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S^ew Tork   Correspondence.
¦ New York, June —, 1856. It is perhaps, not easy to conceive of a more uninleresling population to write a gossiping letter about, tlian tliat of our good city oF New York, when it takes on a quiet fit. The election ex¬ citement seems fo have monopolized ihe attenlion of the Manhaltanese lo such an extent for the past week, that ffiey have positively forgoiten their eld fashioned rowdy characteristics and be¬ come as peacable and order-loving a set of people as may be found in any coun¬ try village which is completely under the dominion oflhe parson and his ado¬ ring old women. It is positively ten days since we had a "startling murder," there has been since that time no bur¬ glary of respeclable brilliance, and the swindling and thieving perpetrated with¬ in that period has been ofso vulgar and contemptible a nature that a "crscks- man," who had any regard lor his char¬ acter, would feel insulted fo have his name mentioned in connection with ii. The Peter Funk auction shops have not made half their custoinary noise, or tak¬ en in half iheir customary number of greenhorns, or if they have, ihe verdant victims have kept wonderfully still about it, and have not suffered on account of their city experience, and country inex¬ perience to get into ihe papers.
There having been, then, no great wonderment immediately under their noses to engage their attention, ourcity people have occupied the time they usu- a!!}-devote to their daily wonders, rapes and robberies, in vehement an(i»contra- dictory speculations, upon the result of the Philadelphia People's Convention, ; which final!}', as all the world .by this ; lime knows, nominated John- C, Fre¬ mont for the Presidency.
This news was receiveii with a great t   deal of enthusiasm, and  was "a perfect godsend to'the people  inasmuch  as it gave them something fo talk about.   Al¬ though it was raining a  second ^dition of the deluge when the  news  reached .  the city, fhe rejoicing population, imme¬ diately  began  to demonstrate,  utterly regardless of tbe juiciness of the weaih¬ er.    A hundred guns-was fired   irj, the Park, the Tribune office was illumina¬ ted from basement to attic, rockets were let off,  and sundry  small  excitements were gotten up, despite the mud and rain. The republicans have already begun to figure out the result of the election, and say they can afford togive Buchan- _ an Pennsylvania, and still beat hiin" by three electoral votes.    For  my  part, I s,ay nothing,except that I fancy-I can see signs of a hard fight,  and can per¬ ceive in the dim future  many  broken heatis, and a vast quantity of whiskey to i be   demolished,  speeches to be made, wires to be pulled,  political  machinery to be sel in motion, bolters to be   whipp¬ ed into the traces, and a great deal of promiscuous rascality to be periielraled, befoie we have that expensive ^t^-—a new president. -''?
Qui'e the reverse of quief, however, have been the German population for a part at least of the last week. Their grand annual festival of their "Sanger- bundes" a singing club came ofiT at Bel- levue gardens, on Monday last. Dele¬ gations of sturdy singers were preseni from various other states, and tlie Stout Dutch bifrghers, of Manhattan, with their blooming "vrauws" were present in a perfect army. It is estimated that 20,000 persons vvere on the ground at one titne. The Bellevue gardens are situated on the East River bank, at ihe foot of eigluy-first street, a most beauti¬ fully pleasant locaiion. The River skirts along the western edge, Blackwell's Is¬ land is immediately opposite, a perfect fleet of schooners, sieamers and all kinds of smaller river crafts is conslanlly in view, so that the locatinn is as desirable foranoui doorentertainment as can be well imagined. Early in the morning the crowd began to collect,*but it was not till len o'clock ih.-it the main proces¬ sion arrived. This consisted of the singing clubs of the ciiy, wiih their country visitors the German "Turnve- rein"or athletic clubs, severd compa¬ nies of German riflemen, and an almost uncountable number of brass bands. Il was not until ihis delegation arrived that the festivities faiily commenced, but no sooner did they m,-ike*their appearance on the ground than the work began in good earnest. The singing clubs imme- diafeh' collected in groups under the trees, and wilh their horns of "beer in one hand and thcir r^ills of music in the other, they mado the old forest howl wilh such glorious bursts of German melody as it had never listened to be¬ fore; at least not since the days when Manhn'tan Island was tenanted by the Van Ilnms, the Van Tas.sels, and all the oilier good old Dutch '-Vans," whose names and histories may* be found in the veracious chronicles of reliable Diedrich Knickeibrocker. The brass bands found each one a quiet shad}- spot for itself, wiih a level grass plat adjacent and forthwith began lo play in endless variei\- those enlivening waltzes, vvhich neverfail to fill all worthy and honor¬ able Dutchmen wilh an irresitible de¬ sire to dance. As soon as this took place, every young Teutonic gallant made a frantic dash at the nearest woman he could see, who, nothing loth, grasped him full as eagerly, and hugged him as closely, and both would whirl away in the inextricable figures of tho German w.^ltz, spinning around like so many teetotums, at if the salvation of each one depended upon whirling around so .many times  tliat  the sky and  ground j the acting.
art with silver bands and tips, and silk¬ en cords and tassels. But notwithstan¬ ding the immense amount of liquor drank but few people were, intoxicated, and those were mostly from among the Americans who had come in to see the fun. There vvas a large squad of police¬ men on the ground to preserve order, hut thty soon found there was little need of their services, and so addressed them¬ selves to drinking lager beer as vigor¬ ously as the rest.
Altogether the occasion was one of great enjoyment, with little to mar it, and in fact at any time, if I wanted to find the people fo gel the most solid en¬ joyment out of a small capital, I should most certainly look lo lhe»Germans.
There is a good deal of talk to-day about an attack which was made on Wednesday in -Wall Street, by Blr. Benjamin Wood, a brother to ihe May¬ or, upon a gentleman named Bradford. Mr. Bradford is Ihe aulhor of several articles which have been recenlly pub¬ lished in the N. Y. Tribune, and which reflect very severely upon the lottery business as cairied on in this city, in which it is alleged Mr. Wood is very extensivel}' implicated. Mr. Wood at¬ tempted to horse-whip Mr. Bradford," but instead of succeeding, he got most wofully belabored himself, and the uni¬ versal verdict is   "served him'right."
Al the theatres and other places of amusement liitle is doing.
Laura Keene is running a play foun¬ ded upon the verv ancient novel of Cla- rissa Ilarlowe. She has not yet decided her conflict vvith Mr. Burton upon the possession of the Varieties Theatre, but she will.have to yield ; indeed, it is said that she is so throughly convinced ofthis fact herself that she has signed articles of engagement for the coming season at anoiher theatre.
The Broadway has revived one of lis first pieces of the Winter, The Sea of Ice, wilh but moderate success. The manager, W. II. Blake an actor unsur¬ passed in his line, has also been playing around of his favorite characiers, but they do not seem lo be appreciated, and the houses are very slim.
Niblo is doing an excellent Summer business, wilh the Ravels and Madame Robert, togeiher with ihe tight rope dancer, John Hengler. Burton is soon to pl.iy an engngcinent there, on altern¬ ate nights, three times a week.
The Bowery and the litlle National are doing a capital business.
The Museum is   slill   the   resort of | alledge hundreds of strangers, who are delight- el with the curiosities, as well as  with
correct, and of which we can have bul   particularly intending to direci it.    We ' dingg, and in vessels and buHdings furn*
should get mixed up together, until they couldn't fell whether the sloops were sailing.over the meadows, or fhe trees growing in the middle of the river.
But after all, the lager bier was Ihe great feature. Ab.out a dozen teams were busily engaged all day in hauling a sufTicient supply to the ground. Ilis estimated by a curious statistician that there was enough beer drank there in fifteen hours to float a first class frigate ; and that it wouli, if used economically, have made a stream big enough to run a saw-mill for a week. It was served out by all sorts of people, by brawny men with their shirt sleeves rolled up to their shoulders, and by little girls with scarce¬ ly 3trenght enough to turn the facet. Everybody drank it, men, women and children—some of the latter too smal! lo be trusted vvilh a full tumbler, and only permitted to drink in small installments of a teacup full a[a time.
. Many of ^.the^cups and horns from whicii they drank were curiosities. Some oflhe cups were huge silver-gnb- lets standing three feet in height—some vvere miniature casks with cedar staves and silver hoops, and some wera turned in quaint fantastic shapes from small logs of wood. The horns are oxhorns, four or five feci in letigth, gracefully cat veil bv nature,  and ornanionlcd   iiv
Christy & Wood's Minstrel's, and Wood & Marsh's Varieties, are both p!ayin7 tocrovi'ded houses.
Telegraph from Philadelphia says that William S. Dayton, of New York, is tlje Republican nominee for vice president. This will, I think, do for a closing sen¬ tence.    So, till next week, good bye.
[From the Cincinnati Price-Current.
Cotton SeeiJ Oil, and other Produc¬ tions of  the Refuse of the Cotton Plant.
la-^fiarticle, vvhich we published in O'Jr paper last Fall, who stated that the mmufacture of Oil from Cotton ?eed liifi been commenced by the proprietors of one ofour Oil mills. The business is being carried on very successfully, and the Oil is coming into general use.
Edgar Conklixg, Esq., one ofour enterprising citizens, has now i#opera- tiofi a series of successful experiments,' not only in reference to a new and sim¬ ple nTode of extracting the Oil in its pure state from Cotton seed, but as regards the applicalion of the residue of the seed, after the Oil is extracted, to other im- pirtant and useful purposes. The mat¬ ter is fi-aught wilh importance, and if JMr. Coxkling's theory- contained in the following communication which vve find in the   New Orleans Piroynnc, be
little doubt, we hope it will   be fully de¬ veloped in the city.   We have-the men and the capital to do it, if it can be rfone^ beyond^i doubt.
Mr. Conkling saysr
"I am satisfied thai fhe value of cot- 'i^j^f-r-i £brc, of oil that may be made from the seed for burning, lubricating and perhaps painting, and for soaps of the refuse cake for distilling, feeding cat-, tie, and hogs, manure, and even for gas, is equal in value annually to that oftlie cotton crop. It is a subject I have, giv- €n a good deal of atlentien to. Soap may be made directly from the^eed by boilding it in the alkalies; oils may be extracted in'a pure state, with a full yield and free of coloring matter, with¬ out the costly melhod of compression; and when extracted the seed may be distilled, as it has the essential proprie¬ ties, containing 11 per cent, of grape sugar, thus displacing so much grain of use for food. The railroad office of this city lights ils office from gas made from cotion seed cake. The seed itself is richer for the purpose.
"No one item of residue, going fo waste in this eountrv, will compare in utility and value to cotton seed;, and, with a litlle attention on the pai^bf those interested and capable of appre¬ ciating it, the South in a few years may reap fifty millions annually of net re¬ ceipts from working it up. A recent number of the "Scientific American" says that vvhen collon sold for six cents per pound a lai-ge amount of it was used for making paper. The waste cotton fibi-e is equally as good for this purpose, as-jlpaii be secured by the use of ma-- chiner}'-, as supported by me in the May number of the "Tennessee Far¬ mer -and* Mechanic." In paper,' oils and soap, the Souih can thus beat the world -in quality and value; if it chose."
The Picayune appends some remarks, as follows:
Our readers are ah-eady aware Ihal a company ,has been eslablished in this city for the purpose of-manufacturing company leaves .it open to them to de« vote their attention to other branches of manufaclure also; and it would appear peculiarly filling that they should enter upon such as may spring from sources so closely allied to—nay fo a certain ex¬ tent indentica! vvith—that to which ihey have parti,cularly resolved on attending. We would therefore invite their atten¬ tion the enormous revenue which it is upon apparently conclusive grounds, may be netted from produce of the cotion plant at pi-esent' thrown away as refuse.
The seed, produces, as Mr. Conkling says, one ofihe most valuable oils, both for illuminating and lubricating purpo¬ ses, ranking in both respects equal to sperm oil. The proportion it yields is said to be 30 percent, and fho 70 per cent, residue is all good oil cake. The total quantity of seed being 2,239,800, 000 pounds, the oil produced would amount to 671,940,000 pounds, the oil cake to 1,567,860,000 pounds. Estima¬ ting the value per pound of the oil to be not more than that of the cheapest grease, it would be worlh 067,1.94,000; and valuing ihe cake at one half the rate at which other oil cake sells, that would be worth $7,839,300.
Here, then, estimating values at ex¬ travagantly low rates, we have a reve¬ nue of $135,000,000 literally being thrown away 3'early. Allow that olBe half of it—a preposterously large propor¬ tion—should be swallowed up in the course of manufacture, and stilt there would be sixty-five millions and a half left for net piofit.
The Manufacturing Company have already directed their attention to yet anoiher product of the cotton plant, as vve commenced by remarking; built appears that this, too, is extremely val¬ uable tor paper making purposes, as vvell as for 'hose to wliich llioy appear more
would invite their  attenlion,  as well as that ofour readers generally, tothe sub joined remarks   from   the   New York Day Book, on this point:
Specimens of the bark stripped from cotton stalks have been exhibiied to pa¬ per manufacturers at the North, and were considered equal to good rags worth six cents per pound, or about $1- 20 person, and vvere pronounced the best substitute for rags of any raw vege¬ table material known to the trade.
The magnitude of the paper business maj' be conceived when we take into consideration that there are 750 paper mills in the United States, employing 300engineSf-and which produce annually at 10 cents per pound, '£27,000,000 worth of paper. To manufacture this amount of paper requires 405,000,000 pounds of rags, 1 L-4 pound of rags be¬ ing necessary to produce 1 pound of pa¬ per. The value ofthe rags at the av¬ erage of 4 cents per pound, amounts to $16,000,0001; to which, iftjiecost of ma- king them into paper, including 13 4 cents to each pound of paper in labor, wilh wastage, chemicals, &c., b^ added, would swell the cost to $23,625,000 lo produce $27,000,000 of" paper, leaving net profits on the total manufacture oi $3, 375,000. For the year ending the 30ih June, 1855, we imported 400,003,- 516 pounds of foreign rag.'', from tvvenlj'- six different countries. Of this amount Tuscali}', in Italy, supplied 14,000,000 pounds. Two Sicilys 6,000,000, Aus- ->ria 4,000,00ft;JEgypt 2,446,928, Tur- I*y 2,466,928, England 2,591,178. The total vajue ofthe 40,0.516 pound .s im¬ ported was £1,225,150. The manu¬ facture oE^aper has outstripped the supply of materials, and rope filings, hemp waste, and other articles have been resorted to, but the supplies ofall have been insufficient to meet the de¬ mand, and prices have been steadily on the advance. It is possible that the cotton fields of ihe South may supply an almost inexhatistable supply of hemp, so   that hereafter    we shall   reach the
ished with metalic conductors, during thunder storms, and their exempiicn during so long a peiiod is the mo:t con¬ vincing testimony in favor of protection that can be desired. Persons who sufl¬ er from fear during thunder storm? maj', therefore, rest in safety and confidence if they can reach a railroad car, steam boal, iron ship or iron house, or in a buil¬ ding or vessel furnished wilh metallie conductors.
The ships of the line and frigates of the United Slates navy are furnished with conductors mads of five-sixteenths ofan inch iron wire, and sloops of war of one-fonrih in diameter of iron wire;
Rods for dwellings or other buildings made ofthis kind of wire in a single piece cost less than one cent per foot less than one dollar for a rod one hundred feet long. Any mechanic of ordinary capacity can put up a rod. Glass insu^ laldrs can be had ofthe hardvvare and glassware dealers for about twelve shil» lings a dozen.
I have prepared a printing sheet giv¬ ing particular directions how to put up rods, which will be sent (free of postage) to any person desiring the same.
E. MERIAM.
Brooklyn Heights, June 23, 1856.
[From the Laurensville Herald.^
The House that Jack Built.
The Cincinnati Conveniion Plat¬ form.—This is the house that Jack builf.
The Spoils.—This, is the malt that l. y in the house that Jack built.
Pierce, Buchanan, Hunter.—Tliese are the rats ihat eat the malt thai lay in the house that Jack built.
Douglas.—This is the cat that caught the rats that eat the malt tiiat lay in the house that Jack built.
Freesoilism.—This is the dog that worried the cat that caught the rats fhat eat ihe malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
The Kansas and Nebraska Act.—• This is ihe cow vvith the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat
, ihat caught   the rats   ihat eat  fhe malt
great desideratum in modern civilization.J ,ha, ]^y !„ the house that Jack built.
an abundant and cheap supply of paper.
Terrors and Perils of the Light¬ ning,
The slorm ofyesterday, during which one life was lost in Brooklyn, bj' light¬ ning, inan unprotected house, and sev¬ eral places in the city of New York was struck by lighlniog, prompts me to this labor..
Many persons suffer greatly from fear during thunder storms, and there are cases in which death has resulted from such fears. There are thunder sloi-ms in vvhich the stoutest heaiH sinks amid the terrors of the storm,, and feels the need of protection. Our lightning mem¬ oranda, for the last thirteen years, gives the total of 750deaths by lightning with¬ in the field ofour research—the wound¬ ed we have not counted—the number is however,  very great.    The   above
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The Columbia Convention.—This is ihe maiden all forlorn- that milked the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried ihe cat that caught the rats that eat the mth ihat lay m the house that Jack buill.
Nothern Democracy.—This is fhe man all tattered and torn that kissed the maiden ail forlorn that milked the ccv with the crumpled horn that tossed Uie dog that worried the cat that caught the rats that eat the malt that lay in the houge that Jack bm'It.
Hon. J. L. Orr.—This is the priest all shaven and shorn that married tha man all tattered and torn unio the^mai- den all forlorn that milked the cow wiih the crumpled harn that tossed fhe dog that worried the cat that caught tlie rats that eat the malt that lay in the house Ihat Jack built.
A Fat Appointment.—This is ilie heaven to vvhich will be   borne the hap.
does not include lightning on  ihe   sea.
Of the nuAtr killed one only was in  a | PY P'^'^st all shaven andsf^orii who mar-
rieti the man all   tattered and torn unto
building funjshed with metalic conduc¬ tors, and that one was at Litlle Prairie, Wisconsin, in the summer ofcl855.
Nacaseofloss of life by lightning has ever occuired within ihe field of our research, in a railroad car, steamboat, ocean sleamer, iron ship, iron house, or warehouse filled with bar-iron, or in a vessel furnished wilh lightning conduc¬ tors; or in a house having lightning rod appendages, with the exception of Ihe case stated above at Little Prairie, Wis¬ consin. These facts are sufficient to dispel the very general belief that metals are dangerous, from a supposed attrac¬ tion for lightning. Steamboats have been in use more than fifty years, rail¬ road cars more than thirty, and iton ships and iron buiMings more than twen¬ ty years.    Millions on millions  of per-
the maiden all forlorn who milked the cow wilh jhe crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that caught the rats that eat the malt that lay in the house that Jack built.
"Unwept, Unhonored and Unsung." —This is the scripiion will be placed ort the stone when he gets to tbe heaven to which he'll be borne of the priest all shaven and shorn whomarried the man all tattered and torn unto the maiden all forlorn that milked the C0W. with the crumpled horn that tossed the, dog tliat worried the cat that caught the rats ihat eat Ihe malt that Jay in the house that Jack built. FELIX,
Judge Ozias Bovven.  of Marion,   lias been   appointed Judge ofthe Sup.'-cmc
sons have during that time been in slcain- j Court of Ohio,   in i>!acc   ofC. C, Con- boals, raiir-pad cars, iron :;hips, iron buil-1 rerse, resigned.