Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-26
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YORK, Oct. Is. 1855

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city was, few days since, disturbed by the
breaking mp of a notorious gang, who we're
living practically at SIS Broadway, but theo.
retically in the middle of the nineteenth Gen.
fury They are company Of the " fasts, -
who, fancyins themselves away ahead Of the
times, formed themselves into little /" free
! love- party. In the opinion Of this liberal
and progressive sect, all are " old fogies' who
regulate the affections by any other law than
desire. They set al naught tie idea of enc
! wife or one husband, but in the plenitude Of
! their love bestOw their affections upon whom
/ soever will receive them. The leader i'm the
movement is Albert Brisbane, through whose
influence the New York Tribune first en-
oraced Fourierism. Ho is also the married
man OF the concern, and very wealthy, while
| the others most prominent in the affair are
| supposed to live from hand to mouth Ste
| phen Pearl Andrews is the next in rank He
| is man Of superior literary attainmcnts, ard
the person who is understood to be the " chief
in the bulletins published by the order The
private house of Andrews was the place at
! which they met, but he eventually engaged
rooms in Broadway, which shortly became so
| noted as to attract the attention Of the police
Although the leaders were arrested, tic as
| ISOLATION is by no means broken up. They
! now meet regularly twice week, but exel-
clse more circumspeeti0n in their admissions
| VI course all the papers violently oppose
| 10 tbs N. But the truth is that some of the
principle writers Of nearly ell the daily papers
! are members of the association must low
| ever, do Horace Greeley the justice to say
that he is personally opposed to it, although
| sJme ct his associates in the Tribune favor it
! privately. This - Free Love Association is
made up principally of the members Of the
| North American Phalanx," an association If
| FouTierites, whose farms and houses were re-
Gently sold In Monmouth county, New jersey.
| The FOurierites never recognized marriage
| While they respected q woman who combined
| herself to one man, they looked upon it as
! equally respectable for a woman to monopol-
| lze several. The law of OCCASIONAL Attrac-
| ton only guided them in matters of love. In
may appear strange, but il is 10 mere strange
than true, that all who belong to this society
are more intelligent than the average Of our
| citizens. They may have that little learning
! which Is dangerous thing and while in the
| room conduct themselves with proprety. If,
| however, an unusual attraction should occur.
! he parties adjourn to some place where, no
doubt, the " harmonious are distributed
The Fair Of the American Institute appears
to be attracting many persons from the coun-
try. Thousands visit it every day. To those
| who were not fortunate enough to see tie
| W,rld' 5 Fair, the Crystal Palace will now ire
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| the States arc IN some way represented. Cal.
| IfOrLia astonishcs us by the enormous proDcr-
lions Of her vegetable Productions. From it
are cucumbers two yards in length; sguashes
weighing eighty pounds; onions twenty inches
and over in circumference, and weighing two
| and-a ha.f pounds each. The shaTpest COM
! petition appears TO be in the inventive arts.
There are all conceivable kinds Of machinery,
/ from steam smoothing iron 10 a steamboat
/ engine. In the agricultural implements de-
! partmentmay be found anything, from pitch
fork up to feaping machine. There is 10
| end to the improvements in household ilnpie-
| ments Churus that will 20 through the whole
! routine OF making butter, except milking the
COW. Tubs that will wash clothes without
! hand labor, and, from appearances, mqngls
! them, too Beds that will wake Up a person
| any hour of the day, or night and if be does
not arise, after fair warning, they will tumble
| him out on the floor. The.o arc sswing-ma-
| chimes In great abundance Orc to which
mclUdeOn Is attached is 4 mechanical Curiosity.
The sewIuS apparatus il in itself quite DcrCect
! and my be used without III any way inter-
! feriag with the musical instrument While,
| on the other hand, tie meioIeon may be play
! ed, and the machine kept concealed from WOW.
IL Is v3Iy elegant piece of furniture, and will
! most likely become popular among pogplc of
refinement, who sew merely to anuse them
! selves-r!ay music for the same purpose. The
| instruments wien bought separateicly. Ex.
hibited by Wheeler & Wilson, Of MassacLu-
sets.
quartz crusher, intended for California
gold mines, is an object IF considerable inter-
est. The quartz is crushed by the weight of
a.bGil l!aced On large plate, which is made to
oscillate, and thus give motion to the ball
Printing presses, invented by Mcryin Davis
PRACTICAL printer, Of this city, is scrutinized
closely by the typos who visit the exhibition
This press difcrs from all others by its cylin-
der, or rather what Is called cylinder in
other Iresses, being but the segment of a cir-
Gle, and instead OF revolving 1t has an oscil-
Lifting motion. Tie oed on which the forms
arc laid, does net pass TO and fro "a usual but
is pressed up against the osciliating segment
lG IS said TO NO.k Us well as He's, and IL
much cheaper. One CT the most curious anu
useful pieces Of mechanism ia the Palace is a
knitting machine, exhibited by Jackson, New
York City. 1t Is the only one in the Fair, or
in the world Il knits any kind of thread OF
! yarn; Is capable Of making | 400 stitches PCT
| hour. 1t will knit a pair Il wooilcn half hose
| IN half an hour; and one hundred legs or feet
| Of haif hose in ten hours. 4 machine, which,
| II invented IN any country, would create as
toAlshment, Is on exhibition, but In this inVen-
| tive age aid country, is almost looked upOn
| as a matter # course. 1t is called tho " Au-
| tOmatOn Grain Scale " and is the invention of
! VIM. II. Bramblc, Western man. The scale
! is kept in operation by a flow of grain from
shute, and seems to perform its work with
almost mathematical accuracy. The receiver
! OF the grain is drum-shapcd cylinder, with
| double mouth ext .nding across its upper
/ surface. At the bottom are two almost SINH
lar aperturcs through which the grain is
passed out. 1t also gives the ex ict value Of
| what it weighs in dollars and cents. II ac-
tiOn is regulated by lis own gravity, ard there
forc requires no winding up. 1t may be set
so that certain quantity may lee weighed,
and neither more nor less The completion Of
the task and the stopping of the machine arc
announced by the ringing of a bell 1t cost
the inventor many years of toll to bring this
scale to its present state Of perfection.
There are some very fine and curious imita-
tonS Cf marbles, and various stones composed
of the most unexpected materials There is
one quality of artificial stone, the principal in
| grcdIent Of which is bullock's blood. 1t is
claimed for it, that it will last for ever, and
increase in hardness as long as it lasts Two
glass companies exhibit plate glass OF superior