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Year: 1859

Can Iron ana steel PIateS Resist shot!


A series of experimental trials have been
carried on during the past fortnight at Ports
mouth, with view of ascertaining the
amount of resistance offered by iron and
steel plates Of various manufactures when
opposed to heavy ordnance at a short range.
The trials are understood to have reference
to the future coating of the steam ram now
in progress of construction. The practice
has been carried on from the Stork gun
boat tender to Her Maj esty's ship Excellent,
gunnery ship in Portsmouth harbor both
from 32-pounder and 95.cwt. gun, the
latter throwing a solid GS-pound shot, with
16-pound charge of powder; the distance of
range 200 yards. Atthis distance the results
of the experiments have demonstrated in the
clearest possible manner that no iron or steel
plate that has yet been manufactured can
withstand the solid shot from the 95-cwt.
gun at short range. The first shot would not
penetrate through the iron plate, but it would
fracture it, and on three or four striking the
plate in the same place, or in the immediate
neghborhood, it would be smashed to pieces.


As the results Of the trial affected the steel
plates, it proved that steel, clothed ship
could be lar more easily destroyed than a
wooden.sided one, and that OH the smashing
in of one of the steel plates the destruction
of life on the armed ships decks, supposng
the broken plate to be driven through the
ships side, would be something dreadful to
contemplate, from the splintered material.
At from 500 to 800 yards iron-clothed ships
would be in comparative safety from the eff
fects of an enemy's broadsde, but it must be
borne in mind that the effects of concentrated
firing have yet to be ascertained on the sides
of an iron or steel clothed ship; an account
also must be taken of the damage the wood
work forming the inner side Of such ship
would receive from the driving in of the
broken plates, and which, as far as the pres
ent experiments have illustrated, would ap,
pear to prove that an iron or steel-clad ship
on receiving concentrated broadside from 9
frigate, armed in similar manner to the
Mersey, and struck near her water-line, mus
sink then and there with her armor on hel
back.-Liuerpool Post.
Year: 1859

A Tale of BlOod-A Woman Murders


her Husband and Son and Commits


Suicide. - ssI ."t


A fearful tragedy occurred last Sunday at a
lonely farm house about three miles from Yer
seilles, Ripley County, Indiana. The premises
were occupied by farmer named John Wind
sor, his wife and son, the latter aged fourteen
years. 1t seems that the man and woman
lived unhappily together, and their frequent
violent alterations were subject of comment
to the nei ,hborhood. Upon the afternoon of
Sunday their daughter, who had been upon q
visit to neighborng acquaintance, with whom
she remained several days, returned home, and
entering the house, was paralyzed by sight of
such intense horror as almost to deprive her of
reason. Extended upon the floor, weltoring in
their blood, lay the bodies of her parents and
her brother. The man was lying upon his face
near the hearth, with his head nearly severed
from the shoulders; tho body of the boy lay in
another part of the room, with several murder
GUS cuts in his head, and close by the bloody
weapon, sharp ak, with which this double
deed of horror had been consummated. In the
kitchen adjoining was the body of the wretched
woman, her throat severed from ear to ear,
and a.. large butcher knife, with which she had
taken her life, still clasped in her hand.


It is copjectured that while the husband was
in the act Of kindling fire upon the hearth,
his wife seized the ak and dealt him the fatal
blow, which nearly severed the head from the
body, and then turning upon her son, who,
from being in his night clothes, had evidently
in alarm just arisen from his bed, she dispatched
him with the same weapon, after which she
rushed into the next apartment and concluded
the tragedy by the sacrifice of her own life.


The poor girl, who is the sole survivor of the
Inflated family, has received so severe shock
from the horrid scene which was so unexpectedly
revealed to her, that she has ever since been
bordering upon insanity. ' EEL
Year: 1859

FRANK BLAIR's SLAvEs.-When
Frank Blair was stumping Minnesota, at
the close of one of the meetings, the fol-
lowing scene took place: A gentleman
in the audience rose and said that it had
been charged by the Hunker press that
Frank Blair himself held slaves, and if
he would not consider it an impertinence,
the audience would like to be enlightened.
Mr.. Blair replied that he was embarrsass-
ed to find that the Democracy would not
permit him to form and regulate his
own domestic institutions in his own way,
subject TO the Constitution Of the United
States. Laughter. But while it was
painful to him to be called out upon mat
tiers so entirely personal to himself, there
was nothing in that record which he
wished to conceal. Cheers. He said
be inherited slaves from a kind and mer-
cifu1 father; that he had purchased slaves
himself, but only to prevent the separa-
ton of families, and ultimately to free
them. Great applause. That he had
emancipated more slaves than he now
owned Echeers]- ]-and that he now only
owned such as he was forbidden to eman-
cipate by the laws OF Missouri, they being
either too old or too young to take care OF
themselves, Here the audience rose
and gave him three hearty cheers. He
said that for four long years he had fought
the slave power upon its own ground
carrying bis life upon his sleeve for any
ruffian to pluck off; that all his power:
were consecrated to the emancipation o
his native South from the chains Of deg
relation that bore her down, and that HI
expected to live to see Missouri free sol
the peaceful and prosperous abode o
free men.
Year: 1859

BATHING IN TIE DEAD SEA.-The
Dead Sea has nothing Of the desolation
which it has been the pleasure Of travel
ers TO- describe, and it seems to smile at
the secret dread it inspired ], of course,
took battle here and for a swimmer
who has fancy TO keep bis legs as well
as his head out Of water, can imagine it
must be quite pleasant. My French
friend, who is not little inclined 10 cor
pulency, complained that he could not
get down into water, and foated about,
now one side up now another, for all the
world like an inflated bladder. On
emerging from the water, it was evap-
GRATED by the sun and the salt, erystalliz-
ing on our bodies, gave US the appearance
Of animated rock-candy, Or a family re-
semblance 10 Lots wife. with a sensation
upon our skin as If we had been picked
for family use, and with taste in our
mouths compounded Of glauber salts and
assafetida. We concluded that one bath
in the Dead Sea was enough for lifetime.
Year: 1859

EH A shrewd observer once said, that
in walking the streets on a slippery NOR
ming, one might see where the good ma
tured people lived, by the ashes thrown
on the ice before the doors.-Franklin.
Year: 1859

Tell them that when every remedy has failed when
they have been doctored to death with Mercury,
Sarsaparlla, and other popular delusons when, from
whatever cause they become lank languid and ailing
TO try most blessed Herbal Concoction,
Year: 1859

fessions as lover, and sense Of duty to
you my young, untried and beloved wife,
alone impels me now to speak so freely as 1
do. That generous, open, winning disposi.
ton will be tempted, and the blight of such
a shadow would fain preserve you from.
Perhaps, fond words of ,endear1uent have
been too rare from my lips. After this rev.
elation, you cannot doubt the tenderness Of
my feelings, the depth. of my love-"


edward you are unjust to yourself and
to me. May I speak now? My nature is
not as warm as yours. I acknowledge [ have
never felt the passionate love of which you
speak. did not even suspect the depth of
feeling concealed beneath that calm exterior !;
but you shall not regret your confidence, and
the memory of your love shall be around
me to guard and protect me in every danger
to which I may be exposed. But, Edward,
will you not believe me when say I love
you p said she, timidly.


~ dc, dearest, I do. You love to the ex-
tent of which you think you are capable but
there is we'll spring of feeling concealed in
your heart, with which even you are uuac-
quainted, and when discovered, your love
will equal, if it does not exceed mine. And
nov. give me kiss of forgiveness for this
long lecture. No, no, do not plead to remain
with me, or 1 shall think that you fear it is
sel6shness to engross your society that has
made me speak so earnestly. Come, smooth
that rufled brow and get your work while
I read to you, for the Office must do without
me tonight. Tomorrow I will have moth
ing else to cheer me-"
Year: 1859

land J.-There are no two letters in the
manuscript alphabetof the English language
which occasions so much trouble, or causes so
much misconstruction as the two letters I
and j, as many persons inadvertently write
them. The rule for writing them properly,
and which should be universally understood
and adopted, is to extend J below the line.
If those who write for j knew how it some
times puzzles printers, they would remember
the above suggestion.
Year: 1859

A TERRIBLE AToNEMENT.-Alfred Hood,
aged thirty-fve, was recently sent to the in
sane asylum, near Cincinnati, having been
crazed by remorse on account of a former
too great intimacy with the wife of another
man. He thought the husband was pursu-
ing him to take his life. On the 4tb, he
fancied that the husband was about to drag
him to hell, and thinking his life would be
an atonement for what he had done, he Sc
vered his head almost entirely from his body
with a razor.
Year: 1859

from WHICH mankind suffer over large part OF
the globe, IL the consequence OF diseased action
in the system, induced by tne poisonous niasm Of
vegetable decay This exhalation is evolved by
the action Of solar heat on soil and rises with
the watery vapor from IT, While the sun is beiuv
the horizon this vapor fingers the earth's sur
face, and the virus ID taken with il through the
lungs into the blood There 1t acts an irritating
poison on the internal viscefa and excrctng 0rEnns
of the body. The liver becomes torpid and fails to
secrcte not only this virus but also the bile from
the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate
In the circulation. and produce violent constitu-
tional disorder. The spleen. the kidneys, and the
stomach sympathze with the liver, and become
disordered also Finally, the instinct Of our or
ganian, as il In an attempt TO expel the noxious
infusion, concentrates the whole blood OF the body
in the internal excretores 10 force them 70 Il
out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to
the central organs with congestive violence. This
is the CHILL But in this effort it fails. Then the
FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the ccn-
frai organs and rushcs TO the surface, as II in
another effort to expel the irritating poison through
that other great excretory - the skin. In this
also it falls and the system abandons the attempt
exhausted. and waits for the recovery Of strength
to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These
nre the fits or paroxysms OF FRyER AND AGrE.
Such constitutional disorder will of course under
mine the health If il is not removed


We have labored to hnd. and have found, IN
anstAata
Year: 1859

Has WON lot Itself such n ren0wn for the cure OF
every variety of Throat aud Lung Complaint that
II Is entirely unnecessary for 10 recount the
evidence OF It's virtues. wherever il has beon en-
ployed. As II has long been in constant use
throughout this section, need not do more than
assure the people its quality is kept up to the best


It ever has been, and that ii may be relied on to
do for their relief all 1t has been found to do
Year: 1859

TIE ORPHAN INFANTS FAIR will be continued
tonight at Masonic Hall, and, we presume, will be
concluded. Therefore the kindly disposed toward
this most worthy of charitable objects should i'm
prove the occasion which is afforded them of aid
Year: 1859

Northern papers appear to be taken up with Union
meetings, ESQ called) which will have very little
effect on the present posture of the country. The
talk in general is, that it is too late"
Year: 1859

OPENING OF CAMP STHEET.--We are glad to see
that the Council have taken the preliminary steps
for opening Camp street from Liberty road to St.
Andrew street. This connection has long been
wanted; we trust that it will be carried through
without delay.
Year: 1859

SMOKING TEsTED--The Dublin Medical
Press asserts that the pupils OF the Poly tech
nie School in Paris, have recently furnighed
some curious statistics bearing on tobacco
Dividing the Young entlemen OF that college
into two groups-the smokers and the nom
smokers-it shows that the smokers have
proved themselves, in the various competitive
examinations, far inferior to the others. Not
only in the examinations on entering the
school are smokers in the lower rank, but in
the various ordeais that they have TO pass
through in a year, the average rank OF The
smokers had constantly fallen, and not incon-
siderabIv while the men who did not smoke
were found to enjoy cerebral atmosphere OF
the clearest kind.
Year: 1859

THEATRE.-The public will remember that
this evening is the night of the grand COM
plimentary benefit to Signora and Signor
Bianchi, who give their last performance be
fore leaving the city. A brilliant bill is pro-
vided for the evening, and rare treat will
be the reward of those who have the good
taste to attend.
Year: 1859

New QUARrz MILL.-Anderson, of the
Deadwood lead, says the Nevada Journal, has
a new quartz mill nearly for operations
The mi ! is supplied with heavy stamps and
is to he furnished with the best apparatus for
saving gold This is the third mill erected
in the new qsartz district on Deer creek above
town. A smart little quartz Lursn is grow
ing up in that locality.
Year: 1859

LycEuM AND SAN FRANcisco MISsTRELs.-
This combination Of talent. which is the
largest in the world, will be in this city and
perform on Tuesday night The inimitable
genius, Eph Horn, is in the troupe.
Year: 1859

A little girl, after returning from church,
where she saw collection taken up for the
hrst time, related what took place, and
among other things, she said, with all her
childish innocence, that man passed round
plate that had some money on it, but she
didn't take any.
Year: 1859

l tell you. But lying, stealing and rob.
bing are considered fair business transac.
tions nowadays; and fiat anytime your
feet should slip from under you, gather
up and lie the louder, steal the more and
rob the heavier lin financial or CONNER
cial way, of course y and you will soon
get a footing upon ground wholly devoid
of danger.


4 little stealing isN dangerous thing


Dive deep, or touch not, taste not


! forget exactly how brother Pope has


Now word to young Ambition
Whatever be the goal you have in view.
be determined to reach it, and you will
do it. The temple of Fame is built upon
a high hill, and the path that leads to it
Is, indeed, steep and slippery one; but
there are always a few bushes to grab at,
and, if you don't "lose your grip" you
willfnd thatits summit can be attainedby
modest merit asby well as hawks, vultures
and loathsome reptiles. Then, should you
gain even the highest eminence of earth.
you will look for a higher still. You will
see it looming up, in sublime beauty and
grandeur, far above the horizon of this
undulating sphere. 1t is the heavenly
Mount Zlon-very steep, and very hard
to climb. You will need the staff of faith,
and consciousness at all times that you
are upon the right track but if you once
slip before losing sight of this "vale of
tears" down, down you will slide, fiat
upon your back, into that bottomless pit,
whence no backsliders ever was knownto
find his way out SO mote it not be


NoTlcE.-Before the hat proceeds on
IFS usual round, permit me to state that I
receive rupees and Bolivian halves at for.
ty cents each; but any one contributing
two of either, may save twenty per cent,
as they will be taken for an even dollar.


FURTHER NoTIcE-A trial Waltz will
take place this eyenhing, at 8 o'clock pre-.
cisely,'in the dancing cellar on Pacific
street, two doors above the Tennessee
House. After which, Spanish Flamin.
go will be performed upon one leg by
celebrated professor and teacher of the
st. Vitus Dance. Two-thirds of the pro.
ceeds to be given in aid of that charity
which ever begins and ends at home the
to be applied for the more gen.
eral diffusion oflong pipes and lager beer;
Year: 1859

am going to leave these diggings for better
one. 1t is too much trouble to tug and Pry up
the great big chunks of gold that weigh half a
ton or 70, and are so thick you can not get them
out without danger of breaking your legs, and
am going up to ravine, where all have to do
is to so to the top Of high mountain and roll it
down to the river.


The country here is fine, but the winds are
awful My boys got so light with eating roots,
that can only keep them by me, or together by
pling Jumps Of gold about as big as maletS, on
their shirt tails, as the little innocentS sat down
on the grass to play. Everything is growing
here can raise ninety bushels of wheat to the
acre. Oranges, lemons and all such colored
frits grow wild here. White melons, pears, ap-
pies, peaches and apple dumPlings, are so plenty
that they find no market


Sell off what stuff yon have, and come out
here You can get rich in little while, and go
back in such style that it will astonish the ma
tives.
Year: 1859

DEATH FROM GREEN TEA.-Parents should be
careful and not let their children drink too
much green tea 1t is stated that a little girl
in New York, aged about twelve years, died
from the effects of drinking common green tea,
few days since She drank it very strong,
and eat the leaves notwithstanding violent
spasns for 24 hours, when she expired.
Year: 1859

The examination Of BROWN and his associates be-
fore eight Justices of the Peace fixed for Tues
day lastat Charlestown, Va. The following is an
extract from Judge PlsKKER's charge to the Grand
Jury of the Circuit Court of jefferson county, be-
fore which the final trial will take place:


Gentlemen of the Jury-In the state Of excite
menU into which our whole community has been
thrown by the recent occurrences in this county,
feel that the charge which l usually deliver TO a
Grand Jury would be entirely out OF place. Those
occurrences cannot but force themselves upon your
attention. They must necessarily occupy q c0nsld-
cradle portion of that time which you will devote
to your public duties as Grand Jury. However
guilty the unfortunate men who are now IN the
hands of justice may prove to be- still they cannot
be called upon to answer to the offended laws OF our
commonwealth for many of the multlfarlOus crimes
with which they are charged, until Ora nd Jury,
after liligent inquiry shall decide that for these
offences they be put upon their trial.


| will moi permit myself to give expression to any
of those feelings which at once spring up in every
breast when rejecting upon the enormity of the
guilt in which those are involved who invade by
| force peaceful unsuspecting portion of our COM
mon country, raise the standard of insurrecuon
amongst us, and shoot down without mercy Virginia
citizens, defending Virginia sod against their lnVa-
| sion must remember gentlemen. that as minis
ter of Justice bound to execute cur laws faithfully
and in the very spirit of justice HERSELF must as to
every one accused of crime bold, as ule law holds
that he is innocent until he shall be proved guilty by
an honest, an independents and an impartial jury Of
! his countrymen And what is obligatory upon me
| is equally binding upon you, and upon every one
who may be connected with the prosecution and
trials of these offenders. M .ss ~


In these cases as in all others, you viii be con
trolled by that oath which each of you have taken
and in which you have solennly sworn that yoJ
will diligently inquire into all ofenses which MAJ
be brought to your knowledge, and that you vii
present no one through i'll will, as well as tha
Year: 1859

you viii leave no one unpresented through fear or
favor. but in all your prcsentments you shall pre-
sent the truth, the whole truth, and nothing butse
truth" Do this, gentlemen, and you will have full
filed your whole duty. Go beyond this, and in
place of that diligent inquiry, and calm invesuga-
tion which you have sworn to make, act upon pre-
judice or from excitement of passion, and you will
have done wrong to that law in whose service you
are engaged.


As / before said. these men are now in tie hands
of justice. They are to have fair and an impair
tial trial. We owe it to the Of justice as well
as to our own characters, that such trial should
be afforded them. If guilty, they will be sure to
pay the extreme penalty of their guilt-and the
example OF punishment, when thus inflicted by Yir-
tue of law, will be beyond all comparison more
eficacious for our future protection than any tor
ture to which mere passion could subject them.


Whether, then, we be lnpublic or private position,
let each one of us remember that as the law has
charge Of these alleged Offenders. the law alone,
through its recognized agents, must deal with them
to the last 1t tolerate interference by others
with duties it has assumed to itself II true 10 her
self, and true she viii be, our commonwealth through
her courts OF justice viii be ready to punish the
offence of such interfe renee she Is to punsnthese
grave aud serious offences with which she is now
about TO deaI-n case the offences be proved by le
gal testimony to have been perpetrated- Let Us ALL
gentlemen bear this in mind and in patience await
the result-eOnideRt that result viii be whatever
strict and impartial justice shall determine to be ne
ceSsary ana proper.


1t would seem, gentlemen-and yet speak from
no evidence, but upon vague rumOrs which have
reached me-that these men who have lately thrown
themselves upon confidently expected to be join
ed by our slaves and free negroes, and unfured the
banner of nsurreeton and invited this class Of
citizens to rally under it, And yet, as told, they
are unable to obtain a single recruit.


The following is the commitment Of the insurrec-
tionis.s and the warrant to the sheriff to summon
eight justices to examine the facts with which they
stand charged:


State of Virginia, Jefferson county, to wit To
the Sheriff Court and to the keeper of the Jail of
said county: These are tocommand you, in the name
of the commonwealth of Virginia. forthwith to con-
vey and deliver into the custody of the keeper Of
said jail and to receive and safely keep the bodies
Of John Brown, Aaron g. Stephens and Edwin Cop
pee and Shields Green and John Copeland


Before me. ROGER CHEW.
Year: 1859

I've washed my face and oiled my hair, And curled my whiskers too; rve donned my best light waistcoat, And my dandy coat of blue: On one hand is violet kid,

 On th' other shines a ring; And now away with heart so gay,

 To see dear Laura King. It's only what I OUGHT to do,

 Because SHE waited here, Full of anxious hopes and wishes, For th' arrival of her dear; And when sweet cousin Mary

 Refused me an embrace, SHE offered, with a laughing air,

 To act in Mary's place. pye mounted an imperial,

 Because the LADIES say They like them-and always let

 The darlings have their way l don't admire them much myself

 They have rakish air; But to please fastidious ladies

 Must be MY chiefest care. How many have flirted with

 Since last l saw her face There's ten at Lady Folly's ball,

 And eighteen at the race; But now that Dye come home again, think it is no sin To frt with cousin Mary,

 And charming Laura King.