I now submit to my honorable colleague, the reporter|| 1492-written in the house of his birth, in the country of Cogo-nation, to devote himself to the study of medicine letto, in the district of Giuggiolo. of the Committee. "1. I know that the date of the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, is anterior to the seizures and destructions for which an indemnity is claimed I was myself the bearer of a message on the sub. ject. "2. Although the United States are the only power that remained unconnected with the coali. tions against France, an offer was made to them by the allies, then all powerful, to join their claims to those which they preferred, and the payment of which they obtained. That offer was worthily declined by Mr. Crawford, the American Minister at Paris. He declared that the United States, far from making common cause with the enemies of France, would wait until their accounts could be settled us between friends. "3. I saw Mr. Barlow set off for Wilna in the full conviction, from the correspondence of the Imperial Cabinet, that the American claims should obtain a favorable decision; and at the moment of our Revo. lution of July, Mr. Rives thought himself sure of ter minating his negotiation, even with the Ministry of the Restoration; which, nevertheless, felt no obligation to the United States, for having remained the friends of France, while France was in friendship with her enemies. measure. I. fin. "Gather them to their graves again, Beneath the verdure of the plain The warriors' scattered bones away." J. C. F. and surgery. Having completed his studies, he commenced his extensive travels in Africa and Asia, especially through Egypt, Abyssinia, Syria, Arabia, Persia, the ancient empire of the Great Mogul, Armenia, and by far the most remarkable portion in the vast and ul. most entirely unknown regions of Central Asia, as far as the wall of China. Thence he traversed Chinese Tartary to Kiachta, and at last returned, by way of the new Russian military road through Siberia, to Europe, where he had the misfortune to suffer ship. wreck as it were in sight of port. On approaching the gate of Bucharest, where he at present resides, he was attacked by a band of robbers, who carried off the greater part of his effects, collections, and papers. With his son, a boy of ten years of age, who fired a gun from the carriage at the leader of the band, and killed him, he was left almost lifeless on the spot; he was wounded in ten different places, and recovered slowly and with great difficulty. As we hope soon to be favoured with a more de The singular details of these travels, which often seem to border upon the marvellous, surpass in va. riety the most interesting romance, while they proAmong the disclosures made the past week in ex-mise the most valuable acquisitions to science. At cavating the vault for the new Presbyterian Church one time we see the hero, like Marco Polo, the favoon the site of the ancient burial ground in this city, rite and minister of a mighty Tartar prince, and raiswas a coffin supposed to contain the remains of the ed by him to a prineely dignity; at another, devoted "4. Among the classes of claims admitted in the gallant Major Holmes. This brave officer, it will be to a romantic passion for the pride of the harem of his Report, I do not perceive the Antwerp Seizures; al-recollected, was killed in the assault on Fort Mac- new master, encountering the greatest dangers, and though my memory was perfectly clear on the sub. kinac in 1814, while forming his men for a charge obtaining ultimate success; here commanding armies under the very batteries which the British had erec- and giving battles; there, again, appearing as the ject, I had recourse to the recollections of the Duke ted, and which, despite his fall, were carried at the leader of savage hordes, among which he discovered of Bassano, whose contemporaneous authority, in his situation at that time, is superior to any distant point of the bayonet. His body, together with that the aboriginal breed of the horse of Central Asia, of Captain Van Horn, who was mortally wounded which is said to excel all the Arabian races; and, and posthumous assertion. I am then able to say, at the same time, was the next morning obtained un- again, inventing a new conductor, which seems that no confiscation was decreed, and that the sale der a flag of truce, and despatched down the Lake for destined to supersede that of Franklin. of the property had no other object than to prevent its deterioration; that there was a disposition to ad- interment. Van Horn is said to have been buried at mit the justice of a claim, supported by the act of Fort Gratiot, while the body of Major Holmes in a tailed account of this distinguished traveller from his the government itself, which, in short, considered coffin heavily loaded with balls for the purpose of own pen, we shall content ourselves (and this chiefly the merchandize deposited in the caisse d'amortisse. sinking it, should accident induce the necessity of its for the purpose of drawing the attention of the public men', as American property, which makes an addi- being thrown overboard, was conveyed hitherto the work itself) with adding merely a few general tional sum of more than two millions, without reck. These facts were communicated by an old resident particulars respecting Dr. Tavernier. of the place, who imagined he identified the body The principal object that induced him to visit the oning the Maria and her cargo, involved in the same from the circumstance that a quantity of cannon shot same quarter of the globe which had illustrated the "It is from these positive data, and others of the together with a military stock were found in the cof-life of his grandfather, was to form, by accurate per. sonal observation, a fixed system on the nature of the same kind, founded on the fact of monies, which, in There were other evidences appealing loudly to plague and similar disorders. According to the opi my opinion, unjustly, but nevertheless, have entered into the public treasury, that even after allowing for the sympathies of both young and old, and which nion of Dr. Tavernier, if we rightly comprehend it, the French claims, I had in my conscience, as an ho- vividly recalled to the youthful bystanders the tales the ground of the form which it assumes may be con. nest arbitrator, estimated the American claims at the of bolder horrors and the perils of the frontier so of sidered as lying more in the juices of the body itself ten listened to with shuddering as they sat on the than as originating in contagion, which is rather only sum of thirty millions, and this amount is not so un-knees of their fathers. The chests containing the the occasional cause of the manifestation of the disjustifiable as some have thought proper to say, while bones of a part of the chivalrous but unfortunate ease; "for," he says, "I have more than once seen I yield all the honor due to the administration which Kentucky corps so barbarously butchered at the Riv- contagion produce, in the same forms of disease, here has reduced the treaty to narrower limits." er Raisin, were likewise exposed. Many of these the yellow fever, there the plague, and there the choskulls exhibited appalling marks of the atrocities of lera, merely according to the difference of the indisavage warfare, being both perforated with bullets, vidual dispositions. For this reason I even then cleft with the broadsword, and hacked with the toma. called that singular scourge le fleau tricephal; when SIR-To a native of this Continent, to which, hawk. The fate of this detachment which embodied I, at the same time, discovered in the mountains of however, by a strange injustice, posterity has not within it the young volunteers from Lexington, comgiven his name, the birth-place of Columbus must al-posed of the flower of that city, under the command ways be an object of interest. A house is still shown of Capt. Hart, created an excitement, which, rife as in the village of Cogoletto, near Genoa, as that in was that epoch with scenes of horror, has scarcely which he was born. At the door of the building is a been equalled by any event in the bloody annals of stone, on which the following inscription in Italian the past. A few bodies only were rescued by friendhas been inscribed since 1650. It bears the name of ly interposition from the mingled heaps of the a Priest of the same family. The two other inscrip- wounded, the dying and the dead, which, notwith. tions in Latin have been recently added. Like the standing the capitulation, were first wantonly riddled birth place of our own Shakspeare, at Stratford-on- with balls and mangled by the knives of the Indians Avon, that of Columbus is visited by all curious tra- and afterwards burnt in heaps in their cantonments. vellers. Some time ago, a party made a pilgrimage These few were sometime after raised from their to the spot, and entered the house in silence with secret graves, and brought to Detroit, where they their heads uncovered, regarding the birth-place of were again interred with the respect due to the brave the great discoverer of the New World, as one O but ill-fated soldier; and an appropriate tribute to the the most interesting sites of their route. I subjoin honored dead was paid them in the eloquent and pathe inscriptions, and have attempted an imitation.thetic address pronounced on the occasion. Their It will be perceived that in the Italian, there is a play remains have now been removed to the upper cemeupon the meaning of Colombo, which would be inef tery of this city.-[Detroit Courier.] fective in the translation. [From the Quebec Mercury.] THE BIRTH PLACE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. ELOGH. Di Cristoforo Colombo, scopritor dell' America l'anno 1492-||[From scritti nella, casa di sua nascita, nel paese di Cogoletto, ontrada Giuggiolo : I. Con generoso ardir dall' arca all'onde I12 Decembre, 1650. Mongolia, which no European had ever before visited, the secret that snow and ice are the real specifics against every form of this disease; and I there delivered entire hordes from it, merely by leading them from the plain into the middle icy regions. "Surrounded by those sublime scenes of nature, proud and happy at one of the most salutary discoveries for the welfare of the human race, I wrote in my memorandum book the lines which my friends have placed under my portrait, lithographed at Leipzig: Aux montagnes de la Mongolie, Je vis, dans vos frimas, l'ame du feu vital, Et lui fis foudroyer le fleau trie ephal Del ama bienfaisante et penible carriere, Put desormais briller d'une douce lumiere." It was principally among these mountains, and convinced himself that ice is the true antidote aon the eastern bank of Lake Aral, that the doctor gainst contagion of every kind; and he has since applied it in innumerable cases, not only in the above mentioned disorders, but also in epilepsy, typhus malignant, bilious and nervous fevers, way, even in hydrophobia. “Tutti Frutti” of Prince Puckler Muskau.]|| A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.—It is by no means necessary to travel far in order to meet with some. thing remarkable. During a visit which I lately He affirms, it was owing to this system alone that made to Leipzig (says the Prince) for the purpose the Vienna physicians 1: ely succeeded in saving the ot seeing my much-esteemed friend the Prussian young King of Hungary, as he himself had opportu. General Baumgartner, I met at his table a highly in-nities, while the cholera raged in Vienna and other teresting person, whom I beg leave to introduce to the acquaintance of my readers. cities, to convince the most incredulous of the surprising and happy effects of his mode of treatment. He was no other than the French captain of the He therefore complains bitterly, that so many who guards, Dr. Emir, Chan Alcibiades de Tavernier, have stolen his system, without fully comprehending grandson of the celebrated traveller of that name, it, have taken good care not to acknowledge the and himself even a greater traveller than his renown-source to which alone they are indebted for it. This, ed ancestor. however, he does not regard; as his object was far Having been restored to health from severe wounds less personal renown and advantage, than the wolwhich he had received in the great battle of Leipzig, fare of his fellow-creatures, to promote which he M. de Tavernier resolved to renounce the military devoted his whole life, and had encountered, not Of Christopher Columbus, discoverer of America in the year" career, and, in pursuance of a long cherished incli-" without honor, so many dangers. Hospes siste gradum; Fuit HIC lux prima Colombo, III. Unus erat Mundus; Duo sunt, ait ISTE ; fuerunt. The above imitated: 1826. IN PRAISE EXTRAORDINARY and destructive TORNADO IN VIR-severe-one woman was killed, and six or eight||the act, the sanctioning of which was the ostensible GINIA. The Petersburg Intelligencer, of Thurs. others were wounded, one very dangerously. The object of its convocation. The consequence of such an accumulation of day last, gives the following description of a tornado loss sustained by Mr. B. is very great. The persons who have subsequently visited the place de. blunders and follies, which might have been antiand its effects, that occurred the Monday previous. scribe it as though the genius of destruction had cipated, are most unfortunate. By a large party of made it his temporary abode. the Spanish nation, Don Carlos is considered to be the legitimate King of Spain. And we are not rash in saying that among the supporters of the young Queen, a large portion care but little about her title, and look upon her as a rallying word-a motto or a banner under which the battle of the good old cause of the Constitution against the ancient despotism is to be fought over again. The most terrific tornado ever witnessed in this part of Virginia, occurred on Monday last. The des From Mr. Boisseau's it passed along near the truction of human life and property of every kind is Southern boundary line of this town, without doing truly appalling. It would be impossible to give more much injury nntil it reached the plantation of Mr. than a faint outline of its desolating fury. The scene Augustine Burge in Prince George. A friend has is represented by those who had an opportunity of given us the following account of its devastations in witnessing it, as one of surpassing and inexpressible that direction: "At Mr. Augustine Burge's it blew grandeur and sublimity. Every thing, within its down his stable, and almost all his negro houses; range, was laid prostrate; the largest trees were torn fortunately no person was killed, but several were But if the title of the young Queen of Spain is liable up by the roots and carried a considerable distance; slightly hurt. At Hall's Field, the plantation of Mr. to objection, the situation of her mother, the present dwelling and out houses were levelled with the earth, Wm. Baird, every house was blown down except Regent, to whose lot it had fallen to enforce and sup and their fragmente scattered in every direction.-the dwelling, a two storied house near it, a kitchen port the rights of the Royal infant, is eminently calcu The day had been cloudy, with occasional showers. or two, and the machine house. The Wagoner, John, ||lated to embarrass and endanger the cause of female About 3 o'clock the clouds assumed a black and a faithful servant, was killed in the woods by the succession. Regencies, particularly under a despolowering aspect: in a few minutes after, the whirl. falling of a tree; the two horses in the wagon were tic form of government, are proverbially weak and wind commenced its ravages. A correspondent who likewise killed. At Hickory Hill, the residence of unsettled. The government of a female and a fo witnessed its violence, says, "it was in the form of Mr. Wm. Shands, jr. a cotton gin,a stable and kitchen reigner seldom commands respect or popularity.— an inverted cone, and every cloud near seemed to were blown down. There were two negro men There is besides in Spain a prejudice against Italian rush into the vortex. As it approached, you might in the kitchen, both of whom were badly hurt;-| Princesses. The effects of all this are already felt. see the limbs of the forests careering through the one of them was carried with the wreck of the There are ugly reports abroad which we do not bedarkened air. Its duration, at any point, was not house at least fifty yards. So tremendous was the lieve, on the principle of our laws, which forbid us more than one or two minutes." Its general course storm, that, from Walnut Hill, Mr. J. V. Wilcox's to look upon an individual as guilty until after convic. was from West to East; its width varied from two country residence, to Preston, the residence of Mrs. tion, founded upon convincing evidence. Yet, ad hundred yards to half a mile; and, from what we Ann Thweatt, you have a vista scarcely interrupted mitting those loud whispers to be foul calumnies, have already heard of its destructive march, its extent by a solitary tree, a distance of four or five miles.- they are not the less likely to be attended with inju. could not have been less than seventy miles. The The forests, too, through which the tornado passed, rious consequences. The reported levities of Marie following details will, we fear, present but a very im-were wooded with as majestic a growth as can be Antoinette, whether the reports were totally false or perfect sketch of its devastations. found probably in Virginia." only exaggerated, had a very important share in her own misfortunes and those of her husband and family. The present regent of Spain has done little to enlist in her favor the feelings of any party in Spain. The Queen Regent should be like Cesar's wife; for, to be suspected, is, in her case, as far as that can influence the public mind, for all practical purposes, tantamount to being guilty. 66 A gentleman writes us that the tornado appears to have commenced in the county of Lunenburg, near Hungry Town, where almost all the heavy timber was torn up by the roots, and where it proved very fatal. Near this place, it seems that the poor (who lived in log houses) were the principal sufferers, several negroes and children being killed. Hence it passed by Nottoway Courthouse, where the storm instead of abating increased-the public road being rendered utterly impassable. From Nottoway Court. house, or near that place, the wind passing in aNortheast direction, reached the plantation of Mr. R. Fitzgerald, where great injury was done, but no lives lost. Near his residence was that of Mr. John Fitz, who suffered immensely, having one negro killed, another's arm broke, and various others injured. Hence it pursued the same course to the house of Mr. Jus. tice, where great injury was likewise sustained, several persons severely injured, and the life of one despaired of. The next death was that of Mr. Joshua Hawks, an honest, upright citizen, who was literally crushed, his wife at the same time receiving injury so severe, as to leave but little hopes of recovery. At Preston, the residence of Mrs. Ann H. Thweatt, there is not a house except the dwelling and one small out house left standing. One negro was killed and ten or twelve wounded. A gentleman who has seen the effects of the storm on this plantation says, that it presents the appearance of having been visited by a heavy freshet. We have no further particulars of its progress to the East, but we learn that it crossed the James ri. ver, between Tarbay and Coggins' Point. STATE OF SPAIN. Don Carlos is differently situated. Of talent and energy he has been found hitherto sadly deficient, and yet his popularity among the Spaniards is even unto this moment unimpaired. He is still supposed to be a man of strong principle and sound public and [From the London Courier, of 2d April.] private morality. He undoubtedly possesses many, The state of Spain is anomalous; no less so, be- and is held to possess all the qualities that best suit cause of the anomalies of the Spanish character;||the ruler of a grave and religious people. Unlike his (and these, Heaven knows, are strong enough,) but departed brother, his sincerity never was nor 18 also, because of the peculiar circumstances which doubted. Those virtues which he may want, he rehave led that country into an unintended, and, there-ceives credit for, and upon that credit he can largely fore, imperfect revolution. draw upon the resources and zeal of an enthusiasti. The French Juste Milieu stands upon a large cally devoted population. During the Peninsular base, whether a solid one or not, is a question which war the bright halo which snrrounded the distant Fer. time only can solve. But, whether it be called the dinand, made him appear in the eyes of his subjects monopoly of a too restricted, and nearly oligarchi- as a being invested with more than earthly perfec. cal constituency, or the legitimate influence of the tion. His inglorious captivity within the walls of The next place from whence we have any authen. most wealthy and intelligent part of the French Valencay was mainly serviceable to the triumph of tic particulars, is Curtis's (formerly Reese's) on Cox nation, it is equally certain that the Government, Spanish Independence. In that respect Don Carlos Road, where the storm appears to have been equally which is nevertheless representative of a party. has now succeeded his brother, and is in full posses. destructive. Mr. Curtis writes us" that every house rests upon the majority of the electors and National sion of the benefits of a succession of which no law on Mr. Herbert Reese's plantation, except his dwel. Guards, and, with few exceptions, upon the moni-can deprive him. ling house, was blown to atoms; Mr. Frank Reese, ed interest. Now, is that the case in Spain? Is When we take all those things into consideration the Overseer, and 3 negroes, lost their lives; seve-there in that country anything settled, whereon a we shall see that the Pretender to the Spanish throne ral other negroes badly crippled; his wagon, which Government of the Juste Milieu can be founded?||has some chance of success. We know that such is was nearly new, was hurled to atoms, even the We think not. the view entertained, by those-good judges, toowho were heretofore inclined to think otherwise.— One European Government, which has hitherto shown great zeal for the cause of the young Queen, betrays present symptoms of a contrary tendency, be it owing to want of faith in her power, or to dislike two last named places. I understand from a gentle- The title of the young Queen to the throne is of a cause which must become connected with that man traveller that it passed on in the neighborhood a dubious one. True it is, that by the ancient laws of political liberty. The announced dispersion of the of Col. Jeter's. Several lives lost in that neighbor. of Spain, the rights of the females to the succes- French army stationed on the Spanish frontier is truly hood. I also hear that it has done considerable dam-sion were acknowledged; and it is equally true that a most unaccountable measure, unless it be meant to age in the neighborhood of Thos. Jordan's, with the the Cortes of 1789, petitioned that the Salic law, assist the Spanish Carlists, since the reasons which loss of lives, &c. It appears that it passed from west introduced into Spain by Philip the Fifth, should be led to the assembling of that body are still subsisting, to east near on the north side and nearly parallel repudiated. But then, on the other hand, the acts as the rebellion in the Spanish provinces is far from with Cox Road." of the Cortes of Philip the Fifth, in favor of that Sa-being subdued. We have no certain accounts of the ravages of lic law, was a valid one, and published as such, We are far, however, from despairing of success the tornado after it passed the neighborhood of Cur- whilst the act of 1789, lately alluded to, though, it to the cause of the Queen. She has some favotis', until it reached the plantation of Mr. Wm. E. is said, agreed to by the King, had not been pub.rable circumstances on her side, which only the folly Boisseau, about four miles from town. The scene lished, and can hardly be considered as a law. or guilt of an imbecile or designing administration at this place baffles every attempt at description.- It is no less certain that the Cortes of 1810 de-can render unavailing. It is no mean advantage to Here its desolating fury spared nothing. The dwel-clared in favor of the female succession, but their be in possession of the actual powers of the Governling house, kitchen, barn, &c. were entirely de-decision is of no value in the eyes of Ferdinand's ment, particularly when we consider that the Constimolished, and their timbers, plank, &c. separated widow and daughter, by whom that famous and tutionalists of 1820, notwithstanding a strong oppointo fragments and scattered over the farm in every patriotic assembly is still viewed, at least officially,sition both at home and abroad, were enabled to keep direction. Nothing is left to mark the site of the as no better than a revolutionary and illegal power. their ground, till the insurgent Royalists brought in dwelling house but a small portion of the brick Even the meeting of the mock Deputies of the an overwhelming French force on their own side. foundation. The family escaped from the house, Spanish nation in 1833, though intended to sanction The Queen Regent can now depend on a larger and attempted to take refuge in the garden, but were the title of the young Princess, had a tendency to party than the old Constitutionalists were able to overtaken by the whirlwind, and knocked down by render it still more dubious than it was before. By command, provided she knew the way to form and the flying wreck of their former dwelling. Mr. B's precluding the discussion of it, the Spanish Govern- consolidate it. In the list of her supporters we find brother, a fine youth of about 14 years of age, was ment seemed to fear that the decision might, nay the names of Quesada, Llauder, and Morillo-that killed: and Mr. B., his wife, and four other inmates probably would, be unfavorable to its own views, is to say, a leader of the Royalist Army of the Faith, of his family, were wounded, though not danger-and by a curious infelicity that ludicrous assembly a moderate though still a steadfast Royalist, and a ously. In the negro quarters the injury was equally met, we may say, to enter a silent protest against deserter from the Constitutional cause, in addition to wheels broken in fragments, and the hubs blown two We must not dissemble one thing. The Crown or three hundred yards. Mrs. Jincy Crowder had in Spain is in abeyance. It was one of the best say. every house on her farm (dwelling house and all)ings of Napoleon, that "thrones were but a few torn to pieces. Old farmer Reams lost every house boards and a piece of velvet," and now, the Spanish except his dwelling house. No lives at either of the crown is a mere empty bauble. STEPHENSON, Builder of a superior style of Passenger Cars for Railroad: all the staunch and unfortunate defenders of the fall- A further and strong chance in favor of the Queen The Regent of Spain and her ostensible and real advisers must be blinded indeed if they do not perceive their true situation, or if they neglect to im. prove those chances of success which they still have on their own side. The path they have to follow lies clear before them; there is no mistaking it; and let it be kept in mind that no other path is safe. They must arm the Constitutionalists, and they must assemble the Cortes. These are no metaphysical principles-no delusive theories-but, on the contrary, practical questions, which involve security for life, for limb, and property. la It is a mere absurdity to talk about the qualifications for the national militia. Those men ought to be armed who are willing and ready to fight, and are likely to fight well. Nor is the meeting of the Cortes a question of a less practical character. A bill of exclusion against the President and his offspring must needs be the first act of the Legislature. This is no time for idling and procrastinating, and closing the eyes to dangers that look upon you full in the face. Some. thing more than the repeal of the Salic law and an insurance for two lives, is required by those men whose lives are threatened by an exasperated party. The doctrine of the sovereignty of the people may be disliked by many of the Queen's supporters, but they all must know what fate awaits them should the Also, CAR SPRINGS. JS ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR. 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The subscriber having been for some years engaged in con structing turnouts, and inserting the necessary switches and fixtures appertaining to the same, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and as those works on that road will be shortly com pleted, he is desirous of being employed by any Railroad Com pany requiring work of the above description. He will either contract at a fixed price to execute the work, he providing all the necessary materials and fixtures, or other wise, or he will engage himself at a stated salary, In relation to his abilities and general character he begs to re fer any Company, disposed to engage him, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Letters can be addressed to him at the Office of Construction Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Baltimore. a26 6t REUBEN ALER. death of two infants place the legitimate power infair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude.nifying powers with glasses made by Troughton, together with the hands of Don Carlos. 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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 Ohie It is both to the enthusiasm for liberty, and the sense of security, that the Queen Regent of Spain must, and can only be, indebted for success. To the enthusiasm and rightly understood interests of her adversaries she must oppose the influence of equally solid and energetic principles. She has to appeal at once to the noblest, and the most vulgar passions to call to her aid the patriotic zeal of the truly liberal, and the vigorous efforts of selfish interests threatened in their tenderest points. Let her appeal quickly to the devotedness of the patriot, and the common sense of the people, or she will perish, and leave behind her a name significant of folly, feebleness, and guilt, which will excite, perhaps, more than any name in history, indignation and contempt. TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manufacturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establishment to Hudson, ander the rame of Durfee, May & Co. offer to supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for inclined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver thew in any of the principal cities in the United States. As to the quality of Repe, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. R. Co., Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbon dale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Hudson, Columbia county, New-York, January 29, 1833. NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS. SIMON FAIRMAN, of the village of Lansingburgh, in the county of Rensselaer, and state of New-York, has invented and put in operation a Machine for making Wrought Nails with square points. This machine will make about sixty 6d nails, and about forty 10d nails in a minute, and in the same proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for ships. The nail is hammered and comes from the machine completely heated to redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and sure. One horse power is sufficient to drive one machine, and may easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in operation. Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant machines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soon as they may be made, and on the most reasonable terms. He also desires to sell one half of his patent right for the use of said machines throughout the United States. Any person desiring farther information, or to purchase, will please to call at the machine shop of Mr. John Humphrey, in the village of Lansingburgh.-August 15, 1833. A29 if RM&F Railroad. 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 adjustmente. 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. J31 6t E. & G. W. BLUNT, 154 Water street, corner of Maidenlane. ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS. The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in hie profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of construction and workmanship to any imported or manufactured in the United States; several of which are entirely new: among which are an Improved Compass, with a Te.escope attached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use of the needle, with perfect accuracy-also, a Railroad Goniometer, with two Telescopes-and a Levelling Instrument, with a Goniometer attached, particularly adapted to Railroad purposes. WM. J. YOUNG, Mathematical Instrument Maker, No. 9 Dock street, Philadelphia. The following recommendations are respectfully submitted to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested. Baltimore, 1832. In reply to thy inquiries respecting the instruments manufactured by thee, now in use on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail. road. I cheerfully furnish thee with the following information. The whole number of Levels now in possession of the department of construction of thy make is seven. The whole num. ber of the Improved Compass" is eight. These are all ex. clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra. duation Department. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have in fact needed but little repairs, except from accidents to which all instruments of the kind are liable. I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasses have been preferred by my assistants generally, to any others in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other deeription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails on this Road. telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing WILLIAM HOWARD, U. 8. Civil Engineer. scarcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of Baltimore, May 1st, 1833. the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later To Messrs Ewin and Heartte-As you have asked me to give al angles of any simple and cheap instrument that I have yet my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu. seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others acture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, Ithink that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy friend, their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think well of JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my Philadelphia, February, 1833. self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. satisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, relieve us of the necessity of sending elsewhere for what we now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to Enmay want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and gineers and Surveyors. E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which Germantown, February, 1838. your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &e. For a year past I have used Instruments made by Mr. W.J. B. H. LATROBE, Young, of Philadelphia, in which he has combined the properCivil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Raitties of a Theodolite with the common Level. road Company. I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for layin A number of other letters are in our possesion and might be out Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engiintroduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy toneers as preferable to any others for that purpose. submit them, upon application, to any person desirous of perus HENRY R.CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad., ing the same. mi ly Germant, and Norrist. Rallroad m26 "LAZY SAM." The following story will not be worth the less for being true. A Kentucky horse drover being in South Carolina with a drove, happened to take it to the neighbourhood of Gen. H- , whose character for jockeying and manoeuvering in trade is much more celebrated than his feats in arms. The Kentuckian having perfect acquaintance with his character, went to see him to sell him some horses, or to swap-or to run a race, as the fates and destinies might order and decrec. He was one of our careless unconcerned knock down and drag out looking sort of fellows: who would assume just as much simplicity of countenance and address, as circumstances might require. He had the appearance of being about twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, as usual was dressed in blue mixed jeans, to hide dirt, and wore a drab colored hat for the same reason. He felt a liking for both. Therefore he applied the When the General viewed him he was in this Said Job, May I never pull another trigger, if The horses were in the General's stable and the The horses were brought out and examined, and praised, and cheapened, and faults found with all. They could agree upon nothing. He looked as Job did when he 'corvorted. The General lost his usual mahogany color, and looked pale; but he said nothing. Lazy Sam won the race by thirty feet. Job was suddenly cool as cucumber. And as he put the twenty-five hundred dollar check in his greasy pocket book which he did very deliberately, he look. ་ I sort o' think that's first rate and a half,' said Job, and a little past common. Why Gin'ral, Sam's laid you as cold as a wedge.' He turned round sud. denly to his rider, Jim' said he, here's five dollars, why it all goes in a man's life time. But the General looks as if he'd been squeezed through the leetle end of nothin, or less.' Well, where is your quarter horse?' asked the Gineral,' said he, I am just from old Kentuck||General. Oh, ho! I sort o' tho't what you were with some powerful nice horses, and may be you after,' answered Job, 'for you hardly looked at themed round cunningly. want some. Daddy told me if I came in your parts thar matches, and these fine geldings.' So you must to call on you, and he reckoned may be you would be after the quarter nag. Jim fetch up Lazy Sam, buy a pair of matches, or help me out in tradin, for will you! Now Gineral I'll tell you, honor bright, he said you had a power of money, and understood he's never been lick't in a quarter spurt, but once; tradin to a scribe. Here's a letter from him,' handing by Joe Miller's sorrel mare, which runs like a streak one. And besides I've as nice a pair of matches, as of lightning. She's a ra-al screamer. Daddy swept you could shake a stick at; and as tight a nag for a for him last fall after she tanned him out. If I know. quarter, Daddy says, as any in the parts: but he says ed her I'd give you her marks, so as you might'nt be I must run no races, caze mought lose, and we want tuct in. For I heard Joe was bringing her to the all the money we can scrape to pay for land. But I South to win the expenses. But here's the horse TO IRON MANUFACTURERS AND OWNERS reckon he'd suit you to a fraction, caze you are alany how, and I assure you he's not slow.' sportin character, mought win a powerful chance of money on him. While he was thus introducing himself and telling his business, the General opened the letter which read as follows: OF IRON ORE BEDS. Now be it remembered that honest Job was not ig. JOSEPH GOULDING, of Keeseville, Essex county, N. Y., has invented and patented a Magnetic Separating Machine, for norant, that General Hwas at that time separating Iron Ore from the extraneous matter usually found the owner of this identical mare, and for reasons in connection with it; and he begs leave to recommend it to the best known to himself he wished to make a race be-especial notice of ownere of Ore Beda as possessing qualities of great importance, as by the use of it many ore beds can be made tween her and Lazy Sam. very valuable, it being applicable in all cases when the Ore is magnetic. The General examined Lazy Sam with the eye of nto Iron. M148 'Dear Gineral-I take this opportunity to wright| to you by my Job, who is taken the first drove hea Jockey. The quality of the iron made is much improved by the proever driv, and I want you to roll a log a leetle for Pish; said he very contemptuously, why this made from ore which would without it be considered not worth cess of separation, inde-d god iron can, after separation, be him, if so be it suits you. Job's spry enough at home,thing cannot run; why it's as flab-sided as a sheep, working. There is also found to be a great saving in the transbut has'nt cut his eye teeth yet, and you'll lend him aland as heavy shouldered as a hog, and cut hammedportation of ore, and In time and fuel required to work the same hand, I'll due as much for any of your boys if you've besides: I would not give a good mule for three of Mechanics can be furnished at sho,t notice which will sepa got any, whenever they come to these parts tradin or it. Why did you not bring a lot of mules to mar-rate from half a ton to twenty tons each in twenty-four hours. any thing else. So no more at present, but remain ket? I would have bought some at a fair J. Goulting also manulaciares to order, Cylindrical Forge and your affectionet friend till death. price. Your horses do not suit me. Pray what do Blast Furnace Bellows, of the most improved construction, and which are successfully used in nearly all the Forges and Fur. PETER TOMPKINS.' you ask for this thing which you call a running naces in Clinton and all the adjoining counties. The hero of horse races, cotton bags and sugar nag? It may do to plough a season or two. Does January 20th, 1834. hogsheads, thought that he perceived a neat specu-it work?" lation, and acted accordingly. Mr. Job Tompkins Unlike the Job of ancient days, Job Tompkins was received with much courtesy; his man and boy suffered his anger to rise and master him. At least entertained with the best in the larder, whilst the he made the General think so. To use his own five and twenty horses were not neglected. It is words, he corvorted. He screamed out. true the General had not the slightest recollection of Hello! Mister, I wonder you're so mighty wise his friend and correspondent, Peter Tompkins. He considering you know so little. Why you make me might have once known him, or not. It was the feel all over in spots, to listen at you. 1 reckon same thing. Here was Job, a raw Kentucky strip.may be you've got a quarter nag yourself: aint ling, with twenty-five fine horses, as easily squeez. you? ed as a ripe lemon. It was not in his nature to for. bear. In the meantime Mr. Job Tompkins made himselt quite free and easy, and swaggered about the costly furnished apartment as if he had been in a log cabin. He viewed the silver plate on the sideboard with inuch apparent astonishment, and a pair of silver snuffers, especially, excited his curiosity. Lord Gineral! ar them thar candle snuffers made out of the pure stuff? I never see'd any afore but ir'n ones, and mamma uses her sheers. And all them ar I dont care a solitary flint what Daddy says when things on that ar big chist (the sideboard) is the ra'al my Irish is up,' exclaimed Job indignantly. Spanish castins! I heard talk of this afore, but never out your nag and let's see it.' seed it. Now if I was to tell this in our settlement, The General gave the order; and as Job expectmay be they would'n thep straddle of me, and rideed, the sorrel mare, (once Joe Miller's) was brought over me rough shod, for a liar. But they say you're forward. aint you?' Axles of 24, 23, 21, 3, 31, 31, and 34 inches diameter for RailwayCars and Locomotives of patent iron. The above will be sold free of duty, to State Governmenta and Incorporated Governments, and the Drawback taken in part payment. 9 South Front street, Philadelphia. Models and samples of all the different kinds of Rails, Chairs, Pins, Wedges, Spikes, and Splicing Plates, in use, both in this country and Great Britain, will be exhibited to those disposed to examine them. d71meowr ALBANY SEED-STORE AND HORTICULTURAL RE- The subscriber having resumed the charge of th above establishment, is now enabled to furnish tra ders and others with FRESH GARDEN SEEDS, upon very favorable terms, and of the growth of 1833, warranted of the best quality. The greatest care and attention has been bestowed upon the growing and saving of Seeds, and none will be sold at this establishment excepting those raised expressly for it, and by experi encedseedsmen; and those kinds imported which cannot be rais. in Europe, and may be relied upon as genuine. a powerful sight the richest man in the South States, While Job examined her, his adversary endeavored all he could to fret him by dispraising his To all which the General returned suitable an-horse; and Job appeared to be worked up to lever swers; and Mr. Job and he were hand in glove, for heat the time being. Each man resolutely bent to make To cut short the story, the drove was stakeded to perfection in this country; these are from the best houses a successful lodgment in his neighbor's pocket with against twenty-five hundred dollars in a check upon the view of clearing it out, a Herculean labor to be the C-Bank. And the company adjourned to the sure; when Job heard in the next room the sound General's track, to see the race. On the way Job of music. Several Kentucky reels were played, anon||stopped short, and facing the Genoral, asked very the sweet breathings of a melodious voice sung earnestly, Sweet-sweet home.' May I be -d' said Job, if that dont beat Bob Walker, and he's a patch above common. But that aint none of your music boxes I know; it cant be. Is it ?' My daughter is playing on the piano,' said the General, we will walk in the room and hear her.' after, they should be represented to the subscriber; not that it is It is earnestly requested whenever there are any failures herepossible to obviate unfavorable seasons and circumstances but that satisfaction may be rendered and perfection approximated. ALSO-French Lucern, White Dutch Clover, White Mulberry Seed, genuine Mangel Wurtzel, Yellow Locust, Ruta Baga, and Field Turnip Seeds, well worth the attention of Farmers. W. THORBURN, 347 N. Market st. (opposite Post Office.) Dn you Joe Miller and his nag also,' replied will be forwarded gratis. Orders solicited early, as the better Catalogues may be had at the Store; if sent for by mail, tustice can be done in the execution. Now you're sure this aint Joe Miller's Nag? My mind sort o' misgives me, eaze from what I've heard they sort o'favor like.' the General, the mare is mine I tell you.' I have given you the General's description of Job's Here were blandishments to strike Job dumb, and en-running horse-done to fret him. It was by no trance all his senses. to wit: ments. Mr. Thorburn is also Agent for the following publications, NEW YORK FARMER and American Gardener's Magazine. means a correct one. Lazy Sam was a well made MECHANICS' MAGAZINE and Register of Inventions & Improveponey of the Printer stock, but was of a mild, sleepy, AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL and Advocate of Internal Imsluggish disposition, until his mettle was roused.—provements; and the He generally went with his eyes half shut, and his either or all of which may be seen and obtained by those who NEW-YORK AMERICAN, Daily, Tri-Weekly, and Semi-Weekly; Job thought a man might love music and spoils also.head drooping at an angle of forty-five degrees.-wish them by calling at 347 North Market street, Albany. 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: Editorial Notices; Tennessee Railroads &c....page 305 308 SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1834. success [VOLUME III.-No. 20. Nashville, May 2, 1834. To the Editor of the Railroad Journal. senger, and one hundred and fifty freight cars, all of which will probably find constant employment through the business season. It DEAR SIR,-A constant employment during is, indeed, gratifying to witness the all the winter in reconnoitering different routes of this road. It will give an impetus to Tennessee, prevented me from giving you any for railroads in the western part of the State of the prosperity, not only of South Carolina, account of the situation of the internal improve310 but of the whole South. Alabama is already ments in that State. The companies being now pushing her railroads in a direction to join organised, the officers elected, and the stock 319 South Carolina; and Tennessee, also, as will be subscribed, I take the advantage of my first leisure hour to send you my two reports to seen in this number of the Journal, is following the stockholders of the Jackson and Columbia closely upon her heels, so that the time is not Companies. AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. distant-not five years-when the Charleston Railroad Convention; Literary Notices, &c...... 312-13 Summary-Domestic and Foreign.. ...... NEW-YORK, MAY 24, 1834. 315 320 NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD.-We understand that JUDGE WRIGHT has been employed, and left this city on the 22d, with two parties for Deerpark Gap, to commenee the preliminary survey of the route for this road. The survey now to be made is not of course to locate, but merely to ascertain the practicability In January last, stock to the amount of railroad will be extended to the Mississippi, and $500,000 was subscribed for a line of railroad not only to the Mississippi, but also to the Ohio, subscription was made for another line, in the to the Mississippi river, and in March a like and to the navigable waters emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, thus opening an easy, cheap, to the Tennesee river; and as, by the charter of same direction, from Columbia, Maury county and rapid communication to the ocean for the the Jackson Company, they have a right to exproducts of the most fertile country in the world. tend their road in the western districts, increasthis report, and shall therefore refer to it again. dollars, the two roads will be soon connected We have not, to-day, room for extracts from ing the stock to the amount of one million of We have also to acknowledge the receipt of by an intermediate line. an other report, the report of J. Edgar Thompson, Esq., Engineer of the Oxford railroad in the companies with estimates of the probable I examined all the country, and furnished Pennsylvania-another link in the grand AtWe promised in our last to give in the pre-teen and two-fifths miles in length, commencing scribed. In Jackson the commissioners were lantic line. The Oxford railroad is only ninecost of the work, and it is on account of those reports that the stock has been so liberally subsent number some good reasons why the state at the Columbia Railroad, forty-five and a half should aid in the construction of a railroad miles from Philadelphia, and terminating at subscribed over the capital of the Company, obliged to strike out $430,000, the amount through the southern tier of counties, but the Maryland line. are obliged to omit them until our next. of the route. By the completion of est stockholders to 159 shares each. this road, Pennsylvania will have performed thereby reducing the subscription of the largher part towards the accomplishment of the East Tennessee has had a charter for a railgrandest scheme of internal improvement ev-road since 1831, and is now making preparaWe acknowledge the receipt of the first an-er contemplated in this or any other country.tion to join the west in improving the internal nual report to the stockholders of the S. Carolina She will have forged another link of a chain Railroad and Canal Company, since the comple- which, when completed, will tend more to the communication of the State; and I can assure tion of the work. From the report we learn permanence of the Union than all the plans of you that within 6 or 7 years an uninterrupted that the business of the road has been regularly this, also, on the table until another week. all the politicians of the age. We must lay York and New-Orleans, either by the Valley of communication will be opened between Newincreasing since the opening of the road, from about $600 to $3,400 per week. This increase has been effected, too, without the aid of the cotton crop, of which only about 4,000 bales have been transported on the railroad. The earnings of the road have been, from 1st January to 1st May, $39,518.31. TENNESSEE RAILROADS.-We are indebted to Col. PETITVAL, formerly of the Charleston, S. the Clinch, through Abingdon, Virginia, joining the Petersburg railroad; or through the Valley lina, joining Athens, Georgia, or Hamburgh, of the French Broad, by Ashville, North CaroSouth Carolina. by which the mail will be carried over the route in 5 or 6 days. A railroad through the centre of the State of Tennessee will be of inestimable advantage, It should be borne in mind, at the same time, not only to that State, but to the whole Union, as it will be the great rendezvous of all the that there has not been at any time, not even emigrants to the Valley of the Mississippi, afnow, although great efforts have been made to fording a speedy and easy transportation; openobtain, a sufficient number of cars, both pasing the markets of the north-east and southsenger and freight, of which 8 to 10 per week are We are the more indebted to Col. Petitval for west for the products of her rich soil and mild climate, so well calculated for wheat, hemp, added, to meet the demand. Two new locomothese reports, as they are, we think, the first tobacco, and cotton; and also for her inextives are expected daily from Europe, and two which have come to hand from Tennessee since haustible quarries of marble, beds of coal, veins others in this country are in a state of forward the establishment of the Journal; they are not, of ore of every metal, found amongst her beauness, which, when in use, will give them State in the Union will be more benefitted by we trust, the last from the same quarter, as notiful and picturesque mountains. I am sincerely yours, &c. twelve or fourteen engines, twenty-four pas-ll the introduction of railroads than Tennessee. J. B. PETITVAL, Civil Engineer. |