The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1852-11-06
New YORK, 2 p. NJ, &c.

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the liver. and that the immediate cause of his
death was hemorrhage from the stomach and
bowels.
WASHINGTON, Oct. q.
A letter of condolance has been addressed by
the President and Secretaries to Mrs. Webster.
The Cabinet will attend the funeral, and it is
thought the President will do the same
BrrFALO. Oct. 81.
The Propeller Vermont Capt. Waterbury.
belonging to the Cleveland and Ogdcnsburg
Line of Propcllrrs. and plying between those
points, was burned to the waters edge. while
lying at the dock at Grand River. c. W.. about
= O'Clock yesterday morning. She was bound
for OcdcnShurg with full cargo of flour and
other rolling freight, Vessel and cargo a total
loss.
Revolution IN PEINTISG.-We have been
treated to a view of the operation of II model
rotary printing press. invented by Mr.. Jept!a
Wilkinson, which is destined to produce Il COM
Iplcte revolution in lettcr-presS printing, as soon
us it is fairly introduced to the public. \ Viii
kinson press, to print sheet the size of the
Atlas, on both sides, at the rate of more than
twenty thousand an hour could be easily put
I'D in our editorial room. and would occupy no
more space than the table upon which we are
writing this article. The action of the pres, is
altogether rotary, with no rccipocatin9 motion;
aud when once it is started. it goes straight
ahead. easily printing q roll of paper on both
sides at the rate of a mile in length in min
utc's time. The type are placed on the cylin-
ders, each printing a side, and the papers are
put to press in large rolls, as it comes from the
factory. and is not cut in sheets until it is
printed. The printed sheets are all cut and
folded as they come from the press to which is
attached an endless register. which at any time
denotes the exact number of impressions that
have been taken.
The astonishing velocity in the movement OF
this very single press is the most cxraorlina-
~ feature of the Improvement, and can hardly
be realized, even by those who regard it as no
very wonderful affair for a locomotive to pass
over a railroad track at the rate Of sixty miles
an hour. The way the white paper comes
through Mr.. Wilkinson's press. printed upon
both sides. is somewhat upon the same princi-
pie that the locomotives are driven to their ut
most speed. When this press is introduced
there will be no battcring of forms and no dam
ger of pi in the press room.
The Introduction of this machine to practical
use contcmpatcs change in the types now
employed which has been fully provided for bv
the ingenuity of Mr.. Wilkinson and concal
type, adapted to stand upon u cylinder in ii
perfect circle, constitutes part of the invcn-
ton we are talking about. These types are 50
made that they must all stand the same way
and so formed that by locking one into the 9TH
err they can never be displaced except by I'M
locking the form.
The process of making up the columns and
pages upon cylinders is perfectly simple. and
can be accomplished With the same facility as
the system now in usc.-Cin. .4tids.
PRIVATE CHARACTER OF L0CoMoTIvE.-pcopr
may see locomotive tearing up and down the
land. at a gait of forty miles to the hour--nak-
and the heavens themselves revcrbcratc with its
fearful clatter-scaring nature with its uncarth-
ly din. and frightening all creation from its pro
pricty, almost. People who only see it in is
terrible activity have no idea what cmincntly
social virtues it is endowed with. This is their
public character. Their private one is another
affair Now and then. one of these huge mon
stcrs. iii whose iron bowels slumbcr thousand
giant powers, comes up and stands under our
window, as gently as the most exemplary cook
ing stove, its huge steam pipes singing strain
as soft and dulcct as the most amiallc tca-kcttc
and its lungs OF steel breathing as swcctly as all
infant in its SAUNDERS. But the demon of power
is there. Let any one but pinch its cars and no
venerable srlnster cat will sptmore iierccly.-
Let him grip those iron hands. and the pipes.
which were tuned to 50 soft strain send forth Il
yell as if heaven and earth were coming togcth-
cr. and those lungs which first brcathcd 50 qui-
ching the heavens with the dense volume of
smokc.-Erchange.
SINGULAR METHOD OF FINDING DROWNED PER
soNs.--Ihe late London papers relate that on
Saturday, the 10th ult., an agricultural laborer.
named Solomon Dunford. left the Crown public
house. opposite the Fountain Hotel. West Cow
cs, Isle OF Wight, for a few moments, leaving he
hlnd his basket and pint of beer, partly drunk,
nut dld not return. On Monday of next week,
at noon, the body was discovered in the water,
near the Fountain Quay. The features did not
present the same appearance as IS usual in
drowned persons, the face being entirely black.
\ novel process was used for the recovery OF
the body by one of the coast guard. On Friday
morning. the circumstances being made known
to him. he assured the by-standcrs that if the
party was drowned in the ncighhorhood he
would discover the body by means of new
LOAF OF bread, in which should be deposited
thfee ounces of quicksilver. when the loaf would
iloat till it rested over where the body might
lay" However extraordinary it may appear.
the experiment was tried, and on the loaf be-
coming stationary a boat-hook was put over
board beneath it. and brought up the body
The man states that this is the fourth instance
IN which the experiment has been tried by him
with success
In New York on Monday. some 1.5OO or 2, 900
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lshOrcmen," &c-struck for higher wages which
demand being refused by the majority of their
employers. they proceeded in various large
squads to a large number of vessels at different
piers, and by sheer force compelled such of their
feiiow-wOrkmcn as had not Joined them to quit
work. In some instances, where a disposition
to resist was manifested, gross outrages were
committed on the persons of those who would
not ''cave y and such officers of vessels as
cndcavored to protect their workmcn were Sc
vercly maltreated. The police being applied
to, they intcrfered on Tuesday, and, after one
or two skrmishcs with the disOrderly portion
of the STRIKERS arrested some of the ring
leaders, and thus put stop to further outragcs,
in which but comparatively few of the malcon-
tents were engaged
brave girl went out to California, from ST.
Louis some eighteen months since. She taught
school in Sacramento city one year, clearing
above her expenses, one thousand dollars. At
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