The New York Herald Newspaper, July 4, 1853, Page 7

= SHIP BUILDING IN NEW YORK. Number of Vessels Launched during the past Bix Months—Account of those now Balld- We present our readers to-day the following ac- count of ship building in New York, from the Ist of Jannary to the commencement of the present month. It shows the number of vessels launched in that time, and those now on the stocks, giving their classifica- tion, size, and other particulars, Although at the present time freights are dull, and the market pretty well stocked with vessels, there is a good amount of business doing in ship building, nearly every builder having something in hand. We eommence onr list with the work at the yards of MESSRS. WESTERVELT AND CO. Launched, Jan. 10.—Clipper ship Golden State, of 1,350 tons, for Messrs. Chambers & Heiser. Jan. 15.—Clipper ship Resolute, of 750 tons, for Mr. Millar. April 7.—Steamship Jamestown, of about 1,200 tons, for Messrs, Ludlum & Pleasants’ New York and Richmond line. June 21.—Clipper ship Sweepstakes, of 1,600 tons, for Mesers. Chambers & Heiser. On the Stocks, Packet ship Calhoun, of 1,600 tons, for Spoftord, Tileaton & Co.’s Patriotic Line of Liverpool Packets, Bhe is the largest packet ship ever built, beiug, ac- cording to carpenters’ measurement, 2 000 tons bur- then. She will be launched on Wednesday. Her dimensions are—length, 208 feet; breadth, 43 feet; depth, 24 ‘feet. Clipper ship Kathay, of about 1,500 tons, for Good hue & Co. She is 220 feet long, 41 beam, and about 22 feet deep. Twosteamships for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., of 1,800 tons each; 264 feet long on deck, 34 feet beam, and 26 feet deep; to be fitted with double beam engines from the Morgan Works. Two steamships for Mr. Chas. Morgan, one for the New Orleans and Texas trade, and the other for the | * New Orleans and Vera Cruz trade. ‘The latter, which is named the Vera Cruz, will register 1,200 tons, and be of the same model as the steamship Jamestown. She will be 240 feet long, 34 wide, and 17 deep. The other will register 1,100 tons, and will be 215 feet Jong, 34 wide, and 16 deep. * . The tonnage ot all the above vessels, built or build- ing by this firm, where not otherwise mentioned, have been calculated by government measurement, WILLIAM H. WEBB. Launched, Jan. 27-—Schooner Fanny, of 157 tons, built for Schiff & Brothers, and afterwarissold to Mr. J. Win- dle, who fitted her out for Australia, whence she sailed on the 2d March last, under command of Capt, Jamiezon, and was fallen in with on the 7th April abandoned. Her wreck bas since been several times fallen in with, but the fate of her crew is unknown. April 30.—Clipper ship Young America, of about 2,300 tons burthen, now on her tirst voyage to San Francisco, under command of Captain Babcock. Owned by Geo. Daniels. In May.—Clipper ship Flyaway, for Messrs. Schiff, Brothers & Co., of 1,600 tons. June 9.—Steamship San Francisco, for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Burthen about 2,500 tons. Now receiving her machinery at the Morgan works. On the Stocks, Steamship Atalanta, of ubout 1,500 tons burthen, for 8. L. Mitchell, New York and Savannah line, to ren in conjunction with the Alabama, Florida, and Acgusta. The finishing of this vessel has been sus. pe.ded, awaiting the result of some improvements adopted in the machinery of the Augusta. The en- gite will be supplied from the Novelty works. A small clipper bark of about 600 tons, for Wake- map, Dimon & Co. She is 137 feet long, 30 wide, and 18 deep. Mr. Wm. H. Webb is also building, at the north part of Williamsburg, a very large balance dry dock. The following will be its dimensions :—Length, 375 feet; breadth, 99 feet; depth, 38 feet. It will be the largest ever constructed in the United States, and be eapable of raising a line of battle ship, with all her armament on: board, or a steamship of the largest size, with her coal, machinery and stores. It willbe strengthened by a great number of wooden and double iron diagonal braces of immense size. The Bfting power of this immense machine will be about eight thousand tons. WILLIAM H. BROWN. Launched, Tm April—The steamship America, of about 1,400 fons burthen, intended to trade between Melbourne,” Port Philip and Sydney; owned by the builder aud other parties. Now getting her machinery from the Allaire works. Mr. Brown has nothing now in hand. THOMAS COLLYER. Laun , In Febraary—Steambou! ufacius, of about 500 fone, now on her way to C. ‘on—last heard frem at Cupe de Verds. She is int: od for the China coast ing trade. In April—Barge Truem:), vf 300 tons, for the New York and Troy trade. On the ‘ivorks, Clipper ship Spirit of th. snes, of 1,200 tons, for RL. & G. Griswold, and + fain Cave. She is 191k be comamauded by Cap. tong, 35 feet beam, aud 19h feet deep. r Asteamer of 500 tons, for Mr. James Cunning: | ham, for the Sacramento 1\ «1; she will have a beam exgine from Cunningham ¢. Belkuap’s foundry, QEORGE VOLLYER. Lawnched, In April—The steamboat George Barbeck, of about, 400 tons, for harbor duty. Machinery by Mr. George | Burbeck, after whom she is named. Nothing on the stocks. SMITH AND DIMON. On the Stocks, This firm has not launched anything this year | ‘They have now in frame a steamship of about 2,500 tons burthen, for the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., of fhe same size as the John L. Stephens, but much | sharper. She is 240 feet long, 41 wide, and 26 deep and we understand will be fitted with double oxcil- ating engines. They are also building for Mr. Aspinwall a little | experimental steamer, of about 60 tons. She will be fitted with two small engines, with direct action, and instead of a paddle wheel on each side she will have but ore placed in the centre. The paddle-box is of fron, and airtight, into which air will be forced by the working of the engine, to prevent the water ris- fog above the level of the bottom of the boat, The wheel will project about a foot beneath and be pro- tected bya guard on each side, fixed on the bottom | and extending a few inches below the wheel, to save it from injury by grounding. Ifthe experiment an- swers it is contemplated to apply the principle to a Yerger vessel. This little craft is 75 feet long, 16 broad and 6 deep, and handsomely modelled, WILLIAM GOLLYER. Launched, April 22.—The steamboat Alice Price, of 295 tons, to run between this city and Red Bank. She is fitted witha beam engine from the shop of Mr. J. 3. Cof: | feo. April 23.—A barge of 186 tons, for the Albany | twade. | On the Stocks, | The steamship Nashville, for Messrs. Spofford, \ Tileston & Co.'s New York and Charleston line of | steamers. She tons about 1,300, is 210 feet long, 34 | wide, and 22 deep. She will be fitted with a side | lever engine, from the Novelty Works. Captain Ber | Ty, now ofthe Marion, will command her. A sehooner, of about 220 tons, for the coal and stone trade between Portland, New York, Philadel- phia, and, Baltimore; she {9 102 feyt long on deck, 28 feet wide, aud 54 deep, | 190 feet between perpendiculars, 28 feet 8 inches | trade, of about 350 tons burthen has just beea com- | boat Yankee, which was lost last winter in the bay. | | Cunninghag & Belknap. Nearly ready. March 10.—Commodore Vanderbilt’s steam yacht North Star, of 2,500 tons, at present on a visit to Europe. ‘The steamboat Clifton, of about 700 tons, originally intended for the Staten Island ferry, but now des- tined to run to Elizabethtown Point in conjunction with the Red Jacket. Shehas a single beam engine, from the Allare Works. Mr. Simonson has pothing in his yard save the keel of an intended steamboat for the Staten Island ferry, the building of which has been suspend. ed since the transfer of the ferry from Commodore Vanderbilt to its present owners. ABRAHAM 0. BELL. Launched, April 30.—The Clipper ship North Wind, of about 1,160 tons, now receiving freight at pier No. 13_ East river, for California. On the Stocks, The clipper ship San Francisco, of apout 1,400 tons, for Thomas Wardle, for the California business. She is 198 feet long on deck, 38 wide, and 22 deep. Will be ready to launch in about six,weeks, ROOSEVELT AND JOYCE. Launched In April—the schooner T. A. Ward, of about 300 tons, for Freeman & Houston, in the Wilmington trade, under command of Captain J. D. Hoff. On the Stocks, The clipper ship David Brown, of about 1,750 tons, for A. A. Low & Bros., for the California and China trade, to be commanded by Captain N. B Palmer; the is 213 feet long on the keel, 22 on deck 41 feet beam, and 22 feet 6 inches deep and will be lau»ched in September. She is named after the late Mr. Brown, of the firm of Brown & Bell, who built the clippers Orien* tal, Howqua, Samuel Russell, and many other celebrated ships. Both these gentlemen died re cently, and each has had a clipper ship named in honor of him. A clipper ship for James Bishop & Co., not yet named, for the same trade, to be commanded by Captain Corning; she is 170 feet long on the keel, 38 beam, 20 deep, and ‘of about 1,050 tous burthen; will be Jaunched about the same time as the David Brown. GEORGE STEERS. Launched, Mr. Steers has launched since the Ist of January, the propeller Vaquero, of 350 tons, which left here about the middle of May for Havana; also the schooser Pride of the Sea, of 250 tons, fur Fox & Brothers. On the Stocks, A schooner yacht of 105 tons, for Mr. Duncan, of the firm of Duncan, Sherman, & Co., and a sloop yacht of 35 tous fur Mr. Ray. Both of them are modelled after the celebrated yacht America, be- tween which and the schooner there is a striking likeness, particularly in the increased draft aft, a peculiar feature in the America, that attracted much notice both here and in England. WILLIAMSBURG. PERINE, PATTERSON AND STACK. Lauuched, Jan. 10.—A large sloop called the Mary Ann Lake, of about 80 tons, owned by W. Lake & Bro., and em- ployed in the stone trade. Jan. 25.—Ferry boat Eagle, for the Roosevelt and Bridge street terry. Jan. 31.—Feiry boat Osprey, for tha same com- pany. Feb. 12.—Ferry boat Curlew, for the same. They Tate about 400 tons each, Messrs. Pease & Murphy furnished the machinery for the whole. April 2.—Clipper bark Flying Cloud, of about 350 tove, for Harbeck & Co. Now in the Angostura trade. May 10.—Schooner Fidelia, of about 75 tons, for B. Blanco. Employed in the South American river trade, June 22.—Bark Heloise, of about 375 tons, for Cap- tain McKeige; now being rigged at the yard. July 2.—Clipper ship Wide Awake, of about 900 tons, for Siffkin & Ironsides, for the California busi- ness, She is 167 feet long, 31 wide and 18 deep. On the Stocks, A brig for M. M. Freeman & Co.,105 feet long, 254 beam, and 114 deep, and of about 325 tons burthen. A bark of 300 tons, for D. Curtis & Co., 100 feet Jong, 25 beam, and 11 deep, for the Carthagena and Savanilla trade; to be commanded by Captain Morrill, Steamship Yankee Blade, of 2,000 tons, 265 feet long, 374 beam, and 22 deep. She is building for Mr. E. Mills, and wiil run from this city to Aspin wall, to connect on the Pacific with the Uncle Sam™ now on her waythere. She will be a very sharp versel, and will be fitted with a beam engive from the Allaire Works. It is expected ahe will be ready for launching in November. GREUNPOINT, ECKFORD WEBB. Launched, . Feb. 1—Steam ferry boat Ellen, of about 200 tons for the Catharine aud Bridge strect Ferry Company; wide, aud 11 feet deep. March 10—Steam ferry boat Louise, of the same dimensions, and for the same parties. The machinery of both boats was from the Novelty Works. May 24—A steamboat for the Hudson River Rail. road of 330 tons; 135 feet between perpendicalars, 29 feet 6 inches wide, and 8 feet 9 inches deep. June 29—Steam tug Leviathan, of 600 tons; 179 feet on deck, 29 feet 6 inches wide, and 11 feet 8 inches deep, owned by Messrs. Spofford, Tileston & Company. This boat will be fit- ted from the Allaire Works, with a very powerful engine for her tize, with a cylinder of 6v inches in diameter, and 10 feet stroke. The tonnage of the above is government measure” aa Mr. Webb has no contracts on hand at pre- een! SAMUEL SNEDEN, Launched, Jan. 3—Steamboat Daniel Webster, of 800 tons built for the Maine Steam Navigation Company and now ruoning between Portland and Bangor. Machinery built by J. B. Coffee. March 31.—Propeller We:tchester, of 330 tons, running between New York aud East Haddam Machinery by Hogg & Delamater. Mr. Sneden has nothing new on hand at present. The keel of a large steamship, 250 feet long and of about 2,600 tons, for a new compauy, is about being | laid down in his yard, but for what trade is not kuown, JABEZ WILLIAMS, Launched, Tn May—A schooner of 340 tons, for Mr. Hunter, now in the Petersburg trade. On the Stocks. A schooner for Captain Hull, for the Charleston menced. She is 112 feet long on deck, 28 feet wide, and 12 deep. E. WILLIAMS. * Taunched, In the early part of the year, the pilot boat Elwood | Waiter, of about 90 tons, for the pilots of the pilot | Mr. W. has nothing new in hand. HOBOKEN. ISAAC C. SMITH AND SON. Launched, March 17.—Steamer Cornelia, 240 tons, for Wilson Small, now lying af the foot of Beech atrees, receiv- | ing her machinery from Mr. Small's foundry. She | ia intended for the river trade, March 23,—Tow boat Waiter B. Crane, of 100 tons, for Thomas Coruell, of Rondout. Engine by & & J, Burbeck. | April 16.—Steamer Anglo Celt, of 405 tons, for | parties in New Orleans, for towing. Machinery by | | be transformed intoa city, with its dense | burg on Sunday. Hagerstown is healthy, but the May 6.—Barge James Cogswell, of 200 tons, for J. P. & Thomas Cumming. May 28.—Three-masted clipper schooner Gardiner Pike, of 330 tons, for 8. C. Nelson and others; in the coasting trade. On the Stocks, A clipper ship of 900 tons, for foreign account, in- tended to irade from Malaga. She is 170 feet long, 82 feet wide, and 18 feet deep. 4 The keel of a schooner, of 290 tons has iust been laid for 8. ©. Nelson, Captain Aumack and the builders. She will be 100 feet long on the keel, 30 feet wide, and 9 feet deep. CAPES AND ALLISON, Launched, Steamboat Austin, for Captain Austin a nd others of Albany, of 560 tons, Sloop Abraham Cosgrove, for M. 8. Allison, of 85 tons. Steamboat On'y Son, for Captain P. C. Shultz, of 140 tons, for harbor towing. Engine by G. & J. Burbeck, : On the Stocks. A three-masted schooner, of 400 tons for J. D. Harris, Capt. Wainwright and others. Length, 126 feet on the keel; beam, 30 feet; depth, 10 feet. A propeller, for Shaw & Whiteridge, of New Bed- ford, of 300 tons. Length, 130 feet; beam, 26 feet; hold, 8} fect. The following tables show at a glance the number and tounage of the vessels launched by each builder during the past six months, and those now on the the stocks in each yard :— V&SSEL3 LAUNCHED IN NEW YORK FROM JAN. 1 TO JULY 2, 1853, INCLUSIVE. “Steamers. Sl’ng Ves. Tons. Westervelt & Co., eee | 3 4,900 W. H. Webb... 3 6 557 0 1,400 1 800 0 400 1 43 6 3,200 A.C. Bell... 1 1,100 Roosevelt & Joyce 1 300 Geo. Steers...... . 1 600 Perine, Patterson & Stack. 5 2,930 Eb. Webb. 0 1,330 8. Snedi 0 1,130 Jabez Williams. 1 340 E. WilNams.. 1 90 Isaac C. Smith & Son. 2 1,275 Capes & Allison... . 1 735 yi Use Acre mnratt 23 21 27,648 VESSELS NOW BUILDING IN NEW YORK. Steamers. Sing Ves. Tons. Westervelt & Co oe & 2 9,000 Wm. H. Webb. -t 1 2.100 Thos. Collyer. . co 1 1,700 Smith & Dimon at 0 3,100 Wm. Collyer. ok 1 1,520 J. Simonson at 0 700 0 1 1,400 0 2 ah 2 k, 1 2 Jabez Williams... . 0 1 Isaac C. Smith & Son. 0 2 Capes & Allison, ae | 1 Total........+5 Baenoncd 12 16 RYCAPITULATION. Steamers. Sing Ves. No. launched in 6 months. 23 21 Number building........ 12 16 Gross total...... 57 54,973 Showing that 27,648 tons have been launched in this city since the first of the year; of which twenty- three were steamers and twenty-one sailing vesscir, and leaving on the stocks twelve steamers and six- teen sailing vessels, of the aggregate burthen of 64,973 tons. Asusual, steamers form a large proportion of the new vescels—there being twenty-three of that ‘class of the forty-four vessels launched this year ; and of the twenty-eight vessels now on the stocks twelve of them are steamers. Of the sailing vessels, clippers comprise @ large number, eleven of that peculiar building having already been lavnched th’s year, aud of the un- fiuished vessels nine are of the same character. This does not include the steamers, which are in reality steam clippers. Three-masted schooners appear to be coming popu lar among ship owners, several of that class having been recently constructed. Their advantages over square-rigged vessels consist in the small number of hands required to work them, and their superiority in speed on particular winds. In addition to the above enumerated ves:els, we heard of some unmatured contracts for several large steamers and sailing vessels, the keels of which will probably be laid down in a few days. rat abot | Launch at New London, [From the New Loudon Carouicle, July 2 A fine clipper schooner, built by Mr. Wm. Millerfor Mersrs. Henry P. Haven and ‘hos. Fitch 2d, will be jJaunched this afternoun at about 6 o'clock, at Mr. M.'s ship yard, near fort Trumbull. This vessel is areca ot very superior model, and is of about U0 tons burthen, built tor a fast sailor, coppered aud copper fustened. Her length on deck 13 103 feet; breadth of beam, 27 feet 7 inches; depth of hold, 9 feet 3 inches. She has a high quarter deck and round stern, and her cubin is finely furnished with state rooms aud excellent accommodations tor pamenaets. She will be loaded immediately and esp atched for Houolula, 8. I.,and will provably be employed in the trade of the Pacific between that port and £an Francisco, Her name, the Restless, will revive recollections ofthe very earliest navigation of our waters, her owners having given her that christeaing ig memory of the first vessel that ever entered Long Island Sourd—at any rate throngh Hell Gate, whatever the Nerthmen ay have done some centuries be- fore, between Montaug Point and Watch Hill. Io 1614, Adrien Block built a little yacht onthe Had- on, of about forty feetin length, and passing through the then frightful whirlpool which lie called Heil Gate, explored the coast of New England us far as Cape Cod, visiting nearly all its rivers, harbors, and hevdlands on his way. This was more than twenty | rece before Winthrop and his companions settled | New London, and six years before the pilgrims lauded at Plymouth. Mynheer called his diminutive craft the Restless, and Messrs. Haven and Fitch could | not have telected a better nawe for their new slp- per, for it is the opinion of those who are judges of such matters that it will be difficult to of her at rest long in a place—at any rate to keep her very loug between any two points on the globe after she is once let loose. What a contrast between this beautiful vessel and her clumsy and uncouth old namesake of the seventeenth century! How would the sturdy old Dutch navigator o! that time feel if he coald come here with his ten pair of breeches and look around | him now? Cowiug to anchor, as he likely enough did, under the rocky promontory of old Mamacock— there were an upper and lower Mamacock then—he little thought that in somewhere about two hundred end forty years that woody highland would present one of the finest military Works in the world, and that another on the opposite side of the river would be the scene of @ bloody battle and become an an- tiquity. Little did he imugine tbat the rocky hill and tangled swamps north of his anchorage would population | and its beautiful church spires; and less than all did he imagine that this clean built craft, with her beautiful appointments, her sharp bow, and her taper mastr, was about to be launched from the Bs where he went ashore from his ugly punk to barter his tobacco with the tawny savages for beaver skins. Tne Cnorera av Witttamsporr, Mp.—It seems to be admitted that they have had,and still have, the cholera, or some other similar disease, at Williams: | port, Md. The Boonsboro’ Odd Fe'low,ot the 2vth ult., tays :—Alter a bd | and foolish effort was made to deny the existence of the cholera in Williamsport, the paper published there, and the citizens, acknow- ledged the fact. Since our last there has been nu- merous new cases and many devths. On the 25th there were five deaths, on tie 26th five, and yester- day three, up to which time there has been dpward of 160 cares and fifty-five deaths. Many of the citi- zens are leaving. We hope thatthe divease has done its worst and will subside. A letter has been received here stating that there were forty-five new cares yesterday, the 28th, but does not mention the number of deaths. Among the victims is the Post- master. The eame paper states that a colored boat- man from Williamsport died of cholera at Sharps- dinrrhera prevails there to a slight extent. A report that the cholera had appeared at the College of St. James is positively contradicted by the Hagers- n papers. The students are in good health gen- rally, some few having had a slight attack of diarrboa. Near Mont, , Alabama, Mr. Alpheus Jones rushed npon ler, in the net of adultery with Me wife, Mre. Jones, whon the doctor drew a bowie knife, Killed his assailant, and escaped. om Mi | understood among men of all parties; but the chair- Our Boston Correspondence. Boston, July 2, 1853. The Constitutional Convention—Unwise Action— Hot Personal Debates—Temperance Prosecutions —Temperance Statistics—My Lord of Esser— The Boston Post Office—Country Offices—Pep- perel—New Bedford—Fall River—Old Liners in the Shire—The Worcester Post Ofice—A Demo- cratic State Convention proposed, to act against General Cushing, §c. The Convention is getting to be as ill-bred as that of France, in 1798. That everlasting, still-begin- ning, and never ending subject—the basis of repre- sentation—has been under discussion all this week, and some gentlemen have been talking about one another, in course of their discussions, and to their faces, just 98 they do in private. Some of the Bristol “ anti-whig” delegates, headed by Marcus Morton, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Hathaway, a spirited hunker from Freetown, have combimed to aid the whigs, as it is said. They came to- the Convention determined upon ruling it, or ruin- ing its work. They were regularly used up in a fortnight after the Convention met, and are now do- ing a great deal of mischief to their friends—the mother of mischief, as the proverb says, being no bigger than a midge’s wing. Mr. Butler and Mr- Hathaway had a set-to on Wednesday, and cut each other up in fine style. A civil war of two hours took place, the whigs leaning back in their seats as far as they could (the backs do not slope, though some of their occupants occasionally do) and enjoy- ing the tragic comedy with great good humor—men being so very amiable when their enemies are de- stroying themselves. The Convention has acted very unwisely in voting that its members shall be paid $3 per day for their services, when it was understood that $2 per day was to be the compenration. The contest between the conservatives and the radicals, about calling the Con vention, extended over a period of two years. The whigs objected to it, among other things, that i would cost a great deal of money. The reformers re- plied that it would not cost the half that the whig said, and pledged themselves, through their papers, in conversation, and in course of a debate in the Stat: Senate, that the pay of delegates should be $2 per day, the same that was paid to senators and repre- sentatives, The whole matter was apparently well man of the committce to whom the subject of pay was referred, and who is ® whig, reported an addi- tional doar per day, and the Convention, by an overwhelming majority, greedily swallowed the bait. The difference tu the costof the Convention willbefrom | i thirty to forty thousand dollars ; the latter sum,showd | the Convention sit until August, as it is now thought | it will. Of more than two hundred and fifty coali- | ton members, only fifty-four has voted against the | twindle that has been perpetrated. The people will | not be much concerned about the additional expen: | diture, but the meanness of the act cannot tail to cause much disgust. A State tax, for the first time in many years, has just been imposed, and the whigs | will be sure to make a great use of this grab at bor- | rowed money by the friends of “ retrenchment and reform.” ‘The majority of the Convention does not seem to be gitted with a great deal more wisdom than it pleased Heaven to bestow upon the majority of the last Legisluture,‘and perhaps the odium ia curred by the one will come to be balanced by that incurred by the other. | ‘TLe discussions in the Convention are ofthe most, | wearisome character. All had been said that could | be said, with interest, on the representative question, | mere than a week ago, and the latter speeches and | debates have been of the character of the discussions in a noisy, ill-govorned debating society, fall of ig- | norance, impudence, and want of courtesy. Brawl- | ing pettifogyers are in the places of statesmen and sober minded people. i’erhaps the “ blow out’ that | accompanies the Fourth will have the eflect of | clearing away the baziness of the moral atmosphere. The temperance people are showing their teeth in different places, aud are bent upon establishing the | 1 utter inefficiency of our Maine law beyond all doubt. | Cem; laints have been made the present week, in | several towns. against persons who are “guilty of | being suspected” of having violated the law. In | Concord, where the criminal term of the Common | ¢ Pleas court is now in session, bills have been found | against innkeepers. The accused will escape, as | heretofore, the law being a mere sieve. It is well | known that its friends do not expect to obtain con- victions under it, except when they have had the | luck to pounce upon some poor [rishwomaa who | may have disposed of a few cents’ worth of whiskey, | and about whose trial no one feels any interest; but they do expect to demonstrate that there must be more legislation against the liquor business, and s0 | stir up all the fanaticism in the State to their aid. | Every failure to convict will bring some votes to their cause, and so they will become a power, and will have the pleasure of being conciliated. Some curious statistics haveflately come to light on the quantity of liquor that it requires to heal | wounds in the families of temperance men. It has been ascertained that if a chiké of a temperance man | happens to cut its thumb, it takes three gallons of | the very best brandy to completely restore said | thumb to a condition in which it might be said of it | that it is “discharged—cured;” and what is still | more singular is the fact that the accidents in tem- | erance families trom the use ot knives, axes, and so | forth, are astonishingly large. They are said to mauage offite-appointing business in Salem very nicely. It has been considered proper | to continue Mr. Miller in the place of Collector of | that port, because he is the son of his father, the gellant General of that name; but he only holds the place, as it were, in trust, and for the benefit of dem- ocrats. The real power of the office is in the hands of acommittee, who remove and appoint whom they | please, the collector being the executor of their de- | crees, and the executioner of his old political com- rades. The story goes that when a man desives a place in the Salem Custom Houre he draws up a pe- Fitton, not to Mr. Miller, but to Mr. Lord, to whom it | has been given to bind and to loose throughout Essex county, and at whose suggestion and by whose advice Mr. Merrill, the Garrisonian abolitionist, was appointed Postmaster of Gloucester. Mr. Lord is Jord paramount over themen of Essex, aud I su; pote that the coalitionists down there are read, exclaim, with the Englishman in Charles I’s time, when angry with that bigoted churchman, Dr. | Lacd. —Great Laud, unto the Lord, and little Lord to the devil!” We have had any number of stories about the Post Office here for the week just ending. One day Mr. Bailey had the commission in his pocket, whereap- on Mr. Bailey’s virtues came out in full blow, aud men declared that it was just what they had always expected, and that they Knew Mr. Bailey was a per- fon sure to go ahead, he had so much tact; but when the 30th of June, that magica! quarter day, had been added to the list of kf Sas things, and left no com- mission in Mr. Bailey’s hands—uone that the public | knew anything about, at all events—the same men were reudy to declare that it was abeurd to have sup- pored that that gentleman had any chance; how | could the idea have been, for a moment, entertained, | they asked. They were sure that Mr. Gordon would | hold over—bad always thought so—or else why had | that gentleman, after the death of Mr. Webster had released him from his party obligations, voted for General Pierce? The whole thing was clear as light, | but still we can’t see into it. The probability isthat | the place has been affected by the recent change of | opinion on the subject of Massachusetts offices that | how happened at Washington, and tbat the commis- sion for it is of the nature of a “roving” one, and so | is “all at Fea.” | There are many country offices which have not yet been touched, aud the patriots who seek them are growling like bears. It is thought that some im- pression may he made ypon them in the coure of about two years, and the whole can be completed in about four, so that the applicants will probably enjoy, them during General Pierce's secoud term. hem! The troubles in the town of Pepperell afforded a at of what is oc- curring in a hundred places. It is said that awhig, | Dr. Parker, one of the President's innumerable rela- tives, (I wonder if he admits relations by the way of Adam, for I know a number of people who intend to put in their “claims” in that case,) has been ap+ pointed postmaster, with the intention of letting an old line democrat hold the place, and protect the grounds. Parker has always been a whig, except one year, when he voted the free soil national ticket. The intended democratic postmaster is also after a place in the Boston Custom House, and would be well provided for if he would hold both offices, a sort of political ploralism that it would hardly an- swer to introdace into general practice. There are other claimants for offices in Pepperell who do not exactly like heing “sold” by awhig with a democratic kin on his back, or by a democrat under a whig cloak. A list of the appointments has been published as mode in the New Bedford Custom House. Ido not know a man in the whole lot, but I dare say they are all good democrats, Dr. Leland, who has received the office of Collec- tor of Fall River, is an old line democrat, and a very d and able man. The sun is shining now on the unker side of the house. A prominent member of eden told a gentleman who was at Washing- | on, a few days since, that the policy of the adminis- tration, with regard to Massachusetts appointments, had been entirely changed, which accounts for some things that appeared to be unaccountable. The coa- | litionists, however, have secnred so many good things | that they cannot grumble very strongly at the change. another change, and in their for, whens erument nm hi does not s in most cases, unt'l it has completely boxed com You upon it that the made here forth so much comment, were resolved upon, and that they were reconsidered and reversed. Mr. Burke's tion it issaid, had something to do with this change, which has completely altered the fortunes of more than one fellow. The Ldbmeapargesty clrnmgr es, joey are to go to the preservers of the Union, and not to gentlemen who were so unfortunate as to take leading parts in the treasorable work of overthrowing a lene Salat lished whig government of Massacht The cakes and ale are to go to those stern patriots, who, “ be it ouderctood, Left their party for their party's good, and whose quiet labors have been more demonstra- tive the louder ones of Mr. Burke. Mr. Knowl- ton was understood by his friends to be sure of the ‘Worcester Post office, though he himself never pre- tended to have had any assurances on the subject; but, knowing as I do, what a member of the Cabi- net said about the matter a month since, and how favorably the President listened to suggestions in support of that gemtleman’s appointment, some people have not the least doubt that he was killed off, or temporarily shelved through the exertions of Colonel Greene, who dislikes him personally, and whose hatred is emphatically returned—for Mr. Knowlton is “a good hater,’ a sort of goodness in which most of us excel, this surmise be not correct, it is certainly very unfortunate that the change which came over Mr. occurred precisely at the time of Colonel Greene's last visit to the national capital. Possibly this was only @ “curious coincidence.” With a few excep- tions, there has not been an editor appointed to office in New England who is not either a hunker or an uncommonly slippery coalitionist, endowed with the facuity of standing with one foot on the Buffalo platform and the other on the concern that was erected at Baltimore; and in that not over graceful “position —for .t is the literal embodiment of the figure known as “the straddle’’—they contemplate that noble view known to politicians ‘as “the pros- past before us: the prospect behind being not visi- ble, like the Spanish fleet, because it is not in sight. ‘There are said to be four applicants for the Worces- ter Post office beside Mr. Knowlton, who was pro- posed not by himself, but by his friends. I could tell you which of these four gentlemen will get the place, were itn my power to state which has the greatest want of qualifications; unless, indeed, one of the others should prove to have been a Garrisonian abolitionist in 1845, declaring that if Texas came into the Union, Massachusetts would go out of it; or voted for Mr, Van Buren in 1848; or got drank and sang songs in 184 hout regard to the liquor, ortime, or tune; the: ng the principal ‘claims’ for office, provided they are ied by the essence of ratting, somewhere about a year ago. Things are species too much in extremes, moderate men ink. The “Barstow hunkers,” of Essex county—so called from the name of their most energetic leader— are understood to have it in view to call a demo- ic State Convention, for the purpose of embody- 1 the disaffection in the State against General ing, with whom they are very angry. In Essex county, they say whigs are kept in office through the General's exertions, while democrats can get nothing, or next to it. Mr. Lord is very obnoxious to these geutlemen; and they say that he is Collector of Sa- lem, Gloucester, and Marblehead. They adhere to the President, and speak well of him on all occasions; but say thet he is deceived, he having too much to do to be able to attend to all ee The Eurke movement in New Hampshire they declare Was never intended to express hostility to the Presi- deut, but was directed against General Cashing. They do not hesitate to say that the Attorney Gen- eral bas fallen back upon his whig antecedents. I say nothing, except that there is a great deal of dis- content ameng ail classes of the Essex democracy, but I cannot tell how much justice there is at the bottom of it. In some other counties the old liners are all the other way. Mr. Francis C. Grey, of this city, has given to the Athenwum Library a copy of Lord Kingsborough’s great work on Mexico previous to the Spanish con- quest. The work are, and very costly, the author expending on it $150,000. It is splendidly done, and extends to nine large folio volumes. Mr. Grey, the donor, is @ son of the late William Grey, who came here from Salem in the last gencration, and was one of the first of Boston merchants. He has mn a conspicuous public man, serviag in the use Of Representatives, the Senate, and the Ex- ecutive Council. As a scholar no man stands better. He has delivered many orations, having a high re- putation for oraterical power. He has written much und wellon the early history of Massachusetts, in vtion with the publications of our State His- al Society. He used to write for the North American Réview, was a leading member of the Prison Discipline Society, was President of the Bos- ton Athergum, aud was distinguished in other ways. He isa man of liberal ideas, and, unlike some men of the kind, he is not less liberal in action. Mr. Hawthorne will leave here for Liverpool on Weeénesdey next, with his family, in the Niagara. All his arrangements have been completed, and he will be prepared to enter at once on the discharge of his arduous duties, in the city of Roscoe. It is to be hoyed that he will find time to write, or the reading world will never forgive the President for making him a Consul. The Fourth will be very extensively celebrated throughout Massachusetts, more so than for many years past. There are t» be military parades, civic pro ions, orations, any amount of euting, (but no drinking, except by temperance men with weak stemachs), and no end of fire works, in many towns. It is pleasant to see this, as it proves that the interest in the day does not grow less with the progress of time. Our city celebration will be good, but it never amounts to any thing beyond the oration and the dinner, and the display of pyrotechnics in the evening. We Yankees make such a business of enjoving our- telves, that we are regularly done up by the occur- rence of a holiday. ALGomA. The Tarf. MICHIGAN. Dernorr, July 1.—The entries for the first race yesterday, were :— ig Indian, b. b 211 Prairie Bird, ch. m. 138 Phebe Dodd, s.m.... .3 3 2 Big Indian, the win king dark bay stud, tall and full of fire; he came out fresh after the first heat. Prairie Bird was a handsome dark chestnut; when stripped we thought her rather too foll in flash to last; though she made good time on the first heat it appeared to use her up. Phebe Dodd, was a little sorrel; she made a stumble on going the first mile; she was in good order, and though pushed hard on the third heat to win she ap- veared little the worse for it, but she had not the vot for either of the other to. First heat—Pheke, though on the outside, made a bold push for the track and won it, bat in going past the quarter pole stuinbled, and Prairie Bird mace a flight past her, clovely followed by the Red Skin, who lapped the mare's quarters twice or three times, and in eoming round the turn for the straight run to the score it was impossible to say which was first; the rush was tremendous up to the score, Prairie Bird coming in about a length ahead in 1:61. Second heat—The Indian took the lead, going up the first quarter, with the Prairie Bird fluttering after him, sd on her quarter. The Red Skin opened a small space between herself and the chest- nut on the third quarter, which she closed on com- ing to the turn, but in ae to the straight stretch to the score she lost, the Big Indian rattling past two lengths head. . Third heat—Big Indian took the lead, and the Prairie Bird showed that the two addi runs had done her up, and only hobbled up the first two quar- ters. Meanwhile the little sorrel pushed up the Red Skin to do his duty, keeping just about a length be- hind all round. The bay horse run this heat in 1:57. Time, 1:51—1 ‘Ge Second Rack.—This was the great race of the day, and was really one of the finest runs we have ever seen. ‘The match was for a purse of $200, a single run of two miles, between Grey Eagle, a | fuvorite grey horse, and Madeline, a very beautilu chestnut mare that showed marks of good breeding Grey Eagle, previous to the start, from his known capabilities, was the favorite, and bets were easil: obtained of 10 to 5 that he would win. Both ani- mals when stripped were in beantiful condition, the mare, if anything, showing a little fall in flesh. At the tap of the dram both started very even, Grey Eagle having the pole; but before reaching the first quarter stake Madeline had the track, with the gallont grey on her flank, both holding hard, and not expending their strength in the first half mile. Coming down the stretch the Eagle made a dash to win the place of honor, but the lady would not allow it, coming round the turn at a rattling gait, and up to the pole ahead about a length, both stretching in beautiful style, with their bellies tow, and every leap at the topmost J gee Round the first quarter went this gallant and well matched pair, and now the friends of Gre: le held their breaths, for it was evident that Madeline had as much grit in her for a long pull as the grey, while her stride was fully equal to his, and she gathered herself together better at every leap. On the second and third quarter the grey closed npon ber, but could not pass; every time he came she let ont'a link or two, and did not mend it a Bit; down the back stretch and up the straight run to the seore, Madeline flew with uma- bated Me while the rider of the grey plied both whip and spur; but it was all no use, the lady was bound to do the honors, and she had her way, aud came in to the score a length ahead in 3:43 ; first mile 1:49, second 1:54. This is considered extraordinary good time, some of the purest blood Lag 3 considered doing well when winning two mile heats on the Kentacky couree in 3:414, and $:424 and 3:46. The last num- ber of the ry of the Times mentions as a remark- able race that won by Sallie Waters, three yeara old. corryine cighty-eix ponndas, in April last, in'3:40, 3:37 and 3:39, on the Metarie course, nowlton’s prospects » Our Bellows Falls Correspondence. Be.Lows Farts, Vr, July 1, 168%. | The Beautiful Prospects in Verment—Tyout Fish ing—Inducements to Migrate, fe. §¢. O, ye poor, miserable Gothamites, how I pity you! While you are sweltering under a hot sun, and roast ing your heels on the hot pavement, here I am ag cool, shady and comfortable as a cucumber. I have travelled all over the United States, and this is the pleasantest place to spend the summer season that I have found yet. The Island House is a new hotel, possessing all the modern improvements, and is ag well conducted as any house in city or country. The drives aud walks about the place are delight. ful, and the scenery is not surpassed in any part of the world. Water is brought into the town & /a Cro, ton, and many of the private residences are adorned with fountains. Not much attention has yet been paid to bathing facilities by the townspeople, but it will not be long before every house will have a bath+ ing room aud every yurd a fountain. About twe miles ‘rom here are the beginning-to-be-semewhat- celebrated Abenaqui Springs, and there are several invalids here from a distance for the purpose of being cured of their numerous ills by drinking and bathing in the water. Attached to the Springs is a very good bathing Louse, and close by is a bowling alley. The water is composed of sulphur and iron, and it is said to be very efficacious in ail serofulous and skin dis- eases, TheS wred by a gextleman fromr New York, and it is to him alone that the publie ia indebted fer the bathing house and bowling alley. Close by this villige is « very high mountain, fiom the top of which a very fine aud extended view is obtained. The moun'uin is very rocky and rage ged, and it looks to be almost perpendicular, but winding road bas been msde so that carriages are enabled to go nearly to the top. At the base rung the C mnecticut river, a stream not equal perhaps ta the Hudson, but one that is considered “ some” for this part of the country, There are no shad in this river so far north ag this, but occasionally pike are caught of a very fing quali, and weighing from five to twenty-five pounds. ‘There are quite a number of gentlemen in the place who are excellent fishermen, and every season therd are several pi-catory excursious made to the lakeq and trout streams in the northern part of the Btates Thave but just returned from an excarsion to Wil- loughby Lake and the White Monntains, and the number of brook trout I caught while I was gona would reem to you incredile. At Willoughby Lake there is a fine hotel, and the scenery around is grand and romantic in the extreme. The fish caught ig this like are a species of trout called muscalung, and somewhat siwilar to those caught in Lake George and: other large lakes. They weigh ofter twenty-five to thirty pounds, end although they are an excellent fish thr y are ict equal, in my opinion, ta the small speckled “brook trout caught in the emall, streams. You can leave New York at 8 o'clock A. M., { the New Haven Railroad, and arrive at St. Job bury, the turminus of the Vermont Railroad, at o'clock in the evening. A good night’s rest at St. Johnsbury Hotel probably would not set a back any, and the next morning a ride of twent; five miles to the White Mountaius, twenty-thi miles to Lake Willoughby, or tweuty-one miles Greensborough Lake, over ood road:, and drawn by. food Vermont horses, would have the effect to set him ahead considerably, und tend to give him some- thing of an idea of what Nature conld do in the wap of hills, rocks and mountains, if she were only to A ney of six gentlemen went to Greensboro: (in which town is Greensborough Lake,) a few di since, on a fishing exerr-ion, and although they fished only two days, they cought between eight and nine hundred irout. They fished altogether im small streams, it heing rither too late in the season to fish in the Jake, and the trout were all quite small, but | am assured the sport was capital. I in- tend to go over the same ground in a day or twe, and I will then give you an acvount of ps suecess, UBENS. Our Monticeilo Correspondence. Monrice.xo, Sallivan Couaty, June 27,1853. The Interior of New York—Increrse of Summer Ree treats—Who Wants Fiesh Air?—Mor®Trout. Travellers fur pleasure or for bealth—thoee wha wish to leave the dust aud heat of cities for the re | {reshing verdure and pure air of the country—we, ag one acquainted with this region, advise such to seek, in their tour of travel, Mouticello, Sullivan eomnty, New York. In this beeutiful village, bracing moan tain air is inhaled in its most exhilerating sense, at the elevated point of 1,500 teet above the level of the sea. The lovely appearance of the tasteful dwel- lings, embowered in shade, and ornamented with flowers, refreshes the eye with rural beauty, and the extended undulating surface of the country, where laurel-covered hills, gay with blossoms, swell on the vision like waves of the sea, delight the lover'of the picturesque. Little fuiry lakes, filled with fish, lie embosomed among the liiils, and near at hand that attraction to the fisherman, brook trout are abun- dant among the streams of the mountains, There are few spots in the country that ree with this region forthe promotion of health. Here fogs never prevail. ‘The airis clear and pure as the delicious and healthful water that gushes in spark- ling beauty from the mountaius. Here the consum tive receive rapid improvement, and the bil- fous invalid appetite and strength. Children soon become ruddy in this region, and fully re pay, in their vigor and bloom, the paing taken to bring them here from the city. ‘To those who take our advice to come to Monti- cello, this land of verdure, moantain air, berries, and trout streams, we wiuld say come while the season is hottest, jor here the pigits are always cool. Take the Erie Railroad to Middletown, Orange county, three hours ride from New York, and frong thence by stage over a plink road t» Monticello. This will afford, for one dotlar only, a drive of twenty miles through a wild, beactiful country. When once here inquire for Wiggins’ Hotel, a house kept by a most agreeable lendlord, who will accommo- date you on rensonuble terms, aud in the most gen- tleminly manner. His house is very commodious, and unsurpassed in neatness anywhere,and possesses, to ladies especially, the recommendation of quiet ness and retirement which a stage house cannot have. TRAVSLLER, Our White Sulphur Springs Correspondence. Wuire Suteavr Srrenes, Va., Jane 23, 1853. The Virginia Spring Circle—Northern Visiters—« Arrivals from the South, §c., §c. The Herap is so gereraily the paper of ever{ section, and of all circles, as to make it the prop vehicle for things both gay and grave, inthe worl around us. ‘The mineral springs of Virginia have attracted fal too little attention in our Northern States, both freng the seekers of health and the votaries of pleasare, True, New Yorkers and Bostoniaus, as well as Phila- de)phians and Baltimvrians, visit them annually by hundreds, but it ought to be by thousands. No other portion of our Union offers a retreat from the heat and bustle of city life, and city business, at once sa healthful and delightfal as the great spring region of Western Virginia. In no other part of the world, are so many, so various, and 89 yaluable mineral fountains as here. The ten or fifteen distinct varie- ties of medicinal waters found in a circle of leas than twenty miles from the base of the Allegany, offer a remedy, pretty much for every chronic ill to which flesh is heir. And then the cool, salubrious, elastig atmosphere, and fresh mountain breezes, 80 uniform. ly found here during the summer, so renovate and rejuvenate the system, as well nigh to convert declin- ing age into sprightly youth. ie ease and facility with which this famous spring region .s nvw reached from New York is so great ag to offer little embarrassment even w the effeminate valitudivarian. In four days, and all by rail with the exception of the last 100 miles, and this in good coaches, and over well graded roads, the traveller irom your city finds himself in the midst of this de lightful_ region. The White Sulphur, the most celebrated, as it is the most beautiful and highly medicinal of the Vir ginia springs, is about the veutre of this great spring circle. Lord Morpeth, when in Ainerica, spent seve- ral weeks here, and{th ught it the most delightfal and highly picturesque spot in the world, Indeed, nature has been with the beauties of bill, mountain, and dale, with which she has surrounded this highly favored place. The well gravelled walks and —the extensive aud well shaded lawn: inviting the leunger and the lever to repose, show that art aud taste have done much to heighten the sublimer beauties of nature. LT have been spending weveral wecks at this eharm- ing place, and although it ix yet early in the seen, 1 find interest Tepiere: a aa onr States and cities, and among them, several York Boston. Visi~ pennant parties from Ne ers are now rapidly crowding in from all quarters, particularly from the South and Southwest, and in a few weeks the company will doubtiess be larger bale oie OVX Leia cen Low at a Virginia wa