Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-18
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr. PHILIP SCHUYLER, OF felnam, Westcnes'cr couny,
New York. has made communication to the Institute which
attracted little interest among the sgrcuIuss Of the body
He exhibited to them samples Of his crop Of Indian corn
for this season. half destroyed by species Of fly which
made its appearance on the shortly after it topped
Mr. g. declares that twohrds of The ears in lis fields are in
this condition This insect which is about the size Of the
common houseAy resembles it much, and, clustering (fory
y) on the ear strips the cob of grain half way down.
as neatly as though had been done by hand They eat
every atom Of the grains csan they CO. The Inst
tute design investigating the subject through COM
miss Of the most scientific agcultusts in this vicinity
On the night before last "Commodore STEVENS added to
the collection in tho Garden the Queens cup by the
yacht America, which is of always surrounded by
dense crowd know not the money value Of the pae but
bear testimony its graceful proportions and the elab
oration Of the beautiful engraving snd chasing with which it
onamened. II about two feet high, broad at the bot
tom, with swan-like neck, and large mouth or ofce Be-
you and half the folks around wenigh crazsd
the victories which the Americans obtained the Worlds
Fair; nothing brings out such shout at the theatre al
TO them, whether in out Of tase and whether made
in good temper not. "Mose /" and "Sykesey seem
to have been firmly Of impression that to have
difficulty in dstancing continental competition in all things in
our line, but they evidently unprepaed to find the
judges in London willing subscribe Yankee supremacy
any industrial One good result of that will
doubtless be the infusion Of better spirit toward the Eng
h nation in the breasts Of the large class of population
who fail to entertain hard thought Of all things Eng
sh merely because they English" The existence of
this sentiment unsuted the age in which live has
acted clog to progress causing us, natiop often
reject ideas which, adopted generally by us would
benefited society materially But must hasten my task
| of description
HENRY g. FARLEY 1873 Mercer street, New York, exhi-
bits specimens of cement and scagola, Italian composition
MARBLE surprising, far surpassng beauty of nts
Bile real marbles and fancy designs any thing of the kind
before in this country He has been engaged 10 the
business in this city years His specimens present
great hardness and apparent durability, and polished
always retain the coors which form portions Of the
compositions. have not the beautiful stand Of Mr..
Farley at the fair without finding surrounded by crowd
of admirers He is making these only into all suit
able movable ornaments, but into columns foor wallis
altar pieces for churches piasters &C., and they
warranted preserve their polish equally as we'll as marble.
They cost average but oneeighth much as similar
marble ornaments which not to be told from hem
cept on the most critical inspection.
BEEMAx CASE, of Broadway and Prince streets,
New York, exhibit specimens Of Fentons Flint proof
Enamel Ware" manufactured Bennington, Vermont
the establishment Of Messrs Lyman e. Fenlon wrought
perhaps hundred different useful and ornamental articles
One hundred hands find work this manIfacory which has
been making goods under Fentons patent only since early
in 1850 i.---li...,y that issued might
merate hundreds Of articles into which this beautiful
erial formed Your will find perhaps
ter adapted than aught ese for every thing of eahenware
and much of china, required in the household The
rial of great strength and 'oughness and in its natural
state being whie moulded with perfect into
ary, architectural ornaments uch Conthan and other
capitals water urns jars, &c. rich enamel is
upon the surface under which is made to receive and
tain ndelby various agreeable coors The violet
beautiful beyond description in taste Of pattern well
exquisite skill Of execution The body Of the ware being of
clay, flint and feIdspar hard that will give forth sparks
Of fire when struck with steel. The enamel is of pure flint
fused very high heat Thus while far stronger than
any not made Of metals, its glazing will resist fire
above redho heat The prices which is sold about
those Of the ordinary china The house Of Beeman &
Case hold the exclusive right dispose Of this direct
from the works. must forget mention that nitric and
every other acid fails corode the enamel upon H. which is
bringing it extensively use in manufactures the North
wherein the acids necessarily employed have heretofore de-
sroyed the metals and enames off all vessels in which they
were placed.
The exhibition may be said have reached its cl-
max, the character of the articles being much BETTER in
industrial point of view, n the aggregate than heretofore
have hardly had time venture in the mschine room,
where design going According the opinion Of the
Managers Of the Institute the display hee for beauty
sh and ingenuity, is far ahead Of all their former shows
The original model of the yacht America s be brought
into the Garden this evening, and when placed in conp
portion, will doubtless great and deserved atten-
ton. w. D. w.
.H. New YoRK, OcroBHR l3. 1851.
AsIpredcted inmy last the model which the yacht Ame
rca actually constructed became the centre Of attraction
Immediately afer being placed n the Fair Independent Of
the interest in the representative Of something
which is just minsering greatly national self
love- (and people the globe subject the i'm
Auence Of thaspasson, shall call y the wonder here
because New York is perhaps closely identified with
navigation than any other American city that bus
third Of the ciys population No class Of her citizens
alive to the value Of Improvement than her ship
owners while strive earnestly to excel in their
business than their employees. From the boy who absens
himself from school to ",ske sail, 10 the commander Of
commercial ocean receiving salary of S. 900 per
ann the boat or ship Of each apto be his greatest pde
So the model of this yacht (Which distances all the outside
world after being handsomely beaten at honey is now Of
course an object Of great interest the Fair Not being
skilled in naval architecture, cannot describe il critically
yet may write that looks extremely odd to me, owing to
several pecuares by which il marked. Thus Is very
much deeper Of than FORE and remarkably sharp wi,haso
sharp make the vessel Of little for carrying freight
On first looking at il was struck with its resemblance TO