The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1860-08-18
OUR NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
NEW YonK. August Z. 1856

EDITOR OF THE DEMOCRAT The Chicago
Zouaves have been the innocent cause of state
of feeling between the officers and men of several
regiments in this city, that will be productive of
q good deal of mischief, if it be allowed to last.
" Not to put too fine point on it," these young
Western soldiers took the city captive All men
of all nations assembled here in New York, REQ
ognized at once the incontrovertibe fact that the
drill of these young American Zouaves, as ex-
hibited by them here, is better calculated to
make efficient, practical soldiers, ready at
days notice for the vicissitudes of soldiers
life, than the old-fsshioned traditional drill
which makes every soldier march as if he had
swallowed ramrod and act generally like
soulless automaton. The praise bestowed upon
the Chicago Zouaves by the press and the people
of this city, has excited the jealousy of the
officers of some of the regiments, and has caused
them to foil every effort made by their men and
by citizens, to form Zouave companies, either as
, independent companies, or to be attached, as
flank companies to existing regiments. Not
wthstanding the opposition Of these old fogy
officers, however, there will be half dozen
companies, if not indeed, regiments, of Zouaves
n organized in New York within year from this
date.
Moses L. Beach has sold out the Daily Sun
o newspaper to Mr.. Church. who is said to have
: been proprietor of the New York Chronicle a
n good many years. 1t strikes me that have heard
of such paper as the Chronicle, but l do not
= remember ever to have seen it.
n The British Consul convened q meeting of
> British residents at the Astor House last night,
3 to make arrangements for extending an appro-
d pirate welcome to the Prince of Wales There
n will be another meeting before any definite &C urse
e is adopted.
v Rev. DR.. Gardiner Spring, who has been for
rs fifty years pastor of the Brick Church. preach
le ed sem-centenpial sermon on Sunday last. 1t
l. was an interesting occasion, not only for the
c venerable pastor and the companions ofhis earlier
ministry, but for their descendants, and all who
n had the good fortune to he present.
have Just been looking over sSme Russian
i'd newspapers. The press of that country hos i'm
ie proved very much since the accession of Alexan-
III der TO the throne bu: it is still far behind that
IL of any other country in Europe in many impor-
n tant respects. | do not exactly know to what
precise extcnt the censorship of the press prac
ticaly carried by the government of the Gar
! but, judging from the contents of several mum
h. bers of a sheet now lying before me, printed ii
ls the French language, and published in Moscow
OF should say that every line of n Russian news
~ paper is read and corrected by government
he officer before it is sent to press. Every lttlt
e newo-item every thrce-line editorial paragraph
a. bears evidence of the most watchful supervisior
. 1t is impossible to detect the expression of al
by opinion on any subject bearing in the most re
ly mote manner on politics. The movements OF tn
a. Gar and the military and civil officers of hi
u, government are alluded to in much the same bty
h. as an American journalist would aude to a
he eclipse, q terrific thunderstorm, or an unusuo
ed movement in the heavenly bodies beyond contrC
oh or modification by man, On internal commerce
70. agriculture, manufactures and inventions, how
ry ever the editorials appear to have been written wit
ed entire freedom from restraint And they are we
rn written too. In article on naval architecture
h0 W. il Webb, of New York, the builder of tn
sas Russian fligate General Admiral, is highly con
nd plimented and a preference is expressed fC
ual American ships over those of any other natioi
Nv. both tor the purposes of war and the transports
ion ton of merchandise. The writer then brancht
her off into consideration of the material service
which nations are respectfully rendering to Il
n race by labor saving and other inventions, an
assigns to America the most foremost positio
ith He audes to our reapers, mowers, and otht
ut agricultural inventions; to our endless apple
Let tions of India rubber and to many other Amerc'
improvements, which, it would seem, are as W.
i've known in Russia as in this country. The writ
tn. also informs us that the pump most general
used in the cisterns and wells of Moscow al
OF other large cities of Russia, and for factorit
the mines, railroads, and especially for farming pu
poses throughout the empire, is pump man
ION factured in New York, and known all over Anne
ass lea as Vests Improved Pump. "NO hone
)r man," concludes the Muscovite journalist, sc
withhold his tribute of praise and thanks to t
'ai' Americans for themany apparently trifing, y
nS' taken in the aggregate priceless boons they Co
fer every year on their fellow men, in the way
these Inventions. Anu IL 10 pIOpeT W ISmalA3
this connection, that the characteristic excelien
of an American invention is the universally
nc its usefulness. have seen, for example, dcze
W. of American inventions, especially this Yves
pump. to which have just referred in use !
only all over the continent on which they or
a, Iinated but in London, Constantinople, Aext
'n' dria in different parts of the East Indies and
tbo shipboard everywhere.
The troubles of the Great Eastern will me-
lish cease, it appears. A suit has been commend
against the marine monster, in the Circuit Co
fter Of the United States, by Messrs. Gilbert Ar
strong, who claim to be the assignees of pat
lisb belonging to James E. Smith. of GreenpOrt,
rent this State, for combining the use of the SCI
with the side-whees in the propulsion of vess
} Mr. Smith, it is alleged, submitted his invent
to Messrs Brunei s Stephenson, who prOnoun
it impracticable. Substantially, Mr.. Smiths
hS yentiou is used on the Great Eastern. The di
~ ages are laid at $50,OOO.
xty.