New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-27

are a number OF main sewers on a level with the
slack tide Of the Thames, running entirely under
the City. Into these. which are, in some parts Of
London, more than a hundred feet below the street
surface pour innumerable lesser drains from the
houses, which are kept clean by the water intro
duced from above. When the tide of the Thames
rises, the sluces are opened. in rushes the water
through all the great sewers lifting up the filth,
and as the tide retreats bears it away to the
Heretofore all this refuse OF the city has been let go
20 waste but Of late Companies have been formed
70 save u by filter This Of filth pouring into
the Thames is doubtless what has made the water
so rich and famous, until it has come 10 be prov
erb that " Thames water only will do for Porter
All these things which | have so slightly alluded
TO, are among the things every one must admire
But as the mail approaches, must close for the
present Hereafter ! may continue this strain il it
proves worth reading. II interested me because
il was new and as thought entitled 10 a note. /
wish, along with this letter could assure you as
feel assured Of the real disposition Of the thinking
and better portion OF the English people 10 con
clude all enmty with US, either in word or deed.
Because the fathers have eaten OF sour grapes"
they do not think the childrens teeth need be set
on edge. They believe that with as lies the greatest
hope and trust of the world, and they rejoiced
to see that the late elections Of the country give
token that the voice Of our people is for peace,
however well wo may and can do battle II we
will--or there 10 just cause!
BEES AND HosEY.-We hardly know anything
more disgaceful 10 mankind than the fact that for
thousands Of years they have gone on heedlessly,
cruelty, wastefully destroying the lives Of their
useful and dgent servants the Honey B ees as the
only practicable mode Of obtaining their delicious
treasures. The process Of smothering Bees in or
der to obtain their Honey is libel the Creator.
who can never have intended any such shameful
waste and torment. In this spirit we have hailed
every improvement In the construction Of the Bee
Hive calculated 10 permit the taking away Of SO
much Of the Honey as the Bees can spare yet pre-
serving these useful insects themselves for future
industry and accumulation. We trust these i'm
proved Hives will be speedily and universally
adopted, whereby Bees and Honey will be render
ed far more abundant and attainable than they
have hitherto been.
A new Hive mas Just been shown us by the in.
ventor, Mr.. Aaron Cotton, Of Pttsfeld. Vermont,
which has been warmly approved by the Cultiva'
tor, &c and took the first Premium at our last State
Agricultural Fair 1t is larger than the ordinary
Hive, of pyramidal form, the Bees occupying
the middle Of it and depositing their Honey In two
rows Of drawers placed one above another on each
side, and Of course approaching each other at the
top. The Committee on Bees at the State Fair 70
ported Of this Hive
That from its superior convenience and adaptation
10 the habits of bees they will accumulate honey more
rapidly IN II than any other plan that from the
drawers being arranged each side Of the centre OF
the hive, as shown in the cut the bees will MI from
four 10 ok of these drawers In the time that they
will Gil two placed In ordinary way ever the top ;
that the bees more readily enter the drawers on the
sides without disturbing others than when they are
placed over the top that the horizontal entrances TO
the drawers (two In each, inches long, and 1t inch
wide) are much better than sueer holes on the Top
that the bees will attach their COMB which is usually
IL inch thick 10 tho shoulder, (Which, including the
opening into the drawer. is IL inch wide) and con
sequenty run one half the comb up through the draw
or stll leaving quarter Of inch for nsress and
egress: that the double covering which by this hive,
the bees are allowed, 10 warmer in Winter and cooler
In Summer that to remove the brood comb OF an old
hive, by breaking out one half In one year and the
other half the next year 10 better than any dividing OF
the hive, or driving out process"
IL Noses q. Leonard was on Thursday evening
renominated at Tammany Hall for the office OF Aims
House Commissioner, which he now holds. The
nomination is not well received by his own party,