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and through that fifteen feetof sand. These
cases were of cast iron, six feet long, four-
teen inches in diameter, and held a charge
cf two hundred and fifty pounds of powder.
At the conical end was a large thread like
that about a post auger, cast on to the case,
and: to be used in boring into the sand as
with an auger. This lower end was cast in
a hilt, and was so hard and strong that it
stood in one instance the test of being bored
through a macadamized street, in Baltimore,
six fect into the earth. Mr. Gowen took
out with him twenty-four of those iron pow-
der cylinders. He used only twelve of them.
‘They made tooth-picks of the Missouri’s hull.
Ilis divers descended in their armor, point-
ed the cylinders properly—these were turn-
ed by shafts worked from above, and when
arrived under the vessel’s bottom, were fired
by an electric battery.
The great quantity of 43,000 lbs. of pow-
der was consumed in the work. Of this, full
two-thirds were used in blowing off the iron
centers and arms from the shafts. She was
a side-wheel steamer, and had upon each of
the outboard shafts ninety-six iron arms,
which weighed three hundred and fifty
pounds apiece. - To break up this complicat-
ed mass of powerful iron work, and get it
detached and reduced so as to be lifted, was
really the labor our Yankee ocean engineer
had todo. This part of the job it was that
the English engineers had’ fooled with and
injured. » But Mr. Gowen. knocked. shafts,
arms, centers, braces and bolts, right and
left, down there forty-one feet below his
hand, and took up. and carried away the
great steamer, to the uttermost stick and last
visible spike. : Nothing was left for the sand
to form a bar upon, and in five months from
the day Mr. Gowen began the work, he fully
completed and performed his contract.
He raised about 1,600 tons of iron, and
some 800 tons of oysters that bad grown to
the iron. It is interesting to know that the
oysters that grew next to the copper or upon
copper, were poisonous. - Three men of Gib-
raltar died from having eaten them. The
iron, of course, was converted into plumbago,
by the action of thesea water. In the heavy
pieces this action extended in to the depth
of an inch. Many pieces were cut out en-
tirely by the salt, save a few threads of resist-
ing metal, running lengthwise, and looking
like the large fibers of cocoanut husks. The
iron was mostly worthless.
The management of Mr. Gowen’s subma-
rine armor was so perfect that not an acci-
dent happened to one of his divers, in all
this great work, and without any inconven-
ience, the men could remain under water for
the space of twelve hours.
Can anything better illustrate the Yan-
kee resource, the Yankee perseverance,
the Yankee energy, the Yankee confidence,
than this hastily-sketched history of the re-
moval of the wreck of the Missouri? We
think not. The gentleman who, without di-
plomas, can thus teach lessons in the great
art of submarine engineering to the gradu-
ates of the Royal Woolwich College, is now
in Buffalo, N. Y., closing up his accounts
with the steamer Erie, whose remains by his
agency have lately been lifted from the bot
tom of lake Erie, and brought into Buffalo
harbor.
Keer your store of smiles and your kind-
est thoughts for home; give to the world
only those which are to spare.
Tur, St. Louis Republican speaks of a
negro in that city who was born and brought
up in Ireland, and possesses just about the
A Perfect Wife.
Epuunp Burke, the distinguished ora-
tor, presented to his wife, on the anniver-
sary of their marriage, his idea of a “ perfect
wife,” which is supposed to be a true por-
trait of Mrs. Burke. It is certainly a lovely
picture, worthy of the pen of the author of
the “Essay on the Sublime and Beauti-
ful.” The following are extracts :
The character of ———
She is handsome, bat i it is beauty not
arising from the features, from complexion,
or from s ape. She has all three in a high
degree, but itis not by these that she touches
e e heart ; it is all that sweetness of temper,
honcvalences innocence, and sensibility,
which a face can express, that forms her
beauty. She hasa face that just arises your
attention at first sight; it grows on you
every moment, and you wonder it did not
more than raise your attention at first.
Her eyes have a mild light, but they awe
when she pleases; they ‘command like a
good man out of office, not by authority, but
by virtue.
Her stature is not tall; she is not made to
be the admiration of every one, but the hap-
piness of one.
She has all the firmness that does not ex-
clude delicacy.
She has all the softness that does not imply
weakness.
ler voice is soft, low music, not formed
to rule in public assemblies, but to charm
those who can distinguish a company froma
crowd; it has its advantages, you must come
close to hear it.
To describe her body, describe her mind;
one is the transcript of the other ; ber un-
derstanding is not shown by the variety of
matter it exerts itself on, but the goodness
of the choice she makes.
She does not display it so much in saying
or doing things, striking things, as in avoid-
ing. ‘such as she ought not to say or do.
rson of so few years can know the
wold a better no person was ever less cor-
rupted by the knowledge.
Ter politeness flows rather from a natu-
ral disposition to oblige, than any rules on
that subject, and, therefore, never fails to
strike those who understand good-breeding,
and those who do not.
She has a steady and firm mind, which
takes no more from the solidity of the female
character, than the solidity of marble does
rom its polish and luster. She has such
virtue as makes us value the truly great of
our own sex. She has all the winning
graces tha’ make us love even the faults we
see in her.
Reaz and imaginary evils have the same
effect in causing a worried, unhappy condi-
tion of mind.
JAPANESE DROPS,
MOR Canker in the Mouth, Throat, and Stomach,
Sore Nipples, Burns, Scalds, Sores, and Rheum-
the following, from Gxo. W.. Cnrr-
MAN, the well known re
street:
SS STERSRS. CoyKLIn & C
ber of years I have used your Canker Drops for Sore
drouths and Throats, Canker, Burns, Scalds, Sores,
and as a family mediciny ine for alt complaints of th ft
nature, with great success. The medicine has my
entire confidence, and, { cheerfully and strongly rec-
ommend its use as truly. Kaluable in very family.
EO. AN,
os. 18 2 an Mf Gianoe er strect.”?”
CONKLIN: & m CO. Proprictors, eat "y. ork city.
JRUSSELL SPA ALDING, ent for the sale
of Canker Drop: Tennent erect, opposite
Museum, Boston,
600,000 BOTTLES OF
SPALDING'S
2 ou
All Tees das the signature of J. ‘RUSSELL
SPALDING le Proprictor. Principal Depot, a
Tremont wee osite Museum, Boston, Mass.
is sold by dealers everywhere, Vrices: Beiertbets
and £1.00 per bottle. lyné
MUSIC VERY CHEAP.
Tive beautiful ballad, ords and musie, ‘ D
Rk Mer, n be had at the Alusewm
richest brogue to be found among all the
immierants efrom the Fimorald Isle.
LOCKWOOD & LUMB,
PLUMBERS,
No. 48 ScuooL STREET. . .
Directly opposite City Iail, | poston,
Manufacturers and Dealers in—
Force
Lift Gitte ms ditto,
Zz Bar daa ads
ZB siect
z Silver ina Work, &c.,
as ther and India-Itubber
‘B.—Orders from any part eof the United | States
promptly attended to.
TO YOUNG MEN,
And Others Desiring Employment.
A CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY!
REE IELER, ORTON & & MULLIGAN, Av: BURN and.
WRALO, N.Y. iil give immediate, constant
and vey lucrative employ me
1,000 ‘Agents,
to Tabor chiefly in te counties where they iN in in
selling the most JLAR, ANTERESTING
peer BO ountr
is
and s
History, Popular Biomraphy, Narratives and
Travels, Agriculture, Temperance, The-
ology, Books for the Young, Bibles, Test-
aments, Standard Poetry, Law and School
Boo ks,
erm Descriptive Catalogues, Circulars,
and “full. particulars furnished gratis, on “application
(post paid) to
MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN,
‘1 Auburn or Buffalo.
GREAT SALE OF
Gents’, Youths’, and Little Children’s
CLOTHING.
PURCHASERS will find at OaK ILAxy the Jarg-
t assorted stock in the city. The pri-
ces, which are marked upon each garment, are ve
low, and the quality, style, and variety are well
adapted to suit every class of purchasers, viz:
$132 to 2. Good Pants of various fabrics.
$2. Cassimere, Doeskin, and Broadcloth Pants at
low price, for a few days, to reduce
B2Me Custoin-made Docskin Pants, Canvas Bot-
toms, and made of as good materials as
the pants for which you usually pay $5.
$3 to 5. Fancy Cassimere, Doeskin, and Cloth
xe nts, ofyery Gesivable patterns. being
least 25 pe less than the sam
ate usual),
$334. For a Oifice « or Business Coat, to close out
$S to12. Dress and ‘Frock Goats, from superfine
‘oadeloth and Doeskins, made u
ged and in a faithful manner.
i wil be old at these low prices.
$Lto1. Vests of the latest fashion for these low
prices.
$2 to 3M, foray nice ran, Satin Vest. Also, Black
Silk do. made up in the sas,
sty! jan’ *Gentiem
at the very lowest prices
a
Boys’ Department.
$1.50 fo 4—Sacket:
SL 3 —Cassinere, Cloth, and Docskin Pants
50 to 200 cts. —
150 to 500 cts. =Sait ‘Tacket and Pants.
Summer Clothing.
$1 to 1.25—Seersucker Strip © Sacks & Frocks.
+50 to 734s sorted Thin
$3.5 White Li nen Cane ‘Duck Frocks,
vas
An article, no bet
ter, old i in the city for
$2.50—Hrown Linen Canvas rocks, Pearl
ns.
$1.25—Blay Linen Sac’
$3.50105.00—Cai ant on Grass Cloth Sacks, a very
$3.50—Reall India ‘Seersucker Coats
$3. 200—Plaid C Canvas Duck Coats, Pearl
$2. 90 to 3 .00—Alpace: ca Co ats.
0 to 6.50—D' “ap DLte Sack: 8.
PR
00 to 5.50—Tweed and Cashmerct Frocks and
Sa coke
HIN VESTS and PANTALOONS, of cvery de-
cctiption of Goods, at extremely low price:
Gentlemen's and and Youths?
FURNISHING GOODS,
Hats, Caps, Key &ce
CHOICE, BROADCTOTIIS. DOFSKINS, CASST-
MERES, VESTINGS, &
n the Cue epartment, with anacal facilities
for nhe promo t exedton of “orders, and ever:
ment warranted to
OAK HALD,
its coperieht prepeete oP.
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choice and valuable collection of Paintings, Stat~
uar)
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