The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-29

put himself in position that shall subject him TO
geat risk of being badly beaten. No man is bound
to expose himself TO great danger when there Is put
small chance OF his exposure leading to any good 70
his party. can easily understand that Mr.. Cnoate
should find it exceedingly difficult to leave nus I'M
mense legal business to attend to that OF poiucs;
and his health Is not exactly such as would DE hkey
to be benefited by residence at Washington, tne
climate Of which place take TO De about tne hoss
MIR. Winthrop is spoken Of by some OF his frends Us
having retired from politics. and as II ne was de,
voted to literary pursuits The last tning tnat !
have heard is that Mr.. Lord Is To nave the aPponE
ment, sure. We shall see.
The eclipse was failure in most places IN TINS
part Of the country. II was partially seen mere,
but not for any length OF time, wnen .. i's negn.
People were much disappointed Smoked glass was
quoted low throughout the day, and rates were
Inke West. one of the Campbell Minstrels, died
last evening at about o'clock, at the Adams House.
He was attacked with Inflammation of the bowels
on Monday last, and survived but three days. He
was in his twenty-nnth year. His death will cause
deep regret to hfs many friends throughout the
country
must refer you to the papers and telegraphic
dispatches for accounts of what has taken place In
the Burns case. 1t is not possible to speak OF such
matter in paragraph without giving some ground
for Misrepresentation. The affairs OF last night
the meeting at Faneu Hall, the riot, and the death
Of Batcheder-settled the matter, | think. Had
the friends Of Burns been quiet, they might have
rescued him with comparative ease, as was done IN
shadrsch's case The action that took place spoiled
any plan that cooler heads may have formed Tor q
walls that the arress Durns grew out of deter
mination to test the courage Of respectables,
who said at their Faneuil Hall meeting, last winter,
that no more fugitives could be arrested here Had
the Nebras Ka question never come up, Burns might
have been arrested, examined, and sent to Alexan-
] d, "a without causing any excitement
The people of Worcester are to vote, to-day, on
w Or nj wi n -
passed by the Legislature at its last session, antho
rizing them to take measures for supplying their
| city with pure water. Though the act Is not all
that was desired it is supposed to be sufficient in
its provisions to warrant a commencement of the
work, and future Legislatures can grant such addi-
tional powers as may be found necessary for its
parts of the city none of good quality can be got
1t is supposed that the act will be accepted, but it
is not settled whence the water will be obtained in
that event. Two places are prominently named.
One Of these is Tatnc brook, which is described by
the Palladium as stream running through val
ley several miles in length, and as being fed by nu
merous small tributaries and springs from the hills
that line the valley. 1t has various other recon-
| mendations as a source Of supply. The other
place is Henshaw Pond, in Leicester. This sheet
OF water covers f0ryone acres and can be increased
to one hundred and one acres BY flowing sixty acres
Of meadow-hnd connected with it. 1t is of an ave-
rage depth Of ten feet which can be Increased ten
or fifteen feet by constructing dam of the length
Of fifteen rods. Two living streams run into IT. and
|
very dry seasons The quantity Of water in this
pond at its ordinary elevation is shown to be 1881
500 gallons, which would be doubled at least by
the construction OF dam, and increased to Ala,
$4,000 gallons by flowing the sixty acres of mea-
dow land. Should Henshaw pond be selected, it
would be necessary to excavate ridge of earth to
the depth Of forty or fifty feet, or to make tunnel
through the hill distance of fifteen or twenty rods.
The probable cost Of the enterprise do not find
mentioned; but Worcester is most fourishing and
rapidly growing place, and well able to purchase
good water at even very high figure. ALGoMA.
Our Connecticut Correspondence.
NEW LONDON, May "a, 1854
Politics in CornecticM-Shippnge Of New London-Wa4r
ing Places, dc.
On the principle that you have correspondents
everywhere" we should be no where, for believe
you have no recognized correspondent here. Fol
purpose, then, of locating city on the map Of
modern history, am induced to write this off.hand
correspondence for the columns of the HERALD.
Politically, New London is destined to be "some'
infuture history, as having in the year 1864 con.
tanned beings who were patriotic enough to hang a
Connecticut Senator in efagy for having dared to
support the constitution Of the United States and
respect his own conscience as Statesman
in the councils of the Union. Yes, an image
labelled Senator Toucey," was hung W
in the night season, by some miserable things
who dared not show their faces-if they ha.
any-in the day time. Senator Toucey's course OF
the Nebraska question has been such as will ensur
him the respect and confidence of all true-heartet
democrats, who care more for the prosperity of the
Union than for propagating ab0tionism; and now
that the bill has passed the House, and will un-
doubtedly be concurred in by the Senate the ex
element consequent upon its agitation, by such
fanatics as Greeley Co., will soon subsde, and the
people awake to realization of the fact that though
abolitionism and its compeer, whiggery, are quash
ed the constitution is unharmcd-the Union is safe
Aside from politics, New London is a great port
for foreign shipping, having near sixty ships en-
gagged in the whale fishery; and, moreover, it Ia fast
becoming great watering place. Time was wher
votares OF pleasure, health, recreation and thu
modern Mecca at which the fashionable world mus
needs devote their summer months; but the Koran
has been reprinted. the order of things reversed
the searchers after health and enjoyment now only
perform their pilgrimage to New London and this
Pequot House. And let me here say, for the benefit
Of snch Of your readers as are soon to embark FOL
healthful is to be found in all New England than il
the Pequot property at the mouth of this harbor
and no better or more commodious house than the
Pequot is to be found along whole coast. 1t il
within five hours ride of New York Or Boston; and
although it has been built but two or three years. al
ready stands high with the public as first ella
watering place.
PENNSYLVANIA FREE Soil STATE CONVENTION
The following are the resolutions passed by the Free
SOH State CouteHtou ot pennsylvania, neld az PttS-
burg, on the 25th inst-
Resolved, That hereafter we will not be content
with resisting the aggressions Of the slave power
whenever we fight to disadvantage, but will carry
the war into Africa " itself and will not cease our
struggle until We have excluded slavery from all the
Territories abolished it in the District of Columbia
prohibited the sale of human beings for the debts OF
their alleged masters, under federal process, re-
peaed the fugitive slave law divorced the national
government from all support of slavery and used all
constitutional power to drive the inquitous system