New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-02-14
q Time is, again. The new dials are


The past. Irzdiatee by the glowing but eIniring
genus OF Carbon, they look down with lunar Sc
ieLiiy While their silent fingers trace along the mar
h OF iher disks the oisteps OF the gray waaderer
as me ileal pulse OF ocean marks age after age upon
tAe ROCKY margin Of the world. Clear and beautiful
Ss lhe Janus faced pedestal OF liberty now Is, the
contrast IS the more striking by reason Of the view
ss'eIh' where he ribbed and doubtful countenance
q tne ierner era is still semi translucent for the
collouholng OF our senses But It IS, TIME Is :,
anu 'he unSsished .ares that have sho. atawarttre
oancnesor stolen out o. befogged wlndo VS. OF omni-
pii' wandering Ike Noahs dove over waste without
eoaii may row TX upon certainty and turn salts.
hed earIhward.-ln prose- briefly, Byrum & Co.
rave completed the new dals over the City Hall
olock, and at twelve last night the jolly old time
piece heid up both hands for Joy The dials (three
OF "hich are in) are Of solid glass seven feet in
diameter, and about fyeeighths Of an inch thick.
ground on the inner SIDE, having Roman numerals
OF a 1901 IN length for the hours and hands which,
though plgny to the eye really OF the order Of
huge paws When lighted, the dials are very clear
ard show the time distinctly at a grea. distance
Perhaps still larger hands might be an improve
but 1t Is well it is The old rear dial is LEFT in
awhile, SO tha. people may the contrast, which
is rejecting, if not striking
ANOTHER GREAT SCRAPE.-For three or
four days past brigade Of Arboriculturisss have
| been |" cultyating" the old and young trees-which
stanGin such admired disorder III the Park. Armed
with ladders knives, saws, hooks, scragers, augers
strong arms good will, and the prospect Of heavy
draft on the Conro,rsi, soy nave asaVn~s. AansfH
.sSufD, scaled lis fences and defenses, and
almost scaled its trees. Wherever they pass, you
may see the limbs which they saw upon the trees
,,r0u sho h. ~ a I'D
then dark rough epidermis stand like healing lepefs
with their scales at their feet. They look strange
and uncomfortable and one cannot help thinking
that they will be cold of nights leit naked as they
to bide the peting OF the piaess storms. But
friction is great promoter of circulation, it is sup
posed that this rough handling will soon start the
haltcongealed sap which is now dormant in the
roots, and make it boil up with indignation. re-
bellion against the invaders is taking root some of
the warm-blooded trees, bra ch OF the Ctys dora,
full Of stamina, are dete mined 10 bow the fellows
out, and if they wont go to seize them in limbo,
shoot their pistols at them, and blow them up, and
then il they don's leave the trees will. This may
be all bark and bite perhaps the mere eilores
cence of the usual fowery speeches of vegetable
diet but as men sometimes die from the bite of a
rope for treason, they might as well look out for the
budding treason swelling from the very trunks
around them, and, as they twg its Development,
escape from the chastising rod everywhere held
over them.
New CLIPPER.-A fine ship of | ,l3l tuns,
called the GTecan, has been added to the California
feet. She was built at Portland, Name and is the
largest and best built clipper he Pine Tree State"
has yet produced, and will compare favorably with
any ship of her class that has ever left our shores.
Her length is ls2 fee inch s. and 1913 feet inches
over all, 81 feet BEAM II fee. inches in her lover
hold and feet bstwS en- decks As she will take
nothing but passengers on her first trip, these CON-
Portable dimensions "betwecn decks" must make
her fayoIite She is very heavily spared, her main
yard being IS feet long, with 81 feet ends her main
mast 60 feet inches from the deck, with IA feet
head. Her mas!s rake II, II and Ii inches to the
foot. She is fastened very heavily, and insares /.
Her model promises tire highest rate Of speed, and
with fair chance "this Grecan" may take the
conceit' out of the passage of the Surprise of Bos-
tonthe successful competitor thus far, of the Cali
fornia feet. The Grecian is owned by Adam Smith,
nj New-svlh, Ny Caps Ilsley, 70
whom the road round " the Horn" is familiar from
| experience
SUBMARINE OPERATIONS ON THE Rocks
AT THE GATE.-The long-continued and severe cold
weather compelled NJ. Maillefert to suspend opera
tons On the rocks at the Gate until Monday the %
| inst, when he recommended firing on Pot Rock, and
sKce that time has continued ms submarine opera
tons every day that the weather was favorable for
blasting The severity of the cold may best be Illus
traed by the brief statement of the fact that Long
Island Sound was frozen over the icy bridge extend
ing from the Island TO the main land, ana reaching
to within less than mile OF Pc. Rock
OF fourteen hunsred and lightweight hours, COM
nrsius the entire months of December and January,
theve we're eleven hundred and ifty-fye hours during
which the temperature was below the freezing point
and Of the remaining three hundred and thirty three
hours the greater portion Of the time storms high
wind oreyailed to such an extent to wholly sus-
pend submarine operations.
The firing on Pot Rock can only be effected
duripe the continuance of slack water, which, in
the commencement Of operations, lasted only from
eisbt TO sixteen minutes. Between the 7th Of No
vember and the 18th Of December, most OF the
charges fred on Pos Rock in water of greater
denth than 90 feet, with a view TO the removal OF
the rock to the depth of 81 feet. At present the
charges are being fred isolated parts Of the rock
be,ueen 10 and 20 feet the soundings for which,
during the short period allowed by slack water,
| nercsS3lily make the operations slow.
The difficulties with which the operations at the
| Gate are surrounded, are far from aoatng the ca
crew and coed courage Of NJ. MailleterE. tie re.
Syn1ncsf TaiioDs on ne first favorable day, and
cor acertly trusts that ere long he wll be able to
compleie this great and useful work, which has be-
come an object of gererel interest, aud In the exc
cution of which, far, he has been emlnently and
| most wonderfully successful
Wben NJ. Mail efeft commenced operations al the
Gate in August last date IN the season) out few
rersons had con fcercs IN his success The plan OF
hIsstigg under water by placing the charge on the
surface of the rock without any drillins using the
water as fulcrum or reslsIing inedlain, was ~
,rcst nelson's considered UDphilosophics but CON-
Iiste success has attended this great experiment.
I'd inc efficiency OF this method OF submarine
blasting has been so thoroughly demonstrated as to
| convince the most sceptlcal
DuriI,y the period we have been making efforts Tor
The rom sI ~ the rocks a. the Gate, five lives nave