The Stanstead journal, 19 décembre 1861, jeudi 19 décembre 1861

[" All be he ive ll id, Le Nie c= =e .on 25 rly y&y re Pe ite 88 dt 3 Ë ol RAC EG THE STANSTEAD JOURNAL 15 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AT STANSTED, CANADA EAST, LY L.it.ROBINSON.OFFICE \u2014Seeond Building, North of the Covered Bridge, Rock Island.Tenms\u2014$1,50 per unoum; or S1,25 in advance.Payment within three months is consid- cred in advance, For terms, &e,, sec last column, fourth page.V4, Fr, Ramsay.Leal Estate Agent and Auctioneer, GEORGEVILLE, LAKE MEMPUREMAGOG, Has opened an Ofitee for the registration of all Lass and Houses for sale in this \u2018Fownalip and elsewhere, and invites properly owners wish ing tn sell, to avail themselves of its books to make kuown their wants, All kinds of Stock, Farm Implements, Merchandize or Produce sold at Auction, or on Com- 831 ROBERT N.HALL, ADVOCATE, Stonstoad, OC.El.Gfjice over the Custom House.v1 1 vs DEXBY LINE HOTEL, BY CHARLES W.JENKS.VHS is à first class lJouse\u2014nne vf the best in Northeru Vermont, Rooms large und airy and newly furnished.No pains will be spared 10 make the traveller\u2019s stay agreeable, whether on business ar pleasure.Stages leave this House daily for all Railroad stations Nurses und carriages Lo Jet, 818 OWI\u2019S HEAD MOUNTAIN HOUSE, BY A.CO.JENNINGS, MEMPIREMAGOG LAKE C.E.MAGOG HOTEL, (OUTLET MEMPIREMAGOU LAKE,) BY N.W.NICHOLS.The House has been thoroughly refitted and furnished, preparatory for the Summer travel.Magog, May 2, 1860.75 CHARLES C.COLBY, ADVOCATE.Otlice at Dr.Colby\u2019s House.STANSTEAD PLAIN.\u201cBENJ.H.STEELE, mission, [499] | Attorney and Counsellor at Law, and Notury Public, Derby Line, Vt Ufiice over FOSTER & COBB\u2019S STORE.Homampathic Physician & Surgeon, DLRBY, VERMONT.: £7 Office at his residence, East Street.£3 W.W.JENNESS, M.D., ifoimeopathie Physiciqn and Suk geon, DERBY LINE, VERMONT.Dr.N.CHENEY, PHYSICIAN § SURGEON, GEORGEVILLE, C.E.Otlice & Residence at C.S.Channetl\u2019s Hotel.=» J.F.MOULTON, \u2014 > Dental Surgeon, Stanstead Plain.Marriage Licenses FOR SALE AT TIE GOVERNMENT PRICE, by the Lev.ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Resident Congregational Minister, STANSTEAD PLAIN.LL HENRY II.BROWN, Carriage, Sleigh, House & Ornamental PPaintez, STANSTEAD PLAINE.F.G.BODWELL, AUCTIONELR, NTANSTEAD, CANADA EAST.[652 B.F.HUBBARD, DEALER IN PRUGS & MEDICINES, PAINTS, DYE STUIFS, Family Groceries, Books, Stationery, de.dc.STANSTEAD PLAIN, S.W.TAYLOR, Licensed Auctioneer, STANSTE:AD (799) PLAIN.SAMUHL HUMPHREY, AUCTIONEER, BARNSTON CORNER.114 T.DALY Jn, AUCTIONEER, STANSTEAD (805) PLAIN, C.E.HORSES AND CARRIAGES TO LET.T\" EF subseriber is now kecping 4 good Horses und Carriuges to letat the Derby Line Ho- Prices reasonable, Pps ted, C.C.CLARK.Derby LineM.arch 4, 1801.Eastern Townships\u2019 Bank, STANSTEAD BRANCH.FFICE HOURS, 9t012 A.M, 1 tod P.JM.Ou Saturdays the office will be closed ut 2 P.M.Discount days, Tuesdays und Fridays.Notes for discount must be presented be- aa AM.Drafts on Boston and Montreal sale.Perorder, - A.P.BALL, Cashier, 1859.731 A great deal of Printing doe for a little Money, at the JouxvaL OéFice, Stanstead, Dev, 20, OF WooLLEV's colrhvated PLowe for sale by HaAsKEI L & KATHAN, EDDING CARDS, à choice assortment, the Journal Otlize,\u2019 ents ot VOLUME 17-NUMBER 3.(From the Atlantic Monthly.) A STORY OF THANKSGIVING-TIME.Ix the village where dwelt Jacob Newell and his wife, an old man, lame und totally blind, kad been for over thirty yeurs employed by the town to ring the meetinghouse-bell at noon, and at nine o'clock in the evening.\u2014 For this service, the salary fixed generations before was five dollars, and summer and winter, rain or shine, he was always at his post at the instant.When the old man rang the evening- bell on the Thanksgiving-Day whereof I write, he aroused Jacob and his wife from deep reverie.*Oh, Jacob! suid the latter, \u2018such u waking dream us I have hud! I tho't they all stood before me,\u2014all,\u2014cvery one,\u2014none missing! And they were little children aguin, and had come to say their prayers before going to bed! Tuey were all there, and 1 could not drive ic from my heart thae I loved Samson best I\u2019 Hig name had hardly been mentioned between them for fifteen years.Jucob Newell, with a strange look, us though he were gazing at sume dimly defined object afar off, slowly spoke,\u2014 *l have thought sometimes that 1 should like to know where he lies, if he is dead,\u2014 or how he lives, if he be living.Shall we meet bim?Shull we meet him?Five goodly spirits await us in heaven ; will he be there, also?Oh, no! he was a bud, bad, Lad son, and he broke his father\u2019s heart I\u2019 \u2018He was a bad son, Jacob, giddy and light-headed, but not wholly bad.Oh, he was so strong, so handsome, so bright and brave! If he is living, I pray God that he may come back to sec us for a little, before we follow our other lost vnes \u2018If he should come back,\u2019 said Jacob, turning very white, but speaking clearly and distinctly, \u2018I would drive him from my door, and tell him to be gone forever! À wine-bibber, dissolute, passionate, headstrong, having no rev- erence for God or man, no Jove for his mother, no sense of duty towards his father: 1 have disowned him, once and forever, und utterly cust him out! Let him beware and not come back to tempt me to curse him! Still from the distance, overpowering and drowning the keadlong rush of passion, came the soft booming of the evening-bell.*T hear the church-bell, Jacob: we have not long to hear it.Let us not die cursing our gon 1n our hearts.God g+ve him to us ; and if Satan led him astray, we know not how strong the temptation may have Leen, nur how ue may bave fought against it\" Jacob Newell had nought to say in- anwer to «his, but, from the passion in his heart, and from that egotism that many good men have whose religious cducation has taught them to make their personal godliness a matter to vaunt uver, he spoke, foolishly and little to the point,\u2014 \u2018Ruth, did Satan cver lead me astray \u2018God knows !\" she replied.There came a rap at the door.The melody of the church-bell was fist dying away, \u2018The last cadences of sound, the last quiver ir the air, when the ringer had ceased to ring und the hammer struck the bell no more, lingered still, as a timid and uncertain tapping fell upon the duer.\u2018Come in © snid Jacob Newell, The door was slowly opened.Then there stood within it a tall, muscular man, a stranger in those pats, with a ruddy face, and a full, brown beard.He stoud grasping the door with all bis might, and lcaning against it as for support.Meanwhile his guze wandered about the room with à stange anxiety, as though it sought in vain for what should assuredly have been found there.*Good evening, Sir,\u2019 suid Jacob New- ell.\u2018The stranger made no reply, but still stood clinging to the door, with a strange and horrible expression of mingled wonder and awe in bis fuce.* Tis a lunatic!\" whispered Ruth to her husband.Sir,\u2019 said Jacob, \u2018what do you want hore to-night?The stranger found voice at length, but it was weak and timcrous as that of a frightened child, \u2018We were on the train, my wife and 1.with our three little ones,\u2014on the train snowed in five miles back,\u2014and we ask, if you will give us, a night's lodging, it being necessary that we should reach home without paying for our keeping at the hotel.My wile and children arc outside the door, and nearly frozen, 1 ussure you.\u2019 \u2018then Ruth's warm heart showed\u201d itself.\u2018Come in,\u2019 she said.of course we can.Come in und warm yourselves,\u2019 A sweet woman, with one child in her-nrms, and two shivering beside her, glided by the mun into the room.They were immediately the recipient of the goud old lady's hospitahity ; she drag- gud them ut once, one and 1 Il, to the warmest spot buside the hearth, Still the man stood, aimless and uncertain, clutching the door and swaying to and fro, \u2018Why do you stand there at the \u2018Keep youn ?\u2014 a | sisters.lead SH door?Why uot come in ?said Jacob Newell.*You must be cold und hungry.Ruth\u2014that's my wife, Sir,\u2014- Will get you and your family some supper.\u201d Then the man came in and walked with un unsteady step to a chair placed for him near the fire.After he had seuted himself he shook like one in an ugue-fit, *{ far you are 20ld,\u2019 said Ruth.\u2018Où, no \u201d le said.His voice struggled to bis lips with difficulty and came forth painfully.The old lady went to a corner cup- Lourd, und, after a moment's scurch, brought forth à black bottle, from which she poured something into a glass.It smelt like Jomaien rum.With this she advunced towards the stranger, but she was Uluntly stopped by Jucob,\u2014 *l am afraid the gentleman has had too much of that already ! For un instant, like a red flash of lightning, a flush of anger passed across his features before the stranger meekly mude answer that he had tasted no liquor that day, Ruth handed him the glass and he drained it ut a gulp.In à moment more he sat quietly upright and preceeded gravely to divest himself vf his heavy shawl and overcoat, after which he assisted in warming and comforting the children, who were growing sleepy and cross.Ruth bustled about with her preparations for giving the strangers a com- fortuble supper, and Jacob and his unexpected guest entered into conversation.*l used to be acquainted hereabouts,\u2019 the stranger began, \u2018and [ feel almost like getting among friends, whever | visit the place.1 rode over with old Gus Parker to-day, from where the train lies bedded near the five-mile ent, but I was tou busy keeping the children warm to usk him any questions,\u2014 I came here because your son Mark Newell and 1 were old cronies at school together, 1\u20141 don\u2019t see him here tonight,\u2019 \u2014the stranger's voice trembled now,\u2014\"whbere is he ?' \u2018Where we must all follow souner or later,\u2014in the grave!\" \u2018But he had bLrothers,\u20141've heard Lim say,\u2019 the stranger continued, with an anxiety in his tone that he could by no means cenceal ; *1 believe he bud\u2014 let me see\u2014ihree brothers and two Where are they ?' *All gone \" cried Jacob Newell, rising and pacing the room.Then suddenly facing his singular guest, he continued, speaking rapidly and bitterly, \u2018You have three children,\u20141 had six! Yours are alive and hearty; but so were mine ; und when 1 was a young man, like you, 1 foolishly thought that 1 stiould raise them all, bave them ciustering around me in my old age, dic before any of them, und so know no bereuvements! To-day 1 stand here a solitary old man, sinking rapidly into the grave, and without a relation of any kind, that 1 know of, on the face of the earth! \u2018Think that such a fate may yet be yours! Bat the bitterness of ite you will not fully know, unless one of your boys\u2014as one of mine did\u2014turns out profligate and drunken, leaves your fireside to associate with the dissvlute, and finally deserts his home and wll forever !' *1f that son of yours be yet alive, and were to return, \u2014suddenly and without warning, as I have broken in upon you tu-night,\u2014if he should come to you and say, \u2018Father, I have, sinned against Heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son!\u201d what should you say to him?\u20181 should suy, \u2018For fifteen years you have descrted me without giving mark or token that you were in the body ; now you have como to sec me die, and you may stay to bury me! 1 should suy that, 1 think, though 1 swore to Ruth but now that 1 would curse him, if ever he returned,\u2014curse him and drive him from my door!\u2019 \u2018Bat if he came back penitent indeed for past follies and offences, and only auxious to do well in the future, \u2014if your son should come in that way, convincing you with tears of his sincerity, you surely would be more gentle to him than that! You would put away wrath, would you not?1 ask you,\u201d the stranger continued, with emotion, \u2018because 1 find myself in the position we suppose your son to be placed in.1 am going home after an absence of years, during all which time I have had no communication with my family.1 have sojourncd in foreign lands, and now I come to make my father and my motuer happy, if it be not too late for that! I come half hoping and half fearing ; tell me what I am to expect ?Place yourself in my father's position and read me my fate I\u2019 While he spoke, his wife, sitting silent by the fire, bent low over the child she held, and a few quiet tears fell upon the little one\u2019s frock, Ruth Newell, moving buck and forth, in the prepuration of the stranger's supper, wore an unquict and troubled aspect, while the old farmer himself wus agitated in a manner painful to sec.It was some seconds before he broke the silence.When be spok, his voice wus thick and busky.*1f 1 had a son like you,\u2014if those little children were my grandchildren, \u2014if the sweet ludy there was my son's wife, \u2014ah, then! But it is too late ! Why do you come here to put turbulent, raging regrets into my heart, that but for you would be beating calmly as him, STANSTEAD, it did yesterday, and the day before, and bas fur years?Ah! if my son wero indeed here! If Samson were indeed here The stranger half rose, as though to spring forward, then sank into bis seat again.But the little child sitting in her mother\u2019s lap by the fire clapped her hands and laughed a childish, happy luugh, \u2018What pleases my little girl »' asked the mother, *Why, \u2018Samson,\u2019 the child ssid,\u2014 \u2018thai \u2019s what you call papal\u2019 Then Ruth, who stood by the table with a pitcher of water in her hand, staggered backwards like ome stricken a violent and sudden blow !\u2014stag- gered backwards, dropping the pitcher with a heavy crash us she retreated, and crossing ber hands upon her bosom with quick, short catchings of the breath! Then crying, *My eon! my son l\u2019 she threw herself, with one long, long s0b, upon the stranger's neck ! \u2018The story is told.What lay in his power was done by the returned prodigal, who did not come back empty- handed to the paternul roof.His wife and children fostered and petted the old people, till, after the passage of two or three more Thanksgiving-Days, they Lecume as cheerful as of old, and they are now considered one of the happiest couples in the county.Do not, on that account, O too easily influenced youth, think that happiness for one's self and others is usually secured by dissolute habits in early life, or by running away from home, Half the occupants of our jails and ulms-houses can tell you to the contrary.ell) @ eee DECEMBER.\u201cI'hrough all the brute creation, none as sheep To lordly man such ample tribute pay.For him their udders yield nectareous streams: For him their downy vestures they resign.For him they spread the feast.\u201d\u2014DyER'S FLEECE.There must come an end to all beautiful things, and this year of abundant harvest and munifold blessings, closes with this month.We see around us, on every hand the evidence that Nature is closing auother volume of her records and settling the accouts.The forests are bare and desolate, the fields arc sere and dead, if not already wrapt in their winding sheet.The shortened days, the slanting rays of the ooonday sun, the frosty nights, the long cold storms, proclaim the advent of Winter, *He giveih snow like wool ; he scatter- eth the hoar frost like ashes.He cast.eth forth his ice like morsels ; who can stand before His cold ?\" \u2018The fleecy snow filling the air, and the need of woolen garments felt by every onc, suggest our theme, Whether the linglish estimate of the poet be too high or not there can be no doubt that SHEEP ought to hold a very prominent place in our husbandry.In England owing to the larger development of manufacturing interest, there is a steadier price for wool, and a much higher and more uniform price for mutton, and in consequence à much greater encouragement to sheep husbandry.It is always u paying business and perhaps justifies the prominence given it by tbe poet.Bu: here, the low price of mutton and the unsteady price of wool are great drawbucks to this kind of farming.In Englani too, there is such a thing as law, and lawless doge with an appetite for mutton are summarily disposed of.Here the mass of our voters who do not own shecp arc passiona'ely fond of dogs, and if laws Le cnacted against the canine race the race of wortkhless cur owners feel thut war hus been declared against them, \u2014 The curs, biped quadruped, generally carry the day, and the dog law is eith- cr repealed, or becomes a dead letter so that nobody dares to enforce it.\u2014 Sheep become a very uncertain article of property.Of uccessity, they are pastured through the Summer, and are generally turned into the remote lots, often upon tho wountains where the owner can not sce them daily.Dogs get the taste of mutton, and the flock is soon decimated or destroyed.This operates so strongly against the keep ing of sheep, especially the more valuable kinds, that the business is given up altogether in many parts of the country.\\Whule districts once covered with flocks of fine wooled sheep, are now stripped of this kind of stock,\u2014 In others it has become incidental to other branches of husbandry, and only a few mutton sheep are kept for the bome table and for the village butcher.\u2014But this state of things can not last forever.American have too much good sense to allow curs and cur owners to rule the nation perpetually.With an increased homo manufacture und steadier price for wool, and suitable protection against dogs, this might become one of the most flourishing branches of our husbandry.lt has some advantages over the dairy.The production of butter and cheese involves 0 large amount of labor both in the house and in the field.\u2018There is the duily milking and driving of the cows buck and forth to pasture, the duly making of curds and churning of butter, and the trips to market two or three Lunes a week, during the Summer.But with sheep the whole crop of grass and hay is turned into a mar- L.C., DECEMBER 19, 1861.ketable article with very little labor.\u2014 There is the annual washing and shearing for the wool, and the mutton and lambs may geneilly be sold alive in the field.We confess to a weakn ss for sheep, aside from our convictions of the economy of keeping them usa part of the furm stock.We love to see them, to feed them, to handlo them, and to see the unbounded delight of the children, as they hail the young lambs in the field, und in the fold.They are conveniont pets and good educators of the little folks in humane and kindly sentiments Lo say nothing of their 1n- fluence in making farm life attractive.There is no more beautiful sight upon the farm than a lusuriant bill pasture in June, dotted with shecp and lambs just Lefure 1he annual shearing, \u2018They flourish in all oar northern country, und are perhaps, as little liable to disease us any of our domestic animals.Their wool forms the most suitable article for Winter clothing, and ought to.enter fur more largely into consumption than it does.We bave large faith in woolen drawers, stockings, and undershirts, as a protection against the sudden changes of our weather.Cough, colds, eonsumption, and rheumatism, often arise from the want of these undergarments.Cotton answers a good purpose in mild weather, but it is not the material for Winter, This is much better known a- wong labourers in the manufactories, and in the cities, than upon the farm.Yet the farmer at his wood chopping, teaming, and foddering.is quite us much exposed to the weather, and needs the protection of thick woolen under-clothes, Sheep are generally admitted to keep grazing land in better condition, than any other stock.They are efficient helpers in keeping down brush and will eradicate many kinds of weeds, Their appetite craves a grenter variety of food than the horse or the cow, and even rivals that of the guat and the ass.If the brush is once cut, and the sheep have accoss to the tender shoots as they come up, they will keep them down, \u2014 Grass will spring up around the brush stnmps, and the fecd will be greatly increased.In a bush pasture the land should have all the shécp it can carry, until the bush is fairly subdued.\u2018his should be the rele also in pastures troubled with weeds.It is quite possible to bring poor pasturesinto a highly productive state, with no other agency than sheep.The land must, of course have some grass upon it to begin with and judgment must be used in cropping.It is of great advantage that their droppings are so small, and that they ure so evenly distributed over the surface.Where the object is to improve the grass, it should not be fed close.It will be better for the sheep as well as for the land, to have an occasional change of pasture.Well fed and thriving sheep, at all events, will gradually improve a pusture and bring it great luxuriance without the aid of tillage.Too much can hardly be said in favor of mutton as an article of food.1t is wholesome and palatable at all seasons and at the furm is more conveniently prepared for the table than any other meat except poultry.lt does not take a very large family to economically dispose of a lamb, or fut wether, in the fresh or corned state.The cost producing mutton, even in the limited -pastures of the older States we believe is less than that of any other meat excepting poultry.Sheep will thrive in pastures where large animals would grow poor, and they can be kept ata distance from the house where it would be inconvenient to keep cows or oxen.~American Agreculturist.Gunpowder and Gunpowder Miils.There are few agents more essential to the progress of our country in material prospenty, than the article of gunpowder.Not only is its manufacture a source of wealth, but its employment in developing the internal improvements, and in cutting through the rocks that impede the course of railways throughout our extended territories, has done much toward making the resources of our vast continent available.In the early records of the use of gunpowder we find it employed as an instrument of warfare, and ut the present time it is most intimately associated with the battle-field.But net one- third of the powder now manufactured is used for such deadly puiposes ; and the immediate demand for gunpowder by the Government of the United States, great ns it is likely to be, probably will not equal one-quarter of the amount consumed by the people in a time of peace.The first invention of gunpowder, like the discovery of many other agents that have exorted great influence in shaping the destinies of mankind, is shrouded in the obscurity of the past.The discovery is popularly attributed to the ingenuity of one Schwartz, a German monk and a chemist of the fourteenth century.Rogtr Bucon referred to it an his writings in 1270, and gave the following receipt for making it: *But, yet, tuke of saltpetre with pounded charcoul and\u2019 sulphur, and thus you will make thunder and lightening if you know how to \u2018prepare them.! Gunpowder is supposed to have been knowa by the Chinese at a Tes Vem WR, La A ands 4 CERN EE CE et puvnal.WHOLE NUMBER 835.very early period, ard to have been used by them in making fireworks.\u2014 Sul:petre is the spontaneous excresence of the soil of India, and the people of that country were probubly very early familiar with the urtiele.It was used by the Oxydracue, u people living between the rivers Hyphasis and Ganges, to repel an nitack made upon them by Alexander the Great.Philostratus says of this people: \u2018For they came not out to fight thuse who uitack them; but those holy men beloved of the gods overthrew their enemies with tempests and thunderbolts shot from their walls.\u201d The earliest known receipts combine the same ingredients in similar proportions to those now adopted as best.\u2014 These proportions are 75 parts of saltpetre, 121.2 parts of sulphur, and 12 1-2 parts of charcoal.The proportions of difigrent governments vary somewhat, as do also all the proportions in blusting powder, but these ure the standard proportions of the United States Government.By far the greater portion of gunpowder made in this country is for blasting aud hunting purposes ; the former being mostly employed at the North and \\Vest, while the latter is mostly consumed at the West und South.A gunpowder mill is a term which signifies not simply one, but a number of buildings.These ure crected some distance apart, fo that in case one building is destroyed by an explosion, the neighboring vne will be comparatively safe.They are generally located at a distance from any village or inhabited place ; and beside a stream which will afford the necessary waterpower to carry the machinery.The material is transported from one house to another, as the several stuges of the manufacture are completed.We recently had the pleasure of visiting the gunpowder works of Messrs.Laflin, Smith & Boies, in Ulster county, New York.\u2018The first building we entered is devoted to the charring of coul.Cuur- coul is the material most essily ob- tuined ; but to make good gunpowder it is necessary that proper wood should be used, and that it he charred at u temperature of about 500°.If charred at this temperature it will afterward enter into combustion at a heat of 680° ; bnt if churred at a higher temperature it requires a still greater heat to burn it.Willow and alder are the woods mostly used for making the cous ; they being of a porous nature, are casily burned, while woods giving a hard flinty coul are objectionable on account of the slowness of combustion.The building was perhaps 50x30, and contained six cylinders set in brick work, in which workmen were engaged in throwing in ulder wood.\u2018The cylinders ufter being filled are closed, and a fire built under them, soun changes the character of the wood, und upon opening the cylinders, the small sticks are found perfectly charred, of a dark brown color, and leaving no mark whatever upon the hand, like ordinary charcoal.Loaving the coal house we eatered the building devoted to the clarification of sultpetre.This article is mostly imported from Calcutta, in a crude state, and is purified by being dissvlved in lurge kettles, boiled down, the impurities skimmed off, and then crystulized.The sulphur is imported already purified.The next building is the mixing roum, where the ingredients are nuxed in their proper portions; the charcuul and saltpetre being placed in cylinders together with small copper bally, the sylinder revolves and the ingredients are thus thoroughly mixed, while the fine dust being confined in the cylinders, is prevented fiom escaping.Having been thoroughly mised in the proper proportions, the material is then taken tb the wheel-house and placed in what sppeared to us a huge tub, perbaps twelve feet in diameter, and three feet in hight.In this tub, the bottom of which is solid iron, six inches thick, the sides being construct: ed of wooden staves, two large iron wheels, weighing seven and one-half tons euch, were revolving upon a shaft set in an upright spindle ; one being set nearer the spindle than the other, und adjusted as to cover the entire bottom of the tub in their revolutions \u2014 The material is placed in this tub and pressed by these wheels for the space vf thive or four hours, it being con- stuntly kept damp to avoid un explosion.After being subjected to this process, the powder is tuken to the press house und subjected to the operation of a powerful hydraulic press.\u2018The powder 18 placed between sheets of copper and duck cloth, and nfter receiving u pressure equal to 120 tous to the square foot, it comes out in hard and brittle cakes of a grayish black huc, from one- quaiter to one-halfan inch in thickness, and from two to three feel square.\u2014 This is called mill cake, and is now ready 10 bo reduced to the size required to make the powder.\u2018This is done by passing it through rollers, one of which 18 eo adjusted ns to yield when any hard substance gets between them, vtherwise friction might be produced aud the mid be blown up.\u2018fue pow- d.r is then bolted and the dust caused by the attritton of the particles is sep- uratod ; it is then passed thisugh sieves of different sizes, und the cvarse und\u2019 fine powder sopuruted.The powder is thea dried ; und for this purpose is which were walkiog::quietly placed, some in a room heated by an iron cone rising in the centre of: the floor under which is a stove or fire: kindled from the outside or beneath: the building ; and some in.an iron pan heated by steam.\u2018Lhe lust operation is glazing, which is done by placing it in lung wooden cylinders and revolving them.This operation changes.the powder from a dull greyish color.\u2018to shiny black and renders it more splea-.ole in market.The gunpowder is now, completed and ready for packing.in.kegs or canisters.Pa \u2018There are perhaps from fifty.one hundred gun powder mills throughou the United States, most of which; small mills, located in the mining, re: gions of Pennsylvania, where they: manufacture blasting powder .to, be .used in the vicinity.Of large.manu facturers, besides the one whose mills we have imperfectly described, the are perhaps four or five.; Lau L For-many purposes.& powder which\u2019, explodes very suddenly is not desira ble.For blasting gunpowder.it is be ter to allow time for the shock, to, di tribute itself through the rock, and, il is therefore sometimes made of different proportion, and is also made, coarser in grain, which also tende to retard.its explosion.For this object the gunpowder now used in\u2019 firin CAD js ng non and ofl.er large guns:is mad very, ?coarse ; it having been proved , within, the last six months to be much mor 0 effectual.-\u2014 American Railioad : \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 The Issue.x mi Many well-meanigg : \u2018persons-ar writing and sending us long-winded tracts setting forth, with amazing acuteness and subtlety the terms on:which they would have our Nativnal troubles settled.Of course each has his \u2018little.compromise plaster for the southern .cancer., We respectfully refer tie writers of these tracts to Gen: McCle lun, who just now has the business: in hand which they have volunteered: to coddle.We only ask them to consider that the Previous Question has been seconded, the Main Qnestion orderedy and that the House is now passing b tween the tellers, The question -is* these words\u2014\"Shall a faction that con=biny spires to divide its own party and thus \u2018 lose nn election be justified in thereup- où appesling from Bulluts~to Bullets?\u201d Yea or Nay!\u2014New York Tribune.\u2014.: \u2026 - Etc 12\" À young medical student,-who had been screwed very hard at his «ex-; amination for admission to the.faculty, =.on à very warm day, was nearly overs: come by the numerous questions put to him, when the following query was:ad- .-; ded: \u2018What course would you adopt to produce a copious perspiation ?\u201d- After a long breath be observed wiping his forehead, *1 would have the patient examined before the medical society.When the celebrated Beau Nosh was.ill Dr.Cheyne wrote a prescription for: ai him.\u2018The next day the doctor coming.+.to Lis patient inquired if he had foi-: lowed his prescription.*No, truly doe- tor,\u2019 suid Nash, *if 1 had 1 shoul ; broken my neck, for 1 threw it'o second-story windows\u201d ~ *My opponent, Mr.Speaker, p in saying that he is entitled:\u2018to-\"tli floor.Whether this isso or not Isshall=7 + not inquire.All [ have got to say~isiens that he will get floored if he interrupts me again.\u2019 \u201cPatte - _ Legislation for Rirds.We understand that a movement is.to be set on foot by the joint action.of., the Natural History and Agricultural Societies to obluin from the; Legis! ture at its next session, an Act f protection of lit{le birds; und it will be successful.Con Apart from the charm: which these little warblers, so.brutally and needs; lessly shot, possess for most men, making vocal vur wouds and fields, ivi is cow demonstrated that they are of; great value to man in proserving\u2018 th productions of the garden and:ithe, field {rom the ravages of insects.:.Fh French have been particulurly act for two or three yeurs past: in, est lishing this truth and taking ;meë sures for the protection of: birds: \u2018The, Paris correspond London Times recently wro Many complaints haye: been \u201cmade: und with truth: of the injury, done:to + agriculture by the destruction \u2018of smal birds.A fact:stated by an eye-withes which occurred on;Sunday last, .shôws