New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-09-29
FIX, THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 20, Es42

peated again the following day, when the Doctor
and the General again went down to the bottom
with the same success, and they were followed By
Mr.. Hardyman, mechanical assistant to the Doc
tor, and Lieutenant Hutchinson, and each of them
brought up pieces of wood from the bottom. We
should add, that the Doctor takes with him some
cylinders of highly condensed atmospheric air.
which as the diving bell dsscends is evolved and
in consequence the water Notwithstanding its pres
on the atmosphere in the hell. s entirely kept
out of it. HampshiIe Telegraph
The MEDIrgRRASEAS.-The Commerce az
nounces the augmentation Of the American naval
force in the Mediterranean by sixtv-gun frigate
the Congress. The dispute between the United
States and Morocco had rot been settled. The
envoy sentby the Commodore to the Emperor had
not been receiyed, and had returned to Tansier
The Commodore is said to be only waiting the in
structions OF his government 10 commence hostii
tiles.
SpA1S-The accounts from Madrid are of the
18th ult Senior Arguelles, the guardian of the
Queen, was dangerously Ill. The Eco del Conner
clio states that the Government was engaged in or
ganzing police force. The Barcelona journals
contain lamenrable accounts of the foundations in
Catalonia.
On the goth of This month the town of Ciecha-
now was destroyed by FIRE; III houses and "A Of
the large establishments are reduced to ashes 300
families have lost everything; the value of the fur
ni;ure destroyed is million OF Polish iorns &c.,,
GOO rix dollars The harvest Is over in almost
the whole kingdom: ii is very abundant. Oats less
so than other kinds of grain We have not yet had
any very oppressive heat Prussan State Ga
zette, Sept A.
CHEMNITz, Sept. I've haze just received
the melancholy intelligence that the town of Say
da was this morning burnt to the ground, with
the exception OF twenty houses. a report states
that Tetschen is in f!anes and several hundred of
acres of forest. They affirm at Dresden that they
clearly saw the FIRE in The forest.
Hamburg papers, Sept g.
IMPORTANT INvENTIoN.-'Yc find in the .NoAi
teur Beige of September 9th, letter frosl Berlin,
dated the 2Sth OF August, in which it is said that
MIR. Lcbonordt, Clock-mater or the Royal Acad
envy Of Sciences and of the Berlin Observatory,
has just made an invention of the greatest import
ance to all scientific operations in which it is re-
quired 10 measure time with the greatest exact
ness. He has constructed time piece which, in
dependently of marking the hours and the minutes,
indicates the thousandih parts of second. For
this purpose the dial of the clock contains besides
the ordinary divisions, circle, divided into
thousand parts, over which the needle passes in
the space OF a second, with continued motion
and not jerking one like that of the common
second hand-whch gives to Its progress all the
regularity and exactness desirable. This needle
may be put in motion and stopped at pleasure by
means of two springs Mr.. Lebonardt has con-
uected with this time piece a contrivance for
measuring the velocity of cannon balls.
70 All the world is going to Dayton. Such an
other meeting has never been held in the great
Western Valley. Ohio is paying up her debt like
a man and Kentucky will receive it in like man
ner We hear from all quarters that mutitudcs
are going to the feast Nearly every county in
kentucky Will have its representation and our
own county will send a pretty considerable num-
Der. Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth.
HEALTH OF NEw-ORLEASs.-At NewOrleans
on the 18th and 18th instant, thirty cases Of
yellow fever were admitted to the hospitals On
the 18th, there only one death of yellow fever,
and on the 10th ten deaths by that disease.
INDIAN ScoUT.-The Tallahasse Sentinel of the
10Th inst. says-W learn that the party who
lately went out from Madison County succeeded
in capturing one squaw
4 PRorEssoR-Dr Robert Enlpie Rogers has
been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Uni
versty of Virginia, in the place of DR.. Emmett,
deceased.
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