The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1854, Page 4

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Fhe Collins mail steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, ‘will Jeave this port this day at 12 o’clock M., for Liv- The European mails will close in this city at half-past tan o'clock in the morning. ‘Too Wamxy Henarp, (printed in French and English,) ‘will be published at half-past nine o’clock in the morn'ng. Single copies in wrappere, sixpence. Sabeeriptions and advertisements for any edition of the ‘Now Yorx Heascp will be received at the following places te Boroye:— Lavenroot..John Hunter, No. 2 Paradise street. wards, Sandford & Co., No. 17 Cornhill. ‘Wm. Thomas & Co., No. 19 Cathoriue street. Livingston, Wells & Co., 8 Place de ia Bourse: FROM WASHINGTON. ‘The Senate yesterday passed the Homestead bill, ana thé bill appropriating $8,500,000 for the re- @emption of the debt of Texas, A number of other Dilla were passed, including the one increasing the pay of executive and judicial officers in Territories. The resolution to print twenty thousand copies of the Nebraska Kansas act, for general circulation, was adopted. In the House the bill from the Senate author- izing the construction of a railroad through Wash- Angton was passed. Mr. B. E. Green has addressed a letterto the special committee charged with the investigation of the Colt patent extension, in which be prefers charges of falsehood and breich of trust against Mr. Bayly, committed while that gentleman was chairman of the Committee of Ways aud Means, which committee had the management of the Mexi- can indemnity fund. The Colt committee did not ‘oonsider the subject as coming withia the range of their investigation, and accordingly refused to have anything to do with it. Therefore Mr. Bayly moved what the committee be instructed to inquire into the matter. After considerable discussion, a special committee of seven, with full power, was ordered. These charges have been before brough against Mr. Bayly, and allowed to pass unheeded. Mr. Dianey stated that “ experience had taught him the folly of relying on the statements of Mr. B. F, Green,” and Mr. Walsh applied the epithet of * miserable vagabond” when speaking of him. Mr. Green is before the people. Every effort is being made to force the ratification of the Canadian reciprocity and fishery treaty ®0 ‘that the House can act upon it before the adjourn ment of Congress. The Senate yesterday, in execu- tive session, had the subject uoder consideration, and it will be brought up again today. The aimini - tration, though confident of the success of this measure, is resorting to those appliances, in a>- cordance with its spoils policy, which it so well knows how to use. But the House may not prove so pliant. Were it not for the frequency of the thing, the announcement made by our correspondent, that the President had stated his approval of the bili makiug an appropriation tor the improvement of Cape Fear river before the measure was introdaced into Con- gress, and now bas determined to veto it, it might excite some surprise. Some philosophers argue ‘that persons should not be condemned for following out their characteristics; but we do not think the North Carolina delegation in Congress has yet be come converted to the doctrine. A NEW OCEAN STEAMSHIP. The new steamship St. Louis, which will run next time in place of the unfortanate Franklin, on the Southampton and Havre route, made her trial trip yesterday under the most favorable circumstances. ° THE HOT WEATHER. There seems to be no difference of opinion as to the quality of the weather which has visited us for the past two days. All agree that it has been ex eraciatingly hot; but lest there should be a few who are in doubt on the subject, we have, in another part of the paper, givea such facts ang figures and reflections as will convince the most skeptical that the weather has been, both here and elsewhere, excruciatingly hot, and is getting hot ter. Oh! fora crash of good old honest thunder and the lightning, anda drenching rain. MISCELLANROUS. Major-General Nathan Towson, Paymaster (jene- val of the Army, died of apoplexy at Washington ity, on the 20th inst. An extended biographical sketch of thie distinguished veteran is given in an- other part of today’s paper. Mise Delia Webster, whose career is well known to most of our readers as connected with an attempt to entice-slaves from their masters, for which she was imprisoned in Kentucky, whence she recently escaped into Indiana, was yesterday discharged by a@ judge of one of the courts of the latter State 2 vho held that no sufficient crime was specified in the requisition of the Governor of Kentucky on which to detain her. Gen. Joseph Hillman, a prominent democratic politician of Pennsylvania, died at Bethlehem, Pa., on Tharaday night, of congestion of the brain. The Board of Directors of the New York Centray Railr: ad met yesterday forthe parpose of declaring adividend. An Albany paper says that a divi of four per cent, payable in September, has boon determined upon, but it has not officially tran. spired. COMMERCIAL APPATRB. Inferior and common to good State brands oj flour again improved 1240. per barrel yesterday Sound to good shipping Indian corn again advyan.eu from ije, to 24¢. per bushel, owing to ligat rece! pts. Primé wheat was also scarce and firm; a small lor ef prime white Genesee sold at $2.85." Cotton so!" fe 9 moderate axtent, withont om 5 ‘Ihe ship Eagle, (not Bald Bagle, as previously mtn prt eet oe. peas for Subverivtions or with Adeer | or the postage day, brought 3,000 arrel: fourfiou,whevo 1+ i board cest about $2 50 p’r barrel. 600 burrels of the lot were sold last weck t 6 25,and th remainder day before yesterday at $5 50 per barrel, TBMPERANCE CONVENTION. The temperance men met in ¢ nvention last night at 461 Broadway, but, bein dvded amon: them: selves, failed to make :omina ions ‘0 ¢ ty ffive , and thus carry out the object, fo which h con. vention was held. An exciting session w sad, a8 will be seen by the report. NEWS FROM EUROPE. The steamsbip Pac fic ef L ve poo! on the 12th inst. for this port. She s, therefore, in her tenth day out, and will probably arrive om» time during the Jay. By her we shall receive four days later news from Europe. : The Prvposed Changes tn the English Car reney—Vaiue of ouc Decimal System, The expediency of adopting the decimal sys- tem of currency stems just pow to be exciting a good dea) of attention in Englacd, Witliam Brown, Esq. M. P., of the well-knowa firm of Brown, Shipley & Co., of Liverpool, bas published a circulur to the beads of the qjffe- revt public schools on the subject, the arga- meuts in favor of the meibod which he recom- menés being chiefly taken from the Chinese systm, of which no very clear details are given, and jrom the Freuch, which, according to Mr. Brown’s own showing, is evidenuy un- suited to English notions and habiis, tue in- teger of their currency being, be con-iders, of too small a value (viz: one frine equal to nearly twenty cents.) The conclusion at which Mr Brown arrives from a comparison of these dit- ferent systems is, that the lowest value as in- teger that can possibly be used to advantage in England, is the £1 sterling. We are surprised that a man of such a high standing in the commercial world as Mr, Brown, should not have gone more practica'ly to work in his calculations, and that before recommend- ing as the only feasible system for adoption in England the scheme that he Jays down of 1000 mille to the integer, he should not have takea the trouble of comparing the simple mechanism of the United States currency with that of other countries, and stated, at least, some satisfactory objections to the adop- tion of a mode of calculatioa which has at least the recommendation of being used by a people distinguished for their predilec- tions for rapid and labor saving machinery. Mr. Brown admits that a great difficulty exists in the translation of the present values of amounts in sterling money into their equivalent values in the proposed currency—that is to say in ratios of 1,000 to the £1 sterling. Were the British government to adopt a currency of dol- Jars and cents, making the dollar four shillings sterling, the difficulty of changing their method of calculation would at once cease. Their £1 sterling would then be equivalent to five dol- lars, their shilling to aquarter of a dollar, and their sixpence to an eighth ofa dollar. But even our system, perfect as it is, is not free from inconveniences. To any one who has made these calculations a study it is evident that the natural division of values in any currency, whether decimal or otherwise, is into halves, quarters, and eighths. However stringent the measures that legislators may adopt to pro- mote the operation of a purely decimal cur- rency, the natural law that divides and subdi- vides values again and again by two, will inva- riably thwart their intentions. The proof of this inevitable yesult is daily experienced in the annoyance arising from the use of our 12 1-2 cent pieces, in which the desire to obtain, without giving value for the difference of half a cent, is apparent toevery one who has occasion to purchase apy retail article, or who enters an omni- bus or ferry boat. In Ohio and in the Southern States generally, this anomaly has been done away with by the Spanish eighth of a dollar or twelve and a half cent piece, bein only estimated at a ten cent value. Owing to the opposition of retail dealers and others in- terested in maintaining the present absurd system which prevails in the State of New York, we fear that it would be difficult if not impossible to bring about the same sensible regulation by the force of public opinion alone. The only remedies that suggest themselves as likely to be attended with success, are the coin- age of half-cent or two and a half cent pieces, or of both, and the calling in and recoinage of the twelve and a half cent pieces, so as to mike the divisions of a dollar, fifty, twenty-five, ten, and five cent pieces. There is, however, another important advan- tage in the United States currency which Mr. Brown seems to have overlooked, namely, the calculation of per centages, all per centages of adollar being simply cents, whilst the per centages of a €1 sterling are not mills but dimes, which have to be multiplied by ten to properly express their value. Thus, 5 per cent on $450 is 2250 cents or $22.50, 5 por cent on £450 is 2250 dimes, or 22500 miils, or £22,500, involving the unnecessary multi- plication arising from the adoption of a com plicated and purely technical system. The result of calculations, of course, is fonnd in numbers of the lowest denomination, and whilst the result in mills, or parts of 1.900 to the to- teger, is as 10 to 1 as to the labor of estimating them compared to cenis, or parts of 100 to the integer, the closeness of approximation to the real value sought in calculation is but as 2 to 1, the cent being equal to nearly 2 mills. Nor is this all—for the proposed English currency is no more free from further eubdivision of its Jowest denomination (mille) than is the United States currency of its lowest (cents). Let ux take, for example, the lace trade in England, in which goods are sold at the fractional value of the 32d part of a penny, or about the 8th part of a mil. To illustrate the argument, we will translate the sum of £1 6s. 94. into the new currency of 1,000 m Ils to the £1, Fa] is 1,000 mills. 69.550 is 300 milla. 98. & 36 mills. 1.336 or £1 3 floriasand 36 mills. Or £1 38. 3 dimes and 6 mills. In the currency of 100 cents to the dollar. £1. b.100 5,00 68. Oo. 1,60 94.9% 2 aw 95,08 In moneys of account the latter has the ad- vantage of two denominations’ only. The for- mer is subject to 2, 3, or 4, at the option of the nser; but we think that in sucl) calculations two denominations oaly— pounds and mills—would be fuaad most convenient The simplicity of the vatue of 100 to the inte ger is much more apparent ia moneys fox change, where shillings and sixpences bear ratora) relation of quarters aud eighths of th» integer, whilst they retaia their old relation tv the pound sterling or five dollar piece, whey wompared with the increased number of thei: ry i} rom the adopti.n of 1,000 parts to the iatoger, Gur Colleges and thelr Gratuates, It's.utom ry witha t look upon every- | thn America wits a fav r be eye, and to | indulge r ther frequently io pr ise of our own suyerior excell nce as a people over all others. We dec y comparisons t at ars mad with a viewt our isparagement, inany andeverything which we possess, and claim to be far in ad- vance of ¢ ¢ rest of the worldin all that makes @ nat on great -nd prosperou. It is true we { are not alone in th 8 respect; butawe are inclined | in come natters to carry w a: m'ght otherwise be considered a true and justifiaBle national pride, to excess. There are many things in which we woul! do well to take lessons from the Old World, and in which nations that we re- gard as behind the age in every respect, are far in advance of us. We might adduce many proofs of what we say, but one will suffice for our prcsent purpose. While our common school system is equal, if not superior, to that of any country, the bigher institutions of learning—the colleges and upiversities—cannot, as a general thing, be favorably compared with those of Ex- In that thorough discipline which is the complete education of the student in the various depart- ments of learning and science, we are very deficient, and as a consequence our graduates leave college with a smattering of Greek and Latin and a superficial knowledge of even the crdinary rudiments of education. It is supposed thata term of five or seven years is—as it certainly should be—sufficient to enti- tle them to a)] the honorary distinctions which are conferred upon them at its expiration, Men who have become suddenly rich by speculation and who have themselves risen from a state of poverty, conceive the ambitious idea of quali- fying their sons for the Presidency, the gover- norship of State, the first position at the bar, or in some of the learned professions; and forth- with send them to some of our first rate col- leges or universities. Richard—who is looked upon as the promise of the family, and who it is expected will carry off all the laurels, is going to study the classics, French, Italian and aecore of languages, besides all the branches of mathematics, natural philosophy, science, and ahost of other things too numerous io mention—finds, when he enters college that ho has got among such a set of jolly, rollicking, devil-may-care, good-for-nothing fellows, that he will not have such a laborious time as he at first supposed, and eventually comes to the conclusion—which his new associates did be- fore him—that it is all nonsense to be overtaxing one’s brains, especially when the old governor at home has a fortune ready made for him. He learns in good time to re- gard his professors as old fogies, who are he- neath the notice of fast men; and his professors too frequently give him reason for entertaining such an opinion of them. A whole class revolts for come real or supposed act of injustice com- mitted by the faculty, and the faculty, after ex- postulating with them, finally consents to com- promise, although it had been proved that cer- tain members of it had amused themselves by singing negro melodies and discharging fire- crackers during recitation hours. Such exhibitions as that we have just alluded to have the effect of turning college education into a farce, and it has already arrived at that point, in the opinion of many. Young men who are utterly devoid of those aspirations for learning, and the respect and position which it should command in a free country like oura, are sent to college, as we have said, in the ex- pectation that they will there acquire a know- ledge of whatever is eonsidered necessary to qualify them for the highest positions in socie- ty. Their time while there is spent more in amusements than in study, so that at the end of their term they are, so far as their mental and mecral improvement is concerned, in a worse condition than when they entered. As Buras says — ‘They gang in stirks and como out asses, Pisin truth to speak, And syne they think to climb Parnassus By dint of Greok. Those who are inclined to doubt what we say should attend some of the commencemeats and judge by the performances of the acquire- ments of the graduates and the proficiency which they have attained after so long a pro- bation. We have had many opportunities of wit- nessing the literary exercises which take place on such occasions, and have listened to some young men who devoted themselves for five and seven years to a study of Greek and Latin, make use of grammar that would put one of our ward school pupils to the blush. At these anniversaries it is the custom forabout a dozen or more of the graduates to deliver an “oza- tion,”’ the dignified title by which a mass of words, without connection, is called, and this is always submitted to one of the professors be- fore it is recited in public. It would be well for the character of our colleges if the inefficient discipline and the de- fective system of education which prevail in them were the only causes of complaint; but there is one more, which we cannot pass over | without censure. We refer to the ridiculous assumption of superiority aml the aristocratic pretensions which characterize the majority of the graduates, and which, we necd hardly say, can never be too strongly condemned in a re- public like ours. They atfect to look with con- tempt upon those who have never studied Greek or Latin, ignorant or forgetful of the fact that many of the greatest men who have shed distinction upon our country were self made, We would have our colleges and our universities equal, if not superior, to those of Europe; and we can see no good reason why they should not be so. But, for the attain ment of this desirable end, it is necessary that they should be governed by men who are quali- fied for the high and responsible position of Profeesors, not merely by their learning, but by that firmness which. is so necessary in the Paypal bd an institution of this character. in what we have said respecting colleges, w must not be misunderstood; our rat spply to all, though we regret to say that they are justified in their application to the ma- jority. ——— Tue Name or rae New Noxraeny Ayr Stavery Party—A Catt Uron tae Sovra.— The Anti-Nebraska State Convention held the other day at Worcester, Maes., has given aname to the new anti-slavery holy alliance of the North. They have christened it the “Republican Party;” and, after declaring that the repeal of the Missouri compromiee renders the « question of freedom paramoant to all other considers- tions,” they declare their fixed principles to be “to bring the administration of the gencral covernment back to its original principles of liberty; fo repeal the Fugitive Slave law; to restore the prohibition of slavery in Kansas anil Nebraska; to probibit slavery in all the Territories; to resist the oc lilo slave States; to abolish rope. so requisite for of Colu bia; to proeect the oo stitutions} vights of all citiz ns going to © ner States; that Mareachu ett b st e constitu ional rig! t, and it is her imperative duty,t e:a:tl we which s! al} protect he p.rs nal freedom of all her citizens.” This is making it strong wit) th» ther nome- ter above nnety in ‘he shade—perhaps a little too strong. The plan of Gree ey 8, first to re- store the M seour: line, and after that is accom- plithed to proceed to tie ab lito. of slavery in the District of Columbia; then to the sup- pression of the slive trade between the States. The differe: ce between the Fourierite plan and that of the’ Worcester Convention is, then, sim- ply this:—While the former coutemplates re- ducing the South to secession, revolution and civil war, by capturing its outpo-ts and cutting up its detences in detuil, the latter proposes to accomplish the’ same end in a gexeral battle along the whole line. The Museachusetts alli- ance goes for ‘ the whole or none.’ Ans this holy anti-slavery alliance of whigs, democrats, and free soilers, and abolitionists proper, is styled the “ Republican Party.” How forcibly this “ stealing of the livery of heavea to eerve the devil in,” reminds us of the indig- nant exclamation of Malame Roland, when led to the guillotine by the sans culotte assas- sins of the Reiga of Terror, concerning the execrable crimes cowmitted in the name of liberty. The republican parity! Woy not bluntly call it by some appropriate name, such as the revolutionary party, or the civil war party, or the disunion party? Well, the ball is in motion. The Massachu- setts Whig State Convention of the 16th of August will most probably merge the whig party of the State, body and breeches, into this abolition republcan party. The grind State, Convention of the anti-slavery confede- rates of this: State, to be held at Saratoga on the 16th of August, may be expected to adopt the Worcester platform. What with these and other anti-slavery movements in the North and the Northwest, we may further expect the ap- pointment of some early day for a national convention of the new Northern anti-slavery alliance. Then our warnings to the Unioa men of the North, and to men of all parties in the South, wid! begin to be understood ; then the honest Union-loving men 6f all parties will appreciate the imperative necessity for the organization of a new national, Union and con- stitutional party, capable of gtappling with this Northern anti-slavery hydra-headed mon- ster, and resolved to lay him in the dust; then the absolute folly and danger of any further reliance upon the administration will become manifest, and then every patrivt will feel the weight of the question—What is to be done? Heretofore, the repeated. ‘agitations of the slavery question have been temporarily quieted in paltry Presidential stock-jobbing compro- mises. Now, the issue direct in the battle must be conclusive one way or the other. We call the attention of Southern statesmen and politi- cians of all parties. and especially the political newepaper press of the South, to the procced- ings ot the Worcester Convention and other Northern anti-slavery movements. avd ask of our Southern coutemporaries to infurm us what is doing in the South, what Southern men pro pose todo, and what they ought to do, in re- 1érence to the crisis which is upon us. It is bere; and_no honest lover of the iustitutions the constitution and of the unity of this re- public can any longer blink the issue. We cal) in vain upon the scattered fragments of the old broken-up political parties of the, North; if the New York hard shells are to be sus- tained in their national principles. they must be sustained by the South. Let us hear from cur Southern contemporaries. Whathave they to say? Puizxty or Veroxs—Sraicr Consrrecrion.— According to the latest advices from Washing- ton General Pierce will eclipse Captain Tyler in his vetoes, We are informed by a Wall street cotemporary that the President is about to veto the bill appropriating $140,000 for the improvement of Cape Fear river, in North Caro- lina, as a preparatory step tg the same quietus to the River and Harbor bill of two or three millions for the commercial rivers and harbors of the whole Union. We are also informed that he is preparing a veto for the bill providing for surveys of the public lands and the new Terri- tories, because of its grants of homesteads t. actual settlers at twenty-five cents per acre ; and thig will give the death blow to the Home- stead bill. At the same time we are admonished that the Kitchen Cabinet are very anxious for the pas- sage of the corrupt lobby stock-jobbing Wiscon- sin Railroad bill, and a score of other bills of the same pattern, aud that they feel a very lively interest in the bill for the extension of Colt’s pistol patent, whereby he may be indem- nified for the expenses incurred in the erection of that London factory for the manufacture of his revolvers for the British army. Land job- bing schemes, patent monopolies, and Gadsden treaties, are the trump cards with the Kitchen Cabinet. Lunatics, free farms, and rivers and harbors don’t pay the lobby, and are, of course, unconstitutional. Nothing like strict construc- tion--nothing. Russian Dirvicunrms wirn tae Ustrep Srates.—The article which we quoted yester- day, under the above head, from the Courrier des Etats Unis, taking it for what it professed to be—a communication from one of its corres- pondents—turns out, as usual with all the ori- gival intelligence of that paper, to have been a mere rehash of » stale paragraph which has been running the round of the French and Bel- gian papers. There are indications in its style which lead to the conclusion that the story ha: emanated from the fertile brain of that prolific discoverer of mares’ nests, M. Etienne Monliet, of the Patrie. Pretry Goop ror Cattrorxta.—The follow- ing items of the army bill in the House indi- cate a very generous disposition oa the part of Congress towards the Golden State. and a high- ly commendable resolution to relieve Secretary Guthrie of his surplus revenue as fast as possi- ble. Here they are, and among the other ap- propriations there will be perhaps several mil- lions more for California:— i 4 ie Indian hostilities ia Calltor- fo sine For State Government of do. in 1849 ane 55 For Surveys, &e.,. For survey of boundary line. For Custom houze and store Total now exjenditures for Calif nia propo: to day...... Overcecces . Gadsden treaty and other bills, the expensi- tores for the ensuing year excee] an a peco vate of eighty millions of dollars. Ti's is rotreneb- ment and reform. This ot s polley of the will be a necessity for another general bank- rupt law. He seems to be following exactly in the “footsteps of his iHustfious predecessor,” Martin Van Buren. Cantve Mapness.—We are able to give, this | morning, certain valuable information as toa new treatment for bydrophobia, disc»vered } by an eminent physician at Athens, Greece, } and communicated to the United States gov- ernment by an American resident of that place. t Even if the new treatment should be without value to the medical man, the case detailed is very interesting, and must arrest the attention | of all classes, Just now, the information giveo ! us by Doctor Chairétes, is highly important. Sale of More of Mr, Geo. L. Schuyler’s Pro. perty. ‘We gave an account in Thursday’s Heracp of the sale of the household farniture of Mr. Geo. L- Schuyler’s town resicence, in Fourteenth street, and to-day we are called upon to notice the sale of the furniture, horses, carriages, &c., belonging to bis country sest, at Dobb’s Ferry. The house and land being the personal estate of Mra. Schayler cau- not be seized by the creditors, and was not, there- fore, put up with the rest of the property. The building itself is a very plain, unpretending strac- ture, but it is situated in one of the most beautiful localities on the banks of the Hudson. Erected on the brow of abill it commands a magnificent view of the river and its scenery to the distance of twenty ortnirty miles, while in its immediate vicinity are Tarrytown and other places celebrate1 by their as sociation with the war of the Revolution. Th: house iteelf is almost concealed by the trees which cluster around it, and the land 1 Jaid ont with admirable taste. There are altogether eight acres, which were pre eated t+ Mrs. Schuyler about ten years ago by her father, Colonel Hamilton, whose farm, nambering thee hundred acres, immediately adjoins that of his daughter. The furniture of the house is like the building itself, of the plainest kind, and ita original cost did not exceed five hundred dollars. There were four horses aud two wagons, beside some com- mon vehicles used in farming, all of which were sold to persons outside of the family, with the ex- ception of two of the horses which, with the whole of the farniture, was purchased by Colonel Hamil- ton. The sale was commenced at twelve o’clock, by Du- mont & Jackson, but there was hardly any compe- tition as there were not more than twenty persons present. The first article ald was a refrigerator and the last the contents of the stables, which, with the household furniture, brought about two thou- sand dollars. Among the plate was a piece which was presented by Queen Anne to one of the ances- tors of the Schuyler family, who brought to the court of that sovereign six Indian Chiefs as some of the curiosities of the colonies. The sale did not oc- cupy over an hour, after which the company left the premises and Mr. Schuyler was once more mas- ter in his own house. Lateat from the Steamship Franklin. The following despatches were received yesterday from the agents of tbe underwriters. It will be seen that the chances of saving the vessel are considered but slight by those best enabled to judge of the matter:— re ny go oe L.L, July 21, 1854, ‘ALTER R. Jongs, Esq.:— ‘There is now tifteen feet of water in the ship, and Pearanien, thet le very Hike hope of saving tse Ce, saving ship. We are ausdies our whole attention to the We want no more lightera outside: we want Sastre board vessels, not to draw over four anda belt Pane come in at ites pee os up the bay. We have a quant goods, in pod order, waiting for le lighters. There is too much surf on to ship them outside. J. L, Bows. Morricugs, July, 21, 1854. Water R. Jones, Fsq.— The ship is evidently breaking, and will be a total Joss. What can possibly be saved from her is of little consequence in comparison with siving the cargo. J. A. Pasco. The new steamship St. Louis is chartered to take ‘the place of the Franklin in the Havre line on the 29th inst. ‘Trial Trip of the new Stcamship Saint Lonis. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company having added another splendid vessel—the fourteenth—to their al- ready magnificent ficet, and have consented to ran her, on her first trip, from New York to Havre in plaze of the ill-fated Franklin, The ship is named the Seint Louis, and she made her trial trip yesterday under very favor- able auspices. Before speaking of her performance, wo shall attempt to give a sketch of the build of the vessel, with her accommodations for passengers. The Saint Louis has been built within the past twelve months, under the superintendence of Captain Skiddy, by Westervelt & Sons, of this city. She was.originally intended for the Pacific trade, and is therefore of shar) make, and furnished at present with weather guards, rendering her in every respect & worthy consort for the Sonora, which has enjoyed #0 good a repu- tation under the management. of the same company. The length of the Saint Louisa is two hundred and ninety feet (carpenter) and two hundred and seventy feet government mgasuremeat. She is of two thousand tons (carpenter) and eighteen huudred tons government measurement in burthen, and‘ is built of double floor timber with solid bottom, and furnished with double and diagonal braces. Her fitting up is in excellent taste. The ample and well-ventilated diving saloon is on deck, as in the vessols of the Collins live, having its partitions of polished oak, relieved with a series of panelling psiuted pure white, apd ornamented with gold. ‘Tho state rooms for first class passengers, the apartments for second cabin passengers, and all the berths, both for male and female travellers, in the steerage, are paiuted white in the inside, and of a. light oak color on the outside. These are large and ventilated. in s peculiar manner, from the upper deck, so that, in warm Iati- tudes, the inmates can enjoy a supply of fresh air, con- ducive at once tohea!th and comfort. In the fitting up of the rooms for the captain, purser, doctor, barver, baker, and others, to be employed on theSt. Lonis, the same care has been paid to the comfort of the occu- pants, with the insurance of a proper discharge of their doties, by the arrangements of their offices aud cabine. Here are also an oilery, kitchen, veretable r.om, bakery, ice room, &e., all entirely and completely is tinct. The esiadlishment on board of a jarge aursory, in which children and their attendants can be placed, is anew feature, much to be recommended. In this apart ment there is an ample supply of water, with 2 eommo- ious clothing store in the vicinity. The accommedations for females in the steerage is, like the nursery, entirely distinet from that intenced for males, an arrangement much to be commended. Here they can eat and enjoy the society of each other undisturbed by any of the rude interruptions ao frequently reported as ocootiing in ships where no such classification ia observed. Com- table accommodations can de afforded in the St. is toone hundred end sixty cabin passonvors, and between six and seven hundred more in the othor divi. sions of the ship when on her European trip. ‘The machinery of the Saint Loule has beer ficnished by the proprietors of the Morgan Irow Works of New York. She has two walking beam engines with cylindors fifty feet in diameter by ten feet stroke of the vision. She has two boilers with return flues, having five thou- sand five hundred square feet of fire surface in the »ggre- gate. The engines age furnished with Picseon’s patent double vacuum condensers for supplying tho bollere with fresh water. The average pressure of steam is twonty- five pounds to the square inch, aud the average racaum twenty-six inches of mercury in waypuon gauge. The average temperature of fresh feed water, na delivered by the condensers, is 140 degrees of Fabrenhelt. Afrer rassing the Battery yesterday the Saint Louis male fighieen revvlutions per minate, entting off at bali stroke, This performance may be eousidered rewarkabie in tome respects, and is a peculiarity attending the use | of the Pirsson condenser in the high temperature of the feed water and the perfection of the vacuum. This, to~ gether with the furnishing of fresh water to tho boilors, is the cause of the laxge saving of fuel which occurs when that instrument is employed. The Sonora, alluded to above, ia a steamer built from the same moulds, and having the same bind of engines. She is now engaged in the Pacific trade, and is considered tho most eovvo- mies] verse! afloat, having made the quickes! tefp from Lapewe to ran i reneiccn cm & 1ER, i a Re tree id orints, ginahame and linens from ane ton, 500 black Ince snd for eae et half ois joven. ii iinpmbande, LEE, &i {requis t ati 4 ‘ in Europe furnished with this condenser, so that tt is doyed shat our transatlantic friends will again be in- cebdteo to ys fora knowledge of one of the mechanical improvements which, as it were, impel the progress of the age. ‘dhe steamer has eight large metallic life boats om Ddoard, and every passeoger will be able to enjoy a pro- merace under an extensive awning, whea she is com- yleiely clewred up, and her guards unshipped, which ean be Cone at once. €be leit the Morgan Iron Works yesterday morning, with a select party on boord, and reached the Battery at eleven o’ch ck, im charge of Captain Skiddy, Mr. Joho MeGimm, the veteran pilot of the Paciiic, and other steamship companies, and Mr. John Marshall, engineer. Afier a few evolutions in the bay she ran to the light { #1 ip, against » bead wind and low tide, in two hours and five minutes, Having rounded the light ship, she made- the ron to the Morgan Iron Works in abeut the same time, after having laid to in order to afford the com- pany time to enjoy a dinner on board, Captain Eli- ridge presided, baving on bis right and left William H. Avpipwall, Exq., president of the Pacific Mail Stosmship Compavy, Mr. Quintard, principal of the Morgan Works, Mr Fox, of the fim of Fox & Livingston, Mr. Pirsson, Captain kiddy, Mr. Wickham, Mr. Hoffman, members of the press, and msny other gentlemen. When full justice hud ben done to the good things, Captain Skiddy and Pilot M'Gimm banded the party from the Saint Louis in Lofety, and delighted with her trip. M. Armand, a French engineer, lately wrecked in the l'rankiim, wae, al:o on board, and a ved highly pleased with the a) pestance ‘and pariorternse off the Saint Louis, r This steamer will be commanded by Captain Asa Eld- ridge. of whom it is enough to say that he is the same gentleman who commanded the et ship Koseius, the- ster m+hip Pioneer, as likywise steamship Red Jacket ov her late fortunate and very quick trip w Liverpool; So thet his attention to passengera and to the interests ol bis owners 18 well Known both on the Vasifio and Atlantic cvasts, Marine Affairs. Lacncu OF ANOTHER Mexican War Srvawxn —Messra.. J. A. Westervelt & Co wil launch from their yard foot of Houston street, at 7 P. M, to-day, the Mexican war steamer Gen. Iturbide. She registers 540 tons, and of tbe same dimensions and model as the war steamer Fanta Apna, launched by the same firm a short time back, and forthe same government, the particulars of which we bave before given. Deats BY FEvER aT SRa,—More deaths by the yellow fever on board ship are reported. The schooner Moses Waring, arrived yesterday from St. Domingo city, having lost two by that fatal disease. The victims were John Howey, a native of Ireland, who died on the 13th inst. in lat. 89, and Jon. 78, and on the following day Henry E. Turner, a paseenger. The brig Eliza Burgess, arrived at Boston 20th, from Cuba, reports having spoken 10th inet., in lat. 85 07, the ship Jane Parker, Ouptain Bow- ker, seven days out from Havana for Trieste, under short sail, having but four men fit for duty. She had lost her first officer by fever, and six of the crew were sick, but were improving slowly. Naval Tut: Tox Steam FuicaTs San fy ere following is a complete list ot the officers recently ordered to this ves- sel. ‘hey were directed to report 19th inst., vic.:— Captain, C, K. Stibling; Lieutenants, Overton Carr, W. L. Herndon, &. Key Murray, John C. Beaumont; Master, ©. W. abey; Surgeon, John L. Fox; Passed Assistant Surgeon, asbton Miles; Puraer, McKeon Buc! es Paseed Midshipmen, John kK, R. Hapilton, Jose shipwen, John 8. v. Rua; Gunner, Wilson, Wm R. Mercer, J. P, Fyffe and J. G. Heilman; Mid- ©. Hitter, Carpenter, ‘Jamo’ Me J. @. Ritter; , James - Lonvell; Sailmaker, T. C Herbert. Joshua Follanabee: first assiatante, A. C. Steiners and Ea De Luce; second ditto, James H. Waroer and 7, Al- Ponte Jecknon; third ditto, " msay and Wm. H. Hunt. ‘The steamer San Jacinto is Atting out fora cruise in the Baltic Purser Buchapan has been ordered to her, It ia thought the Downing court martial will contiaue for six weeks yet, — Jersey Int He AcciDEstarLy Kitixp.—A lad Alonzo ne, about twelve ims of age, was instantly kiiled at abou' eight o'clock . He was clim! ig upon a pile 7 Lb athe | CE nie Henderson street, between jontgomes streets, when a portion of the fell upon hi sand lle bead van ease, ied santly. The deceased is the son of J. R. ‘ resides in Montgomery street, opposite the lumber yard. Fimg —A fire broke out ina tenement house at the corver of Prospect and Harsimus strects, owned Henry Kellen, at ope o'clock y afternoon, fire department was immediately on band, and the fire ‘Was got under, but the building was about haif destroyed. 1, was insured ina Wall street com pany for $1,400, whiea fully covers all damage. Y Three or four cases occurred yostorday of persons br- ing aflected by the heat, but none were reported fa‘at. On the afternoon prevjous many of those at work in exposed places were compelled to desist trom iabor o1 se: unt of the excessive heat. Pewrick Coyle, convicted in the Recorder's Court for selfing liquor without license, was fined $5. AcerpEnt.—On Friday morning, John Berrian, aged two years and ten months, fell out of a second story win- dew, broke bis shoulder, and received otver serious in- iviios, which may prove fatal. ° ‘W)llamsburg City News. ett, a member of Bogine Go. No. 1 diol pesientey foe. nett, o . No. noon, after a few hours illness, of eholere. sr Mayor’s Court.—Yesterday Philip Spebler and Lacae Leopold were fined $10 each for disregarding the w. Bepjamin M. Stinman, for encambering the side- walk, was fined $5. caries aurea tee Rate aes opristor ‘wo Shil o Bs penta i the a building, Canton, the pe een moves from this conten tet Ons Hendoed Deena vegtypes stolemfrom it, : Rees & Co. have removed to 385 Broadway, (formerly 289.)—Thivis the only Rees & Co. in thir olty, ant wbere superior daaserrecty are Tooms, Rot - the ovly place Co isfucts ti y for 25 typiste, who seeu: plates eh and purity mood ayes Melod@eons.—8.D. & H.W: Smith's Melo- doons, coloirated for grey greater power, purity and sweetness of tone than those of any other makers, wishing to examine, or purchase at @ very lov price, Brondway-, Malodcous ofall other aty'ce stantly on hand. New Music.“ The tons,” by Oscar Comettent: price the composer, sttoched to Notice.-The Members of the Central Pick- fa Maw peo hg ot ed attend » oe ns on .. at hem to for the eacursion to Ballor's Sag Harbor, |, om Monde: y oe MOMGVGHN’ F. O'HARA, President, [Jon J. Quin, Seereiary. 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