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Is ?loth indulgence ? 'tis a toil, Enervates man and damns the soil. Younjf. j Work For July. The time is rapidly drawing to a close, and soon the operations of crop making for another year, will hare ended. We may see much to regret in the errors or omissions of the past; these may not now be cured, hut if properly noted and remembered, may have in them lessons of instruction and of warning, for the future. Experience is often our hest teacher, and its instructions ought not to be lost on ourselves, or to the world. The cotton crop is now in its full tide, moving rapidly to its destiny. What may bo the result no one can fortell. Its season of calamities has yet to be passed. There are however some things which remain to be done, about which we may appropriately offer a few thoughts.? Shallow plowings are now to keep up and we think may be continued to advantage, almost as long as there is spaco between the rows for the passing of the mule and the plow. Our convictions are decidedly in favor of late workings to this crop. As the plow only operates in the middle of the row, the hoes must keep all clean in the drill, by carefully removing all remaining grass or weeds, and keeping up a proper supply of soft earth about the root of the plant. The heaping of earth upon the roots should not be carried to an extreme. The laws ot nature and its indications are to be regarded, and should not bo violated, by covering the roots too deep. c a vt on rnnnrn Before the issue of our next, this portion of the harvest may have arrived with some. It is a question of importance, and one often settled to the injury of the corn, to know when the fodder is ripe, or rather, when the corn will bear the stripping of the blades. This should never be done until the milk has disappeared, and the shrinking of the grain has well commenced. The exposure of the stalk and the ear is very sudden and very great aud if the grain is not well prepared by its maturity, for the change, it must suffer loss, and one which is often greater, than the valuo of the whole fodder crop. The blades when pulled may be spread to dry in the middle of the rows, or be hung in small bunches upon the stalk. Wnen dry these are to be made into large bundles and stacked immediately. This done late in the eveuing or in the morning, before the dew has dried off. In an emergency, foddor may be stacked when partially cured, and as soon as it becomes hot in the stack, pulled down again, slightly aired, and then restaeked. This is greatly preferable to having it wet by rain, as it is much more acceptable as an article of food. When well cured, the double or treble stack is better than the single, weather. It would be better, and we suppose generally good economy, to provide nouses for all such crops. But necessity has not yet forced upon us the importance of much enre, in this department. HAY. We have given our advico about savu....oA ;? i,?? 1 .1- i iv/uuvif wv?iuovi ib iiao L/UUn U1C IUII^ established reliance of the Southern planter for this kind of food and because we' are not ready for its total abondonincnt. Yet all are prepared to admit that it is hard, disagreeable work, badly laid out. Wo have been hinting very strongly for a chaugo, aud as we think it practicable and desirable that it should bo made, we in good time, urge upon our readers to try and see what may be done this summer, in hay making. Ours is put down as no grass country; all this lias been assigned to higher latitudes, and it is true, that the hay which wo but/ is made from grasses which seem to flourish best in them ; but wo have our peculiar grasses, a generous Providence has not withheld from us her gifts, in this regard. Our errior, we think, has been in discarding and refusing those gifts, and failing properly to appreciate them. It is not longer a question of doubt or debate, as to what may be done with the crabgrass, crowfoot and the peavine.? These are all peculiarly and eminently ours. We get from our corn two hundred and fifty or three hundred pounds of fodder to the acre, whon we often have upon 1 our stubble lands, without the trouble of i sowing or cul ture, many acres ot luxuri- i ant grass which would yield five or ten i times as much in hay. This we leave to bleach aud dry, as a thing of no account. As we havo before remarked necessity has not been hard upon us; hence we have been content. Yet if there is a better xoay, let it be adopted. Many of the little experiments which have made have failed, because improperly conducted?the grass has been loft too long. It should be cut when in bloom, exposed to the sun until about half cured, then thrown into small heaps or ricks and nllowed to cure in that way?after which it is to be stacked or carried to the barn. The common error has been to wait until the grass was in seed, and when cut, to allow it to bo exposed to the sun until it was fully dry, thus allowing much of its nutritious juices to escape before cuttings, And the balance to be lost in drying. The crowfoot grass might be raised to greAt advantage by saving the seed, to be sowed upon rich ' -well prepared lots. We slmi! at another time, say something about the practicability of raising the red clover this far ( South, and many of our readers, we doubt not, will bf surprised at the abundant c testimony Which msy be produced in its ) furor, out oar present purpose U to urge l the use of tho means which we already ) have without wasting our time in regrets, or unrequited efforts, to introduce the pro. v ducts which belong by nature to others, * These efforts laudable and patriotic, but while we are waiting for their consummation, there ia no nead that we refuae the i gifts already bestowed. I MISCELLANEOUS. When the aasaon for field work shall c ksrt slicked off, there are many little jwhe lo claim attention. Put jour roads 1 si) hi good order, fleas the fence coraen, " inside sad out? this adds to the neat ap- si pen* ?nc* of the farm, arm! preserves fences from rotting ; look to little repairs about the houses, especially tho cribs, barns and bin houses, cleim np the yards, removing all decaying vegetable matter, or filth, which might generate fever; and white wash all the negro houses inside and out withe lime. Much more will be saved in the health of negroes, than all these little precautionary measures will cost.? A good plantation barbecue about this time, puts a bright face upon the closing scene, ami its benefits will be seen in renewed obligations to cheerful obedience. Fear is a scrvilo passion; some suppose the negro knows no other; this we know to bo an error, but that there are higher, nobler impulses to be found in their hearts, to which successful appeals may be made in their government. ?Soil of thr South. Table Moving. Faraday, the great electrician, has been experimenting on table turning ; "not," he says, "that it was necessary on my own account, for my conclusion respecting its nature was soon arrived at, and is not changed." He proposes publishing, in the Athenamm, the details nt length of his experiments, but in the mcnntime announces his plan of experimenting, and its results. Assuming that the tables were moved by a quasi involuntary muscular action of the operator, Faraday's first point was to prevent the wind having any undue influence over the effects produced in relation to the nature of the substances employed. A bundle (qucre, layers!) of plates, consisting of sand paper, millboard, glue, glass, plastic clay, tin foil, card board, gutta percha, vulcanised India Rubber, wood and resinous cement, was therefore made up and tied together, and being placed on a bible under the hand of a turner, did not prevent the transmission of the power?the table turned as before. Hence no objection could betaken to the use of these substances in the construction of apparatus. The next point was to determine the place and source of motion ; that is to say, whether the table moved the hand or the hand the table. To ascertain this, indicators were constructed. One of these consisted of a light lever, having its fulcrum on the table, its short arm attached to a pin fixed on a card board, which could slip on the surface of the table, and its long arm projecting as an index of motion. It is evident that if the experimenter willed the table to move toward the left, and it did so move before the hands, placed at the time on the card board, then the index would move to the left also, the fulcrum goingwith the table. If the hands voluntarily moved toward the left toilhoul the table, the index would toward the right; and, if neither table nor hands moved, the index would itself remain immovublc. The result was that while the operator saw the index.it remained very steady ; when it was hidden from them, or they looked I ?tVj n t/iii ir| iv wuivicu utitniti) taicy I believed that they always pressed directly downward; and when the table did not move mere was suu, unwiiuugly a resonant 01 hand force in the direction it was wanted to make the table move. This resultant of hand force increases as the fingers and hands become stiff, numb and insensible by continued pressure, till it becomes an amount sufficient to move the bible. Mr. Faraday has perfected his testing apparatus, and has placed it on view to the public at the store of Newman, philosophical instrument maker, No 122 Regent street, London. But the most curious effect of this test apparatus is the corrective power it possesses over the mind of the table turner. As soon as the index is placed within view and the operator perceives that it tells truly whether he is pressing downwards only, or obliquely, then all effects of table turning cease, even though the operator persevere till he become weary and worn out. Mr. Faraday adds, in his letter to the Times, from which the above is extracted : "Permit me to say, before concluding, that 1 have been greatly startled by the revelation which this purely physical subject has made of the public mind. No doubt there are many persons who have formed a right judgement or used a cautious reserve, but their number is almost as nothing to the great body who have believed and borne testimony, as I think, in the cause of error. * * * I think the system of education that could leave the mental condition of the public body in the state in which this subject has found it, must havo been greatly deficient in some very important principle."?JV. Y. Tribune. Distkrbsino Accident.?At Albany, on the 4th Mr. John Pemberton placed in front of his house, about 4 lbs. of damaged .1. _ _t - 0 _ i * powtier in me snape or a mound, ana while in the act of placing apiece of lighted spunk in the centre of it, his daughter being near him and looking over it, a spark of fire fell upon it, when the powder exploded, enveloping her in flames.? ?Ier clothing was nearly burnt off her person, and she wan taken in the house blind and severely burned. Her father was badly burned about his hands ami face, but is not considered dangerous. Miss Pomberton is about 24 years of age, and 1 her recovery is very doubtful. I m m m I consequence of a recent stabbing 1 iffray in a rondo room at Cincinnati; dis>l/iaiiP6fl worA ma/lft imr\I?oo*m/v ??* > * roung men in gambling, ami keeping and ' K>ing ooncorned in gambling houses.? J Narranta were issued for the arrest of upwards of 100 persons. There are said to * 518 "Leila** in the queen city. j, j Nails Growing in th? Flbrh.? A late g rriter in the Ohio Cultivator gives the fol- <j awing remedy. p "Cut a notch in the middle of the nail a very time the nail is paired. The diapoition to close the ootoh draws the nail -on the sides. It cured mine after I had ^ jtfered weefcs with its festering. * ICnnrnster ITfitger. x? ' of age howei LANCASTERVILLE, S. C. foot,. " lover WEDNESDAY, JULY 27,1853, -y.? She c I32T" Tue Editor being absent, must be 'ia(' ? our excuse for the lack of original matter in BO' to-day's popcr. The New York news-letter, *??k ' in another column, however, will bo found ai to contain much of interest. ship, | m f lover 5^~VVe are requested to announce that a Rail-road Meeting will bo held in the MRCourt House on Monday next, the 1st day ?f of August. graph m m mm goinj We are indebted to Col. A. G. Sum- " ^ Mro fr\* n flnnw nf tlin A nnivnruorif Aililri.au d 1 n c I before the " Southern Central Agricultural m'188'' Association," at Macon, Gn., delivered by interv him in October last. The address possesses Mr. E rare merits, not only as an agricultural, but ^u ai also as n literary production, and will amply *nK ?' rcpav a careful perusal. "ay' ^ cers. l-w Our thanks to Mr. John Foster, for the handsome present of a sack of meal, ^ which he sent us this week. lie informs * us that he has just completed his Mill, on " the Catawba River, above I*andsford, and from the specimen sent us, we would say that he is prepared to manufacture breadstuffs of as fine quality as any other Mill in these dii'gins. Give him n trial. bo one o coselt t-tT" Mr. J. C. Caldwell, of VVaxhaw , . . . r you 11 has presented us with a rare specimen from the vegetable kingdom, consisting of two ^ Watermelon Cucumbers?(that is all we can ^un call them.) They have a rind like that of . . ... . joinec the watermelon, but in taste and shape they are decidedly cucumbers, and that of the best Th quality. Mr. C. informs us that he procured * the first of this kind from the common white ^ cucumber vine, and since that time "like pro- ^or an during like," it has been a separate nnd distinct vegetable. j^? r? . a. . e "m - - .. and E Major S. A. Godman, the accomplished (|ie f0 editor of the Illustrated Family Friend, pub- that it fished at Columbia, in this State, died at the mute, residence of E. VV. Henry, Charlotte county, grcVv Vn., on the 12th inst. "lie was born," says tor it the Columbia South Carolinian, "in Cincin- a8 ma nati, on the 8th September, 1822, and was pro therefore nearly thirty-one years of age.? throu| Mnj. Godman was at one time a midship- cities man in the United States Navy, had been in shade the merchant service, and just before ein- ou, ( barking in the newspaper business was eight months in a large mercantile house in (juzct Charleston. For two years ho conducted ??ne tho l-aurensville Ilemld, and after selling . . that paper, came to Columbia and establish 1 * comm ed the Family Friend. |. . "Mr. Godman waa a writer of talent, and ^ f in the department of literature for which ho janun seemed to have a preference?nautical ro- Qno ^ mancc?he had already exhibited great pow- ^ ers. Had his fife been spared ho would a doubtless have won u high reputation among aUppC the nuthors of America. He has died in njenC( the prime of fife, and in the vigor of a fine j intellect, which he had devoted to the liter nture of his country. Ho leaves a wife and ^'y two children to morn his loss, and a circle r0'W(j'. of friends who had looked forward with ^ ^ pride to a brilliant career, of w hich ho gave ^ abundant promise, to lament his early and ^ unexpected decease. Our sympathies arc j ^ with them in their bereavement." . , ing hi man f As our roaders will rcmember.rauch )aUgj, has been said of late in relation to Mr. Nes- jn<jjgr bit, the contractor for the post paid enveU ujng , opes, having printed his name, business, Ac. ^ on the envelopes furnished for Government. rejrea The following on the subject is from the ^ M New York Journal of Commerce Comn Post Office Envelopes.?Professor Lovet, in a letter to the Post Master General, n few days since, offered lo furnish leu mil- ' 1 lions Post office envelopes, similar to those When now used, free of charge, for the privclege head ? of putting "Professor Lo vet, 114 Chamber |jV0t , Street," upon any part of the envelope. By ,' . this operation he calculated thnt the Government would aave $20,000. For the privil- dent * ege of putting on each envelope the words : receiv "nnmu business, and place of buaineas." he gevere ofTered to pay 50 cents oa each thousand en- ^ ( velopes, besides furnishing them gratis ; and . c to give bond for the faithful performance of tlce 1 hia engagement. In this case he calculated hat in the Government would nave A'iA.finn In s? ; ? It Ml 1 reply the third Assistant Post Master General stated that Mr. Nesbit was never authorized to put his name'on the envelopes, and Thi that he has been forbidden putting it upon of the iny hereafter to be made. ro<je 0 ?"^ tary ot Later from Mexico.?Serazan.the Mex- years < can Minister of State, maintains the ineon- of the eatable right of Mexieo to tho Mesilla Val- or par ey, and threatens to resign in case tho least receive :o occasion is made to Gen. Lane. vor of The Trait *d Union doubts whether Mex- Presidi co will entertain any proposition for the Mexici turohase of the valley. The fact that the \ p iloo drafts have been dishonored, excites has pn eep distrust. The Isthmus of Tehuant*. walk, ( ee has bean declared a separate territory, the No rith Manitislan for ite capital. ad to fc ? ? MM) |pj jar Tax pay and expenses of the New todc. ai rork Legislature are about $1600 per day dinar^ tclusire of mileage. aioo. { I T DITORIAL^UMMARY. k Love?A young girl about 15 yean in Miloso(a,Miasouri,became acquainth a young man who camo to the vil. nd the young man paying marked at* 1 to her, ahe soon loved him devoted>ut they were doomed to be awakrom the dream of bliss, for when did i of truo love ever run smooth ? The s of the girl, takings dislike to the man from some cause, forbid him the , and forbid the girl seeing him again, penally of the severest displeasure ; >t satisfied then, the father used his ine against the young man, and had him rged from his situation as merchant's This was a severe blow to two lov(arts, and ths young man left for St. . He had been gone but a few days, rer, before the young girl alone aud on let out for St. Louis, to seek her absent ; and actually accomplished the jouri distance of sixty miles in two days, nquired for him, and learned that he one to New Orleans. She immediate* d her jewelry to procure money, and * steamer for the Crescent city, where rived and after several days of hardtoll and fntigue,she accidently met her in the street, nnd fainted in his arms, isppy couple were married the next day. Buciiakas.?The Pliladelphia ledger t 16th inst., gives the following para, confirming the report that Mr. B. ia r to St. Jatnea : Ir. Buchanan goes to England, notwith* the rumors of his declination of the on. President Pierce, it is said,afler an iew with him in Philadelphia, obtained t'a. acceptance of the important trust. : ?aaaiivm/1 nt f lin at art_ UUSUlg lllt'IUCUh v/vim.vu ? ? W?. ?rr the train from Camden, on Wedneswith Gen. Pierce and his cabinet offiMr. Buchanan was present, taking of the President, when the admonitory le of the locomotive announced that is ready for shirting. Still Mr. B. lin, having a few more Mast words" to lunicate to the President, nnd cordially ng him by the hand, bidding him redly good-bye. The reluctance to leave ined with the reported doubt of his acnce of the mission, chimed so wcll.that f the Cabinet ollicers, in his hurry, jor cried out, u\Vell, Mr. Buchanan, if itend to go, why don't you go " The was irresistablc, the accepting minister up his mind and left immediately, amid it of merriment, in which he heartily I. f. China Tree.?The Mobile Tribune 7c are indebted to one of our citizens i interesting reminiscence of the China lie informs us that it was introduced his country before the Revolutionary by a Mcrchantile firm of Philadelphia latontm, North Carolina, which traded 1 lie mot ?IIC Wttfl I'lAUkUU rmer city, but under an upprehepsion ; would not live in so northern a cliit was removed to Katonton, where it apace, and W?s greatly admired. Afcommcnced blooming, the people cams ny as twenty and thirty mile?.fci see it. m this singlo tree it was propagated jh the country, and now in most of our it is one of the commonest of our trees. The first tree was still vigor" cnty years ago." ;l Stories.?Th? Hampshire (Mass.) te is responsible for tough hen stories is that of Mr. Ira Hamlin of Plainfield his keeping, nineteen hens, all of the on kind. Prom these hens Mr. Hams obtained one thousand nine hundred ijrhty-ninc eggs, since the first of Inst ry, one hen, on an average producing undred and five eggs in six months.? itory is of an egg with a handle to it! n old fashioned flask ! The handle is ised to hnve been appended for convo3 in sucking. r the Bloomer* Alone.?A young laBloomer, recently married at Oriskeny , wan hooted by some of the village es. She fired a gun over their heads, ley ran away. Being taunted by some s villagers with the fact, they resolved it over. This they did the ncxi night bnllenged the girl to shoot again, vail3r a liar, die. On this, the young wo* ired once more above them ! but they cd her to scorn, and at last, goaded to mtion, she sent a charge of shot rat. sbout their brainless pates and, wound* i limping, howling and cursing, they ted in confusion. Amusing Incident.?The Journal,, of lerce tells the following story : ; incident in the procession, trifling in ocra?ioned a good deal of amusement, i Gen. Pierce had got as far up as the )f Wall-street, his horse became ressnd cams in collision with the animal >y General Sandford. As the Presl* rns riding with his hat in hand, the hat cd the brunt ef the shock, and suffered ly, being badly stove In and indented. General wns too much engaged to no* he catastrophe, and soon put on the its unfortunate condition, and retained ts place for about a block, exciting ~if IliiaKtap amAflff tks* Kn vfl t Black Wakbiob.?This is the name old war hone which the Pre mid ent n Thursday at the review of the milii the Battery. He ia upwards of 91 ?f age, and ia owned by Major Memll U. S. Dragoons. The Blaek Warriticipated in the Florida war, where he >d two wonnds, and ia the only surv:? the battle with the iodiane. The rnt also rode this favorite horse in the in war. keskmt.?Rev. Rufus W. Griawold, seen ted to Mr. Unas Benedict, of Nor* who saved the life of hie daughter, at rwalk calamity, after she was snppoe* e drowned,) a very costly fold wateh pondages, as an evidence of his grati* ad that of his family, for bis sztrsorslid sue e useful efforts on that soca* i | The Sudden Rtstiro or ah African Desert Stream.?About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, there was a cry In the encampment? "El Wodyjace!" "the Wady la coming P " Going out to look, I raw a broad white sheet of foam advancing from the south between 1 the trees of the valley. In tea minutes after, a river of water came pouring along and spread all around us, converting the place of our encampment into an isle of the valley. 'I'Kn aiirvont Sn if u nnnnat itnvf uraa vam* JI IIV VUIIOU* 1U iw? uwp^nv |/UI ? ? J powerful, capable of carrying away aheep and cattle, and uprooting trees. This is ooe of the most interesting phenomena I have witnessed during my present tour in Africa. The scene, indeed, was perfectly African.? Rain had been observed falling in the south ; t black clouds and darkness covered the zone ? of the heavens; and an hour afterwards t came pouring down this river of water into t the dry, parchcd-up valley. This incident i of Wady Tin'aghoda explains the scriptural f phrase, "Rivers of waters," for here, indeed, ] was a river of water appearing in an instant, and almost without notice.?Richardson's Narrative of a Mittxon to Central Afric*. , Communications to Newspapers.?The 1 following extract from nn article in the New < York Commercial Advertiser, on the subject i of the right of individuals in the community i to use the editorial columns of a paper for < the promulgation of their own views, is ] worth the perusal of all who affect the quill. | We may just say here, that we recognize ' no obligation to insert communications tak- < ing exceptions to editorial views and opin- ' ions. We nre always willing to do it when ' the space at our disposal admits of it, and < other circumstances nre favorable. But if our reader may insist upon our publication of his reply to nn editorial, so may nil, and 1 four of these long columns might be inadequate to contain communications called forth by but a quarter of a column of editorial matter. We always give such communica- 1 tions careful reading and are glad to receive them. They have a wholesome cfTect, tending to make a public, journalist write carc. fully and weigh well his positions ere he publicly assumes them. This hint is for the use of some who write as though they thought that editors have no right to express opinions at all; of others, who seem to think that nn editors mind ought to be an exact transcript of their own; and of yet others, who seem to look upon our columns as theirs, and this journal rather as established to promulgate their views than the sentiments of those who conduct it." nt i jeuterant Maury is going to Brussels, to confer with European hydrographers, pilots, nnd so fourth, concerning the Winds and Currents of the great seas of the world. This will be a grand movement in carrying out the ideas of old Humboldt. At his request, the Emperor of Russia has established a long chain of magncctie stations from Moscow to Peking, across Northern Asia, for the purpose of interrogating ?w ?the winds, (and fire) were the earliest raised in Greece; and the magnetic stations would seem the modern counterpart of them.? These efforts, by sea and lend, to know " whence the wind comcth, nnd whither it gocth," are among the inost important of this scientific age. California Preaching.?A reverend gentlemen holding forth to the sinners of Placervillc, on a late occasion, closed his address with the following exhortation to his hearers to loosen their purse-strings: "And now, all ye merchants and money exchangers, and traders and miners, and doctors and lawyers, nnd printers and enquires, and generals and colonels and captains ; ye tradesmen of every crnft; ye postmasters, ex-postmasters, assistant postmasters, and ye office-seeker*; ye landlords and ye landladies, ye auction men, ye people of Plaeerville?nil of you?come up to the new church on Sunday. Yes, ye t?owling-alley men, ye Reservoir men, and ye Empire, ye South Fork nun?come, 'from busy care awhile forbear.' Come tread the courts of the sanctuary, and bring unto the I?rd your Cod an offering of gold and silver and precious things." Crystal Palace.?The hoard of directors have it in cantcmplation to issue five dollar season tickets, to rnn sixty days, and k> caicuu mi mio 910 ncKel the right or ad. mitting a lady with the gentleman owning it Such an arrangement, it is believed, would not only largely increase the number of via. itors, but add materially to the cash receipt*. The architects of the Crystal Palace are Messrs. Carstensen and Gildemeiater, and the Tribune complains that no notice was taken of them at the dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel. Bugene 8ue, the celebrated novel writer, who was residing at Annechy.iu Sa. Toy, (Piedmont,) has been refused admission into Prance, owing to the ultra democratic principles which he professes. RiiEtr Raising in Virginia.?It is stated there has been larger nnmber of sheep brought into Loudon county, Vs., this year, than for several years past, and that there are now about 10,000 fine wool sheep in Fairfax county, which number is being constantly increaaed. The groat demand for wool had induced many of the Virginia farmers to pay more than usual attention to sheep graxing. Shocking Death-?On Monday week, a man named Michael Glennan, while working at th? aoal breaking yard of Jonathan W*?ley, Eaat Delaware Mines, slipped and fell head foremost into the breaker. The poor fellow's head and body passed the rollers, and were literally ground to atoms. He leaves a widow and several children to mourn the sudden loan of their only earthly sup- ' port. HT Kim Althoksos of Naplea, who 1 aid hs could improve on a great many other i arrangements of Providence, would have put , calf of a man's leg in front, to save him from | blows and kicks on the shiaa. Well, really, | there is something in that I MoomuTtoy k the rflkan string running i through the pearl chain of nil rhtm J Cnrrespnitenrr. ?* | ano< HEW YORK. Excitement about the Crystal Palace?Dis- now order tune prevailing?Necessity for Rapid i.w<. Action?Incomplete ttale al opening?Fine _ Collection cf Anns?Arrival of Japanme ^ Curiosities?Description xf the most Remark able?Reception of the President?' den Opening Ceremonies? Words rf the An- the them?Hibernian Indignation Meeting? * Temperature and Health of the City? Commercial Items, <fr. * ?. real New York, Jm.y 13, 1853. con Mr. Editor:?The Crystal Palace con- phc inuea to be the engrossing topic of conver- dist intion ; as the time of opening draws near, tbei he excitement increases. Invitations for Re| he opening ceremonies have been sent out sioi n considerable numbers, and no doubt even and ;he immense area of the Palace itself will Th ?e filled with a closely packed crowd of cu- o'cl rious spectators. Bal One who was inside of the magnificent to difice to-day would hardly believe It possi- by t>!e that order could be brought out of the ^fl :haos there prevailing, in time for the opening to take place, as announced on to-mor- "ft row. The eye wandered over motley heaps ^ ? of boarda^cafTolding^havings.packing boxes, "II paint pots, carpenter's tools, covered statues, 1 paintings, canvass, and a thousand nonde- Bel script etceteras; and it seemed perfectly ab- J surd to imagine it possible that all this could pQ he cleared away in the course of twenty-four i hours and put in apple-pie order for the reception of that respectable body the public. "Rome was not built in a daynor if it had Tli been pulled down could the latter have been disposed of in that brief period. The Crys- * tal Palace, to bo sure, is not a Rome ; but the chastic fragment* strewed about the noor arc almost enough to pass for the ruins of a decent city. By to-morrow this time they tain unt be in "the tomb of the Capulets," or H f( somewhere else ; and their removal will be I?" enough to keep five hundred men busy all 1 night. What a hurry the various hands are hni in ! how flurried the Directors are ! Imagine l'? a matronly house-keeper who has some repu- jor tation at stake, with unserubta-d floors, ear- me pets up, house topsy-turry, and invitation* of, out for a large party to assemble in half an ro* hour. Realize her sensations, and you will ut" have some idea how the President and Cora- bu mittee of Management feel just at the prev B'v ent time. The announcement of opening, like the laws of the Medes and I'ersians.chungeth not. ** The obstructions will be removed, the inauguration ceremonies will take place ; but to suppose either thut the building will be >nc complete, or the contributions all in their 0 places would be a grand mistake. The pain- ^ tor will arrest his brush, the carpenter his on hammer, thu upholder his needle, in mid ^ career. The softened light admitted through co the half opaque glass will illumine many an ?""> ? ?nd u i. lowed of it statue. ml In other words those who visit the Exhibi- "" tion at this early stage will lose about half the curiosities. In this respect, however, a* in others, our Crystal Palace has followed its great Ixindnn exemplar. It will be remembered that it was some weeks after the ojK-ning, before all the contributions arrived and were arranged in their proper places. nc One of the most striking features in the American Department of the Fair will be the fine collection of nrtns and warlike equip- '* menta manufactured for the U. 8. Army, ^e and exhibited with the consent of Govern- ,U) ment, under the direction of Jaa. T. Ames, of the Aiuea Manufacturing Company of Massachusetts. This company send specimens of the bronze gun* and swordffor which they have the government contract. to The Armory at Harper's Ferry contributes on some splendid rifles; the Watcmbiet Arsenal sends s number of fleld-pieces, howitzers, frs battery wagons, die.; w hile from the Spring- isl field Armory we have a selection of muaketa "r and muskctoons. This latter establishment *' enjoys the reputation of having carried the fir manufacture of muskets to the very highest gi point of mechanical skill. Every part, even Wl down to the most minute screw, is made by ^ a separate machine, and with such perfect ^ precision that they are tuken indiscriminately *t< and put together, fitting with admirable cx- Gi actncsa. Vl fe An exceedingly interesting collection of th Japanese curiosities arrived in this citv two day a since in the Steamship Illinois, in charge of Iieut. W. C. Peaac who has been appoint* ?t ed by Gov. Bigier, of California, Commis- er aioner to the World'a Fair for that State.? They were obtained from a Japanese Junk, a hich waa borne out to sea by contrary winds, and after having been tossed about gr for seven and half months waa picked up by ti< an American ship, the Emma Packer, bound 'n for Han Priuiciaco. Cold aud starvation had carried o(T every soot on board except one ?il Mongolian with a barbarous name who had P< acted as supercargo, and who despite his nation's antipathy to outsiders, waa by no ^ means sorry to be saved from the jaws of dr leviathan by an American bark. From this 6C ship, the articles in question were obtained, ** the more remarkable of them are as follows. ** A number of quaint-looking coins, bearing inscriptions in an unknown tongue; a volu- fo minous log-book of the Junk, kept on ssperate sheets about a yard long, whick bear a ? strong family likeness to tea-paper; a Japanese mariner's compass, differing from ours ^ in having twenty-four points instead of tbir- j, ty-two, each point being marked with the si image of a goat, dog, eat, or ether animal; ' three lithographic engravings, the first of ^ which represents the Empress and her maidens, only passable is the scale of good looks ?the second is a three headed, triple-faced g Ix-borned, repulsive, malignant-looking idol, lii to whom, we suppose, the benighted islandera perform their daily litany,?the third ia fj the portrait of a tart looking individual, who n, may be supposed to be a cross between a ly J us ties of the Pease and a country school mir; * n amber of fine articles of dress, hawlo, acarfa, coats, Ac., which show that ft Lhere are aome belles end dandles b those T ysteriooa lalande; and lastly three pair st ? lapaoese shoes, worm of heap, * ithest a tir d, and furnished with * speelaf eorapartit for the big toe. The etaguW appeeri of these articles lead* as to look with rest for the arrival of the other coatribue from this strange empire which are r on their way in a national ship of Hob k ur corporation, having reconsidered their ' eharlish refusal to entertain the Preab t, have appropriated a suitable sum for purpose, and tomorrow we are to have thousand dollars''worth of sightseeing, j announcement that Gen. Pierce was ly coming has been as exciting to ouf lmunity aa the traditional biast of Astol>'a horn was of yore. All classes without Jnctioti of party are anxioua to testify ir respect to the chief msgiatrste of the public. We shall have a glorious proces? to-morrow ; all our military will be out, 1 a number of civil societies, sod firemen. 0 President is expected to arrive about 9 ock. He will review the troops on thd Ltery, and will then be escorted by them the Crystal Palace, which he will reach 1 P. M. The doors will than be elosedi er a prayer by Bishop Wainwrighti the lowing chorade will be performed by the rmonic Society, to the tune of "Old Hund." ere, where nil climes their offerings send, Here where ail arts their tribute lay, fore thy presence. Lord, we bend, \nd for thy smile and blessing pray. r thou dost sway the tides of thought, \nd hold the issues in thy hand, all that human toil has wrought \nd all that human skilled has planned. ou iena si me reaucM powers of mioo Jer destiny's untrodden field, d guid'st man wandering bold but blind, ro mighty end not yet revealed." rwenty thousand persons sre expeHKto present nt the opening. You will havo jll account of the proceedings in my next ter. Here I am at the end of my sheet, and dly a word on anything but the Crystal lace. Nevertheless yon must pardon me I am hut holding up the mirror to our tropolis ; and here nothing else is talked thought of, or dreamed of, but to-morv's festivities. You who are out of our uosphero uiay not. have caught the furor, I here it is a regular epidemic. I must e you a few items of news before closing. The Hibernians have had an indignation etiug, to endeavor to remove from themves the odiuin of the late riot They ill John Bull over the coals, Uncle Sam, 3 Police, the l'reas,and other insignificant lividunls, all of whom they think are a litin fault, the Benevolent Hibernian Soclebrick-bats, ahelalsha, and all, being the ly party not in the least to blame. Justice uart. however, thinks differently. Thb. unsel of the riot ess that wore -arrested* ' ide application to hiftf yesterday to duns the charge, but ho declined somewhat aigniitiuy. ' .- / ,! Our weathor, lately, has been comparativecool. There is a good breezu to-dav. and c mercury ranges between 76 and fio its e shade. Our City Inspector's Report ows 638 deaths for the week, ending tho h inst., two were from cholera, bnt this, ed occasion no alarm as we have one or o cases every year. Owing to an advance freights yesterday and s disposition to rait later advices by the Arabia, the mar t for breadstuff's yesterday was lees anisted, though (quotations remained uncltang* Cotton was dull uitk sales ef 800 bales. Vonrs, HUDSON. IIf.at is 1834.? It is pleasant sometimes recur to old files of newspapers, if H is ily to refresh the recollection on matters Inch have been thought to have become m rt of the "olden time," but which are iught v. ith ir...logics sometimes that fnrni the materials of profitable comparisoo contrast. In looking over a atrav volume the old "Southern Patriot," with which b in former years had some affinities, ire id that In the Utter end of Jnne and banning of July, 1834, the hottest weatnec *s exjieriencod in Carolins since 1753. in Charleston for ten days precious tta e 6fh of July the heat exceeded any yearr ice 1703. At Colombia the therroometen ood for aeveral dsya at 100 a 101. At*. rorgetown 100 1-9, in the shade. At Pine>lie, from 94 to 99, and several negroes II victims to the heat In the same village e instrument rose to 153 at 9 p. m. A Hotel.?Some ides of ths expenses tending upon a large hotel, may be gathed from the following, from a corrssponnt of the New Bedford Standard, who ritea about the United States Hotel, in >ston: "The hotel occupies 13,000 aqnars feet of ound, has 380 rooms, easy aceonunods* J ins for 650 pernors, and capable of lodgg and boarding 809. There are 180 male id female employer* divided into a nereni departments, sack having a rasponl>le head soch as dining, rotundary, omen, >rUr, kitchen, baker, tic." "The amount of food daily consumed is _ lonnous; 400 pounds of animal food, 000 uinds of flour, 100 pounds of butter, 100 >zrn hens eggs, 6 bushels of potatoes, an4 > gallons of milk. The Asparagus for last ibbath cost $401 I Jghts cost nearly #0/100 >r annum. Water spouts into almost svm mom in the bonne, at as expense to the milord of $S60 per year. To cook all tMu od sod keep so msov people warm it taken K> tons of hard eoal, 76 cords of wood, 1,000 worth of shareon!." gj| fW Tux arrivals*! Janney's Hotel, (late ongaree Houae) Columbia, since the ISth touary to the 1st of July, were Ave ihous. id Are hundred and twenty-two^ (MM) telusiva of ehildten and servants, which ould increase the somber very senaidsr* *y. fcHT Tux printing office of Urn thmAtrm rvublir, at Camdeu, Abu, was struck by zntninff un the 8th lew Tfca , fl II "d?VTl WM pat, t he would b**a rwfe' I mora thim o?o 4?rir? dun of Are ?4 Iraetoae." The lightning etrnek the pripig preee at Ma hoar Whoa they it Mil. t work bat did do deawga. *** BT Tn New York Albion kerne on od private eatborttf |bet ttr Heonr Bui* lo likely to leniH jjtrd Stratford do ideUflkM IrMUi Ami. . ft eitVeeteo iofU. The MkrbMI irftioaeto rar o.