Brownsville, (Penn.) March 13.
Accident.—On Thursday last, the chain bridge over Dunlap's creek, between Brownsville and Bridgeport broke down with a wagon and six horses upon it. The wagon fell on the bank, this side of the stream, the horses in the water. The driver, who was on the saddle horse, was pitched between the two middle horses, where he was held entangled in the gears, until relieved by the citizens. He received no material injury, but two of the horses were killed. The team, we understand, was the property of a person named Hackney, near Winchester, (Va.) The distance from the floor of this bridge to the surface of the water, must have been at least 30 feet.
Leeches.—The Montrose (English) Review of January 1st, states that a gentleman examining two bottles containing 3 leeches each, found the water a complete mass of ice, with the leeches frozen. He dissolved the ice gradually before the fire, when he found the whole 6 alive, and very animated.
Annual consumption of the necessaries of life in London.
| Consumption of bullocks, | 110,000 |
| Sheep and lambs, | 976,000 |
| Calves, | 250,000 |
| Hogs, | 210,000 |
| Sucking pigs, | 60,000 |
| Gallons of milk—the produce of 8900 cows, | 908,000 |
| Quarters of wheat, | 900,000 |
| Chaldrons of coal, | 800,000 |
| Barrels (36 galls.) of ale and porter | 1,775,500 |
| Gallons of spirituous liquors, | 11,146,783 |
| Pipes of wines, | 65,000 |
| Pounds of butter, | 27,600,000 |
| Cheese, | 25,000,000 |
| Acres of land cultivated | |
| in the vicinity of London for vegetables, | 10,000 |
| Ditto for fruit, | 4,000 |
| The sum paid annually for vegetables amounts to, | l.645,000 |
Abstract of the exports of cotton and tobacco from New Orleans from the 1st of October, 1818, until the 31st of the same month, 1819.
Cotton.
| England | 48,840 bales. |
| France | 29,989 |
| Holland | 1,998 |
| Coastwise | 15,710 |
| Total | 95,537 bales. |
| England | 10,122 | hhds. |
| France | 4,865 | |
| Holland and Germany, | 7,632 | |
| Coastwise | 13,048 | |
| Total | 85,667 | hhds. |
Fall of rain.—An account of the water that fell in rain and snow, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1812 to 1819, inclusive, and the number of days, in each year, in which there was falling weather.
1819.
| Years. | Inches. | Days. | Months. | Inches. | Days. |
| 1812, | 334⁄8 | 69 | January, | 1⁄8 | 1 |
| 1813, | 401⁄8 | 75 | Feb'ry, | 25⁄8 | 6 |
| 1814, | 522⁄8 | 74 | March, | 26⁄8 | 8 |
| 1815, | 377⁄8 | 57 | April, | 21⁄8 | 5 |
| 1816, | 307⁄8 | 70 | May, | 31⁄8 | 8 |
| 1817, | 406⁄8 | 77 | June, | 1 | 4 |
| 1818, | 364⁄8 | 68 | July, | 43⁄8 | 9 |
| August, | 83⁄8 | 11 | |||
| Sept. | 14⁄8 | 4 | |||
| October, | 1 | 2 | |||
| Nov. | 12⁄8 | 3 | |||
| Dec. | 22⁄8 | 5 | |||
| 314⁄8 | 66 |
London Breweries.—The Breweries of London, (says a late traveller over the British Island,) "may justly be ranked amongst its greatest curiosities, and the establishment of Messrs. Barclay &. Co. is one of the most considerable. A steam engine, of the power of 30 horses, does the greatest part of the work; for although there are nearly two hundred men employed, and a great number of horses, these are mostly for the out-door work; the interior appears quite solitary. Large rakes with chains moved by an invisible power, stir to the very bottom the immense mass of malt in boilers 12 feet deep; elevators which nobody touches, carry up to the summit of the building 2500 bushels of malt a day, thence distributed through wooden channels to the different places where the process is carried on.—Casks of truly gigantic sizes are ready to receive the liquors. One of them contains 3000 barrels. Now, at 8 barrels to a ton, this is equal to a ship of 375 tons. By the side of this are other enormous vessels, the smallest of which, containing about 800 barrels, are worth when full 3000 pounds sterling each. All this immense apparatus is so arranged that every part is accessible, and the whole is contained under one roof. The stock of liquor is estimated at 300,000 pounds; the barrels alone in which it is carried about to customers cost 80,000 pounds; and the whole capital is not less than half a million sterling; 250,000 barrels of beer are sold annually, which would load a fleet of 150 merchantmen, of the burden of 200 tons each. The building is incombustible—walls of brick, and floors of iron.
Africa.—Several attempts are now making to explore the interior of this country, and a scheme for opening a grand commercial intercourse with Tumbuctoo and Sudan, has been planned, which promises success through the protection of the emperor of Morocco.
London Nov. 30.—We learn by a letter from the celebrated Italian traveller, M. Belzoni, that he has recently performed a journey into the deserts of Lybia, to examine there the environs and ruins of the temple Jupiter Ammon. This journey lasted 50 days, during which time he saw different ruins, several temples and other remarkable objects. After having traversed the desert, he arrived at the place where the temple is supposed to have existed. The country was fertile, and he found some villages, but the inhabitants of the country, where, perhaps, for several centuries a European had not been seen, were very savage, and would not suffer him to pass, because they imagined that he was looking for treasures in their country. The ruins of the temple he discovered had been employed in the construction of another temple, which is already in part destroyed, and in forming the foundation of the cabins of a village. The most remarkable thing, however, discovered by M. Belzoni in those environs is a spring of living water, of which Herodotus makes mention, warm in the morning and evening, cold at noon, and boiling hot at midnight. M. Belzoni has brought away some of this water for the purpose of analysing it.
A Hint to Smokers.—The city of New York, is said to contain 130,000 inhabitants. Let 50,000 of them smoke only three Spanish segars a day, and it will amount in the year to the enormous sum of $1,095,000; a sum sufficient to pay the salary of the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of war, and of the Navy, and of the Attorney, General, for 20 years, 10 months, and 8 days.
[N. Y. Gazette.
Extraordinary Longevity.—Dr. Knott Martin, of Marblehead, who died at the age of 88, left seven children by his first wife, who are now living, at the following ages, viz:—
Thomas, aged 88—Knott, aged 87—Eleanor, aged 80—Hannah, aged 77—Richard, aged 73—Arnold, aged 71—and Mary, aged 69. The aggregate of the seven being 554, and the average 78 years.
Also, by his second wife, Betsey, aged 53, and Bartholomew, aged 51. He had three other children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other two at an advanced age.
Eight of the nine now living reside at Marblehead, the other at Beverly, and all of them have a numerous posterity.
[Salem Register.
An effectual Method of Preserving Poultry houses free from Vermin.
Sir—As I do not know that you have positively interdicted all communications from farmer-esses, I must ask you to record a grand discovery, which I consider myself to have made, in the noble art of—raising poultry.
It may save much trouble to my sister housewives, to whom, according to the order prescribed by the lords of the creation, this department of domestic economy has been assigned. It is well known, that in this branch of our humble duties, the greatest difficulty arises from our poultry houses being so much infested with vermin; or, to be more plain, in the slang of the poultry yard, with chicken lice. Now, I have proved, by long experience, that they will not resort to houses wherein the roots, nest boxes, &c. &c. are made of sassafras wood. You may smile, and ask me, the reason of it: I am no philosopher, but I tell you, sassafras wood will keep lice out of hen houses: I know it to be a fact, and when you will tell me why it is that chips of cedar wood or tobacco will keep woollen free from moth, then I will endeavour to tell you why it is, that sassafras wood will keep away chicken lice—one is universally known to be true, the other no less true, though less known.
A Spinster. [Am. Farmer.
The London Globe, of Jan. 29, says—"We understand that the lords of the treasury have given directions to allow mechanics, artificers, &c. to emigrate from Great Britain to any country and in any ship.
At Brighton, the wildest of the feathered tribe have been so punished with the frost, that they have left the woods, for warmer shelter in the habitations of men. Black birds, starlings, larks and thrushes have been pursued by boys, at mid-day, and easily taken by the hand.