Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-05-09
A nrino under the Sen.

copper mine, in England, is from work recently
published, entitled g Rambles beyond Railroads.
In complete mining equipment, with candles stuck
by Jumps of clay to their felt hats, the travellers
have painfully descended by perpendicular ladders
and along drpping-wet rock passages fathoms down
into pitchy darkness. The miner who guides them
calls halt and their exact position with reference
To the surface Of the terraqueous globe" is thus
described:
We are now four hundred yards out, ander tie
botto,n of the sea- and twenty fathoms-or hundred
and twenty feet-below the sea level Coast-trade
vessels are sailing over heads. Two hundred
and forty feet beneath men are at work ana here
arc galleries deeper vet even below that! he ex-
traordinarv position down the face of the Cliff OF the
encines and other works the surface at Bottaack
is now explained. The mine is not eXcaVateu IKE
other mines under the land, but under the sea-
Having communicated these particulars, the miner
next tells us to keep strict silence and listen W
obey him. sitting speechess and motionless. If the
reader could only have behold now, dressed IN
our -coored garments huddled close togethef
in a mere cleft of subterranean rock, with lame
burning on our heads and darkness enveloping our
limbs he must certainly have agined, without
any violent stretch of fancy, that he was looking
down upon conclave of gnomes.
After listening for few moments, distant I'M
earthly noise becomes family audible-a long low
mysterious moaning that never changes-that IS Jet
on the ear as we'll heard by ia sound that might
proceed from some incalculable dlstance-trom some
far. invisible height-a sound unlike anything that
is heard on the upper ground IN the tree air OF heaV-
cn-a sound sublimey mourntul, and still SO
ghosty and impressive, when listened to IN the SUD-
tcrranean recesses of the EARTH that we continue
instinctyelv to hold our peace, if enchanted by
it. and think not of communicating to each other
the strange feeling and establishment which it has
inspired in us both from the first.
At last the miner speaks again. and tells us that
what we hear is the sound of the surf flashing the
rocks hundred and twenty feet above us, and of
the waves that are breaking on the beach beyond
The tide is at the flow, and the sea is in ex-
traordnary state of agitation so the sound is low
and distant just at this period. But when storms
arc at their height, when the hurls mountain
after mountain of water on the cliffs then the noise
is terrific the roaring heard down here in the mine
is inexpressby fierce and awful, that the boldest
at work afraid to continue their labor-all
ascend to the surface to breathe the upper air and
stand on the firm earthdreading, though no ca
tastrophe has ever happened yet, that the will
break in on them if they remain in the cavern be-
low.
Hearing this we get up to look at the rock above
We able to stand upright in the position
we now occupy. and, faring our candles hither and
thther in the darkness the bright, pure cop
per streakng the gallery in every direction. Lumps
of of the most lustrous green color trversed by
a natural network of thin red veins of iron, appear
here and there in large, irregular patches, over
which water is dripping slowly and necessarily in
certain places. This is the salt water percolating
through invisible crannies in the rock. On stormy
days it spurts out furiously in thin, continuous
streams. Just our heads we observe a wooden
plug of the thickness of mans leg there is hole
here a2d the plug is all that we have to keep out
the sea3
Immense wealth of metal is contained in the ROOF
Of this gallery, throughout its whole length but il
remains and will always remain, untouched; the
miners dare not take it, for it is part. and great
part, of the rock which forms their only protection
against the sea- and which has been so far worked
away here that its thickness is limited to an aver
age of three feet only between the water and the
gallery in which we now stand. No knows
what might be the consequence of another days Ia
Dor with the pickaxe on any part of it.
GREAT MAN.-George Lippard in his new work
called the Nazarne, thus speaks of President Jack
son
He was a man. Well I remember the day
waited upon him. He sat there in his arm chair
that old warriors face with his snow white
hair, even We told him of the public distress
the manufacturers ruined, the eagles shrouded in
Grape which were borne at the head of twenty thou
sand men into independence Square He heard us
all. We begged him to leave the deposites where
they were; to uphold the Great Bank in Philadel-
phia. Still he did not say word. AT last one Of
our members fiery than the rest intimated tina
if the Bank were crushed rebellion Nigh follow
Then the old man rose can see him yet. Come!
he shouted, in voice of thunder. as his cutcheC
right hand was above his white hairs Cone with
bayonets IN your hands instead of petitons-sur
round the White House with your legons-I an
ready for you all By the Eternal! with the PEG
pie at my back whom your gold can neither buy MOI
awe, will swing you up around the Capitol, eacl
rebel of you--on gibbet-high as Haman's"
When think says the author, { of that one MAJ
standing there at Washington, battling with all thu
powers of Bank and Panic, combined, betrayed b,
those in whom he trusted, assaulted by all that thu
snake of malice could hiss the end of falsehoot
howl--when | think of that one man placing hi
back against the rock, and folding his arms for tn
blow, while he uttered his awful VOW. BY tn
Eternal | will not swerve one inch from the cours
have chosen y | must confess that the records 0
Greece and Rome--nay the proudest days Of Crom
well or Napoleon, cannot furnish instance of
WILL. like that of ANDREW JACKSON when he place.
life and soul and fame on the hazard of die for tn
PEOPLES WELFARE.
WHAT THE LADIES sPEND.-The following (say
the New York Expressly is the outside cost of SOM
of the garments Of wives. sisters and mothers
Happily they paid for, in part at least, by thu
smiles and charms which are made to set off sucl
costly apparel We will not now add the costl7
wines imported by the " lords and masters of crea
tiOn and which are so much more profitable thar
even silks and laces
Lururles imported for the last Fiscal Year
Merlno shawls. ...... 1885. 34{
Silk piece goods Observation-Disclosures. IA 459 SCI
Hose ............... 616,21I
Iamboured ... NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1,13l, 46:
Hats and bonnets. EXPERIMENTATION. 53,1S
Laces (thread) $50. 1000. 1885:
Jewelry NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50, %
Gems, Diamonds etc, set and unset. 70,15;
$18,476, 76t
FREAKS THE TYPEs-A few DAYS since lad,