Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1854-01-26
FROM OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT.


this cry, ana presume elsewhere, at the present
moment, is the unfortunate steamship San Fran
cisco, which, when last seen, was stripped of her
masts her wheel houses torn away her engines
stopped, and her hull water logged drifting at the
mercy of the winds and waves, in the middle OF
/, the broad Atlantic! She has on board about 500
soldiers, beside the crew, and nearly 200 women
and children. The captain is a good seaman ;
and many persons have confidence that he will
contrve to rig up jury masts, and take his disman
tied ship into Bermuda. If not, the only hope is
that some one of the several steamers revenue cut
ters and pilot boats sent out in search, by order
of the Secretary of the Navy will succeed in find
! ing her, and rescuing the unfortunate people on
/ board. 1t is consolation 10 know that the San
Francisco is amply provisional for at least two
months from this date, that there can be no suf
ferng among the passengers for want of food.
| For several years the public instructed, or
amused, or bored. according to the light in which
they viewed it by the contest between Goodyear
and Day, the India Rubber men. A treaty of peace,
however, would seem TO have been signed between
these two doughty chieftains as their bellicose
bulletins and proclamations no longer attract the
eyes of the readers of the Tribune and Herald -
But there are rumors of war in another quarter,
| in which not two, but dozen parties will most
probably be engaged each bound TO annihilate all
of The others. 1t promises to be war conducted
without any system, rather upon the triangular
duel principle described by Captain Marryatt, in
his "Mr. Midshipman Easy" with this difference,
however, that there will be dozen or more com
batants, instead of three. l refer TO the great
Sewing Machine War, which, although confined
up to this time to skrmishing will soon result in
hostlities of a more serious nature. Every hu-
man evil, however, has It's eoncomitant good and
the good that will result from this war will be
| the bringing before the world, incidentally, the
/ great importance of this invention The lawyers
and newspapers will make good thing out of it.,
as without their aid nothing can be effected All
the parties interested have plenty of money; and
the more they fight, the more machines they sell,
and consequently the more money they make to
carry on the war with Sometimes one beliger
ent was in favor with the public, and sometimes
another, until about two months ago, when new
company, the American Magnetic Sewing Ma
chine Co.. took the field, stepping at once into the
first place in public favor, and has steadily main
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the very latest improvement, in the art of sewing
by machinery, it is. of course, sold and used
extensively than any other, and will continue to
be. until some inventive genius gets up something
newer and better. The great superiority of this
machine over all others appears TO lie in the fact
that anything can be stitched by it-from carpet
ing or the coarsest sacking up to the finest cam
bric-while those who use any other machine
must buy one for each quality of goods.
| The Society for the Reformation of Juvenile De-
linquents, which commenced operations in this ci
ty about year ago, has been very successful
The objects of the Society are receive and take
charge of such children, between the ages of FIVE
and fourteen years, may be voluntarily entrus-
ted to 1t by their parents guardians, or commit
ted 10 its care by other competent authority; TO
provide for their support and TO afford them the
means of moral, intellectual and industrial educa
ton. AS might have been expected few children
have been voluntarily entrusted TO the Society by
parents guardians but six hundred and TWEEN
y-four Tuants, Migrants, homeless children rag
pickers, organ grinders boys, baggage smash
ers and dock loafers-ads who, like the hardware
merchants, sell iron and steel (steal) for living
have either been picked up by policemen, or COM
mitted by magistrates. Being placed under the
care of this Society, instead of being sent jail,
! they withdrawn from evil associations and
taught the value of cleanliness honesty and read
| ing and writing. The reformatory effect of the
training received is shown in the fact that, of two
hundred pupils graduated, only eight are known
to have relapsed into crime or vagrancy The
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but is chartered by the Legislature and draws $40
per year from the City Treasury, and the same
amount from the Commissioners of Emigration,
for the support of each inmate.
| Elihu Burritt, formerly known as "the learned
blacksmith, who knew all the languages spoken
by the people of this world and "the rest of man.
kind" but latterly more famous as delegate TO
| the "Worlds Peace Convention" addressed meet
ing in this city, few evenings ago, in advocacy
of ocean Penny Postage" In the course of his
remarks, he said that, in each of the one hundred
and fifty meetings he had addressed in Great Brit
ain, every person who in favor of the project
was requested to hold up one hand; and that in
no instance within his recollection was there anv
evidence exhibited but that of the highest salts
faction. This is such ludicrous argument that
| cannot help ridicuing it. There can be no
doubt that, if Mr.. Burritt were to address meet
ing in favor of giving every man plenty of money
and pretty wife, and to ask each person in favor
of the measure TO hold up his hand, every man
within the sound of his voice would stand on tip
tee, and hold up both hands. But this would
hardly prove the measure to be either expedient
or practicable. l make this remark to point ont
| the fallacy of such reasoning, and not to say
word against cheap ocean postage. On the con-
trary, think the present rates of ocean postage
might well be reduced to two cents letter.
Capt. McSymon, of the screw steamship Glasgow
which plies between New York and Glasgow
and makes her voyages in from twelve to fourteen
days, says that ne will "only be too happy to con-
vey. at all times, full cargoes of mail bags at the
rate of one penny per letter, without asking the
first cent OF any farther grant from either Gov