The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-24

palpa leaf aaa pea, with the scales of
justice above, entwined with drapery.
The word 'Pennsylvania," in handsome
raised block letters, surmounts the whole
and the words Founded in 1851, by
Deeds of Peace" are exQuisitely carved
at the bottom. "-North AmericGn.
In The hot bed of wonders, tie chem
lists laboratory. great degrees of cold are
procurable by using highly volatile liq-
uids for evaporation. A man may be
frozen to death, it is said, in the extre-
NEST heat Of summer, simply by keeping
himself drenched wiah ether. BY the as
sistance of liquid sulphuric acid. water
may be frozen in a red-hot vessel. Bot
that remarkable substance, liquid casbo-
mic acid, takes the highest ranks of all
knowing freezing agents. In drawing 1t
from the powerful reservoirs in " hich it
is necessarily kept, it evaporat ties so rap
idly as to freeze itself, and is then light
porous mass, like Snow. If small
quantity Of this dgencs,ed wish ether, the
degree of cold produced is even more in
tolerable to the touch than boiling wa
ter--a drop or two of the mixture pro-
ducing blisters, just as if the skin had
been burned.-Scientifc American.
The Spanish population of New Or
leans siace the late riot, is scarcely to be
seen in the streets of that city. In an
nouncing this fact the New Orleans
Crescent says:
American faces stand behind cigar ca
ses, where Spanish faces were lately ia
miliar and the CubaEs seems almost to
have fost its Spanish flavor in conse-
quence. Many Spaniards have hastily
departed from The city, and rumor says
others are rapidly winding up their bust
ness so as to be able to leave Many OF
them are quiet and iaoEeasive citizens,
earning an honest livelihood, eschswing
politics, and altogeth cr indifferent to
Cuba, 1t is to be regretted that their ap-
prehensions cause them to suffer the loss
of suddenly breaking Up business andfee-
ing away"
Telegraphic wires are to be stretches
across the Straits Of Canso, from Nova
Scotia to Cape Breton. The distance
across is about half mile. 1t will re-
quire some six CT eight weeks to com
plete the work, and it is expected TO COS
from 600 to fe00.
There is q general impression, anon:
the observant minds of Europe that Ital.
/ is again OIL the eve of violent and san
culinary revolution. Almost every for
eign newspaper that we read-every on
which dares to intimate its opinions
full of forebodinss as to some great trou
BILE at hand. Even the conservative pa
pers of London and Paris do not suppress
their fears, and the silent military pre-
partitions Of Austria show that the Gcv
ernmentS are not unaware Of what is il
the wind American travellers, recentl
returned from Europe, with whom tn
editor of the New York Post has CONVEX
sed, bring with them the same conviC
ton.
By the last California papers we lear
that on the goth ult. a shower of mea
fell at the army station near Benicia
Major Allen was struck by one of th
falling pieces. The shower lasted tw
or three minutes. The pieces were froI
the size Of a pigeons egg up to that c
an orange-the heaviest perhaps weigh
ing three ounces. No birds were visibl
in the air at the time.
The indianapolis Journal guesses ,ho
the "big towns of Indiana will range a
follows:
/. Indianapolis.
2. New Albany.
3. Evansville.
!, d. Lafayette.
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