The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-11-05


lished an article from Cincinnati paper, rela-
tive to feat of Mr.. Barnes, who, 1t Is saio'
could read the ticking Of the telegraph ",'hou'
using registering instrument. Inc ar'cie
capped our notice at the time oil It's inseI"o"' "
we could have made mention oil ieats Iar inoi.
extraordinary, performed on the New 10Th anu
Buffalo line, and if we mistake moi. MI barnes
is a slip cut of from the New ioiA INV anu
ly planted at Cincinnati
T. 70 ouite a common occurrence for several OF
Tho onerators on the New York and Buffalo line,
% read and communicate merely by the sound
or "ticks" of the electric wire. We have heard
of an operator on this line, not yet Is years Of
| age. Mr. Otis E. Wood, who is in the habit of
reading of, all day, by the faint sounds or ticks
of the telegraph. Several other cases of similar
skill and delicacy of ear, on this line, have
come to our knowledge, and completely eclipse
that mentioned in Cincinnati. On the New
York and Boston line, ais I'VE have heard of Mr..
Sheppard and several others, equalling, if not
surprising, all that is related at the West. In
deed, there is nothing of all which Mr. Barnesis
said to have done, which is not regularly per-
formed on these lines, as a thing of daily occur
renee.
We do not wish by these remarks to decry the
skill and intelligence of the operators at Cincin.
natl we wish il, however, to be known that the
same skill and intelligence is a familiar thing
with US on our lines here. We admire the re-
suits at both places, and rejoice at hearing of
them, inasmuch as it convinces US of the truth
of the opinion we have long he'd, that the art
and science of telegraphic communications is
susceptible of yet further and great improvement,
and may be even expected, in the course of few
years, to form the great channel and substitute Of
the Post Office Department.
| SALE OF FoaEIaN PAINrINas.-There is sys-
tenn in action in our city, of which we should
| feel that we had particular right to complain,
| were it not that the said system is injurious to
mertorious class, and calculated to depress
and crush the energies of one of the most I'M.
portant and most gifted classes of our social
world.
The system to which we refer is the following,
or something very much like it. A goodly num-
Der of promising young students and artists, in
Paris and Italy who are glad of the employment
not only as it pays them few francs day, but
also as means of exercise and improvement in
the art are set to work by some wholesale
SPECTATORS and the work they have to do is to
multiply bad copies of some of the ancient mas
tiers, to give to these, their copies, an antique
tinge, and then to pack them up in boxes for the
New York market. When the goods arrive in
our city they are advertised as antique paintings
of great value, by unknown masters, SC.
Now this would be all we'll enough, provided it
ended here, and if it were only trade, like the
sale at auction of so many boxes of Partisan
bonnets, or SO many drums of figs. But the
case is totally different. While the public funds
al &c &buo oE in
| this channel to sustain an anonymous multitude
of foreign juvenile artists, and to sustain them,
too, in rough, rude, and careless labor; while
this is done, our best and noblest sons anguish
in Encouragement and cheerless dependency,
for want of the streams of public support which
| are thus drawn off.
This is, we think, an evil. Perhaps the point
ing out the disease may, in the course of time,
| produce remedy.
| LITERARY QUARRELs.-It is positively no small
amusement to stand at distance and look at a
literary quasi pugilistic encounter, wherein two
parties, having both an interest to hold their
tongues stand up, and, as it were, lombard each
other with all their might and main, and lay
open to public view all the dirty little holes and
corners of the several citadels and fortresses of
their name and character.
Such spectacle of such an encounter has
| lately been enacted, for the great edihcation Of
| the literary world, between Messrs. Hoffman,
! Griswold & Co., on the one hand, and a
| gentleman, Mr. Headley, on the other hand.
| One amusing effect of such a silly squabbe
is, that it brings out certain secrets of
the literary trade, which, but for the mu-
tual luminosity of their mutual bombardment,
! would remain unknown to the world. Among
other results of this amusing squabble, we find,
| by the mutual disclosures of the parties them
selves, that our literary gentlemen have been the
regular sef-appointed critics and self-c
Judges, jury and buffers of their own writings and
productions. How kindly such critics would
treat such authors, the reader may imagine when
he now learns that the authors and critics are
the same.
II really is absurd for men of sense to be guilty
of doing such things, then of quarrelling abou,
such things, and then of disclosing such things
1t is, in fact, degrading to our literary character
and to our literature.
THE SoUTHERNER. non-arrival of this
favorite steamer at her usual hour on Tuesday
excited some little anxiety. Yesterday morn
ing, however, she made her appearance; and al.
though passing through gales and heavy seas,
her accounts from Charleston are still even with
the u. S. mail Three hours out, she reports
having encountered terrible gale, which con
tinued with fearful violence for more than fifty
hours, threatening the utmost danger; but by
the foresight and seamanship of her commander,
the noble vessel CALAMITY weathered the storm,
with no other damage than the loss of head
board and some Of the geer, owing to a rough
sea, and the shallow state of the water on the
bar, she did not leave Charleston until Sunday
afternoon. She will leave on her return punctu-
ally on her regular day-Sat uida
Loss OF THE STEAMER NARRAaANsKrr. The
ste amer Narragansett, Captain Wilson, from
Charleston, bound to New Orleans, went ashore
near the Mnsnnifo Inlet Elnrida--crew and ma G.