By the hand of our transatlantic correspondent, we receive intelligence most curious and edifying from the city of Philadelphia, in the United States of America. It is there that Mr. Edgar Allan Poe, …
The quicksilver within its glass prison has sunk to 29.72 inches, a profound and disquieting fall that sets the teeth of this observer on edge. The brass-bound dial, with its delicate needle, trembles…
ANNO DOMINI 1841, 29th August. The confluence of the Niger and Benue rivers, West Africa. The grand design of Her Majesty's Government to suppress the abominable slave trade upon these waters has reac…
The impenetrable river fog that so often coils through Kneeling Glen has this day withdrawn to a mere wisp, a silver thread stitching the black pines to the limestone crags. At sixteen of the clock, t…
BRAȘOV, 29th August – The weekly Imperial Post carriage, which labours betwixt Kronstadt and Bucharest, hath returned this evening bearing tidings of a most harrowing encounter upon the Predeal Pass. …
The mercury, that quicksilver oracle, has begun its slow, deliberate descent—29.77 inches and dropping, as if the very atmosphere exhales a weary sigh. At the tenth hour, the sun struggles through a v…