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Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

An ExPRRIMENT.-The New York Tribune
says: Singular results are obtained in this
city from very simple application of the ner-
vous fluid, animal magnetism, or whatever be
the agency, to brute matter. Let party of
six or eight persons sit around common pine
table for twenty minutes to half an hour, with
the palms of the hands held fiat on the top of
the table it is not necessary that their minds
should pay any attention to the process, or con-
versation be suspended; bu, presently the table
becomes so charged with the mysterious fluid
that it begins to move then rise from it push
away your chairs, still holding your hands near
though it is not necessary to touch it, and it
will turn around from end to end, and even
proceed rapidly about the room, without any
visible agent, on which excursions the persons
must bear it company, the current is broken
and the movement stops. This simple expert
ment may easily be tried it requires no faith
and no outlay of physical or moral strength {;
and the result, with a table that is not too
heavy. is Pretty sure to follow
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02
France,

Louis Napoleon has at last reached the goal
OF his ambition. The senate has consented to
the establishment of empire, and proclaimed
LOUIS Napoleon emperor, under the title of
Napoleon the Third The French nation was
to have voted on the question on the 2Ist and
22d OF November, and no doubt that farce. un.
der the management of the officials of the EN-
-pire, has resulted in endorsing the action of the
senate. f-.
Alas for poor France! In the noon of the
nineteenth century, notwithstanding all her
vauntings of republicanism and progress, she
constitutes herself an empire, and places in i'm.
perial power man who a few years previous
she had kept under the ban of Punishment
All the bloody revolutions since the downfall
OF Louis Sixteenth have awaited nothing fol
france; for she now sinks to a position Or
deeper serviity and degradation than even un.
der bourbon rule More than this : in the line
of the Bourbons France had occasionally 6
manly king, as was Louis Sixteenth; now, after
her great desires for republicanism, professedly
that have moved the hearts and inspired the
hopes of the friends Of freedom everywhere
she takes poor, decrepit scion of Bonaparte
pronounced by the sages of France to be a fool
and coolly places him on the throne of empire
and despotism. ll--1 ED o. r1css 30 1ssi5o
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTIoN.-We now
have returns of The Representative elections
from every town in the State but seven. and
the result is as follows: Wings, 14S: o.
POSITION, 40; Wing majority, 8.
The towns to be heard from, last year cleo
ted three Wings and six Coalitionists. They
have probably not done any worse for the
Wings now, and it is therefore reduced al
most to a certainty that the Wings will have
small hut sufficient majority in the House,
and will be thus enabled to Gil the vacancies
in The Senate with Wings and TO elect Mr..
Clifford, Governor.
The l40 opposition are thus classed: Coali-
tionisIs 1873; Anti-CoaIition Democrats IL
So far, only Q members are elected, and
probably the whole number will not be
much above 300. This is the smallest House
Tor the last dozen years, and will render the
occupancy by the members of the galleries,
known as Oregon and Texas unnecessary.
On the question Of the repeal of the liquor
law The position of the members Of the newly
elected House is doubtful. Some are OF
opinion that its repeal can be carried through,
and it is acknowledged that the members
elect are more equally divided on the ques-
ton than was at first supposed.-IrareNer.
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Purser Smith going to Havana.
New YORK, Nov, 81.


The steamship Cherokee will sail at 9
O'Clock for Havana aud New Orleans. Pur-
ser Smith goes out in her. Passed Midship-
man Davenport has applied for leave of abb
sence from the Navy Department in order TO
be at the disposal of the Company during the
present Trip. Should he receive leave Of alb
sence in time he will lake the command Of
the Cherokee. If not. she will sail al the ap-
pointed hour, under the charge of Capt. Bax-
ter, an officer in the American Navy.
Yesterday evening, the Clerks in the New
York Post Office received instructions not 10
make up any mails for Havana 10 90 by The
Cherokee. She lakes out no freight or pas
sengers.
A banking house here wished 10 shin 10
New Orleans 100000 in specie, but finding
it impossible TO get any insurance, hold il
over.
The Washington correspondent OF the
Journal of Commerce speaking OF this affair,
says that George Law wns Withdrawn from
the public stores $4,000 or &c, 900 muskets,
purchased of The Government by him.
The Washington correspondent of the
Herald states that the Government has de-
termined not TO permit officers OF the Navy
TO command any of George Laws line Of
steamers so long as Mr.. Smith is retained in
the Crescent City.
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Later from Europe.

The U. S. mail steamship Baltic. from
Liverpool, Wednesday. the l7lh, at noon, ar
rived off Sandy Hook Nov. 81, al ten o'clock,
and reached her dock al an early hour.
The Baltic brings 70 passengers.
On The 10Th the new Cunard screw stea>
mer Andes arrived at Liverpool, from Green.
mock, and will sail for New York on the sth
of December. The Alps, the second steamer
OF the new line, is expected at Liverpool by
the middle of December.
The European news by this arrival does
not possess much interest.
Cotton continues depressed. Breadstuhs
are buoYant.
The obsequies Of the Duke of Wellington
excite The largest share of public attention.
The day Thursday, the 18th inst, was 10 be
observed throughout the country rs holiday.
All the public offices, &C., will be closed, end
business operations OF every kind suspended
1t is expected TO be a most gorgeous affair.
A meeting of the American citizens in
London was convened at the legation on the
18th inst, by Mr.. Ingersoll, for the purpose Of
uniting in tribute of respect 10 the memory
Of the late Daniel Webster Appropriate
resolutions were passed, and il was resoI-
we'd that the usual badge of mourning be
worn for thirty days. About forty persons
were present.
Very high floods had occurred in the
Thames, the Wye, Severn, and other rivers,
resulting in much damage being sustained
10 property in the neighborhood:
FRANCE. The provincial journals are
filled with the proclamations and addresses
from the Projects, stimulating the enthusiasm
Of the voters.
In Paris, all is quiet, and no enthusiasm is
shown for the empire, although no opposition
is manifested.
The long talked Of reduction of the army is
now said TO be on the eve Of execution. d is
also rumored that the President is about 10
allow libberly of action TO the Legislature.
Louis Napoleon has been at Fontainbeau
the past week, recreating his Court with
grand stag hunt.
The Americans in Paris were 10 meet at
the American club rooms on the 10Th, TO
commemorate the death of Daniel Webster.
ITALY. A letter from Naples, dated the
9Th inst. states that an American trading
ship, on its arrival ns Palermo, was suddenly
seized by the police, who supposed she had
brought political correspondence. The Amer
lean Consul at Palermo had written TO the
American Minister at Naples concerning the
matter.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Later from Euroue.

The steamer Hermann arrived a. New York.
23d, with dates from London TO the 10Th. and
Liverpool to the evening of the 9th. She left
Bremen on the 9th, and brings eighty-five pas
sengers.
The English news is generally nnimportant,
Parliament being occupied by the customary
forms Of taking the oaths. The Queens speech
would be delivered on the llth.
The London Times states that an officer Of
ihe United States Navy had recently left Eng
land for the purpose of endeavoring to urge
upon his government the importance of trying
TO reach the whale fishery of Bhering Straits
from inc European side by the way of Nova
Lemoia, intending to volunteer to conduct
the expedition, if successful in getting one fit
tee out.
A line OF powerful screw steamers is about
10 commence running between England and
Australia. II Il -
Two vessels from Australia with 81 Oof, ozs
of gold arrived at London on Friday.
FRANcE.-The Empire is at leno,h re-es,ab-
lished in France. The Moniteur Of The Ali
publishes the report of the Senate for the res,
adjustment of the Imperial Regime. Iouis
Napoleon is declared Emperor under the title
of Napoleon Sd. The Imperial dignity is made
hereditary in the direct descent of the Emperor,
and regulates the order of succession to the
throne in the Bonapar,e family. He NAV
adopt the legitimate descendants in the male
line of the brothers of the Emperor Napoleon
LIST. If, after this adoption male child should
be born to Louis Napoleon, his adaptive sue
cessOr cannot succeed until after his legitimate
descendants shall become extinguished. Ia de-
fault Of both legitimate and failure of success
in a cn1tafora1 line
is to appoint the person to assume the title of
Emperor. The members of the family of Louis
Napoleon are prohibited from marrying with
out the consent of the Emperor. The Consti-
tuition OF 1852 IS TO be maintained in all that is
not contrary to the resolutions of the present
Senatns Consnltum, which was adopted by Sc
out of 81 Senator'S
The President officially accepted the Consti
tuition of the Senate.
Prince Jerome Bonaparte had resigned the
functions of President of the Senate.
A decree has been issued convoking the
French people on the 2lst and 22d of Novem-
10 accept or reject the proposition. The vot-
ing is to take place by the secret ballot-yes
or no.
The Corps Legisatif is convoked for the
veri6caton of the returns on the 25th of No
yember.
SPAIN.-Advices from Madrid state that no
anxiety existed there with regard to the Cres-
cent City.
A severe shock of an earthquake had been
felt at Malaga, which shook all the ed6ces.
and caused great CONSERVATION, and many fam
lilies had taken refuge on board the vessels in
the harbor.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from Prague an
nounce that the Emperor of Austria has had an
attack of epileptic apoplexy, and that he has
received the last sacrament.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

DREADFUL RUIN.-The Waterbury Alma
nae for 1858, CONTAINS, among other things, a
list of thirty-one manufacturing establishments
in that town, whose aggregate capital amounts
10 near 50, 100000 Twenty-one of these es-
Establishments, we notice, were organized since
the passage of the present rmnous tree-trade
British tarif-Bndgeport Farmer.
1t is remarkable, too, that business general
ly has assumed so favorable an aspect since the
success of what the wings call the British free
trade party. 1.-THE country was so terribly ru-
ined under democratic tariff, it is curious that
the people were so ready to entrust the man
agcment of affairs to democratic hands, Won
der if the high-tarilf philosopher who elongates
his thoughts in the Tribune, can show to our
ship-owners their utter ruin in the present ia
vorabe condition of freights! Commerce,
manufactures, and all kinds of business, gener-
ally flourish in times of ,chig ruin, and the
signal catastrophe to the whig party that came
off in the recent election, has given kind of
impetus to everything.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

Mr.. WEBsTER's POPULARITY. The New
York Times, commenting on the funeral OBJ
seques OF Daniel Webster in that city says !:
Since his death, new and unlocked for
public feeling has sprung up in regard 10
him. The general heart has been profound.
ly touched by his decease. The keenest
and livellest sensibility has been evlnced, on
every side, in regard 10 everything connected
with his personals lfe-his public and his
private acts. No incident Of Webster's life
is TOO minule-no circumstance in any way
relating 10 him has been too trivial for pub
lie mention, and for uffectionate meditation.
Nor has this feeling been simply the offspring
of the hour. Ii has deepened with Iapsine
time and strengthened with increased re-
Election. The public respect for him is more
profound-the public grief at his loss is
keener tO>Gay than il has been before at any
time since his departure
The Journal of Commerce in the same
connection has the following remarks
Notwithstanding the reproaches which
were heared upon the great statesman dur.
ing his life, it is now evident that he had a
very strong hold upon the respect, admira-
ton and esteem of the American peuple: for
the death Of no man since Washington has
called forth so many expressions of bereave-
ment and sorrow in every part Of the land
Jefferson, Madison, John Adams, and his
son, John Quincy, were each in their turn
lanented, but although each had held the
highest Office within the gilt of the people
yet neither of them parted amidst such an
ouIbrst of lamentation as has attended and
followed the decease Of Daniel Webster"
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

g The Coalition is defeated in Massachu-
sets, the wings having a majority in The Leg
islature. The alliance between the democrats
and free soiers in that State for the two years
past has been Of no benefit to the democratic
party and if the partnership is now dissolved
we are glad. The Boston Post says -" The
democrat who does not rejoice at such olsen
thralment from an entangling alliance which
made him mere appendnge to the .riumphs of
abolitionism, must have become Sc lost to the
national faith of the party as to have become in
fact free soiler. vi ! b 40
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN LowELL.-In
Lowell, at A o'clock on Thursday morning, a
fire broke out in the old red mill of the Bel
videre Flannel Company, which was totally
destroyed, together with new three story
building, recently erected by Messrs. Crosby
& Conins, and occupied by them as bed
stead manufacrory.
Before the fire was subdued, il lind totally
destroyed the premises occupied by the Elan.
nal Co., with the machinery, and almost
all the stock on hand-the only building
having any connection with them which was
saved being the Patterson Mill, (so called
situated west Of the mills, on The bank Of
the Concord River. This was occupied by
Thomas u Co., as power Loom Harness
Mandatory, and their loss will be trfing,
as their stock was but little damaged,
Mr.. Heneage lost about $4,000 worth of
machinery, which was in the basement of
Crosbys building, and on which there was
no insurance.
James Law, the Waterman employed on
the premises, was burned to death. His
body was found just outside the door Of the
building, where the fire originated, burnt 10
a crisp. 1t is currently reported that he was
IN stale of intoxicatiou OIL Wednesday
evening, and if such is the case, the pr oba
billty is that he accidentally set The fire.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

SINGULAR RECOVERY OF STOLEN PROPER
TY.-Some TWO years since the jewelry store
Of IL. ID. Bracket, of Rratlleboro', w., was
broken open and robbed of a large amout of
watches and miscellaneous jewelry. A The
time the value was estimated at about $4,000.
From that day no trace of the stolen proper
ty has been discovered. Suspicion, how
ever, fastened upon an individual, who has,
all this lime, been closely watched, and, as
it has proved, SO closely that he would not
move or dispose Of his illgotten treasure
A short time since he moved out of his
house, and another family moved in. The
lady of the new family noticed in one room
that the paper was loose, and on putting it
back TO its place she disturbed the wall be.
hind il in such manner that it gave way,
and number of gold watches burst out upon
the floor before her asronished vision. And
here the whole of the stolen jewelry was
found, amounting to $1,000 more than the
originally estimated loss This is the story
as it is told to us,-in the main, we presume,
true. The name of the guilty party we have
not Iearned.-Spnngfeld Republican.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02
Burying Man before his Time,

The English convicts in Australia receive
rather rough treatment, if we are 10 Judge
by H. allowing extract from "a Convict's
Experience
'Msny time have been yoked like a bul.
lock with twenty or thirty Others 10 dr,o
along timber. About 800 died in six months
at place called Toongabbie, OR Constitution.
hill. | knew man so weak he was thrown
into the grave, when he said, Don't cover
me up; I'm not dead for Gods sake don',
cover me up The overseer answered.
D. = = your eyes, you'll die tonight, and
we shall have the trouble to come back
again y The man recovered; his name is
James Glasshouse, and he is now alive at
Richmond. They used TO have a large hole
for the dead once a day men were sent down
to collect the copses of prisoners, and throw
The native dogs used to come down at night,
and fight and how in packs gnawing the
poor dead bodies. The governor would or
der the lash at the rate of 500, 600, 10 800
and if the men could have stood it they would
have had more knew a man hung there
for stealing few biscuits, and another for
stealing duck frock. A man was con-
demned--no time-take him to the tree and
hang him. The overseers were allowed 10
fog the men in the fields. Often have men
been taken from the gang, had fifty, and sent
back to work. Any man would have com
mit,ed murder for months provisions g.;
would have committed three murders, for
weeks provisions.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

Fowl EXHIBITION. Our exchange papers
just now unerringly indicate tina! the Locofoco
editors all over the Union have embarked ex-
tensively in the chicken business, and are hold
ing a grand exhibition of their growing Chap
mans. Though they show no cacklers, their
coops must be remarkably extensive, for not
cock flaps his wings over figures less than 100,
500, 1000, 1900, 10000, $500, 10000,
1000, and occasionally still higher! The
crow, too, is jnbi ant, defiant, and ear-Pierce-
ing and the smallest and most obscure Mexl-
can bantam struts and crows as if King of the
dunghill flock. The chandeliers generally
look well-fed and sleek, and seem to enjoy the
airing after being cooped four years on the
head-waters of Salt River, though occasional
ly one is still seen ravenously picking at the
lean carcase of curled up coon! Even such
crow most sonorously; regular jocund cock-a-
doo-dle-d-o-ol while the towering Chittagongs
in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York mount
proudly the dead coon stretched over cider
barrel and lift up their clarion voices like vic.
torious trumpeters! This chicken mania that
has so suddenly developed itself all over the
country is positively distressing 10 very RE
spectacle minority and we beseech all good
Governors to hurry on Thanksgiving week or
two, and put an early stop to the universal
crOw.-Cleueland Herald.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02
Putty.

This is considered to be rather an inconsid-
cradle article of commerce, and the question is
often asked, in jest, "what is the price of put
tyl" The question is sometimes asked as the
democrats ask the wings, "what is the latest
news from Vermont - or show do you find
the climate of Salt River Z" without expecting
an answer of very striking relevancy TO the
question. Putty, after all, is something
There is an establishment on the Kennebec
river at Hallowell, owned by S. Page & Co.,
where one hundred tons of putty have been
manufactured the past year. The article is
made of whiting and inseed oil, about five
hundred barrels of whiting and five thousand
gallons of linseed oil, being required to make a
hundred ions of putty. The whiting is made
of chalk imported from Nova Scotia An oil
mill belonging TO the same firm makes the lin
seed oil from fax seed, so that this really en-
terprising firm make putty out of chalk and
fax seed. The putty is neatly put up in small
casks and finds ready sale in Boston. We
confess we cannot answer the question, "whai
is the price of putty!" We did not think Of
that. As our wing incorporates of the press
in this city are lying on their oars, and have
been for some time, out of breath and out OF
heart in politics, we refer the people of this
city to them for an answer to the question.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

The BRITIsH FLEET AT HAvANA.-The
presence of powerful British fleet in the har-
Dor of Havana, in the present somewhat uncer-
tain relations of Cuba to the United States,
naturally enough gives rise to surmise and
speculation. The fleet is enumerated in a late
Havana paper as follows =
Frigate Highfyer, mounting 90 guns, with
Paixhans.
Sloop-ofWar Dauntless, % guns, with
Paixhans.
Frgate Vestal, Capacity not stated.
Corvette Calypso, 7 guns.
Besides these vessels, the line-of- battle ship
Cumberland was in the harber-the only yes
sci in the harbor belonging to the regular West
India squadron.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

AGAIN CAUGHT WEARING THE BREEcHEs.
Miss Emma Sondgrass, young woman Of
seventeen, belonging to New York, has a
second time been taken into custody by the
police of this city for DOMINIC the breeches
The first lime of her appearing in male ap-
parel was, it will be remember ed, when she
applied for and obtained situation as clerk
at the clothing establishment of John Sim
mons & Co., Water street, from whence on
the discovery Of her real sex, she was taken
10 the Police Office, and thence to The mouse
Of her father, respectable city offlcIa' IN
turned to this city. and in female apparel
put I'D at the Washington Coffee House.
Yesterday she left the house, but soon after
returned, dressed in a frock coat, cap. vest
and ,,ants. The bar-keeper at once recog-
Missed her, and informed the Chief Of Police
Of her whereabouts. What her motive may
be for thus obssnately rejecting the habit
ments of her own sex is not known.-Irau-
eller.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

"a The London Times thinks Louis Napo-
leon would like to distinguish himself in ma
val war with the United States in behalf of
SPANS right to Cuba. That is decidedly an
insult to the American navy, but rather COM
plimentary to Louis Napoleon. The French
emperor will have as much as he can do to sus-
tain himself at home; and as for the American
navy, too many British flags have been hauled
down before it, to cause any apprehension on
our part in case of contest with France. If
Louis Napoleon wants to sink his old bungling
and bunglingly managed men-ofwar, let him
send them over.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1852-12-02

PRINTED BALLOTS. 1929, says the Bos-
ton Post, in an article on Hon. David Hen
shaw, he rendered in Ward Seven of that city
printed vote for representative, which was re-
jected solely because it was not in aoriting.--
The case was brought into court by him in an
action against the warden, wher Judge Parker
gave an opinion in Mr.. Henshaw's favor; and
from this time commenced the use of printed
votes.