The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-09

sit 10 reported that Hon. R. K. Meade, of Vir-
GINA, has declined the chargeship to Turin, and
has been offered the post Of Go mmissoner to China
Unless the purposes of the President ard Cabinet
have changed since last Monday, the Chinese
mission ia destined for a very different person
s.Coionei A. Ross Snowden, formerly tr, asurer
of Pennsylvania, and afterwards treasurer of the
mint at Philadelphia, has been appointed Director
of the Mint at that place. The appointment OF
Colonel Snowden to this responsible position lie i
we'll deserved compliment to his reputation. earned
by faithful discharge of duty in other public
stations
.sMy information does not lead me to conclude
that the Administration has resolved to reclaim
the territory yielded by Commissioner Bartlett,
called Meslla Valley. or to re cede to Mexico that
ACQUIRED by the same arrangement on the weat of
New Mexico. General Gushing is the next best
informed man upon the geography of the interior
mel Benton. He says that Mesilla Valley cannot
support the army Of occupation led by Governor
Tries. MIR. Gray, ex.surveyor, on the other hand,
says the Governor and his troops can live there in
abundance and luxury, according to Mexican's
lishes con mucho gso, descriptions of this favored
region, representing that it produces grapes of
delicious flavor, and that it must become the vine.
yard of America. One of the Scipios wishing to
incte the Roman people against Carthage, con.
cluded famous philippe against the fatal city
with the words Carthage est deenda, and retiring
from the rostrum, the old fibuster shook his
robes, and dropped upon the stage number Of figs
OF great size and delightful taste. The populace
tasted and devoured them with expressions of in.
tense Subtraction. Those figs, said Scipto, came
from Carthage. This was sufficient and finished
the business-the third Punic war was the resujt
which finished Carthage. Proceeding upon such
respectable authority, we shall have ss..;.rns Of
Scip'os ""o VII. r.y,o beyond contradiction that
Mesilla, with its fine grapes must be annexed.
General Garland has gone filled to the brim with
Young American ideas of national expansion, and
with bis order In his pocket However, it is we'll
to remember, in this crisis, that President Folks
order to General Taylor to advance from the
Nueces to the Rio Grande, made both war and
President Will General Pierce care to risk such
a chance in the present case1
cit is stated this morning that Mr.. Tucker will
not establish his Journal in opposition to the Uniox
in consideration of the immense amount of capital
invested in that paper, and it's connexion with De
mocrats OF all shades of opinion in Congress and
the Administration. 1t is hardly possible to divert
from the Union the amount of patronage requisite
to the support of any rival newspaper. General
Armstrong and Major Harris, proprietors of the
Union, are now pretty well fortified in their posi-
ton. They have the printing of Congress, the pro-
fits of which worth $3.50, 900 per annum and
their only formidable rivals are out of the way
Francis P. Blair is attending a dairy at Silver
Spring; Amos Kendall is raising mammoth pigs at
Fair View; John c. Rives divides his time between
the job printing office of the Congressional Globe
and his potato patches, four miles from town; and
Mr. Benton, who used to write all the most slaehing
and crushing articles of the old Globe newspaper,
ia now immersed in the Pacific railroad and his
thirty years. war in the Senate. Mr.. Tucker, how
ever, should not be discouraged. If bis organ can
once gasp the upper air, it may gain foothold.
President Pierce is not committed to the Union;
and it is not forgotten that the great Globe itself
was, at it's commencement, an interloper upon the
domains of the Telegraph, which was General Jack
sons organ"
The same writer telegraphs the subjoned infor-
nation:
"WAsHINGToN, Monday evening
General Wool has arrived here, and laughs at
the idea of any disturbance with Mexico on ac-
count OF the MesIla affair. The Secretary Of W ar
also attaches no importance to the martial specu.
lations upon Lanes and Trias's movements. 1t is
believed by those who well informed on the
subject that Mr.. Gadsden has been instrumental
to commence negotiations by offering an indemnity
to Mexico for Mesilla, and to purchase an addi-
tonal strip taking in the whole valley of the Gia''
The word sinstrumental' is doubles, misprint
for instructed; though we think it is doubtful whe-
Their Mr.. Gadsden has yet received his instructions
Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes as follows, under date of the 4th
instant
''The Cabinet have lately had up the question of
the adoption of the Code of Rules and Regulations
for the Government of the Navy, drawn up last
winter by Commodores Morris, Shubrick, Skinner,
Smith, and Commander Dupont, who were con-
stituted board to that end. 1t was determined
that as the law now stands the President could not
direct the adoption of this code until Congress
should authorize him to do 30. He will probably call
the attention of Congress to the subject in his an.
nual message. In 1915 law was passed direct
ing or authorizing the Secretary OF the Navy to
form such code for the government of the navy,
which was done in 1917. This is, with unimportant
changes, the code which now governs the service
The five officers to whom fell the duty of arrang
ing the desirable changes are all gentlemen of
great professional experience as we'll as of attain
ments rarely to be met with in naval offcers.'
The June number of Appleton's Mechanics' Ma
gaxine opens with Captain Ericsson's reply to
Major Barnard's calculations relative to the theo-
retical power of the caloric engine. The captain
says:
81 have repeatedly stated that the yielding OF
the wrought iron heaters has prevented full pres
sure being carried, and have 30 reported to Gov
eminent. Strange to say, those who have written
on the subject appear not to comprehend the m
portance of this fact, nor its true bearing the
question They all confound the caloric engine
with the steam engine. In the latter, when re-
duced pressure is carried. the consumption of fuel
is reduced in an equal proportion-not 80 in the
caloric engine. The principal Of heat being
the Regeneration, neither speed nor pressure exer.
clses any material influence on the quantity OF
fuel consumed. ] must here emphatically record
the fact, that the quantity of fuel consumed in
turning the wheels at the dock, at a. turns per
minute, differed very little from the quantity con-
sumed under way, making turns minute. The
reason is obvious; the losses by radiation, and the
heat passed off through the chimney &c remain
constant, whilst the capability of the Regeneration
changes with the speed, density of air, and tenn
pera allure. By increasing these the power of the
instrument incr in equal proportion; the
heat it receives in given time the more it gives
back
Among the numerous other interesting articles
in this number are Captain Mordecai's report OF
experiments on gunpowder, made at the Washing
ton arsenal in lS43 and l844 account of expert
mental investigation of the principles of locomo.
tive boilers, by Mr.. Clark, of Edinburgh; and a
list of one hundred and tsoenty -four paddle wheel
steamers in the British navy, with their tonnage,
kind of engines. &c. This useful magazine is
sustained with much care and ability, and has be-
come, We should suppose, an indispensable month
ly visitor to every intelligent American mechanic
and engineer e,o York Commercial Adu., 7h
BANGOR LUMBER MARKET The following is 9
statement of the lumber surveyed at Bangor
Maine, from January to May 81, 1853, compared
with the amount surveyed during the same time
last year:
1852. 1853
Green pine. ...... 10, l95,4l7 1854 1916
Dry pine. 949,807 3,300,273