My dear sister, I am daughter of a prince who governed a little state in Greece, and my mother also was of the blood royal." [She then added a long account of her parents professing Christianity, resisting Rome and becoming acquainted with the Emperor Diocletian, who proposed to marry her, but in con sequence of her refusal, (because she had vowed to live single and consecrated to Christ) changed from entreaties to threats of torture. The Virgin Mary appeared to her in prison, promising her her own aid, and that of the angel Gabriel. She was first whipped until covered with one wound, and then thrown into the Tiber, with an anchor fastened to her neck. Two angels broke the chain and floated her gently to the shore, in the presence of a crowd of spectators. She was then shot with many arrows, but cured in one night by an angel. Again the archers drew their bows at her, but their arrows refused to strike her. A magician was called, who tried to get the supposed enchantment out of the arrows by means of fire; but, when shot at her again, they flew back, and killed six of the archers, and many of the survivors renounced paganism. The emperor finally ordered her to be beheaded, which was done, and then, rising to heaven, she received the crown and palms of victory.]

[These three visions are considered as establishing the history and high reputation of Saint Filomena. The evidence is spoken of as if it were perfectly satisfactory, no doubt being expressed in consequence of the situation and interests of the witnesses, or their examiners, or the peculiar circumstances which must strike the mind of the reader as

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TO THE EDITORS OF THE EXPRESS.

The article below appeared in the "Albany Daily American Citizen" of the 10th inst. It meets with the approbation of all who have witnessed the operation of the machines. I am induced to make a few corrections, and send it to you for publication. It is but a small tribute to native genius of the first class, and of an enterprise worthy of an American citizen. ENTERPRIZE.

THE MANUFACTURE OF SCREWS.

Next to the Nail, the Screw is one of the most indispensable articles in common use.The manufacture of screws, both in this country and in Europe, is an important branch of mechanical labor, and thousands of operatives are employed in it constantly. It is a nice piece of work to turn out a well-made and handsome screw, , and it is done, and with great facility too, by machinery. Screw factories in this country are almost entirely located in in the New England States. They employ a large number of hands, and make a vast number of screws yearly. It has been supposed for years that perfection had been reached, so far as machinery is concerned, in this business. But there seems to be no limit to the ingenuity and inventive faculties of our country menThe wonder of to-day is destined to be totally eclipsed by the wonder of to-morrow.

A mechanic of New York, and one of the best, theoretically and practically, that our country can yet boast of, has been for the last seven years preparing and bringing to perfection a machine, or rather a series of machines, of his own invention, and upon a plan and principle entirely new, for the manufacture of screws of all sizes. He has at length completed a set of them, four in number, and set them in motion. They are found to meet the most sanguine expectations of their inventor, who has had them patented in this country and in Great Britain, and will soon extend his right over France, Germany, and Russia.

During a late visit to New York, we accepted the invitation of a friend to witness the operations of the screw-making apparatus.— Though too unacquainted with the complica ted machinery and its principles to be able either to comprehend fully its action, or describe intelligibly what we saw, yet we were highly delighted and interested with the performance, and shall make an attempt to convey an idea of the thing to our readers-hoping they will not have reason, before we finish, to regard it as one ex-screw-ciating 'bore.'

The first machine employed in the production of a perfect screw, is massive and costly. The business allotted it to perform, consists in receiving the cylindrical wire, cutting it the required length, and heading ' it. This work the obedient apparatus performs with astonishing rapidity, turning out sixty-two per minute.

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All are cut of an equal length, and the heads are perfectly formed. The inventor has in view the building of an improved 'header,' which wil! operate with more than treble the rapidity that this does.

No. two is less than a quarter the size of theheader,' and equal in dimensions with Nos. 3 and 4. It is compact and occupies but little room. It receives the headed articles

into a sort of hopper into which they are thrown promiscuously, but in which they arrange themselves with perfect regularity before they escape from it. By means of two rollers turning rapidly, they are carried down a little inclined plane, and singly pass out of the hopper, are instantly grasped by a pair of iron fingers, and firmly held while the uneven surfaces of their heads are turned smooth, polished, and pared down to their proper size, at the rate of 37 to the minute. They are then dropped into a trough, from which they are shovelled into the hopper of

No. 3." the nicker," through which they pass singly, and in regular procession, and are held while the whirring servant man's creation cuts the "nick" in the head, 20 to the minute, by which the screw when used, is "sent home" by the screw-driver. This operation duly performed, the article is ready for

No. 4, into the hopper of which they are thrown for the finishing touch.' We wish it were in our power to convey to our readers even a faint idea of this truly wonderful monument of man's genius and skill. We can only tell, in our own way, what it performs. It cuts the thread, which is at once the nicest and most important part of the work. The article is carried down the plane by the rol lers. When its turn comes, a slide flies back -it passes through the opening, and as the slide closes, drops down a gaping throat, the bottom of which it reaches just in time to be clutched by a queer-shaped pair of tongs.These faithful forceps make a downward and forward motion-sudden and nervous-the last of which thrusts the unthreaded but well headed object of their solicitude into the thread cutter. They then leave it sticking patiently and expectantly, and fly back to the throat above. No sooner are they gone, than a pair of strong iron fingers dart forward, grasp the head of the candidate with scrupu lous care, and hold it firmly while it passes in and out before the thread cutter three times. The fingers then let go their hold, and drop it into the trough below-a perfect screw.By the time it fairly reaches the trough, its next neighbor of the hopper has been picked up at the throat, brought down, thrust into the cutter, and clutched by the finger; and thus the work goes on, screw after screw, beautifully made, dropping out constantly and and with the astonishing rapidity of 20 per

minute.

As a matter of course, this wonderful invention is destined to revolutionize the manufacture of screws.

The "NEW ENGLAND WORKS," which are the most extensive in this country for the manufacture of screws, employ about four hundred hands, and manufacture about 2000 gross per day; whilst by this new invention, 2000 are made in the same time with the labor of but 30 hands The new machines are more simple in their construction and operation, less iable to get out of repair, and far less expensive in every respect than those of the "New England Works," and more—the manufacturers of this article in Great Britain, cannot come in competition with these astonishing, and almost wonder-working machines. Their pauper labor will not accomplish it. Their capital cannot effect it. It is satisfactorily ascertained by conclusive data, that a better article of screws can be made in this country by these machines, at much less per gross-pay. ing the equivalent for labor-than can be in Great Britain, by their oppressive system of labor without reward.

The ingenious inventor, who is a New Yorker, informed us that he had nearly matured his invention-had planned and built it in his brain-previous to the enactment of the present Tariff Law. He submitted his plan to capitalists, but not a man of them would invest his money in the enterprize, until after this great and beneficent measure of Protection came into operation. Then they were ready and eager to embark in it. The money necessary to build and test it, and carry on the business, was immediately forthcoming, and now all things are in readiness to commence the manufacture. Upwards of thirty men are already employed in making the machinery, &c., and the enterprising and ingenious mechanic has now almost the certain prospect of the control of the manufacturing world in the production of the important article of screws. It will be an important business, and will add greatly to the growing fame of Yankee ingenuity and enterprise.

An Intellectual Prodigy.

The following article, taken from the Western Episcopalian, published at Gambier, Ohio, is from the pen of Rev. George Dennison, formerly Professor of Mathematics in Kenyon College, and now a resident of Newark, Ohio:

A Wonderful Child.

MR. EDITOR-Perhaps you have seen in the political papers of the day mention made of a child in this vicinity of most astonishing intellectual ability. Being on a visit to my father, I yesterday went to see this child, and verily believe him to surpass any thing of the kind on record in the history of man, and to open a door by which we are permitted for a time to see something of what our minds are, and what they can become when this natural body shall have been exchanged for the spiritual.

This child's name is T. H. Safford, Jr.; he is now nine years and six months of age, of small stature, and pallid countenance; his little arms not much larger than my two fingers; he is of noble carriage, frank, and yet not forward. His eye is his most remarkable feature, being very large, and very bright, and when excited it rolls in its socket with an almost spasmodic force, while his little hand is thrown over them both in such a way as to indicate pain. I am told that there is scarcely any thing in the circle of sciences with which this child is not acquainted. History, and particularly natu ral history, is his favorite. I examined him, however, in nothing but mathematics and astronomy. His father and myself were old Sunday school scholars together, and every opportunity was given me to test the child thoroughly.

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I will now proceed to give some account of a long examination. While the child was not yet come in from the field, where, with his little sister, he was gone to gather wild berries, I examined an almanac in manuscript for A. D. 1846, all of which this child has wrought out alone; much of it, including one of the eclipses, before witnesses with whom I am acquainted. twelve days have already been spent by an adult in copying in a fair hand the almost illegible writing of his tiny fingers. We were examining the projection of the eclipses which he himself had made and subsequently calculated when he came in. I told him of the blind student in Kenyon College, who was studying the Differential and Integral Calculus. He seemed much pleased, and said he did not think he could have done that without sight. I then asked him of the projection which lay before us; he immediately commenced a full explanation, and I felt, as his little infant hand ran rapidly over the diagram, and I listened to his child. like expressions, as if I were in the presence of some superior being. In some instances I puzzled him, but never did he appear fretful; and when I told him any thing he did not already know, he always repaid it with a smile.

I asked him, if two equal circles cut each other to the extent of 1-12 of their diameter, what area would be thus cut away? Quicker than I could think, he said "the 144th part." I then asked him if 3-12, or digits, were thus cut, and he instantly said "1-16." I asked him how he knew, and he said "3-12-1-4, and 1-4 squared is 1-16." I asked him why he squared it? He said, "It is so in a semi-circle and must be so in a

circle". I then told him the rule of homologous sides, and he smiled and said he understood it. I then asked him, if two legs of a right angled triangle were given, one 12 and the other 16, what the hypothenuse would be? and he instantly replied "20: wouldn't it? Yes!" I then said, suppose the legs were 8 and 16, then what? In half a minute, and without a pencil, he replied, "17.8885." I then asked, if the legs were 7 and 15, then what? He was rather longer in answering, but took no pencil, and replied, " 16,553."

I gave him the following questions: The square of 465 ? He said "216225." The cube of 26? He answered, "17576." I asked him if I might try him on the fourth power? He said yes, if I would not go beyond two figures. I asked him the fourth power of 75. His eye whirled, and he sprang like an arrow to the door, hung by one hand to the door post, and came, in say three-fourths of a minute, and replied, "thirty-one millions six hundred and forty thousand six hundred and twenty-five, (31,640,625.)

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As he had performed all these in his head, I was desirous of knowing what his process was. I therefore gave him a sum of four figures to be multiplied by another of four figures, on the slate. He took the first figure and run it through as we do from right to left, and then wrote the second line back again from left to right, and so on. He did not multiply one figure of the multicand by itself, but always two. His calculations entirely outstrip the capability of his pencil to record them.

I tried to make his parents feel that he was a treasure lent. The mother evidently felt it so, but the father seemed unwilling to yield the fond belief that he might become as wonderful a man as he surely is a child. At all even.s, I cannot but feel as if I have seen something of what we yet may be when mortality shall have been swallowed up of life. GEORGE DENNISON. ROYALTON, Vermont, Aug. 2, 1845.

BUTTER. It is known that the rancid taste in butter is owing to the buttermilk being imperfectly expressed or worked out, which is found difficult to accomplish with a wooden spoon, not being able to apply the necessary power in using it. In Goshen, New York, they now cover the hands with linen gloves, and they forcibly work out the buttermilk, and thus by excluding the air in packing, the article long keeps sweet. -Country paper.

We here present our readers with a new instrument for the application of magnetism and electricity to the human frame, in two views. Although the nature of these agents is so difficult to be apprehended without prolonged study and attention to experiments, we may hope to give, even a hasty reader, some intelligence concerning their use, even in few lines, availing ourselves of the assistance of an illustrative print.

Surprizing advances have indeed been made within a few years, in our acquaintance with these subtle agents, ye: we are still profoundly ignorant of some most important points, so that we are at a loss whether to call them fluids or not, and cannot draw strong lines of definition between them. We proceed with a description of the apparatus and its use, in the words of Messrs. Pike & Son, of New York, the manufacturers.

Description. The most convenient Instrument for Medical use is that represented in the annexed figure. It consists of a double helix or coil, the inner one is composed of two or more strands of large insulated copper wire. The outer helix is completely insulated from the other, and consists of about 1000 feet of very fine insulated copper wire. In the interior of this double helix, a bundle of iron wires is inserted to a greater or less distance; when completely within, the shock is very great, but may be modified to any extent by drawing it out. One or more small wires may be inserted the whole length, which will have the same effect as the bundle, when placed partly within the coil. On one side is an Electro Magnet, connected to one pole of which, is a vibrating spring; in the centre of this spring is a platina plate, which touches a screw with the point of the same, from which emanates a spark when the instrument is in operation. On one end are pillars with holes across them, and binding screws on the top which receive the handles or buttons to apply the shocks to the person. On the other

end are pillars with holes in the top, and binding screws on the sides to receive the wires to connect with the battery. The Battery is a square box of copper, with an interior partition, (within which the instrument is packed,) with a square zinc form, which is placed between the copper surface; in the corners of both the zinc and copper, are tubes to receive the connecting wires.

Directions for using the Instrument.

Within the Battery is used sulphate of cop. per; dissolve about lb. to one pint of water, and pour it in between the zinc and copper; the acid will be of a blue color. On the copper are projections for the zinc to rest when not in use, as when left in, it corrodes unnecessarily, and when it has been in use sometime, may require washing. It should be washed after using, and when much coroded may require to be scraped, to present a clean surface of zinc. After using the instrument, the acid may be poured into any vessel or bottle, except the sediments, which should be washed away; the acid may remain in the copper without injury. When the copper collects too fast on the zinc, water must be added to the solution.

A pair of brass handles to receive the shocks in the hands, also a pair of large buttons with corks to insulate, for applying to any part of the body without receiving it in the hands;also a footplate to place the foot upon, when more convenient, accompany each instru

ment.

The whole, with the instrument, is put in a polished mahogany case, with lock and key, 11 inches long by 6 inches wide, and 3 inches deep. Price $12.

The instruments are made of a uniform size, but are sometimes made more portable by using a more compact battery, in which case the box is smaller.

INDIAN AND YANKEE.-The water at Mackinaw is very clear and very cold, so cold as to be almost insupportable. A gentleman lately amused himself by throwing a small gold coin in 20 feet water, and giving it to any Indian who would bring it up. Down they plunged, but after descending 10 or 12 feet they come up so chilled, that after several ineffectual attempts they gave it up. A Yankee standing by observed that, "if he would give it to him for getting it he'd swing it up quicker than lightning," to which he consented; when Jonathan instead of plunging in as was expected, quietly took up a setting pole and dipping the end in a tar barrel, reached it down to the coin and brought it up, and slipping it in his pocket, walked off, to the amazement of the Indian divers, and the no small chagrin of the donor.-Cor. Pough keepsie Eagle.

The unfortunate steamer, the British Queen, has been sold at Antwerp, to M. Louis Remwitt, for 238,000 francs, withoutthe furniture.

An Ashantee Warrior and his Attendant. The Ashantee nation, in the interior of Western Africa, is one of the most remarkable of all for their military power, as well as barbarity. The following extract on the English expedition to their country, we copy from Wilson. (p. 203.)

The mission having set out on the 22d April, 1817, passed over a country covered, in a great measure, with immense and overgrown woods, through which a footpath had with difficulty been cut, though in some parts it presented the most beautiful scenery. Being delayed by Mr. James's illness, they did not arrive at Coomassie, the capital, till the 19th May, when they were surprised at its unexpected splendor. It was four miles in circumference, built not indeed with European elegance, but in a style considerably superior to any of the maritime towns. The houses, though low, and constructed only of wood, were profusely covered with ornament and sculpture. The array of the caboceers, or great war-chiefs, was at once brilliant, dazzling and wild. They were loaded with fine cloths, in which, variously colored threads of the richest foreign silks were curiously interwoven ; and both themselves and their horses were covered with decorations of gold beads, Moorish charms or amulets, purchased at a high price, and the whole intermingled with strings of human teeth and bones. Leopards' skins, red shells, elephants' tails, eagle and ostrich feathers, and brass bells were among the favorite ornaments. On being introduced to the king, the English found all these embellishments crowded and concentrated on his own person and that of his attendants, who were literally oppressed with large masses of solid gold, and even the most common utensils were composed of that metal.

By recent advices between 2,000 and 3,000 tons of British shipping were loading and waiting for ore at St. Jago de Cuba.