Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-28
The Power OF Love.


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ouaintyn Mantys, the celebrated Flemish
painter, was bred blacksmith. The occasion Of
his changing his profession was sfollows:i-sa '
While pursuing his calling as blacksmith, he
fell in love with the daughter of painter, and, on
applying to her father for leave to marry her, he
received repulsiye answer that none but an art
ist should ever receive her at his hands Piqued
at his reply, he laid aside his hammer, and took
up the pencil, studied diligently, travelled into
italy, and in a short time returned to Antwerp,
and, entering the cathedral privately, he painted
upon picture of the fallen angels, by Frans Z
Flore, a large fly, as in the act of sitting on the
eye of one of the angels The father Of the young
lady with whom he was enamored had charge of
the pictures of the church, and, on going in some
time after, saw the intrusive insect took out his
handkerchief, and attempted to brush it off.
Astonished at the deception, he inquired for the
author, and, hearing it was Mantys, he sent for
him, and freely gave his consent to the desired
union with his daughter. This picture with the
painted fly is still to be seen in the Museum at
Antwerp. aba sa3 s2.saf'.'
IMMIGRANTs Great complaints are made in
the newspapers of New York against the treat
nient OF immigrants in that city According to tes-
timony, they are crowded in lodgings in de-
gree totally inconsistent with health OF security
into abstention from complaint of other i'll treat
ment. A few nights ago several were suffocated
in rushing down an ill-constructed staircase,
upon an alarm of fire, precisely as the children
were murdered in the school-house. The street
door was locked and the officer who kept the
key could not be found in time; and hence the
crowd, prevented from egress, were piled up at
the foot of the staircase. The consequences were
several deaths, and several cases of fractured
;,o,bu A &c
we are told by the testimony on the inquest
From the same sources we learn that, in one of
these institutions for immigrants the officers beat
them with clubs, whenever they complain of i'll
Observation-Disclosures. ,.. .,.r.t..s,-
j We perceive from our English papers that it
! is proposed, by means of the electric telegraph,
to regulate all the public clocks throughout the
kingdom of Great Britain, in accordance with
Greenwich or railway time. Precisely at noon,
the signal indicating Greenwich time, as observed
by the great electric clock in the central station,
Lothbury, is to be sent over the various lines OF
wire, giving, at an inappreciable interval the
exact time at every terminus. Greenwich time
as distinguished from local time, is at present
kept by nearly all the towns of Importance in
| England, but they have not the advantage of ex-
act regulation. The only towns Of consequence,
where uniformity of time is not adopted but
where local time is adhered. are Norwich, Var
mouth, Cambridge, Ipswich, Colchester, Harwich,
Oxford, Bristol, Bath, Portsmouth, Exter, Dor
chester, Launceston, and Falmouth, or the East
and West Of England @ amg.ss s.
Papers received from Germany state that the
snow driftngs in the cuttings of the Sesian rail-
way near Oderberg, have interrupted the COM
munication almost daily. In some places the
snow has been forty or fifty feet deep. The en-
gines were on one occasion brought to stand STILL
their fires being extinguished The heaviest fall
of snow extends the whole distance from Vienna
to Berlin, and covers a wide tract both north and
south of those cities. Between Ratibor and Soran,
in Upper Silesia, within distance of FIVE German
miles, the loss of ten lives is reported, from the
severity Of the weather. In the circle of Bantzen
in Saxony, fifteen men and six horses perished in
a snowstorm on the Goth. Similar accounts have
been received from other parts Of Germany.
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COMMON SCHOOLS OF New York SrArE-The
whole number of school districts in the State on
the first day of July last was ii ,479
The whole number Of children between the
ages of FIVE and sixteen years. residing in the
several districts, on the 3lst of December, 1850,
was 1853, ,047; and the whole number of children
under instruction during the year was 800, 430.
| The number Of schools for colored children in
the State is l06 /; and the number of children,
1 between the ages Of FIVE and sixteen, taught in
said schools, during the year reported 5, ,305.
The number of volumes in the several district
libraries on the 3lst day of December 1850, was
| ,507, ,077-showing an increase during the year
reported of ST. l27 volumes.
ANEcDoTE OF CHIEF JUSTICE TANEY.-When
the library Of the Capitol was in flames, and
clouds of smoke were rolling out and enveloping
the building the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court appeared in his seat at the usual hour,
] looking mite trannnil and undisturhed y MAY