Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-12-12
American SbspRu,ldi,r

lurDance OF the peace-PennSYrdn1d
American Ship Building.
The following is the acknowledgement made By
Wilson Green, Esq, at the dinner on board the pack
ct ship Great Western, given on Tuesday, July 90,
1851, in answer to the toast: "The Liverpool Ship
builders. After speaking of ship building generally,
and what could be done in America Mr.. Green said
" That the Americans bad advantages which he did
not possess in Eng and, and it must be acknowledged
that their ships amongst the nobes specimens of
naval architecture, and could not be rvalled. He
thought, however, that if in Liverpool we had the adj
vantages which they had in America, we might COM
pete with them; he would not say they could beat US,
but we should first have trial. He would say this
that in almost every thing connected with ships the A
mericans were leading us. [tearl They had a
class of steamers which came here from the United
States
Now, ship builder, and one acquainted with
building large steamers, he did not hesitate 10 say
there not finer better built vessels than the A
merican steamers. Hear, hear ] The Atlantic had
sustained succession OF severe gales which few ships
could have withsood and when she examined
in the dry dock at this port there not the slight
est appearance of any strain She exhibited what he
never saw before It was well known that ships of
war invariably settled five inches; but the Atlantic
did not vary inch and half, [lear, hearl There
was not frgate in the English navy that would not
sink five inches, The sinking was shown by the cop
per- but there not the slightest abrasion in the At
} lantic. He hoped we should 60 with America in
spirit of honest rivalry, and he begged TO propose
toast " The shpbuiIders of the United States of A
merica." [Cheers,1
DIsTREss1NG-A FAM1NE.-We learn from the Mil
waukie Wisconsin, of the 22d instant, that in conse-
quence of the wreck of vessels on Lake Superior, la
den with supplies for the miners famine has occur
red in that regon-so tina. some thirty men, women
and children started from the iron Mines through the
woods, for Bodenoque, distance of sixty miles. with
foot of snow on the ground; They were out thres
days, and suffered terribly. portion of them have
arrived in Milwaukee by water. One poor woman. i
is said, chung to folio Bible in her possession, until she
was obliged to drop it from sheer exhaustion The
!, children were nearly frozen.-N. Y. Sun,
hair dresser has just been condemned by the cour
t OF correctional police to years imprisonment for
novel method of obtaining money under false pretences
He posted card at his door, stating that his price fo
hair cutting had just been reduced to four CENTS in or
der to conform to the spirit OF the times This extreme
cheapness naturally attracted customers, and the prac
ce OF the barber was, after having cut the patients
hair, 10 throw upon his head quantity OF liqui(
preparation, labelled Eau Romane," and marked two
three, four francs, according the reel pieht ap
peared more or less gulibe. The pretence was tina
the gentleman needed shampooing, and, before an
resistance or objection could be made the whole con
tents OF the vial were being rubbed into the pores
his skull. If, after the operation, any demur wa
made as TO paying, big dog, trained TO the Duty wa
: let loose and Immediately commenced series of in
designations upon the refractory individuals shins-
This rigorous mode of procedure usually led TO com
S shampooed against his will, and bued into submis
sion by dog and barber, generally kept the ma,
ter secret, and refraned from revealing the hair
# ters swlndie. from unwingness to confess his ow
o absurd yictimization. But at last complaint wa
lodged with the commssary of police and the fact
S were clearly proved against the artist in hair.
Il SUGAR FROM INDIAN CoRN-A patent was grant
ed in 1850 for making sugar out of corn NEAL whic
IT is worthy of notice Twenty-Five bushels of cor
st meal are mixed with one hundred and fifty gallon
Of Of k1r. e -
ii is added 25 lbs of vtrol to which after stirrin
n WELL fifty more gallons of water are added and tn
l. whole into boiler "a leaden one we presume
when the contents boiled by high pressure steam
The boiling is continued until by the trial of litt
: iodine, with portion of the mixture in saucer
does not turn blue, which shows the operation to
complete. Chalk is then added to neutralize any
the free phuric acid when the whole liquor abo,
the sediment at the bottom is run off and conceatr
ted to crystaze. This is one of the wonders of CHI
mistry; sugar is now made of corn, by boiling
l. along with most virulent acid Scientific Amer
:. From the 22d to the 18th ult no less than s34o
= 600 worth of U. S. Bank Stock was issued to Fo
;, eiguers.
= The Albany Dutchman remarks that the wisest D,
Ne Rod IN mans life is between ten and TWENTY-FIVE
n after that his knowingness so falls off that by Il
time be reaches fifty FIVE or sixty he makes up h
r mind that he is ID fool, 49, ~
$. The man who pushes aside the paper with his 6t
n SIP OF coffee and says, there is nothing in it. Al
g who turns up hisnose at typographical bunders mig
ID find profitable exercise in trying to make paner
his own some evening, and then get the candid opi
lion of his friends its