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TIM TRUTH INA NUT SHifEL SHifELL.-The wash.
iDgton correspondent Of. the PennsylYansan
speaks deal Of truth in this little paraersaehs
= Talk Of the settlement Of the slave aaes.
tion! The idea is absurd. It viii nsven;be
settled as long as ademagog can ride into
Office through its agitation. # fhe South
were to tie its hands and seal its lips, make
no resistance to anti-slayery preachers and
ligger-stealers, and make no attempt te re>
claim their property when robbed Of it, the
agitators of the North-the Greelys and
Garrisons and Abby Kellys would not be-
satisfied. Then they would 60 IN strongest
for arlning the slave for assassination ?. g.,
CorpER-FAcED TYPE.-Seyeralp public Jour
nails in New York and Boston have made
their appearance in new dress, being printed
on type faced with copper, which is thus
described by the New York Courier and
Enquirer one of the papers which has adopts
ed it: .sa.91es .baa 7dsEgH Ss551bt
aThis type has been submitted to the pro.
cess recently invented, by which it receiyesa
copper face. The attempts which have made
to substitute harder metal for the ordinary
type metal, have hitherto been failures. But
the method by which this type has been,har-
dened has been so far tested rs to induce as
to venture upon experiment with our present
font, probably the largest ever cast lin this
country, and we have reason to think thatit
will not disappoint our expectations; butso
that we shall have moresto say hereafter"
FIRST CARGO DIRECT FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
The brig Gen. Pinckney, Capt Cooke, ar
rived at Baltimore on Saturday, direct from
San Francisco, in l2l days.. She brings q
full cargo Of hides, horns and merchandise.
This is said to be the first cargo received d.
rect from that port at any Atlantic port since
California has been attached to the United
States. The Gen. P. sailed from Baltimore
for Sacramento City on the 18th March, 1850,
and has therefore been absent ten days less
than one Charleston Courier. = I'll,
A TRAVELLER in America records the fol-
lowing anecdote:-s GO tsssst4s
II heard a genuine Yankee story from one
of the party on deck; Twas inquiring If the
Hudson was frozen up or not during the
winter? This led to a conversation. as to
the severity of the winter, when one man by
way Of proving how cold it was, said-4Why
] had a COW on my lot up the river, and last
winter she got in among the ice, and was
carried down most three miles before We
could get her out again.. The, consequence
has been that she has MIXED nothing but
ice-cream ever sincc.n e,ll5s1gs 4 ~ 1s...s;
W LARGE BALLOON Wise, Esq.,
of Lancaster, Pa, is engaged inconstrucsing
another monster balloon, gtof be: about three
times as large as the .,sst Hercules used last
summer, with which he. intends to prove
the certainty Of his ability to cross the Allan.
tic and circumnayigate globe. 4-Ests
Rosrs IN LAMP olLs. The addition Of a
small quantity Of rosin to lamp oils serestly
increases their Illuminating power, snd yen-
dersthem less liable to, coagnlate. TBe, fast
is stated on the authority Of !. Applefols He
chanics' Msnzine." s sfsicR
The SCIENTIFIC A sRIcAa saystbat man
in Orange county was found, one night climb
ing an oysrshot wheel III nfallhg mill. ;He
was asked what he was doing: He said he
was trying to get up to bed, but somehow or
other the stairs wouldn't bold s,ill. ~