taken. H. immortal works still maintain their dominion over in His fable has already, by more such narrow confines,might yet shake the moun-||lence or decay, but the very dust in which they perish.|| his countrymen and contemporaries, he taught to all ed be so scattered as to leave no trace of their mate- generations to come. tain piled upon him to its base. Our route now,after leading still farther along rial existence behind. There is no security beyond than a thousand years, survived the empire which it The other instance of a small form of words, in the height,commanding at every step some new the passing moment for the most permanent, or the rescued from premature destruction. view of the town, and the adjacent country, with most precious of these; they are as much in jeopardy the three rivers seaming its bosom, struck at as ever, after having escaped the changes and chances which dwells not an immortal only, but a divine last into a fine wood, and then descending sud-of thousands of years. An earthquake may suddenly spirit, is that prayer which our Saviour taught his ingulf the pyramids of Egypt, and leave the sand of disciples. How many millions and millions of times denly into a romantic dell, we followed a small the desert as blank as the tide would have lef. it on has that prayer been preferred by Christians of all So wide, indced, is the sound stream which soon led us back to the Ohio.- the seashore. A hammer in the hand of an idiot may denominations! Here again might be traced a display of French break to pieces the Apollo Belvidere, or the Venus thereof gone forth, that daily, and almost without taste which when the fabric was entire must de' Medici, which are scarcely less worshipped as intermission, from the ends of the earth, and afar off It was the miracles of art in our day than they were by idolaters upon the sea, it is ascending to Heaven like incense and a pure offering; nor needs it the gift of prophecy have been exceedingly beautiful. remains of a mill dam constructed by the officers of old as representatives of deities. Looking abroad over the whole world, after the to foretell, that though “heaven and earth shall pass of Fort Du Quesne, according to the most approved rules of the time, like a perfect fortifica-lapse of nearly six thousand years, what have we of away," these words of our blessed Lord "shall not tion; a part of the curtain, with traces of some the past but the words in which its history is record. pses away," till every petition in it has been anof the bastions, yet reward the eye of the curious. ed? What besides a few mouldering and brittle swered-till the kingdom of God shall come, and ruins, which time is imperceptibly touching down his will be done in earth as it is in heaven. At the mouth of the glen we paused to look at into dust,-what, besides these, remains of the glory, EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASa salt factory, and then crossing a bridge over the grandeur, the intelligence, the supremacy of the the brook, we passed by a steel factory, and Grecian republics, or the empire of Rome? No- TRIc Juice, and the PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION several coke kilns, along the base of the cliff thing but the words of poets, historians, philosophers, By WM. BEAUMONT, M. D. Surgeon of the Unifrom the summit of which I had so much ad- and orators, who being dead yet speak, and in their ted States Army. New York: G. & C. & H. mired the scene below an hour ago. The embouchure of the Monongahela was at ferior minds through all posterity. And these intel. CARVILL.-This is a very remarkable publicahand, and stepping aboard of a small horse boat lectual sovereigns not only govern our spirits from the tion; being nothing more nor less than the at the point where it loses itself in the Ohio, Itomb by the power of their thoughts, but their very record of the observations made during a series soon terminated on the opposite side one of the voices are heard by our living ears in the accents of their mother tongues. The beauty, the eloquence, of years, by a skilful medical man, upon the most delightful rides I can recollect ever to have and art of these collocations of sounds and syllables, visible action of the stomach of a living man. the learned alone can appreciate, and that only (in The case was that of a Canadian voyageur, some cases) after long, intense, and laborious invesTHE SPIRIT OF LIFE; a Poem, pronounced tigation; but as thought can be made to transmigrate who, at the age of eighteen, received accidenbefore the Franklin Society of Brown Univer-from one body of words into another, even through tally the charge of a musket loaded, with ducksity: by WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK. Philadel-all the languages of the earth, without losing what shot, in his side, he being within a yard of the may be called its personal identity,-the great minds phia: KEY & BIDDLE.—Mr. Clark has written of antiquity continue to hold their ascendency over muzzle. The wound perforated the stomach. some pretty poetry; and among the fugitive the opinions, manners, characters, institutions, and Dr. B. was called to the wounded man—sucpieces bound up with the main poem in this events of all ages and nations through which their handsome little volume, there are some, and posthumous compositions have found way, and been ceeded in saving his life, restoring his health; made the earliest subjects of study, the highest ||and yet the orifice in the stomach remained for particularly the Prayer of Mary Queen of standards of morals, and the most perfect examples years unclosed. Here, then, an opportunity Scots, superior in merit and inspiration to that of taste, to the master-minds in every state of civilwhich gives its name to the book. The "spi-ized society. In this respect, the "words" of in- was presented of watching Nature in her most spired prophets and apostles among the Jews, and secret operations, of surprising her in her rit of life," universal as the writer insists it is, those of gifted writers among the ancient gentiles, own laboratory, and of ascertaining, in the and vivifying as is its influence, is not very may truly be said to "last for ever." Words are the vehicles by which thought is made living man, the processes by which life is perceptible in the poem which aims to describe visible to the eye, audible to the ear, and intelligible maintained; for, when we cease to digest, we its operations and powers. There is mani-to the mind of another; they are the palpable forms cease to live. The result is highly curious festly too much haste, and too little of the of ideas, without which these would be intangible as the spirit that conceives or the breath that would ut- and instructive, and cannot fail, we should vivida vis in this attempt. ter them. And of such influence is speech or writing, think, of producing important changes and Lectures on General Literature, POETRY, as the conductor of thought, that, though all words improvements in the art of medicine. Spaldo not "last for ever," and it is well for the peace of &c. By JAMES MONTGOMERY. Author of The the world, and the happiness of individuals, that they lanzani, and others, had made experiments World Before the Flood:' constituting Vol. do not,-yet even here every word has its date and upon the powers of the gastric juice, by admiLXIV of HARPERS' FAMILY LIBRARY: New its effect; so that with the tongue or the pen we are nistering to animals food of different kinds, in continually doing good or evil to ourselves or our York. It is not more than a week or two ago neighbors. On a single phrase expressed in anger perforated metal balls; but all of these fail of since we made a beautiful extract from these or affection, in levity or seriousness, the whole pro- certainty and interest, in comparison with those Lectures, in which the eloquent and enthusias-gress of a human spirit through life—perhaps even to instituted and so faithfully followed up by Dr. eternity-may be changed from the direction which Beaumont, and ultimately by the Surgeon Getic poet asserted the superiority of his art over it was pursuing, whether right or wrong. For in nothe sister art of Sculpture; and proved it by thing is the power and indestructibility of words|neral of the Army, Dr. Lovell. THE LAW GLOSSARY: by THOMAS TAYLOR. comparing the statue of "the Dying Gladia- more signally exemplified than in small compositions, such as stories, essays, parables, songs, proverbs, tor" with Byron's admirable description of it and all the minor and more exquisite forms of com- Albany: W. A. GOULD. New York: GOULD, in Childe Harold. The favorable impression position. It is a fact, not obvious perhaps, but capa- BANKS & Co.-This cannot be otherwise than made by that extract will, we think, be realized ble of perfect proof, that knowledge, in all eras which have been distinguished as enlightened, has a useful work in our country, where the dead by the whole book, which is full of burning been propagated more by tracts than by volumes.-languages are not as familiar as, for the imthoughts and fine and generous views of the We need but appeal, in evidence of this, to the state provement and purification of both taste and ennobling influence of poetry. These Lectures of learning in our own land at the present day, when all classes of people are more or less instructed.language, we wish they were, but where lawwere originally delivered at the Royal Institu- On this point I shall have a future opportunity of ex-yers do much abound. It is a selection and tution in London, and are now published en- patiating, and will therefore, at present, offer only translation of the various and numerous senTo these are two examples of the permanence of words, involving larged and carefully revised. sacred or important truth, of equal value and applica- tences, phrases, and maxims, spread through added, “A Retrospect of Literature," and ation, in all periods and countries, and among all peo- the old law books, and many of which are still preserved and in use at this day, in Greek, La"View of Modern English Literature." From ple to whom they may be delivered. the Retrospect, we make an extract that strikes us as quite original : In the youth of the Roman commonwealth, during a quarrel between the patricians and plebeians, tin, French, Saxon, &c. The author has, in our when the latter had separated themselves frm the||judgment, well fulfilled his task. His transThe Permanence of Words.-An eloquent, but ex-former, on the plea that they would no longer labour lations are easy and accurate, so far as we travagant, writer has hazarded the assertion, that to maintain the unproductive class in indolent luxury, have looked through his pages; and the histoMenenius Agrippa, by the wall-known fable of a “words are the only things that last for ever."*Nor is this merely a splendid saying, or a startling schism in the human body, in which the limbs mu.rical notes in the Appendix are some of them paradox, that may be qualified by explanation into tinied against the stomach, brought the secedors to alike curious and interesting. The volume is commonplace; but with respect to man, and his a sense of their duty and interest, and reconciled works on earth, it is literally true. Temples and a feud which, had it been further inflamed, might dedicated, by permission, to Chief Justice Sapalaces, amphitheatres and catacombs-monuments have destroyed the state, and turned the history of vage; and must, we think, be well received by of power, and magnificence, and skill, to perpetuate the world itself thenceforwaid into an entirely new the profession, and still more by those not of it, the memory, and preserve even the ashes, of those channel, by interrupting the tide of events which who lived in past ages-must, in the revolutions of were carrying Rome to the sumi: of dominion. but who yet in the conflicting claims of a busy mundane events, not only perish themselves by vio-The lesson which that sagacions patriot tanght to world, are often brought into contact with it. ALBANY SEED STORE AND HORTICULTURAL RE- The subscriber having resumed the charge of the The greatest care and attention has been bestowed upon the in Europe, and may be relied upon as genuine. STEPHENSON, New-York. RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examin hese Cars; a specimen of which may be seen on tl at part o he New-York and Harlæm kailroad, now in operating J5f RAILROAD CAR WHEELS AND BOXES, iry, Paterson, N. J. All orders addressed to the subscribers J8 ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR. NOVELTY WORKS, Near Dry Dock, New-York. (Concluded from page 821.) But it is not at all necessary for the usefulness of the suspension railway, that it should be in every respect as capable of enduring heavy loads as the railway now most usually constructed. The important question is, whether, taking into growing and saving of Seeds, and none will be sold at this estabconsideration the expense of its construction, ishment excepting those raised expressly for it, aud by experithe cost of transportation upon it will be lessenced seedsmen; and those kinds imported which cannot be raisthan upon an ordinary road. If this point is es-ed to perfection in this country; these are from the best houses tablished as it has been, beyond all doubt, its im- It is earnestly reques ed whenever there are any failures here. portance is manifest. There are many parts of possible to obviate unfavorable seasons and circumstances but after, they should be represented to the subscriber; not that it is the United States where the increase of popu- that satisfaction may be rendered and perfection approximated. lation and of business calls for greater facilities ALSO-French Lucern, White Dutch Clover, White Mulberry Seed, genuine Mangel Wutzel, Vellow Locust, Ruta Baga, and of communication; yet the travel is not suffi-Field Turnip Seeds, well worth the attention of Farmers. cient to support the enormous expense of the W. THORBURN, 347 N. Market st. (opposite Post Office) double iron railway. There are other sections Catalogues may be had at the Store; if sent for by mail, so rugged and uneven, that whatever might be will be forwarded gratis. Orders solicited early, as the better THOMAS B. STILLMAN, Manufacturer of Steam the amount of travel, it could not pay the ex-justice can be done in the execution. *** Mr. Thorburn is also Agent for the following publications, Engines, Boilere, Railroad and Mill Work, Lathes, Presses, pense of embankments, excavations, and other to wit:ind other Machinery. Also, Dr. Nott's Patent Tubular Eoil. works necessary for attaining the level required NEW VORK FARMER and American Gardeners' Magazine. ers, which are warranted, for safety and economy, to be supefor the road. In all such cases the suspensionments." MECHANICS' MAGAZINE and Register of Inventions & Improve-ior to any thing of the kind heretofore used. The fullest gaurance is given that work shall be done well, and on rearoad, on account of its comparatively trifling AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL and Advocate of Internal Im onable terms. A share of public patronage is respectfully m18 expense, can be used to great advantage. The provements; and the NEW-YORK AMERICAN, Daily, Tri-Weekly, and Semi-Weekly; average cost of a suspension railroad, built with either or all of which may be seen and obtained by those who prudence and economy, extending over a coun-wish them, by calling at 347 North Market street, Albany. iry, the surface of which presents no peculiar TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manuadvantages or disadvantages, is about one quar-facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establisk ter of that of the double track iron road now in supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for inment to Hudson, under the rame of Durfee, May & Co. offer t use, and this difference is increased in propor-elined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver tion as the country, over which the road is to the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. them in any of the principal cities in the United States. be constructed is more rugged and uneven than M. & H. R. R. Co, Albany: or James Archibald, Enginee usual. Now suppose that the suspension road Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbontale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. is only capable of bearing one third of the moHudson, Columbia County, New-York,{ mentum which the other road can bear, (and this is certainly a greater allowance than it would be necessary to make in practice,) yet the cost being one fourth that of the other, and its power one third, it follows, of course, that the suspension road would be much the most economical. MATHEMATICAL & OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS, TO RAILROAD COMPANIES. PROFESSOR RAFINESQUE, of Philadelphia, will undertake to build CARS that will carry along their own rail. way, and may be used on level M'Adam roads. They will save ten millions of money to be wasted on 1000 miles of iron railroars to be laid in the United States within a few years SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENT and dispense with tracks and double tracks. These Cars may be drawn by horses or steam. He claims to have discovered S1 RJ M M & F them ever since 1925, by his caveats filed in the Patent Office SURVEYORS' INSTRUMENTS. MANUFACTORY. EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, No. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Balumore, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, especially Eng neets, that they continue to manufacture to order Compasses of various sizes and of superior quality, and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on Leveling Instruments, large and small sizes, with high mag-fair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude. In a new country, therefore, where means are limited, it must be of immense advantage. Its merits have not hitherto been generally known. It has been but very little used in England, pro-warranted. bably on account of the high price of timber, and on this side of the Atlantic we have been slownifying powers with glasses made by Troughton, together with a large assortment of Engineering Instruments, manufactured to adopt suggestions that have not been proved and sold by E. & G. W. BLUNT, 154 Water street, and tested by experiment. But it is now getting into more extensive favor in those parts of the country where timber is abundant. It will, no doubt, in a short time, prove a most impor-nie tant method of inland transportation. ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of ment of construction of thy make is seven. The whole num THE AMERICAN STEAM CARRIAGECOMPANY, ber of the Improved Compass" is eight. These are all ex OF PHILADELPHIA, respectfully inform the public, and es clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra pecially Railroad and Transportation Companies, that theyduation Department. have become sole proprietors of certain improvements in the Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have construction of Locomotive Engines. and other railway car-n fact needed but little repairs, except from accidents to which riages, secured to Col. Stephen H. Long, of the United States all instruments of the kind are liable. Engineers, by letters patent from the United States, and that they are prepared to execute any orders for the construction of Locomotive Engines, Tenders, &c. with which they may be favored, and pledge themselves to a punctual compliance with any engagements they may make in reference to this line of business. They have already in their possession the requisite apparatus for the construction of three classes of engines, viz. engines weighing four, five, and six tons. The engines made by them will be warranted to travel at the following rates of speed, viz. a six ton engine at a speed of 15 ralles per hour; a five ton engine at a speed of 18 miles per hour; a four ton engine at a speed of 22 1-2 miles per hour. Their performance in other respects will be warranted to equal that of the best English engines of the same class, with respect Not only to their efficiency in the conveyance of burthens, but to their durability, and the cheapness and facility of their repairs. For proof of the high estimation on which their Surveying Instruments are held, they respectfully beg leave to tender to the public peruzal, the following certificates from gentlemen of distinguished scientific attainments. To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some months since, 1 now offer you my opinion of the Instruments earlier period, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford road Company. This opinion would have been given at a much made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Ohio Rail speak with the greater confidence of their n.erits, it such they a longer time for the trial of the Instruments, so that I could should be fo mnd to possess. the Instruments in the service procured from our northern ciIt is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding ties are considered good, I have a decided preference for these manufactured by you. Of the whole number manufactured for the Department of Construction, to wit: five Levels, and five of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the last twelve months, except from the occasional in perfection of a screw, or from accidents, to which all Instruments are liable They possess a firmness and stability, and at the same time a 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. I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasses on this Road. This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing I have examined with care several Engineers' instruments of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and Survey. or's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion of the excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels ppeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accuThese instruments seemed to me to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have beep 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. my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu. To Messrs Ewin'and Hearte- As you have asked me to give tacture 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 the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my 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 may want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and 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. The engines will be adapted to the use of anthracite coal, plue wood, coke, or any other fuel hitherto used in locomotive engines. The terms shall be quite as favorable, and even more mode-now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En-relieve us of the uecessity of sending elsewhere for what we rate, than those on which engines of the same class can be procured from abroad. All orders for engines, &c. and other communications in reference to the subject, will be addressed to the subscriber, in the eity of Philadelphia, and shall receive prompt attention. By order of the Company, WILLIAM NORRIS, Secretary. Becember 2d, 1833. For further information on this subject pee No. 40, page) For a year past I have used Instruments made by Mr. W.J. I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for layin A number of other letters are in our possession and might be introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy t submitthem upon spileation, to any persona desirous of pers ing the sanat. |