New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-10-31
Enr The Tribune.
a Perpetual Polytechnic E1h1ni'ion'

Poluteclnic Erhibition And as only one es-
! adjustment of the kind can be sustained ID
this city, the several Associations OF New ORR
| and BROOKLYN have been invited to send members
10 Convention of Delegates to assemble at the
New York Society Library rooms, on Thursday
evening next at O'Clock ?. NJ, to take the sug-
pcs,ion into consideration. We hope all the
Societies organized "to Promote Art, Science
and Literature will be fully represented. y
Central Convention of this kind may lead to some
useful result. even should not the immediate OBJ
| icct proposed for consideration be acted on. A
circular proposing this Convention, was addressed
BIZ the Mechanics Institute to the other SocieteS
of this city. which, we are happy to learn mas
been responded to in favorable terms by seVerai Oh
our most respectable Institutions
The object is one of great Importance, and II
got up ina style commensurate with its utility,
will prove of the greatest advantage to our whole
community.
The idea, is, to raise up something analogous,
if not superior to the Polytechnic Institution
| in London, which is kept open to the public the
| wear round, and is the admiration OF all who
visit that large city.
In this establishment there is fine steam en-
zine, always at work, and used for driving work
| ing models Of every kind of machinery. 1t also
has on the first floor, fine basin Of pure running
water, on the surface Of which, float models OF
every kind of water craft side sluices are also
formed for the purpose of illustrating improve
ments in Canal Locks, Water Wheels, &c.
There arc besides, rooms for Paintings and Sculp-
turc. and for Chemical and Philosophical Instru-
ments The whole is attended by persons COM
petent to explain them.
From four to six Lectures, arc delivered during
the day and evening, on all the leading branches
of useful knowledge, demonstrated by working
models, or other striking means, and delivered IN
a style of popular elocution. To witness all the
| objects in this splendid Institution, and hear all
| the lectures on one day. cost only one shilling
sterling.
The best lecture the writer of this article ever
| heard on the steam engine, was delivered IN TINS
place. And so popular had the Institution be-
come, that we were told by the superintendent
| that one hundred persons, on an average, visited
It's saloons daily. Large numbers Of parents with
their children attended, N order that their minds
might be amused and instructed at the same time
1t was truly pleasing to witness the intense lnte
rest manifested by children of all ages, in every
1
exist but such an institution would confer in
finitely greater benefit on the community in New
York than institutions ofany other kind. Every
man of property-every father of a famy-every
phanthropist in New York, arc interested in
creating such an institution. We trust and hope
that the time will arrive when one central nstlu-
| ton of this description shall be permanently
opened on the most liberal scale.
II Friend to The 1drGce Of Mankind in DSetu Knowledge
The NEw-YoRx Journal or MEDICINE The Col
! LATERAL VIfNs. Edited by SAMUEL FoRRy, I'D.
This number has several interesting articles,
and among others long account of the Rond-
| out Fever" The Editor designs to add to the
present class of subjects Meteorological Obserya-
tons taken in New York Harbor. A Medical
Journal of this description is at present much
needed in New York. 1t is published by the
+" Langeys,' Chatham street.
u The RAINBOW AND n. Y. WEEKLY VISIT
En- published by G. Hatch has eappeared 1t has for
frontispiece all excellent likeness Of Mayor Morris We
believe with the Editor that is time give families
thing beside love stories and that facts better than fiction
n In the number of the Revue DIES DeuX
Mondes published at Paris for the month of September
S''Ai
blot, taken amos, word for word from the article which ap
peared in late number Of Hunts Merchants Magazine,
without any Acknowledgement whatever The article
prepared for the Merchants Magazine by Rober Greenhow
Librarian and Translator the Department of State the
suggestion of Mr. Webster, while Secretary of State.
VINO READS AN AMERICAN Book I'VE are in
formed that Tegg London bookseller and publisher real
lied $40 900 from the sale of "The Girls Own Book"
Frugal Housewife by Mrs. l.. NJ Child of this city
The first edition Of her Letters from New York" s
tirey exhausted
How Gov. MoRroN WAS ELEcrzp.-It has
been asserted by the LocoFo papers that Marcus Morton
elected by the of the people We that he
was elected by
Justices Commissions, Light Honsr, and
r S "a a oo. new kind Of poea capital in old
ofhe State relish its introduction. IN. Bedford Mer
OFF THE TRAcK.-The Eastern train from
Buffalo on Saturday evening off the track of the
Tonawa nda road about twenty miles from Rochester One
OF the second class cars containing sixteen passengers made
a complete somerset, but seriously hurt. The
accident supposed have been caused by the Of
| frost upon the track
ACCIDENT AND DEArH-Edward Ftz Patrick,
worthy lad Of this town. while riding on hand car
precptated backward and fell i'll front of the car which
passed directly his breast crushing the ribs the
lungs He survived but short time 1t is singular fact
that his father lost his life few weeks the railroad
| Goshen Dem.
q The Cincinnati Gazette says: "The debt
of Mississippi created furnish capital for the Planters
and Union Banks S7O000OO, beside interest
The whole can be paid by the levy Of of about Of
per cent the assessed property of the State. The Wings
battle nobly for this and the honor of the State
u On Monday night, the Brass Foundry of
Mr. Brooks in Louisville, was destroyed by fire.
THE Misses SHAws CONCERT REPEATED.-
The Apollo filled last evening with pprecating
dience who rewarded the melodies Of these charming Eng
sh sougstrese with enthusiasm eMege,c and sus-
pect quite that which has rewarded the efforts