igher than
the level required. A hand rail is fixed upon this screen, by
holding which they retain their upright position upon the
revolving wheel, the nearest side of which is exposed to view in
the plate, in order to represent its cylindrical form much more
distinctly than could otherwise have been done. In the original,
however, both sides are closely boarded up, so that the prisoners
have no access to the interior of the wheel, and all risk of
injury whatever is prevented.

By means of steps the gang of prisoners ascend at one end, and
when the requisite number range themselves upon the wheel, it
commences its revolutions. The effort, then, to every individual
is simply that of ascending an endless flight of steps, their
combined weight acting upon every successive stepping board
precisely as a stream of water upon the float boards of a water
wheel.

During this operation each prisoner gradually advances from the
end at which he mounted towards the opposite end of the wheel,
from whence the last man taking his turn descends for rest,
another prisoner immediately mounting as before to fill up the
number required, without stopping the machine. The interval of
rest may then be portioned to each man by regulating the number
of those required to work the wheel with the whole number of the
gang; thus if twenty-four are obliged to be upon the wheel, it
will give to each man intervals of rest amounting to twelve
minutes in every hour of labor. Again, by varying the number of
men upon the wheel, or the work inside the mill, so as to
increase or diminish its velocity, the degree of hard labor or
exercise for the prisoners may also be regulated. At Brixton, the
diameter of the wheel being five feet, and revolving twice in a
minute, the space stepped over by each man is 2193 feet.

From the _Salem Register_.

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TRAVELLING ON SUNDAY. At the session of the U. States Circuit
Court at New-Haven (Conn.) last week came on the trial of _Foster
vs. Huntington_. This was a prosecution instituted by _Dr.
Foster_, of New-York, against _Deacon Eliphalet Huntington_, a
Constable of Lebanon (Conn.), for arresting plaintiff's wife on
Sunday, the 10th of July, 1831, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
and detained her at an inn until sun-down, and then relea