NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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generating and heating steam to a high tem- 

 perature. On the 5(h inst. we enjoyed the 

 pleasure of witnessing the application of the 

 same steam apparatus with some trifling altera- 

 tions and modifications, to propelling a boat on 

 a pond, nigh the dye-house of Messrs. John & 

 Aaron Hall, in said Lynn, which it caused lo 

 move through the water, as near as we could 

 judge at the rate of about C miles an hour. The 

 engine is small, being merely a working model, 

 but moved with regularity and appeared to pos- 

 sess a surplus posver, not expended in propel- 

 ling the boat. Its excellency and superiority 

 lo common engines, used for similar purposes, 

 consist in its simplicity, the cheapness of its 

 construction, and the perfect safety attending its 

 operations. No more steam is generated at a 

 lime than is immediately expended, and the 

 quantity is so small that should the steam gene- 

 rator burst no danger could possibly accrue. — 

 This is a great desideratum, and the general 

 adoption of engines of this kind to driving 

 steam boats would, in all human probability, 

 not only save many lives, but restore to the 

 public that confidence in steam boat conveyan- 

 ces, which has been greatly and justly impaired 

 by the many calamitous accidents, which have 

 attended engines for propelling steam vessels. 

 We understand thai Messr?.. John and Aaron 

 Hall, of this city, are connecled with Mr. Dix- 

 on in this invention, which promises incalcula- 

 ble benefits to the community. 



INK POWDER OF MESSRS. MAYNARD & NOV«S, 



We have received a letter from a respected 

 correspondent in Frankfort, Maine, in which 

 was inclosed a hand bill containing directions 

 for making ink from the Ink Powder of Messrs. 

 Maynard U Noyes, Chemists and Druggists, 

 No. 48, Cornhill, Boston. The writer says, 

 " 1 have never found any Ink Powder equal to 

 what is sold by Maynard and Noyes. Would 

 you not render a public service by attracting 

 to it the public attention ?" 



We have used the above mentioned Ink Pow- 

 der for nearly two years, and are happy to add 

 our testimony to that of our correspondent in 

 favor of an article, which we know by having 

 experienced its utility, must prove very bene- 

 ficial to the public. 



DOMESTIC. 

 More pirates captured.— Hy the arrival this fore- 

 noon of the brig Florida, from Trinidad, Cuba, which 

 she left the 4th of July, we learn that his Britaunic 

 majesty's schr. Lion, capt. Hopner, had tajjen a 

 piratical schr. of about GO tons, off Cape Britton. 

 Out of the crew, consisting of twenty-six: pirates, 

 four only were secured. The rest made their escape 

 on the island, which was surrounded by the boats 

 from two British armed schooners, and it was believ- 

 ed they would all be captured. — jV. Y. Ev. Post. • 



Sea Coal. — A communication in the Centinel states 

 that several small pieces of coo;, resembling canal coal, 

 have been found imbedded in slate on the farm of Mr. 

 Robert Runey, near his Pottery in Charlestown, only 



two miles from Boston. Tttese specimens are some- 

 what interesting, as indicating the probable existence 

 of coal in greater quantities underneath. 



Pirates. — The schr. Elizabeth, Allen, has arrived 

 at Baltimore, in ten days iVom Matanzas. She left 

 on the 17th of July, under convoy of the U. S. schr. 

 Terrier. A slip from the office of the Moniiiis; Chron- 

 icle informs us, that about two days previous to the 

 Elizabeth's sailing, accoiuits were rccfivt-d of two 

 more .Vmerican vessels being taken off the harbor, car- 

 ried to Seawara Bay, and their masts cut away. 

 There have been no accounts of tlieir crews. 



DETROIT, JULY 16. — Indian A'eics. — By late arriv- 

 als from INlackinac and the Saut de St. Miui^^s, a re- 

 port has been circulateil, that 27 clerks ami ingagets 

 of the American Fur Coinpa'iy hare been killed by 

 the Fioux Indians, near Fort William. Whellurthis 

 news is true, or merely one o: Ihe " Upper Viissoi.ri" 

 stories, so systematically published every wei k al St. 

 Louis, a tew days will probably en able us to deter- 

 mine. — Gas, 



Sniijrnn. — Accounts from Smyrna to the 23J May 

 have been received. It was reported there, that .'iOOO 

 Turkish troops, who had been landi^cl on some Grecian 

 island, had been destroyed, except about 1500; and 

 that the Turks had ordered an army of 50,000 men to 

 the More a. 



The last Annual Register received from England, 

 speaks in very severe terms of the conduct of the Amer- 

 icans for giving up one of their seamen to the Chinese 

 for a mock trial, for an alleged murder of a Chinese wo- 

 man. The Chinese are represented as mercenary, and 

 infamously deceitful ; of this we can have no doubt ; 

 hut that thirty high spirited captains of American ships 

 should have acted in a dastardly manner, we cannot be- 

 lieve, nor that they were unmindful of '^ their feelings 

 of national honor and humanity," is what ought not to 

 gain credit without better proof than is offered in this 

 case. But, however, as the Register is a work read by 

 all nations, it becomes the bounden duty of some of 

 the captains and supercargoes of these thirty ships, to 

 wipe away this stain upon themselves and upon their 

 nation, by a full statement of the facts. There can be 

 no doubt but the man was put to death in the most cru- 

 el manner. Bost. Gaz. 



We have in otir hands direct advices from Madrid of 

 a recent date. It seems that, in fact, a serious insur- 

 rection, like the mcwement at Lisbon, has been at- 

 tempted in Spain. The object was, as intimated in 

 our latest English papers, to substitute the Spanish In 

 fant Don Carlos for the " adored" Ferdinand, and es- 

 tablish a system more ultra-royal and prescriptive than 

 the monarch and his advisers have found it practicable 

 or deemed it expedient to adopt. The principals of 

 the conspiracy were the guerilla leaders, the Trappist, 

 and Gen. Capape, who endeavored to raise the people 

 in Arragoh and other provinces. A number of distin- 

 guished royalists, including bishops and friars, were 

 exiled as accomplices, to different points of the king- 

 dom and to France. The official paper, the Gazette of 

 Madrid, of the 17th May, contains a notification to all 

 Portuguese in Spain to report themselves to the authori- 

 ties, and the Portuguese legation, in order that they 

 might be kept under surreiUance. A concert was be- 

 lieved to exist between the Portuguese and Spanish 

 malcontents of the various classes. — Two sets of con- 

 spirators are now dreaded by the Portuguese and Span- 

 ish governments, namely, the constitutionalists, and the 

 ultra Royalists, who want absolute despotism both in 

 theory and practice. J^at. Gas. 



HAVANA, ICLY 10. — We avail ourselves of the brig 

 Eliza, to inform you that the schr. Mercator, Allen, 

 was captured this side of Matanzas on the 3d inst. 

 by a piratical sharp fbretopsail schooner, and conduct- 

 ed to Jagua La Grande, to windward of Matanzas, 

 where Mr. Jose Manuel Rey, a passenser, was set on 

 shore, after being bound and hoisted by the neck to 

 extort information if there was any money on board. 

 He gives no account of the crew, having been for 

 three days confined alone in the cabin, from whence 

 be was set in a boat by four arm«d men aud put 



ashore ou the beach. He is the only one on board 

 that has been heard of. We have sent you his depo- 

 sition lawfully taken. There was a rumour to-day 

 that the Mercator was retaken by a U. S. schr. but 

 here is no foundation for this report. 



Lesme, the American artist, stands clearly and 

 decidedly at the head of those who exhibit cabi- 

 net pictures this year. His " Sancho Panza in 

 the apartment of the Duches-s" '" quite as good a- 

 any picture Wilkie ever jjainted— full of excellence 

 as to drawing, and to coloring — and above all as to 

 conception. This artist now stands fairly where hi.i 

 genius entitles bim lo be. We congratulate America. 



The article proceeds to notice a few other pictures 

 of Wilkie and others, and then adds, 



After these, the next best thing is, " M. Porceaug- 

 nac between the two physicians." This delightful, 

 airy, and truly classical little picture, is also, we be- 

 lieve, the work of an .■\merican — his name is Newton. 

 He also seems to have found a beautiful and novel 

 field for himself. Per,'at I — Eng. pa. 



WANTED No. 51, of the 1st Vol. of the N. E, 

 Farmer. For which a generous price will be 

 given by the publisher of this papci. 



