The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-14

His Holiness the Pope is "a sineuIarly quiet
this summer in the ample halls of the Vatican.
as he was active and erratic Last year through
his own dominions and those of his immediate
neighbors but if report speaks true, the year
1859 is to witness very much more distant
excursion on the part of his holiness than any
he has undertaken since his diplomatic mission
as Nuncio to the Republic of Chile. Since the
recognised supremacy of the See of Rome
throughout Christendom, we have no instance
OF the Pontiff ever venturning on pilgrimage
to the Holy Land, and it is indeed difficult to
imagine what would be the correct etiquette to
be observed between two personages of such
exalted positions and such mixed attributes as
the Pope and the Sultan. 1t is nevertheless
rumored in several credible quarters that Pho
Mono, who has already ventured upon many
steps that his more cautious predecessors would
never have dreamed OF, is determined to add to
the memorabilia Of his eventful reign Papal
pilgrimage TO Palestine, with the full consent
and appreciation of the Sultan Abdul Mediid.
Governor Banks and lady attended the pa
rade and ball of that ancient Boston institu.
lion, the Honorable Artillery, at Barnstable,
last week. Mrs. Banks wore a rich ball cos
tune, and danced several cotlions with much
spirit and grace of movement. Mr.. Banks
contented himself with dancing one quadrie,
amusing himself chiefly by converting with the
citizens of Barnstable about the weather and
the crops.
A writer from the camp at Salt Lake, in
letter dated 3lst August, says:
"The army camp is about to be moved few
miles, to point where preparations are being
made for the winter. Hats are being built
there of clay, in the shape of large.sized bricks,
and dried in the sun, (adobe Each officer is
to have room Is feet square, with walls
feet high--the earth for q floor, and perhaps
heaven for ceiling, in part at least, for though
sort of roof will be made, it will be holy one.
The Mormons are at work, making the adobes
at least one hundred Mormons are now at work,
and they have contracted to make one million
and half Of them. After they are completed,
the troops will move, and it will take the sol.
diers month to make their preparations for
winter.
"This soar is capital thing for the Nor
mons; they sell their vegetables, & c., at their
own price, pretty generally, Though every day
an officer is detailed to attend to the prices Of
things brought to the camp to SELL then they
require Mormon prices for their labor in short,
it is fine thing for the Mormons to have the
troops out here to eat all they want to sell.
GAS to Brigham, he fares sumptuously every
day. His house is very fine; it is said TO have
cost sixty thousand dollars. On the cupola is
beehive, beautifully carved in wood. In this
house he attends to business, receives visiters,
and here resides Mrs. Brigham No. l. la the
house next to this, all the other Mrs. Brighams
live, say fifty or sixty.
A letter from Paris says Of the future Ouch.
u lur "a A. -
Marshal Pelissier, last evening, at the Theatre
Francois, when she appeared to enjoy vastly
M. Legouve's version OF G Iipus. She is really
a very charming person, and will make an ex.
cellent ambassadress, if the Marshal could be
persuaded to retain his post in London
There is great talk in Paris of the creation
of FIVE hundred barons, who are to form the nu
cleus of new noblesse, to surround and snip
port the throne. The report has given rise to
that of another-that of the intended corona
ton of the Emperor at Notre Dame, like the
Great Napoleon, in the month of January next.
Among the curiosities of navigation, there is
now advertised for sale a caloric yacht. She is
called the Marie Louise, and has just returned
from a cruise of several weeks in the Hudson
river and up the Erie canal. She is thirty.si
feet long, and seven feet six inches beam has
esile wheels and single engine of eighteen
inches cylinder, (which any gentleman can
manage.) She will run an entire day upon one
bushel OF COAL She is complete in every re-
spect. This steam yacht is the work of Capt.
Ericsson and his partner, John B. Kitching.
! The State Board of Agriculture of Illinois
| offered a premium of $4,000 for steam plows.
| 1t was expected that three different inventions
L. II sto1 al h.
| but only one was on the ground. That was
Fawke's locomotive steam pillow, Lancaster,
| Pa, which excited great interest among the
prairie farmers, and performed we'll. The ma.
chine and apparatus, with fuel aud water,
| weighs only about seven tons, and by the use
| of drum or barrel-shaped driver, for propellng
the locomotive, the difficulty of miring in soft
| soil, and slipping on hard smooth ground, is
overcome. The steam pillow is easily managed,
| and ia described as cross between locomotive
| aud tender, combining the essential elements
of both, mounted on two guiding wheels and
| huge roller. The prairie ground on which it
was tried was baked as hard nearly as brick,
| but the engine turned six burrows side by side
| in the most workmanlike manner. The excite
ment of the crowd was beyond control, and
| their shouts and wild huzzas echoed far over
| the prairie.
We have believed for some time that the next
| great achievement in mechanics and in agri.
| culture would be the steam.plough. That
achievement has apparently been made, or
| something so near to it that success is assured
and near. A MIR. Fawkes, Of Lancaster, Pa,
|. has constructed q steam plough, which was
tried at the recent State fair in Illinois, and was
| pronounced q complete success. 1t is described
az cross between locomotive and tender.
| 1t is mounted on two guiding wheels and huge
propelling wheel in the shape of drum, which
overcomes the difficulties of miring on soft soil
and slipping on hard, smooth ground. 1t is
said to be easily managed, and to require but a
moderate amount of fuel. 1t draws six ploughs,
80 regulated by spiral springs IS to yield to any
| extraordinary obstruction. The machine was
tried on the most difficult soil, the unbroken
prairie, and it's performance is thus described
| In the Chicago Tribune:
"The prairie was baked 80 hard by drouth
that the prairie breaking ploughs would not run
in it, and the trial of sod ploughs was abandon
ed ia consequence. Notwithstanding this fact,
| the inventor was 30 confident of success that he
gave the order to put the ploughs to work in
this almost impervious soil. After little delay
in regulating to this brick.like surface, the en-.
CINE moved forward, when six burrows were
turned side by side, in the most workmanlike
manner. The excitement OF the crowd was
| beyond control, and their shouts and wild
huzzss echoed far over the prairie, as there be
meath the smiling Autumn sun lay the first fur,
| row turned by steam on the broad prairies of
the mighty West"
The President has appointed DR.. James
Mcdowell, of Missouri, Consul General to Con-
staptipople He is the oldest son Of the late