Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-02-07
The Extremity OF Bnsemess.

| Parker, the claimant and captor of the slave
Long, publishes card of thanks to the court
and officers engaged in the case, and to the n
Y. Union Committee. He says:
1.-The course taken by the Union safety COM
mittee was emnently praisew orthy. The expen-
ses borne by the committee exceeded $500,
while the cost incurred by the claimant amount
ed to about $500, which sum would also, per-
haps, have been paid by the committee, had it
been deemed proper by the claimant to have
made it known. There was also manifested
much personal kindness towards the agent &c"
| 1t was stated, at the time of the investigation
that the lawyers in the Court room volunteered
their services against the poor runaway! We
venture to say that in no other city in the Union
and in no court room in Europe, would any such
! disgracetul combination against poor, ignorant
and helpless refugee be paralleed. The senti-
ment of the bar and the tone of public opinion,
| in most places, of too high a tone TO make it
possible for great Capitalists to subscribe, and for
Counsel to combine, against the weak and on the
side Of the strong, against liberty and in favor of
oppression.
In New York city, however, recent trials have
shown that the members of once honorable
| profession may be tempted by the prospect of
gain, to enter into conspiracies, using the name
of the law and the pretence Of a socitude for
public morals, to extOrt money from the weak
and erring. The merchants having Southern
customers, and lawyers dependent on merchants,
and the politicians looking for support abroad
that they cannot find at home, who compose this
Union Committee, would we doubt not have as
willingly sent the freest citizen into captivity,
could they have hoped to make more by the spec
ulation.- ibany AIDS.
How Coal WAS MADE-Geology has pro-
we'd that al one period, there existed an enor-
mously abundant land negotiations the ruin of
rubbish Of which, carried into seas, and there
sunk to the bottom, and alterward, covered over
| by sand and mud beds, became the substance
which we now recognize as coal This was
natural trar saction of vast consequence to us.
| seeing how much utility we must find in coal,
both for warming our dwellings and for various
manufactures, as well as theproduclon of steam
by which 50 great a mechanical power is gene
rated. II may naturally excite surprise that the
vegetable remains should have so completely
changed their apparent character and become
black. But this can be explained by chemistry;
and part OF The marvs! becomes clear to the sim
plest understanding when we recall the familiar
fact, that damp h:y, thrown closely in q heap
gives out heat and becomes of a dark color
When vegetable mass is excluded from the
air, and subjected to great pressure, q bitumin-
Gus fermentation is produced, and the result is
the mineral COAL which is Of various characters,
according as the mass has been originally inter
mingled with sand, clay, or other earthly impu-
rites. On account Of the change Of mineralza-
ton, it is difficult to detect in coal the traces of
vegetable structure but these can be made
clear in all except the highly bitumnous caking
coal by cutting or polishing it down into thin
trQp : Dpr SiirQG ,Uhan tho mil cho,p-
the tibreS and cells very plainly. From distinct
iso ated specimens found in the sandstones a.
midst the coal beds, we discover the nature of
the plans of this era. They are almost all Of
simple cellular structure. and such as exist with
Us in small forms, horse tails. club NOSES, and
ferns but advanced to an enormous magnitude
The species are all long since extinct. The ve-
getation generally is such as now grows in clus-
ers Of tropica! islands but it must have been
the result Of a high temperature obtained other
wise than that Of the tropical regions now is
for the coal strata are found in the temperate
and even the polar regions. "The conclusion,
therefore, to which most biologists have arrived
is, that the earth, originally an incandescent or
highly heated mass was gradually cooled down
until in the carboniterous period it fostcred a
growth Of terrestrial vegetation oil over its
face, 10 which the existing jungles OF the tropics
are mere barrenncss III comparison. This high
and uniform temperature, combined with grea-
ter proportion Of carbonic acid gas in the manu-
facture, would not only sustain gigantic and
prolific vegetation, but would also create denser
vapors, showers and rains; and these again, gi-
ganuc rivers, periodical foundations and deltas.
Thus all the conditions for extensive deposites
Of wood in estuaries would arise from this high
temperature and every circumstance connected
with the coal measures, points to such condi-
tons