Steamship Clarion and Anthracite Coals. This packet ship, provided, as our readers are aware, with an auxiliary steam power and the Erricson Propeller, made a trial excursion in the Bay last Saturday, the result of which may be considered of some importance in connexion with the progress of American steam navigation.

It has long been urged by grave authorities, that nature has interposed an effectual barrier to prevent the United States from competing with Great Britain in steam navigation, owing to the scarcity and inferior quality of our bituminous coals. The absurdity of this opinion was strikingly

illustrated in the trial alluded to.

The public generally are not aware that the Clarion's boilers have been constructed for burning anthracite coals only, and that artificial draught is employed in order to dispense with the usual tall and cumbrous smoke-pipe. Hitherto some difficulty has been experienced in keeping up a sufficient supply of steam in the "Clarion;" but by the addition of a small steam cylinder for working the blower ap plied to the boiler, this difficulty has now been most completely removed, and nothing could be more perfect than the control which the engineer had over the steam during the trial. By simply turning a stop-cock attached to the small cylinder, the quantity and pressure of the steam in the boilers were raised at pleasure.

Revolutionary Reminiscence.

of Ashford, Connecticut, who died a few weeks since, was It has been stated in several of the papers that Mr. Squiers, the last of the survivors of the battle of Bunker Hill. This is not correct. Philip Bagley, Esq. of this town, now eightysix years of age, and enjoying a healthful old age, in the full possession of all his faculties, was in that battle. Being in which we have thrown together for the benefit of those of our office the other day, we procured from him some facts our readers who love to indulge in these old reminiscences of the times of devoted and unselfish patriotism.

Mr. Bagley was a private soldier in Capt. Sawyer's company, and Col. Frye's regiment of Massachusetts minute He left Haverhill, on the Merrimack, at 1 o'clock on the men, having enlisted in this regiment, in December 1774.19th of April and arrived at Cambridge, at 10 o'clock the until the evening, of the 16th of June. On that evening, next day. Nothing worthy of notice, he says, transpired Col. Frye's regiment, together with Col. Dodge's of Connecticut, crossed the neck, and went on to Bunker Hill, where the British troops had previously halted on their retreat from Concord, in April. After remaining there about an hour, both regiments proceeded to Breed's Hill. Here they commenced breaking grounds for their entrenchments, Considering the small quantity of stowage room required between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, working all night so by anthracite coals, its cleanliness, powerful heating quali- secretly and silently that the Glasgow sloop of war, lying in ties, and the perfect absence of smoke, we hazard nothing in the river at a short distance, did not discover them. At day asserting, after what we witnessed on board the "Clarion," from Copp's Hill and from the shipping. The Glasgow soon "light they were discovered and a fire was opened upon them that so far from the United States laboring under any disad-hauled up the stream, in order to rake the Neck with her vantage respecting coals for steam navigation, we possess, in our inexhaustible stores of anthracite coals, an absolute advantage over our transatlantic neighbors. And in warfare we have an advantage of the most vital importance. Steamers burning bituminous coal can be "tracked" at sea at least seventy miles before their hulls become visible by the dense columns of black smoke pouring out of their pipes, and trailing along the horizon. It is a complete telltale of their whereabouts, which is not the case with those burning anthracite coal, as the latter kind sends forth no smoke. Therefore all steamers like the "Clarion" and "Kamschatka," are decidedly superior to all others in time And we regret very much that our two new war and steamers, the "Missouri Mississippi," have been constructed to burn foreign bituminous coals only! We regret very much that the "Board of Construction" had so little foresight. But this en passant.

of war.

Having had the advantage of conversing with some thorough-bred engineers who were on board the Clarion, we cannot avoid noticing the performance of the propeller during the trial. The speed of the engine being accurately tried, it was found to give 4,700 revolutions to the propeller in running over a space of 14 miles. Now, the propeller being 6 feet in diameter; and its spiral plates being set at an angle of 46 degrees at the circumference, its progressive movement through the water will be precisely 20 feet for each revolution; had therefore the resistance of the water been perfect, the vessel could only have passed over a space of 95,900 feet.

But 14 miles is equal to 73,900-thus it will be seen that only 2-9ths was lost by slip on the receding of the watera remarkable fact, considering the large midship section of the "Clarion," compared with the small dimension of the propeller.

Respecting the consumption of fuel in the "Clarion," it has now been fully ascertained 320 pounds per hour is the average, which is less than that required by a British steamer of forty horse power.-New York Herald.

Oldest Man in New England. Deacon John Whitman was born in Bridgewater, March 25, 1735, and entered upon his one hundred and seventh year last Friday, (March 26th.) His bodily health is good, and he is able to walk out without a cane. His mental faculties have failed him, and he has lost his eye-sight. He has been a temperate man all his life; not having tasted ardent spirits for the last fifty years.

shot, and prevent reinforcements from reaching the hill.— Notwithstanding the shot and shells continued to pour in upon them, the Americans continued to work upon their entrenchments, and but one man was killed by the cannonade. Sentries were stationed to watch the flash from the gun, and on their calling out "shot!" the men would lie down flat upon the ground, and then rise and resume their work. This continued until the British troops landed at Charlestown, when the Americans were compelled to leave the spade and pick-axe, and resort to their guns. The first division of the British troops, on landing, halted till the second had crossed der cover of the fire from Copp's Hill, and from the sloop of the river, when both formed, and advanced up the hill, unwar and the gun boats.

As is well known to every reader, the Americans reserved their fire, until the British were within a hundred yards, when they opened so deadly a fire upon them, that they twice repulsed them, and it was not until the third rally that the British succeeded in surrounding the lines, so as to rake the breast work, and compel the Americans to retreat.

Fifty years after this memorable battle, Mr. Bagley was present, with Lafayette, and other survivors of the revolution, at the laying of the corner stone of the Monument, and on the 10th of September, 1840, he was there again at the Great Whig Convention, in the full vigor of manhood, and he hopes yet to live to see the top stone laid upon the monumental pile.-Newburyport Herald.

Gold Mines in Georgia.

We have been favored by a friend with the following extract of the letter received a day or two since, from a gentleman of high respectability residing in the Cherokee Country. Sixes, we are informed, is an old Indian town, where several lots of land were found to have very rich surface, deposit and vein mines of gold. Some four years since we understand $12,000 was taken from a branch on its margin, and many other lots near by were found to be valuable.

[Savannah Repub, HICKORY FLATS, Cher. Co. 2 October 1, 1841. S

The gold mine of Gerald's continues to be pretty good they have taken some 800 dwts. from it, one piece weighing 18 dwts. About the Sixes they continue to take it with great success-three hands frequently make from 50 to 100 dwts. in a day.

It is taken for granted that no one supposed that the redemption of these orders in money forms any part of the company's obligation. Unlike bank paper they are issues from which the members of the board individually derive no profit nor any pecuniary advantage whatsoever, but on the contrary in common with their fellow-citizens must share any depreciation in their par value.

a new importance from the fact that the loan of half a mil- of the railroad, would, of itself, require a considerable inlion of dollars already obtained from the banks would re- crease beyond the ordinary circulation, and that these orders, main a burthen and dead loss until the work could be car- safe as they are from the ordinary casualties attendant upon ried to its termination. Under these circumstances, a sus- irresponsible paper; might be advantageously allowed to take pension of the work could not be thought of, if it could be the place of the various individual issues which were prepossibly avoided. The only legitimate resource applicable viously in circulation. From all these causes, it was hoped, to this part of the road was the city subscription; and to ap- that the present amount might be paid out without mateply this with the least possible loss, became an imperative rially, or if at all affecting their value; and at all times, down duty. In this crisis, to relieve the city authorities from the even to the present period, the contractors have not only dilemma, to avoid any loss upon the stock, to husband their | been willing, but anxious to receive even more than it has resources, and at the same time to push forward the work, been deemed expedient to give them. the board resolved, to receive from the city, from time to time, if it should deem it expedient for its purposes, the 6 per cent. stock at par in payment of her subscription. They also proposed to the contractors and others furnishing the company with the necessary labor and materials to receive payment in the funded debt of the city, at par, instead of money. To this they consented, provided adequate portions of the stock should be so divided as to meet their purposes in distributing They were issued to enable the City of Baltimore to pay it to pay the laborers and met demands growing out of their her subscription, and promptly finish the work to Cumberprivate engagements. To effect this end, the scheme of island, without a sacrifice of her stock, and at a considerable suing stock orders fundable in the six per cent. stock, at par, saving of interest, and consequent exemption from the newas devised, and was carried into effect accordingly; and by cessity of taxation. The obligation of the company is on these means, and, to some extent, by the direct payment of the face of the orders; and in each annual report, and in va the city stock, the work has been prosecuted-and in a short-rious ways, has always been distinctly announced; to fund er time than even the most sanguine could have anticipated, them in city stock at par; with the additional engagement -to its present termination. That the public at large have to receive them at par in all debts due to the company. derived and still do derive great benefit from these stock or- These promises will be complied with in good faith and ders, which the circumstances of the times have rendered a to the fullest extent; and though the orders may depreciate circulating medium, will be admitted. The banks having never so low, the company will continue to receive them at in 1839 for the second time in two years, suspended specie par. Any loss which may, in this way, be sustained by the payments, these orders have supplied the necessary purposes company, it is not doubted will be cheerfully borne in conof the retail trade, of so much importance in the aggregate, sideration of the vast advantages which, by the early comwith an easy and secure currency, and at the same time mea-pletion of the work, will be conferred, not only upon the Burably relieved the community from an amount of tax, which stockholders, but upon every citizen of this community. had the subscription of the city been paid in money, would If the board could now incur a new and farther obligation, have been imposed upon the citizens. And it is no more never at any time contemplated, and undertake to redeem than just to remark, that on these grounds the chief advan- the orders in money, they could not redeem a part only for tage in the extensive circulation of the orders must result to the benefit of a few without comprehending the whole; and the city and the community rather than to the company is for such purpose it is apparent that the company have no suing them, whose original design and purpose would have means at their disposal; neither the subscription by the city been better answered if they could have been speedily funded nor that by the State, under existing laws and ordinances, in the city debt. being applicable to that object. Even the amount of interest upon the stock, which has been saved by the issue, has accrued to the benefit of the city treasury, and not to the company.

Of these stock orders, of all denominations, there have been issued by the commissioners of stock up to this date the sum of $1,419,051-and of these, $13,712 have been funded. For the entire sum so issued, city stock has been transferred to the commissioners in trust for the holders of the orders.

It is understood, however, that in the minds of some, an apprehension is entertained that this amount is greater than the ordinary demands of circulation require, and appeals have been made to the board to stop any further issue, or to adopt some other means by which a depreciation in their par value may be prevented.

By an arrangement with the city authorities, these orders are receivable in payment of all taxes and other dues to the city, which are understood to amount annually to not less than $500,000. The revenue of the Railroad Company also daily amounts to upwards of $1,500, and in the year to upwards of $600,000.

It is confidently hoped that, by limiting the amount of the issues, even if the present sum shall by any be deemed too great, an amount will be constantly absorbed, sufficient to prevent any injurious depreciation.

The board have come to the determination not at present to increase the issue of the stock orders, beyond $1,500,000; and in future to act in conjunction with the city authorities in the adoption of any practicable means by which a less amount may be definitively limited, and thereafter gradually reduced, or for devising other means to sustain the value of the orders.

The ultimate security of the orders, based as they are upon the stock of the city, cannot be questioned; and the holders may at any time acquire their value, and six per cent. interest thereon, by funding them in the stock which they represent. The board, however, notwithstanding the importance they attach to the prompt completion of the railroad, now so far advanced, to Cumberland, and their just claim upon the cordial co-operation of all interests in the city of Baltimore to this end, are not insensible to the obligation of If, in these efforts the board be seconded,-as they have preventing as far as their intervention can prevent, any de-a right to expect, by the public authorities, and other instipreciation in the value of these orders, arising from any ex-tutions, and by their fellow-citizens generally, whose busicessive i-sue.

It is understood that the regular circulation of bank paper, even under the specie standard, was not much short of $2,800,000, and that from various causes, it is now reduced to $1,000,000, and in fact for purposes of small circulation, the banks can do nothing whatever. Indeed, to obviate this difficulty the board, upon the special application of the City Councils, were induced to increase their circulation by the issue of orders below the denomination of one dollar.

It has been supposed also that the enlarged trade which has been brought to this city by the expenditure on account

ness and prosperity are so vitally interested in the great enterprise in which the board are engaged, they do not doubt that the present temporary cause of uneasiness will subside and the orders be maintained at their intrinsic value.

It cannot be doubted that the people of Baltimore may do much to sustain or depress the standard of these orders,

to quiet or spread alarm,-without regard to their real value; and it is not less doubtful that efforts which may succeed in bringing them into disrepute, will not only supply their place with a circulation less entitled to support, and more exposed to ultimate loss, but will also seriously retard

if they do not suspend the prosecution of a work upon which the trade of the city so much depends.

It will be at once perceived that to enable the board to carry on the work, and continue the limitation they now propose to assign to the amount of the issue of orders, and ultimately to reduce the circulation within a still more narrow limit, the application of the resources specially appropriated to the extension of the work from Harper's Ferry towards Cumberland must be essentially changed.

This great work has hitherto been pushed forward by the application of the city stock, in one form or other, at par; while most of the other principal works of internal improvement have been partially or altogether suspended. It is now within less than a twelvemonth,-and at a comparatively inconsiderable expenditure-of its completion to Cumberland. and within seven months of its extension to Hancock, and from either of these points, it is to yield a profit upon the capital, and greatly invigorate the trade of the city. Payment for much of the work remaining to be done, and for materials to be furnished may be made by the direct application of the city stock at its par value, and this mode as far as it can be done advantageously, may be continued, but it is at the same time obvious that, independently of this resource,

Cost of Road west of Har-
per's Ferry...

John I. Donaldson and Field-
ing Lucas, Jr., for this
amount of city six per
cent. stock, placed in their
hands for the redemption
of the stock orders.....
Baring, Brothers & Co., Lon.
Interest on State bonds....
City six per cent, stock on
hand.....

Bills receivable....
Expenses of stock certificates
of the State, to be refund-
ed by the Commissioners
of Loans....

Cash in the hands of dis-
bursing officers.
Cash on hand.

to prevent a suspension of the work in its present unfinish- Loan at six per cent. for the

ed state, a considerable amount of current funds will be needed.

In this emergency it becomes the duty of the board to continue to look to the subscription by the city as the only resource; not merely because it is specially pledged and appropriated to this part of the work, but because an attempt to make sale of the State bonds in the existing crisis, would be hopeless, unless at a sacrifice ruinous to the company and to the public. While, therefore, the board will hereafter, as heretofore, consult the convenience of the city authorities, by continuing to receive the stock at par in such amounts as can be directly applied in payment, it will be necessary, nevertheless, to require in money, or some equivalent to it, such further instalments as may be required to prevent a suspension of the work.

Nor is it doubted that a requisition for this purpose may be made of the city, in such manner, and upon such terms as will reconcile it both to her inclination and ability to comply.

It appears in the foregoing report, that in addition to the amount of interest returned to her treasury, upon the stock represented by the orders and not funded, the city has claimed, and been allowed to share in the dividends of profits earned by the employment of the old capital, and by the operations of the present road. Her share of the dividend will amount to $60,000, and with the interest heretofore returned, will exceed the sum of $100,000. By these means she will possess the present ability to pay in money an instalment sufficient, within a few thousand dollars, to complete the unfinished graduation, masonry and bridging to Cumberland.

The board also entertain the hope that the amount annually collected to provide for interest upon her subscription of $3,000,000 but which will not be required for that purpose, may be conveniently contributed towards the payment of such further instalments in money as may be necessary to finish the road.

By order of the board, October 11th, 1841.

LOUIS MCLANE, President.

purpose of taking stock in the Washington Road... Stock.....

Less instalments unpaid....

Stock orders issued............
Due the Washington Branch
Road..
Loans from banks on city

stock on account of the
Bills payable-notes for in-
city of Baltimore .......
surance on Iron from Eng-
land...........
State of Maryland five per
City of Baltimore...

cent. sterling bonds.....
Premiums on sterling bills..
Interest on city stock....
Revenue...

Less expenses, repairs and
interest

2,058,532 66

1,500,000 00 3,181,052 59 1,123 80

242,616 48 1,234 92

1,711 40

940 73 240,445 75

$12,260,258 33

Cn.

.$4,000,000 00

257 50

$1,000,000 00

3,999,742 50

1,408,051 33

126,640 14

219,148 00

3,948 36 2,219,979 69

3,200,000 00

2,588 79 6,916 97

392,948 23
319,705 68

†73,242 55 $12,260,258 33

Office of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company,
October 1, 1841.
J. J. ATKINSON, Secretary.

B.

Statement of the Revenue and Expenses of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company, on account of the Main
Stem of the Road, for the year ending the 30th of Sep-
tember, 1841.

The amount received for the transportation
of passengers and merchandise, for the
year ending the 30th of Sept. 1841, is..

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, October 1, And the expenses for the same period are as

.$3,465,048 79
266,156 86

268,794 35

Real Estate and Depots.... Locomotives, Horses, Mules, and Harness, Passenger and burden Cars.....

$391,069 87

The Western Railroad Accident.

"One female was severely scalded on the hand, and otherThe Westfield (Mass.) Spectator, published in the vicinity of the sufferers must die from the injury received by the wise severely injured. We believe that from six to eight of the disaster, says:

"The accident took place about one o'clock in the afternoon, 7 miles west of this place, in a deep stone cut, so circuitous as to render it impossible for the engineer to see ahead but a few rods. The road had just been completed through the summit, and the regulations of the cars were not perfectly established. The train from the east arrived here at the usual hour, fifteen minutes past 12 o'clock, where it was expected the train from the west would meet it, and after waiting fifteen or twenty minutes passed on, causing the sad result which we have to communicate.

"Both trains were under the greatest speed when the concussion took place-jointly proceeding at the rate of sixty miles per hour-the western train, from the advantage of the grade under much the greatest speed, escaping with the least injury. The engines of both trains and the tenders, with the passenger cars immediately attached to them, were thrown into a total mass of ruins. Of the passenger car attached to the engine of the train proceeding west, not a vestige was left upon the wheels but the heavy timbered frame work, the whole body being shattered into atoms leave ing nothing except the tin roof and the window frames of the sides, which were separated and thrown several feet ahead of the running part of the carriage. All the passenger cars were considerably injured, the rear ones most fortunately escaping total destruction.

concussion.

"Upon whom falls the blame we are unable to saywhether upon the directors or the conductors of the train. The conductor, Mr. Moore, avers that he obeyed the instructions of the directors: if so the public should not hold him amenable. The train of which he had charge waited here, which was the place for the trains to meet, twenty minutes, and then proceed on. The conductor of the train proceeding east arrived at Chester Village Depot, and waited ten minutes, when it left. Both conductors acted in accordance with their instructions; the result is such as we have presented."

A private letter from Westfield, dated on Friday says: "Of the forty persons said to be injured, three are dead-a Mr. Brewer, Mr. Warren, the conductor, and a child of Mrs. Bloodgood. There is another child of Mrs. B. that will probably die, and a third one very dangerously hurt.”

Great Storm at Utica.

by the most severe and extraordinary hail storm I ever witThis city and its vicinity were yesterday (Friday) visited nessed, or that has occurred here at any time within the recollection of the primitive settlers of the city. Indications of a severe shower began to exhibit themselves from the east between 2 and 3 P. M., and in the space of half an "It would seem from the inextricable juxtaposition into liart sunshine to the darkness of the blackest thunder cloud. hour the entire horizon changed its complexion, from brilwhich the cars were thrown, that not a passenger could have After a preliminary Bash of lightning or two," the windows escaped with his life. But, most miraculously, not a life of heaven opened," and then descended such a fall of hail was lost, though some 15 or 20 were dragged from the ruins in a most horribly mutilated condition-the number receiv- as was indeed serious to look upon. Not a stone fell that ing more or less injury amounting, we should judge to about exceeded the size. The almost perfect uniformity of their was not as large as an ordinary hickory nut, and but few 40-the whole number of passengers probably rising 100. "But the most distressing and heart-rending scene was ex-mendousness of the fall was almost frightful. There was size was the greatest wonder about the storm; yet the trehibited at the depot of this place, where the wounded were but little wind at the time, fortunately, or not an unprotect mostly brought for attendance. As the baggage car contained pane of glass would have been left in the castern wining the bodies of the wounded came roiling silently along, propelled by no other power than that of a few men, a deathlike stillness pervaded the crowd of spectators which had assembled to witness the scene. To witness the bleeding, groaning and agonizing sufferers, was indeed a melancholy spectacle-one which we hope to be spared witnessing again. We give below the names of those who were seriously, considerably, and slightly injured, so far as we were enabled to procure them.

Mr. Edwin Brewer of this town, a most worthy citizen, so seriously that his life is despaired of his lower limbs most seriously fractured and his stomach and lungs so much injured as to cause a severe hemorrhage of blood. He was conversing with Mr. Root, the postmaster of this place, who was accompanying him to Pittsfield, and probably escaped the same fate by jumping from the cars-receiving only a slight injury.

"Rev. Thomas M. Clark, of Boston, considerably injured
-Mr. Clark was chaplain to the State Senate last winter.
"Rev. Charles Lee, of Lowell, not seriously-a gentleman
of considerable notoriety as an abolitionist in this State.
"A Rev. Mr. Horton, from Rhode Island, considerably.
"Mr. Rufus S. Payne, of West Springfield, Ireland Parish,
badly injured.

"Rev. Mr. Porter, of Boston, not seriously.
"Col. H. Chapin, of Springfield, not seriously.

"A Mr. Boyd, of Portland, Me. seriously.

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"Mrs. William Bloodgood, of Albany, with a family of six children, quite seriously injured. She is a near relative of Major Whistler, the chief engineer of the road. "John Remington, of Becket, Mass. seriously. "Shem Loomis, of Southwick, considerably. "A Mr. Watson, of Blanford, seriously.

dows of a single house in the city. In perhaps five minutes the fall abated, the wind chopped round to the north, and the hail lay on the ground to the depth of two or three inches. Presently, however, the storm resumed its fury, and the north pelted us quite as fiercely as the cast had, and for thrice the length of time-leaving on the ground three or four inches of hail. In the course of some twenty minutes, however, the hail gave way to rain, which continued falling an hour or more, melting and sweeping away the remains of the icy visitation. A vast quantity, however, still remains on the ground, with a prospect of more rain.—N. Y. Sun.

Chicago.

The wheat trade which concentrates at Chicago is steadily increasing in importance. The American, of that city, speaking of the number of wagons laden with wheat which are arriving there from the interior, says:

Teams a short time since came from a distance of one

hundred and fifty miles, which we thought of itself was doing very well. Soon after, we found to our great amazement that they were coming in from a distance of two hundred miles, and they now come in from sections of country two hundred and fifty miles off, and bearing south, south-east, and south-west. This absolutely makes us the market at this very time of about one-half the State of Illinois, a large portion of Indiana, and a very considerable part of Wisconsin.

Rhode Island Coal.

We rejoice to learn that the coal obtained from the mine near the north end of this island improves in quality as the excavation proceeds, and that the quantity raised is sufficient

"Mr. Warren, conductor of the train proceeding east, died to supply a moderate demand. Another company, we are about 8 o'clock this morning.

"J. Gordon Blake, a lad of Boston, seriously.

pleased to hear, is about to commence the mining operations somewhere in the neighborhood of the mine now open. We

"There were three or four lads and four or five ladies se- earnestly hope that all concerned in the business may meet verely injured, and two or three firemen or engineers.

with good success.-Rhode Islander.