Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-03-08
The News.

OOutu NdTOlluh OOllcEo anu TIE ponce OF tlldt
city. The Mayor and citizens interfered, and
the result was temporary suspension of the
College exercises and dispersion of the stu
dents.
Nj. Scheutz, of Stockholm, has invented a
Calculating machine" which is exciting the
attention of the learned and the curious OF
Europe. 1t will calculate the powers Of bis
quOdrate equations, the lOgarithns for falling
bodies from different heights, for pr,jectile
forces, tables Of zines, &c, aud all by the slow
motion of winch turned by hand. It also
stereotypes the columns of figures after having
calculated them. In all previous machines,
the carry ing has proved hitch, but in this of
Mr.. Scheutz the movements experience no
check, so beautifully are the several parts
combined.
Washinton City is fast assuming courtly airs.
One Of the newspapers there has got to re-
porting the appearance of the principal per-
sonages at the Presidential levees, and especi
ally the dress of distinguished ladies. Thus,
at the levee last week, the Star tells us gravely
that Mrs. Bodisco wore dress of blue silk
with O set OF rare turquOises; that Mrs. Sena-
tor Pugh, of Ohio, wore a white dress with
sweeping train; that Mrs Senator Wilson, of
Massachusetts, wore figured blue silk brOcade;
that Mrs. Senator Toucey, of Connecticut,
wore a black velvet, and so on through a vari-
ETY. of such gossip. Congressman foreign min
isters and heads of departments are sort of
nobility in Washington, though Of precious
little account any where else in the United
States. Hence these reports of fashions, a
sort of reflection of the Partisan originals,
obtained through the dress makers of Phila-
delphia and New York. This is a great coun-
try undoubtedly, but Washington must wait
awhile and not be in too much haste TO as
su.ae its donors.
The Boston Chronicle speaking Of menace
in one of the London papers, that in the event
ofawar the British would burn the city of
New York, says that ''it is no more than the
New Workers do themselves, once in every
five years; and when they should have de-
stroyed that village, they would have the sat
isfaction of knowing that they had burned mp
an hundred millions dollars worth of property
belonging TO their own couutrymeD. Strike
whatever blow you might in such war, and
the one side would feel the effect of it almost
as much as the other.
A bill to restore the death penalty is now
pending in the Wisconsin Legislature, and
"there is danger" a correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune SAYS, "that the effort for TestOr
alton will be successful"
We have been favored with the perusal of
letter to q merchant Of this city, from resi-
dent of Indian Key, Fla, which, under date
of the 25th Feb. gives some particulars of the
disturbances and alarms excited by the Indian
outbreak The first hostile visit of the lndi-
ans was made to Mattacumba, q small settle
meut six miles from Indian Key, about the
2lst Jan, when the house recently erected by
the settlers were all burnt. Since then most
of the residents have deserted their places
aud collected at Indian Key, forwarding the
women and children TO greater distance,
4 h. Laf,r
US, Of an attack on the Key itself, as the Indi-
ans are forced from the main land.
The first paper mill established in America
was located at Wissahiccon, Pa. The mill
was erected by Clausand William Rittinghous-
en-, who were of Dutch ancestry and went TO
Pennsylvans from New Asterdam William
Bradford was also part owner, but he rented
his share to the Rittinghou5ens, now spelled
Rittenhouse. The original lease, dated Sep
tenber !, 1897, is still in existence, and the
rent reserved by Bradford was seven reams o.
printing paper, two reams Of good writing
paper, and two reams of blue paper. This
mill, then so celebrated, was swept away by a
food, between 1899 and 1901, and so impor
tant was its Reconstruction that William
Penn wrote q certificate, recommending the
citizens TO give the sufferers relief.
Mr.. s. Lucas, of Sheffield, England, has OBJ
famed patent for a method of manufacturing
steel, the object of which is to convert bar
iron into bar-steel IN the presence of iron -ore
which ore will, at the same time, be itself
converted into steele. Tn bar-irou is piled
up in layers in o converting furnace, and the
layers are separated from each other by an
intermediate layer of a compound of ingredi-
ments, consisting Of broken iron ore, (or as a
substitute for the ore, iron or steel scale, or
iron or steel filings or turnings, other irons
in a state of oxyd) manganese, or charcoal all
OF which ingredients are mixed together IN
the required proportions.
Fifty millions of Russian subjects yield to
the Gar not more than revenue Of twenty
millions sterling More cannot be extracted
from the people; and, out of this, large army
ofsoldiers snot, it stands to reason, too literally
paid. Every member of the Russian popula-
ton, taking one with another, pays eight
shillings year for being ruled imperiallv,
with little or nothing more to pay local gov
eminent of any kind. In the same way,
every Austrian pays twelve shilling; every
Prussian eighteen shillings; every Frenchman
forty four shillings aud every EngliShman
forty. eight shillings TO the resources of the
natien, besides considerable sums towards
local expenditure. The only direct tax in
Russia is the poll tax, yielding less than three
and q half millions sterng add to it the license
duty paid by merchants and tradesmen, and
the sum becomes five millions. We speak only
of pounds sterling, because the value of sums
stated in silver roubles (the national deEomna-
ton in which Russian accounts are computed)
is less clearly perceived. The customs duties
Weld five millions more to the revenue, and
these duties fall entirely on the upper classes,
as the Russian peasant does not make any
appreciable use Of foreign goods Crown estates
4 81 4 Lei linn
and under the head Crown estates are included
mines, forests, and gold washings, with nearly
half the estates in the-enpire, the real annual
profits obtained from each Grown peasant be-
ing not more than three shillings ard four
pence The rest of the imperial revenue is
extracted from the sales of brandy. All brandy
produced by the distllleries is sold 20 govern
ment, which then doubles It's quantity with
water, and supplies il 10 licensed dealers for
retail sale of course, after more dilutson-at
fixed prices TO the public.
Lieutenant Page, who, in the United States
steamer Water Witch, has been engaged in the
exploration of the river Saledo, has made some
more recent discoveries showing that its naVl-
gability has been found to extend up 10 place
called San Miguel, in the province OF Salta, Il
distance by and of about $50 miles above the
point AT which the descent of the river was
commenced on the 18th of September last.
This gives to provinces, Of Salta, lnjni, and
Catamarca the benefit OF nearer approach TO
navigable waters IL is stated that new
channel was discovered leading from the con.
fuence of the Parsna and Uruguay rivers into
tie river Platte. This channel is described as
having two feet more water in il than the old
one, and is more easily entered.
Since 1858, twelve steamships, lost at sea,
have cost 200 human lives, aud 81 250, 600
al nroDertv Tie IDdeDentlencr sunk yyIb 100