The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1853-09-21
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,ss - He3 Nj ySttlE alttCc sui gums, week
by week, in matters of interest or Gu
riosity. The Fresnei apparatus fos
light houses, is o splendid object by
night, when illuminated and revolving,
Us it will now be seen during what
one Of our city contemporaries call the
'evening session." We understand
that there is but one other specimen Of
the kind in the United States,-that
on the Florida coast.
The Powers statutes have been
turned with their backs to the public,
and present whlmsically awkward
appearance, very poorly compensated
for by the little better light thrown up
OH them.
The Mineralogical department. is
getting in order, and will be opened
this week.
The Machinery lags. There is a
great deal Of it already on exhibition,
but great deal more awaiting the
dilatoriness Of the exhibitors or per-
sons charged with the duty Of putting
it in order. This is unconscionable.
Exhibitors who secure space, and oc-
cupy it for weeks with piles of rusty
iron, or delay occupying it at all until
the exhibition has been opened two or
three months, abuse not only the AS
sociation but the public.
Prominent in the machine arcade,
are the various patterns of Centrifu-
gal Pumps, one of which makes the
admirable fountain Which sometimes
plays for few minutes, in the aisle
leading to the machinery; (admirable
in power and capacity only we beg to
be understood. 1t might and should
have been rs beautiful rs it is colos-
sal in volume.) There is no means
of setting water in motion artifcialIy,
among tho innumerabIe pump family,
to be compared to this. The larger
sizes, such rs that used for the fount-
ain, disgorge at the rate Of about two
bnrrels of water per second, and are
incapable of being choked or disorder
cl by any kind Of rubbish, thrown out
sand and even stones, without the
iCaSt ulSColiipoS
Dicks remarkable machines-not
yet old enough to lose altogether a
title to novelty-are among the most
attractive objects to visitors; in par
ticuar the great boiler shears, slicing
up half inch iron plates, as if they were
silk ribbons. The popularity consists
in highly scientific as well rs inge-
nous arrangement for realizing con
centrated power without the large
loss by friction resulting from other
contrivanccs for the same purpose, of
which the connection OF different sized
wheels, is the most available and
usual. The compactncss and cheap
ness of the arrangement, render it ap-
plicablc and peculiarly convenient, for
every imaginable use, from a cheese
press to machine for moving noun
tains.
Rents IN NEW 7 oRK.-A New-Yo York
correspondent of the National Intelli-
gcncer has the following statement rel
atiye to the enormous amounts paid for
rent, in Yew- York: ..,
81 am perfectly astonislicd ut the
rate of rents in this city. l know a
single basement room on Wall street,
to reach which you must dccend FIVE
or six steps from the iootway, with u
low tentoot ceiling, and the room not
more than thirty by twenty feet, which
rents for $4,000 per annum. A lot
twenty-five feet by se--enty-ive, as
high up on Broadway as the corner of
Fulton street, was recently leased for
twenty-one years at $l4: 800 per an
nun, ut the end Of which time the
ground landlord is besides to have The
building which is now being erected on
it, and which will cost $4,000. A
building on Broadway, Immediately
adjoining Trinity church-yard, forty
feet front and two hundred feet deep,
opening on side alley, and cut up in,
to corridors and Offices, brings an ag-
grcgatc rent of 100000 per unnum:
and gentleman, who has built him
self a splendid dwelling rs high up in
Broadway as the ncighborhood of Tn.
ion Square, at least two miles above
the City Hall, says he plainly secs that
he must be driven away in q few years
by the cncroachinent of hotels, stores,
and shops, and told me he had already
been offered rent of $4,000 per an
mum for his house,
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HoMEwARD BouND.-The New York
Her0M OF the 18th inst, mentions that
the cool weather of the few days pre-
vious had started the summer birds On
the wing. The city was full OF stran-
gers en- route from the watering places,
homcward bound The Herald men
tions that one train came in, the day
previous, over the New Haven road,
numbering fifteen cars, all filled with
passengers.
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RAscALLY lMposlrIoN.-We under.
stand that a barrel ofrot-gut was sold
to rum shop keeper in Bennettsvillo,
S. g., some time ago. a month or so
after the liquor was all drawn out,
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