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ill- j horie-power, it isl'.ir preleruble, parttcu-un I i.irly at such place* as Denver Tail. On us : lioard of Light Ship*, however, at sea, i g !! one man, or two men, at most, in suffi. Ic- 11 icnl fur tlie purpose.an 11 We are happy to announce that“■ ; * -npt. H. L. Shields, of the 3d Artillery, ^ has received the honorable and import-lint appointment of Judge AAvoeute o£ of lM Ea*,ern division of the U. S. Army;° he Iihs been releived from duty at Fortr® Adams, and will proceed immediately to I'roy, that being the heud-quurters of ; tien. Wool, commander of the Division. Verily, fortune luvors the brave.Jenny Lino in new Onleans.—Tl* Directors of the new Odd Fellows, Hall, now building in New Orleans, have eoi -sealed to erect a temporary structure on ih'' serond floor of their magnificent building, capuble of accommodating iiOtX) persons. This is for the accomj inodntton of Jenny Lind, who, it has bet n promised, will visit tliut city in January, provided a suitable hall can be obtained.Sir,'’ said a pompous personage, who undertook to bully an editor, “do you know that I take your paper 7” “|*ve r :j no doubt you do take it.” replied the il, ! ,nan 01 'he quill, “for several of my hon-I, j Cht subscribers have been complaining I i. lately about their papers being missing I in the morning.”'i ft./•Connecticut Tlmndsgiving, Tl.t rs K il day, Nov.28th.mI | Thanksgiving in Itiidiana, Thursday, ' ' ' Nov. 28.A Titi m'kk Whistle.—We have on two or three occasions referred to the importance of establishing effectual Fog Signals or Alarms at the prominent points on our const, when there is u necessity furtlmir being seen to he passed in safety hy nu\ igntors. And we, also, in the same connection, alluded to the mass of testimony which has been furnished us to show that the Fug Whistle can he heard against the wind, and through the surf, when hells had proved of no use whatever at such places.— Denver Tail Light, is, for instance, one of tht ca '■ in qui • hi. W« wisi now to speak more particularly of a very important enterprise which we under, stand is contemplated, and which, If cur-ricd into execution; will do more to pro-h i mir coast, than even the Light IIou.■ . v c: i udy exist U • under stundjthat the matter bus been fully ex-I ’ained to the Collector, and that it meets his approval. It is simply this :- to attach horsc-potver to n machine for blowing Duhull'r Air Whistle, at Heaver Tail, and to employ a very large Whistle which ia to resemble thumhr. ami which can he heard at least ten miles. VV'e understand that the engineer.' of the several steamers have pronounced this method entirely practicable, and say there is not a shadow of doubt hut w hat, under ordinary circumstances, such a Whistle, II blown under n high pressure of air. would most certainly he heard ten miles distant.The Collector Informs us that the inventor of the Air Whistle culled on him for estimate* as to die cost of oil, per annum for Heaver Tail Light, and fcond it to be about 5lt;M) gallons, which, in round numbers, would he, soy, six hundred dollars. From an estimate made by the keeper of that Light, we learn tlmt he is willing to furnish provinder for a Imrse. and superintend the mtich-ine for two hundred dollars per uiiinun. This, therefore, would, of eottrse, lie the whole expence, per annum, that it would cost the tlovernnient, should they provide such a machine for Beaver Taii. \„w. wlicn we take into consideration ilie immense advantage to he derived fmm it. by vessels navigating this const, the cost of keeping such a Signal there, l inks into comparative insignificance.— Its importance is. in fact, beyond nil price ; and we can hut hope tlmt our navigation and roinmc rriul friends, cv-■ rvwhere, will he made to know and feel the importance of having the tiovern-meiil support this Thunder Whistle there, that its tones may he heard when logs, snow and storms render Lights unavailing. Wo all help pay for it, then why should ool the Government'give us this means of protection, which is so practical, so economical and *o effectual.These Machines hnve proved them selves of eminent service in produring sound, when propelled by hand labor alone, and, in fact. Boy degree of pressure can he got up by this means; hut ' it will cost but a trifle more to use| “What are the chief emit, of itman ?'• j asked a Sunday School teacher, of one of his pupils. Head and feet,” was ih*1 prompt reply.I A Relic.—Our reporter saw ycater'd (i:,y « “Dvcr watch thut was taken from the wreck of the Tennessee, which boat I sunk in the Mississippi on the night ol | the eighth of February, 1823, nearly 27 years ago. For several years efforts i were made to find the precise point that she sunk, and ic was only about two years ago thut it whs discovered. Mr-M A Mathis, with a diving bell, and the usual attendant means, cut his way through vast masses of accumulated sediment, and finally got into the old wreck, from which considerable property was recovered. The watch to which we refer was found in n berth along with the bones of a man, and the dial indicates near about the time tlmt the hort went down. The steel works are corroded and gone to decay, but the brass and silver retain their shape and sur-1 litre.— ('inn. Com.—J f-’iH Jmin Fhanklin.—The British papers received hy the Canada contain the official reports, published by the Ad-I mirali y, upon the relic* found at Cape Riley hy Capt. Omnmriney, ami carried to EflgiiUhS hy Capt. Forsyth in tho Prince Albert. They consisted of beef, pork, mutton, and other bones, and pieces of rope, canvass and wood ; which it was considered a settled point by the reporters, among whom where Sir. W. hid ward Parry, Sir John Richardson, and ('apt. Sabine, must hnve been left by Sir John Franklin, and at a period us tur back as 1845. Capt. Sabine seems disposed to regard the encumpmcet at Cape Riley u* it winter station of the lost navigators ; while Sir fcid^ard infers thin, n'in distress, they would have deposited some distinct notice of their situation.Tin; I loo Chop.”—A correspondent of a mercantile house of Louisville, having recently visited the pork-pneking points on the Illinois nnd Mississippi rivers, says, tlic number of hogs will lull very little, if any, short of Inst season.— The number near the river will fall short on account oflhc scarcity and high price of corn last year, Imt the country buck will makeup this deficiency. The corn crop never w.is liner, he adds, aid this will enable feeders to bring all thci sm.ill hogs to market by late feeding,— The estimate of hogs packed an the Illinois and Mississipi i rivers, last season, including Ht. Louis, is 500,000. The general increase in Iowa. Mississippi and Illinois, will make up tor any deficiency Irom Inst year.I.} 'The lid lowing paragraph is fmm i lute number oflhc Pacific News, published in Stan Kninri*eo—HnUing a Wife.—A* nn evidence of our advancement III the leiiiiMuenl* rf hie, we might rite the tart lii.il slopping wives is practised to a considerable extent ill this community. For this offence William Clay wee yesterday fined $16, and sentenced to five dsy-' nnprwomneot
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Newport, Rhode Island, US
Thu, Nov 07, 1850
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