Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-08-28
Our New York Correspondence.
New YoRK. Aug. 10, 1856

EDITOR OF THE IIMEs:-lhe only item
of importance, amidst the European news
brought TO this port by the last steamer
from England, is the suppression of another
German Consttution--an act Of such fire.
quent occurrence, nowadays, that it would
excite no surprise, if the arbitrary wise-acre
who rules the destinics Of Auhalt Dessau
had not, in the decree which he has issued
on the occasion, allowed us glimpse behind
the curtains, and made some very remarka-
BILE admissions. He coolly states, that the
concessions were made, in the hope that
they would prove ruinous and excite dis
gust" and he gives, as his excuse for the
dissolution of the new Chambers, ''the obsti-
nate resistance Of few men, who have no
other reason for their conduct, than the &C
cident of having been elected by the peo-
pie"
1t is reported, that Gen. Sam. Houston is
soon coming to New York, to hold series
of grand Temperance meetings, ostensibly
for the purpose of advancing the cause of To-
tai Abstinence, but, really, to pave his way
to the Presidential Chair. Sam is know
ing old chap; and having set his heart on
being President of this great republic, he,
very naturally, is anxious to mount some
hobby that will carry him triumphantly over
the course. But good hobby is not easily
found, nowadays; every notable ''dodge"
having been already used up, by previous
candidates for the Presidency. In fact, the
Temperance Dodge is the only one left
unappropriated, and hence Sans newborn
and ardent devotion to ''the cause" But it
won't do; Sam is to well known TO the peo-
pie of the United States; and his utter want
of truth, common honesty and moral princi-
pie, will ever close against him the doors of
the White House. A new Life of Gen.
Sam. Houston is being got up, in this city,
for northern circulation.
1t is rumored here, that new mechani-
cal wonder has been discovered, at Cincin-
natl. After twelve years of patient investi-
cation, the inventor has produced fluid,
which in economy and intensity, far surpas-
ses Steam. The fluid is Carbonic Acid Gas,
produced from precisely the same ingredi-
ents that are used in the manufacture of So
da Water; namely, common whiting, Sui
phuric acid, and water. The inventor as
serts that So worth of this gas will propel
l.. al, AL
While water has no pressure, save gravity,
this gas has $40 pounds to the square inch;
and while with 80 degrees of heat, the gas
yields pressure Of 800 pounds, water will
only yield 8 $40 pounds, at a heat of 452 de-
grees.
The ingenious inventor has an engine
worked by the new motive power. 1t is
only of 25 horse power, yet, it will raise
10000 pounds, up and down, 5 times per
minute. The engine is self-sustaining, mas
much as it makes and pumps its own sup
ply of gas; a small portable kitchen furnace
(much smaller than those used by laundress
to heat their irons on, furnishes the heat;
and the boiler is no larger than 10 pound
cannon ball.
The past week has been unusually prolif-
ic in Accidents, Murders and Riots. Two
of our Excursion Boats have been destroy
ed by fire; and, OH board one of them, three
unfortunate men persisted in the ilames.-
The members Of a military company and
their friends chartered steamer, on Thurs
day, and proceeded to West Point. On an
irving at their destination, the owner of the
West Point Hotel declined, in what they
considered disrespectful language, to receive
the patronage of any Excursion parties what
ever. This information so chagrined and
eXasperated the military eXcurtionists, they
they instantly gratifed their warlike pro-
= pensities, by commencing terrific onslaught
an ''mine host and his hostelry," which LED
; to an alarming riot, which was suppressed
with considerable difficulty, but not before
several persons, on both sides, were severe,
ly injured. Another party Of civilian ex,
: cursionists, the workpeople, of large car
pet-manutactory, while enjoying adance OF
the green carpet spread dy Dame Nature
were intruded upon, by party of Irisl
= brickmakers, who insisted on participating
in the festivities. Accordingly one of then
roughly sized an attractive damsel, and com,
menced spinning round with her, in spite o
all remonstrance. The consequence was ;
severe fight, broken heads and bloody noses
and the destruction of $500 worth of pro
perry on the steamboat.
Yesterday two attempts TO fire ship
yard and an omnibus stable were happily
discovered, in time to prevent the compile.
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