The Penny Press, 1859-09-16

from reoont 09timatos it is nsncrtflined that tbero are nearly 1,2U0 iron worki in tho Union ; that theso produce annually about 850,000 tune of iron, tho value of whinh. in nn ordinary year, is fifty millions of dollars. ut tnis amount tno portion expended for labor alone is $360,001). Tho amount of rolled iron made in the United States is about 500, 500,-000 - 000 500,-000 tuns par annum. Of this, about 300,000 tuns are made east and 200,000 tuns west of the Allogbeny mountains. 'SfMisa II. K. Clnpp, formerly of Ian- sing, Alien., well known as a teacher, oas boon among the Mormons, and has written home hor experienco of tho Saints and her observations upon their institutions. Hor lottor is published in a Lansing paper, and is very highly seasoned. Sho lushes Brigham Young anil his system, and exposes the frauds perpotrated by tho Government agents in Utah. ( 1 3 There are in Massachuseets five Unita rian clergymen who have been settled over their eharges for upward of half a oentury, viz: Kor. Josepn Kichnrdion, of HiDgham, settled in 1806; Charles Lowell, D. D., of Boston, set settled - tled settled in 1807; Bev. Abraham Oushee, of Digh- ton, settled in 1807; Charles Wellington, D. D., of Tompleton, settled in 1807; Samuel Willurd, D. D., of Deerfield, who is eighty-four years of ago. , The Bev. Thomas Dewitt. D. D., of New York, has been spending two months at tne Holland colony, a settlement of native Hollanders, at Holland, Ottawa County, Michi Michigan, - gan, Michigan, founded under the auspices of the General Synod of tbe Dutch Church. Tbe churches in the Holland Colony nave received very liberal aid from the Collegiate Church in Now York. The Boston Traveller says of the sus pension of the publishing house of Phillips, Sampson & Co.: "The Coiii-wr, in noticing this suspension, states that the 'Atlantic Monthly load' was one of tbe causes of their embar embarrassment. - rassment. embarrassment. So far from this being true, we are assured, on reliable authority, that tho Atlantic has not only paid its expenses, but a very handsome orofit over Its cost." ' . SirThoruaa O. Kearney, a polioe officer in New Orleans, died last week from an injury rootiivod while diving. lie dived into tho water only about five feet deep, and from an elevation of some ten feet above the surface of the water. lie was seen to go porpendicnlarly down, with his foot straight up in the air, and came up perfectly senseless and paralyzed. fi9Second Lieutenant Charles J. Lyndc, of the fifth rogiment of infantry, was recently tried by oourt-mi.rtial in Utnn lor insulting and striking Lieutenant Wharton, and for diso disobedience - bedience disobedience of orders. " lie was found guilty and sentenced to be dismissed from the army. The President has approved the sentence. "Mr. GerritSmlth, the Peterboro' philan philanthropist, - thropist, philanthropist, pays for all the articles, letters and sermons which he causes to be printed in the papers. With him it is a direot matter of busi business. - ness. business. ' It would be well .if many others who ask the "favor of space" copied his example. BThero was lately on exhibition at Sid Sidney, - ney, Sidney, Australia, a set of horso-shoes made of native gold, weighing twenty-fottr ounces, and worth about five hundred dollars. They were made for a pony in New South Wales. jrfl-It is authoritatively stated thnt the amount of money remitted home by Irishmen resident in America, the last year, for the pur purpose - pose purpose of assisting their friends to emigrate, was $2,360,000. The ten preceding years the amount remitted, was $49,680,000, 0-The Scandinavians in Chicago pro propose - pose propose to establish two Norso newspapers in that oity one-to lie printed in, the Swedish language and the other in Norwegian. One association of "proprietors is to control both establishments. 39 A new steam fire engine was exhibited at' Boston on Monday. It tvoighs only two thousand four hundred pounds, and can bo drawn by one horse. The machine will force an, inch and a quarter stream two hundred feot horizontally. eSTho tax lovy of New York for the noxt fiscal year" is $8,860,0(10, a tolerably largo sum for bad municipal government. Tho rate is 1 70 21-100.i.on the $100, the valuation of property being $551,923,100. 2gf"Ten Broock writes from England to n C. T !H Vf w r. U : a 4Vnf Vila winninn, in PnfV- lnnd this vear tniipcd $440,000 1 to eain which be risked but $20,000. Think of that, hewors of wood and drawers of water. Bf" Very pretty Geneva watches are sold in Paris this Boason in the form of a heart, in that of a tulip, or representing a shell, on which are admirably painted views oi oe oe-neva, - neva, oe-neva, or pastoral scenes. . sSTho annual income of Mr. William McDonalds the owner of Flora Temple, is said to bo $80,000. He resides in Baltimore. B8 James B. McDowell, a prominent oitl- sen of Vicksburg, Miss., died at the Virginia White Sulphur Springs on the zotn ult. rfThe losses bv the treat fire at Halifax on Friday night will amount in the aggregate to about a million oi aoiiare. Impbovbmcrts at Mount Vbekos. We learn from the. Mount Vernon Record that the work of Duttina: Mount Vernon in good con- dition has been fairlv begun. Since the first of July workmen, under the superintendence of a competent gentleman, have been busily engaged in repairing out-houses, tracing and oleaning npthe old and almost forgotten paths, and fortifving in some measure the sacred spot againBt the ravages of decay. , The Uncord also states that $15,000 of the fourth and last installment for the purchase of Mount Vernon has already been' paia to rar. wasmngtoo leaving only about $30,000 to be paid to com plete tbe purooase. . . i ' mam

A series of experimental trials have been carried on during the past fortnight nt Ports Portsmouth, - mouth, Portsmouth, with a view of ascertaining tho amount of resistance offered by Iron and steel plates of various manufactures when opposed to heavy ordnance nt a short rnngo". TUe trials aro understood to navo relerenoe to the' fitturo coating of the steam ram now in progross of coustruntiuu. The practice has been carried on from the Stork gun boat tender to Hor Majesty's ship Excellent, gunnery ship in Portsmouth harbor, both from a 32-pounder and a 95-cwt. gun, the latter throwing a solid 68-pound shot, with 16-pound chnrgo of powder; the distance of range 200 yards. At this distance the results of tbe experiments bavo demonstrated in the clearest possiblo manner that no' iron or steel pinto mat nas yet Deon mnnutactured can withstand tho solid shot from tho 95-cwt. gun at a short range. The first shot would not penetrate through the iron pinto, but it would fracturo it, and on throe or four striking the pinto in tue same place, or in tno immediate neighborhood, it would be smashed to pieces. As the results oi tuo trial allccted tho steel tilatos. it nroved that a steel-clothed shin could bo far moro easily destroyed than a wooqen-stded one, and that on tue smashing in of one of the steel plates the destruction of life on tho armed ship's decks, supposing tno broken piate to De driven tnrougn the ship's side, would bo something dreadful to contemplate, from the splintered material. At from uu to uu yards iron-clothed snips would bo m comparative safety rrom tne el- led ot an enemy's broadside, but it niUBt be borne in mind that the effects of eonoontratad firine have yet to bo ascertained on the sides of an iron or steel-clothed. ship; an account also must be taken of tho damage the wood woodwork - work woodwork forming the inner side of such a ship would receive from the driving in et the broken nlates. and which, ns far as the xiros- ent experiments nave illustrated, would ap pear to prove, tnai an iron or sieei-ciaa snip, on receiving a concentrated broadside from a frigate, armed in a similar tnannet to tne Meraey, and.struck neat her water-line, mnaf sink tnen and tnere witn ner armor on ner

0f Bill Lloyd, Co notorious libertine, who ran away with Mrs. Shaw, of Louisville, is now in jail at Chicago, Illinois. After en joying the honeymoon he left. her, saying that sho was a rather expensive piece of crinoline to suit the state of his exchequer. The Louisville Democrat says; ' ' . ' "He took with him, our informant states, a diamond breastpin, bolonging to Mrs. Shaw, a gift from her husband. Incensed at this, she pursued him to Chicago, and had him arrested. He is now in jail awaiting the sppoaranco nf the husband to prosecute the case. While it is very proper that Lloyd and Mrs. bhaw should pay the penalty of the law, it is to be hoped that the husband will give himself no further oondern about then, than to see that justice be done, and that is what tho fugitivos most fear." u . . . A NOBLI MOTHRR NARROW ESCAFR. AS the morning train from this plaoo to Chicago came near Rock River bridge, on Monday last, the engineer, Robert Waugh, discovered a little girl at play on the traok. . Ho sounded tho wbisilo at its highust, ohaifiMt now, and used every possible effort to stop the train. The little child kept moving along tho track, ap apparently - parently apparently frightened by the whistle, but did not leave tho truck. The mother of tho child, who lived in a house nearthe bridge, seeing ber child in danger, made a spring to save her, nnd ruahiDg in front of the engino, caught her child and foil over tho opposite niilo. Tho en engine - gine engine brushed her clothes as she fell, and passed on a short distance before it could be stopped. Tho conductor, Captain Phillips, ran to the place and found the mother had fainted, but both mother and child wore saved. He took the child in bis arms, and restoratives being used, the mother soon revivod. Who can toll the joy of that mother to kuow her child was saved ? Had she hesitated a moment, or have been only a second later, both mother and child must have been crushed bonoath the wheels of the engine. We did not learnt her name, bat whoever she is, she is a brave and heroic wo

A fearful tragedy occurred last Sundav at a lonely farm-house about three miles from Ver Versailles, - sailles, Versailles, Ripley County, Indiana. The premises wero occupied by a farmer named John Wind sor, his wife and a son, the latter aged fourteen years. It teems that the man and woman livod unhappily together, and their frerjuent violent altercations were a subjeotof oomment to the nei rhborbood. Upon the afternoon ef unday their dauzhtor, who had been UDOn a visit to a neighboring acquaintance, with whom she remained several days, returned home, and entering the house, was paralysed by a sight of sueh intense horror as almost to deprive her of reason. Extended upon the floor, weltoring in their blood, lay tho bodies of her parents and her brother. The man was lying upon his face near tho hearth, with his head nearly severed from the shoulders; tho body of the boy lay in another part of the room, with several murder ous outs in his boad, and closo by the bloody weapon, a sharp ax, with whioh this double deed of horror had been consummated. In the kitchen adjoining was the body of the wretched woman, her throat severed from ear to ear, and a4 large butcher-knife, with which she had taken her life, still clasped in her hand. - it is conjectured taat while tne husband was in the act of kindling a fire upon the hearth, his wife seised the ax and doalt him the fatal blow, which nearly severed the head from the body, and then turning upon her son, who, trom being in nis night clothes, baa evidently in alarm just arisen from bis bed, shedispatohod him with the same weapon, nfter which she rushed into the next apartment and oonoluded too tragedy by the sacrifice of her own life. The poor girl, who is the sole survivor of the ill-fated family, has received so severe a shock from the horrid scone whioh wsb so unexpectedly revealed to her, that she has ever since been bordering upon insanity. ........

The Nashville Patriot contains the following statement: , Vicksburg, Miss., must be a desperate place. A letter from that plaoe, received yesterday by a gentleman of this city, says: "Last Tuesday morning J. T. Head, without any provocation whatever, shot and mortally wounded a yoaog man by the name of Wells, a printer by trade. Wells is still alive, but his physicians say he cannot recover. Head was to have been tried Wore the Committing Court yesterday, but the case was continued, to see whether or not the boy dies. He is about eighteen years of age. I do not think tbe court will ever be troubled with this case; for there were seventy citiiens presort, who wero pledged t" each other to take Head into custody as joon as he was brought outside of the prison walls, and to hang him without further ceremony. Their rope was prepared and the limb on which he was to hang selected. They still intend to bang him. This is the fourth murder Head has committed. "This is cot all: when a citizen retires at night, he places his gun,- repeater or knife aoout mm, to protect himself and family from the assassinations of robbers, burglars, ice., who are overrunning the city. There have been twenty-five or thirty homes broken open and robbed within the last few weeks. The plaoe scorns to be filled with desperate villains. 'vigilance committee' nas been formed their patrols appointed, who are constantly on duty. The committee gave notico .in the morn morning's - ing's morning's Sun, for all persons who could not give a good account of themselves to leave the place, within three days, or abide the consequences. Whoever walks tbe streets at night is saluted with the word 'halt,' on every oorner, and if the command is not obeyed, it is enforced by the presentation of a double-barrel gun or a Colt's repeater. I hope the desired result may be effected." .