Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-29

stapt SUCCESSION of similar gales, accompanied
by hail. snow. and acater sp0uS. she remain
ed in the vicinity Of Bermuda, owing to The
gales for six weeks. The Ship Star OF tie
West. which sailed from Liverpool, Dec 18th,
arrived at New York yesterday morning. she
reports having been for twenty-seyen days
West of the Banks with heavy weather. Inc
reports of these vessels may explain the lallure
20 arrive Of the Pacific aud also OF ship Par
lament.
late Constantinople letter says; San
American ship, drifting heplessly down the
current of the BosphOrus ran its bowsprIt IN,
10 that part of noblenans palace devoted to
his barem. The side ofthe house was cru-hed
in, one balcony was torn off, while divans were
ripped up, one chandelier swept from its fast
.ening and shivered into fragments; the fright
ened inmates rushed oGS into open air in such
impromptu costumes that the whole neighbor-
hood felt scandalized. Turkish pride became
deeply wounded, and our unfortunate compa-
triot found himself amenabe TO the disagreed
lie alternative Of either paying about double
the amount of the damage, or becoming an
inmate of Turkish jail. At first the captain
resisted the gross imposition but ultimately
yielded 10 the gentler suggestion OF bagnio
,feas."
The citizens of Eastpor,. Miss, upon receipt
n.
had whipped Mr.. Greeley, of the Tribune, held
a meeting and resolved to procure gold medal
and send Il to Mr.. Rust The medal, with this
inscription, Presented TO Hon. A. Rust, NJ.
c., from Arkansas, by his friends of PASSPORT,
Miss" aud on the reversed side, " HIT HIM
AGAIN." was got the next day and forwarded
TO that gentleman at Washington.
The Mobile Register says:-The Hon. I.
Butler King of Georgia, passed through Mobile
on Monday en- route from Texas TO bis home in
Georgia. We are gll to learn from Mr.. King
that he considers the great enterprise OF
Southern Railroad TO the Pacific as q fixed
fact" The Legislature of Texas, which has
Just adjourned, has passed some acts highly IA
vorable to the success of the work.
Congress, it is expected, will do something
this session towards the adoption If Il uniform
system of weights and measures, similar to thai
which forms the basis OF our coinage. Other
countries are moving in the same direction, and
il is quite probable that, in a few years, all the
commercial and civilized countries will have
adopted a similar system, which would greatly
facilitate the operations of trade and commerce.
A gentleman in New York, Mr.. FELTON,, we see,
has started the subject at this time, by a lee
.ture upon it, in which he proposed to super
code ali the present tables of weights and meas
.
nomination shall be exactly ten times greater
than its next inferior. For instance, in the
scale of weights, he would have ten scruples
orc drachm, ten drachms one ounce, ten oun-
ces one pound, ten pounds one stone, ten
stones one cwt., ten cwts. one ton. Apply TO
such tables the decimal currency as TO prices,
and the parts of q pound would exactly cor
respond TO the parts OF dollar. An article al
81 per pound would be one dime per ounce,
one cent per drachm, and one mill per scruple.
The same principle applies TO all the depart
ments of weights and measures. Mr.. (. con-
tends that the introduction of this system
would greatly simplify commercial transac-
tons of a kinds and do away with most OF
the difficulties WHICH beset the study of mum
bers
The Boston 7rdreler meutions another rea
son for dscrediting the report that the Collins
steamer Pacific put into the river Shannon.
Dire indeed must have been the stress of
weather that would induce any captain to APP
proach, in search OF shelter, the rocky and
dangerous coast on the southwest of Ireland.
If the Pacific were damaged, there is no acces-
sible place up the Shannon where she could
effect repairs. Itcould not be done at Kilrush,
and the river 10 Limerick is uayigable Only for
vessels of 400 tons burthen.
According 10 decision just rendered by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office, the
rights acquired 10y the proprietors of lands on
the shores of lakes represented on the pas OF
public surveys by which the lands are sold, as
navigable, are matters for State jurisdictions
and that after the survey and sale of land, the
general land laws cease to be operative, and
the State laws operate in the premises
The oldest invention of recent date is a
steam thawing machine, invented, made and
used in Cincinnati Il was built by Mr.. Latta
the builder of the steam tire-engine, and Is
owned and used by the Ere department of that
city to thaw fre-pugs, hydrants, cisterns
pumps, or any such water arrangement that
may be frozen. Ii is mounted on "a sleigh, aud
looks like a stove, with pipe rising from il,
from which the smoke issues At the bottom
furnace burns, and from the top gutla
percha hose issues, to the end OF which Is at
tached piece of iron pipe. The steam Is con-
veyed through this hose and pipe into the fire.
plugs, etc, and produces the desired thaw.
When The job is finished the sleigh is remount-
ed and the machine is driven off 10 another
place. The boiler consumes about three gal
Ions of water IN four hours aud the tremeu
say that il is the best thing for the purpose
they have ever tried.
Runners having long prevailed as To the
amounts of the funds locked up in the Chan
cory in New York State, committee was APP
pointed at the last session of the Legislature 10
Investigate the subject. At the present session
the report has been made. Ii appears that the
total amount invested in bonds and mortgages
is $l.572, sos 90; in stocks, $50 $50, besides
cash IN the hands Of County Treasures.
Professor Silliman recently deisered lee
ture at Louisville, in the course OF which he
gave quite au interesting sketch OF visit paid
A. NJ a
OF the cities OF llerculaneum and Poupei the
tides of the mountain are az this time inhabl-
ted by 100000 people, who look not TO the
past, but sleep in tanced security upon the
lava beds which eutombed villages beneath
their feet. Nesuvius had been raised from The
sea, he said, as had also ali of the region round
about Rome. Dormant volcanoes encrcled D..
the Eternal City. The soil was composed of
volcanic ashes. The noent CatacumUs had
been cut through this auth they had reached
10 tile mouth of he Tiber, 10 endless laby
rinths. That below this deposit Il ashes was
a formation containing marine fossil shells, and
still deeper, one containing fresh water fossils /
The subject. the lecturer said, was too vast for
one short discourse-that the mind was lost in 4
endeavoring % comprehend il These results I
could only have been brought about through 4
endless ages of time-that the Genesis account 4
of creation, taken literally, was entirely too I
short bat thst geology in no wise conficted .
with Scripture; ON the contrary, every success f
siye discovery in that sciencs proved The cor /
Teotness Of the Mosaic account.
The Dablin Mercantile AarertScr states that 4
letters have been received from Glasgow an \
nouucing tho suspension OF no les than fIuF /
firms ia the corn trade, with very heavy en-
eagements. The same journal has CONNER
cla. letters from 81 prtershurg. which stale