was moved, and whose burn
ing, glowing, martial words fell like trumpet.
tones upon the world, hurting nation upon ma
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Important Discovery,

a DR.. Turnbull, Of London, processes to
have discovered certain cure for deafness
and blindness, and is now in New York,
where he proposes to illustrate his practice.
He explains his treatment openly, and pre-
tends to no exclusive skill or knowledge
The N. Y. Evening Post gives the following
account of his discovery
"Some years ago, according to his own
account he observed that the eyes of persons
who had died Of bydrocyanic or prussic acid,
became diIa;ed and unusually clear Just after
death, it occurred 10 him that the acid must
exert come specific action upon the eyes
He consequently made number Of expert
ments, and was delighted to find tina, his
conjectures were not without truth. The
sight Of those who were near-sighted were
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ton in the shock of war. She taught those
upon the carpet, rewarding the successful en-
deavor with mothers kiss and mothers ca
ress-those feet which afterwards strobe over
the sands of the desert, and waded through the
blood-stained snow-drifts of Russia, and tot
tered in the inirmities of sickness and death,
on the misty, barren, storfn-swept crags of ST.
Helena She instilled into the bosom of her
son those elevated principles Of honor and self
respect, which, when surrounded by every
temptation earth could present, preserved him
from the degraded doom of the inebriate, of the
voluptuary, and of the gamester, and which
made the court Of Napoleon, when the most
brilliant court this world has ever known, also
the most illustrious for the purity Of its morals
and the decorum of its observances. The sim
cere, unaffected piety Of Letitia rose so high
above the corruptions of corrupt and profligate
church, that her distinguished son, notwith-
standing the all but universal inidelity of the
times, was compelled to respect religion
which had embellshed beloved mothers life.
He was induced, in his day of power. to bring
back wayward nation Of thirty millions from
cherries, brutalizing, comfortless unbelief, to
all the consoling, ennobling, purifying inauen-
ces of Christianity. When at the command of
Napoleon the church bells began again to toll
the hour of prayer, on every hill side, and
through every valley in France, and the dawn
Of the Sabbath again guided rejoicing thous-
ands in the silent country to the temples of re-
ligion-when the young, in their nuptials, and
the aged in their death were blessed by the
solemnities of gospel ministrations, it was a
mothers influence which inspired dutiful son
to make the magic change, which thus, in an
hour, transformed France from Pagan to NOM
inally Christian land. 1t was the calm, gen.
tie, persuasive voice of Letitia which was en-
bodied in the consular decree Honor to Lett
tia, the mother of Napoleon
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
The Rights Of Women.
BY MRS. L. II. SIGOURNEY.

There is much clamor in these days of pro-
gress, respecting grant of new rights, or an
extension of privileges to our sex. A power
ful moralist has said, that In confessions for
power, both the philosophy and poetry of life
are dropped and trodden down. Would not
a still greater loss accrue TO domestic happi-
ness, and TO the interest of well balanced So
ciety, should the innate delicacy and preroga-
tive of woman, as ,Uonan, be forfeited or sac
rifced?
Il have given her as helpmeet,' said the
Voice that cannot err, when it spake unto Ad-
am, in the cool of the day, amid the trees of
Paradise. Not as toy, clog, wrestler, a
prize fighter. No; heipmeet et-such as was
fitting for man to desire, and woman to be-
come.
Since the Creator has assigned different
spheres of action for the different sexes, 1t is
to be presumed, from His unerring wisdom,
that there is work enough in each department
to employ them, and that the faithful perform
ance of that work will be for the benefit oil
both. If He has made one, the prlestess OF
the inner temple, committing to her charge Its
sacred shrine, its unrevealed sanctities, why
should she seek to mingle in the warfare that
NAV thunder at its gates or rock Its turrets!-
Need she be again tempted by pride OF curl
osity. or plozing words to barter her own Eden
The true nobility of woman is to keep her
own sphere, and to adorn it, not like the COM
ct, dannting and perplexing other systems, buI
as the pure star, which is the first to light the
day, and the last to leave it. Ifshe share not
the fame of the ruler and the blood ehedder
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
Apples for Human Food.

The importance of apples as food has not
hitherto been sufficiently estimated or under
stood in this country. Besides contributing a
large portion of sugar, mucilage and other nu-
tritive matter, in the form of food, they contain
such fine combination of vegetable acids, ab-
with the nutrtive matter, as to act powerfully
in the capacity of refrigerants, tonics and anti
septics; and when used at the season of ripe
ness by rural laborers and others, they prevent
debility, strengthen digestion, correct the putre-
factive tendencies of nitrogenous food, avert
scurvy, and probably maintain and strengthen
the powers of productive labor.
The operators of Cornwall, in England, con-
slider ripe apples equal to bread and better than
potatoes. In the year 1901, year of scarcity,
apples, instead Of being converted into cider,
were sold to the poor, and the laborers assert
ed that they could stand their work on baked
apples without meat whereas potato diet re-
quired either meat or fish.
The French and Germans use apples ex-
tensively, indeed it is rare that they sit down
in rural districts without them in some shape
or other. even at the best table. The labor
ers and mechanics depend on them, to very
great extent, as articles Of food, and frequent
Iy dine on sliced apples and bread. Stewed
with rice. red cabbage, carrots, or by them
solves, with little sugar or milk, they make
both pleasant and nutritious dish. If our
friends will only provide themselves with a
plenty Of choice fruit, we will venture to as
sert that not one man, woman, or child in
fifty would care for animal flesh to eat
Who doubts, for a moment. that many scrof-
ulous and other diseases are traceable 10
flesh diet? It's we'll known that much of
the meat we eat is in diseased state when
slaughtered. and its effects may well be i'm
agined. Yel our fruit is always in healthy
state, and cannot generate disease in the
human body; but it has a diluting, purify
ing ard renovatng tendency Water Cure
Journal.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23

Immediately improved by it, while the eyes
ofpersons totally blind were gradually opened.
The vapor of the acid-for il was the vapor
alone that was used-seemed to act both as
a siimulant and a sedative. BY exciting the
small blood vessels. the circulation was quick
ened, and the eye soon relieved itself Of all
morbid affections. Subsequent experiments
showed that the practice might be varied to
suit different maIndies, by employing other,
but kindred agents, such as cloracync acid,
sulpiure'ted chyazic acid, and chlozarer OF
iodine. They are simply pu, in a glass
vial and the vnpor applied to the eye, but us
these are very destructive agents. the ut
most care should be taken in the applica-
tion." sf b, .7e ftrst .,aitar ...t.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23

The editor Of the San Francisco Despatch
lately visited what is called the Chinese por-
tion Of that city, where he saw Chung Lungs
washing establishment. He says:
g The plan adopted is to wash collars and
wristbands once a week, and The whole shirt
once fortnight; by this means much labor
is saved, and the time gained is piously de-
voted to gambling. The ironing is done by
means OF an instrument much resembling a
warming pan, which is slid backwards and
forwards over the piece Of apparel, and is
kept filled with Goals. One ceremony which
particularly struck us, and which we UNDER
stand is a religious one connecred with the
worship OF Fo, was that one Of the Celestials
having selected very fine pair Of stockings,
drew them on his own legs, leaving his old
ones TO he washed. We were Of course
much gratiied by this exhibition Of devo-
tiOnn
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Curiosities of the Worlds Fair.

Specimen of silver lead ore. weighing $50
lbs, from the Great Coward silver lead mine.
A block of pure silver, weighing more than
I4O lbs.
Canister of boiled mutton, supplied to Arc
tic Expedition in 1924, and found by Captain
Sir John Ross in Prince Regents Inlet, in
le46 in perfect state of preservation.
Pure Southdown eve, stuffed, years old,
which was never shorn. Length of the wool
25 inches, weight Sc lbs.
Working model of pair Of non-condensing
steam engines, standing within the compass of
shilling, and weighing three drachms.
Sewing machine, capable of sewing 500
stitches per minute.
A sporting-watch, which shows the time to
one-sixlh of second
Clock in case, which occupied thirty-four
years in its completion, with astronomical,
genealogical, and other movements, wind Or
gan, &c.
Tuning fork, with chromatic scale, by which
any note may be turned with pleasure.
A boot and shoe made from single piece
of leather
Patchwork quilt, in l3, 500 pieces Of cloth,
the sole work of the exhibitor, and has occu-
died his leisure hours for eighteen years.
A horse shoe, designed to permit the natu-
raj expanding of the foot of the horse.
Bed cover of patchwork, the number of pie
ces nearly 10000.
Self-actng calculator of surface. The area
of any figure drawn on plain, is found by
moving the tracer over the outline, however
irregular it may be.
Oval medallion of her majesty, produced by
single line of equal thickness, and 269 feet in
length.
A piece of white linen, spun and woven by
hand, having 1000 threads in the warp.
A lump of gold ore weighing cwt.
A second-watch, made of ivory, with gold
screws and steel moving powers. 1t works in
ten rubies and weighs (glass and vase included)
half an ounce.
An octagonal table of inlaid wood, contain.
ing 100000 pieces; the arms of England
alone in space of inches by 2, consisting of
SO 900 of these pieces.
A watch going one year.
A Berlin wool carpet, executed by one hun
dred and fifty ladies of Great Britain The
dimensions of this carpet are thirty feet in
length, and twenty in breadth. The carpe,
has been produced in the following manner :
The pattern originally designed and painted by
the artist, has been subdivided into detached
squares, and which have been worked by the
different ladies'; and on the completion, the
squares have been united so as to complete the
design. In the pattern, which consists of geo.
metrical and partly of floral forms, heraldic en-
blems have been introduced The initials of
the executants are ornamentally arranged 50 as
to form the external border. The whole de-
sign is connected by wreathes or bands ol
leaves and foliage, the centre of the group re-
presenting the store from which they have been
distributed. London Family Friend.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23
Why don't Men get Rich ?

OF one hundred men, it would be safe, we
think, 10 assert that twenty-five have q
strong desire 10 be possessed of worldly
goods aud properly; in word to he rich.
or these seven'y-6ve, in our active and ready
witIed American popuIaIion il would rarely
happen that one was entirely wanting In
faculty and dlligence--and yet few up TO
middle aye, acquire competency, or IN re-
spect 10 fortune, accomplish their wishes
Can any man give US the philosophy OF this
frequent result? There is in every commu
nifty a number Of persons determined not TO
labor, who lend their inert energies 10 the
reversal of the order OF scripture, by the
sweat Of thy brow thou shalt i've. They
resolve, and maintain their resolution with
calm and stubborn uniformity 10 the end OF
their DAYS, not to sweat but TO keep cool
and lei Others do the hard work in the heat
of the day. Characters of this stamp are TO
be found in every town, village, city and dis
trict in the country.
And how do they live? Simply by using
others. Either by getting possession Of lheiI
property, without paying for il, OH false
credit, or by bringing others in, by way Of
loans and endorsements, TO pay their debts.
In word, diIgent Americans fail TO grow
rich, at least TO secure competency-by
not collecting the debts they have earned il
their calling. or by having to pay the debts
of other people. These are two fruitful
sources Of all the failures Of the country. Do
we argue, therefore, against loans aud cred
its! In one form aud another, they are the
bond and basis Of all modern soclety-the
point we seek to get at is this-lhat men who
have small means, should live on small
means; that no man has a right to launch
into splendor on the expected profits OF his
business, and TO make his creditors contrib
ute to his extravagance and that Of his
household in other words, no man has a
right to spend dollar before he has earned
a dollar. Attention 10 those maxims will
save many an anxious hesrt-ache,-L Literary
World, -fl-
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and boats are passing petween the ship and

and boats are passing petween the ship and
shore. No
The following is the history Of this interest
ing picture, which l transcribed almost literatin,
from the old manuscript attached to the frame
1t was painted by order of the Convent La
Prabida, at Palos, in 1893, Immediately after
the occurrence of the event it commentaries.
In 1870, several of the monks belonging to this
convent, together with much of the property it
possessed, was transferred to Viterbo, in the
Papal States. From Vi,erbo, the new con-
want removed in 1862, to the vicinity of Aqui-
ba, in the Abruzzi mountains, where it wrs
subsequently merged into that of the Pas
sionists, previously existing on the same
spot. sHi Quad -e-
The authorities at Rome, l am told, have
offered Mr.. Cass large sum for this painting,
which he has refused AS their proceedings
are rather summary in the matter of the fine
arts, by virtue of a prohibitory law, was very
glad to hear that this picture would be sent out
of Rome in very few hours, and thus escape
the grasp of these covetous gentry. There is
one place, and only one place fit for it. 1t
should hang in the capitol.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-10-23

THE Swan OF AFRIcA.-A new impulse
is now about to be given to musical Juror
A new Candidate for fame in the world Of
song has arisen in the West. j is a bird of
African extraction, though no, exactly black
bird; and she has spread her wings under
the euphonious title of The "Black Swan"
She is colored girl, belonging to Buffalo,
N. Y, where she is making preparations for
her debut. She has surprised and delighted
those who have heard her, and is said 10 pos
sess voice of great purity and hexibility
and extraordinary compass-singing notes
in alto with brilliancy and sweetness, npd
descending 10 the bass notes with power
and volume which is perfectly astonishing.
The Buffalo Commercial Of Saturday last
says:-
The'Black Swan'-gave a rehearsal yes
terday afternoon at Townsend Hall. Those
who heard her, came we believe, to the unan-
imous conclusion that she was next to Jenny
Lind. at least in her vocal powers. She has
great compass OF voice rising and falling
from the highest to the lowest tones, with the
greatest ease and rapidly, with 'intonations
softly sweet, and anon thrilling and startling