Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-03-07
slave Case E.traore,naru


below. MIR. Beecher had penned an article intended
to be severer than usual against the atrocious bar
gain'-in the course of which he expressed himself
as follows
eve have stated supposed case. Look at real
one as the telegraph last week reported it. A wo
man has lived many years in Cincinnati has hardly
been known to be colored at all but is claimed bv
man from the South his property is sworn TO
as such, and is carried off to her fate. Her price
it is significantly added is three thousand dollars
And the insatiate lusts of the who can afford it
to be gratfed this lovely and defenceless wo-
man, under the shelter of the law which govern.
ment executes; under the very shadow of the flag
which the nation makes honored
And yet we are told to be quiet under this and
she is told that she must not resist Is there man
on earth, who knew the love of sister, whose
blood ever bounded at the kiss of the loved who does
not know that this is false who does not know
that the right of sefpreservaon strikes deeper here
than the obligation to maintain what is called civil
order Verify, it would seem that the very wires
that bore the intelligence to us, must have trembed
like pulse that throbs with horror, under the bur-
den of the news that every breeze along their
must have howled their contempt for nation that
endures this!'
And now for the cream of the joke -
'We clip the above, says the Rochester American,
from the Independent, relgo-Abolition Journal in
New York, a most beautiful instance of misplaced
sympathy. The writer, who by the way, is one of
the most eloquent preachers in the city of churches
LdS UeGH 10 express HIS Inauguration ana nate
in terms sufficiently strong, when his premises are
Hypothetical, and he borrows thunder from the
lightning line,' and has fair field for eloquent
defamation and fine writing
1t is only necessary to state that the Case so
eloquently depicted above, is Telegraph humbug
the creation of some Western wag, and relates to
nothing else than the extradition of Powers Greek
Slave to the Southern gentleman who drew it as q
prize in the Art Union! Doubtless the howl of Joy
set up by Abolitionists at the prospect of such
will taper off into most heart rendering dimnuen-
do squeak, when it discovers that this lovely and
defenceless woman is as safe under the American
flag as if she were double MARBLE
Diamonds.
The diamonds prepared for general use are fashioned
in three different ways, Uz brIants, rose and table,
depending for their classification on the form and num-
Der of their faces The brilliants cut with many
faces, fiat top, and pointed back and the most used
The rose diamonds are also cut with many surfaces,
The table diamonds have both upper and under surfa
fat and edges bevelling from each surface TO the
centre OF the edge. The superior brilliancy of the
diamond to all other stones is owing TO lis hardness
The rays of light being unable readily to penetrate it.
are reflected from its surfaces
The following the principal colors shades of
the diamond namely, yellowsh, yellowish- green,
cloyebrown, bush brownsh- black orange, rose red,
and cclorless. The cooress are the most valuable
When burned in oxygen gas, the combination is found
TO be carbonc acid gas; hence the diamond is known
10 be pure carbon.
Diamonds are valued by the carat A carat is four
grains, or little three grains, Troy weight. The
present value of diamonds-and the price lucuates
very lte-weghlng carat, of the first a0ater that
is, OF the purest and best kind, is about fifty dollars
of half carat. from eighteen TO twenty dollars OF
quarter of carat, from six 10 eight dollars of
eighth or quarter of grain, from three to four dol
lars, and under this weight, from thirty 1.-TWO TO thirty
five dollars carat, more less in number making
carat
There is great disproportion between the value of
large and small diamonds, the price increasing IN
much greater proportion than the weight. Thus a
diamond weighing CARAT and valued at fifty dol
lars would be worth, weighing two caras, hun
bred and twenty dollars the additional carat, be-
ing and half the value of stone of carat,
and weighing three carats, two hundred and thirty
seven dollars and fifty cents; the additional carat
(seventy- five dollars) and half the with the
value OF a stone of two carats making this and
so on, adding half 10 the additional carat, till
diamond, weighing sixteen carats would to about
thirty thousand dollars: whereas sixteen diamonds,
weighing carat each. would be worth eight hun
dred dollars. This mode of computation, however,
holds good only with regard to small, or moderate
sized sioneS--stones under twenty carats. For da-
monds over this weight there appears to be no fixed
standard of value the price depending the compe-
tition of the purchasers.
The Pitt, or Regent diamond belonging to the
crown Jewels of France, though no: large some
others, is considered owing 10 its perfect transparency
one OF the most beautiful diamonds in the world, and
is valued Mt taro millions Of dollars, though it was
bought originally for one hundred thousand pounds
sterling. This diamond was placed by Napoleon in
the ht of his sword 1t weighs one hundred and six
ty carats and is about large common sized wal
nut Three four other large sized diamonds are all
that have as yet been found One belonging to the
RaJah of Metan, weighing three hundred and sixty
seven carats another in the possession of the Great
Mogul, OF two hundred and eighty carats; and one
belonging 10 Portugal of one hundred and fifteen car
ats.
Diamonds are found in India, on the island of Bor-
neo, IN South America, and some few in Africa None
have been found in the United States and none as vet
except within the tropics. Thew are usually found
in loose auvia soil, from which they are washed out
In South America the diamond mines are many of
them, in the beds of certain rivers which become dry in
the summer season. when the mud and gravel containing
the diamonds are taken out and searched
Diamonds are not used exclusively for ornament
Dlscolored and poor diamonds broken up md used
as valuable powder in cutting and polishing the da
monds-the only material by which it be cut and
polshed-he agate, cameo onyx, and other hard stones
with the diamond Diamonds also used extensively
as every one knows, by gIaziers-Boston Journal,
From the Montgomery Advertiser
My First Lesson Colonization.
During the Presidency of the venerable Dr. Maxcy
over the South Carolina College, man came 10 Co.
Iumbla to beg funds for the of the Colonization
Society, tEen just started Dr. M. as soon as prayers
announced TO the students that he wished
70 address them. He then announced The above fact
and cautioned the young to be their guard,
and not to be taken in telling them the following
story, to illustrate what would probably be the result
of whatever contributions they might make:
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