New-York daily tribune., 1842-09-08

duties of Post Captain impair, no special fitness,
has been continued quite long enough. We hope
to see the end Of it.
We regret farther that the arrangement was such
that Lieut.. MAgRY could not be called 20 the head
of one Of the Bureaux. Or him personally we
know nothing; but we do know that his writings
in the Southern Literary Messenger in favor of
Naval Reform have been the principal means OF
calling public attention TO the necessity OF SUCH
Reform, and Of showing its feasibility To Lieut.
Maury and to the Messenger the Country and the
Service owe debt of Gratitude which we hope
they will not repudiate.
Tyler Reform.
The Wing Postmasters at Haverhill and Oxford,
n H. have Just been removed and Loco-F Focos of the
genuine New Hampshire breed appointed in their
places. No charge ives made against the removed
officers, except simply that they remained true to
the professions which John Tyler has belied and
the principles he has betrayed.
T Mr.. Sunderland, late editor of the New
York Watchman makes an earnest appea! to his
delinquent subscribers to pay up their arrears and
relieve him from his anxic,es. From S5O0G due
him he cannot collect $500 which be owes for
paper and printing.
% Lard oil is increasing in popularity lthas
been ordered by tile Navy Agent at Norfolk, Va;
is preferred on the Michigan Southern Railroad,
and is generally used on the Western steamboats,.
There are already three manufactures of it in Gin
cinnati, and several more are in contemplation.
~ The friends of Harvard College are cndeav-
orng to raise funds to supply the new Observatory
with the necessary instruments, IN which it is now
very deficient
% 1t is proposed to have an Editorial Dinner
at Boston at the time of the assembling of the
Wing Convention in ;hat City.
D There is project on foot in Ohio to estab-
sh Methodist Female College, for the purpose
of educating in the higher branches.
20 The Western Star is the title of new
paper supporting Henry Clao, started at Mays
vile, KY.
70 A Young man named Charles D. Robinson
was drowned below the Dam at Genesee, N. Y,
on the 2sth.
10 A Presbyterian Campmeetng is about to
b, held in Owen Co. Indiana.
p A large and enthusiastic Wing Convention
was held at Medina Ohio, on the seth ult.
HEALTH OF NEw-ORLEANs-The report CT the
Board of Health FOR the past week, shows that Il
cases of yellow fever were admitted into the Char
ty Hospital, and that out of the II proved ia
NIT. .bo thoro oh,
dant evidences to prove that the fever Is about 10
prevail as an epidemic. N. 0. Bee, Aug. 30.
PAINFUL ACCIDENTAL Big Woods, near
Warrenvie, Illinois, young man of the name of
Lewis Mills, while attending thrashlng machine
In operation, and standing for that purpose over
the large co g-wheel unfortunately by some means
entangled in tho machinery of his legs, when
it instantly torn from his body little above
the knee, and the bones crushed and ground almost
to powder. AmPutation became necessary, and
he is now doing comparatively well.
Chicago American.
DuEL.-An affair Of honor took place on the
9th between two gentlemen of this city, one of
them connected with the press. At the first fire
ono of tie combatants received his antagonists )
ball in the SIDE the ball striking the ribs and gl1nc
ing round and coming through at the opposite side
The wounded party is likely to do we'll.
N. o. Bee.
AcclDENr.-While the workmen at the railroad
depot in Greenbush were engaged in driving piles
on Monday, one of them, an Irishman, of this
city, named Henesey, accidentally received the
full force of the descending weight Of the piledr
yer on his head, and was, of course, instantly
killed. Albany Argus.
WHEAr.-We are warranted in saying that the
wheat crop, though abundant, and generally in
good order, has not equaed the early expectations
and calculations, by one-quarter-in many cases,
by onr-third less. New Genesee Farmer.
OBERLIS COLLEGE, OHIo.-At the late COM
mencement of Oberlin College, eight young men
were admitted to the degree of a. B. Five young
ladies received testimonials that they had COM
pleted the Ladies Course of Study in the Insti-
tute. About 50 persons have joined the new
Freshman Class. of whom ten are young ladies.
Nine have Joined the Junior Glass in Theology.
THE WHITE HEFER.-There is what Goethe
would call naturalness in the writers upon agri-
culture, that is very refreshing. Defending the
breed of white cows against mputations upoa the
quality Of their milk, the Maine Farmer enumer-
ares of their virtues that '' they are some
times handy to fnd Of dark ms sht.n
Boston Post.
The MAJoRlTY.-The most singular majority
that we ever heard of is tina. claimed by the Dorr
men They strenuously contend that they have
the physca, force of the State in their favor, and
yet they call upon foreign aid to help them ia put
ting down the minority. According to them, the
vast majority of the people. enbracing the virtue,
intelligence, and courage of the State have fed
before weak and cowardly minority. This is the
most curious kind of majority ever seen, and is