NeW Fork, .Spptember II,
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Patent Cottns.-Some few weeks since we men.
toned that patent had been taken out in England
for the construction of coffin, which would be an
efectua obstacle to the depredations Of the resur-
reconiss and as We thought the improvement
would be acceptable in this city, We furnished Mr..
Houghton, undertaken in Chatham street, with the
description That artist has now constructed an
elegant coffin upon the plan referred to, which we
examined on Friday and which meets every expec-
tation. The improvement consists OF frame work
of iron, placed oside of The coffin, and within which
the body Of The deceased is placed. When the time
arrives for finally closing The coffin, the top OF the
frame work is FIRST screwed With screws so con-
slructed that unless the grave robber should have
the very tools with which they are made he could
not possibly open it. The body is therefore per-
ectly secured from the operations of the surgeons,
and dug up after breaking the wood of the coffin,
they would be obliged TO inter the corpse, un-
touched. There is nothing more shocking to the
surviving friends of the Dead than the supposition
that the bodies OF their friends, may be so-
len by the greedy vampires who for filthy lucre,
supply subjects for the dissecting knife; and we
should suppose that those who are called to com.
init the bodies OF their deceased relatives to the
tomb would be pleased with the opportunity offered
by Mr.. Houghton, Of SO securing their remains as
to set the wreiches at defiance. The additional ex-
pense IS not great Com. .4ar.