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THE MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN M. COOPER.
WILLIAM T. THOMPSON, BDITOJL
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Correspondence of the Daily Morning yews.
New Yoke. June 14, 1850.
Tbecity has been so stupidly dull during the week,
that I really thought there was not sullicient material
to render a letter Interesting to your readers, a d
therefore, delayed writing iron) duy to day. The hot
weather is now upon us, and New York life becomes
stupid as the mercury rises. We are still, I am hap
py to say, in a remarkable state ot health, and not
withstanding the vast number of emigrants arriving
here weekly, our Quarantine Hospital is comparative
ly empty. Some 60,000 have arrived since April 5tb,
and not more than 75 have been detained there by
sickness. With its natural advantages, New York
should be the cleanest city in the world; and as the
department having charge of this is now removed
from political influence, 1 am in hopes that it will, in
this respect, become a model city. All the nuisances
are to be removedevery establishment, the nature
of whose business is calculated to alfeet the atmo
sphere, is to be closed, and if care and wn chfulness
can secure us from epidemic, I think we shall escape
a visitation.
The "spiritual rappinga” have scarcely out-lived
the nine days’ wonder, and unless the newspapers
keep up the excitement, we shall hear little more of
them. • The women are doing a great business—they
have two exhibitions a day, and the charge is Si each,
1 should suppose that at every exhibition irom twenty
to twenty-live persons are present. This is an eusy
way of making a fortune, truly, for the three ladies
sit on the sofa, and however the knockings are produ
ced, it requires, apparently, no exertion on their part.
The oldest of the ladies, .Mrs. Fish, I should suppose
to be about 35) the others are in their teens, and very
pretty interesting, lady like girls. I’ is curious to
seethe different effect produced upon different par-
ties-i-some listening with a sceptical smile ; others
solemn and semi-credulous; and others, ugain, firm-
ly believing thut they are conversing with a real spir
it. For my own part, I am satisfied that the rappings
are mcclinnical, but the mode of producing them is
mysterious. Animal magnetism is in some way mix
ed up with it, for there undoubtedly is a connection
between the mind of the person put in communica
tion with the presumed spirit, and one of the ladies.
This is too clear to admit of a doubt, for persons I
well know were hot in collusion, told facts known on
ly to themselves. The lady knows the sort of per
sons to hit upon, however, for with many who go,
myself for instance, tho Bpirit will have nothing to
do. It must be an impressible person to be favored
with the communications. 1 am -willing to admit
that of all the humbuging that I have ever witnessed,
this is the most plausible, ingenious, and interesting
No one can iail to be interested, and no one, I am
sure, begrudges the dollar, however confident he may
feel that he has been humbugged. The ladies are go
ing South, I believe, but I don’t think they will extend
their trip as far as Savannah.
Norton, the young lawyer who libelled Hiss Crean,
is snugly ensconced in one of the cells of the City
prison, though by no means a close prisoner. lie
swears incontinently, I am told, at the prospect of 30
days’ incarceration, and then to pny tho nice little sum
of #250 before he will be permitted to walk uut. He
should have been sent to Blackwell’s Island.
An unhappy case is now before one of our Courts,
being a cross suit for divorce by Dr. Arnold and wife,
persons of great respectability in this city. Mrs. A.
is the daughter of Mr. F. Girard, a wealthly merchant
—as is sometimes the case, shq lived too near home,
and tho match not turning out so well as expected,
the husband having been unfortunate, she sought
those little comforts there he couldn't^ afford, and
finally abandoned him altogether, and now trumps up
a story of criminal conduct on his part, to justify that
step. He in turn trumped up one against her, and
they appear to be equally unfounded. What a pity
that these domestic difficulties should ever be paraded
before an un sympathizing public.
I was present on Wednesday, at the examination
of the pupils of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum here,
and have rarely been more deeply interested. The
teachers are, in reality, miracle workers, for if they
do not make the dumb to speak, and the deaf to hear
they effectually supply the deficiency of nature, and
render the deprivation less painful. There are 220
pupils at present, of all ages, from six or seven years
to twenty-th^e or twenty-four. They are generally
rem..rkably bright, and some of them beat the Ravels
out and outin pantomime. Various trades are taught
here, and the girls are initiated in all those little re
fined acquirements which render the sex so interest-
and loveable. The Piano Forte is taught by a deaf
mute; indeed, several of the teachers are in that con
dition.
Mrs. Chase, of Tampico celebrity, was pointed out
to me among the audience, but ,.er appearance de
stroyed all the romance. She is a nice looking old
lady, and more like a homely farmer’s wife, than the
heroine of the exploit with which her name is con
nected.
There was quite a scene in the Court of Sessions
this morning, when J. C. Ashley, convicted of forging,
was brought up for sentence; he is one of the Drury
gang. He was prepared with affidavits churging Mr.
Warner, the lawyer, with having pnid "one-eyed
Thompson" to poison a young lady he wanted to get
ridof-then he made diabolical charges against Wilkes,
of the Police Gazette, Marcus Cicero Stanley, offi
cer A. M. C. Smith and others, which, if true, should
consign tho party to everlasting infamy; but no one
believed the charges, of course. How much iniquity
has been practised by Ashley and others, we shall
probably never know, for no one can tell, but the par
ties themselves, when these scoundrels arc telling the
truth.
The steamer Atlantic leaves to-morrow for Liver,
pool with a large freight, and a great number of pas
sengers, .With fine weather, she wi(J make a rapid
voyage, I have no doubt.
Laborers are employed removing the ruins of the
old Park Theatre, it will be along job, for the founda
tion is very deep. The stores to be erected there are
to be of the most modern style.
The dinner to Mr. Senator Dickinson, comes off on
Monday next, at Tammany Hall; so that the eating
and drinking wont be any thing particular. The dig
nitaries of the city have been invited, without refer
ence to parties—the Mayor (a Whig), I believe, pre
sides.
The Hotels of the city were never so crowded os at
present; only 1500 arrivals at them on one day this
week 1 The business is not brisk, however, for buy
ers don’t come at this time. Most of the visitors now
art pleasure seekers.
A Mr. Buchanan, “a youthful tragedian,.” as lie is
termed in the bilis, has been trying to astonish the
. town at the Broadway, but has not succeeded. He
aims to take the place of Forrest, who is considered
theatrically or professionally dead ; but bad actor ns
he is, in some tilings Mr. B. has much to learn and
unlearn before be can do that even.
* : . . CHARLEMAC.
For the Daily Morning News.
Britloli and American Steamers.
The Courier and Enquirer of Wednesday bns an
article from tho pen of n London correspondent,
speaking of the cause of tho bad success of our first
American steamers. Ho attributes their failure t to a
general mismanagement, to the inexperience and
negligence of tho Engineers, or defective machinery
—to an over-confidence in the capabilities of the ves
sels, and a desire to outstrip everything, without, tak
ing all the precautions which experience tenches us,
prove needful on sortie occasions, and to which the
British steamers always pay the most careful atten
tion.
He says, even that noble ship the Atlantic! 1ms nar
rowly escaped serious loss of character from over,
confidence and a determination to beat everything—
that she was obliged to lay by several hours, to replace
some flouts on her paddle wheels—that tho Engineer
in his anxiety to lose no time, failed to let his steam
go down, that the condenser became overheated, rnd
that when the Engine was again put in motion, it be
came so over-charged with steam or water, that tho
pressure was too great to be borne, and a rupture en
sued, by which she was obliged to perform the rest of
her voyage with one Engine, on the high pressure
principle. The consequence of all which was that
her passage was prolonged to 13 days, while the Cun-
ard steamers frequently perform it in eleven.
In conclusion, he hopes that the owners of the noble
ship will take every precaution to prevent such su.
perb and perfect vessels from making shipwreck of
their reputation and unequalled advantages of struc
ture, by ignorance, over-confidence, or a too eager
spirit of emulation on the part of those who have the
management, as the reputation of our mail steamers
for years to come will be established or destroyed
by the earlier voyages of these vessels.
That this advice is much needed, is very obvious,
as (he misfortunes of our first steamers were par-
tiully, though not altogether, attributable to the causes
st|ited. The Washington nnA Hcrrman we consider
as failures. The United States is a fine vessel with a
well built and substantial Engine, yet, as in the case
of the others, from want of proper attention on the
part ot the ship builder, it was impossible properly
to adapt the engine to the-ship, so that the builders oi
her machinery hud but little confidence in her perfor.
malice. Since then we have built a licet of steamers
that are uow_ navigating the Atlantic and Pacific, in
which those defects have been remedied; they have
been making trips regularly almost as long as an Euro,
pean voyage, w.tbout meeting with more accidents
than usually happen to the English steamers.
A writer in the Georgian, who seems to have an
unbounded admiration for ttie Cunard steamers, and
but a poor opinion of the capacities of our American
shipwrights, after a very high encomium upon the
beauty, symmetry and perfect proportion of these
vessels, adds that our builders have been so much ac
customed to building river steamers and packet ships
that they cannot produce a perfect model of an
ocean steamer. The new Bteumer Asia, of the Cu
nard line, is rated nt2,500 tous, and has a cylinder 96 in
ches in diamater, and 10 feet stroke. The Atlantic is
3,500 tons burthen, nnd has a cylinder 95 inches di
ameter, and 10 feet stroke, a little smaller than that
of the Asia, although the vessel is more than one
third larger. Yet notwithstanding this great dispari
ty iu the size of her engines, on her return trip from
Liverpool, the Atlantic made as good time as the Asia
and a trip as short, if not .-horter than either the
America, which preceded, or the Canada which came
after her, allowing a reasonable time for their deten
tion at Halifax. It seems to me there can be little in
feriority in either hulls or engines that produced such
results.
Itis true that we use higher stenm than the English,
which makes the work our engines do greater in pro
portion to their calibre than that done by the English
engines. Ours are also better built, or they could not
do the work. That there is room for improvement
we will all allow. When our ship owners will believe
the engine builders, that the engines they order are
too small for the size of their vessels, and that to
make them fast it will be necessary to increase their
power—when we get in the way of putting larger
engines in our vessels, there can be nothing easier
than to excel "the Scotchman” as much in our steam
ship, as we do now in our sailing vessels. W.
The host Pleiad,
BY B. II. STODDARD.
“A dim tradition gathered in n dream."
Geo. //. Bokcr.
There dwelt a starry sisterhood,
A thousand years ago,
Alone in cloistral sanctity,
As chaste as snow I
Six joined in love their linlrid hands,
And stood with folded wings
Around the seventh, who touched n lute
With golden strings I
Morning und Noon and Evening come,
And softand holy Night;—
The Swan sailed up its azure lake
In trailing light!—
And Btill the sweet musician sat,
And played upon her lute,
Till Earth was Ispped in ecstacy,
And Heaven mute I
The changing seasons passed away,
Like flocks ot birds at spa;
And cloudy years went drifting down
Eternity ;
But oh ! One immemorial eve,
An angel left the skies,
And led her in a trance of song,
To Paradise I
SAVASJSffA IUi
Wednesday Morning, June 19, 1850
A young hopeful in Boston, advertises in tho
Transcript for a wife. He says he bus #50,000, is
twenty-five years old, of steady habits, prepossessing
manners, and not bad looking. A lady who can offer
equal inducements, without the money, if not in her
possession, and who is not over twenty-three years of
age, will, he says, “find a rare chance.” by addressing
him through the post office. If he has no objection to
color, and will promise that he will not advertise his
wife when she goes on a visit to her friends, we will
undertake to supply him.
Benton Wooing the Fbee soilkrs.—In his
free-seil speech, on Wednesday last, Mr. Benton is
said to have explicitly declared that he considered
slavery in any country an ineradicable evil, and that
he was therefore unalterably opposed to its exten
sion. Commenting on this speech, a Washington
letter writer says—Though Mr. Benton’s position on
the agitating topic of the day had been pretty often
defined, and was thought to be well understood, I do
not remember that he has ever before made an une
quivocal declaration of his sentiments of hostility to
slavery extension.
Very likely. In the whole course ofh is life he has nev
er before had occasion to fish for free-soil popularity.
It has been his fortune always to bein a position to bid
for tlie old clothes of every administration, from the
firstterm of his early friend, Gen. Jackson, down to
the present day. He has been unfortunate in his ef
forts to appropriate the cast off mantles of the distin
guished men whose sycophant he has been, and now
he has grown desperately bold in his efforts to obtain
power on his own account. He has long been an un
successful imitator of the sage of Kinderhook, and
now he aims to out-Van Buren Van Buren.
An Eleven Thousand Dollab Lumt. Apiece
of gold weighing forty-sit pounds, taken from the
bed of the river, 173 miles above San Francisco, is now
on exhibition in New Orleans. At $16 per ounce this,
lumpwould be worth $11,776. Wonder if there are
a " few more left oi the same sort.”
The Washington Monument.
It is stated in the Baltimore Sun, that the assistant
Marshals for taking the census linve been provided,
through tile Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, with subscrip
tion books for the National Monument, nnd thut our
citizens may expect to be shortly called upon. Each
contributor will write his own name in the book, and
if a sum of one dollar and upwards be contributed by
him or her, will receive a certificate to that effect, with
an engraving of the Monument. The books will bo
preserved in an apartment of tho Monument, where
they will be open for inspection.
This is n better nrrnngcmcnt than the oneheretofore
pursued, of soliciting funds by travelling agents. But
still the plan is only partial iu its operation. It would
be better to have n universal contribution of a dime
or half dime, or even of two cents, than to have our
Marshals peddle pictures for a dollar to those who are
willing to give that sum to have their names recorded
in the books of the Board. Let the door be open to
all, and there will be no lack of money.
Tiie Monument lias now reached a height of over
sixty feet, and will have reached one hundVcd by the
close of tlie season. The height of the obelisk is to
be five hundred feet, which will make it one of the
highest edifices iu tlie world. The site, on grounds
ceded by Congress, is a beautiful space of thirty acres,
within view of the shades of Mount Vernon, where
he reposes, to whose honor this magnificent erection
is renred, by tlie voluntary contributions of a grateful
people.
•/ ••••vuwun OI* nia
Winch gas, heat, and motive power
? .power, a r< . : /,ir om
r, by means ot electricity. «till p 0lluc <*i bv
some iuundation for the stories that T® op Dear 8 tu
- are assured that iu merits will KT* 0 * «»d
~ r House iu this city. Mr. Paine do™*? 8t A.,
discovery, it seems, of decomposing " 0t clail ’* tho
known many years ago; but that of r £ W** *«
the gas at a merely nominal cost -nTl pro ^c.
, burn “ w ‘Gi an even and dtendv „ efla "- , Mti,
about one cubic foot in three or fo,f P . 0n8u,n Ptioo
«"t to light a common sized room The • *’ 881t ki'
smoke to the gas. The flame' is on/", 18 “° 8n *U
power of the jet tremendous. Paque ’
YVe seo it stated, that during the loot ■
Fume erected a light house upon ,, h n - Mr
hull.sp. trnm whin*. ill front r -'
house, trom which lie directed tlie r v ' , runtu f h s
or, ton village opposite Worcester n„d ’ by 8 ^ec
a sixth distant in an air line. The lS °“ e mil<J Wd
erlul that persons in tho village C S WaS8 °po*
Another illustration of the churno)*? d ,- rcad by it
ill the tuely thut an excellent daguerne! thi " Wj,
taken by it. He also warmed hU room yP ° S 88 b «'n
lllulillliv* • tli#i r,S/s*.» l *O0tH |U f 1. ~ *
manner ; tho stove being about fnn« 1,1 1)10 ‘ml
of two cirtVr^'C
JTjp Our acknowledgments are due to Hon. Jos.
YV. Jackson, for a copy of the Report of the Super
intendent of the Coast Survey, showing the progress
of the work during the year ending November, 1849.
Important from Cuba—Probalilo war with
Spain.
The New York Courier and Enquirer has private
dispatches Irom Washington, which represent our
relations with Cuba, as being less satisfactory than
has hitherto been reported. The dispatches received
from our Consul at Havana by the Isabel state, that
the Captains of the Georgiana aud the SurQi Loud
will probably be executed by the Spanish authorities,
unless the United States Government immediately
and percmptorially interferes. The o her prisoners,
it was believed, would be treated with less severity.
This was tlie impression not only of the Consul but
of the American shipmasters and others in Havana.
The Spanisli minister lias not been seen since tlie
arrival of the Isabel ; therefore it is not known what
his views are, or the nature of the dispatches he re
ceived. The aspect of affairs is rather threatenin.
The evidence of the persons engaged in the expedi
tion against Cuba, taken before Judge Marvin, at
Key YVest, establishea the fuct, that the Contoy pris
oners embarked at New Orleans in good faith for
Calitornia, via Chagres; nnd that they abandoned the
ship for Contoy, when the Creole took the exped
tionists on board.
Another account from YVashingtou states, that Mr.
Clayton has received dispatches from Gen. Campbell,
our Consul at Havana, informing the Government
til at the Count of Alcoy (Gov. General of Cuba,) per
emptorily refuses to surrender the Contoy prisoners;
nnd that Mr. Clayton has instructed him to make an
unqualified demand for them, and in the event of un
other refusal, war will be declared against Spain.
Mr. Bulwer, it is said, has given assurance that
England will not interfere, considering the course of
tlie United States thus far unexceptionable.
The Philadelphia Bulletin of Saturday lmsannrti-
cle coroberation of the above, based on late adviges
from YVashington city.
A YVashington letter to tlie Philadelphia Enquirer
says :
A despatch ha> just been sent from the State De
partment to Judge Marvin, to forward all this evi
dence. Capt. Tatnall's conduct is not approved of.
If the prisoners are not instantly given up, it is be
lieved the President will lay the whole matter before
Congress, with a strong recommendation. In case of
war England, it is kn wn, will not interfere.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.]
YVashington, June 14,1850.
It must be acknowledged by every candid person,
that the administration has conducted the Cuban
difficulty and the latePNicaragua question with great
discretion. In regard to the former question, it is
kuown that Mr. Clayton or the President took coun
sel with some of the leading statesmen of the South,
though of the democratic party.
To provoke a war with Spain would be as disas
trous ns needless. It would be very detrimental to
the immediate interests and future peaceof the South
and, for obvious reasons, would involve in commo
tion the whole Union. It would benefit no on i but
the class of buccaneers by whom it was invoked, and
attempted to he provoked. I have no doubt that pri
vateering against our own commerce was the chief
part of the programme.
The Spanish minister, residing here—a man of in-
telligenc e, humnnity, and elevated character—has un
doubtedly discharged his difficult duties, with a strict
view to the promotion of the peace of the two coun
tries. From what I have learned I am also led to be
lieve that Captain Tutnnll, in the discharge of the deli
cate and critical duties devolved on him, so managed
ns to avert a difficulty, which a less conscientious, a
more reckless commander might have very easily
provoked.
1 am happy to state that the Senate have rejected
the motion of Mr. Turney, to strike out the 39th sec
tion of the adjustment bill. You will see, by refer
ring to the yeas mid nays, that Mr. Speaker, Mr. Mor
ris, and Mr. Morton, whose votes were thought doubt
ful, voted with Mr. Clay. The offer to Texas is the
vital principle of the argument, and without it there
couid be no peace—no cessation of the present dan
gerous agitation.
Mr. Clay intends to press tlie bill to a final vote as
soon as possible, nnd a majority of the Senate sustain
ed him in refusing to adjourn over to Monday.
Cheap Postage.—In an article wo published yes
terday, compiled trom a statement in the N. Y. Tri
bune, it was stated that Mr. Potteb’s bill recommends
three cents onletters of a quarter of an ounce, nnd
under. Mr. Babnebas Bates, in a letter to the Balti
more Sun corrects this statement. He says the bill,
contemplates three cents lor half an ounce, and under
instead of a quarter of an ounce. Mr. Bates is in
favor of two cents for half an ounce, to be in all cases
prepaid, nnd two cents for every additional half
ounce. He says that there will be this year two mil
lion five hundred thousand dead letters returned to
the department, upon which it will sustain a loss of at
least $267,P00.
Shocking. On the 17th ult., in Township Letter
E., Franklin roiinty, Me., ns two young ladies were
crossing a small stream, on a tree which had fallen
across the same, one of them, Louisa Huntoon, aged
about 14, slipped off, find was carried down by tlie
current. Louisa was drowned. Ajday or two after, an
elderly lady, aged 70, the wife of Mr. Peter Mitchell,
i her Way home from tlie funeral of this girl, cali-
ighbor’s house ami lit her pipe. Proceed-
j* .way, she had gone but a siiort distance
i fonnd her clothes on fire. She was soon
dteovered but the fire had consumed nearly all her
clothing, burning her so dreadfully that she died a few
.lays afser. ... ■
Mr. Benton's Motion. The motion of Mr. Benton
to postpone indefinitely the compromise bill, was only
intended, to afford him an opportunity to indulge
in a malignant attack on Mr. Clay, and a majority of
the committee of thirteen—und having answered its
purpose, it was withdrawn on Wednesday last, al
though he was pressed by Mr. Clay to permit a vote
to be taken on it. He well knew that it would have
been defeated by an overwhelming majority, and he
feared to bring it to a vote. This motion having been
withdrawn, it is probable that there will be little
more speaking iu the Beuatc on tlie subject, uutil the
various amendments slut 1 have been disposed of, and
the bill be put on its passage.
Delaware Powder.—The most extensive powder
mills in tlie world are those on the Brandywine, in
Delaware, and the best powder made is at these mills.
They manufactured last year 2,500,000 pounds, which
would, allowing a ton for a load, make 1250 wagon
loads, and require 2500 horses to draw them. These
oh the road, would make a train seven miles long,
and at mi average price of-13} cents per pound, would
amount to the large sum of $312,500:
Boston, Jane If. 1850.—A large and enthusiastic
mass-meeting was neld at Balem, last night, by the
friends of the administration, at which the Mayor
presided. The object was to express an opinion in
approbation oi the policy of the present administra
tion. The venerable Judge YY’hite. who for many
years had retired from political life, addressed the as
semblage. He spoke in highly eulogistic terms of
President Taylor. Resolutions of approbation in re-
gard to the President were offered, aud adopted unani
mously.
Frankfort, Juno 12.—Tho Convention to amend
the Constitution of this Plate adjourned yesterday,
sine die, after having adopted the new Constitution.
Boston, June 13.—The Connecticut River Bank, nt
Charleston, N H„ was robbed of twelve thousand dol
lars in gold, silver and bills, on Tuesday night, by
means of false keys, powerful burglarious tools and
gunpowder. On' Wednesday, at Marlow, about 20
miles distant from the scene of the robln’l*^’, a stray
team was found containing the whole of the stolen
money, not a dollar being gone. Tho thieves are sup
posed to have, abandoned their plunder through
fright.
IJritiali and American Steamships.
A friend has placed in our hands a communication,
which will be found in another column, cn the ques
tion of the comparative qualities of British, and
American steamships, now occupying so large a
share of public attention. After the learned display
of technical terms to which the public have been
treated, on both sides of tlie question, our readers
will hardly suppose that the communication in this
morning’s paper was written by a practical engineer,
nnd machinist, thoroughly acquainted with all the
minutiie ot the business. Instead of benting the bush
in vain for abstruse and highly -scientific causes for
simple effects, helms, without ostentation or parade,
placed the whole matter in a nut-shell. The simple
statement of an undeniable feet is worth all the com
plicated theories ever advanced. And as an instance
of this we call attention to one paragraph in the com
munication showing the difference in the amount of
work done by engines of the some power. The ar
gument is unanswerable, and the conclusion inevita
ble, t-iat if an American engine of n certain power
will drive an American hull of 3300 tons as fast ns
an English engine of the same power will drive an
English hull of 2500 toils. The American engine, and
the American hull must be superior to the English.
It only requires that the hull and the engine be bet
ter adnptsd to each other—a matter not within the
control of the shipwright, or tlie engine builder, but
dependent wholly upon the ship owner who orders
them separately.
Examination of (4en. Lopez.
The examination of Gen. Lopez, at New Orleans,
before the U. S. Commissioner, is draging on still in a
fog for lack of admissible testimony to throw any
light on the case. Innumerable witnesses are culled
to the stand, but under the rule of evidence which has
been applied, they are not allowed to testify to any
thing that might by any possible chunce have the ef
fect to implicate Gen. Lopez, or any body else..
In the course of the proceedings on YVednesday
Inst, the District Attorney succeeded in eliciting some
testimony which tended to implicate the Adjutant
General of the State of Louisiana in the affairs of tlie
expedition.
One witness testified that in the month of April last
ho delivered some 400 stands of arms by order of
the Adjutant General, to a person who took them from
the Arsenal in boxes. The True Delta cannot be
lieve that Gen. Rowley countenanced the loan of the
State arms to the expedition. The editor is disgust
ed at the proceedings, and implores tlie counsel for
thp prosecution to bring tho -‘ wretched affair nt once
to a close, as it can eventuate in nothing, rs is evident
to every one, but mortification und humiliation to the
government.”
YW* Later accounts from Memphis state that Mr
Trigg was the only man who was killed in the late
street fight in that city. Gen. Coe was said to be dan-
gerously wounded by Mr. YViiliams. Mr. Gaines and
Gen. Connell were badly but not dangerously woun
ded. Dr. Fowlkes was not in tlie fight.
Characteristic Impudence. Certain Bostonians
are in the hubit of writing insulting annoymous let
tors to citizens of New Orleans on the subject of sin
very. According to the Delta, Dr. Holmes, of St.
Charles street, advertised a girl to hire. The adver
tisement was cut out of one of the city papers, and
inclosed to him in a letter from Boston, accompanied
by some annoying aud highly indecent remarks.-
Such conduct will never abolish slavery.
Entertainment to a Prince.
A brilliant entertainment was given on Monday
night to the Princes of the Sandwich Islands and Dr.
J udd, by a wealthy gentleman of Clifton, Staten Island,
N. Y.
The house and grounds of the proprietor were illu
minated; several large tents were erected, under
which a gay party consisting of nbout four hundred
ladies and gentlemen were entertained with dancing
and feasting. A fine band of music was in attendance,
nnd the tables were loaded with every delicacy the
season afforded. Some of the guests werefrom Bos
ton, New Y'ork, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The
dancing continued until a late hour. The affair was
one of uncommon splendor, and went off with great
satisfaction to those who participated.
YVe think the “wealthy gentleman” must have been
sadly in want of an opportunity to display his servile
toadyism to mushroom royalty, when he selected the
semi-savages of tho Sandwich Islands on whom to
bestow his magnificent hoepitality. It seems to be tho
natural instinct of plebeinu souls to worship whatever
bears the name of Prince. YVe doubt not that the
same wealthy gentleman would feel highly honored
to have an opportunity of bnnqucting his Imperial
Blackness, the Emperor Solouque.
Disunion in Congress.—Mr. Greeley, in a let
ter from YVashington to his paper, the Tribune, thus
chuckles over the discord which he hue been so
prominently instrumental in causing.
Tho growth of disunion in Congress is rapid.
There are not less than sixty members of the two
Houses who despair of the Union ami wish the slave
States were well out of it. They don't dislike
the Union perse—on the contrary, they would rath
er like it if “our property” were only safe, and “the
fanatics” would cease their opposition to slavery; but,
since the case is as it is, they are only anxious to get
peaceably and happily out of tlie Union into a South
ern Conledeqpcy. The votos of this class will de
feat the compromise, if it be defeated, as I think it
must be •
The Steamship Isabel. This.model American
steamship will make a trip to New York, leaving
Charleston on the 22d inst. Those about visiting that
city can haven.) better opportunity for a pleasant und
speedy passage
13T A fire occurred in New York on Saturday
morning, which cou *!med tho Pot and Pearl Ashes
Inspection Buildings, belonging to Mr. Cassoday,
in West-street, damaging some 2000 barrels of Pearl
Ashes. Loss estimated at $70,000. Tho Linement
factory of Mr. Killinger, on Broadway, was de
stroyed on the same morning.
A telegraphic despatch states that tlie officer
in command of the United States steuiner Vixen hns
been suspended tor bad conduct to his men. The
sailor who cut his hand off rather than serve unde
him ia said to be doing well. Lieut. James II. Ward
is said to be the officer iu command of the Vixen.
53^ The author of the following was last seen
with a piece of gingerbread in one hand, and a stick o
molasses candy iu the other, looking for a clergy
mun:
“When a feller fnls in luv
He dus ware a white kid gluv,
and puts on lota of splendid close,
and wears tite boots upon his toes,
and smells just like a eprowting'roue
all Newly sprung in Joon !* *
E-HP Napoleon’s father was married at 10, nnd his
mother, though u widow ut 30, hud 13 children. x ’~
poleon was the second.
“ Well, Mr. Jackson,' 1 said a clergyman to hia
parishioner, “Sunday must be a blessed day to you.
You work hard six days und the seventh you cyme
to church.” “Yea,” said Mr. Jackson; “1 works
hard all the week, nnd then I comes to church, se
me down, cocks up me legs, nud thinks of nothing
I3P* The population of Salem, Mass., is 18.911, an
increase of 3,829 over the census of 1840.
Dennis Griffin was killed by lightning iu the
streets of Charlestown (Mass.) Inst Hnturdny.
{£4^ "Jenny Lind Chewing Tobacco" is tlie latest
notion in Virginia. Just think of Jenny chewing •
The Newly Invented Lh^T
YVe are unwilling,.saysthe New. Yor k t-’
to endorse all we find stated with\ CniB S ^ir
and extraordinary invention, or Hi. Pwt th ( .
*.h c/118. hnafr mi.! . ul »C(}VeMr r.
“d the
actor, composed of two circular , i lnclle * la
ron, between which aflame issues Sidft ° f 8h< *‘
pushing in, it gives a most deliehtful i, 1 th ,® “M sir
may be used for cooking, and in f«t fe? .11P 0 ,l8 *»
where heat and light are required Th o pur P 0 *««.
required to make a day’s supply of
dwelling-house does not occupy tw5 min.o C ? mm °»
ing a crunk; and the machine takes no L 18 tur “-
room as a common nmntelclock 1 8ll0,lt »8«uch
Elihu Burritt, the “learned hW-u-w.c „
thesubject. says: -There is not o.dy « 8 ™ tb »«««, on
but ot work, and tlie inconvenience rnd e!. te ? pe8Je .
coal, and aslies, and tlie danger Irom firc T ° fw ° 0li .
pletcly annihilated. This is not s UUD ol ? n ° 8t C( -“-
the light,, followed the pipes to the c ? 1 "'? ,8W
the apparatus employed for tho decomnn.m and . 8aw
water; and must say we can harelv flnri w^j 11 of,h8
press our astonishment nt the simplicity of ,h ex '
chine, when at the ,ume time w e think ,,) 'n thc ,on -
ness and grandeur of tlie discovery Vi • grcat '
rank, it not above, certHhily equal with n, mu,t
discoveries and inventions of the na.. ut
coal, and oil, and fluid, may all be disne'nJa ■ L 884
the use of Mr. Pnino’a apparatus ’ 4 ensed with.by
Mr. Burrit iurthersays, “Two jets suet, „„
burning m his house, would be suiheient i T re
moderate sized hull every night, at an 1 ? llt 8
interest on the cost of .hlmS?hine“b 0 »‘« tie
per annum, )with only the little trouble of
ally tilling tlie water cistern.” e occasura -
The experiment of lighting the Aster Ho Uae , NeB
York, by Paine’s newly discovered process, will tMl
the credit of what is asserted of it The Tribu
says: De
It is expected feat a trial will be made within ,
month as soon, indeed, as the machine can be m-e
pared tor the purpose. The experiment will be
under the eye oi the proprietors and other gentlemen
and collusion ,r trick will be impossible Everv
moans will he taken to insure a fair trial, all the n a r
ties being ns desirous oi success as Mr. Paine or hi,
trionds can be
The conditions are, that Mr. Paine shall brin„ a ma
chine ot Ins construction to New York and produce
at a nominal expense, say live cents per tkouenid cu
hie feet, gas enough to light the Astor House for six
successive nights. Betoro he commences parties who
are to buy out the patent light, are to deposit one
hundred thousand dollars with some person accept
able to the proprietor—John C. Pedrick, F.s o., of Bos
ton, who has aided Mr. Paine in carrying on bis ex
periments for tlie pust two years—to be paid over to
Mr. P. as soon as the trial is declared successful—
This is by way of bonus or guarantee, in case there
should be a failure to pay over to him tlie sum of one
million, which is to render those parties part proprie
tors of tlie invention.
Tlie x nlue of tho patent for the U. S. (the city of YY’or-
cestor excepted, which ia reserved lor Mrs. Paine.) is
fixed at ton millions of dollars, and a joint stock com
pany is to lie formed to manage it.—iu this compuoy
Mr. Pedrick is to hold from one-third to one half the
stock ; on the remaining part which he sella, the mil
lion handed over immediately on the success of the
experiment is to be considered an installment, and
thp balance is to be made up by sales ofriuhts. Thus
the parties buying in will receive no dividends until Mr.
Pedrick shall have Been fully paid. Such is disar
rangement agreed upon between Mr. Pedrick sad
these gentlemen, if the trial here should prove
successful, it will no doubt be carried into effect:-
if not, the New York speculators will lose noth
ing. and tho invention will be heard of no more at
present. YVe devoutly hope for a successful result,
though we shall not be very keenly disappointed by a
failure.
By a correspondent of the Tribune, it appears that
Professor Henry, one of the most scientific men in
the country, says Paiue’s discovery is nothing, for
it is in opposition to one general law, that the force
exerted by the bodies separated could not he greater
than that required to separate them. Considerable
of the scientific argument of Prof. H. is given, to
which the Tribune says :
The whole of Professor Henry’s reasoning is obvi-
ed by the assertion thut Mr. I’, does not separate
tlie gases, but produces them contemporaneously
from two separate hodios of water, converting one of
those bodies entirely into oxygen und the other into
hydrogen gas, according ns tlie positive or the nega
tive pole oi bis electrical machine is inserted into
either. Thus from the water yielding oxygen no
hydrogen is produced, and vice versa.
Mr. Paine claims to generate electricity, not bya
galvanic battery, but by means of ordinary magnet’,
except thntinto the helices lie has introduced a sub
stance never before employed for that purpose. Y\ bat
this substance is, is the secret, and thc oaly secret
which he does not now communicate to the public.
Mammoth Lemons direct fbon Africa
were presented yesterday, says tlie Baltimore (.Upper
by Mr. James Anderson, of this city, with two a
the finest us well as largest lemons wc have ever seen-
They are a little upwards of four inches in length,
aud measure exactly nine inches iu circumference.
This splendid specimen of tlie fruit of Atrica wu
brought over by tho Liberia packet from Cape P»
mas, to Mr. Anderson, from Mrs. M. E. Thompson, al
tuched to the missionary station ut that,place.
A “Manifest Destiny” Man. Walter Savage
Lnndor publishes an article iu the London Examiner,
in which he predicts thut the United State. j ,r
ceed in annexing foreign States and estnbhe mg
them the English language and laws, until the
will embrace ail fruteruites und climates ! *
and Cuba can come on as soon as convenient.
Sandwich Islanders will have to become mores
toined to the use of brtechcs betore they can c a
A gentleman of Newport, Florida,I'M
ly raised from tho bottom oi the iamo" 9
Spring, near that place, several bones ot so
animal, larger, the editor ol'thc limes * pj^.
those composing the mammoth skeleton, n a
adelphin und New York museums. P. p> in
tusk was secured, measuring lull eigh {
diameter, the length of which must have ® u,
or ten feet. Tlie bones and tusk were res ^ fre
bottom of tlie spring ut a depth oi fori.ijfietJ‘ 'pjcient
they had been frequently observed wi ^
distinctness to enable the beholder to de e 0 f
character. Further particulars and a desc p
thc YVakulla Spring are promised in the
^ Mrs. Bolton, thc Indiana
sonted by the Grand Chapter oi Roy«[ —veil,
of Indiana, witli a silver cup, appropria J ^ t ; 0 r-
for that she, on the occasion oi the lay co ib-
stone of the Grand Masonic Hall of man* ^
pri
vileges with tlie whites. f lke petition
by u vote of 76 to 26.
Lund warrants sell in New York at
I7”the BiowrM
Kfl Mr. Gliddon’s “opening cf 8
, being done up in force at thc Boston theatres
posed an Ude, wmen wus ui — - “.^viog, ana
thc Chapter regarded as a most nob e. g anc ic*i
truthful defence of the cardinal pnncipi
Free Masonry•. ^ , ^ ^
Some twenty-five free negroes P e » p °^ iti0 d
convention now in session in Ohi rej***
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