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.THE I A L I D A VENTURE.
Equal Laws Equal Rights, and Equal Burdens-'The Constitution and its Currency.
VOL. V. NO. 28.
NATURE'S NOBLEMAN.
BY M. F. TUPPER.
Away with false faahion, to calm and so chill,
Whnre nlimnnrl itsalf cannot please.
A way with cold breeding that faithlessly still,
Affects to be quite at its ease
For the deepest in feeling is highest in rank,
The freest is first in the band, .
And nature's own nobleman, friendly & frank,
The man with his heart in his hand,
Fearless in honesty, gentle yet just.
He warmly can love and can hate,
Nor will he bow down wiih his face in the dust
For beet in good breeding, &, highest in rank,
M neugn iowiy um p" . .
Is nature's own nobleman, friendly & .rank,
The man with his heart in his hand,
His fashion is passion, his heart is intenae,
His impulses simple and true,
Temper'd by judgment, taught by goou sense,
And cordial with me and with you:
For tht finest in manners, as highest in rank,
It is you, man! or you, man! who stand
Nature's own nobleman, friendly and trank,
A man with his heart in his hand!
From the National Pilot.
fWlLL SALTPETRE EXPLODE?
Since the great fire in New York, and tho
disastrous explosion which took place there,
the papers of that and oilier cities have been
much devoled to queries, suggestions and
theories respecting the qualities and nature
of saltpetre, aud whether, under any cir
cumstances, and if any, what, that substance
can be made to explode. All this, of course,
had its origin in the fact that the slore which
was blown up was known to contain a large
quantity of saltpetre, and was not known to
certain any gunpowder.
We have watched the discursions, and
waded through the ponderous columns of
matter upon this subject, with no small de
gree of interest; and this we have done from
a conviction of the high importance of the
question to the public; since it is manifest
to all that, if this substance can be made ex
plosive under circumstances such as ordi
narily pertain to fires, it should promptly be
put "under such proscription as shall save
towns and cities from its direful eftects.
The analysis of this substance dons not
produce explosive substances, say tho che
mists; and this fact, with the other one,
namely, that it has sometimes bumed.m large
quantities, without explosion, while at others
it has burned, as has been believed, with ex
plosions of the most violent kind, has served
to involve the whole question in the most
positive state of uncertainty. From tins
state, we have seen nothing which appears
to so nearly extricate the whole subject from
difficulty, as the statement of Mr. A. A
Hayes, chemist, of Iloxbnry, Mass. Ilia
e'atemcnt we find in the Boston papers; and
supposing it a reliable on, based upon ex
periment, and not theory, it may guide us to
h cW.rr-d solution of this much vexed
question. Mr. Hayes says :
"Saltpetre, or tho nitrate of potash, or
soda, alone, docs not burn, or explode by ,
heat, however intense. It parts with one ot i
its constituents, oxygen, by heat, and it is
to the combination of its oxygen with other
bodies, that it owns its power of burning
with them. Wood and fibrous substances
do not burn with saltpetre, until they have
become partially charred they then produce
deflagration, or burn with sparks.
A large quantity of saltpetre, enclosed
in gunny bags, as it is usually stored, after
fire was communicated to it, would burn
with tho bags, emitting much smoke and
sparks, precisely as paper, which has mbi
bed saltpetre, would. It would not be con
sumed; only the small quantity rcqu.red to
burn with the bags, would be changed. I
an addition of burning wood or charcoal
were made, to the extent of one fifth the
weight of tht saltpetre, an intense and con
tinued deflagration would result, and all the
saltpetre would be changed. No explosion
L rnoM APPLYING FIRE TO MIX
TURES OF CHARCOAL OR WOOD AND SALTPETRE;
the rapid combustion cauou uw.s....,
would be produced, but unlike explosion,
n l .;nl fnr tho mutual ac-
time wouiu ud . .
tions, and where the quantities were large,
many hours would be necessary, before they
would cease. The recent destruction of life
and property ot Iew lor; u -
homeward-bound Indiaman and her cargo
bv a similar cause, has created an anxiety
which has led to many inquiries, respecting
the origin of tho explosions, attending he
SS of the saltpetre. J, -t remin.
you of a case, wmw.
wharf, about ten years since, when the Ha.t
ford Packet was destroyed. The testimony
lord racial w .,. wi mfi to make
obtained in the - r d
rdroSC: a"burning mixture of
oy. opi 0, . i it was ascertained
:E.;f water, relatively
S the saltpetre, caused exp.ons; which
might be made successive, so long as
Sale remained. The quantities of the
Sstancesacting.being increased to between
one and two hundred pounds, the addition
of water, in the form of spray, caused an ex
ot water, i i h veggel and
PSrnuT&uildin"syin the vicinity. The
shook al the bu.ifl ml
temperature of a burn.n jg gu
, and charcoal. : the pom nd ,he
penor to that o w f ,,
me on the mass, is m- j ,
steam, having the e ast c
irSy6 ThrKt particles, dis
tructive eueifcjf con.
KALIDA, PUTNAM
"In cases whore water falls on highly
heated polished surface, such as melted glass,
copper or silver, steam is .formed rapidly, but
silently; the water does not touch the hot
surfice. The spreading of a film, or crust
over the polished surfice, instantly alters its
relation to water, and causes steam to form
with explosive violence, attendod by a loud
report. I do not hesitate in expressing my
belief, that the disastrous effects produced
in New York, were caused by water or other
fluids falling on saltpetre, while burning with
the bags investing it. The facts which I
have stated, may have interest or importance,
in connection with attempts made to extin
guish fire in buildings, containing saltpetre.
The danger of throwing water on the fire is
manifest, while the loss to the owner of the
saltpetre would doubtless be greator from
water than from fire."
Finding Con. Wo are accustomed to
think of God as above us. So he is. " The
heavens is his throne and the earth is his
footstool." God is also beneath, as well as
abovo and around us. Men are apt to seek
him by looking above, trying to rise to his
throne and find Hi in there. But these
sinners never find Him. To us the throne
is unapproachable. " The throne of grace,"
where we can find God, is beneath. We
find it not by rising but by sinking. In the
depths of humiliation, where the soul lies
dissolved in penitence, emptied of pride, lust
selfishness and self-will, where its otlly cry is
mercy, its only hope grace, nnd its only hold
the faith of the Son of God; there we find
God. There God reveals himself ti the
" humble and contrite in spirit," aud takes
his abode with them. All that seek God
there, find' Him. To them " His nam J is a
strong tower." They " lice into it and are
safe."
Lonq Speeches. " It is really more ques
tionable, than may at first be thought, whe
ther Bonaparte's dumb legislature, which
said nothing butdid much, may not be p:efera
ble to one which talks much, and docs nuili
ing. I served with general Washington in
the legislature of Virginia, befere the revolu
tion, and, during- it, with Dr. Franklin in
Congress. I never heard cither of them
speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but
the main point, which was to decide the
question. They laid their shoulders to the
great points, knowing that the lcssur ones
would follow of themselves. If the present
congress errs in too nvich talking, how can
it be otherwise, in a body to which the peo
ple send one hundred and fifty lawyers,
whose trade it is, to question every thing,
yield nothing, and talk by the hour? That
one hundred and fifty lawyers should do
business together, ought not to be expected."
JeJJerson.
An Indefeasible Title. During a re
cent debate in tlie British Parliament on the
New Zealand question, Lord Howie said that
a witness examined before the committee
stated, incidentally, that he knew a chief in
New Zealand who maintained that he had a
great title to his land, inasmuch as he had
eaten the former owner. An august, pipei
thinks "this to European ears may seem
rather a barbarous title, but we do not know
that it is, in reality one whit more so than
that by which tho descendants of tho Norman
thieves and freebooters, who came over with
the conqueror, hold their lands at the pre
sent day. They pillaged, tortured, and op
pressed our Saxon ancestors, sparing neither
man in their anger, nor woman in their lust;
and we have no doubt whatever that, had it
been thought necessary for the security of
their title to eat their victims, as well as to
plunder and massacre them, the ' Norman
chivalry' would never had made a wry mouth
about tho matter.
The Prices of LAnon in England in
1350. A harvest laborer had to work one
week to enable him to buy four bushels of
wheat. In 1784, he was obliged to worn
twplvfi davs. and in 1844. twentv-six days
One month's labor, buys as much nnd no
more wheat than one week's labor did hve
hundred voars afro! Four dav's labor will
hardly buy in 1844, a pair of shoes that could
hnvft been bou'frht with one day's labor in
1344 ! In meat, cloth, &c, the disproportion
is the same ! For God's sake, let Lngland
have all the credit on the score of humanity
fnr Imr Anti-Slaveiv movements: for it seems
that it is the only claim she can ever put in
on such a score !
We saw a case of honesty, yesterday, sur
passing that of the Brooklyn omnibus driver,
who restored the lady her lost purse. A poor
hov in Grand street was crying over a five
cent piece he had just lost, and which a car
man had pickedjip. Hearing tne ooy cry,
the carman asked him what was the matter,
"I'vfilost mv money boo-oo-hoo!" blub
bered the boy. " What was it a five pence?"
innuired the honest man. "Ye-hes, sir,"
said the boy. " There, then," said the man,
h;i a olowof real pleasure lit up his broad
brown face, as he put the coin into the urchin's
hand, " there's your money, don't cry.?' The
hoy took the money, put his finger to his nose
in pnffiR mill, and exclaimed as he hopped
away "Well tint you a little er the gree
nest! I sr en yon P'C UP tb4 ere sniner.
N. Y. Tribune.
t. l tin two is a country dis
11 19 ....... " -
-a nnrlisa nrft sensible fellows,
and old maids abjure pet cats and lap-dogs.
COUNTY, OHIO, TUESDAY,
I.VOENUITY DISPLAYED IN 1 RIFLES. In tllC
sixteenth century, an Italian Monk, named
Peter Almanus, comprised the nets of the
Apnsllcs nnd the gospel of St. John, within
the circumference of a farthing.
An artist, endowed with equal patience,
presented Queen Elizabeth with a bit of pa
per, of the size of a finger nail, on which
was written the ten commandments, the
creed and the Lord's Prayer, together with
her majesty's name, and the date of the year;
all the letters of it were easily distinguished
by means of a pair of spectacles, which this
artist had himsi If construclcd.
The Illiad of Homer, too, is to be seen
written upon vellum, and in so small a com
pass,
that a nut shell contains it.
Jerome Faba, an Italian priest, and a na
tive of Calabria, exercised himself in anoth
er species of industry, equally wonderful
from its difficulty. He finished a work of,
boxwood, which represented all tho myster
ies of the passion, and might bo put into the
shell of a walnut. To him likewise is attri
buted a coach of tho size of a grain of
wheat, within which' were to be seen a man
and a woman, a coachman who drpvo it, and
horses which drew it. These performances
were presented to Francis first, and to Charles
filth.
Another artist constructed an ivory char
iot, which a fly covered with its wings, and
a ship also of ivory, with its rigging complete.
Paul Colomies tell ns somewhere that he
saw a goldsmith at Moulins, who had chain
ed a living flea to a gold chain, which con
tained fifty links and did not weigh three
grains.
Madam de Sevignc likewise mentions in
one of her letters, that there was a man in
Paris, who as a master piece, had construct
ed a chariot, which was drawn by fbas. The
Dauphin, on this occasion, asked the Prince
ofConti, his cousin, who it was tfiat made
the harness, and was told by him, with a
smile, that it certainly must have been some
spider in tho neighborhood.
Matrimony is absolutely necessary, for
without a regular system of Marriage, the
civil government could not be supported; i
is also necessary to lay a restraint upon on
passions, to sweeten tho charms ot society,
bv the dear coiiiugalilies. lliere are nve
things indispensably necessary to ni ike the
married pair happy, circumstances above
want, mutual good humour, sincerity, a proper
allowance for human irailties, and a hrm
confidence in each other. Without these,
no married pair can be happy, and whore
these subsist, the persons are rarely other
wise. One great misfbrture among married
people is they generally expect more from
one another than nature will allow, or reason
Authorize: each seeing the errors or detects
of the other, not their own; whence natural
bickerings, jealousies, or distaste arisu.
When the united constantly seek to please,
and m ike each other happy, when their mu
tual endearments are tounueu on vuiuc,
tenderness, and esteem, when they gene
rouslv allow for each other's errors, of judg
ments and defects of nature, they certainly
constitute the happpiest state human nature
is capable of; 'tis the vsciousness ana tony
of choice, and impiudence of our behavior
that make the married state unhappy, and
not any thing in the state itself. Miiriinony
to the libertine, is like a bad novel; but to
the sensible, virtuous man, a hoard of richest
sweets; for he remembers when he makes
his choice that person il charms is the leas
:mr1 liolitpnt consideration: he considers if be
marries a beau'v. without wisdom, and with
out principle, that his house, when the chains
of a now plaything is dissolved, will becoms
a ulnnmv orison to him. On the other hand,
the considers, if he marries a woman of sense
and principle, she will every day be improv
ing in his esteem ana increase ins iiupinuusa
when business calls him abroad, with how
much confidence aud ease can he entrust his
family, and all its concerns, with such a lovely
woman. When pining sickness confines him
in tlm bed of ausuish. how cheering to have
such a faithful, virtuous mate, administering
the necessary cordial, while her tenderness
is still greater. What I have transcribed on
this subject is not visionary 'lis what I have
already experienced Newspapers of 1789.
His own Sphere is the only path, in which
one can walk with pleasure and freedom.
He who has accustomed himself to seek his
gratifications from the indulgence of appetite
and senso, will bq as restless and miserable
among refined intellects as a lobster in fresh
water. Let every one then train himself to
refined enjoyments, if he would associate
with men of intelligence.
We are not quite ready to admit that all
that is comes from God, or is for the best.
To us it appears that there is rather more
evil extant than is necessary, or useful.
Slavery and stealing, poverty and misery, are
not essential to the well-being of either man
or the universe. It is time for us to under
stand that the ten thousand afilications, phy
sical and spiritual, which we suffjr, come,
not from the chastening hand of Providence,
but from the disorder withiti as and around
no" .
Jacob
Hoffman bead
this. Jacob T.
Hoffman
who. settled, in Ohio about ten
years ago, will learn something to his advan-
tao-e by addressing his brother Jotin uon
man, Pavillion, Genesee County, N. Y., or
A. P. Haskell, Leroy, Genese County, N. Y.
SEPTEMBER 2, 1815.
Political economy and Statistics. A
curious work has recently been published, at
Paris, by Hens. lc Chevalier F. de Tapies,
entitled "France and England: or the physi
cal and moral Statistics of France Compared
with those of England, upon all analogous
noinls." We find a review of tho work in
our Paris files, which furnishes us with the
following, among other interesting tacts:
"The soil of England and Scotland is en
tirely owned by about thirly-scoen thousand
proprietors.
'In France, the cultivated lands, alone,
are owned by four millions of proprietors;
and the whole reality of France, including
ands both tilled and untitled, buildings, iSoc,
has within a fraction of eleven millions of pro
prietors."
The Causes of these respective conditions
. i . r 11 . I
may be worm looking at. inrrnncc, me
Revolution broke up the great landed csta-
es of tho " privileged classes," and sold out
these lands in small firms, by which the soil
of France was placed in the hand3 of her
people; while, by abrogating all hereditary
nobility, and the laws of entail, and obliging
an equal distribution of properly, among the
ildren of each lamily, a return to the lor-
mor stale ot monopoly anu oppression nas
been signally prevented.
In, England, on the contrary, the toudal
system has been virtually retained, and its
operation has been, and siill is, to exclude
the mass ot the people, ot every class, irom
any participation in the fee of their native
soil. National Pilot.
From the Morning News.
PPJCES AND DUTIES.
Whenever our contemporary of the Tribune
is driven in a corner by the argument of its
opponent, and as "11.11" asked ot ancieni
Jack, the public iiuiuire. "what quip will
avail thee now?" it throws out an appeal like
the following:
" The Pout has several times paraded its
tables of enormous duties imposed on cer
tain manufactures by our Tariff, yet never
once responded to our civil request that it
would slate how much dearer generally and
severally, those articles now are on which du
ties of 15 to 150 per. cent, are now charged
than they were in July, W2 , when the duty
on them was but 20 iter cent! Why wont
the Post consult its Price Currents and aus
wer us this question?
Now perhaps it nover occurred to our con
temporary that Price Curr.;n'scai oe consult
ed. If it hid done so itself previously it
would have found a result as follows:
Du'ie
pr.c: Ana. 1842.
Vritta
Jul, 145 Inr't
Oi l iaMe Iron, ton
Scotch pl.4
Su.ar, Cu' o. B.lii
.....
....-!."
(ill
90 linn 110 00a S3 110
Si! Olli.S.) 00 3'J SOllM 00 10 (10
5 i'm jt D 30n 9 00 3 SJ
Salt, bus cl
.113
ll. iii;i.ltusi:i rleaii,tou:i8 1P.I 00a
Co.'il. N.'W -iislle, Cliul. .) 7 Ull.nS
CuiTlc, ISru.il, 1)1 free 7a
800 00a 15 00
50 U O0;iI0 00 5 00
8 8Ja 7
Here ia a largo increase in price on every
article except the s;ngle one of coffee, which
is free of duty, and that has declined. As
fir as tho Price Currents give tho prices of
dutiable articles, the same result is manifest.
This is the result of tho Tribune's appeal to
the tariff; but it will answer ltnmsdiitcly,
"all prices have advanced, and they are no
cheaper than you could buy them without
the tanU." Wo will p:n tins in anticipition,
by taking the latest foieigu Price Currents,
niid comparing the prices at home and abroad
at the same time, as follows:
Price in London
July it.
Pig Iron, ton j5. o $-25 50
" Dar, " 7.10 35 82
Price in JV.
Duttl York
g9 j0 $35 00
25 00 70 00
TlempRnwa clo'n29 0 139 20
40 00 200 0:)
Sliirfsrs3G in pi'co 8GJ
Su'r.H. B. arobarU 8
5 00 lOOvdg. 6 U 09
5 00 IOOuh. I 50 9 00
The sugar price was tint of H tvana 12th
inst. being 8 reals per aroba, or equal to $5
25 per lOllbs, on board. The other prices
are from Baring's Circular of July 3d, except
the Shirting, which is from a Manchester
Circular being 8s. 7id. for a piece of 37
yards. The result is that one ton each, Pig
and Bar Iron, one ton Hemp, 100 yards Shirt
ing and 100 lbs. Sugar could, at tin latest
dates, be bought abroad for $210 40; aud
the lowest for which the same articles can
now be bought in New-York is $32(3 m ad
vance of $115 51, or 00 per cent. Tin's is
tho " Protection" enjoyed by the producers
of those articles here, and as the Post justly
asks, " Protection against whom? Against
what?" Why, against the inalienable right
of the consumers of those articles to buy
where they can do so to the best advantage.
There is no quibbling about terms or dates
in this, matter. The prices in New-York
have advanced under tho duty to tho extent
of that duty, and are now higher in New-York
than in foreign countries, by the amount of
those duties with the expenses ot transport
added, and the prices alwiya rise here pre
cisely as they advance abroad, keeping al
ways higher by the amount of the duties.
Our contemporary will find the stern facts
laid down in price currents, a most potent
enemy to wire-drawn superficial theories.
The Branch Mint. Orders have been
sent to the Custom House -nnd to the Post
office, in New Orleans, to send all the for
eign coins received by them to the branch
Mint, to be recoined into American pieces
the gold into half and quarter eagles, and
the silver into quarteV dollars whenever it
mav be done without luss. The importation
of specie at that point chiefly consists of
Mexican dollars, on which, when recoined,
there is a light cam, especially on the cetu
ao-o of Durango. The mint of Zacatecas
uses more alloy, and is not in such good re
WHOLE NO. 236.
puts. On Spanish hammered dollars, and da
German coins of all descriptions, there is a
loss1, when broken up and worked over
much greater than on English sovereign's and
French coins.
Taint or dry rot in the Potato.
From tho experience I had in the cultiva:ion
of the potatoe, I have come to the conclu
sion that the taint Or dry rot owes its origin
entirely to an injudicious method of planting
the seed; and af.er mature consideration I
have adopted a system of planting; which I
have practised for twenty years' with such
success, as never once to have had ah in
stance t.f dry rot among my Potatoe crops
during that time, although they were growing
s.imiimes in direct contiguity to other Po
tatoes, which from being planted in a differ
ed manner, were laboring under the effects
of the disease. It shall now be my endeav
or, in as simple and concise a manner as pos
sible, to lay this system before my readers,
convinced that they will in practice find it a
most el'uciud remedy for the disease in
question. The chief cause of this diseaSs
1 consider to be the prevalent error in plant
ing the Potatoe, of placing the seed in a
quantity of dung laid in the middle of the
hill. He who knows anything of the quali
ties of dung, knows it is of itself incapable
of promoting vegetation, or sustaining vege
table life, until decomposed and incorporat
ed with a portion of earthly soil, and it is
not therefore to be wondered at that disease
and failures in the Potatoe crops are so pre
valent. The wonder is, while such a system
of planting is persevered in, any of these
crops should succeed at all under such treat
ment; and indeed this is only to be account
ed for by the small quantity and inferior
quality of the dung applied, which is
.i i. , i . -.1- .
generally iouna mixeu wun great quan
tities of half-rotten straw and other ex
traneous substances, such as ceal-cinders,
&c, and were it net that tho fresh earth 13
laid immediately on the top of the dung after
lhe seed is planted, the failure of the crop
would be to a much larger extent; of this I
hive no doubt, The ground, too, if in a
vory impoverished state, may, by speedily
digestitig and drying up the dung, prevent
to a great extent a total failure of the crop,
al hough the seed were plauted thus injudi
ciously in the midst of the dung; for it will
be observed that iu such ground the rot is
uot so destructive as in rich soils. The first
aud great point, therefore, in setting the Po
tatoe, is to have the manure properly com
mingled with the soil before introducing the
seed, the plan I adopt in planting,' which ia
briefly as follows:
In preparing a parcel of ground for the re
ception of the Potatoe seed, I proceed to
have the manure spread regularly over the'
surface, and evenly dug in. I then either
drill the ground, after the manner of garden
ers iu sowing peas and piant the Potatoes in
the drill, or plant them with a dibble, without
drilling, about two or three inches' beneath
the surtiicc, the dibble being formed with a
broad point, so as to insure the Potatoe having
no space lef beneath it when dropped into
the hole. For largo fields, which cannot
well uo dug or piamea in mis manner, i
would recommend the ground to be prepar
ed and the dung spread exactly as for Oats
or Barley. Then have the ground drilled,
and in planting place the seed rotatoe in
the clean soil, on the back of the half drill
formed by the return of the plough, which
half drill should be made larger than ordi
nary, to bring the seed as near to the centre
of the drill as possible, so as to afford it eve
ry advantage of the fresh soil to vegetate in;
In this way the fructifying earth, in which
the seed is embedded, will secure its health
ful vegetation, and as it progresses in its
growth, and so soon as it throws out roots, it
will reap tho full benefit of the manure con
laincd in the surrounding soil. It is of the
utmost importance to have the seed planted,
so as that it may have the earth both below
and above it when put in; for in keeping the
soed free from the dung I apprehend lies the
whole secret, which should be particularly
attended to. From a work on this subject,
by J. Smith.
Individual Liability Repealed. Kel-'
loy's Bank law allows the Wooster, Sandusky,
Norwalk, and Xenia Banks to bank under
that law, and repeals all laws conflicting with
it. A motion to retain tho liability of those
banks as established by the previous Legis
lature, was, on the 10th of February last, ne
gatived in the House of Rsrweseutative'sy
yeas 29, nays 37, and on the 15th of the
same month, a similar motion was negatived
in the Senate yeas 13, nays 17. ln: both
cases every yea was a Democrat and every
nay a Coon. Yet in the face of this these
banks are still called liability banJes.
When the Legislature coolly and deKboO
alely repealed that statute making Bankers
liable as individuals as well as "institutions,"
what was tho sensible conclusion to be
drawn? What would the horse-thief inter
pret the repaal of all laws which punish that
crime to mean? of course to' mean that
horse-stealing no longer was punishable, and
he might rob as mmy stables as he pleased?
The same conclusion must come to the Bank
er. If a law-making body takes off the
statute book the law which punishes paper-swindling,-
is' not the inference direct and
single, that thereafter dishonesty of that '
character was invited!. Cin. Enq.
Paper Money is the most delusive fiction
is produced.