New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-12
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70 The Boston Medical Journal men,
tons the follow ing simple and economical apparatus
for overcoming bad odors, ard purifying any apart
ment where the air is loaded with noxious materi.
ais; Take one of any OF the various kinds OF glass
| amps-for bun mig camphene, for ezample-and I'LL
1t with cbloric ether, and light the wick. in few
minutes the object will be accomplished. In dis
sectng rooms, in the damp, deep vaults where vege'
tables are sometimes stored, or where drains allow
the escape of offensive gases, in outbuildings aud
in short in any spot where it Is desirable 10 purity
the atmosphere, burn one of these lamps. One tube,
charged with a wick is sufficient
| II The appointment of Cadets and
Visitors to West Point will be announced during the
present week According TO usage, the selections OF
| Visitors ave made alternately among the several
States so that none Of the states represented in the
Board last year will be entitled to be represented
this year. For the ten appointments Of Cadets at
large in the gift Of the President which have usual
| " been distributed among the sons OF deceased
| officers who distinguished themselves In the Army
and Navy, there no less than fifteen hundred APP
plicauons or about one hundred ana fifty candidates.
for each place
Ey The Providence Journal says the
Editor of The LooeH Courier has been acquitted OF
| charge of libel upon eDjamin +. Butler, promn-
| s1t Democrat OF that city. The prosecution grew
out OF the late election, and was founded upon some
| very severe articles in The Courier upon Butler.
The defendant in the prosecution offered to prove
the Truth of all that had been charged ibelous,
and great deal more, which the Court would not
allow. After long trial the Jury brought in YER
ciot Of net saity, ard Mr. Butler is not generally
thought to have made very good operation
EY~ Mr.. w. Gilmore Simms has pub
ished a new work, THE Golden Christmas. a
Chronicle of St. Johns, Berkeley" TIE Charleston
Mercury says of it "Had Mr.. Simms produced the
same works on the other side of Mason and D1ons
llLe both his rewards end his reputation would
have been higher deser sedly high as the latter a.
ready is The publishing trade at the North
hitherto have controlled both these matters too
much. We hope better day is dawnng on South
| ern authorship" We were not aware that Northern
publishers were inmical to Southern authors. II .
man writes saleable book, we fancy the publisher
does not inquire from what par, Of the country he
comes.
r. The Boston Traveller gives a long
description Of the machine, now being msnuiac.
,ured in tia. city, to drill the Hoosac Mountain.
1t consists principally OF large revolving wheel,
which is made to cut a circle of twenty-four feet
|
depth has been Gu. and drilled in the rock, charge
OF powder is put in the hole and all the rock
blown on, for twsnty-four feet at one blast.
r. The ~ o. Commercial Bulletin,
commenting upon statement IN The Albany Even
ing Journal that females afraid to venture out
after dark in that city for fear Of insult, says, Al
bsny is the only place where tais cowardly prac
tice prevails. II is common In Northern cities. In
the South it is unknown female may 60 from
one end Of New Orleans to the other alone, BY day
or Eight, without the slightest molestaton. The
ruifanism described by The Journal could not exist
here for the simple reason that would no! be toll
Grated for a moment
~ A little AFT air occurred az Goldsboro' +,
n c., few days since which strikingly illustrates
the beauties of the Peculiar Institution" II was
the sale, at auction, OF colored woman and her
children The GoldsbOro' Patriot states the ~
follows:
They were the children Of free negro by the
name Of Adam Wynne, who had purchased their
mother. his wife, previous to their birth. They were
consequently his slaves, and he having become IN
volved, they were sold for his deb1s !"
We lesrn from the same authority thai these peo-
pie drought prices ranging from s7ll to $s27. ~
This is a great country.
e 4 mar is condemned to be hung in
Madison County, Va, on the Goth inst Tor murder :
and in consequence Of his friends having threatened
his rescue, 1t 10 said a requsi.ion has been made
upon Gov Johnson for a number of State arms to be
forwarded innt diaiey.
u A woman and her two children were
found frozen to death il q new.bank a, ST. Louis
ON he night of the llth uis Al Cincinnati on the
night OF The l7lh a woman and = boy were frozen
20 death. On the following day, near the city, t~o
men we're found nearly frozen. One OF them was so
badly ire sIbtten thai portions Of his arms, legs and
face rad commenced peeiing of.
Eg' From last of our State Senators
ano Ofcers With their age, places Of BIRTH occuPa-
iion COZ o,,ion in hfe &c, We CLEAN the folio ins
items.
The youngest man in the Senate Is hT Corheh'
Of the XAVIth District, aged 50 years the oiies'
are Senators Plat and Newcom5, the former ron
osweso ard the latter from Ne S-Yosk CI;y- e<ch
numbering o. years. The average age 81 me "hAs
SsBSie is liitie les man 20 years.
There are fss baehelors-Ne:sss. a;sdIfaJ'
Rossss, Ruanassos. SEissoa I'D Bsssa-ssa 'ss