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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-27

The stables &C. of the Ohio Stage Company, at Toledo
with number Of horses carriages, &c., destroyed
by Gre on Saturday; ALSO Messrs Brown Links rect
flying establishment and Newcombe Aulds paint shop
with number of small frame buildings.
Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-27

Il
N,,| suppose the right of our people neocaol j.
sdble cannot be doubted under that clause Ne right
of freedom Of speech is fully secured ase AMI there
FORE IT seems to me that any gentleman especially sch
an individual as this invited to shores and Sro0bt
in one of the Government vessels might at least allow
ed to make public speech without being chard with
being foreign emissary and particularly might allow
ed to reply in very proper to addresses made to
him by other persons. venture shy that if tie ron
tIeman from North Carolina will look little into lie pub
lie prints of New York. he will find that the demeanor of
that gentleman from the time he reached shor has
been modest, dignfed udicious that he has shown no
intermeddng spirit that he has not only not adtaed
against our institutions but that under the most eraor
binary tests, he has manifested determination MOTTO in
terere in the least possible degree with domestic nues
TONS He has said expressly that his mission is in Iehaf
of Hungary in behalf of his own country and he you'd
deem himself disgraced if he should utter singleword
or write word which could by possibility be construed
into an intention his part TO interfere at all with the
management of our domestic concerns These are the
facts Of the His speeches all of one tenbr and
character And yet the gentleman to conceive that
he ustabe in consequence Of certain acts performed
by Governor Kossuth in denouncing him emssary
An emssary he cannot be and emigrant too The
tlemans knowledge of philoogy, think has not been
exactly accurate upon this occasion il is USUALLY by
him manifested to be- IL he is an emgrant to this coun-
try, as the gentleman supposed would recognise him.
he could not be emissary And If he he not an ami
grant, as we know he is not at present. but has come
simply visitor to shores and for legitimate pur-
pose how can the gentleman call him emissary sup
pose man cannot be emissary without being sent ou
the word eissdry being derived all know from the
two Latin words, and mto Who sent him out? II he
IS an emissary somebody must have him; but un-
oersand him TO have come among poilate and
with the declared consent and than consent of the
people Of the United States that he should come to
Snores 70 receive our attention and hospitality in
mhom every man who is lover Of freedom feel an
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Circumstantial Evidence.

We know not when more singular case has
lish paper. 1t shows how likely judges and ju-
rors are to be mistaken, and how often the inno-
cent have been convicted.
A young gentleman, articled to an attorney in
London was tried on five indictments for differ
ent acts of theft. A person resembling the
prisoner in size and general appearance had call
ed at various shops in the metropolis, for the
purpose of looking a: jewelry, books, and other
articles, with the pretended intention OF making
purchases, but made off with the property placed
before him, while the shop-keepers were engag-
ed in looking out the other articles. In each of
these cases the prisoner was positively identified
by several persons, while in the majority of them
an abb was clearly and positively established,
and the young man was proved to be OF orderly
habits and irreproachable character, and under
no temptation, from want of money, to resort to
acts of dishonesty. Similar depredations on
other tradesmen had been committed by person
resembling the prisoner, and those persons prov
ed that, though there was considerable resem-
blance to the prisoner, he was not the person
who had robbed them. The prisoner was con-
victed on one indictment, but acquitted on all
others; and the judges and jurors who tried the
three last cases expressed their conviction that
the prosecutors had been robbed by another per-
son resembling the prisoner. A pardon was i'm
mediately procured in respect of that charge on
which the conviction had taken place.
Not many months before the last mentioned
case respectable young man was tried for
highway robbery committed in the neighborhood
of Bethna Green, in which neighborhood both
he and the prosecutor resided. The prosecutor
swore positively that the prisoner was the man
who robbed him of his watch. The counsel for
the prisoner called genteel young woman, to
whom the prisoner paid his addresses, who gave
evidence which proved complete allbtT The
prosecutor was then ordered out of court, and in
the interval another young man, OF the name Of
Greenwood, who awaited his trial on charge of
capital felony, was introduced, and placed by
the side of the prisoner. The prosecutor was
again placed in the witness box, and addressed
thus Remember, sir, the life OF this young
man depends upon your reply to the questions
l am about to put. Will you swear that the
young man at the bar is the person who assault
ed you? The witness turned towards the dock,
when, beholding two men so near alike, he be-
came petrfed with astonshment, dropped his
hat, and was speechless for time, but at length
;, declined swearing to either. The young man
was OF course acquitted. Greenwood was tired
for another offence and executed and few
hours before his death acknowledged that he
> had committed the robbery with which the other
was charged.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
A New Mechanical Wonder.

The Cincinnati papers give an account of
machine invented by Mr.. Solomans, by which
they represent, carbon is made to serve all the
purposes of steam. Some twelve years ago,
the inventor conceived the idea that there is pow
er in this fluid far surprising that of steam
At that time he constructed an engine, but it
was defective, and his attempt failed, yet he
continued to experiment He has now so per-
fected his machinery that the utility of this new
power can be fully seen. With common whit
ing, sulphuric acid and water, he generates the
gas Five dollars worth of these materials,
says the NOnpareiL, will serve to propel boat
across the ocean, half dozen times, and if
there be no leakage, it will keep the boat In
motion until it wears out This fluid has pres
sure of $40 pounds on the square inch, while
water has none, except that of gravity. Water
at the boiling point gives pressure of l5 lbs.
With the addition of 80 degrees Of heat, the
power is double, giving 30 pounds-and SO on,
doubling with every addition Of 30 degrees OF
heat, until we have $3.50 pousds under heat
of 45l deorees-a heat which no engine can
endure. But with the carbon, 20 degrees of
heat gives 1880 pounds; 40 degrees gives p
100 pounds; so degrees gives 4,32O pounds
that is 1872 degrees less than boiling heat gives,
a greater power with this gas, than 452 give by
converting water into steam! The result is
that it requires 81 300 of expense to run boat
to New-Oreans and back again with the old EN-
gine, while this one will do the same work fol
$50,
MIR. Soomans has his engine in operation
1t is of 25 horse power, and raises l2,OOO pounds
up and down five times in minute. He has II
SO planted that it's power may be seen' The
engine is so constructed as to be self-sustainlng
manufacturing and pumping its own gas
while small furnacn, almost halt as large a'
common furnace for heating flat iron, furnish
es all the heat besides A handful of char
coal does the work, and his boiler is about al
arge as a good sized cannon ball
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
VOLUME VIII. NO. 35.
The Echo Hunter.

There was not any part of Ireland, Scotland
or Wales, in which he was not familiar. He had
visited Switzerland, too, but the mountains and
valleys there, he sad were on too vast scale
for his purpose. In Merionethshire and Snow
donia, and other parts of North Wales, he had
been very successful, as also in the western
Highlands of Scotland; but it was in the wilder
districts of Connaught and Munster that he most
delighted. In Glen Inagh, not far from the head
of Kyemore Lake, at the foot Of Mulrea Noun
tain, near the Killeriee on the Western side Of
Croagh Patrick, and in Ballycroy, near the lake
OF Carregabiniough, and in spot between Cor
selleve and Nephin Beg mountains, he had
awakened, he said, responses that might almost
be thought supcrinhuman the valleys and cliffs
seemed to start into life, and their voices were
lifted up as if they were living things. "But,"
said he, lowering his voice. it were vain for you
or any other mortal to attempt to find out these
peculiar spots. alone discovered them, and
with me the knowledge of their existence will
die. AS no living man has the powers of invit-
alton that possess, SO it is vain to expect from
nature a similar response. 1t cannot be-"
readily assented to this assertion, being of
course, quite convinced that the response Of the
echo must be more or less wonderful according
to the skill of the musician My companion
was in all respects gentleman, was first rate
udge of the laws of harmony, knew the merits
and dement's of all the principle composers and
artists of the day, intermingled many interest
ing anecdotes with his disqulsitions, and crit-
cised with taste and learning. Ere we parted
for the night he invited me to accompany him
on the following morning on an excursion into
the Ballycroy mountains; and it was IN this val
ley, not very far from the spot where we are now
sitting, that he gave me specimen OF his pow
ers of awakening the voice of Nature" lie
placed me on a certain spot, and exactng
promise that would not follow him, he retired,
and in about quarter of an hour gave me such
a treat in his peculiar art as can never forget
To describe it Is impossible. No band OF IN
strumenta music in the world could equal it.
The reverberations were perfectly astounding.
The rocks and mountains seemed alive with the
soul of harmony the softest and widest notes
hoated on the air, now close, now distant; now
dying away in some distant recess of the valley,
now awakening louder and louder among the
cliffs and precipices at one moment faint as the
Whisper of the breeze, at another loud, clear, and
IEod as the trumpet of the Areh~"ge'.--
Saxon in Ireland
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Sugar----Its Production----Con-
sumption.

The total annual production of sugar, by all
the nations of the world, is estimated at 2,42I,-
740, $3.50 lbs, two billions, four hundred and
twenty,one millions, seven hundred and forty
thousand, eight hundred and thirty pounds) OF
this gross, the Spanish possessions produce 671,-
866,600 lbs; the English, 800, ,240, l42 lbs; the
French, 1877 ,333,750 lbs; the Dutch, 100000
900 lbs; United States, 2OO,O00,0O0 lbs; Brazil,
260,000,000 lbs; Danish and Swedish possess
sions, 20,000,000 lbs German and Belgian, 30
100000 lbs the rest Of the world, (being Mex
leo, Guatemala, northern and western South A.
merica, Egypt and China l8230O000 lbs.
The consumption of the principal countries is
at the following annual average for each indi-
vidual of her population Spain and her possess
sions, II lbs Great Britain, 81 British Amer
lea, 12; United States, 18; Germany 5 France
8; Brazil l6; rest Of South America 6; Hol-
land and her possessions Is; Italy and Swizer-
land 2; Sweden and Norway 3; Mexico etc. /;
Russia, l-2; Turkey and Egypt China,
Is of pound rest of the world, 1-32d
The United States consume three hundred
and sixty million pounds yearly, or nearly twice
her product; England and her possessions con-
sumo all they raise, save one hundred and fifty
millions Spain and her possessions use but
about one third their product, and therefore are
the main source of supply for non-producing and
over consumptive countries. Brazil has large
surplus, two hundred million pounds, while most
most of the other countries consume more than
they produce.
These interesting statistics concerning this
most important article of commerce and con-
sumption, are derived from full tables prepared
and published at lIavanna, the great Gentle of
the sugar trade. 1t might be interesting to pur.
sue the subject still deeper, and discover how
large proportion of the annual consumption is
drank in punch, and how much in tea, lover
which men and women grow garrulous,) and
how much is given to babies to stop them from
crying but we are forbidden by the fact that
our imagination here goes beyond even the
statistical spirit of the age. We throw out the
hint, however, TO be considered at the next cen
sus-taking, or, if Mr. Lemuel Shattuck, whllon
of the Massachusetts legislature can effect it, tc
form the subject of especial inquiry before them
l-SpringfeId Republican.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Art of Embalming Re-Discovered.

At meeting of the Aslatic Society in Lon
don, some time ago, human hand and piece
of beef, preserved by means of vegetable tar,
found on the borders of The Red Sea, in the VII
cinity of Mocha, were presented; a specimen
of the tar accompanied them. COL Holt who
presented the specimens, observes:
"During my last residence on the Red Sea,
conversation with some Bedoun Arabs, in the
vicinity of Mocha, led me to suspect that the
principal ingredient used by the Ancient Egyp-
tians in the formation of mummies was nothing
more than the vegetable tar of those countries,
which is called by the Arabs, Katren.
My first trials to prove the truth OF this con-
lecture were LEGS Of mutton; and though made
in july. when the thermometer ranged at %
deg. in the shade, they succeeded SO much to my
satisfaction, that forwarded some to England
and have now the pleasure to send to the society
human hand prepared in similar way four
wears since. The best informed among the A
rabs think that large quantities fcamphor, aoes,
frankincense, myrrh, etc, were used i'll the prep
aration of the mummies. These specimens will
however prove that such additions were by no
means necessary, as the tar applied alone pene-
trates and dscolors the bone This tar is OBJ
tanned from the branches of small tree or shrub,
exposed to a considerable degree of heat, and
it is found in most parts of Syria and Arabia
Felix"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY

In the meantime the settler, hunterAor robbef,
in whatever vocation he might appeafb mad re-
penished tho fire with some logs Of d N. tSkofy,
while the busy housewife was pre-! Ming the
homely meal.
1t consisted of fried venison steak Fort Adodg-
ers,' and highly favored coffee, witIthe Rpur-
tenances of fresh cream and excellent buter.
The Missionary, who had eaten nothiEs since
early dawn, and was cogitaing whetbE temi-
nine humanity would not afford him afnorsel in
the corner where he sat, was startled with the
invitation Sit by, stranger, and IKE bite
lfsurprise and gratitude we're The FIRST emotions,
amazement followed, when the appasent saober
implored the blessing Of G0tin e selto4ous soice,
closing with an expressive Amen:
Bewildered and confused, the missionary for
got to eat until repeatedly reminded by his now
apparently hospitable landlord, and the kind
hearted wife, that he did not eat Perhaps he
was not used to such fare, - Would he'take a
cupof milk He did not seem to regain his
appetite until the officious housewife brought on
her platter of honey, gathered from thu hollow
sycamore, and made divers apologies hat her
larder contained nothing that he could eat.
After supper, the landlord commenced relig-
ious conversation with the inquiry Are you
processing man, stranger" The question reIa-
tive to church membership was propounded in a
novel form, and did not convey TO the mind of
the missionary exactly the idea intended,
'You looked mighty Skeered when found you
in the prairie. reckon you was sort O. lost
Still the replies were vague and confused, and
it was not until the owner ofthe cabin, in loud
and animatng tone struck up the favorte hymn
of the followers of Wesley
charge TO keep have
God to glorfy,
never dying soul to save,
And fit it for the sky
In which the wife joined, that the missionary
was relieved from his purturbation, and could
converse calmly. The hymn was followed by a
characteristic prayer, in which the stranger was
atfectlonately remembered at the throne Of mer-
cy, to which the wife responded with several au.
dlble groans Conversation followed the even.
ing oblation, during which the missionary dis.
closed his profession, and his object in travelling
and received due reproof for his previous back
wardness.
But he had not the heart to tell them bis fear
and suffering from the apprehension of robber,
and murder from kind-hearted local Me thodis
preacher in backwoods disguise, who was thu
first man to preach the Gospel tothe scattA pre-,
population efgtho boyders " the Qsund pr Sric
on the east sldo of the Okau.
Next morning the missionary led in prayeI
and after an early breakfast the hospitabl
preacher saddled his own horse, with that Of th
missionary, and piloted him across the rive
several miles in the direction towards C.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Infdelity.

Mrs. Swisshelm, the lady editor Of the Pitts
burgh Saturday Evening Post thus discourses
on infdelity.
The Boston Investigator, an infdel paper,
comes to us and on the margin written, "Mad-
amc, please exchange" With great pleasure,
sir. We never saw the Investigator but once
before, and that was ten years ago. We read
it carefully, and one sentence in it we shall
never forget. The writer was speaking of the
tendency of the doctrine of grace to licentious-
ness-talking Of the license Christian might
feel to sin, because his hope of pardon through
savior, and boasting Of the superior morality
OF the creed. He introduced the negative side
of the argument in these words. But the poor
Infdel has no God, no Heaven, no Jesus Christ,
no He'll"
No words ever struck us with such benumb-
ing force. What poor, homeless orphan
What helpless, desolute child? A man with
out God to love or heaven to hopo fora
sinner without a savior. No elaborate descrip-
ton of woe unutterable ever conveyed to our
mind the picture of despair which did these few
words. We never said Our Father" with the
same overwhelming meaning-wlth the same
overwhelming desire to be acknowledged as a
child Our Father! What if we were cast
into the regions of space, to wander loose at
ON, without any centre to attract us, no light to
cheer, or a sun to warm; nothing before, our
world behind, and an invisible, irresistible moth.
ing driving us thence oh the dread horrors
Of such a situation. No hell, no God, no hoav.
en-and the universe becomes hell. Past
present, and to come, around, above, below
there is nothing but the blackness Of despair
a dreary void, sunless and hopeless future
and what greater he'll can anybody have! The
poor lnfdo has nothing else, Since that, moth
ing, rational or irrational, has ever appeared
to demand pity like the poor man who has NJ
God.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28

New MODE OF DEMONSTRATING THE RoTA-
rIoN OF THE EARTH---Professor Strong, of
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. j., has
Just put in operation a new contrivance for test
ing this scientific problem, which puts the
French pendulum mode entirely in the shade
Professor Strong has constructed wooden
wheel six feet in diameter, but very slight in.
deed, its weight beng only two pounds. This
wheel is supported horizontally, the hub resting
on a steel needle, in the same manner that
compass is supported. The needle fits into
glass socket. Placed in room free from cur
rents of air and all disturbance, the motion of
the earth around the wheel is perceptible, the
wheel apparently performing the revolution in
the proper number of hours. 1t is proper to
state that no motion is externally communicated
to the wheel. This is the latest perpetual mo-
ton we have heard of. By this wheel it is said
that the latitude can at all times be correctly as
certained. The experiment is not confined to a
wheel of such large dimensions, but may be re-
allied with smaller ones. The experiment, we
learn, will probably soon be tested at the Wash :
ington Observatory,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Ghe Gomtlp GirGle.


pUNcTuALIrY.-Half the secret Of the Sue
& S Of eminent men is their punctuality. In
d, we doubt whether any instance can be
where man has reached much true emf
without it. Washington once said to a
Secretary, who laid the blame on his watch
(ou must then either get another watch, or
other Secretary" Let our young men lay
Is up in their hearts, for their fortunes in life
Z Z greatly depend on the strict observance Of
invaluable habit.-ED.
4 splause is the spur of noble minds, the end
am of weak ones.
1 order to deserve true friend, we mus
N first to be one.
IL who serves God has the best master il
world.
No man is greater in truth, than he is in God'
esteem.
AN iron anvil should have an hammer 0
feathers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-08-28
Duration of t b @ Earth.
As Intimated by Autonomy.

The following views, by a correspondent of
the Puritan Recorder, upon the "Duration Of
the Earth" as indicated by Astronomy, will be
read, we think, with much interest.
The evidence which geology affords Of the
great antiquity of the earth, turns thought to
be evidence which astronomy furnishes of its
tfuture continuance. From the many striking
resemblances between bodies that compose the
solar system, we infer from them common orl-
gin and common destiny. The earth, then,
will probably live while the system lives, and
no longer. What its particular destiny may be
and by what means brought about, we stop not
here to inquire. Our only purpose now, is to
consider some ntimations furnished US by the
system itself, that it is fashioned for long du
ration. This is indicated by the immense
length of some of the periods involved in this
system.
=. According to the commonly received chronol-
ogy, the planet Neptune has had but thirty-six
of his years since the creation of our race. If the
analogy between the earth and that planet holds
good, then the first generation of his inhabit-
ants is hardly passed away. Some comets have
net vet had one year since the date of Adams
creation.
But there are periods of greater length still.
The earth's Perihelion is slowly creeping around
the orbit from West to East, at a rate which
will require Ill 900 years to complete the cir
cult. The Periheon of Mercury Is moving in
similar manner, at rate which will require
100000 years to complete 1t. Other planets ex
llbt the same movement.
Now if all the planets in the system were ar
anged along in line on the same side Of the
un, and all in their Perihelia, i. e., all in that
ont of their orbits which is nearest the sun,
md then all their orbits set revolving according
their present laws of motion, millions years
must elapse ere all of them would meet again
lnder the same circumstances to hold their fam
y festival preparatory to another revolution oI
he same length.
The earth's orbit is now an ellipse, but is
slowly becoming circular and at its present
Iate of change, will become perfect circle II
about half million of years from TINS ume
Then it will begin to resume Its ellptlcal form
becoming more and more eiPtical for some
millions of years, when having obtained the
maximum of ellipticity, it will begin again L
shape itself like a circle. Corresponding witt
its change and caused by it, is change OF th'
ucriod of the moons revolution. Its period Il
NOW slowly shortening its motion in revolution
oG course increasing and this rate of increase
il such as will make it gain little more thar
is diameter in thousand years. This shorten
iRg Of her period and increase of velocity vii
c5ntinue until the earth's orbit becomes perfec
tlrcle, and then sho will slowly reverse he
Novements and gradually return to her forme
4ndition.