Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-06-12
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temperature at p. m. was Sc degrees on the
Senate floor, at p. m, So degrees.
Thus it appears that the temperature is pre-
served within degree or two Of that of the
outside air. That the difference between the
hoor and galleries is not more than one or two
degrees. That the effect of the gas Though
the radiant heat is perceptibe to persons OF
high nervous organization, though not sufficient
to raise thermometer exposed to the direct
radiation more than three degrees above one
shaded from this radiation,) is not sufficient to
increase the temperature in the Hall sensibly
above that outside. That the new hall, with
several hundred persons, at p m, after q
session of five hours, was cooler than the old
hall which was empty-that it was cooler than
the Senate chamber at the time the tempera-
lures were compared, and that the tempera-
lures steadily decreased with that of the even
ing during tie seven hours the House remained
in session after the gas was lighted
To this 1t may be added that Mt the end of
this fourteen hours session, some Of which was
held by gas-light, the Hall, which had been
occupied By several hundred persons, many of
whom were smoking contained an atmosphere
so far from impuTity that there was mono of the
usual sensation of relief in stepping out of a
gas-lighted room into the night air. The arti-
fetal ventilation by the fan was at the rate Of
10000 cubic feet of air per minute driven into
the room through the registers and passing out
through the ceiling
The windows and doors of floor and gallery
were also open, and the outer breeze blew free
ly through the Hall, aiding the effects of the
artificial ventilation.
On calm, still day the fan alone would be
available, and it is quite sufficient to keep the
Hall at all times perfectly ventilated, being
capable OF charging and renewing it's entire at
mOsphere every five minutes.
AS the Union has published the assertion
that the Hall was like a bake.oven, will il
publish the above?
MONSIEUR BELLY.-We entertain a shrewd
suspicion that, after all, the famous Monsieur
Belly is more OF an emissary of the speculate 8
and schemers on this side of the Atlantic aim.
ing to keep the Nicaragua isthmus transit
closed against American travel, than of Louis
Napoleon and the spectators Of the Paris
Bourse, as so sedulously represented. 1t is
well known that Commodore Vanderbilt in his
efforts to earn the $4,000 per month he re-
ceives from the apitalists-railroad and steam.
ship-carrying the passengers by the Panama
isthmus, for keeping the Nicaragua route closed
has employed emissaries of any and eyery
nation likely to accomplish his end To him
sJustly due the credit Of the getting up of the
English claim to the route that not long since
made great fuss in the newspapers-tLe
English interest turning out to be Vanderbilt
oniy-though Vanderbilt, with a novel mask
on for the noncc. Monsieur Belly we fancy,
when thoroughly exposed, will turn out to be
put " Monsieur Tonson come again, Van.
deroiit' scheming to earn his SGT, 900 per month
Tor keeping tho Nicaragua route closed so that
IL shall not compete with the Panama route.
so the " steamship war" wags. in Central
America.
COMMANDER JoHN RoDGERs.-Tbe recen,
manly letter Of Commander John RODGERS,
U. S. N, explanatory of the state of affairs
in the Gulf Of Mexico bearing on the acts of
British ships in putting in practice in what
may be termed our own waters, the instruc.