The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-09-07

The Cincinnati Commercial says A discovery OF
vast importance mas been made by mechanic in this
cyit is new kind Of cannon ball the aestructiyenass
OF which cannot be questioned. When it was shown TO
the commandant at Newport barracks, that gentleman
Immediately advised the inventor to lay his invention
which has cost him five years lnborbeiore the Pres-
dent OF the United States and The Cabinet and, before
any sir made proceed 20 Europe and the pa
ent there The inventor told, sailed III the last
steamer We have the full particulars OF tins discovery
and do assert with perfect confidence that
sci loaded with these balls and two or three cannon TO
fire them could sink British fleet OF ten sail in many
minutes 1t is terrific to think Of The Paxhan guns are
nothing by the side of this invention.
The remarkable columns OF gas which short
time since burst from the salt wells of the upper dis
trct OF the kanawha Salnes have entirely failed and
what is astonishing the salt water has disappeared
along with them So complete has been the failure, that
N some instances the propretors have abandoned their
furnaces.
Several persons Of the Jewish persuasion in Gin
ciunat We're fined 80 each for violating the laws Of
Moses by keeping open their stores on the Seventh Day
enforced obedience the laws oMoses by those profess
ing themselves to be governed by those laws.
II is stated that the Canadian Government have
granted to COL John Prince Of Sandwich, the privilege
side OF Lake Superior Tor the purpose Of exploring for
copper The grant is for q years.
Mr.. Longworth, OF Cincinnati estimates his crep
Of wine this year. five hundred barrels lie has cult
waited the grape for several years ID finds it profitable
Judge Miller, from field of his, on Moscow
Plains containing thirty has, the present
harvested nine hundred bushels OF wheat. HiRsdGc
Gazette
At the Commencement of Brown University,
last week the honorary degree LII D. conferred
his Honor John Reed Lieut. Governor Of the state OF
Massachusetts, and on the Hon job Duree Chiei Jus
tee OF the supreme Court Of the State OF Rhode Island
and on the Hon VIM. Z. Riyes of Virginia.
The Courier du Havre states, on the authority Of
a letter from Paris, that NJ de Sahgny, the French
Minister al Texas, had been ordered to return to
France
The Delaware Sheriff has been directed by the
lady whom the sxtyfour dollars Of rent collected Of
Moses Earle belongs to present TO the widow of the
lamented steele.
4 machine designed to page account books has
been recently patented BY MIR. W shaw, Of Liverpool
The machine, which occupies space less than three
square feet constructed to number the pages OF
book, whether bound unbound progressively, nom
one TO ten thousand the simple movement OF lever
performing tho combined operations of taking and dis
ri5uug ink, transferring the same TO the l5ure max
ing the impression and changing the figures to the sue
ceedng number The machine, II should be remarked,
equally applicable 70 the numbering Of banFnotes and
railway tickets.
The labors OF the surveyors who have recently
been the Southern portions of Florida seem TO demon
tine correctness OF the opinion which all VINO nave
CAREFUL, examined the subject nave entertained upon
the piacticaby Of draining the Everglades Ihey are
found lie considerably above the level OF the sea ana
il Is supposed that an enlargement o. the Mani aln
other rivers flowing from them into the Atlantic, VIII
drain the water from millions Of acfos ~ tls ne ever
done South Florida will indeed be the garden oil our
country for in addition to its adaptation 70 tne culture
OF tropca fruits and hemp, this immense tract VIII al
ford unequalled advantages OF soil climate ana position
for the sugar cotton, rice, and tobacco panters-key
The Pittsburg Post says that on Tuesday al
ternoop the boiler used Mt the Steam Planning Machine
on the bank of the canal, between the Hand-street
Bridge and the Acqueduct, in Allegheny city exploded
doing much injury to the machinery and the building.
The machinery, we learn, is entirely ruined-one side
of The building blown clear the canal part of
boiler passed through pile of boards adjoining the
building and lodged in Mrs Warns bedroom, consid
cradle distance from where the explosion took place.
The Engineer slightly njuIed-no other person
hurt.
The great river Vlstula, and all its tributaries
have burst their banks during the last month and have
flooded wide district oil country ell the way from the
foot OF the Carpathian mountains, through Gacm 70
land and Prussia to the at Danzc. The rains which
produced these floods fell the 7th 18th and 18th july
The ancient cathedral OF ST. Dennis, near PARIS,
il about to receive roof of iron liEed with plates
copper which has cost 400 900 francs The repairs oil
this building, which begun by Napoleon are now
nearly completed In the height Of his glory, II was his
wish that his remains and those of the dynasty which he
hoped found shouldte inferred in the vaults OF this
venerable and beautiful cathedral
We have not seen Lake Poydras so high in many
months as il yesterday. The new and stupendous
causeways by which Is traversod entirely sub.
merged for 0 while The storm seemed to mock at the
new bridges recently erected by the Municipalities
across many miniature Mississippi poured
down the breadth Of Camp street bearing rs swollen
tide the debris OF grocery stores drygoods shops and
wine vaults The side streets more resemblsd mountain