The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-17
GENERAL SUMMARY,

Gerrit Smith gives an account, in Frederick
Douglass's Paper, of day lately spent at the
home of Joshua R. Giddirgs.
" found him living just as he should live.
A Democrat in his education and theories, he
is Democrat in all his intercourse with his
neighbors and in all his domestic arrangements.
He resides in a small two-story white house, on
six acres of laad, which he purchased from
Francis Granger, of Canandaigua, more than
thirty years ago, for seventy-two dollars, and
the forest on which his own hard hands helped
to remove. His two Oldest sons are married
and live near him. His other son and his two
daughters are part of his own family. No in
toxicating liquors are drank by himself, wife,
or children. His daughters, with the help of
their excellent mother, performed the house
work. Everything is neat and comfortable
Nothing is expentive and SNOWY.
"The state of Mr.. Giddngs's health has
awakened solicitude in tens of thousands but
| never saw him in healthier condition of
body, brains, or moral affection. / trust that
his Heavenly Father will permit him to labor
many years more on the earth, in the cause of
freedom and OF all righteousness. Mr.. Giddings
will be sixty-two years old next October"
Professor Morse, of telegraphic celebrity.
writing from on board the steamship Niagara,
with reference to the failure of the Atlantic
telegraph cable, says: "Our accident will de-
lay the enterprise but will not defeat it :; I
consider it settled fact, from all have seen,
that 1t Is perfectly practicable; it will surely
be accomplished. There is no insurmountable
difhculty that has for moment appeared,
none that has shaken my faith in it in the
slightest degree. My report to the company
as co-electrician shows everything right in that
department; we got an electric current through
till the moment of parting, 80 that electric con.
nectlon was perfect; and yet the farther we
paid out the feebler were the currents indica-
ting difficulty, which, however, do not con.
slider serious, while it is of nature to require
attentive investigation. The amount of cable
when 1t was parted was three hundred and
thirty four nautical or three hundred and eighty
four geographical miles, and the depth of the
ocean at that place was two thousand fsthoms,
ascertained by the Cyclops yesterday in sound.
ing This Is as deep, within two or three hun
dred fathoms, as any part of the track we were
pursuing to Newfoundland, and the length of
submarine cable paid out is the longest as yet
laid in the world"
The Lowell Ne,os gays that some twenty.
seven months ago a young man, named w. K.
Foster, had the whole of one elbow Joint torn
out by an accident. He was taken to the hos.
pital, where DIR. Kimball, advised by Drs.
Graves and Dickey, proceeded to saw off the
fragmentary bones, shortening them some two
aud halt inches, and then uniting them, so as
to make new joint. Strange as it NAV seem,
the wound did well and healed and Mr.. Foster
has good elbow joint end arm. He moves
the joint with perfect ease, though not q ute 80
fully as the other, and can, as he saws, hold out
twenty-five and half pounds, with the hand at
arms length. The arm ia now nearly three
and halt inches shorter than the other, and is
good and reliable arm for all the purposes of
labor to which Mr.. Foster is called.
1t is stated in the Neu York Courier that
there are large orders in that city from Eng.
land for breadstuffs at limited prices. These
prices, owing to the striDgency in money af.
fairs, have been reached, and even a shade
lower. The prospect is, that there will be q
more active export of -four and grain than was
anticipated, and thus furnish substitute for
the current shipments of gold. 1t is also stated
In the Journal of Commerce that the engage
ments OF grain for Great Britain have averaged
$4,000 bushels day for veral days; and if
| the decline in prices does not prevent the pro.
| duce from coming forward from the interior,
the Journal looks for an active BUSINESS in this
line throughout the fall months. This will re.
vive the dropping spirits of ship owners, and
give employment 10 some OF the craft now lying
idle at the 'wharves.
The great Arrowsmith hoax, published more
| than year ago by the London Times, and
| never fairly denied by that paper, has at last
been completely wiped out as with a sponge
| By the Times special correspondent, who went
to the actual scene of the reported occurrence,
to discover what truth there might have beep
| in it. He found it to have been pure hosx.
| The smpleminded Arrowsmith was awfplly
sold, by snme waggish travellers, and the great
| Times was sold by Arrowsmith. But the whole
absurdity has now got its quietus.