Washington sentinel., 1854-03-12

with the most unbounded resources of civiliza
ton and science. We ought to curb and baf
fe Russia, therefore, if only to anticipate
America in doing so.
From the Glasgow Commonwealth.
ACCOUNT OF THE NATURAL SELr-Aor1Se
PRINTING PRocEss.-This beautiful invention
recently made in Vienna by NJ. Auer, director
of the imperial Austrian government printing
Office, is, we believe, not known in England
An account of it in English, with twelve beau
tifnl quarto specimens of the results obtained
by it, has just been sent to US by q correspond
ent in Vienna, and we hasten to give brie
notice Of it to our readers. By means Of this
art, plates are produced "for printing copies Of
plants, materials, lace, embroideries," DC
These plates contain the most delicate hollows
and elevations, which the human eye is unable
to detect, and they are capable of producing
two results on paper; the one a copy of the
original on a white ground, in various colors,
with one single impression, and the other a
copy in white, on a colored ground. The first
Of these is obtained by the copper-plate press,
and the second by the ordinary printing press,
and the effect is obtained in both instances,
without the aid Of drawing or engraving.
In taking the impression of a dried plant, or
a leaf or an insect, the object is placed on a
polished surface of pure lead, and above the
object is placed a polished plate Of copper or
steel. The two plates are then passed through
the two cylinders of copperplate-pr printers
press, which gives momentary pressure of
from 500 to 1000 hundred weight. After sep.
arating the plates, it will be found that the
tissue of the plant has been pressed into the
lead plate, and when the substance is carefully
removed from the plate, the design appears
hollow upon its surface. From this mould,
plates fit for printing from may be obtained,
either by the electrotype or the usual stereotype
process
! When lace or any fabric is to be copied, it is
smeared over with spirits of wine, or Venetian
turpentine, before being laid upon the lead
plate.
The price of impressions thus obtained is so
moderate, that leaf in folio will cost only
from eight to twelve kreutzers, that is, from
three pence to five pence.
The Chevalier Won Heuaeur has published,
by means Of this process, collection Of the
cryptogamic plants from the vale Of Arpaset, in
Pennsylvania.
NJ. Auer took out patent for this process
on the 18th of October, 1852, but in imitation
of France, who gave up the daguerreotype for
general use in 1889, and Of Russia, who gave
up the eectrotype of Jacobo in 1887, the En-
peror of Austria has given up this new pro-
cess to the public The specimens Of this art
which we have received surpass our highest
expectations. We can scarcely believe that
the plant itself is not pressed into the shape.
A WONDERFUL EsCAPE.-It will be recol
lected that during the dreadful gale Of the New
Years week, many light vessels from London
for the Tyne, and laden vessels, kept their
course, and made for Leith roads for shelter.
Several of those vessels got down as far north
as Aberdeen and Dundee; others were lost,
but they had all been accounted for, one way
or the other, some weeks since, with the excep-
ton of the Royal Union, belonging to this port,
which it was feared had gone down with all
hands, leaving no mark behind her. She had
sailed from the Tyne since the I'd of December,
and passed the bar light in the New Years
week. Yesterday, the mourning of the families
| of the master and crew was turned into Joy, by
letter received from the master by the owner,
stating that the vessel and crew had reached
| Gottenburg, all well. 1t appears that in their
passage down, they had lost no less than three
anchors in the storm, and that, fearing to take
the Tyne, the master had run the vessel into
| North Berwick, where he had got another an
chor on board. Another gale of wind coming
on, however, the cable snapped, and the vessel
again drove out to sea. The gale was in
westerly direction, and the master run before
it until he reached Gottenburg. He will bring
home cargo of deals.-Shields Gazette.
PRIEsTLY CURsING IN LoNDoN.-The cor
respondent of contemporary says: On Sun
day, the 5th instant, after the eight o'clock
mass at the Roman Catholic chapel in Duncan
terrace, Islington, the Rev. F. Oakley, Roman
Catholic priest ian Oxford pervert) proceeded
to the Irish courts in Islington, near the An
GEL and after giving the Irish people a long
lecture for sending their children to the Pro-
testant schools, pronounced the following curse:
We hereby give notice, that If any persons,
after this our solemn warning, do send their
children to the Protestant schools, six schools
were here named, or, if they have been al
ready tempted to send them, and do not instantly
remove them, they shall be counted guilty of
mortal sin; shall be refused all the rights and
sacraments of the church; at death, the ex-
treme JUNCTION shall be denied to them, and
their bodies either his or hers refused burial
in any cemetery belonging to the church.
The curse of God shall rest upon them, body
and soul, living or dead"
The ANGLER FIsH.-Upon his head are
two long slender appendages; the first Of
them-broad and 1attened towards the end,
and having at this dilated part, shining sill
very appearances articulated to the head by
a peculiar joint, resembling that between two
links of chain, There are numerous mus.
cles attached, by which tho FISH is enabled to
move it in all directions. The second fishing
rod, as it may be properly called, can be moved
only in backward and forward direction. Dig
ging hole in the soft mud, this wary fisherman
conceals his body, and then by moving bis