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we find in the Pittsburg Gazette, shows philosophy Philosophy. The following annunciation, which in an innkeeper worthy of imitation :

"Fire.-The Black Horse Tavern, situated on the Pittsburg and Greensburg Turnpike Road, about four miles from this city, was burned down last night. We have not learned exactly how it originated, except that it was accidental. The loss is said to be about $3,000. We were pleased with the remark of the proprietor-'I never liked the house, any how. in which travellers and visiters, with their families. I will now put up a tavern worthy of the stand, and may be properly accommodated.'

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from north to south. It containss, 4 cities, 12 towns, to the Capes, in the Revenue Cutter Jefferson, Capt.||was blown up, by which a Mr. J. Shuler, one of 60 villages, and about 94,000 inhabitants. The WEBSTER, and on Wednesday he was gratified with the hands employed there, lost his life. He has left country, however, wants corn, from neglect of tillage, an exhibition of the skill of the Artillery School of twelve children and a widow, whose only support for the land is good, and produces wine, oil, raisins. Practice, at Fortress Monroe, in target firing, which, he was, to mourn their sudden and disastrous loss. and many other fruits, of which several cargoes are we are informed, was executed at a mile's distance, The accident can in no way be accounted for. yearly exported; there is also a good fishery on with almost the precision of rifle shooting. the coast. Lagos, formerly the capital of this kingThe Hygeia Hotel continues to be crowded with dom, is an ancient city, seated on a bay of the same fashionable visiters. name, navigable by the largest ships: it is 118 miles Another first rate ship was added, on Saturday, distant south by east of London, and contains nearly to the number of splendid vessels that our ship yards 3000 inhabitants. It is irregularly fortified, and two have furnished for the mercantile service of our forts defend the harbor. Tavira, the present capital country. The launch of the " HARK! AWAY," a noof Algarve, is a rather considerable city. It stands ble vessel of 550 tons burden, took place in fine in a fertile and pleasant neighborhood, 135 miles style on Saturday afternoon, from the navy yard of south-east of Lisbon, and 58 from Lagos; it has an her builder, Mr. James Beacham.-[Balt. American.] excellent harbor, and is divided by a river into the east and west towns. There are some very old for-sel has been added to our fleet of whalers. She is The Eleventh Ship.-Another fine substantial ves. tifications and a castle, besides two forts that defend called the HELVETIA, three years old, of 330 tons, the harbor. It contains 1400 houses, and above 5000 and cost $17,000. The Helvetia will be immediate. inhabitants. Faro is a city, with modern fortifica- ly fitted out for a three years' cruise in the Pacific, tions and a castle. It is situated in a level country, under the command of Captain Cottle, the veteran on a bay 20 miles south by west of Tavira, and has and enterprizing commander of the America, on her a good but difficult harbor for ships not exceeding last passage.-Hudson Gaz.] 200 tons burden. It is the see of a bishop, and contains nearly 5000 inhabitants, who carry on a considerable trade in wine, salt, fruits, &c. Its low situation renders it rather unhealthy. It suffered much in the great earthquake in 1755, by which entire streets were converted into ruins. The jurisdiction of this district and city belongs to the Queen of Portugal, whose ouvidir resides here, to collect her revenues, administer the laws, &e. All these cities have a sufficient number of churches, convents, &c. CAPE DE VERDS.-Capt. Marriner, of the brig Zipporah, who left these Islands on the 23d ult, states seven cargoes of provisions had been received there from the U. States for the suffering inhabitants, and one cargo of corn from Africa.

Mr. Martin, a merchant at Bonavista, informed him that about 18,000 was the number that had died by starvation in the whole Islands' and not 40,000, as has been stated. Mr. Martin was of opinion that if

The last mail brought news of the death of Judge Henderson, of the State of North Carolina, and for many years one of the most honored and respected citizens of that State.

tains a letter dated Vincennes (Indiana) July 11th, of The Milk Sickness.-The Danbury Herald conwhich the following is an extract:

"At Logansport, on the banks of the Wabash, I was cautioned by an elderly lady against using either milk, butter or beef, on my way o Vincennes. As a reason for her caution, she informed me that the milk sickness was common in this State. I had heard of it before, but knew little of it. She informed me An Elephant, said to be the largest ever seen in that very many deaths occurred annually by this this country, has made his entree among the Philadel. dreadful malady. There is a difference of opinion phians. The price asked for him is $6000, and heas to the cause that produces it: but the general opinmeasures 35 feet 3 inches in length, and is 8 feet 9 ion is, that it is occasioned by the yellow oxyd of inches high. He arrived in the brig Treaty, from Calcutta.

Explosion. We understand by a gentleman from
Newburg, that on Saturday afternoon last, the fin-
ishing house attached to the powder mills of D. Ro-
gers, Esq, near Newburg, Orange county, was acci.
dentally blown up, and one man, the only one in the
house at the time, was instantly killed. This is, we
believe, the fourth or fifth accident of the kind which
has occurred at that establishment in a few years.
[Ulster Co. Echo.]

arsenic in the low ground and woodland, and partic. ularly near the Wabash river, and that some weed (yet unknown) imbibes the poison, and when eaten by cattle, causes them to quiver, stagger and die within a few hours. If cows eat it the milk is poisoned, or butter that is made from the milk; and is also as sure death to those who use the milk or butter as it is to the animal that eats the weed. Great care is taken to bury such cattle as die with it; for if dogs, &c., eat their flesh, they share the same fate, and it operates upon them as violently as upon the creature the rain should fall as usual this month, (Aug) they||August 1st, says that on the Tuesday previous "be in this State, runs the victim for his knife a mile, to Emigrating Indians.-The Wabash Mercury of that was first affected with it. The butcher uniformly, would do very well; otherwise, they would again tween three and four hundred of the Pottawattamie heat his blood, and if it has eaten the weed, it will need assistance from the United States. They are Indians passed down the Grand Prairie, five miles it is considered safe to butcher, and this is the uni at once on stopping quiver and shake; if it does not, very greatful to the people of this country for their west of Lafayette, on their journey to their allotted form test even when beef cattle show no sign of hav. goodness, heretofore, towards them. territory west of Mississippi. We learn they were ing ate the weed. Indiana is not alone in this mis. accompanied by Col. Pepper, the removing agent, fortune: there have been many cases in some parts and Lieutenant Montgomery, of the army, as assist-of Ohio and south of St. Louis, and other of the southant. They are in good health, and removing condition.

The schr. Halcyon has arrived at New Orleans from Tampico, with $220,000 specie. The letters by this vessel are to the 16th ult., which state that throughout, that country remained in the same unset. tled state as per last advices. The troops which left Matamoras to reduce Tampico, staid a few days in that neighbourhood, without making any offensive movement, and afterwards took up their line of march back for Matamoras. One letter says, "The accounts from Mexico by the last mail are, if any thing, worse than before. The government troops that went in pursuit of the rebels, have been defeated, and Gen. St. Anna has again been obliged to take command of the army." The Cholera was raging at San Luis, Potosi.

SUMMARY.

[From the Globe.]
OFFICIAL.-The Convention between the United
States and the King of the two Sicilies, concluded
at Naples on the 14th of October, 1832, having been
ratified by the two parties; the ratifications of the
same were duly exchanged in that Capital, by Mr.
Auguste 'Davezac, on the part of the United States,
and the Prince of Cassaro, on the part of the King of
the two Sicilies, on the 8th June, in the present year.

The Vicksburgh, Mississippi, paper says that a school-master in a neighboring township, has laid aside Murray's" Exercises," and placed the Acts of the last Legislature of Mississippi in the hands of his pupils, for the purpose of instructing them in the art of turning bad English and bad grammar into The remarkable exemption of New York from good. He is of opinion, that the pamphlet containeven the ordinary degree of summer sickness, as ing the acts, is richer in solecisms and violations of contrasted with the melancholy scenes of last year, the rules of grammar, than any book in the language presents a striking result. All now is bustle, activi.except the pamphlets containing the acts of the preceding nine years.

ty, life, and movement-then stillness, melancholy,
ST. LOUIS, MISSOuri, 6th August.-A detachment
and apprehension reigned, almost undisturbed. In of United States dragoons, under the command of
looking now at what then were scenes of desolation, Lieuts. D. Perkins and C. C. Davis, arrived at this
and reverting to the yet recent past, one cannot help port on Sunday last, in the steamboat Peoria, from
admiring that elasticity of spirit and enterprize, which the Illinois river, and immediately proceeded to Jef
rebounds at once when the pressure is removed, and recruited at, and mostly of the city of New York.
ferson Barracks. They numbered seventy-one men,
repairs so immediately, or effaces, the effects or the We understand that they are fine looking, intelligent
traces of previous misfortune.
young men, of respectable trades and professions
In every department at present business is unusual-in the city from whence they came, and must add
ly active. There has been scarcely any summer inter-respectability to the army, and reflect credit upon the
val this year, hardly any intermission in the incessant officers commanding.
din of prosperous industry. Universally too-or so
much so as hardly to render any qualification of that
term necessary-the commercial operations of the
year are said to be fortunate; the footing of business
remarkably secure; and all are contented, or as much
so as the ever restless spirit of commerce-happily
restless—will permit its votaries to be.

The Norfolk Herald of Friday says:-The Presi dent's health, we learn, has been much benefited by his sojourn at the Rip-Raps; the situation evidently agrees with him. On Tuesday be took an excursion

western States. I have seen many farms, with com. fortable buildings and improvements, entirely aban. doned, and their owners fled into other quarters to avoid the dreadful curse. And yet I confess I have never seen any section of country superior in soil, to the land adjoining the Wabash, and this is the only objection to it. Yours, &c."

[FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.] Mr. Editor-In viewing the beautiful and fine Man of War, the Delaware, it occasioned the following suggestions:

A NATIONAL MARINE SCHOOL!-To be established "pon one of the small Islands in the river-say for ble and convenient. instance upon Great Barn Island, or any other suita

and prowling about the streets without homes, or de. All boys in Alms or Poor houses, boys wandering sertion by neglect of worthless parents and left destiSchool. Thus would one of the greatest pests in tute, such should be the only objects of this Marine society be converted into a means of national glory.

The dress should be a blue jacket and trowsers, and the education, to make thorough seamen and valuable sailors (not to make Captains of them, and teach them Latin and Greek) but to make good sea.

men.

After passing examination by a Nautical Board, and passed by the Nautical Board? The being brought what Captain would not covet a boy thus instructed up in the American Marine School, would become a certificate for employment all over the world.

this?

various parts and duties lessons. A small sloop might be the school room, and its From whence would the means arise to pay for all The detachment was about twenty-five days in performing the trip from New York, via Buffalo and Chicago, to this city; and have reached their des-such provisions of desertion and wretchedness in the 1. Concentrate all moneys at present applied for tination in good health, notwithstanding the unfavor-various places. able time at which they travelled. The result of the trip offers a practical argument in favor of the route, as being most advantageous for the transportation of troops, as well as preferable for emigrants destined for the west.--[Missouri Republican.]

2. From the School Fund,
3. From the State.

4. Emigrant and trading vessels a trifle.

5. Voluntary subscriptions, and myself, as a Blue
Jacket, will pay the first ten dollars toward it.
Let us hope some patriotic pen will further advance
OLD BLUE JACKET.

On the morning of the 9th instant, one of the pow.
der mills at Sumneytown, Montgomery County Pa.this Marine School.

VERSITY OF MICHIGAN LIBRARIES

542

AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, AND

The subjoined article is recommended in the Ga-in Bombay, and during his lifetime, his comrades at manner; the details had come down, di figured zette, to the notice of the Corporation of this city, in council and in arms, ordered his statue as a com. by two hundred years of popular traditior, when the and the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department:-panion to that of Elphinstone. He abounded in learned Abbe Maio, librarian of the Vatican, whose A London paper gives the following account of a anecdote; his happy gaiety of nature and unrestrain. erudite researches have rendered such eminent sersimple invention, which, may be the means of saving ed kindness of heart, made his company acceptable vice to the republic of letters, discovered among the many lives. to the most fastidious; nor did we ever meet with manuscripts of the 16th century, the History of the

Wednesday afternoon, an interesting experiment of a new but simple mode of assisting the inmates of a house when on fire to escape from impending destruction, took place in Bridge road, Borough, near the police station.

The apparatus is the invention of Mr. Weeks, the brewer, of Stockwell, and consists of a broad sheet of canvas, with numerous loop-holes at the border, to admit the grasp of persons in attendance in the stretching of the sheet. The foreman and firemen of the Protector Fire Office, as also numerous police constables, were in attendance, and a considerable number of scientific and other persons were present. The canvas being stretched by the assistance of the firemen, policemen, and passengers, a young man named Norris, a sergeant of police, and several other persons, leaped several times from the roof and other parts of the house, and alighted in perfect safety. Several magistrates and other distinguished persons witnessed the proceedings, and seemed convinced that, of every means of rescuing the inmates of houses, when on fire, from the risk of perishing in the flames, this simple canvas sheet is most effective, the most portable, and the most certain of being adopted as an effectual life preserver.

[From the Globe.] OFFICIAL.-The Convention between the United States and the King of the two Sicilies, concluded at Naples on the 14th of October, 1832, having been ratified by the two parties; the ratifications of the same were duly exchanged in that Capital, by Mr. Auguste 'Davezac, on the part of the United States, and the Prince of Cassaro, on the part of the King of the two Sicilies, on the 8th of June, in the present

year.

a man, who, like him, could pass so readily from
the comic to the serious-could smooth his brow in
the midst of the most joyous laughter, and give
wholesome counsel and solemn advice.

Cenci Family (Istoria della Famiglia Cenci.") We shall venture to offer to our readers a few fragments of this curious MS. which, in the most affecting and simple manner, traces the principal episodes of He was known and beloved from the centre of Per- the crime, the trial, and the execution of the crim. sia to the frontiers of the Birman Empire; he spoke inals. the language of the East with fluency, and was inti**Man dies as he has lived if the vengeance of mate with the natures and social manners of all the heaven be slow in its operation, it is only to strike tribes of the East. His literary works will continue the surer. A splendid proof of this truth is affor. his memory with honour among us: his History of ded by Francesco Cenci, a noble Roman, whose scan. Central India; his Political History of the East; his dalous and criminal mode of lite led to his own tragi. Persian Sketches; his Account of John Leyden; and cal end, and that of his whole family. lastly, his Life of Lord Clive, unpublished, but com. "He was a stranger to no vice--he had accum. pleted to the last chapter, are works that cannot soonulated crime upon crime, and even attempted to vio. die; they show a skilful scholar, a shrewd biogra. late the honor of his second daughter, Beatrice.-pher, and an accurate and eloquent historian, The She long resisted his solicitations with courage; but, close of his life may be reckoned unfortunate. Re- reduced at least to dispair by an accumulation of lying on the influence of his talents, the good deeds unheard of barbarities, she resolved to rid herself he had done, and, moreover, on his right of birth, he of her father. This beautiful creature, who if born offered himself as a member of the Dumfries Bor. under happier suspiees, would have been the model oughs, and was rejected. of her sex, no longer breathed but for blood and ven. geance.

The last time we saw Sir John was at the Abbotsford subscription meeting: he looked pale and exhausted-we still think we hear him saying, "And should all our endeavors fail--and they surely cannot--it wili be a consolation to think, that when on some distant day my son passes along the Tweed, and Abbotsford in ruins, he can truly say, 'My father tried to save you from destruction, but was not seconded by his country." Nor shall we soon forget the anecdote he told us of Lord Clive:

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"It was on the 9th of September, 1598, that these two ladies-Beatrice, and Lucretia, her mother-inlaw-administered to Francesco a soporific portion, that presently plunged him into a profound slumber. At midnight, two assassins were secretely introduced into Francesco's chamber, while the ladies awaited the event in adjoining an apartment. Suddenly they saw, issuing from the victim's chamber, the two ruf. fians, pale and disconcerted, who told them that pity had withered their arms, aud that they could not immolate the old man as he slept. Wretches! words-cowards as you are! It is I alone who will exclaimed Beatrice, you are then brave but in undertake to rid the earth of this monster. Follow me!" she added, drawing a poniard from her bosom; but I swear to you, that the same blow shall make you bear him company.' "This threat terrified the two assassins: accompa

"When Clive was a young man a friend called on him one day, and found him sitting with books and his visiter, and fire it out of the window: he did so pistol on the table. Take that pistol,' said Clive to at once; before the smoke subsided, and while the room The Vicksburgh, Mississippi, paper says that a school-master in a neighboring township, has laidung with the report, Clive spring to his feet, exclaim. ing, God has something for me to do yet-I snapped aside Murray's" Exercises," and placed the Acts of that pistol twice at my head before you came in--yet the last Legislature of Mississippi in the hands of his did not go off-God has work for me yet." We hope pupils, for the purpose of instructing them in the art of turning bad English and bad grammar into a full and ample memoir will be written of this dis-nied by Lucretia and Beatrice, they rushed once tinguished man.

good. He is of opinion, that the pamphlet containing the acts, is richer in solecisms and violations of the rules of grammar, than any book in the language -except the pamphlets containing the acts of the preceding nine years.

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more into Francesco's chamber and murdered him. But God willed not that a parricide should go unpunished. Marcio, one of the assassins, arrested at Naples for some other crime, divulged the whole history of the tragical end of Francesco.

Among the pictures which adorn the Palazzo Colonna at Rome, there is one that might move the heart of a stone. The contrast of youth and loveliness it presents with the abandonment of grief, of all of United States dragoons, under the command of earthly hope, is so affecting, that hot tears have pourLieuts. D. Perkins and C. C. Davis, arrived at this ed from many an eye, while gazing on the settled port on Sunday last, in the steamboat Peoria, from//sorrow, the prophetic melancholy of this early victim It was only at the moment they were preparing to

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, 6th AUGUST.-A detachment

of crime.

"The Cenci were put to the rack. The brothers, Bernardino and Giacomo, and Lucretia, were unable to endure the torture, and confessed the crime. But Beatrice, with heroic courage, resisted to the last.

the Illinois river, and immediately proceeded to Jef cut off her beautiful hair, that her firmness abandoned It is the portrait of the beautiful but ill-fated Bea-her, and that she requested that Lucretia and her el. ferson Barracks. They numbered seventy-one men,trice Cenci, whose misfortune the pencil of Guido der brother should be introduced to her. This was recruited at, and mostly of the city of New York. Reni has immortalized;-of her who, young, beauti. done. When they saw the unfortunate girl, whom We understand that they are fine looking, intelligent ful, and noble, became criminal through virtue, and they so tenderly loved, overwhelmed with suffering, young men, of respectable trades and professions who thought to escape dishonor through parricide. they said to her, "Dearest Beatrice, we committed in the city from whence they came; and must add So angelic is the countenance, the spectator credits the crime, and we have confessed it; it is utterly respectability to the army, and reflect credit upon the with reluctance that so sweet, so expressive a face, useless, therefore, to brave any longer the torture.' officers commanding. so gentle a form, harbored a soul that, with cool You have then willed,' replied Beatrice, with great premeditation, e uld imbrue her hands in her father's vehemence, that our ancient house should be dis. blood. But, of such a father! to whose crimes it graced by an eternal opprobrium. Why have you is difficult to give a name; they were such at which not rather preferred to expire under the most refined humanity shudders; such as a fiend incarnate might torments of the rack, than under the hand of the exhave rejoiced to have perpetrated! The brutal in-ecutioner! This idea threw her into a state of consults, the diabolical suffering, of which he made his vulsion that it would be difficult to describe. After innocunt children the victims, were not the worst- a short silence, she cried, in a mournful tone, But he was a man who had exhausted the whole cata- since you have willed it, let it be so; and, address. logue of human enormity. And it was his daughter ing herself in a firm tone of voice to the executioners, who, in the silent midnight, when even the iron hearts Wretches!' she said to them, 'unbind me; let the of the ruffians she had hired relented, seized the act of accusation be read to me. I will say only avengin dagger from their nerveless arm, and, by what I ought to say, and conceal what is fitting should display of dauntlers energy, determined their wa be concealed.' Her wish having been complied vering resolution. with, she signed her confession without adding to it a word.

The detachment was about twenty-five days in performing the trip from New York, via Buffalo and Chicago, to this city; and have reached their destination in good health, notwithstanding the unfavor. able time at which they travelled. The result of the trip offers a practical argument in favor of the route, as being most advantageous for the transportation of troops, as well as preferable for emigrants destined for the west.-[Missouri Republican.]

On the morning of the 9th ins ant, one of the pow. der mills at Sumneytown, Montgomery County Pa. was blown up, by which a Mr. J. Shuler, one of the hands employed there, lost his life. He has left twelve children and a widow, whose only support he was, to mourn their sudden and disastrous loss. The accident can in no way be accounted for.

MISCELLANY.

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The parricide of the Centi family is one of the deepest taagedies in the page of history. 1: happenThe whole family was condemned to deathed in the 16th century, under tha Pontificate of Cle- The sentence was announced to them only at five inent VIIIth, and is one of the bloody catastrophies o'clock, on the morning of the day fixed for their exwhich, in the lapse of ages, is enshrined among the ecution. The accused were locked in profound sleep most marvellous of popular traditions. For a length when the messengers of death arrived. What an of time this event was enshrouded in the deepest awaking was theirs! Beatrice!" says the M.S. "fairly [From the London Athenæum.] Sir John Malcolm.It is with much pain we state mystery; the only real evidence of the crime of this howled with rage. Lucretia displayed great cour. that Sir John Malcolm died after a short but severe young creature was the admirable picture of Guido,ge, and requested to be led to the chapel, in order illness, at his house in Princes Street, on the 30th who has represented her at the very moment she to prepare herself for death. Beatrice also, on re. May, in the sixty-fifth year of his age; he was all was going to execution. It appears that Guido,struck covering her serenity displayed the greatest firmness, but recovered from a paralytic stroke, when he ven. with her transceudant beauty, solicited Clement the and served as an example to her whole family. tured out in the east wind; was attacked with influ. VIIIth to grant her a short respite. of which he pro. "She made her will, and ordered her body to be enza and hurried to the grave. His loss will be fired to enter her dungeon and take her portrait, with buried in the Church of San Pietro il Montorio. She felt by his countrymen, more particularly, by per. a view of making it serve as a model for a Virgin he left three hundred crowns to the congregation of the sons connected with India: to worth he was kind was then painting for the chapel of the Vatican Holy Wounds; and further deposed that her mar. and friendly, and to genius he ever lent, without The real nature of the crime which led to the tri-riage portion should be employed in marrying fifty solicitation, a helping hand. He was much beloved"al of Beatrice Cenci, was known but in a very inex."poor girls. At the foot almost of the bloody scaffold

ness.

her mind was occupied by ideas of love and happi- will be known wherever they go. For stealing, the
perpetrator of the crime is dragged through the streets
"When the fatal moment had arrived the nuns of by a party of soldiers, who alternately lash him with
a neighboring convent came for them. The two cri- a thong of plaited rattans on the bare back, and beat
minals delivered themselves up with firmness, and a large gong to give the people notice, that they may
In some cases, the knees
and mutually assisted each other to arrange their witness the punishment.
dress. On their sides Glacomo and Bernardino and ancles are compressed in iron machines made for
dino left the prison of Tardinova, and having arrived the purpose; this is extremely painful. There is no
with the procession before the Procuratore fiscale,' punishment more common and unmercifully executed
he said to them, Signor Barnardino Cenci, the most than that of whipping. Smuggling saltpetre into the
holy father Clement the Eighth pardons you. He country, from which powder may be manufactured,
19 content that you shouid accompany your brother is punished by decapitation. Strangling is also a
to the scaffold; forget not to pray to God for the re-very common punishment The criminal is tied to
pose of his soul.'

"The women arrived on feet thickly veiled: their arms were slightly bound, but their hands were free. In one they held a handkerchief, and in the other a crucifix. Beatrice appeared as though she had been walking to her triumph; her expressive eye looked upon the surrounding objects with the calm serenity of her soul. On passing a church she prayed with a loud voice.

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It was as if a shadow of the vale
Of death had fallen on her living clay.
And waited, ere all hold on earth should fail,
To fit her soul to walk that gloomy way;
And teach her breast to shudder at the doom
Which gather'd round to darken o'er her tomb.
Sometimes as if she kindled at the art
Of him who subtly woo'd her-a warin flame
That fir'd anew each chill and pallid part
With vital lustre, glided through her frame.
Yet, drop by drop, life left her weary heart,
Till, failing like a springless fount, she came
To human nothingness-a faded flower
That knew a world to bloom upon no more.

STEPHENSON,

No. 264 Elizabeth street, near Bleecker street,
New-York.

E. L.

RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examine

these Care; a specimen of which may be seen on that part of the New-York and Haslæm Railroad, now in operation.

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a strong upright stake, with his hands and feet|| Builder of a superior style of Passenger Cars för Railroads, fastened: a stout cord is then put round his neck, and passed through a hole pierced in the stake. stick of about 1 1-2 inch in diameter is attached to the, cord, and the executioner standing behind him wrenches it around. The eyes soon start from their sockets, and the tongue is seen issuing from the mouth which foams and bleeds excessively, finally the neck is cut through by the cord and the head falls to the gronnd. No cap or covering of any kind Giacomo and Ber-is placed over the face during the execution. Lucretia's turn came The following crimes which should come as well under the cognizance of the law as others, are very lenently punished.

daughter, and a master or mistress putting to death
a domestic slave, are only punished with 60 to 70
blows, and should they wish to lay the murder falsely
on some other person, the punishment is but 80 blows
and three years transportation.

"Arrived at the place of execution, the Cenci were assembled in a chapel. nardino were the first led out. next; she was stript to the shoulders, and her hands bound behind her back. At the humiliation of this public exhibition, and the sight of the hatchet A grandfather or grandmother killing a grandchild suspended over her head, she burst into tears-Ola father or mother wilfully murdering their son or God she cried, pardon and mercy! "The executioner, reeking in her blood, now approached Beatrice, in order to bind her. She was on her knees, and praying with a loud voice Oh, my God! you died for me on the cross. and, gutity as I am, a drop of thy sacred blood has flowed for me,-I trust in thy infinite mercy!" She then stretched out her arms to the executioner, and said to him, "Thou hast my body for its punishment, mayst thou at the same time release my soul for its safety. At the foot of the scaffold she took off her shoes, ascended the steps with heroic firmness, and laying her head on the block, and arranging her clothes so that her modesty might have nothing| to fear, she tranquilly awaited the fatal blow.

"The Pope had retired to a country house some! distance from Rome. The discharge of three pieces of cannon announced the moment of execution. A this signal he was deeply affected, and wept over the fate of this unfortnnate family; and, stretching forth his arms to Heaven, he gave that plenary absolution to the Cenci which they had solicited.

"A profound silence succeeded to the confused tumult of voices of a whole people, whose prayers were confounded with the agonizing groan of the criminals.

"The body of Beatrice was interred in the church of San Pietro Il Montorio, near the grand altar, which Raphael's picture of the Transfiguration has rendered to celebrated."

The whole catalogue of human misery contains not a deeper tale of wo, than the story of La Bella Beatrice Cenci.

[From the Chinese Coarier, March 20th.] PUNISHMENT IN CHINA.-Perhaps the most dreadful punishments are inflicted upon criminals in the "Celestial Empire," and crimes are probably here committed more frequently, than in any other coun try.

For murder of a parent or near relative, or for rebellion, the prisoner is made to undergo a punish. ment called Ling.che, which is per ormed by cutting him to pieces by degrees, commencing at the feet or hands. In case he has any relative who can bribe the executioner, the torture may be abridged, and bis sufferings cease by piercing to the heatr; at times this may be done for a small sum. Another punishment for the same offenee is the following:

The culprit is fastened with his back to a large cross, placed in the ground, with his hands and feet so tied that he cannot move an inch in any direction. An incision is then made across the forehead, and the skin pull d down over the eyes and face; then the feet, hands, legs, arms, and head, are successively cut off from the trunk, which is finally pierced to the heart. Beheading is a punishment for adultery, murder, &c. The prisoner is made to kneel (in some public place, but not exposed on a scaffold) towards the throne of the Son of Heaven," and as if return, ing thanks for the punishment about to be received, he bows, and while raising his head, it is struck off by one blow of a sword; the head is then put into a cage, sent to the place where the crime was committed, and hung at the end of a pole or against a wall. The men employed in this service are very expert and strong, and go to their work with as much composure as a butcher to the slaughter. Prisoners are often, after being confined some time in goal, let loose and branded on the forshead with a hot iron, so that they'

RAILROAD CAR WHEELS AND BOXES,

AND OTHER RAILROAD CASTINGS. Also. AXLES furnished and fitted to wheels complete, at the Jefferson Cotton and Wool Machine Factory and Foundry. Paterson, N. J. All orders addressed to the subscribers at Paterson, or 60 Wall street. New York, will be promptly Also, CAR SPRINGS. tended to.

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ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR, PATENT RAILROAD, SHIP AND BOAT

SPIKES.

The Troy Iron and Nan Factory keep constantly for sale a very extensive assortiment of Wrought Spikes and Nails, from 3 to 18 inches, manufactured by the subscriber's Patent Machinery, which after five years successful operation and

almost universal use in the United States (28 well, as El.land, where the subscriber obtained a Patent,) are found superior to any ever offered in market.

Railroad Companies may be supplied with Spikes having countersink heads suitable to the holes in iron rails, to any

mouit and on short notice. Almost all the Kailroads now in progress in the United States are fastened with Spikes maue at the above named taco. y-for which purpose they are found in

valuable, as their adhesion ie more than double any common pikes made by the hammer.

Splendid Bedstead.-There has been lately exhi
bited in the Palace of the Tamedo, at St. Petersburgh,
a state bed, constructed at the royal manufactory by
order of the Emperor, to be sent as a present to the
Schah of Persia. It is formed of solid crystal, re.
splendent with silver ornaments. It is ascended by
steps of blue glass, and has a fountain underneath, so punctually attended to.
contrived as to throw out on each side jets of odori-
ferous waters. The effect when the chamber is
lighted up is absolutely dazzling, as it has the ap-
pearance of myriads of diamonds.-[Galignani's
Messenger.]

To

POETRY.

[FROM THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.]
THE AMERICAN EXILE.
Thou'rt in a fairy clime, sweet one!
'Mid the bright and loveliest thou,
Yet a shade is o'er thy bosom cast,
And o'er thy sunny brow.

Dost thou pine for thine own far distant land,
With its forests vast and drear,

For the wild bird's call o'er the clear blue lake,
And the bounding of the deer?

Or weep'st thou for a Mother's form,
By thy lonely couch to kneel;

Or the holy kiss of a Father's love
On thy pale sweet brow to feel?
Both, both, though the wintry wind may sweep
O'er the forest in its pride;

Though the echo of each sweet note may cease
The ruffled lake beside;

Though the deer no more with its graceful step
O'er the sun-clad hills may leap;

--

I pine, I pine, for that far, far shore,-
For my parents' voice I weep.

[FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.]

ELLA.

THE BATTERY AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
In Imitation of Lines in Beattie's Minstrel.

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Spikes are kept for sale, at factory prices, by I. & J. Townsend, Albany, and the principal Iron Merchants in Albany and Troy; J. 1. Brower, 222 Water street, New York: A.

M Jones, Philadelphia; T. Janvicts, Baltimore; Degrand &
Santh, Boston.

P. S.-Railroad Companies would do well to forward thoir
olders as early as practical, as the subscriber is desirous of ex-
ending the manufacturing so as to keep pace with the daily
ncreasing demand for his Spikes.
H. BURDEN.
J23 1am

ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING

INSTRUMENTS.

The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in hie profeetion, warranted equal, if not superion, in principles of construction and workmanship to any imported or manufactured in the United States; several which are entirely new: among which are an Improved Compass, with a 1e escope at. tached, by which angles can be taken with or without the uno of the needle, with perfect accuracy-also, a Railroad Gonionet r, with two Telescope-and a Levelling Instrument, with a Goniometer attached, particularly a impted to Railroad purpoWM. J. YOUNG, Mathematical Instrument Maker, No. 9 Dock street, Philadelphia.

Bes.

The following recommendations are respectfully submitted to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested. Baltimore, 1832.

In reply to thy inquiries respecting the insirumenite manu. factured by thee, now in use on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail. road. I heerfully furnish thee with the following internation. The whole number of Levels now in possession of the department of construction of thy make is seven. The whole nu. ber of the "Improved Compass" ie eight. These are all ex. clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra duation Department.

Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have in fact needed but little repairs. except from acc dents to which

on leaving the vicinity of the Battery for the Springs.all instruments of the kind are liable
Oh how canst thou renounce this various store
Of charme, which Nature to her votary yields,
The Ocean's billow murmuring on the shore;
The Greensward vying with tair Tempe's fields;
The Bird's sweet note who wakes his matin lay;
The Choral Band which charms the car at even;
The Moonbeam sleeping on the placid bay;
The Setting Sun which gilds with burnished gold the Heavens;
The War Ship whence Columbia's banner streams
Bearing bold hearts of whom their country's proud;
The distant sail which like a feather seems
Borne on the bosom of the rising cloud:
The Sylphid forms which brush the morning dew,
And drink health's balmy breezes at mild even :
To yield to these thy heart canst thou refuse 1
And canst thou these renounce and hope to be forgiven?

I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasses have been preferred by my assistants generally, to any others in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other decription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails on this Roal.

These are beautiful lines; simple, touching, and most true:-
[FOR THE NEW-YORK AMERICAN.]
THE CONSUMPTIVE.

'Twas nothing that her simplest smile was worth
A seraph's brightest-nothing that her eye,
Or rolling bright or brightly calm, gave birth
To all the freshness of life's morning sky:
The blight that desolates the household hearth
Came o'er her, and she knew that she must die.
Then bow'd her gentle head beneath the blow
Which laid, at once, earth's hope and mercy low.
And her pure cheek grew cold and darkly pale
As snows by mountain caverns hid from day-

This instrument, more recently improved with a reverag telescope, in place of the vane sighita, leaves the engineer carcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later al ungles of any simple and chea instument that I have yet seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others now in u e for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, I think it will be as highly appreciated for comnion surveying. Respectully the trend, JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Philadelphia, February, 1883. Hving for the last two years made constant use of Mr. Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En zineers and Surveyore. E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. Germantown, February, 1838. For a year past I have ured Instruments made by Mr. W.3. Young, of Chiladelphia, in which he has combined the proper. ties of a Theodolite with the common Level.

I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for laying but Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engl cers as preferable to any others for that purpose. HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Ene. Philad., Germant, and Norrlat. Railroad

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I can with confidence recommend them as being worthy the notice of Companies engaged in Internal Improveniente, who may require Instruments of auperior workmanship.

JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendent of Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.

I have examined with care several Engineers' instruments of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and survey. or's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my ophilon of the cicellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accuracy and permanency in adjustments.

These instruments seemned to ne to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have been made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field.

WILLIAM HOWARD, U. S. Civil Engineer. Baltimore, May let, 1833 To Messrs Ewin and Heartte-- As you have asked me to give my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manucacture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think well of self. and of the accuracy of their performance I have received workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by myand who have had them for a considerable time in use. The atisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to relieve us of the necessity of sending elsewhere for what we may want iu our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &c. B. H. LATROBE, Civil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Rall road Company.

A number of other letters are in our possession and might ba introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy to submitthem up in application, to any persons desirous of perus. A2ing the same, 1936

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AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

AND

PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 81, 1833.

D. K. MINOR, EDITOR.]

CONTENTS:

.546

Track Roads: Wabash and Erie Canal; &c.....page 545
On Road-Making, with the Use of Timber.
S. Fairman's Rotary Engine, Machine for Making
Wrought Nails, &c.; Internal Improvements in Vir-
ginia.....

Locomotives on Railroads; A Treatise on Railway Im-
provements.

Patent Tinned Lead Pipes; American Iron; Wonderful Inventions; &c....

547

548

.549
.554

[VOLUME II.-No. 35.

road Journal, or 20th July last, upon the subject|| at seasons of high water, a passage for keel-
named at the head of this article. It was our in- boats from one route to the other, and of course
tention when we gave Mr. Hartman's communi- to the Lake.
cation to the printer, to refer to Mr. Williams'
Report upon the same subject, published, with
engravings, by us some time previous in the
Mechanics' Magazine, New-York Farmer, and

Babbage on the Economy of Machinery (continued)..550 also in this Journal, No. 19, or 11th of May last,
Literary Notices....

Summary

Foreign Intelligence and Varieties.
Poetry; Marriages and Deaths, &c.

.560

556 (although it seems to have escaped the notice
557 of Mr. Williams,) but from the multiplicity of
our engagements it was omitted, as were our
remarks upon Mr. Hartman's communication
also.

AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c.

NEW-YORK, AUGUST 31, 1833.

WABASH AND ERIE CANAL.-The citizens of Indiana will be glad to learn that this important work is progressing in the most satisfactory manner. Thirty-two miles are now under conto expect, will be completed by the end of the tract, the whole of which, there is every reason next year, or early in the following spring. This part of the canal extends from within a mile of the Maumee to the Wabash, at Huntington. Its completion will doubtless be of great benefit to the State: the Wabash river be. ing navigable for keel-boats to this point, at cerOn the receipt of Mr. Hartman's communi- tain seasons of the year, we may then receive cation we referred to Mr. Williams' Report, a considerable portion of our supplies of proviWe have received the Reports of the Presi- previously published, to ascertain how nearly instead of being dependent upon a tedious and sions from the Wabash country, by this route, dent and Directors, and Chief Engineer, of the the two plans resembled each other, and found uncertain land carriage, over roads almost imIthaca and Owego Railroad, which will be pub-that all the principles embodied in the latter passable, as at present; and the Wabash merlished, or at least a part of it, as soon as we can were also to be found in the former, and may chants can also avail themselves of this route find room for it. be applied to use, probably, with greater effect to receive their goods direct from New-York. We have alse on hand a communication from and at less expense. As to the priority of dates eated as far west as the mouth of the MississiThe site of the Canal has been permanently loMr. Bulkley, in reply to Mr. Boyden, upon the of the two patents, we are unable to speak.newa, and if the Legislature next winter will subject of the "Guard Rail," which will also That is a matter which may be determined, we act in accordance with the views of the present receive attention as soon as other matters will should imagine, without difficulty. efficient Board of Commissioners, we have no permit. doubt that the progress of this work will fully equal the most sanguine expectations of its friends.-[Fort Wayne Sentinel.]

Rapid Travelling.-The Locomotive Englue landed the passengers at Schenectady in one hour, two minutes and fifty-two seconds. The time actually consumed in running the distance-22 milesbeing the quickest trip ever made. was, fifty-four minutes and thirty-three seconds!

Saratoga to Balaton, 6 miles,
Baleton to- -8 do.
-to Bchenectady, 8 do.

Running Time,
Stoppages,
Whole Time,

M. B.

M. 8.

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WABASH AND ERIH CANAL.-We are gratified We are much obliged to E. F. W. for his to learn by the following extract from the Fort communication of the 15th inst. It will be Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel, that the Wabash found in this number of the Journal. If he can and Erie Canal, which has been so long delay-which left Saratoga on Friday at 5 o'clock, P. M., do us the further favor to furnish us with cor-ed, is now in a fair way to be completed. rect drawings of the different inventions of Mr. Indiana, but a few years since uninhabited, Fairman, we shall take much pleasure in bring-except by Indians, is now performing what few ing them before the public, through our Me.of the older States dared, until within a few chanics' Magazine, and Register of Inventions years, to undertake. She is now making a Canal, and Improvements, a work established express-which will, in connection with the Wabash Rily to aid the cause in which he labors. Wever, form the most direct communication beare particularly desirous to obtain drawings of tween Lake Erie and St. Louis, and the Mississiphis "Reciprocating Rotary Compound Steam pi and Missouri Rivers. The completion of this Engine," "Machine for making Wrought Canal will serve only to stimulate the inhabitants Nails," and "Rotary Pump." of that thriving State to other works of internal Ten Miles of Paper.-Paper used to be sold by Communications from Mr. Fairman, or from improvement. Her Railroads, already charter- the sheet, the quire, or the ream; but, in "the E. F. W., will find ready access to the Jour-ed, will also be constructed, and others project-march of improvement" stationary will not remain nal or Mechanics' Magazine. ed from different parts of the State, either to stationary, and so it is now sold by measure. The following order was received from a pottery firm the We would also call attention to the advertise-intersect them, or to communicate directly other day. The writer, it will be observed, gives ment of Mr. Fairman, which is inserted to-day, with the Lakes and the Ohio River. The route his orders with as much indifference as though they offering for sale his Nail Machine. of this Canal is undoubtedly the most direct were not at all extraordinary: Gentlemen-Please to send us ten miles of your between Buffalo and St. Louis, or New-Or-best printing tissue paper, in length, six miles to TRACK ROADS.-We publish today a commu-leans, and it must become a great thoroughfare be 30 inches broad, and four miles to be 22 inches nication from John S. Williams, Esq., of Cin- of business and travel. broad, to be wrapped on wooden rollers, according einnati, Ohio, referring to the communication of to the plan given. The object of having the paper This section, it will be observed by a reference of such great length is, that it may be printed on enMr. Hartinan, published in No. 20 of the Rail-to the map, forms the summit level, and opens,graved cylinders, in the same way as calicoes, &c.

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