New-York daily tribune., 1843-12-20
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| dropped IN at the PATENT OFFICE for an hour
this morning. TO obtain some information from the
capablc, intelligent, and active Comniss;oncr Of
that Office in regard to certain improvements IN
the Useful Arts Whiic there | learned that his
Report is in the course OF preparation, as rapidly
as the pressure of other business will allow, and
will probably be submitted to Congress IN febru-
ary next. His Report Of last year was assalied
by certain of the donating theorists as taking lar
too wide a scope, and in effect constituting his
Office Home Department OF the Government,
which Congress has thus far most mistakenly re-
fused or neglected to establish. That Report,
having been reprinted at low price at The III
bune Office as well as largely ordered by Congress,
has obtained deservedly wide circulation, and
has been productive of great good. do not
doubt that its successor now in progress Will be
equally acceptable and beneficial.
A few facts will here state, which were among
many such made known to me by MIR. Ellis
WORTH in the course Of this conversation. One
relates to the Acclimation Of Seeds. Our Naval
Officers, Commercial Agents and Scientific Trav-
elers frequently BRING or send home the seeds OF
new plants, or new varieties of those already Ia
nlillar here, from various parts OF the world
These are usually planted IN sort OF expenmen-
tai garden, and allowed to grow with sort Of
rude approach by guess or otherwise to the treat
ment they require in their native soil. Nine
tcnths of them prove feeble useless affairs, and
are turned off very unceremoniousy. But 1t has
been found that many Of these plants require Ac-
crnation or so to speak Naturalization, among
US; and several, which at first appeared poor
things have, after fourteen years planting and
replanting, turned out excellent additions to our
stock of plants choice varieties OF old favontcs.
Let not this be forgotten
They have discovered new iertiiizng agent,
or rather new mode of preparing certain fertal-
jzing substances for distant transportation and
inoffensve application, which is pronounced fully
equal in strength and value to the famous Guailo.
It is produced by the evaporation OF animal liquids
10 a powder. Mr.. Els forthcoming Report will
exhibit the process. Ii is thought this will become
2 stspla article of expectation from the rich cat.
tle-raising portions of the West.
= Mr.. Ellsworth considers what IS called
Bommer's Patent Process Of converting any Ve-
getable Substance into Manure" an imposition.
That is the process is most valuable, but Bonn
mer has no patent for 1t, and no right to any.
The process is substantially that Of NJ. Geottroy,
a Frcnchman, and has been very slightly i'm
proved by BONNER, and even that alleged I'M
provement is SAID to be not original with him
Mr. E. viii explain the whole matter IN a letter
in the next Cultivator.'
i saw in Mr.. E.'s office a weed which grew
this year in his cornficld in Indanaat least fiji
teen feet high, and larger than any hoe-llaadlc
| limited that such weeds did not speak well fol
the ehusbandry, but he told me it grew by the side
of the field, and not among the corn. / should
think State which will produce such vegetation
ought not to plead poverty in bar of her Public
Debt.
- But it was Of MoRsEs MAGNETIC TELr-
GRAPH / sat down TO speak. Congress appropri'
atcd $50 900 last session TO test It's merits and
liue of wires is now nearly completed from Baltl-
more to this CITY, for which distance the Iele
graph viii soon be put in operation. | saw thus
invention IN It's infancy many years since, ana
was then sure it would do, but | learn that Prot
Morse has made great improvements on it since
For instance, 1t now requires no one TO be watch
mo it at the end where the intelligence Is to be
received or expected. II writes down Its own
story, so that blind man read 1t, and Will
lot down. alone and IN the dark, messages to haii
dozen different persons or bureauX, commune
Gated to it by touch thousands of miles away,
and transmitted with the speed Of thought. Prof
~, a.,
at the rate of 900 miles (or ten times round
the EARTH per second! Prof. Morse states as the
result of recent experiments that where the wires
make considerable angle or circuit the electrlcl-
ty has habit Of cutting across-lots. Most mar
vellous of all, you may be sending messages each
way on the same wire at once thus you send from
Baltimore to Washington by a hundred rapidly
succeeding hooks the news g Cotton has risen, y
while you are receiving at Baltimore from Wash
ngton the news g Tyler has resigned" the two
currents passing each other in their impetuous
Journey without collision. must learn more of
this wonder. h.
BURNED TO DEATu.-The Cincinnati CONNER
cia mentions the death Mrs Dank Cuurlinsville Ohio
aad little chd IN ruteh Ooh burned 10 dest!i oy ther
clothes taking FIRE.
CRIME AND DEArH-Four years ago, a fellow
by of Theodore Walker aged IS years,
ced from her friends Cold Creek, Aliegsny cou0t
s..l by the Of Louiss Johnson aged l3 years The
couple this cty and after remaining lew days,
proceeded to Buffalo, from which place they went to Cana
d. aud returned again this city May or June last DaI
ing this time, they lived together man and "e' ous
not married Since their las. residence here they have lived
IN Daniels Block having become fl, inmates OF that an o
pollution and moral death For no, known, Lou,
took large dose of Laudanum TUESDAY evening @ n