American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-07-26

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srNeuLAR ATTEMrT TO MuRDaR!-The Balti-
more 4meriean Of this morning relates the fol-
lowing particulars go
l "An attempt was made on Thursday night,
shortly after 10 o'clock, to murder Mr. Thomas
Ellsworth, residing on Frederick street; near
Baltimore, under circumstances of the most sim
gular character Mr.. Ellsworth had fallen
asleep, in the doorway, the door being left open,
In this position his wife left him, and proceeded
ON short errand in the neighborhood. She
had scarcely left, however when she was
alarmed by the piercing outcries of her hps-.
'nand and, on hastily returning, found him
INFLICTED upon him. On examining his peryon
u was found that, his ear was lpisrcsd ipstvo
places, apparently with q sword cane or dagger,
and a deep wound inflicted near the temple,
and extending between the flesh and skull for
considerable distance. The throat also, exhib-
tied signs of Violence as if an attempt had been
made to choke him. Another blow, which had
probably been aimed at his head, had missed,
and the sharp point of the weapon had entered
the wall, knocking off q portion of the plaster
!" DR.. Morris was called in and took charge
Of the case, rendering oil the assistance in his
power to the wounded man. During the night
he continued in state Of delirium but yester-
day was somewhat better, and was thought to
be out Of immediate danger. 0..
= The attack seems to be enyeloped in the
deepest mystery, both as to its author and
cause. Mr. Ellsworth's only recollections are
of being awakened by the attack, and finding
his eyes obscnred with blood, with an indistinct
feeling Of some one having hold of him. At
the time he gave the alarm by his screams,
-
dent on the opposite side Of the street. 1t is to
be hoped that some clue will yet be obtained
which may lead to the discovery and arrest Of
the perpetrator of this murderous attack"
LABoR-sAyIEG MACHINES. s.-Some persons ig-
norantly declam against the great increase of
labor-saying machines We think the term
g labor-saving" does not convey the right idea.
We do not know of u single improvement in
machinery that, has not tended toincrease the
demand for human labor The machines called
labor-saSing, should rather be called labor
creating, for they certainly create wider and
more extended fields of employment for human
| skill and enterprise. Railroads are the result
of the invention of the steam engine, and rail
roads have been the means, both in this country
and in Europe, of increasing the: demand for
human labor. Had it not been for the exten-
sive railroad enterprise of this country it
immense multitudes Of European laborers and
mechanics who have emigrated to this continent
within the past ten years to have, found en-
| ployment with us. Railroads have caused agri-
culture, and all the mechanical arts, to advance
| in the United States with rapid strides. They
have opened up the country, and thus opened
up new fields for human industry. While steam
and steam engines are daily doing work in this
country that all the population of Europe could
Yrnt thnxy
ment for all our own people, and for the thou
sands weekly arriving on our shores from all
parts of the old world. ..
| We will only refer at present to another great
"labor- saving" machine-the Steam Printing
Press. 1t is undenabe that the invention OF
| steam printing presses has increased, to an
immense. extent, the number Of those employed
in the business of printing. One example will
illustrate this increase. When the New York
| Sun was started, there were none Of Hoes fast
presses, Ii was printed on an old-fashioned
hand power press by which only few score
sheets per hour could be printed. 1t then gave
employment to only one or two individuals; and
had the old style of presses not been improved
upon, it never could have given employment to
more than few individuals. But now, with
4 Hoes last fast press" capable of throwing
| off about 1000 impressions per hour, and
doing work that would employ over a thousand
men, the Sun is the means Of giving regular
! employment to several hundred hands.
The same remarks apply to many other news
papers in the United States, and to the large
| book publishing establishments in our chief
| cities. But il is, moreover, a remarkable fact,
| that great as have been the inventions and i'm
| provements in the steam printing press, the de-
mand for hand presses has greatly increased.
And if we extended the investigation to other
| so-called labor-saving machines, we would find
abundant evidence that, instead of destroying
or diminishing the demand for human labor,
they have only opened up new and wider paths
of enterprise and industry for man, enabling
him to increase his comforts and pleasures
| If q machine were or could be invented, that
| would eat up the food which the earth yields
| for mans sustenance, then might we denounce
the inventor, and destroy his invention; but
machines that arc fed out Of the earth's abun-
dance, without interfering with mans food, and
which can be made to work for mans profit, are
great blessings, and their inventors benefactors
to the human race.--N. J. Sun
The Russian peasant, as be is falsely called,
says a letter from st. Petersburg, is bought and
sold with the land on which ho lives, and is
being in no way superior to Monsieur Cuffee,
although his skin is white or rather brownish,
with boards that were never visited by that
companion of civilization, the razor; his person
is the impersonation of filth, and his counte-
nance the mirror Of ignorance. The depression
and poverty Of these poor creatures is really
pitiable, and next to some parts of Ireland, we
must give to this class of humanity the unen
viabe position Of the most miserable part of the
great family to which we all belong.
ROBBERY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS extra viii
famous scoundrels recently entered the chamber
of printer in Cleveland, abstracted his shirt,
tore open his pocket book, and stole away the
whole contents therein, consisting Of q coin
bearing the likeness of the American eagle and