Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-05
THE NEWS


rump Convention, alias the Douglas Convention,
nominated Douglas and Fitzpatrick of Alabama,
at Baltimore Mr.. Fitzpatrick has declined run
ming for the vice-presideucy; and Mr.. Hersche !
Y. johnson, of Georgia, has been nominated in
his stead Mr.. Johnson accepts the nomination
declaring that in his opinion, the doctrine of nom
intervention is necessary to the Union. Breck-
enridge and Lane accept, likewise. The South
Carolina delegation, headed by Robert Barnwell
Rhett, Sen., did not 60 into the Baltimore sece-
ding Convention. They with others remained at
Richmond. But the Richmond Convention sane
toned the nomination of Breckenridge and Lane
Caucusing has begun in Washington for the
coming campaign for the Presidency. An effort
will be made to compromise between Douglas
and Breckenridge, and run only one ELECTORAL
ticket in all the Northern Democratic States
Meanwhile, however, the newspapers are hoist
ing, some the name of Douglas, others that Of
Breckenridge, at their masthead; and guns
have been fred for both parties. The chances
are good for the next Presidential election to 60
into the House. The following "Rough Notes," ,"
then, will prove of interest
1.-THE House of Representatives, has nothing
whatever to do with the election of a Vice Pres.
ident, nor the Senate with the election of Pres
ident. The powers of each body are distinct
and entirely independent Of the other If no
President be chosen by the electors, the House
of Representatives may choose the President,
their choice being restricted to the persons hav
| ing the highest numbers, not exceeding three on
the list of those voted for President. If no Vice
President be chosen by the electors, the Senate
shall choose the Vice President from the two
highest numbers on the list of those voted for
the Vice President. If the House fails to elect
President before the 4th of March next follow
ing, then the Vice President, whether elected by
the electors or by the Senate, shall act as Pres
| ident The rule, or manner of voting under
which the Senate chooses Vice President, IS
exactly the reverse of that which governs the
House in choosing President-each being the
reverse of the general principle or basis upon
which the respective bodies are organized. The
House representing the people, and ordinarily
voting per capita, vote for President by States,
the representation from each State having one
vote, and majority of all the States being neces.
sary 20 choice The Senate representing the
State-in theory, at least, and in the mauuer of
electing Senators-votes for President per capita,
each Senator being entitled to vote, and
majority of all the Senators being necessary to a
choice"
The arrival of the Great Eastern constitutes
an era in the history of navigation. 1t reached
New York on the 2Sth instant, and is now lying
off Sandy Hook. This immense structure, prom
isiug almost every convenience and even luxury
of the land-telegraph, newspaper, &c.-wiil
be n miniature republic fonting on the waters.
It made the trip in three hours less than eleven
days-the distance being $3.50 miles
A new discovery has just been made in the
scientific world which will revolu,ionize all those
departments of the useful and fine arts, which
have been using marble as their material. Quartz
rock, or flint is melted, and by the addition Of
certain elements, concerted into the purest Parian
MARBLE, "Walter Olyde," the New York cor
respondent of the New Orleans Picayune. thus
speaks of this charming and wonderful inven-
ton:
"a certain Dr. Benjamin Hardnge, a man of
original mind-a careful, truthful, and never
tiring student of nature-has spent the last ff-
teen years in his laboratory in liquidating quartz
rock and combining it again in new and varied
forms Dissolving quartz slick with an excess Of
alkah is nothing new in chemistry, but to do it
with the slick very greatlyin excess over the al
kali, and in large quantities, and at small
expense, has been one Of the greatest studies of
chemistry for the past quarter of q century.
This DR.. Hardinge surely accomplished; for
have seen three thousand gallons of liquid dis
solved at one time and in the short space of two
hours, and at an expense merely nominal The
capacity of this monster machine is six thousand
gallons, and it can digest twelve tons of quartz,
or oize, or flint rock, in twenty four hours, and
convert it into the waters Of crystallzaton-
But then you have the basis for the widest spec
ulations Your readers are, perhaps, aware
that a very large portion Of our globe is of just
this material, either in the form of sand rock or
other silceous substances. BY chemical com
binatons. DR.. Hardnge makes an article OF plas-
tic marble, purer than the purest Parlan-
1t car be made any color, by mixtures with va
rious metallic oxides. Every article Of marble
work may thus be cast rs perfectly as castings
of metal now are, and copies Of Cornth!an plI'
lars, statutes, mantels, &c, can be furnished at
ali expense of probably one per cent, their cost.
BY a proper combination with ordinary sand or
marble stone is made harder than the hardest
flint and at price less than the cheapest brick.
Your parlors may he frescoed with marble, and
time will never injure the colors. This is, un.
doubtedly, the same process used in the cata-
combs of Egypt, the colors of which are as fresh
as when they were first put on, three thousand
years ago. Your levees may now be built of
horo a
trouble to make them equal in size to the fonnda-
ton stones Of Solomon'S temple. This liquid
quartz is also made into paint, incombustible
and soluble Your ships and steamboats, cannot
burn up, and the meanest hut will he rs safe
from fire as the marble palace. This seems al.
most like the fables of the Arabian Nights, yet
it cannot be otherwise than true. For dissolv.
ing gold-bearng quartz, this Inventions value is
without limit. Every atom Of gold may be pre-
cipitated and saved, and then the liquid is of far
more value than the whole thing has COST
Think of one great iron monarch Qigesting twelve
tons of flint in twenty four hours
The astronomers have been asleep, and let
new and unexpected comet slip in on them una
wares last week. 1t has been seen in many
places. 1t appeared in the North west, and was
some ten or Hlteen uegree9 doo'c lhe HotiHoh'-
One description says it had tail adom sir feet
long which, we suppose, was "all in the eye"
Some suppose it to be the Charles Y. Comet
which is looked for .'along now"
President Buchanan has vetoed the Homestead
Bill. He says it is unconstitutional. He says
it would be an injustice to the "od settlers, who
paid 81 25 per acre for their homes, when the
the public domain to 'hungry horde" at 25
cents per acre--now, too, that they would enjoy
the advantages Of settlement and civilization
He says, further, that it would be unjust to the
hardy soldiers who have land pensions for their
services in the war of 1872; because already,
under the bare prospect of such an enactment,