The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-12
New Polytechnic JournaI.

title of new monthly magazine devoted to
Science, Mechanic Arts, and Agriculture, con-
Quoted by Professor G. G. PAGE, J. j. GREEN
OUCH, and CHARLES l.. FLEIscHMANH. The
first number is before US, being an octave pam
phlet of eighty pages, printed with great neat
ness, and illustrated with numerous diagrams.
All the editors of this journal have been con
nected in various capacities with the Patent
Office, and their great experience in the sub
iects to which their journal is devoted must be
a sufficient guarantee of its usefulness and
value. sR"3
1t will ne the aim of the conductors to render
the work, in its various departments, popular,
instructive, and reliable. 1t will contain the
earliest record of discoveries in Physical and
Chemical Science, original articles and com
munications from high authorities at home and
abroad; and the science of Electricity, in its
various divisions and connexions, will receive
special attention.
The division of Mechanic Arts will contain
notices of valuable inventions, of patent laws,
and legal questions and proceedings in connex-
ion herewith Under this head list of pa
tents granted in the United States will be
given, together with the claims and explana-
tions Of the subject-matter of the invention and
patent. In this respect, the journal will diff
fer from any other in the United States.
The division of Agriculture will embrace
the whole subject, and be conducted by one
who has made it special study for years, both
in this country and Europe. 1t will present
notices of agricultural discoveries, inventions,
and Improvements, including domestic and for
eign implements, gardening and farming econ
omy, and original treatises on the manufacture
of sugar, vine culture at home and abroad, wool
efforts will be made to collect accurate infor-
nation upon the management of the great sta
pies of every section of the country.
THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURES AND THE PUBLIC
LANDs.-The Charlottesville (Ya,) AduocGte re-
fers aPprovingly to the movement which has been
made in the State Legislature, looking to the as
sertion of Virginia's indisputable claim to an
equitable share in the lands belonging to the Fed
eral Government One of the representatives Of
Albemarle, VIM. t. Early, ESQ.,, (the Adoocate
remarks,) "has taken the lead in the matter by
offering resolutions instructing our Senators TO
vote for Benefits bill; and we hope he will press
the subject upon the attention of the Legislature
upon all proper occasions. The passage cf Ben
nett's bill would yield the State about 5000, 900,
which would be most acceptable to tax-bur-
dened people,
Governor BRowN, of Florida, on the 23d ultimo,
transmitted to the Senate of that State message
covering the letters from General Blake and ].
DARLING, esq.,, in relation TO the refusal of Billy
Bowegs and the Seminoles to emigrate. The
Governor asks the Legislature to clothe the Execu
tive with sufficient power to call out sufficient
force to protect the frontiers and cooperate with
the General Government in any measures which it
may adopt in the emergency. 1t is recommended
to send into the swamps three hundred Creek war,
riors, under their own officers to capture many
Seminoles as possible. II is believed the Indians
have established fortified camp on the eastern
edge Of the Big Cypress, south of Fort Myers.
Late advices from Australia, received by way Of
California and Europe, announce the discovery Of
another extensive gold field, which promises 10
yield an abundant harvest. The season in Aus
tralia had been exceedingly wet, so much that
the farmers had been waiting for three months for
the weather to become sufficiently dry TO admit Of
the sowing of grain. Considerable attention is
being given to the cultivation of tobacco, which,
it is alleged be grown in such perfection as 10
warrant tie belief that it will eventually exclude
the necessity for importation. Ias-
The London Times ofthe 23d ult. attributes con
siderable importance to the young Austrian en-
peror's visit to the King of Prussia, it being the
fret time, since the house of Brandenburg as
sumed the Prussian crown, that the head Of the
house of Hapsburg has been in the Prussian
capital, and the first time since the house of Haps
burg laid down the imperial crown of Germany,
that an Emperor of Austria has paid this mark of
courtesy and regard to the Northern German
power, which was dangerous enemy in the last
century, and sometimes troublesome rival in the
present
THE MERcHANT's MAGAZINE, FREEMAN Hunt,
New York } for the current month, has valuable
article on the Cotton Trade, by C F. Mckay, of
the University of Georgia; and another on Godifi
cation and Law Reform in Alabama, by Hon.
b. F Porter. A portrait accompanies biogra
phical sketch of the late General Dearborn. The
work now enters on its twenty-eighth volume.
TIE New HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE adjourned
sine die on Saturday morning. The bill to divide
the State into districts for the election Of Senators
was passed-ll4 TO So. The Senate passed the
Railroad Union bill on Friday evening" o5.
The State Reform School scheme was postponed 10
next session. ~
The FUNERAL sssvIcEs of the son of General
Pierce took place at Andover on Monday. The
attendance was large, the Rev. Mr.. Parker, of
Concord, officiating. After the funeral services
the remains were conveyed to Concord in special
train for burial
United States sIoop of.war Marion sailed from
New York on Sunday, with dispatches, bound to
the coast of Africa, thence to join the Japan expe-
dition. "a 17t
CoMPLImrNrARY DINNER 10 the Hon. T. But
Ter King given at San Francisco on the even
ing of the l4th December, by large number of
his friends.
A TrLxaRArHIc DEsrArcR from Washington to
Northern papers state that Senator Hunter sshas
positively and finally declined a cabinet appoint
ment.'' fs a f57f.4f,tf -
The SENATE OF MAIsE organized on Saturday
by electing Samuel Butman, Wing, president.
CLRvsLAsD. January l0.-The steamer sultana
arrived here yesterday from Buffalo with large
freight of merchandise, and leaves TO day for But-
ialo with large quantities of pork and lard, mostly
from Cincinnati. The weather is warm, and there
is no ice on the lake,