Another Steamboat Disaster.-The Steamboat[] Mount Vernon, on her way from Cincinnati to St. Louis, about thirty miles above the mouth of the Ohio, collapsed a flue, by which circumstance three persons were immediately killed, and a number of others scalded. previous year, &c. it leaves. (Same period 1832, 322,635.) The exports from Florida (Same period 1832, 22,651 bales.) Exports from Alabama. (Same period 1832, 126,921.) Exports from Georgia (Same period 1832, 276,437.) Exports from South Carolina. No. VI. PITTSBURGH, November 3d. den flapping of a duck's wing, as he rose suddenly from under the bow of the boat, were the only sounds abroad. The day 30 still, so soft, and summery, seemed like the sabbath of the dying year. ent places along the river, and not be aware of a change in his situation. Nature seems to have delighted in repeating again and again, the same lovely forms, into which she first moulded this favourite region. I passed an evening most agreeably at Wheeling, with two or three prominent members of the Bar, who were The evening came on calm, and mellow, and the broad distinguished by all that hearty courtesy, and frankness of disc of the moon, slept as quietly on the fair bosom of the character, which mark the western Virginian. A venison Ohio, as if her slumbers there had never been broken by the The peculiar scenery of the Ohio, has been so graphically Narrow Escape.-A letter from Milledgeville, steak and flask of old Tuscaloosa (the relish, and flavour, war-whoop, or reveille, from the shadowy banks around. (Geo.) under the date of the 17th inst. says "We of which, would have been Tocsin to the soul of Apicius described by Flint, and Hall, in their various writings upon had a very narrow escape from fire. The roof of and made Anacreon uneasy in his grave) gave cordiality to the West, that I will not detain you by dwelling minutely the State House caught about one o'clock yesterday ver are, a clear winding current, studded with alluvial islands, supposed by sparks from the chimney-fortunately, the meeting. It was my first introduction into western so- upon its features. The prominent characteristics of the ri it was extinguished without any very serious damage ciety, and I could hardly have been initiated under better and flowing between banks, which now lie in a level esplabeing done." The Augusta Courier remarks-"The auspices as I went under the wing of an Ohio gentleman, nade of several hundred acres, elevated perhaps fifty feet roof of the Representatives' Chamber at Milledgeville whose warm hospitality, and endearing social qualities, above the water, and again swell boldly from the margin to was very much injured by fire, and the public papers, united as they are to distinguished professional talents, the height of three or four hundred feet in headlands, which, in the alarm, thrown into confusion. The Legisla. seem to make him a universal favourite in this region. when the mists of evening settle upon the landscape wear ture speaks of adjourning in consequence for 8 or 10 The conversation, animated, various and instructive, would the appearance of distant mountains; when I add that an days." [A negro boy named Sam, was "the princi- supply material for a dozen letters. But the nervous ex- occasional farm house, with its luxuriant orchards, and other pal and efficient actor" in saving the building.- pressions, and almost startling boldness, of western con-enclosures, may be found along the smaller "bottoms," while Would it not be well for the Legislature to purchase versation would lose half its vividness, and power, when the larger ones, are frequently enlivened by a bustling village, transferred to paper. I found myself however, catching oc- reposing in their ample bosoms, you have the main features his freedom?] casionally something of the characteristic tone of those of the Ohio, as I have seen it between Wheeling and Pittsaround me, and my new friends gave so encouraging a burg. The windings of the river present at every turn, The Colton Crop.-We find in the North Carolina Observer, reception to each fresh fledged sally, that I live in the some of the most beautiful views in the world, but the regna condensed statement, showing the quantity of Cotton grown humble hope, of being able to express myself with suffi-lar alternations of "bluff," and "bottom," give such a sameand consumed in, and exported from, the United States, during cient propriety, by the time I reach the really outer west,ness to the landscape, that unless familiar with the points of the year ending 30th Setember, 1833. Believing it will possess into prevent people from detecting at once the early disadvan- the country around, one might be dropped in a dozen differterest for many of our readers, we give it a place in our columns. tages, I have laboured under, in living so long in a land where The exports from New Orleans reach the enormous total of 416,877 bales, but deduct from this 14,749 bales of the crop of the every lip lisps homage to mincing Walker, and each tongue trembles in terrorem of terrible Johnson. In that event .......bales 403,443 may have both scenes and characters to describe when 23,641 we meet, such as would now split my pen in telling. We passed Rapp's flourishing settlement, called EconoWheeling is one of the most flourishing places on the my, during the day, but only near enough to see the regular ..129,366 Ohio. The immense quantity of bituminous coal in the arrangement of the square brick dwellings, standing about .271,025 adjacent region, which may he had merely for the digging, twenty feet apart, on broad streets which intersect each other gives it great advantages as a manufacturing place, while at right angles; the factories with their high cupolas; and the .181,876||the rich back country and favourable position, on the river, thriving orchards, and young vineyards, which stretch along especially in low water, when steamboats find Pittsburgh the banks of the river beyond the suburbs. I may hereafter, 30,258 difficult of access, make the town a place of active trade. if I have time to visit it, give you some account of the present It lies in two parallel streets, beneath a hill extending along condition of this settlement, which as you know belongs to 30,829 the river, and its smoky purlieus, when viewed from within, a society organized upon Mr. Owen's plan. The site of the 1,070,438 except to the eye of the man of business, are any thing but town was formerly a favorite rallying point for the Delaware 987,477 attractive. The principal tavern of the place where I lodged,||Indians, under their chief Mouahatoocka, whose council fires is well supplied with bedchambers, and parlors, and a com- once blazed where now the smoke of a dozen factories rolls 82,961 fortable reading room, where the leading papers in the Union from the chimnies of the German emigrant. What a con867,455 are taken. The attendance too, all the servants being blacks, trast between the toilsome race whose clanking machinery, 891,728 is very good. Among them, a perfect treasure, in the shape is now the only sound that greets the ear as you near the of a genuine old Virginian negro, must not be forgotten. shore, and the indolent savage, or laughter-loving French24,975 The features of Billy, (for that is the name of my sable man, who once stalked along the borders or danced over the friend,) are an exact copy of those generally introduced into bosom of the beautiful river. Washington's picture when he is painted with his favourite groom in attendance; I piqued myself considerably upon discovering the likeness, when I afterwards found that the worthy Ethiop, was actually "raised," as he expressed it, in the Washington family. He is a professing member of the Baptist church, and I was much interested, while talking with the newly converted heathen, (for such he called himself prior to the "change") to find, how the precepts with which he had lately become indoctrinated, assorted with the ideas he had been brought up in as a slave; religion seemed only to have strengthened the bonds which held him to his master. "This new light," he said, "showed the old nigger" (I give his exact words) "that to whatever station Goday for a few moments among islands, that seemed to bloom pleased to call him, there, it was good for the old nigger to be." I was told that he was rigidly attentive to his spiritual duties, and as for his worldly ones, I never met with a more thorough-bred and respectful servant. He is among the last of a race once numerous in the old dominion, but now fading from the face of the earth, Sero in cœlum redeas, and when thy dusky soul takes flight, thy name be immortal Billy, let thy statue, carved in ebony, be set up in Hudson's door-way, and a memoir of thy life flare in each intelligence office in the Union. (Same period 1832, 173,872.) Exports from North Carolina, (of which only 517 bales went to foreign port,). (Same period 1832, 28,462.) Exports from Virginia... (Same period 1832, 37,500.) Total crop of 1832-3 Total crop of 1831-2 Increase...:. ......་་ ་......་་་ ་ The total exports to foreign parts..... LATER FROM LISBON.-By the arrival at Boston of the Promo, and at this port of the Clitus, from St. Ubes, we have accounts from Lisbon to 26th ult. The extent of Don Pedro's circuit around Lisbon was gradually enlarging, as the Miguelite forces re. tired. The following letter from the house of the American Consul, shows how important in the way of supplies was the consequence of this retreat of the Miguelites : "How changed the scene since merry Jean Baptiste The afternoon sun shone warmly on the eastern bank of the Our course in never-dying verdure, and then as we escaped from their It was with no slight regret, that I parted with my friend S. when stepping aboard a pretty steamboat, called the GaOn the left, the golden tints of sunset still played over the zelle, to take my passage up the river; his foreign travel, and various opportunities, have given him habits of observation, which with a dash of humour, and ready flow of fine spirits, clear pebbly wave of the Alleghany, and freshened the constitute a capital travelling companion. His literary tastes white outline of a long low-built nunnery, standing on a are well known to you, and I should not be surprised if at a sudden elevation back from the river. The dusty city lay future day, he should distinguish himself as another member in the midst, the bridges springing from its centre terminaof his family has so happily done, by committing to the press ting the view up both rivers; whilst the mists of evening were a few notes of his wanderings. I left him waiting for the rapidly elosing in, upon the undulating country that formed downward boat, and we parted, promising to meet again in the back ground of the picture. Truly, the waters have here a few months at New-Orleans-each of us in the meantime chosen a lovely spot for their meeting, and it was but natural traversing regions, from which the kingdoms and principali-that such a stream as the Ohio should spring from such an ties of Europe, might be carved out, and never missed. LISBON, OCT. 19. Since we last wrote you on the 9th inst. the army of Don Miguel has been attacked and beaten, and has retreated about 50 miles from this, so that all the mills are now in the possession of Don Pedro, ard as the quantity of wheat on hand is great, and more coming from the country daily, and large quantities of flour arriving from England and France, we look daily for a decree rescinding the admission of Flour. Your obedient servants, J. P. HUTCHINSON & CO. The Queen had been proclaimed at Estremadura, and it was reported that Coimbra had declared in her favor. Everything was going on well at Lisbon..icked up every particle of earth's fragile covering. The neither broad nor cheerful-looking are still well-bui't, to the warm mist of Indian summer succeeded, the river became Exchange Hotel on the opposite side of the town. Here I ike glass, every island floated double upon its bosom, and am now housed, and after delivering my letters, and looking: each headland seemed to drop its cliffs against a nether sky. farther about the place, you shall have the result of my The harsh panting of our high-pressure engine, or the_sud-observations. Don Pedro had been confined a few days to the Pa. lace by slight indisposition, but had recovered, and was as active as ever. The snow of yesterday, yet covered the ground, as rubbed along the shores of the Ohio, and those pictured woods, with the morning sun gleaming through their tall stems, and glistening on the powdered tree tops, were indescribably beautiful. The islets, particularly where the hues of the foliage were most vivid, shone like shields of silver blazoned with no mortal heraldry. Before noon, however, the sun, like a hungry lap-dog over a bason of ice-cream, union. Looking backward now, I could see that river, like a young giant rejoicing in its birth, sweeping suddenly on its course, but turning every moment among its green islands, We entered the Mononghahela, and disembarked a few as if to look back till the last upon the home of its infancy. hundred yards from the site of the old fort Du Quesne. The river was some twenty-five feet lower than usual, and giving my baggage to a dray-man in attendance, I ascended the bank, and soon found my way through streets, which though H. NEW-YORK AMERICAN. NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-1833. LITERARY NOTICES. 66 46 We cannot call this agency, a new intelligence different from the mind, because, independently of consciousness, we can hardly so define it. But there is bestowed a sensibility, which being roused (and it is excited by the state of the circulation,) governs those muscles of respiration, and ministers to life and safety, independently of the will. could they not have rested as well as they did in under the solid limestone rock. The bones thu the womb? What aileth them that they must exposed, become naturally a subject of intense in "neods bestir themselves to get in air to maintain terest, and are unexpectedly connected with the in "the creature's life? Why could they not patiently quiry in which we are engaged. Among other im "suffer it to die? You will say the spirits do at portunt conclusions, they lead to this-that there is THE HAND, its Mechanism and Endowments, as this time flow to the organs of respiration, the not only a scheme or system of animal structure per. evincing design, by SIR CHARLES BELL, &c. &c.-". diaphragm, and other muscles which concur to vading all the classes of animals which inhabit the "that action and move them. But what raises the earth, but that the principle of this great plan of cre. Philadelphia, CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD.-Another spirits which were quiescent, &c., I am not subtle ation was in operation, and governed the formation of the Bridgewater treatises-liable to the same obenough to discover." of those animals which existed previous to the revɔ. jeation which all that have preceded it have called lutions that the earth itself has undergone that the forth—that of running into other subjects than the one excellence of form now seen in the skeleton of man, which it professes to treat exclusively; yet like all was in the scheme of animal existence long previous the rest, though wanting in unity, full of most valua. to the formation of man, and before the surface of the earth was prepared for him or suited to his con. ble and instructive knowledge. The eminent surstitution, structure, or capacities. geon who in this book puts before us the stores of long experience, apologizes at the outset for the style in which it is written, on the ground that he has been always too much absorbed in the practical details of his profession, to have had much time for the cultivation of mere literature. The apology was unnecessary, for though not a model for critics, his style is upon the whole less rugged, aud more intelligible, than that of his literary and strongminded collaborator, Chalmers. The high tone of moral and religious feeling which pervades this work, shows that the When man thus perceives, that in respect to all these vital operations he is more helpless than the infant, and that his boasted reason can neither give them order nor protection, is not his insensibility to the Giver of these secret endowments worse than ingratitude? In a rational creature, ignorance of his condition becomes a species of ingratitude; it dulls his sense of benefits, and hardens him into a temper of mind with which it is impossible to reason, and from which no improvement can be expected. Debased in some measure by a habit of inattention, and lost to all sense of the benevolence of the Crea. tor, he is roused to reflection only by overwhelming In the last quotation which we have room for, from book which we recommend, as quite intelligible to all readers, as it certainly is instructive, reference is made to the opinions (erroneous it seems they were of President Jefferson, concerning the Megalonix: I have alluded to the observations of President Jef. selection of Sir Charles Bell for such an ellucidation salamities, which appear to him magnified and dising to the adage-ex ungue leonem) that it must of the great subject prepared by the Earl of Bridgewater, was most judicious, as his manner of occa. sionally introducing views appropriate to his task, is ingenious. Take for instance the following extract, in which gratitude, the peculiar attribute of man, is viewed as the basis of religion: It is this sense of gratitude which distinguishes man. In brutes, the attachment to offspring for a limited period is as strong as in him, but it ceases with the necessity for it. In man, on the contrary, the affections continue, become the sources of all the endearing relations of life, and the very bonds by which society is connected. proportioned; and hence arises a conception of the ferson on the Megalonix. Having found a bone which by its articulating surface and general form, he recognized to be one of the bones of the phalanx of an animal of great size, he thought he could dis. cover that it carried a claw; and from this cir. cumstance, he naturally enough concluded (accord. about calculating the length of the claw, and estima. have belonged to a carnivorous animal. He next set ting the size of the animal. Hd satisfied himself that in this bone, a relict of the ancient world, he had obtained a proof of the existence, during these old times, of a lion of the height of the largest ox, and an opponent fit to cope with the mastodon. But when this bone came under the scrutiny of Baron Cuvier, his perfect knowledge of anatomy enabled him to draw a different conclusion. He first observed that there was a spine in the It affords an instance of the boldness with which philosophers have questioned the ways of Providence, that they have asked-why were not all our actions performed at the suggestion of pleasure? why should we be subject to pain at all? In answer to this I should say, in the first place, that consistently with our condition, our sensations and pleasures, there middle of the articulating surface of the last bone, must be variety in the impressions; such contrast which in this respect was unlike the form of the and variety are common to every variety of sense; smail bone in the feline tribe. He found no provi and the continuance of an impression on any one sion in this specimen of an extinct animal, for the If the child, upon the parent's knee, is uncon- organ, occasions it to fade. If the eye continue to lateral attachment of the bone, which we have just sciously incurring a debt, and strong affections grow look steadfastly upon one object, the image is soon noticed to be necessary for its retraction. Then ob. up so naturally that nothing is more universally con- lost-if we continue to look on one color, we become serving what portion of a circle this bone formed, he demned than filial ingratitude, we have but to change insensible to that color, and opposite colors to each prolonged the line, and showed that the claw belongthe object of affection, to find the natural source of other are necessary for an impression. So have weing to it must have been of such great length, that it religion itself. We must show that the care of the most tender parent is in nothing to be compared with seen that in the sensibilities of the skin variations could never have been retracted to the effect of guarding an acute and sharp point. The point, there. those provisions for our enjoyment and safety, which are necessary to continued sensation. It is difficult to say what these philosophers would fore, could not have been raised vertically, so as to it is not only beyond the ingenuity of man to provide, define as pleasure, but whatever exercise of the have permitted the animal to put the foot to the but which he can hardly comprehend, while he pro-senses it should be, unless we are to suppose an enground without blunting the instrument! Pursuing fits by them. tire change of our nature, its opposite is also implied. such a comparison, he rejected the idea of the bone If man, of all living creatures, be alone capable of Nay, farther, in this fanciful condition of existence, belonging to the feline tribe at all. His attention was gratitude, and through this sense be capable also of did anything of our present nature prevail, emotions directed to another order, the paresseux or sloths, religion, the transition is natural; since the gratitude purely of pleasure would lead to indolence, relaxa. which have great toes and long nails. Their nails due to parents is abundantly more owing to Him tion, and indifference. To what end should there be are folded up in a different fashion; they just enable "who saw him in his blood, and said, Live." the animal to walk; but slowly and awkwardly, some. thing in the same manner as if we were to fold our fingers on the palm of the hand, and bear upon our knuckles. On instituting a more just comparison be. tween these bones of the ancient animal, and the correspoding bones of the paresseux, he has satisfied us, that the lion of the American President was an animal which scratched the ground and fed on roots. an apparatus to protect the eye, since pleasure could For the continuance of life, a thousand provisions are made. If the vital actions of a man's frame were directed by his will, they are necessarily so minute and complicated, that they would immedintely fall into confusion. He cannot draw a breath, without the exercise of sensibilities as well ordered as those of the eye or ear. A tracery of nervous cords unites many organs in sympathy, of which, if one filament were broken, pain and spasm, and suffocation would To suppose that we could be moved by the solici. ensue. The action of his heart, and the circulation tations of pleasure and have no experience of pain, of his blood, and all the vital functions are governed would be to place us where injuries would meet us through means and by laws which are not dependent at every step, and in every motion, and whether felt Philad. CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD.-Very pleasuri on his will, and to which the powers of his mind are or not, would be destructive to life. To suppose altogether inadequate. For had they been under the that we are to move and act without experience of reading, and somewhat out of the usual track. From influence of his will, a doubt, a moment's pause of irresistance and of pain, is to suppose not only that the "Campaigns of a Man of Peace," we give a short resolution, a forgetfulness of a single action at its ap-man's nature is changed, but the whole of exterior chapter. The new soldier was just escaped from his pointed time, would have terminated his existence. nature also there must be nothing to bruise the it ushers us into existence or consciousness: it alone One experiences something like relief to find that there never was such an enormous carnivorous ani. mal as this, denominated megalonix. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF GERMAN LIFE. 2 vols. Now, when man sees that his vital operations body or hurt the eye, nothing noxious to be drawn in garret as a teacher, and about to assume the dates could not be directed by reason that they are con- with the breath: in short, it is to imagine altogether of a pastor, when falling in with a Prussian detachstant, and far too important to be exposed to all the another state of existence, and the philosepher would ment retreating before the victorious arms of Napochanges incident to his mind, and that they are given be mortified were we to put this interpretation on his leon, he is suddenly converted into an Adjutant Genup to the direction of other sources of motion than the will, he acquires a full sense of his dependence. meaning. Pain is the necessary contrast to pleasure: eral of an army of some 200 men: If man be fretful and wayward, and subject to inordi-is eapable of exciting the organs into activity: it is On the third night of our march we took up our nate passion, we perceive the benevolent design in the companion and the guardian of human life. quarters at a little village, and having posted the adwithdrawing the vital motions from the influence of vanced guards, we sat down--the commander-in. such caprisious sources of action, so that they may In the paragraph which follows an argument is chief, the carabinier, and I, to supper. "We are, in neither be disturbed like his moral actions, nor lost presented against that combination of fortuitous fact," said the former, with complacency, operat in a moment of despair. Ray, in speaking of the first drawing of breath, atoms from which materialists have sometimes main.ing in the rear of Napoleon as I intended. "It is all very well," replied the carabinier, drily, delivers himself very naturally: "Here methinks, tained man might be formed, which is alike new and provided he does not operate on our rears tomor "appears a necessity of bringing in the agency to striking: row!" some superintendant intelligent being, for what The bones of large animals and in great variety, "else should put the diaphragm and the muscles are found imbedded in the surface of the earth. "serving respiration in motion all of a sudden so They are discovered in the beds of rivers, they are "soon as ever the fœtus is brought forth? Why|| found where no waters flow, they are dug up from I felt my flesh creep at the possibility conveyed in this barbarous jeu de mots, and we were all three absorbed in the unpleasing reflections it suggested, when several shots, one after the other, accompanied by loud shouts of "the French! the French!-to arms!||troops, he only rubbed his hands, and poured forth 66 STEPHENSON, Builder of a superior style of Passenger Cars for Railroads, RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examine The carabinier on the contrary, looked discomforted, he shrugged his shoulders(knocked the ashes these Cars; a specimen of which may be seen on that part o out of his pipe, and said nothing. The drums rattled, the four trumpeters blew with all their might, and the carabinier turned pale as death. To disguise my terror, I stamped about the room, crying, "Hollo! fire! fire, brave PrussiansTHE DOWN EASTERS, by JOHN NEAL. 2 vols. fire" trying all the time to find the door-but I saw nothing. It was as if I had been suddenly struck New York: HARPER & BROTHERS.-We have seen blind, and in my agony I burst open the cupboard of this book much praised, and we marvel at it. We the hostess, calling out louder and loader; "This have read it through—that is the volume and a half way, brave Prussians-this way-stick close to me!" which comprize the first story: the " balaam," as The old woman ran screaming to protect her pro. Blackwood calls it, thrown in to fill out the second perty-the children shouted-the dogs barked--and a cat, on whose tail I had trodden, sprang over my volume, we did not read. The design of the author head with a hideous yell, to the top of the stove. is to give a faithful portraiture of the Yankee, as he The din and confusion which reigned around in-was; fer already he insists the ginewine native has creased my panic, and I fully believed that the French were already in the room, mercilessly butchering the women and children. "If ever I got out of this scrape," thought I, "let who will be adjutant-general in my place!" all but ceased to exist. So far as fidelity to peeuliarities of idiom and even of conduct are concerned, this may be, for aught we know, a well executed sketch-for the author is undoubtedly a quick and My outrageous proceedings, which, fortunately for accurate observer of life ;-but as a whole the story me, were most honorably interpreted by the com- is incoherent, is incidents impossible, and their mander and the petrified carbinier, inspired them with new courage. They drew their swords, and tendency most immoral. As for style, we take it for sallied forth to the troops, who had asssembled out-granted the author would consider it an affront to side the little inn. I followed, and it was with un-talk of such a thing, as whenever he means to be speakable joy that I felt myself in the dark; no eye most effective, he sets all rules at defiance. Mr. saw me, and I might effect a retreat, which at least would prolong my life, if it did not illustrate my name. Though more disposed to be nervous at night than by day, I cannot call myself fearful; but on this occasion I was overcome with terror. "Adjutant-forward-with twenty men to the church-yard roared the lieutenant. "Our post is there attacked--if you should need succors, send to me." The twenty men were soon in motion, and I, most unhappy doctor of moral philosophy, with a drawn sword at their head. "The devil's in this fellow," thought I," has he forgotten that my hand has never wielded ought but pen, pencil or compass, that he should select me upon such a service?" But it sufficed for him to suppose that I possessed courage; and my sense of honor inspired me for a moment, with enough of that quality to carry me to the post I was ordered to defend. "Nunc animis opus, Anea, nunc pectore firmo! Degeneres animos timor arguit." With these and similar exclamations, which were wont to inflame me with enthusiasm in my lonely garrot, I endeavored to whip up my fainting spirits. But a dimness came over my sight as we advanced, which was the cause of my taking the venerable wall of the churchyard for the enemy's line, and the grass which grew upon its top, and waved to and fro in the wind, for their bayonets. I sprung to one side, and cried, with all the energy of terror: "Fire! fire! fire!"The men obeyed, and the flash of their muskets af. forded a distinct view of the imagined foe. Neal's genius-and genius he certainly has-seems ELEMENTS OF NATURAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PHI- GRACIE, PRIME & CO. having this day taken into co-partnership JOHN CLARKSON JAY, will continue their business under the same firm.-New-York, 1st October, 1833. 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EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, more, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, espeNo. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Balticially Engineers, that they continue to manufacture to order and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on fair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude. For proof of the high estimation on which their Surveying Instruments are held, they respectfully beg leave to tender to the public perusal, the following certificates from gentlemen of distinguished scientific attainments. To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some months since, I now offer you my opinion of the Instruments made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. This opinion would have been given at a much earlier period, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford a longer time for the trial of the Instruments, so that I could speak with the greater confidence of their merits, if such they should be found to possess. It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding the Instruments in the service procured from our northern cities are considered good, I have a decided preference for those manufactured by you. Of the whole number manufactured for the Department of Construction, to wit: five Levels, and five a screw, or from accidents, to which all Instruments are liable of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the last twelve months, except from the occasional imperfection of They possess a firmitiess and stability, and at the same me neatness and beauty of execution, which reflect much credit on the artists engaged in their construction. I can with confidence recommend them as being worthy the notice of Companies engaged in Internal Improvements, who may require Instruments of superior workmanship. JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendent of Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. a I have examined with care several Engineers' instruinents of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and Surveyor's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion of the excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accuracy and permanency in adjustments. These instruments seemed to me to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have been made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field. WILLIAM HOWARD, U. S. Civil Engineer. Baltimore, May 1st, 1833. To Messrs Ewin and Heartte-As you have asked me to give my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu. acture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think well of workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received satisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to relieve us of the uccessity of sending elsewhere for what we our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &c. B. H. LATROBE, Civil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company. In my joy, I regaled my prisoners with the best of that was to be had; they were the first of Napole. on's heroes whom I had seen. While the scoun-and not liable to sink, at a small expense. drels thanked me for their good cheer, I felt as For sale, 10,000 lbs. of ANTIGNIS, or Incombustible Var-may want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and though I might stand in need of their protection,nish, at one dollar per lb. since, in answer to my inquiry, whether there were many French in the neighborhood, they informed me that Davoust was on his march, with a whole divi. sion, from Saxony to Berlin. I hurried with this news to my General, but Charlemagne, elevated by this first victory of his Apply to C. 8. RAFINESQUE, Professor of Hist. and Nat. References in New-York.-Mr. Minor, Editor of the Me- means. Si RJ M M & F A number of other letters are in our possession and might be submit them upon application, to any persons desirous of perus. introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy to ing the same. m25 AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. D. K. MINOR, EDITOR.] CONTENTS": .page 785 Editorial Notices; Long Island Railroad Company; An Investigation of a Formula for calculating the Trans- Essay on Economizing Fuel and Lighting in Private .786 .787 [VOLUME II.-No. 50. such improvements as I hope to be able to make in the 30th of November will be found an account its appearance. Those who find it inconvenient to remit three dollars for want of small bills, will be credited with the full amount, if they remit five dollars in advance for a the Journal, subject to postage. Those subscribers now indebted for past vol796umes, who do not pay by the first of February, will .792 be charged four dollars per annum. Report of the Secretary of War.. Report of the Secretary of the Navy. .794 Advertisements.. .799 New-York and Erie Railroad; On the Termination of .788 789 Railroad from Philadelphia to York, Penn.; Remarks of the Governor of Ohio on the Canals of that State; Naval Lyceum; Foreign Intelligence; &c. .800 of Mr. Badnall's first experiment, made on the Liverpool and Manchester Railroad, to test his theory of the undulating railway. As this is subject of much importance to railroad companies, as well as one about which much has been said in the Journal, we are gratified with the opportunity of laying before them an account, which will be found at page 769 of his further experiments upon the same road, which have, apparently, fully established the correct It is hoped, however, that no person friendly to the Journal, or the cause it advocates, will at that time be in debt to it, as my intention is to publish only enough to supply those who pay for it, and a fewness of his theory. We shall endeavor to obtain further information from authentic soursurplus copies for binding. ces upon the same subject. Hereafter the subscriber will be charged with the amount of postage paid by me, unless the letter contains five dollars or over; and letters ordering a AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. change of direction of a paper, will not be attended NEW-YORK, DECEMBER 14 1833. We are informed by a letter from a gentleman at York, Upper Canada, that an application for a railroad between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie is now before the legislature of Upper Canada. SUSPENSION RAILWAY.-We have been asked to, if they come subject to postage. This measure is adopted, not from a desire to be uncourteous, bu RAJLROAD JOURNAL.-Subscribers to the Railroad to avoid a repetition of what has frequently occurred. Journal will please bear in mind that the next, or fif-probably from thoughtlessness, to wit, having to pay ty-first number, will not be issued in its regular order, 18 3-4 or 25 cents for the privilege of stopping a for a more definite description of the suspenas I am desirous of showing them the work in a se. Journal in one place and sending it to another; and sion railway than has hitherto been given to mi-monthly form, with a cover of colored paper, by/it has occurred, too, in more than one instance, where the public: in reply to which we would observe which means it can be more readily preserved than in the subscriber had not paid his subscription. It will hat a friend, residing in Boston, has promised not be so hereafter. If the Journal is worth having, is worth paying for; and if it is a convenience to have its direction changed from one place to another, that convenience is worth the postage of a letter. Those who hereafter subscribe for the Journal, and wish the back volumes also, can have vols. 1 and 2 in two parts to each volume, with title-page and index to each, stitched in covers of colored paper, I now have the pleasure of informing those who take which can be forwarded by mail, to any part of the an interest in its continuance and success, that it will be continued, at least another year. I have received from a great number of its friends positive assurances of their best exertions to promote its circulation, as well as the continuance of their own support, and, from many others, assurances in the most more additional setts from tts commencement, with us a full description, with drawings, which we shall certainly give to our readers at the earliest possible period. LONG ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY.-We publish in a following column the proceedings of the convention held at Smithtown on the 3d inst. We are gratified to perceive that the pro20sed road is exciting much interest in its favor, not only throughout the island, but in Newcountry. Price of the three volumes, the two first in York. So strongly is the public mind imcovers, and the third as it shall be published, $10 in pressed with a belief of the ultimate success advance. Remittances by mail, if enclosed in pre-of this work, that we are assured the whole sence of the postmaster, will be at my risk. amount of the stock would be taken up without the least delay.-[Long Island Farmer.] LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES ON COMMON ROAD8. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD.-In this substantial form, to wit-by subscribing for one or number will be found the conclusion of the 7th Mr. Byington, an ingenious mechanic of Pittspayment in advance for the ensuing year, thus indu. Annual Report of the President to the Direct urg, is engaged in the construction of a locontended to be used on common or turnpike cing me to believe that its continuance is consideredors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com. motive steam engine, on an improved plan, and roads. The Pittsburg Statesman says, Mr. B. worth an effort, and at the same time, if all its pre-pany. That of the Chief Engineer will follow 8 confident that he has discovered an improvesent subscribers shall continue and pay promptly for detailed statement of the surveys and esti nent by which a locomotive engine may be the ensuing volume, enabling me to continue it in its nates for the Baltimore and Washington Rail road is given, which will be found to contain made to operate on such roads with perfect sucLet us hope that this confidence on the present shape and size. part of the builder is not premature or ill I now, therefore, repeat that the RAILROAD JOUR-much useful information, or, at least, we be. :ess. NAL will be continued. It is necessary, however, eve so, and therefore shall make copious ex-founded. If experience shall justify it, and he succeed in his undertaking, he will prove himfor me to say, that payment will be expected in ad-tracts from it hereafter. self one of the benefactors of the age.-[Bal vance, or by the 1st of February-as that, and tha only, will enable me to send it to subscribers with UNDULATING RAILWAYS.-In the Journal ofll timore Patriot.] |