New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-11-14

| station boat.
about / 400 tuns. for the New York and MOBILE trade
| she will be the first OF the New-fofk ano hooue
| Line of Steam Packets. The same company we
learn intend 10 build two other steamers OF similar
| d,mensions The one In question will be $40 feet
ono AZ beam. and IS feet hold. She will be finished
srd r. adv for sea about the LIST Of July next Her
machinery will be constructed q. At inc AlsIe
| md n,ston II feet stroke. The same builder has
also us, laid the keel of steamboat for the Port
ard Steam Packet Company" intended for the route
hetw cen Portland and Boston. to run In connection
| ,iib the st. Lawrence, a steamboat built by Mr..
CollyeT about IA months ago. she will be 225 feet
| long % beam and lOf hold
| jeremiah Simonson yesterday laid the keel Of
| another steamer for Capt. Vanderbilt to be the
same in dimensions the Prometheus. and intended
! for the same route. She will be about 500 tuns,
and 325 feet keel Her machinery will be manufac-
| turcd at the Ailare Works
| Jacob Bell has in frame clipper ship about 400
iuDs, for the California and Canton trade. She is
900 feet keel IS beam, and 81 hold. Mr.. B. builds
her on his own account.
Penne, Patterson g. stack, at Wilamsburgh,
have commenced building sloOp about so tuns for
VIM; Lake Brother. They have partially planked
the clipper brig for NJ NJ Freeman Co. Her decks
are adjusted and ceiling completed. At the same
yard steamer is in course Of construction for the
Peck Slip Ferry Company, which will be finished
about the LIST Of Jan. She is us feet long, 80 feet
beam, and ii feet hold Her engine building at the
Alare Works, will be 30 inches cylinder and feet
stroke of piston.
a steamboat OF small dimensions, for the Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company. She will be used for
towing purposes.
Edward Lupton has opened ship yard adjoining
Mr.. Webb, al GTeenpoint. He will commence the
construction of a steamer next week. Her exact
dimensions, &c, have not been definitely decided
upon.
Jabez Williams, at Greenpoint, is engaged in
plankIng the ship Tornado, for Capt. Mumfori.--
She will be completed in about three months
Samuel Sneeden, at Greenpomt, has entered INTO
last :
twO steamers an account Of which we have given
One is for parties Havana and the otner is Intent
ed Tor the Connecticut River, and belongs to the
NewHaven Steamship Company The steamer 1or
The Charleston and St Johns trade, aunced a! this
yard few days ago, is called the Florida Ann.
The SUBMARINE BoAT-This novel af-
fair is built Of strong boiler iron, and is 10 feet in
diameter and 30 feet in length while On the outside
are fixed number Of shelves, which work on hin
Ges, and upon these ballast is placed to lower the
boat TO the bottom Of the the inside is divided
INTO two compartments, and the latter part of the
boat is filed with water to keep it down when sunk.
II is also fitted with propeller, which is worked by
hand, and used 10 move 1t gently along the bel OF
The ocean, as may be required during the operations
of survey. According to the best calculation the
boat viii remain under water for seven hours with
out any supply OF air more than what 1t receives be-
fore descending, and this is purified and repurlhed
ny passing through valves and cells containing chem
zeal preparations for that purpose While the boat
rs under water te.egTaphic communication is kept
up with vessel stationed on the surface, and when
II is necessary to ascend the ballast is thrown from
the shelves outside the boat, and II necessary the
water is pumped out of the after compartment, and
Il ses, at the rate OF thirty feet In seven Sc cOnds.
The machine is intended 10 be used in the pearl fish
eries, and viii be shipped TO Panama IN a short
;ime IL is intended, If arrangements can be made
70 give II a trial before leaving Ork, ii is
The first of the kind which has been built, to en-
poy 1t in sinking sub marine telegraph line, be-
tween Brooklyn and New DIRK.
TO The Editors Of The N Y. Tribune:
BELLEVUE HOsPIrAL.-In common with
your readers, perceive it announced, proolemati-
cally lin correspondents letter. that there is to
be change in the Office Of Warden of the Bellevue
Hospital, and that the Office is likely to be bestowed
by the Ten Governors upon one ofthemselves. Now,
sir, allow me to say that the remarks your cores
pondent, o. find an echo in the breast Of every one
who values the sterling interests of the City. Such
a step the suggested, would, as your cores
pondent says degrade the Office" Of the Governors
of the Aims HOuse-those high. minded and philan-
thropic decemvri, who, unrewarded have accepted
the sacred and religious trust of supervising the
charitable Institutions Of this City. Such step, y
say, would at once betray, to watchful and ever
Jealous public feeling which they could with dlfi
cult, reconcile with the pure and lofty sentiments
which they had hitherto ascrOed TO the Governors
No, Mr.. Editor for the sake of our City, ennobled
AS 1t is by public charities and eeem 'synary lnstltu-
lions aud still more ennobled by the spirit of dlSln
erested btnevoence which has raised and still sup
ports those establishments, never let be sald that
among body OF men, organized 10 feHodel am re,
form our charities should be found one who would
step from his high position TO accept the ioaves ana
fishes from his conireres, or those among ms asso
ciates who would sanction or approve such step
sm no partzan know nothing OF politics, nor
how politics, If at ALL operate IN the matter 10
which have adver'ed but this do know, that as a
tax.pay eT and citizen OF New YORK nave OF late
taken much interest in the affairs OF the Cty nave
visited our public institutions on the Islands and at
Bellevue and have :" taken notes OF what observed
IN all places. And dpr0poS to the contemplated APP
monument at Bellevue let me ask what is wanted 10
make that institution better than II is have In
CURED, but can learn nothing Those who saw Belle
yue Hospital six months ago. and have seen ateiy,
can form an idea Of the improvement maze III lhls
institution. Not only is tho exterior more atHac-
tive, but the internal arrangements, cleanliness,
neaness, decorum, proprlety IN the department OF
the numerous employees and all those minute
which mark the presence OF an efficient and ener
getic Principal, are apparent in Bellevue Hospital
10 the most casual observer. And why is change
wanted Because, suppose, the present incumbent
is not Of those political principles which SUIT the
party desiring change Alas that the public good
should be the last consideration IN matter IN when
the public only ought to De really cohcefheG Srxvx
November IL, 1851
FiREs.-On Wednesday evening, tire
in the house No as Allen ST. caused by the heat broke
out from large furnace used for heating the prem
ises The flames were extinguished by Engine Com
pany No 3d. before any damage occurred
Al O'Clock Wednesday morning a hre broke OUT In
the restaurant OF Mr. Joseph Canif No lo4 fourlhaV
The flames were oxtingulshed by Hose Company
No before any material damage occurred NO
alarm was given for either Of the above fires.
CAu1loN-A person calling himself Sam
uel Morris, and pretending 10 be an officer of the
Aims House Department OF the City, is represented
TO us as obtaining money fraudulently OF charita-
bic persons. He pretends to be Hicksile Quaker
and affects the phraseology OF the FRIENDS. ne
seems very conversnt with city affairs, and speaks