Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1855-12-10
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1865.


&c News
DR.. F. Aoul, Professor Of the University Of Hei.
delaerg, has discovered in the Monastery Of 81.
Paul, in Corinth, manuscript Of the elder Pliuy,
containing nearly the whole of the seventh part Of
the Natural History, lib II II.
We learn from The Boston Journal that Hon
Edward Everett has become connected editorislly
with the North American Review.
The author Of Pelham has become A writer for
the London Quarterly Review. The article in the
last number on Pitt and Fox, is attributed to his
pen. "Whstn asks the London News, "cannot
time effect? Lockhert studiousy abstaued from
noticing Bulwer in the Quarterly, and Lockhart was
Lord Of the Quarterly from the infancy Of Bllwcrs
reputation till last ye8y--a period Of nearly thirty
years. Now LocEhsrl is 10 more, and Bulwsr is
no longer Wing The neglected author appears
as writer in that very periodical which SO niuri
Ously abstained from rendering him the literary
justice his genius has long entitled him to receive
gold medal has been struck at the Phiadel.
phia mint, after design furnished by Capt. East
man, Of the q. S Army, under the direction Of a
resolution Of Congress- for presentation to Capt
Ingraham, and was to the President on the 3Oh.
Ii weighs tweRty-seven ounces. The face repre-
sents the American and Austrian vessels 1T anchor
before Smyrna, and the diverse has the following
inscription on it Presented by the President Of
the lifted States to Com Ingruham, as a testfno.
MIS-. of the high sense entertained by Congress Of
nis gallant and judicioUs conduct on the % Of Ju-
y, 1879
4 discovery has recently been made and brought
into practical operation, by which the expense of
working steamships, stationary engines, &c viii
DO very materially reduced It consists in substi-
tuting the vapor of bi-sulphuret Of carbon as
source Of motive power for the ordinary vapor Of
water as used in the steam engine. Carbon and sul.
phlF, from which the bi sulphure Of carbon is OBJ,
tanned, are among the most abundant and cheapest
articles that can be found. The advantage obtain.
ed blythe substitution is an enormous Multiplication
OF power as compared with that got from the en-.
ploymeut OF ordinary steam. BY repeated expert
ments, conducted for months past By practical en-.
glueers, the result Of employing hi suIphurat of
carbon was q gain in the proportion of ss72-I2q0-
GO, on the average Of ali the experiments
IHuGRATioN TO Iowa AND MrNNEsoT, -Tbe
Dubuque Express says, the rush Of immigrants to
Iowa the present year is truly astonishing. No
State, not even California h1s obtained 40 rsDd an
increase Of population as has Iowa the past seaaoD
Through Nay and June every road TO the interior
was tbropgod with oo,.ouo5 - W '''' ''''''0,
by nocks and ber5s and At ,,o,.. -,
wherever Won went tho o,,oor,,,7on.- -,
marlin Of water co,,rses ~or,-,,,,l1
dcrs of the IsrseIitos Co,,I,o- sr;,,,,--.. -.
filing up with great ranf5itv or5 ,Li, -
will soon be knocking at the doors Of ,,r-,oss g..
admission into the Union. Tho Do,,rotfo, 81, a.
,,frri,, "a -, IL. - "'' 1A0'eu
her
The largo oBns r,o5o a. ,lo TODD -.
Richmond for two Of ,bo ror, s,o.r, ri. o' -.
been tested nv II : oeicors ga
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