The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-17
Circuit Court.


MARCH l6.-WIiiam Rogers William j. Pets This
action for goods sold and delivered In November
lsi3 the defendant called upon MIR John Qun the agent
in this city OF the plaintiff, who is coal merchant in
Philadelphia, and stated that he wished to purchase
cargo of plaintiffs coal OF certain size, and requested
Quin to write to plaintiff send It, Quin wrote for it,
and it shipped and consigned to him to be delivered
to defendant at his store at Brooklyn Quin was advised
of the cargo being forwarded and the 9th OF November
called defendant and apprised him that the coal was IN
transitu but If the sizes not he wanted he need
take it, The defendant replied he would see him next
morning and let him He called the next morning
Quin and said that asst their first dealing he would
take it, Quin then gave him the bill of ading, and re-
quested him attend to the insurance. and told him it was
his risk He said he would try and get it insured in
Brooklyn, but if not he would get it insured in New
York On the sth Of November Qun again called de-
PENDANT and asked him to get insured and that he had
better apply early in the morning and present Inc 1 d
not know at that time the vessel was lost, but adj
mtted he heard that some vessel coming from Pfila-
delpha This the substance Of GUMS testimony
The vessel and cargo lost the 7th OF November,
and the defendant seup the statute ofrauds defence
the price paid and delivery. 1t also contended
that uin knew of the loss of the vessel when he called
defendant the second time to get it insured Two
witnesses called thepar Of the defence prove
that they present conversation between defend
and uin and that defendant did not close the trans
action with him. on the contrary SAID the coal was too
large.
The case was then summed up and Judge Kent briefly
charged the Jury that they believed from the testimony
the defendant had agreed to take the coal at his
risk they should find for the plaintiff if not for the de-
fendant. The Jury after being ont considerable time
disagreed, and were discharged.
W. X Thorn for plaintiff; Sherwood for defendant.
VARIATION AND DIP OF THE MAGNETIC NEEDLE AT
NANTUCKET, Mass am not aware that the dip OF
the magnetic needle at Nantucket has been publish
ed; nor that this element that Of the varia
ton has till recently, been obtained in manner having
claim to accuracy yet glance at the map OF the Ameri
shows at once to be important magnetic po
sion year 1894 obtained thew araton Of the needle
by series of observations OF the suns rising and setting
amplitude and also of his azmuth at equal attitudes be-
fore and after the result deg 81 min west
v.
taned and the close of the latter stood at deg o.
min 10 sec In the summer lS4l established a meri
dian line open plain with stations fourteen hundred
feet asunder and remote from all visible local magnetic
influences and long decatey formed needle car. fully
suspended made great number OF observations princl
pally during the months Of August and September, the
means of which showed variation, of0 deg min The
amount OF variation for the month Of September ls43
obtained by the following method which though far
Iaborious IS when performed with care, decidedly the
most satisfactory. From each station OF the meridian
line the direction OF the needle was referred by
of sight vanes, to a movable mark egnidistant
the angle thus indicated by each settled posi-
ton of the needle carefully measured with sextan
properly adjusted allowance being in each case made Tor
the parallax the An equal number ofobser
vations made before and after at each station
and the of ALL viz: deg 90 min SO may think
be deemed close approximation to the truth On com
pairing the result last obtained with those OF former obse
vations is evident that the westerly variation which
has been for increasing is still advancing though
at diminished rate The inclination, or magnetic dip,
obtained by observations between the Goth
of September and the 10th of November of the year
Those the latter month made localities
within the OF mile condition which proved OF
importance The instrument employ ed was one made by
Gambey furnished with two needles, manestly good
article An equal number OF observations was made be-
fore and after the Of each day. equal number in
each period with each neede equal number OF the OBJ
atoms taken with the instrument facing east and
west and equal number with the poles of the needles
reversed The readings consisted Of the mean Of both
ends of the needles and the result of ALL indicated dip of
70 deg Al min % How far the means employed in
obtaining these elements will entle these results to con
fdence is for those interested in the subject to judge in
the practical details neither labor has been spared
WILLIAM MITCHELL.
ScHooNERs ZEPHYR AND ANeLoNA.--I relation
TO these vessels Ga brief account of the loss of
which given Yesterday the Salem Gazette has the
following-"We are confident from examination of
dates that this report far relates to the Zephyr is
entirely without foundation The Robert Pulsford LEFT
Manila the frat of November The Zephyr arrived ut
Bombay in August from Canton and remained there until
the of November when she sailed on her re-
turn to Canton letter has been received in Salem from
Captain Johnson of the Zephyr dated Nov 10TH stating
that he then ready for and should sail the next
day or course there be truth in the above report
from the Transcript in respect to the Zephyr and we
doubt not that will appear the Angona is also safe
The Advertiser says that to the Anglona she is
pilot boat Of 90 tons employed in the vicinity OF Canton
river and that there probability Of her being on the
way to Bombay with large amount OF treasure
NAvAL.--Orders were received at Norfolk on
Saturday from the Navy Department, countermand-
ing the former order directing the U. s. ship Delaware
to go TO Boston.
The u. s brig Lawrence, Commander Gardner an.
chored Of the Naval Hospital Oh Saturday evening five
DAYS from Savannah
The u s. steamer Col Harvey, Lieut. CONG Bout.
we'll, arrived at Norfolk Monday from Charleston
with detachment Of seamen for the u. S Navy
The brave old trgae, Constitution say. the Norfolk
Herald of the l4th instant after being fitted sea at
saving Of sixty thousand dollars commenced taking in
her stores two days and yesterday discovered
to be eaky condton to resnre her to be dock.
ed Immediately and she accordingly taken into the
dry dock at Gosport yesterday afternoon.
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SHOCKING MURDERS. We are informed by gen.
tleman from IIilsborough, Jefferson county, Mis-
souri, that shocking murder perpetra,ed Her
culsneum on last Sunday night by negro boy in the
employ Of Or Cody, on the family Of German shoe.
maker by beating the whole family to deBb with aciub,
az 1t is suppo iei) consisting OF the man his wife AMI
formant left and lodged in jail at Marlborough II is sup.
posed the Negroes intention to rob the house, St
Louis Era March 0.
TENDER HEARTS IN ONO The lower house of
executions.