Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-02
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-. Lord Napier, the English Minister. attend
cd the ST. George dinner 10 New York. last week.
aud made speech. from sreport of which we quote
as Observation-Disclosures, do not wish to say any.
thing unduy and ungratefully depreciatory of any
country or Of any Government. have had some
experiences Of despotic Governmental have lived
10 Naples, in Turkey, and in Rusa. Gentlemen,
there are elements of happiness in them sll--For-
tunately, say there are elements of Kindness of
culture and Of happiness which no political system
whatever can exclude from the race Of nsture and
from the hearts Of men. loud cheers But, gen.
tlemeu, neither the retrospective elories of the Ita
1 IN scene, nor the ancient repose and the pctur-
esque associations of oriental life, nor the splendid
entertainments Of social life which have arisen in
their most agreeable form upon the margin of the
News, can ever make an Englishman undervalue or
forget those principles of freedom which have been
cherished by our common fathers at home, and
which by them were sown broadcast upon the soil
Of the great American continent"
-. Among the exports from New York during
tNe past week ten printing presses to Austria
- H"1 previously OSeH bulPPeu D1
hessrs. hoe Co., to England and France.
-. The Chicago Press, Of the oath April SAYS
Accounts from the Straits are somewhat conflict
ing. The ice, according to intelligence received
from the vicinity, is said to be three feet in thick
ness and weather severe. From later accounts from
Nsckinac, the ice was quite firm come fifteen miles
of the shore but it is weak and giving way in the
center or main channel Our Oldest forwarders are
of opinion that the month OF April will hardly see
the Straits opened, should the present cold weather
continue"
-. The Washington UJioH of the 23d April
says;-"It is stated that Mr.. Andrew Hoover, who
died so suddenly on Tuesday, left bis home in the
morning in fine health and spirits, casually remark
ing to his family that on that day bis policy of life
insurance woul expire. His son in the course of
the morning took the policy aud had it renewed.
In short time, that very last dcy the father
was speecbless, and has departed. His remark and
prompt attention hiss saveda worthy family S., OoO
-. Professor Thomson, name of eminence in
scientific circles, has for some time been engaged
in researches on the dynamcal values of heat, and
now shows that m chine may be constructed, to
be worked by water or stesm, which, with proper
ly-coutrived valves and ngr,ss or egress pipes,
would serve either for heating or cooling an apart
ment. Such a mechine, expanding not more than
one thirty fifth Of the energy of the beat impaired
would raise lower the temperature thirty degrees
above or below that Of the atmosphere; aud the
Professor points out how a current of warm air at
such a temperature as is convenient for beating
and venli'ating building may be obtained mechan-
icrly, either by water-power without any consump-
tion Of coal, or by of a steam-engine driven
by FIRE burning actually less coal than is capable
ofgeueratiug by its combustion, the required heat;
and, secondly, how with similar m, chanical means,
currents of cold cir, such as might undoubtedly be
used with great advantage to health and comfort
for cooling houses in tropical countries may be pro-
duced by motive-power requiring only much di
minished consumption Of coal.
%. Two clergymeu have arrived in Chicago.
with forty-six children, sent to the Vest by the
Chi lrcns Mission Society connected with the Uni
tartan denomination 10 Boston. The railroads and
hotels in Illinois gave the youngsters free quar-
teIs.
80. A writer in the St Louis Republican pre-
tends that he has made astronomical calculations
showing that the comet will strike the earth on the
10th of next June at twenty minutes past 10 o.
clock, somewhere in the vicinity of Vide Poche, or
Carondelet, Missouri. According TO- ths Missouri
is doomed State, in horn.
-. The Legislature of Massachusetts, has re-
fused TO reconsider its resolution appropriating
ElOO,oo0 to the cause OF Kansas by the decisive
vote Of 2lS to IS. The towns of Salem and New
bUryport have protested against the appropriation
The Boston Bee, also, which was one OF the petit
toners to the Legislature for such appropriation,
now opposes it,
-. Mr.. Powell, who painted the De Soto pic
ture for Congress- has been appointed by the Ohio
Legislature paint representation of Perry's VIC
tory on Lake Eie-the price not to exceed s., 1000
Il win be placed 10 of the panels OF the roun-
do of the State House.
1.-THE Church at South Butler, Y, of which
Rev. Antoinette L Brown pastor, has been
dissolved and the house closed AutoDette was
not woman's rights through the sneering
bitterness Of Lucy but full of womanly tenderness,
she longed for some object to lavish her affections
on, and thought it was a church and aock she
needed. She became ct length Mrs. Blackwell,
and 10 due time little ambkin was put in her arms
She found in this all she had bean longing for, and
has given up the whole fOck to take charge ofthis
wee lambkin. Had she found this sooner the use
less experiment a. South Butler might have been
saved.