Norwalk Gazette, 1818-1883, 1858-11-30

1' “.time willsecure that result. We know

' ‘;.of four hundred last week, before taking our

j ~. type down, _
- ' :the demand for Gasettes, and as many little

1 i"inaccuracies occurred in our last week’s ne-

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THE.GAZ~ETTE
'lsrsiiirﬁi‘esday, Nov. 30,1858:
Republican Heath: 5.-

. --.-..‘ - 9"”! Republicans of Norwaik
are requested to meet at the Hotel of 'D‘s’iud
‘ .ia Norwalk, on Saturday even-
, Dec. 4th, at 7 o’clock, for the purpose of
dominating Town Oﬂoers,appointing Town
Committee." and preparing for the :Town
mention. 8. I. Osasmo, 'l‘own Com.

'NextMondby Alb-5&5 diy“6f“our. Annu-
al Election-fl'mll‘OwnOﬁcel-s. Selecte. .
Mummies-ls,- .- Collector, Constables,
user's-ignites: and Registrar or . Births,
1' '1'“ Sand .De‘athsjare to, be chosen
by ballot. -A Republican. nominating
meeting is called: for next Saturday night.
Let there be a fall attendance. ‘ .
lepubli'eans ef- loath answers,
Youare the Old Guard 1 Remember
that next Morton is the day-for the An-
n991 Town-Election. ,EB'e early ,at the
Polls. See your neighbors and urgethem
to ceme. Don’t stop: for storms. ~We
have reason to'heprond of the political
position or lye : alk. That'position is
owing, in great measure, to you. _ Will
you not boon hand next Monday to main-
tain it.

- IepuhlieIIs of Five lilo liver,

'1 ’ You have‘a long journey to the polls.
‘But y'omwill make it early next Monday.
Do not-let’auy stay at home. Remember
the majority of last Fall, and do it again
now! _ _ , . , . ,

”WWW 9f- wm’P‘“:
3- ' Don't: forget the Annual Election of
Town Oﬁoers neat Monday 1 Yours .is a
1commanity built up by Furs Luzon.—
Show by your attendance at the polls that
‘you appreciate the cause of your prosperi-
jtr! . . 1
lepabll -. of West Norwalk,
7W e expect you at the Town House
next Monday forenoon. You have added
greatly, 111 years past, to the strength of
:the good'canse in Norwalk. Let us all
geome together and keep it up.

" Inpabﬁcans Everywhere,

1 And especially those who live close to
the polls, may we not feel sure that you

will vote early next ”Monday? There is

' especial reason that our Town Aﬁ'airs

f'ishould be in the hands of wise and honest

,men next. year. Ten minutes of your

'.that you will give it.

After having {worked of! an extra edition

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we were totally unable to supply

'reount'of‘the ﬁre, we give below a brief sy-
’ sepsis of the progress of the great oonﬁagra-
' .. tics in the order in which the buildings were
'7 burned. ' .
- ‘ -" No. l—Fire broke eat in gsrret over Ter-
1‘ ‘ rail 8 Downs’ Cabinet work Shop—building
‘.owued by c. H. Case, who had insured on
‘ hiiidings 03,500, on Engine and Machinery
31,000. .Terrell’s loss on Stock and Imple-
: shouts 81,000—90 insurance, but£300 given
. himby Home Insurance Company. On For-
‘1liitnre loss Shout 81,400. insured for $1000.
, A . Reﬁt. John, Grocery below, loss about $2,500
,insured for 03,000. _
_"""r{e. z—Model Market occupied by the
,- Mitchells and by Chas. Hurray above. and by
: Pater Greek and Gibson below. Loss on
.. building about 33.500, insured for $2.000—
occupsnts lose in all about 8500. .
9: No. Sc-Packet omce occupied by Selleck
2 .13, Benson and Chas. '1'. Leonard. About
--,. 97.000 worth of goods and merchandise in
r, iter‘ehcuse destroyed. belonging to different
parties. Bullock’s loss about 8800. no insa-
3 i‘t‘iiceéls’eollal’d’s loss beyond‘iasurance $300.
‘i-‘Iv‘4No..4—'8'.t is." Curtis insured for 88,000
on stock of about 312,000, and (2.000 on
bkilding worth about 83,000. '

,No. S—Te‘nemen’t 'House 'of S. Lyues,
‘ilk’lown" as ‘1‘ Liberi an Hotel"-no insurance _.
Loss about-«$150., - .

' ‘g-a-l -No.6-¥Oﬂce building and L mber of Wm.
'H I... James,loss 812,500, insured $8,000.
. No‘. 7 and 8-‘—Lamber building and ofﬁce of
Ebenezer Hill, loss 3500, no insurance, Lum-
;' ﬁner owned by am a Bubbell, loss $1,400 on
.11wirleh had 37,000 in used. Also on ’Lumber
,;;.w.’sens. Water street, loss esoo,‘no insu-
ce.
.,1,1-1“No. t—Bnilding owned and occupied by
1_;Paui Brlsner—loss 8250,no insurance.
15.2: No. 10—Tenement building of S.Curtis,
wanes-£300, no insurance.
girlie. ll—Bardware sf ore of Wm. C. Street,
:5 do. on stock and building $9,000, insured
Maui“. ,
133-; No. Its-Lynn building,‘ occupied below by,
Geo. Low, loss 8500, no insurance—J. .N.
maeelr‘wooa ans, Shoe Store, loss $1,000, in-
ilibretto. 8600: Above by George R. Cowles,
his.“ Ollce‘, loss also, fully insured-George
“it. Davenport, loss in property about 850,[in
"g'pe'rso'nal discomfort 85,000,] no insurance.
“1 ’ Also by family of George Low, loss included
”‘mbov'e.
‘1". " "No. lS—B.'V. A. Chichester, loss about
iii—3,500,1nsnred assoc—building owa'ed by
3 Lyaes, loss 81,000, insured 8500.
,' No. 14—Isa'scs’ building, loss on building
L232,500, insured 31,000. Occupied below as
'1 Grocery by Dimoa_Finch,,loss 8250, no insu-
lirsnee—George W. Jennings, loss 3100, no
Insurance; and by Wm. B. Swan, Saddler,
lic, loss 31,100, insured ’ .3000. Above as
jresidenoesof Richard Backuam and James
,‘ﬂcfi'ea. who lose from $25 .to $50, no in-
gparanee. .
,g No. ib—Danbury and Norwalk Railroad
_:c.D,'- “will.“ above by E. B.‘ Thompson
= ., pa Rooms, who loses about 8200,
'3“; 71".“. loss on Furniture and‘
'5 --_--u-:»; on buildings about 81,5001

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Al. the Borough meeting culled lor ’i‘hurs- ;
day next, various plans are to be submitted ‘
for ensurill-h future safely in Ctls‘cfi of’ fire In l
our Village. It is needless for us to onullll-i- .
ate the \‘ilflOUr >1”.ch ins v hill. urn lmu- .
h :nl‘d. There SCtlill‘ to ho a general ncqulos- .-
cehCe,honcrer. in lho propoelllol. lo ll‘sth‘ 1
-the Borough purchase one good Engine and

appurtenances, and for the town to provide

two more-one to be located at South Nor-

walk. We have no doubt but that this can

be accomplished. A friend of ours makes a

good suggestion in regard to an old-fashioned

independent bucket company, i. e. let each

citizen provide himself with one or more ﬁre

'buck‘ets,3and'ia’case of an alarm they have

Elie implements of defence to carry out with

them foi‘ill‘stant~ notion: ‘ fAn'oth ersn'ggestion

is oae's‘eut nsby‘letter from Virginia, from

Charles F. Baybl‘ond,"to lay water pipes from

the Union Company’s data with hydrants

about the] Bridge. At all events, we trust

that our fellow ’townsmen, who your after

year have uncomplainingly paid in extra in;

snrance, money enough topnrchsse at least

one Engine, will see to it that some eﬂicient

and thorough means are provided to prevent

the recurrence of another such a calamity as

that which has ovetaken us.

Town Meeting. '- -

At the special Town meeting held on lion-
day afternoon the following votes were pass-
ed : ‘

Voted, That Isaac S.Beers, Isaac Selleck
and Carmi Lockwodd be a Committee to lay
out a'hlghway, ﬁfty feet in width from the
Connecticut .Turnpike, to the late residence
01' Alison Quintard deceased,and in as straight
a line “the public interests will admit. and

. that the Select men grade the same for the

public use,” soon as possibieafter said laying
out.
By this action of the town, if seconded by

property owners on either side of Water at
as we cannot doubt that it will be, an oppor-
tunity occurs to render this one of the most at-
tractive andvaiuahle business avenues in our
village. . A generous public .spiritedness,
which will buy and ,sell, give and lake in a

. fair and honorable way, will greatly enhance

property and draw business in that direction
to an extent hardly to be foreseen.
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Kew Depot—We learn that the Danbury
Railroad Company have in contemplation
the erectioniof a substantial ﬁre proof Depot,
on the side of their track .instead of over it,
as was the one burned, provided the enter-
prise can be accomplished at any reasonable
cost. This is as it should be, as a low arch.
would have to be thrown-over the track to
provide a foundation for a brick building,
which would always present a dark and dres-
ry bole beneath, where passengers are com.
pelled to enter the cars and land. There is
now, an opportunity hover before‘enjoyed, of
doing things up as they ought to be done,nnd
we hope every man interested,as a land own-
er or otherwise, will so far consult his own
individual interest, and the public good as to
facilitate the advancement of every needful
improvement.

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h. We omitted last week to commend the
prompt and manly notion of our ﬁrst select
man, in reference to the liquidation .of the
expenses incur ed by the Danbury Firemen,
who so generously left their beds and hurried
down here with their engines at the midnight
hour. The bills for the entertainment dzc..
were assumed by Capt. Hubbell,at once, with-
out hesitation, in a manner creditablenlike to
our town and to him as its chief public ofﬁcer_

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ﬂ" It must have struck the mind of any
one who gave the matter a thought, as amost
extraordinary circumstance that a ﬁre should
occur in Norwaik, and our friend Austin, the
Foundry man, not be among the‘ victims. So
remarkable did it scorn to us, that after our
paper had gone to press, we instituted an in-
vestigation into the matter.and actualy found
that we’were not mistaken in our standing
convictions of the fatality which is sure to
attend him. He lost a portable forge-in the
ﬁre, which happened to be stored in Street’s
building at the time. It may now be receiv-
ed asa settled conclusion, that wherever a
ﬁre occurs, or whoever are suﬁ‘erexs,Beighbor
Austin will always be in a condition to sym-
pathize with the amicted.

Mr. Austin’s loss was still further augmen~
ted on Thursday last, by the loss of his horse.
His son had just returned from Westport with
him, and while passing over the level adja-
cent tho Green. the animal made some sort of
a mistep. and in regaining his feet by some
inexplicable means,broke-one of his hind legs,
occasioning‘ihe necessity of having him-kill-
ed. One thing. however, is cheering; amid
all his disasters and manifold losses, Austin
never loses an iota of his pluck.

1—9—09‘0» ‘
A’We are indebted io-Crosby & Nichols,
Publishers, for a copy of a new work, enti.
tied “ the age of Chivalry,” by Thomas Bul-
ﬁnch. The imaginative reader will ﬁnd a
feast of good things here amply repaying all
outlays of time and money. -
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Hanna’s Manama: commences a new vol
ume with the December number, wnich is
now published, and can be obtained of A. B.
Camp, and Knapp dc Lyrics. The Magazine
will be continued on the some general plan
as heretofore, and the Publishers promise rc-
newed exertions for the coming year. The
December No. contains the seventh paper on
“ A 'winter in the South,” “ An old Fillibust-
er," "The Musqulto Family,” “ The Virgin-
ians,” “ Comicalities,” &c., illustrated, a
Tale written by Charles Lamb, but never be-
fore published, and the usual quantity of Mis-
cellaneous articles, drc.

The “ Cosuoroursx Au'r JOURNAL” for De-
cember is an unusual line number. It c0n-
tains two large steel plate engravings, and a.
number of Well engraved cuts. The literary
contents embrace articles from some of our
best authors ; published quarterly by the Art
Association. -

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The Legal Question. .

Owing to the numerous rumors aﬂoat

concerning the origin of the late ﬁre, a

last week before Justice Weed, and con-
ducted by O. S. Ferl' , Esq. The result
of the investigation satisﬁed the mind of
the Judge, and all who heard the testi-
mony, that the ﬁre must have arisen from
the notoriously defective chimney in the
old Gazette building. The examination
was due to parties implicated in the pub-
lic suspicions, and we are glad to learn
that in its results, has relieved every one
from so foul a suspicion,.as having occa-

‘ sinned either by carelessness or design so

terrible at devastation.

. 2-.:i $450,1ilire; men.
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3'33” lksglviog Day was‘cbs'ervei. liar?"
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; tutti: r--. nilughter in the Poultry yards—hap-
1; ,‘zw ,; lgs around the ancestral hearth-
921‘ or: iii» emanic dinners, exiended'viscerss,
‘ ill-‘6. err lms,hsrd bead aches, like, well an»

11:“ 4:43 l i CV‘OP’boais
. . I ‘ ;
rhino. 2’s Isms?! MAdAmili Aim Gain“
on if; in on!“ Ddceliber, has been kdceiyed.
it ls n my large Magazine slid teller “sunk“
smiles, isles, Travels, Humor, dc. ‘ Price
{-1}. per your, 85 eentt, all.“ lube“:

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er ‘3‘ Ancient and honorable ways." .

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h, We cheerfully call attention to. the

I 3.7.1:?! of Messrs. J. N..Lockwnod b100,, Boot

, a? Shoe dealers who have removed to Phle-
l “i; ills/535.221 the foot of Mill :Bill. By up-
. a. and lic-newbie dealing they have ee-

cured :1 large trude. since succeeding .J. C.
Hanfordsnd the peaks will ﬁnd £11.03; N
ready asever to El‘i'i-‘t‘ till-m in. ﬁsh new

quarters. s. ' _
n The“ American Union inventois
i311 Inhibitor-s” iannounce by circular the

openinidifﬁk £15.20: Bro-thyi 0,: the,
.sni .Dec jsl‘pg M; , Qve int eeu-
‘lérﬁgidé‘algr’[be'iuven’tumug‘

63th bi't'ors who
suffered so severely at theme burningnf the
Crystal Palace. ' ‘ " ' ’

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Sou-sh Napoleon; Lectures. _..’-:
The second Lecturelioiore the ‘i'oullrtMeu’s
l ~: - . ,
Literary Asf‘ocialion, um: g‘l‘hgu by lhc'thnle
haired philosopher” of the Tribune. on

‘ch‘ucs'dly""1rxuh‘iinu lust. liis subject was

"Reforms nmi li:fbl'lnv-rs,-” and although
ubuuuditlg in ill-nut il'ulhs. will stated. We
dill“): \sil :tl‘...~l' my one present. aside from

ills-chlil-zll’oi’ﬁ seeing Greeley," would not
much 'rather have sat ill his easy Chilil‘ at
home and read him, in the Tribune, than to
have endured the cadences of a voice Vmore
uncouth 99d excentric thanieithor his dress
or his manners. But whatever judgment may
be passed upon Greeiey’s opinions upon the
modern questions of Reform, one thing is cer-
tain, he has the satisfaction of seeing his 5
fellow countrymen, by the hundreds“ of thou- ‘
sands,- occupying precisely; the some grounds-
ou the Slavery, and- Free Labor questions,
now, that he so earnestly advocated. "H0118"
contumely, a derision, ten years ago. “ The
world moves,” and who shall say otherwise
than that Greeley is but ten years in advance
of us‘ now 2

Rev. Dr; Cuyier of Brooklyn, gives the
next Lecture to-morrow evening.
‘ ‘In this connection, we would take occasion
to commend the action taken by the few
young men who have organized this Associa-
tion, and to whom the public are indebted
for this really superior course of popular
entertainments. The Association was formed
early in the year and had for its object, pri-
marily. we believe, the s‘ecuring'of some in-
viting place of resort for the young men of
theplace,where the means for their intellec~
tual and moral culture should be supplied in
its most attractive and useful forms,andthus
the temptations to idling away their evenings
iduseless or viscious employments, greatly
lessened. A reading room in Swords" new
Building was leased and supplied with all the
prominent journals aﬁd blagaaiues of charac
ter, published in the country. A neucleus
for a public Library was .nlso formed and
from the receipts of memberships.and such do-
nations in money and books as they have re-
ceived, quite a valuable collection of Books
has already occurred. The proceeds of these
lectures, should any funds remain after paying
expenses. are also to be devoted to the pur-
chase of Books for the Library. Such being
the ‘object and aims of the Young Men’s Lit-
erary Association, an object slrongly com-
mending itself to the good graces of the com-
munity, we bespenk for 'their enterprise, for
their Library, and their Lectures, the hearty
co-operaiion and support of the community.
I .b-o—-—-——-

What they say of us.

We append a few, only, of the many stri-
kingly “ complimentary norices,” ourpnblz‘c
spirited town has received frOm abroad :

From the Danbury Times.

. From what we can learn, itis apparent
that the ﬁre department of the town was
totally unprepared to meet any such emer-
gency, and after an iueﬁ‘ectual'attempt by
the ﬁremen to raise a stream from the one
engine they possessed,the machine wast-um-
bled off the dock. A locomotive and cars
was then dcspatChed to this town for aid-

From ‘lle Stamford Advocate.

A most serious calamity ,has just befal-
len the borough of N orwalk, a calamity
much of whose severity is clearly'attribu-
table to the niggardly policy of the citi-
zens of that place, in neglecting to provide
suitable Fire Engines for just such emer-
gencies as'the one we now chronicle. A
Fire department as efﬁciently organized as
that of Stamford with as good machines as
we possess,would undoubtedly have saved a
larger part of the property destroyed by
this conflagrution. The people of Nor-
walk have learned a- lesson that they will
not soon forget.

From the PIG-noted IIcrald.

A garden engine was. the only appliance
the village could furnish with which to of-
fer a check to the sweep of the conflagra-
tion, which was not arrested until a fire-

further fuel.

FAN right, gentlemen, we hope you
will hold back nothing out of respect to our.
3‘ phelinx.” Our greatest consolation, amid
the present ruin, is the convictioa of our
halving blown the same trumpet blasts into‘
the ears of our rulers and people. till. r the
subject of Engines and a Fz're Department
had become perfectly hateful to them. Here
we have remained year after year, in all the
philosophical indifference of the old negro
ﬁddler,—when there was a ﬁre we couldn't
procure Engines, when there was noﬁre we
didn’t need any 1 No, that the horse is slo-
(en, shall we have a lock for the stable?—
With some signiﬁcance, may the present.
victims ask,~who cannot Again bel'reached,
“ what is the use i” '

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Cheap Dry Gouda—We call the readers'
attention to adv of Mr. Bardwell, who per-
sonally assures us that there is no " tricks of
trade.” or “ dirkie in the-fence,” in the mat-
ter, but that he is really determined to clear
out his stock at greatly r duced rates. Give
him a call, as you will ﬁnd bun a man of his
word, and his stock A No.1. ' "

Donation Party —-We would call the at-
tentiou of our humane citizens to a proposed
Donation Party for the beneﬁt'of the Pastor
of the colored M. 11. Church, recently organ-
ized in this place. The object is a worthy
one. The necessities of the colored brother
and the labor of a moral and religious elevn-
tion of the African race hereabouts, in which
he is zealously engaged, commends him to
the generous sympathies of the community
Any donations of“ Clolhing, Fur-1, or Food.
will be thankfully received by him. Theen’
tertainment comes off at Wood’s Hall, over
the Gazette Office, on Thursday evening, the
2d of December. ‘

Any donations may be left at this ofﬁce
during the present week.

0‘.-.

”A farmer named Thonlus J. Payne,
was killed at Waterbury on Monday ofternoon
week. by the. falling of an iron truss roof,

rigid and thorough investigation was held‘

1 novel ons,sndj,ts

which‘was being erected on the Rolling Mill
01' Messrs. Brown lb Brothers. Some ﬁve or
six others were very seriously injured. Mr.
"Paine was from Prospect, and wasnt the Mill
‘on a visit to llis'son- who was superintending
the Work on the Mill. - A

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am. The ﬁrst American Oriental Ex-
pedition is about to set‘ont from New
York. A company has been organized
by a number of enterprising Yankees—
of various trades and professions, for the
settlement of one of the Palpuan' islands
in Central Occunica :They propose to
go into the cultivation of cotton, sugar,

. coffee and other tropical products, and 10.

establish a free port for the supply "and
reﬁtting of the American whole ships
in the Paciﬁc and for genernl'trnde. The
_isla'ud which the colonists have ﬁxed up-
on is said to be very fertile and beauti-
ful, and is not claimed by any European
power. ,a ,few powerless and inefﬁcient n'a-
tives occupying it, who pill welcome
.peanefplndvellturers. 'll‘llelentcrpripe is _a

steerelsrilwereviled
with interest?. .__ , 1‘

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To a friend

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IC- uho hallmariied‘a la?

Jerrold said, All, she evidently thought
#93 1’.le than mm .w

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proof building was reached, affording it 1104

'dy'who waso‘n"the‘point'ofinkihgthe'vnil,~" ill-xilziéhy‘snsl¥=n°he =6! sszewoakh'be. ﬁle

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The Borough M rating. ;

13 \t the lioilii'g‘gh Met-ling onlfriday last the l .
following colitis-men were chosen officers with , scntcd to pan, Morphy nu
' e wish this county-y for supporting 'iljs country’s
l reputation when abroad. It will consist

a plelty unanimous expression of til _
that they might act \villl energy and smell n-
cy during their oﬁicinl terms; which We 11. re“
no ln-simliun. (judging l'r om the character of
the Klintlemcn chosen) in saying they Will do.
, 'l’Varden, Samuel Lyil‘S, M. D. .. .
1 Burgess, Asa E. Smitll,-Sliles Curtis,
F. St. John Lockwood, Joseph W. Hub-
bell, Thomas J. Van Saut, Charles Sher-
ry. ~ . .
Clerk, Joseph F. Foote. -.
Treasurer, Ill. Merrill.
Borough frosrczltor, O. S. Ferry.

- Chief Engineer, use Smith;

1..-..Ft're .Wdrdm, George R. Cowles. .S.

E. Olmstend, S. R P. .Camp, George R.
Cholwell. ' . _ _ . ,

'Fire Inspectors, George R. Cowles,
Lewis Curtis, C. J. Gruman, Charles T.
Leonard. . ' A
. Assessmensn: E. Smith, Joseph W.
Hubbell, Wm. S. Lockwood.

Board of Relieﬁ-Cllns. Issacs, Thom-
as J. Van Sunt,Willis1J.'Merritt.

Alonzo Arnold; Asa Smith and F. St.
John Lockwood, were appointed’as com-
mittee to report at the next' Borough
Meeting ,what means are necessary to
provide against and extinguish any ﬁre
in the Borough.

The following are the Borough limits at
the present. time : -

Beginning at the South-east abutment
of tlle‘new Cemetery, and running thence
Ensterlyin a direct line to the North east
corner of Carpenter’s SllOp owned by
George Perry, thence following his East
line in a Southerly direction to Highway.
thence Sontherly to the‘North-east corner
of J. A. Van Zaudt’s garden, thence
westerly crossing the Creek to the south-
east coruer of the preperty "now owned
by Elbert Raymond, adjoining the home
stead of Henry Holmes, thence westerly
to the south-west corner of Henry Allen‘s
door-yard cu-West Avenue, thence wes-
terly ﬁve hundred feet in a - direct line to-
wards the llorth-east corner of Rev. J . J.
Woolscy’s dwelling house, thence westerly
to mold oak tree standing on the brow
of the hill, about 220 feet west of dive]-
ling house of Wm. E. Beardsley, thence
northerly to the east end of the Union
.l- nnufucturiug Co’s lrill dam,thencc north
easterly to the north-west corner of , lot
owned and occupied by Charles Olmstend,
thence southerly along his easterly line to
the place of beginning. '

These limits were established by the
Legislature in 1855, at the time when a
new charter was obtained ;. the rest of the
charter was not accepted by the Borough,
but the limits were ordained and estab-
lished by the Legislature.

ﬁ-The meeting was adjourned to Thurs:
day at 2 P. M. of the present week-
0».

‘ ' A Chance to Test: It.

Somebody writes to the Hartford Post
that the spirits have been tormenting a
sick young lady, at Middletown, by ago-
nizing raps. They conveyed, says the
writer, ” the impression of strong phys-
ical suﬁ'ering, and excited a fearful sym-
pathy within the breasts of us all.” “Give
me water,” said thespirit, “ Ohl I am
burning, I am surrounded by ﬂame.—
Tinlbers are falling about me, where am
I? who am I ? This is not I.’.’ In nus-
wer to our questions we were informed
that a stranger while in state of intoxica-
tion had lain down near the scene’of the
late ﬁre at Norwalk', and not having rous-

. ed in, time toescape, had met in the con

ﬂagrhtion a terrible death. His bones,
he Sold would be found on search.”

New here is a chance for proof. Let
us see whether any .such bones are found.
The Gazette says there was a rumor of a
vagrant being burnt at the Norwalk ﬁre

. but he was afterwards found all safe.—

Wus it the spirit of this “ rumor,” which
visited the Middletown lady? .
N. H. Journal.
:3. To set- our neighbors right, or to in-
asure tneir personal safety, should they perir
grinate'in this direction, we will state that
the "‘ vagrant" alluded to -by- them. is none
other than the popular and widely known sa-
ble landlady of the ‘6 Liberian Hotel,” who
escaped with all hers ock in trade—save her
"'piano and gold watch.” The rumor was
prevalent that she wasburned, and a peculiar
ﬂavor of the' atmosphere at'the time gave
strength 'to the rumor. But the’smcll was
afterwllrds- traced to some bad whiskey which
would not burn itself and ran upon a thick of
routing oysters, with the laudable 'ol-j'ect in
view, no doubt. of'saviug the bivalves :-and_
as for the rumor, the person who stated it,
only anticipated the fate which we fear, ul-
timately awnitsher ladyship. ‘But more seri-
ouslym‘u earnest inquireraftcr truth in Hart-
ford, last week, wrote 1 ﬁicer Bissell to know
if anybody had been burned here at the late
ﬁle,stating such to have been asserted by
some medical Clarvoyunt there. _ Constable
Bisscll replied immediately to the epistle of"
enquiry that inasmuch, as the spirits, so sta-
ted, it was undoubtedly true.a1though no one
here had ever heard of it. There were some
very bnd'epirits burned :here, we have no
doubt, but no human beings. So tile. Bart-
rord Spirit, will have to “ writhe and twist”
and guess again; and as for any sane man
who believes in this tomfoolrynve recommend
he read the sermon preached by Dr. Randolph
the converted mcdium, published in the Tri-
bunc,of November 25th. ~
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- THE CONSTELLATION.——A new Literary
Weekly Paper is to be started in New:
York (with the above head) on the" lst
ofJaullnry, 1859, by George Roberts ;
fomerly cs-nnectcd with the Boston Press
Pam: BENJAMIN, in tube the principal ed-
itor.‘ his to be a’ superb folio Sheet,
double the size'of the N. Y. Ledger. The
design is to make this the largest as Well
as the best Literary Paper ever publish-
ed in this Country. Single copies $3 per

_- “:7

__ fawn ITEMS.

”(A

of an illlslld chess llOlll‘d Willi a set ol'qold
and silver chess-men. nlld n gold mi-dul.
Subscriptions are now being taken up
for the purpose. J

. .. 411ml} Charles" Sumner feels sufﬁcient-
ly restored to resume his Senatorial sent
at the opening of the coming session, and
hasvengagedrooms in Washington at the

‘ quai'tersoacnpied by'him at the time of

the Brooks assault.
. . . .The entire First division of New
York militia were under arms in the

' Citygon Thursday, it being Evacuation

Da .
.';“1y."Ail"‘thmmb0fd of the Gouldy fam-
ily, it is soidrwill recover. . ,

. . . .Gen. Pnei '1of 3Venezuela. 'was scri-
ously injured on Thursday, in N. Y. City,
by a fall from his llolse during the mili-
tary parade,“ At ﬁrst it was feared he
was fatally hurt. His horse fell on the
slippery pavement in Broadway and
crashed his foot. - .

. . . .The appearance of the U. S. frigate
Wabash at Constantinople is producing
some excitement. She is larger than the
agreement made by the four powersvre-
spectiug their armed vessels in those we.
ters, but we were not a party to that
treaty and doom: feel bound by it. If
small American vessels are allowed to
visit Constantinople, why not large ones?
. . . . A precocious youth of eight summers
was seen in Grand street, New Haven,
on Tuesday, so much intoxicated as to be
unable to walk without staggering.

. . .At a recent Government trial of
surf boatsnt Fire Island the bentiuvent-
ed by Mr. Mortimer M. Camp, of New
Haven, came out. ahead of all competi-
tors.

. . . .Cairns, the N. Y. policeman who,
shot a rowdy in the streets who attempt-
ed to escape from him, has not'ollly been
cleared, but has received a large donation.
The police say that if he had been punish-
ed for the homicide, they never should

have dared to have entered a den of

crime to make an arrest. _

. . . .An effort will be early made in the
coming Congress to make Oregon a State.
. . . .A letter from Paris states that Hon.
Benjamin F. Butler of N. Y. City, died
lately at Paris. Mr. Butler was U. S.
Attorney General under Mr. Van Bu-
ren’s Administration, but has latterly
been a Pslpnblican. He was 63 years
old.

. . . .Gerrit Smith had less that 5000
votes for Govornor of New York. The
Buchanan State Ticket in Illinms had
from 3000 to 5000 votes.

. . . .Isanc Newton, the well-known North
River Steamboat owner, died at New
York on Tuesday evening, aged 65.

. . . .Ex-Gov. Thomas Bragg and Ex-
Gov. Thomas L. Clingmnn were nomin-
ated byndcmocrntic caucus of the North
Carolina legislature. at Raleigh, last Mon-
day night,- for U. S. senators—Mr.
Clingham for the short term which he is
now ﬁlling, and Mr. Bragg for ,the long
one to succeed senator Reide.

. . . .The election of the four Republican
members of the Legislature from Chicago
‘will be contested on the ground that the
ballots by which they were elected were
not printed on plain white paper, as re-
quired by law. ‘

. . . .An unsuccessful attempt has been
made in the Georgia Legislature to make
the crimes of burglary in the night time,
and forcible highway robbery, punishable
with death. The term of imprisonment
has been increased to twenty years. 2

. . -. .The “draw of the Waterbury Young
Men’slnstltute has received all accession
of .300 books, and now contains 1,500
volumes. . , .

. . . :A few days ago Wm. Porter, :1
young man of, talent, and inheriting n
large estate'from his father, 001. W. M.
Porter, committed suicide in Memphis,
'l‘enn., for- the reason that he~ could not
support his wife as he wanted, lis prop-
erty being in the hands of guardians.»—
He was only 18 years of age, and had
been married over a year.

. . . .In the Superior Court, in New York
on Saturday, 13th a verdict of the $12,-
788 was awarded against Fernando Wood
for preventing, when he was Mayor, Mes-
srs. Dodge 6; Barnes from chcuting their
contract for raising the sunken ship Jo-
seph Walker. _

. . . .In consequence of the great and pro-
gressive deterioration of silk worms ill
Europe, two ,Venetinns interested ill the
the silk trade—Counts Freschi and Gus-
tellnni—havc determined to undertake a
journey to the Caspian Sea, Persia, India
and China, ill order to study the system
of the management of the silk worm in
those aboriginal countries, and to bring
home a quantity of spawu from the best
plantations. ill order if possible to improve
the breed at home.

, . . .On her recent passage through Leip-
sic—on the 13th ultimo—the Queen of
Persia was robbed of a box containing
one ﬁve hundred tllnlcr bill, several onh
hundred thnlsr bills, 3 number of gold
coins, some articles of Term, and, as a

German paper signiﬁcantly remarks, “lust

not least,” some manuscripts—possibly
important state papers—in the Queen's
handwriting. . -
. . .'.'1‘he Hon. Thomas L. Harris, of 11-
linois, whose death is recently announced,
was a main: of Norwich, ill this State.—
Ilc was a graduate of Trinity College,
Hartford, of the class of 1814.

. . .‘iA citizen of Pennsylvania, Mr.
George Washington Reifsnydcr,'of Potts-
vﬂel, has, it is said, accepted ’l‘om IIyer-‘s
challenge to ﬁght tiny man‘in the world
for $10,000. s

. . It will be remembered that Burns, a
Democratic Cengressulnn from Ohio,
“ railed” on Lecompion and was very ill-
dignnnt at the charge that he. was bought
up by the President with a promise of
ofﬁce to his relatives. The virtuous mall’s
son has just received a lucrative ofﬁce
from Mr. Buchanan.
. . . .Oystcrs are represented as very

year, two copies $5,&c ' For further pur-
liculars address George Roberts, No. 12
Spruce-St., N. Y. . ‘ ‘ ‘

s¢.».

elect'of New York, was received by quite.
a crowd at the Hartford Depot, Wednes.
day, Lieut. Gov. Catlin made a' short ad-
dress, and some hearty cheers were given.
Mr. jM'orgnn 'made is brief, speech and
rocccded to the residence of J udge Billkr:
ley' his host in Hartford.
9» .
ﬁ-The Lite-Inﬁeld Enquirer says that
there was one beau glide subscription to
'the‘stockpfilhe 'Liicll'ﬁéld Bank. One
respectable family of that (0‘qu took
$3,000 ut'the beginning, and- paid in on'
the some $1,500 in-gaod faith, and their
notes: for. the remaining $1,500 are
amongthe ‘9 assetS” 0f the Bank. . They
took the stock upon their-lien assurance
that the entire-capital was subscribed is
equally good -flli;hl .
1 . .. There is nothing worth having:
that [sailor-iiigicult to get. So says Bul-
ueré My his." 1.8.0.5! 1 an pose the life of
man labourer gerbil lung or

men we now" lire, if we, had turner a

3... Mr. E. D. Morgan, the Governor l“ $1

has been one-long.colitegt.pijﬁ' dil: if

scarce ill Philadelphia, owing to an unoc-
countullle falling 011‘ ill the supplies from

“ the Chesapeake. The market price iS$12

5 perillousnlld. .
Tile Lchemvortll' 'l‘im“; ”“4”“

that the dirt of the Kansas gill-l mines-

pays from ten to ﬁfteen cents alum, while
California dirt is considered rich at seven
cents. The miners have got into winter
quarters, and thousands are on the front-
ier, preparing for an early start in the
spring. Itis estimated that 10,000vper-
sons will repair to the Pike l’enk mines
during next Spring and summer.”

.. . .The New Haven, ilarlford .and
Springﬁeld Railroad Company gave the
married .0330 in their employ nil-ill, num-
berin'gthree hundred and two, iwo dol-.
lars each, on Thanksgiviugday ‘ The im-
married men were 1101: "forgotten, and the
donation of the Company amounted in all
to about $8.00. . r ‘ ' ' '

, , .s James-Gordon Bennett, editor .ofthc
New York Herold has been afrested on
"I! indictment found a
Gr‘ﬁa‘ﬁflvflf, 'Wettclcsiei' 010.1101} N
Y., for an Cllegetlls's'LTI published? 3"“
paper, ill J une last-,on Madohn A). A“.
in, charging that 1 gentleman, wills-:hnv-

lug forged the records. of. the; “men’s.

l owed diﬁieult'les to connuee sis; -

Pbim'ﬂvilliniusé of which 13° 1‘98 Chili?-
"! .

his return toI

nest um; b"! the"

s...

of a railroad to the Paciﬁc, if not (if-the
purchase of Sonora by this government.

the facts.

. . . .The opposition majority in New Jer-
sey, by ofﬁcial returns is upwards of 12,-
0.0.0-

. . . .A private Lunatic Asylum has re-
cently been established in Litchﬁeld, by
Dr. H. W. Buel, who has formerly been
connected. with a similar institution at
Flushing, Long Island. ,

. . . .Tollesand Bradley, of Naugntuck,
arrested for. being ,concerned ,.in.__ passing
counterfﬁt‘bbiﬁ'f‘li‘ffve given ‘b’bhdé‘in_$l,-

dav.
. . . .Counterfeit $5 bills on the Westﬁel
Bank, of Westﬁeld, Moss. were put in
circulation, on Thursday night.
. .The Vermont Legislature has pass-
ed a bill providing that no slaves shall be
brought into the Slate, and held as such.
Proposed bills to prevent the execution
of the fugitive slave law in that State are
likely to fail—one is already rejected.—
on the ground that literals no occasion
for such legislation. . '
. . . {Brown (a crabbedg‘ ,old; ,hncllelor,
surely,) informs the Boston Post that of
twenty-three men whom *he' helped to
a (guy-light, or loaned a newspaper,
twenty said, “ Thank you, sir.” Of ninc-
icon women to whom he paid a courtesy
--~§il(:ll as giving up his sent—picking up
a dropped vnil, shawl, or the like, only
seven said, thank you,” and two of thOSc
were “ lurriners.”
w—uam.»

3' The new U. S. sloopof-war Hart-
ford, just luunched at the Charlestown
Navy and, is described as beings beau-
tiful vessel. Her burthcn is 2023 tons.
Her length is 254 feet; breadth, 44 ; and
depth 21 feet. She draws 10 feet. Her
model is said by the Boston papers to be
very beautiful; it has all the graceful
lightness of n clipper, combined with the
imposing majesty of a ship of war. She
is pierced with 34 ports, and painted
black with a white streak around her.—
Her' entire frame is of live oak, cut- in
1825. She is very strongly built. She
is a propeller, and has two engines. Her
armament consists of 14 nine inch shell
guns, but she can mount thirty if neces-
sary. She was designed and modelled
by E. H. Delano. Her cost, when ready
for sea, will be nearly $600,000.

Miss Stringham, daughter of Commo-
dore Slringhum, of the Charlestown
Navy Yard, broke a bottle of water ta-
ken from the Connecticut river at Hart-
ford, upon the cutwuter, and the vessel
was duly christened. Lieut. Preble U.
S. N., also assisted in this Service. ‘
’ ‘ ' Hartford Press.

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THE INTERIOR or Noura AMERICA.—
Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion has Cellected facts respecting the Sn-
terior of the United States, which will
command the attention of scientiﬁc men
and statesmen. The induction from these
facts is, that the entire region of the
United States West of the 9Sth degree,
west longitude (say the western boundary
of Minnesota,) with the exception of a
small portion of Western Texas and the
nnrrow border along the Paciﬁc) includ—
ing California) is (1- sterile waste of compar-
atively lit/lo value, and winch can never.
be available to the ngriculturnlist. The
importance of this statement will be more
fully. comprehended when it is considered
that thevline of Prof. Henry, which ex-
tends soutllwnrd from Lake Winnipeg to
the Mexicali Glllf, will divide the surface
of the United States in two nearly equal
parts.

The intense heat and extreme dryness
of this region, which will make the Great
American: Plains a barren waste forever,
is caused to a: large extent, according to
Prof. Henry’s theory, by the fact that
the returning aTrade Winds, sweeping
over the elevated masses of the Rocky
Mountains are deprived of their moisture;
ill other words the heated air which as-
cends at the equator, saturated with mois-
ture it has extracted in its passage over
.the ocean, aft-er depositing a portion of
its vapor in the tropics at the rainy sea-
sons, is further, dessicated by the ridges
and mountains which it meets, the vapor
being condensed on the windward side by
the cold due to the increased vertical
height, and it ﬁnally passes over and
strikes the plains as dry as a sponge
which has been thoroughly squeezed.—
Without moisture there can be no fertili
ty, no agriculture ; and a great portion
of this wilderness, acco'ding to Prof.
Henry, is as irredcemably burrell, for the
purposes of agriculture, as the deserts of
Africa. If this theory be true, it will
greatly modify thc‘opinions which have
been entertained by politicians and states-
men of the future destiny of the “.Great
West.”

«O
@The following resolution passed

at the Douglas meeting in New Haven
seems to indicate that there is a “ line of
distinction” between that wing of the
democracy and the custom house clique :

Resolved, That the political annals of
this country present no parallel to this
memorable and eventful struggle. Never
before has the Executive of these United
States stepped from the chair of State
into , the; pnrty‘ arena, and in. person,
sought tgsllspe’lhe results of a popular
election by the direct application or with-
drmval'of'his ofﬁcial patronage, and thus
to “ crush out,” a dreaded rival for popu-
lnr favor.

This is rather a high-seasoned dish for
Osborne of the Register, who, in order to
retain a fat ofﬁce, is obliged to sustain
Bucllnunn “ 10’ the llandle”-—-and doesit.
_Wondel; if-Lesees the f‘ line of distinc-
tion.” ' '

————........._..__
lissrscmnlmrv AND Pennies—If all
those who think politics at present a dlrty

illeircountry, politics would soon bonnie-an
enough. "It‘ is these very phurlsce's-r who
permit and empower knnvcs and black-
gllul'ds to control politics, possess the gov-
ernment and plunder the Repll
at man fancies he has other business of
more importance than the public political
sellers-.01 imaginesllimself too much of
a christian to "meddle“ with elections,” his
business and his christianify are of a kind
with which We wish to have nothing to“ do.
If freedom and its franchise were worth
the toil and blood of our forefathers, they
are worthy of respect-anddeferencc at our
hands. .It raises the gorge of our contempt

. whenever we hear a luau cantiug about

his respectability and religions conscience
,kecpipg himﬁrqm the lolls. Such men
" ught’ilo'hnye'liyed in . ’oloninl-timesgand
hall is few Hessiuns quartered oil them.

.0 would like to see‘ the whole int of

W . 1 fr .. i - ‘ '
,..,., nonse- overwinter-11mm
..-..l..n despotism, or Southern

under Au...... - 1-- .m fr“.

,Slaveocracy, until their freon... .

dom was thoronghiy squ'et‘zl‘d and dog-

500 to appear fur examination before the:
United States Commissioner on . Thurs;-

blic. When .

. . Geo. Law and Col. Colt are named}
l is to be prc- ! as interested in extensive purchases of
lands and mines in Sonora, In anticipation h lvc adopted resolutions declaring th.

!
l

. . :The Indiana Senators. _
.Both houses of the Indiana. Legislntlli'l

eieclion of Messrs. Bright and Fitch.
. Llllled Slates Senators from that State,

W. A. Phelps. postmaster at Duff’s l illegal, llnconslituriomll and Void. ll u
Fol-ks, Ohio, and his two daughters, have j expected llmt the Logislllturé will pm
been arrested for robbing the midi-‘3 __ 11118,“:th ‘0 Elect one Republican and on-
roll eries were committed by the girls, Airti-Lecompton to contestt'he'illegnlon
and the father denies all knowledge oi'lcupatiou 01', their seats by ,Fltch ans,

Bright.
l The United States Armory at Springﬁeld
- ' uImprovementa.

For the last twelve years improvements
of a marked character have been in pro-
gress in the buildings, ground and ma.
cllillery of the United States Armory in
Springﬁeld. Within that time, the huge
arsenal standing upon the brow of the hill
llas’been'builte—a‘repository for more than
90,000 musketiin’cnéh 'of its three rooms;
and a brick ._ stolge-llonse,,400 feet long,
hair‘ been constrnmed*-'On'the' hill: nbrth-
wardi- Within that thus the Superinten-

d r'deut’s house has been erected, and the

l grounds have-been laid out around it.—

. 3 Within that time,too,:-a superb iron fence,

3 built to last for. centuries, has been run
‘ more than half aronnil‘the'sqnare that en-
closes the‘, buildingsgsuot' to, mention .gra-
ding grounds, planting- of _ trees, the. It
is, however, since 1854, that an' improve-
ment has been aﬁ’ected which marks the
epoch in the'ih‘istOry ofs'the‘works. In
eﬁ‘c‘ctingthe‘se'i improvements there have
been 38,000 cubic yards of stone excava-
ted, and 80,000 cubic yards of' earth.—
The tosal stone masonry amounts to 29,-
345 perches 0f 25 cubic feet each,or 733,-
625 cubic feet. The total number of
bricks laid is 3,306,000. In the process
of excavation some very interesting fossil
remains were found. ' Dr; Hitcthck, of
Amherst, spent some considerable time
ill examining them, and sent them to Dr.
Jeﬁ'reps W yman, of Boston, the celebra-
ted anotomist. Dr. Wyman, pronounced
the bones, which were remarkably Well
preserved, to be those of a reptile rather
than a bird. They were found imbeddtd
ten feet deep ill the solid sandstone.
. ‘ VSp jug/islet Rep.

16‘ At the dedicatory services of the
new “ Brick Church,” Dr. Spring remark-
ed, on announcing the first hymn, that this
part of the service belongs tot/w people.—
Accordingly the singing was an old famil-
iar psalm tune led by the organ and a
powerful voiced chorister who stood facing
the congregation, in' a~small recess back
of the pulpit, in which the organist and a
few singers were also seated. It was much

day prayer meetings in J ohn street church,
or the old theatre in Chambers street.—
N o interludes or fantasias of any kind
were admitted, nor are they intended to
be, hereafter. '

. .
Inﬁloshna‘ R. Giddiugs lectured at
St. Louis, a few. days since, on “ the laws
that. govern us.” He introduced his rad-
ical anti-slavery notions freely, and when
he denounced the Dred Scott decismn the
audience show their. sympathy with his
views by drowning the few biases that
were raised in a perfect tempest of op-
plnuse. ‘

«.5»?—

mThcre can be seen daily on the
New York city cars, as conductor,the son
of a. gentleman who resided in or near
Boston, and who was brought up ill all
the luxury that wealth could command.
llis home was elegant. Horses and car-
riages waited his pleasure—servants at-
tended llis call. ‘But one of those reverses
came that come 'so frequently. Life was
changed ; and the indulged son and ten-
derly cared for child, had to go out and
meet the rude windmud cold looks of the
world ; and he earns his bread as conduc-
tor on one of the New York city cars, at
the daily pay of one dollar and ﬁfty cents.
M»
THE “ SOUTHERN MEMBER or run Cam-

Mr. F. P. Stanton,lute Secretary of Kun-
sas, under Gov. Walker, said :
“ 0n the lst of Sept. 1857,6199. Whit-

in Washington, signed a letter ‘expressly
stating that the course of Gov. Walker
and secretary Stanton was acceptable to
the people of Kansas, inasmuch as annu-
doubted majority were ill favor of a Free
State.’ This letter was written at the
special request of Mr. Buchanan,who was
anxious to shield himself from the assaults
then being made upon him by the South.
Through Mr. Buchanan’s agency the let-
ter was sent to the Union ofﬁce, and was
actually in type, accompanied by editorial
comments indorsing the character of Dr.
’l‘ebbs as a ‘ gentleman of unimpeachable
verncity,’ when it was seen in proof by a
Southern member of the Cabinet, who or-
dered its suppression. ' From that day to
this, the course of the Administration to-
ward Kausas has been a mom. unscrupu-
lous und.shameful one.”

On Friday last, we asked which of the
four " Southernmembers” of the Cabinet
it was who (lad become the censor of the
Wendell Lincoln organ, and accepted the
responsibility of all the terrible disasters
which have befullen the Democratic par-
ty from the misdirection of that paper.—
We ire-.9 anxious to know which “South-
ern member”- it. was who sought such dis-
tinction. We now learn, on eXcellent au~
tllority, that it was our able Secretary of
the Treasury, the Hon Howell Cobb. -

W’ashingto'n. Slates.

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Prevention of Disease. ,
A paper, speaking of the spread of in-
fections, diseases, says: '
There is not a. more eﬁ'ectual prevent-
ive of disease than the immersion of the
head in cold water every morning, the
your round. We know an old gentleman,
now rising of seventy, who says that, un-
til he was thirty years old he was of rath-
er a weekly constitution, and particularly
liable to attacks of bilious fever, violent
colds, and headache ; but, haviugheard
that the best preventive cf headache was
to wash the head in cold water, every
morning, immediately after rising, lle‘tlien

‘ commenced the practice, and has contin-

= nod it to the present'time ;=and, during

‘ i.

the interval of. forty years,- has never had
he' bilious fever, hardly knows what the

illeadnche is, and, though some times tu-

‘ -' . '1 acl dut to .
bmmms' would do the" bonn l y l klng cold, has never had a cold that hin-

dered him from attending to his ordinal-y
affairs. Add to this,he phased unscathed

PLAYING ”TAG” mm A Brian—The
DBtroit Advertiser tells. the following
story i "Last Saturday morning, while
a. laborer living- at Fort Grutiot, was
proceeding ill it bout to Port Huron, he i
come ' up with is huge hour, s‘wnummg
across. He struck his hearshlpia‘biow

r the head with his out. when the 'ﬁn'
med animal made for him, and climbing
into the bout com elled themun intake-
to the water. Tie beau-rhea follppeg
lllmlllld the main contrived to get mid
the bout again. A ll'elghbor .Scinng‘ his
predic'lment came to- his rellef with m.
axe, and: broke upthis pleasant little
game of, “tasﬁilletueen the, mnumnd.

seep-l3 unlit-s mum’s-1M s
won in

l‘

. - left“!’l’imllibl‘a'lhgifez‘v. ‘is
said to' be of- the largest 3395‘s.. 1!,”
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like the leading of the hymns in the noon 5

xsr.”—ln a recent speech at Lawrence

ﬁeld andDr. Tebbs, of Kansas, were then f

Correspondence of (do Gazette
NAVY YARD, Brooklyn, L. I., l
Novemller126..h, 1858. )r

“filling it probable that your readers

”’“m be Pleased to learn what is trans-
ii’llllr in and about the Naval grdnlfdé’at
Ins rmnh-zvous, I transmit,for publiCution
his letter. .. .
, Everybody and his wife has bend-1 of
the Navy Yards, but few care, however,
to institute any enquiries concerning
them, they only know that such places
do ”exist, without troubling themselves
to learn their utility or study their myg-
series. To a stranger, one for instance
whose peregrina tions have been circum-a‘
scribed to country scenes and associations, ‘
whose» peculian yucntion has been pounds"
of sugar, 9 yard of muslin doled out: be-
hind the store counter, a visit to the»
Navy Yard is a source of not only amuse-
meat, but astounding bewilderment.—
Gaping Jonathan can scarcely realize
that he is not somnolent when he beholds
the stately men-of-war, their bristling
batteries gleaming in the sun, and all the
paraphernalia of the war god scattered
around. Here he ﬁnds his beautiful fo r
_ est trees, stripped of their garlands and
festoons, and metamorphosed into stgnnch,
masts, and tapering spars. Then the
scene of life and animation which every-
where prevuils—oﬁicers gaily attired in
their uniforms, pursuing their respective
calling. ; artisans of all professions busi-
ly plying their work, while the splendid 1
brass band of the receiving ship sends "
forth on the air its dulcet strains, dis-
conrsing its melody for the beneﬁt of all.
In short, a visit to the yard is instructive
pleasing and well worth while the troub:
le. The above species of bipeds are
those who cry dolefully against augment-
' ing the Navy, but would sooner vote in
favor of a Canal. through the Rocky
Mountains, whose minds are so inﬁnitesi-
nlably minute that any project save that
which promotes the interest of a certain
numerical, and thata unit, cannot be at
all conceived of, but we have reason to
be grateful that they are in a most con-
temptiblc minority.

We have now employed in the Yard -
some eighteen hundred craftsmen in the
various departments. Hundreds of ap-
plications are coming in for situations,
from those who have been made political
tools of during the last campaign. Good 1
worthy men have therefore to be deposed
and this multitude~of hungry political.
cormorunts whole “ name is legion,” '1
usurps their places. Heaven help thee,
poor wight, if thou art not a Democrat,
for out of the yard you go, and have to
assume the position of the immortal m1-
kins Micanvber—viz : “ wait for something
else to turn up.” Cover it with as plausi-
ble 9 cloak us you will, it cannot be denied
that our Naval Yards are prominent
spokes ill the rotten wheel of Democracy.

Part of the Paraguay fleet is now ﬁt~
ting out from this yard. Four of the im«
posing, powerful and awe-inspiring Crom-
well steamers,viz : “Westernport,” “Cal-
edonia,” “ America” and “ Memphis,”
have nearly completed the diligent tink-
ering to which they have been subjected. ,
In their future laudable entefpriseF-the
annihilation of Lopez, it is sincerely to
be hoped that they do not annihilate
themselves, for it'is really a matter of ,se-
rions consideration and conjecture as to
whether the concussion of a 32 ponnder
would not " shake them to pieces. The
”America,” I learn, has been supplied
with 50 extra lines, a very fair P0,? Cent-1
age. She can aﬁord to blow away one
a day'from here to Montevidio. .
~ The new steam sloop “ Nassau” is on
the ways and it isexpected she will be
launched next animal: The ship “ St.
Louis’? is ﬁtting out, and her destination
has just been made known. She will
proceed to relieve the “Plymouth” in the
Gulf. Capt. Ogden is uppointod her
commander by the Department. Her
oﬁicers have notas yet reported for ﬁnal
duty. The “ San Jacinio’l late flag-ship
of of the China Squadron is receiving a
thorough overhauling. She has proved
a miserable‘failare. During her cruise in
the Mediterranean, one of her oﬁicers re-
marked that she had been in every port
from Gibraltar to Speuia,» for the pure
pots of tinkering up this and patching up
that {ﬁhesiblowu‘ to pieces ; engine out
of order, in ﬁne, she was an everlasting
steam joke in which the government had
to play the practical part. Every port
she left she was aim to prove the ruins-
liou of a dozen poor ﬁshermen, for she

'invariably ‘carried away their ﬁshing

seines on the clumsy screw of the propel~
lor shaft. She did better in China from
the simple feetthatshe did little er no
cruising. The only apparent disposition
being to remain in Shanghae ' collecting
weeds on her copper,and“ giving the of-
ﬁcers ‘au opportunity to proﬁt by the high
rate of exchange. ‘
Commander-Andrew H. F oote com-
mands the Yard.‘ It will be remeniber-
ed that he w‘ns ' the ofﬁcer who planned
and commanded the attack upon the Can—
ton forts ilghe Ship " Portsmouth.” To
his superior skill and generalship, am I,
as one of that party, indebted'for the
privilege of nm' Penning illese lines to

0“,, Annihilation‘fro‘in the; overwhelm-

Y
. lug numbers of our adversaries was what

; we expected, but the prestige was ours,

. through the terrible epidemic of 1855. g and we-gained it~after a hard fought and
W 'noble'Conﬂict, . 1.? , . ,_ .

The removal "of Commodore Kearney
has caused much speculation. Political
interference-has been no doubt the cause.
It appears from a conﬁdential slotemcnt
that the commodore made, that r Gob.
Taylor solicited a number of his sailors to
vote his ticket. . This, George Taylor
(not knowing that the commodore had
made an expose‘ydenied in public print,
so that between them they have a pretty
bonnie pick; collimation Kearney 1 an;
‘c’oht‘lncddﬂs ‘abo‘Ve such dds icskli" ll‘l‘
tions‘,"'bnt":l'wdnld like'"tb kit w f’bow "ii
comes that a posse 5 of sailor's. “’35 'dis-

patche’d' to vote" lf'cel‘tnin ticket injh‘e

New York-pom ﬁis is' evidently torch};

Jack banal-soot. our ﬁrst ; not" whose

vote'sllol ‘ ‘-"as'llé‘can 118??ng .
snore,“ad " n1 *' inhis'wol-lurrsnewn

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