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Our readers will, we think, be interested by the spirited account in this day's paper of the reception, by the Pawnees, of the United States Commissioner, Mr. Ellsworth, on a mission to effect a treaty with them. We are obliged by the communication of a narrative so graphic and well sustained.

wagons in case of danger; and an hour more brought||of the West, who are continually on the wing, sweeping those immense plains, and carrying de us in sight of the village. the hills which surrounded the place were black with them, having no home but the prairie, no trade but Upon our nearer approach, we could perceive that struction to all who are not strong enough to resist the living mass of mounted warriors which swarmed war, no property save the horse that bears them, the upon their tops to the number of several thousands, arms which they wield, and the plunder which they and who now stood silently watching the approach strip from their victims. After pausing and looking of the Mission. At length a single horseman de-around him for a moment, with a glance that seemReception of the United States Commissioner by thetached himself from the mass, and came galloping ed to challenge any opposition from the assembled Pawnee Indians, October 2, 1833. As warriors, he walked up to Mr. E. He was a slight down the hill and over the prairie to meet us. he approached nearer, the wild free air of the rider, and beautifully formed Indian, but there was a fire and the ease with which he governed his gigantic in his eye, a swell of the nostril, and a proud curve black horse, could not but raise the thought that, if of the lip, which showed a spirit that brooked no op. the rest of these warriors were of the same mould, position, shunned no danger, and which could only any resistance of our band, however desperate, would be quenched by the chill of the grave.* have availed but little against the attack of these proud rulers of the prairie.

His long black hair, which trailed behind him upon the ground, was platted together, and ornamented with about twenty plates of massive silver; a band of silver was fastened around his throat, and several large medals of the same metal hung down upon his breast; upon his arms were several bands of silver, and rings of the same upon his fingers; his leggings, though more finely wrought, like those of the other chiefs, were fringed with scalps; and a scalp, consisting of the entire upper part of a human head, hung from the bit of his fiery horse.

Upon coming up he offered his hand to Mr. Eand in succession to the rest; and after pausing and gazing upon us for a short time, with some curiosity, he sprung upon his horse, and riding through the circle, was lost behind the more distant crowd of warriors.

The night previous to our arrival at the Pawnee Village was spent by us upon the borders of the Platte River, at about nine miles distance from the town. During the evening, several half breeds who had been sent out by the Commissioner, to gain information of the probable reception which awaited us, came dropping in, and all bearing with them promises of a friendly welcome from the different Pawnee Chiefs. At sunrise the next morning the tents were and after shaking hands with Mr. EUpon reaching the party, he sprung from his horse, he gave struck and placed in the heavy baggage wagons; and directions (through the Interpreter), that the band a more than usual bustle and note of preparation should be drawn up in as small a compass as possiwas heard in the camp, (if two tents accommodadating ton persons deserve that name.) The sol-ble, to avoid all contact with his warriors, and after diers were seated around upon the grass, examining spending some ti.ne in completing his arrangements, and preparing their arms for service, in case such he galloped back and gave the signal to the rest. In an instant, the hills were deserted, and the whole service might be required; and about twenty Otoe Indians, who had accompanied us across the praries, broad bosom of the prairie. It was a moment of inmass of warriors were rushing towards us across the a hundred miles from their village, either from motense and fearful expectation. On, on, they came, tives of curiosity, or from sheer listlessness, caring each mad horse with erect mane and blazing eye, little where or how they spent their time, were now busily engaged in ornamenting themselves for the urged forward by the bloody spur of an Indian masmeeting. Some had spread their blankets out upon ter, and that master a being who acknowledged no the prairie, and were anxiously employed in tracing superior but the Great Spirit, and no ruler save his After the introduction of the various Chiefs had out various figures in vermillion upon their woolly own wild will. They had reached within two hundred yards of been performed, from among the mass of grim beings surfaces: some were eagerly bending over the small pools of still water, which were left in the dry bed the party, but still the speed of their horses was un- which hemmed us in, and who were now seated upon of the River, painting their faces with the vermil. checked; the powerful tramp of their hoofs rung the ground like so many dark forms of statuary, lion which they had obtained from the whites, and like thunder upon the sod of the prairie, and the without voice and without motion, several arose, and manifesting all the interest and anxiety in the choice wild forms of their riders were still urging them coming towards Mr. E, and Major D, the onward towards us, when at a signal from the United States Agent for the Pawnee Indians, extendof the ornaments, which in civilized life might be expected from a young girl in preparing for her first Chief, the band separated to the right and left, and ed the stem of their pipes to the lips of each, and commenced circling around the party, in one dark, instantly retiring, resumed their station in the crowd. ball. Paint was placed on and rubbed off; faces dense flood of human beings, while the whoops ard By this action, we afterwards learned, that each had were striped first in one direction, then in another; yells which rung shrilly around us, and the furious pledged himself to present a horse to the person to and the advice of those who were sitting around was asked and given with all the gravity befitting so im- and menacing manner in which they brandished their whom he had extended his pipe. In the meanwhile, portant an operation. In the meantime, two or three bows and tomahawks, would have led a person un. two old men, who had assembled with the rest, and who had finished their toilets, seated themselves off acquainted with their habits to have looked upon had no horses to lose by the free indulgence of this reception as any thing but friendly; and there liberal feelings, rose up, and by loud and vehement at a short distance to serve as models for the rest; is something in the fierce, shrill scream of a band harangues endeavored to excite the liberality of the and several who had acquired some reputation for of Indian warriors, which rings through the brain, rest by boasting of the number they would bestow, their skill in this art, were busily engaged in paint and sends the blood curdling back to the heart. if they but had them, and recounting the acts of geneing up the less gifted of their companions. Whilst Their ornaments, though wild, were many of them rosity which they had performed in their youth, and this was going on in one quarter, in another, five or beautiful: the closely shaven heads of some were which, as that youth ran far back beyond the memosix Indians, who either had no paint, or cared not a-adorned with the plumage of different birds; others ty of the oldest inhabitant, there was but little possi. bout the opinion of those whom they intended to visit, had stretched themselves at full length in the grass, resembling the cone of an ancient helmet, and a wore an ornament of deer's hair, bound up in a torm bility of contradicting. Atter they had finished, the Wild Horse, (I do not and were keeping up an incessant drumming upon plume of the bald eagle floated from the long scalp recollect his Indian name) the principal warrior of their breasts with their two fists in exact time to a locks of the principal warriors. the nation, stood up and harangued the assemble. chaunt, which they were letting out at the top of their Some few wore necklaces of the claws of the griz-multitude, launching out in a long panegyric upon lungs, and which they always wound up with a loud zly bear, which hung down upon their breasts, and the whites, which was delivered with a warmth of yell, by way of chorus. But there must be an end of all things, and in due the bodies of some were covered with buffalo robes, expression no doubt greatly increased by the sight of time there was an end of the preparations. The or the skin of the white wolf; but the most of them tents were packed; the Indians were painted and wore no covering, save a thick coat of paint, which striped to resemble any tg but men; the soldiers they had profusely smeared over their bodies and arms, and which many had even bestowed upon the had examined their arms; the horses were saddled; heads and limbs of their horses. After shing the oxen were secured before the heavy baggage around us for some time, the chief waved his hand, wagons, and the party commenced slowly moving and the turmoil ceased: the warriors sprung from onward towards the village.

the wagons loaded with presents, which accompanied the party, and which are always necessary to the successful accomplishment of an Indian treaty.

This warrior was one of the most singular, as well as ferocious of the tribe; and many were the tales of his war expeditions, afterwards related to us by the trappers, when we assembled around our night fires their horses, and seating themselves around in a after a long day's travel across the prairies. His large circle, awaited the arrival of the Chief of the height could have been but little short of seven feet Grand Pawnees, who in a few moments advanced to and every limb of his frame was proportioned in size meet Mr. E, accompanied by the different chiefs and strength to his giant height. Unlike the rest of of Tappaye Pawnee, Pawnee Republican, and Paw- his tribe, his hair remained unshaven, and hung in nee Loup villages. long tangled locks which reached nearly to his waist, and were profusely smeared with red ochre. His low retreating forehead was almost buried in wrin kles; and deep set in his head were two eyes which glowed like living coals. His nose was large and prominent, and the size of an enormous mouth was not at all diminished by two streaks of vermilion which he had drawu from each corner to his ears. He wore neither covering nor ornament, unless the profusion of black clay and red ochre which covered his body, deserved that name; but he stood out in his naked proportions, a giant among those who sur

It was a fine sunny morning in October, the clumps of trees which clustered on the low banks of the river, the numberless small islands which dotted the surface of its broad shallow water, were alive with woodpeckers of every size and hue, who were darting among the tall dead trees which overhung He was a tall powerful Indian; a fillet made from the dark and muddy stream, and making their the skin of the grizly bear, and ornamented with fea. trunks resound with the incessant hammering of their small but powerful beaks; large flocks of thers, was bound around his head: over his should deis was thrown a large mantle, made from the skin gaily plumed parroquets whirled screaming past us of the white wolf, also adorned with feathers: his with a surprizing velocity, darting like lightning legs were cased in black leggings of dressed buffaamong the branches of the trees which skirted the lo hide, worked with beads, and fringed with long

banks of the river.

At ten o'clock the party had travelled several miles across the prairie, and our vicinity to the village was becoming more perceptible. Mounted Indians, who had been sent out to watch for our approach, were seen here and there flying across the hills in the direction of the village, to give notice of the arrival to their Chiefs. At a distance we could perceive several bands of Indians in pursuit of large droves of their wild and fiery horses, which they were urging forward at a headlong speed in the direction of the town, and in another quarter, on the tops of a ridge of small hills, groups of five or six were standing, intently watching the motions of the party, which, from the jaded state of the oxen, were necessarily slow. The soldiers who had been lazily lounging along across the prairie, were now called in and formed in a compact body around the baggage

locks of human hair, which he had taken from the
scalps of those who had fallen beneath his arms in
his various war expeditions, and which now hung
down over his knees, and trailed upon the ground
as he strode up to the party.

He first advanced and welcomed Mr. E. and after-
wards the rest. The chiefs of the three different
villages were then introduced, and repeated the
words of welcome uttered by the first.

This ceremony was scarcely finished, when a movement was observed among the crowd, and in a moment after, a powerful roan horse, mounted by an armed Indian, bounded forward to the middle of the circle, where the rider sprung from his back. He was a stranger among the tribe, and spoke not their language; a Cuyway Indian from the borders of Mexico, a member of those wild tribes, the Arabs

* We afterwards learned that this Indian had become attached to a young girl of his own tribe, who was the wife of another, but her husband having start. ed upon some expedition she had taken advantage of his absence to leave her nation with her lover, and together they had fled to the Pawnee village which they had reached a week previous to our arrival. We were afterwards so fortunate as to see the girl, and it was admitted by all that she was one of the most elegant Indian women they had ever beheld, and that her beauty went far in extenuation of the act of her Indian lover.

rounded him, whilst the wild energy of his gesticula-gained the affectionate confidence of all who have land a daughter. He expects to be absent about two tion as he delivered his harangue, served to show had intercourse with him. Sunday before last, we years. The Morrison got to sea about half past 12 o'clock the prodigious strength which lay hidden in that form, had the pleasure of hearing him preach, and again and which only required an occasion to bring it into last Sunday evening, of listening to a Farewell Ad. action. From his youth upward, he had been the dress which he delivered in the Bleecker st. Church. on Wednesday, and was well off, probably, before leading warrior of the nation, and his deeds had On the latter occasion, notwithstanding the rain, the the blow during the night. spread a terror of his name through all the hostile house was crowded to excess. Every aisle and cortribes. Though no chief, his influence with the na. ner where a person could find footing, even to the tion was equal to theirs, rendering him as much an pulpit stairs, was occupied, and many went away, object of jealousy to them as of dread to their ene- from the impossibily of gaining admittance. A delightful impression was left upon the minds of the mies. audience by the various exercises of the evening,! among which was the communication of Instructions by the Rev. Dr. Wisner, as Secretary of the Ameri. can Board of Missions, and an address by the Rev. Dr. Spring.

When he had finished his address, the Chief arose and spoke to his men; after which, the circle opened and forming into two lines, one on each side, prepared I. to escort the party into their village.

MICHIGAN.

Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, a meeting was This portion of our country is very justly attract. held at the house of Abijah Fisher, Bleecker street, ing a very large share of public attention. To the for the purpose of commending both the Missionary farmer it is interesting on account of its luxuriant and the Missionary cause to the care of Omnipotence. soil and healthful climate; to the merchant for its Some of our friends who were present, tell us that it immense facilities for trade, being intersected in all was a scene of rare and peculiar interest. After directions by fine rivers, penetrated by deep bays, singing the first two verses of the 496th of the Viland surrounded by magnificent lakes; to the states-lage Hymns, "Go, messenger of love," &c., prayer man and philanthropist, it is interesting, as destined was offered by the Rev. Elihu W. Baldwin. Then to be the speedy home of hundreds of thousands of were sung the 1st and last two verses of Heber's enterprising emigrants who will exercise an impor- missionary hymn, tant influence in the affairs of the nation, and whose "From Greenland's icy mountains." heterogeneous character will afford a curious subject Next a prayer was offered by the Rev. O. Eastman of observation. The character of the interior of-after which was read the 91st Psalm-" He that Michigan is much misunderstood. Instead of being dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High," &c. a cold, wet region, there is no country more dry, Prayer by the Rev. Erskine Mason. Address, by rolling and pleasant, after you get out 15 or 20 miles the Rev. Dr. Wisner. Parting address and prayer, from the Lakes and their connecting rivers. The by the Rev. Peter Parker. Next were read the last innumerable little lakes interspersed through the three verses of the Gospel of Matthew, containing country, serve to drain it perfectly; and one can the commission of our Saviour, "Go scarce imagine a more pleasing sight than the gent-and teach all nations." Mr. Parker then read the ly rolling hills, covered with the orchard-like woods, following hymn, and added, addressing himself to the which constitute the Ouk Openings, surrounding one little assembly, "I want you to sing it, for I cannot." of those deep, clear and crystal-like pools, abounding in fish.

It is a matter of surprize that this region is not inore visited by those who travel so much every summer for health or amusement. Travelling has been rendered so convenient that it has lost all its terrors even to the most delicate. Starting from New York, for instance, in a few days we may find ourselves, after a delightful tour up the Hudson, and through the beautiful villages and cultivated fields of the interior of New York, at the Falls of Niaga. ra, where no man can live without becoming a poet, such is the inspiring influence of the scenery. Near this too are the scenes of several of the most interesting military operations of the last war. Embark. iug at Buffalo, we find ourselves on board a steam ship far superior in safety and comfort to any thing of the kind to be found on the North River; and in 30 to 36 hours we find ourselves at Detroit, where we may see a most thriving city of five or six thou. sand inhabitants, and where we will meet an active and intelligent people, than whom none in the Union are more hospitable and liberal. Here, too, if we are so fortunate as to have a good reference, we will find a comfortable home at the house of Mrs. Snelling, widow of the late gallant Col. Snelling of the army. This lady occupies the former residence of old Gov. Hull, the only house in the city well adapted for a boarding house, where she combines the elegant taste of our eastern cities with the ease, frankness, and conviviality of the West.

ye

THE MISSIONARY'S FAREWELL.
Kindred, and friends, and native land,

How shall we say farewell?
How, when our swelling sails expand,
How will our bosoms swell?

Yes, nature, all thy soft delights

And tender ties we know:

But love, more strong than death, unites
To Him that bids us go.

Thus, when our ev'ry passion mov'd,
The gushing tear drop starts;
The cause of Jesus more belov'd,

Shall glow within our hearts.
The sighs we breathe for precious souls,
Where He is yet unknown,
Might waft us to the distunt poles,
Or to the burning zone.

With the warm wish our bosoms swell,
Our glowing pow'rs expand;
Farewell, then we can say,-Farewell,
Our friends, our native land!

therefore

The exercises were coneluded with prayer, and the benediction by Rev. Dr. Wisner.

While

[From the London Literary Gazette, of Apr 19.1
"THE VOICE OF THE WAVES.
(Written near the Scene of a recent Shipwreck)
"Answer, ye chiming waves,

That now in sunshine sweep;
Speak to me from thy hidden caves,
Voice of the solenin deep!

Hath man's lone spirit here

With storms in battle striven?
Where all is now so calmly clear.
Hath anguish cried to Heaven?
Then the sea's voice arose,

Like an earthquake's under-tone-
Mortal, the strife of human woes
Where hath not nature known?
Here to the quivering mast

Despair hath wildly clung;
The shriek upon the wind hath past,
The midnight sky hath rung.
And the youthful and the brave
With their beauty and renown,
To the hollow chambers of the wave
In darkness have gone down.
They are vanished from their place
Let their homes and hearths make moan!
But the rolling waters keep no trace
Of pang or conflict gone.'

Alas! thou haughty deep!

The strong, the sounding far!
My heart before thee dies.--I weep
To think on what we are!

To think that so we pass,

High hope, and thought, and mind,
E'en as the breath stain from the glass,
Leaving no sigh behind!

Saw'st thou nought else, thou main,
Thou and the midnight sky-

Nought, save the struggle, brief and vain,
The parting agony ?

And the sea's voice replied-

'Here nobler things have been!

Power with the valiant when they died,

To sanctify the scene:

Courage, in fragile form,

Faith, trusting to the last,

Prayer, breathing heavenwards through the storm,-
But all alike have passed.'

Sonnd on, thou haughty sea!

These have not passed in vain;

My soul awakes, my hope springs free
On victor wings again.

Thou, from thine empire driven,

May'st vanish with thy powers:

But, by the hearts that here have striven,
A loftier doom is ours!"

ALBANY SEED-STORE AND HORTICULTURAL RE-
POSITORY.

The subscriber having resumed the charge of tho above establishment, is now enabled to furnish traders and others with FRESH GARDEN SEEDS, upon very favorable terms, and of the growth of 1833, warranted of the best quality.

At 9 o'clock, or soon atter, Mr. Parker, accomThe greatest care and attention has been bestowed upon the panied by a number of missionary friends, went on lishment excepting those raised expressly for it, and by experi board the steamboat Rufus King, and proceeded to growing and saving of Seeds, and none will be sold at this estab encedseedsmen; and those kinds imported which cannot be rais the ship, then lying off Bedlow's Island. towing the ship to sea, religious services were helded to perfection in this country; these are from the best houses in Europe, and may be relied upon as genuine. It is earnestly requested whenever there are any failures here. on board the steamboat. after, they should be represented to the subscriber; not that it is possible to obviate unfavorable seasons and circumstances, but ALSO-French Lucern, White Dutch Clover, White Mulberry that satisfaction may be rendered and perfection approximated. Seed, genuine Mangel Wurtzel, Yellow Locust, Ruta Baga, and Field Turnip Seeds, well worth the attention of Farmers. W. THORBURN,

Mr. Parker is both a clergyman and a physician.
His design is, we understand, to associate himself
n labors and travels with the celebrated missionary
Gutzlaff. He knows full well that the service he
has undertaken is full of peril; but he has counted
He leaves his home and country, (never
the cost.
expecting to see either again,) not only with cheer-
fulness, but with a glow of pious feeling which
makes him a truly happy man. Possibly some of
our readers may deem our language strong; but we
know that those who have been present during the
scenes to which we have alluded, will think it tame
and cold, in comparison with the reality.

347 N. Market st. (opposite Post Office.) Catalogues may be had at the Store; if sent for by mail, tustice can be done in the execution. will be forwarded gratis. Orders solicited early, as the better

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Mr. Thorburn is also Agent for the following publications, NEW YORK FARMER and American Gardener's Magazine. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE and Register of Inventions & Improve

ments.

AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL and Advocate of Internal Im

provements; and the

NEW-YORK AMERICAN, Daily, Tri-Weekly, and Semi-Weekly;

either or all of which may be seen and obtained by those who wish them by calling at 347 North Market street, Albany.

After enjoying the hospitality of Detroit, and view. ing the interesting region around, some of whose scenes have become truly classic, we may step on board the splendid steamboat Michigan, and wend our way to Macinac, Saut de Ste. Marie, Green Bay and Chicago; and return in the same boat, or cross the Peninsula by land, or travel eighty miles across the prairie to the falls of the Illinois, where we can Mr. Parker is accompanied by a Chinese youth, take a steamboat twice a week to St. Louis, and return by way of the Ohio. Either of these routes 19 years of age, who, by some means or other, may be travelled with much ease, little expense, and found his way to this country, and has acquired congreat pleasure. The whole tour from New York to siderable knowledge of our language. Mr. P. hopes Chicago and back would not occupy more than four to derive much assistance from him, during the voy. NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS. weeks; and how much better it would be to make age, in learning the Chinese. "I no like my counSIMON FAIRMAN, of the village of Lansingburgh, in this tour than to idle four weeks away at Saratoga, Itry's religion," said the young man, on being conand put in operation a Machine for making Wrought Nails leave those interested to judge. The fine new steam-versed with by Mr. Parker: "I like your religion the county of Rensselaer, and state of New-York, has invented boat Michigan will leave Buffalo on the 10th July better." "Then what do you go back to China with square points. This machine will make about sixty 6d "To get more money," nails, and about forty 10d nails in a minute, and in the same and 1st August on this tour, and goes expressly to for?" asked Mr. Parker. hammered and comes from the machine completely heated to accommodate passengers wishing to see the regions was the reply. We fain would hope, that by his in- proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for ships. The nail is tercourse with that excellent man, he may gain, with redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and sure. of the Upper Lakes. the blessing of God, what is more valuable than mo- One horse power is sufficient to drive one machine, and may easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in ney, or worlds. operation. Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant maThe owners of the Morrison, Messrs. Talbot, Oly-chines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soon 1s 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 Further information, or to purchase, will please to call at the machines throughout the United States. Any person desiring machine shop of Mr. John Humphrey, in the village of Lan A29 u RM &F singburgh.-August 15, 1833.

L.

[From the Journal of Commerce of yesterday.] DEPARTURE OF THE MORRISON.-The ship Morrison, Captain Lavender, left us yesterday, bound to phant & Co. have been extremely kind to Mr. Par. Canton. She has on board as passenger, the Rev. ker, and among other tokens of their interest in him Peter Parker, late of Framingham, Mass., who goes and the cause he goes to pload, they give him his out as missionary to China. This gentleman, during passage gratis. Mr. Olyphant has himself gone pasthe two or three weeks he has been in this city, hassenger in the Morrison, together with his eldest son

LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES.

STEPHENSON,

No. 264 Elizabeth street, near Bleecker street,
New-York.

RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examin
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business.

It is stated in the St. Augustine Herald, that the Savannah and Florida Steam Boat Company propose, in connexion with the boat now running between Savannah and St. Johns, to carry their operations across the Peninsula and even to New Orleans. Peter Mitchel, Esq. of Savannah, (lately of Florida, where he is known as an enterprising and alented gentleman, and also as extensively ac. quainted with their geography, resources and capabilities,) was recently commissioned by the company to examine the country between the navigable waters of Black Creek and those of the Santaffe river, with a view to the facilities of this communication.-gines weighing four, five, and six tons. It is proposed by the company to make an establishment on Black Creek, and another on the Stantaffe, and to communicate between these two points by a line of stages, it being but about sixty miles from one to the other. To their location on the latter river, steamboats will be accessible, and from it to New Orleans, with which they will be enabled to communicate in about two days. It is calculated, that by this route and with no other facilities over land than the usual accommodation stages and steamboats on the Atlantic and Gulf, an easy correAll orders for engines,' &c. and other communications in spondence may be maintained between New York, via Charleston and Savannah, and New Orleans inference to the subject, will be addressed to the subscriber, in the city of Philadelphia, and shall receive prompt attention. eight days. By order of the Company, WILLIAM NORRIS, Secretary. December 2d, 1833.

Railroads in England.-There is now building in England what they term "The great Western Railroad," which is to connect London and Bristol. Another is building between London and Southampton; another from London to Greenwich; another from London to Birmingham; another from Hull to Shelby; and the Northern Union Railroad.

An Otaheitan Bride.

JS

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MANUFACTORY.

EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, No. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Balti

"The bride, Miss Kingatara Oruruth, an Otahei. tan, is the daughter of Demstrfrg womldainmfr, one of the chiefs of the island, and is connected with most of the noble families of the kingdom. She is about sixteen years of age, of a bright mahogany color, with her cheeks tattoed in the most lovely manner, and her ears slit in a style peculiarly fascinating. Her eyes are large, and of a greenish color. Her lovely form, which was almost six feet six in-and Incorporated Governments, and the Drawback taken in more, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, espaches tall, was gracefully enveloped in an old blan-part payment. ket, and during the performance of the matrimonial rites, the fair bride stood before her happy lover modestly masticating a sugar cane. The young lady is said to be highly accomplished, and delighted the company assembled on this solemn occasion, by an exhibition of her superior skill in swimming. The bridegroom is a hearty mariner of Newport."

The body of a man six feet in height, without coat or hat, a cloth vest, satinet pantaloons, white cotton socks and brogans, with a stone of fifty pounds weight tied to his legs, was found near the bank of the river, five miles below St. Stephen's, Alabama.

[From the Village Post.]

LAND-BREEZE BETWEEN THE TROPICS.
"The forests of Brazil are filled with aromatic plants,
whose perfumes are often wafted many leagues to sea."
To the billow-borne pilgrim, alone on the seas,
How sweet comes the perfume of land with the breeze!
'Tis the breath of a summer, eternal in prime;
The kindliest fragrance of sun-gladdened clime!
Those wanderings of sweetness, how welcome they are!
That tell of a country unseen and afar.
Like the morning, their advent aye ushers a smile;
And the rover's heart dances in joyance the while.
To cheer his lone vigil at midnight, they tell
Of meadow and mountain, of forest and dell-
Till his eye o'er the ocean forgetteth to roam,
And he walks in his slumber the fields of his home.
Thus oft on life's billow, with bark tempest driven,
The voyager fancies the breathings of Heaven!
The past and the present remembering no more,
He greets in his vision the world that's before.

C.

TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manu facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establishment to Hudson, under 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] them in any of the principal cities in the United States. the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. B. Co., Albany; or James Archibald. Engineer Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbon dale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Hudson, Columbia County, New-York,

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The above will be sold free of duty, to State Governments
A. & G. RALSTON.

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

ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING
INSTRUMENTS.

cially Engineers, that they continue to manufacture to order and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on fair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude. For proof of the high estimation on which their Surveying Instruments are held, they respectfully beg leave to tender to the public perusal, the following certificates from gentlemen of distinguished scientific attainments.

To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some months since, I now offer you my opinion of the Instruments The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railhis profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of road Company. This opinion would have been given at a much tured in the United States; several of which are entirely new: a longer time for the trial of the Instruments, so that I could construction and workmanship to any imported or manufac-earlier period, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford among which are an Improved Compass, with a Telescope at speak with the greater confidence of their merits, if such they tached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use should be found to possess. 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 purpo-ties are considered good, I have a decided preference for those WM. J. YOUNG,

ses.

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 manu-
factured 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 depart.
ment 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 decription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails on this Road.

It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding the Instruments in the service procured from our northern cimanufactured 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 imperfection of Ja 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 examined with care several Engineers' instruinenta of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and Surveyor's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion of the excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accuracy and permanency in adjustments.

These instruments seemed to me to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have been made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field.

This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing
telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer
scarcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of
WILLIAM HOWARD, U. S. Civil Engineer.
the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later
al angles of any simple and cheap instrument that I have yet
Baltimore, May 1st, 1833,
seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu.
To Messrs Ewin'and Heartte-As you have asked me to give
now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, Ithink tacture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state
it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying."
Respectfully thy friend,
that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with
JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction
their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think well of
of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their
workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my
Philadelphia, February, 1833. self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received
Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The
Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. satisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect,
lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to
now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En-relieve us of the necessity of sending elsewhere for what we
gineers and Surveyors.

E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer.
Germantown, February, 1833.

may want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which For a year past I have used instruments made by Mr. W.J.your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &c. Young, of 'hiladelphia, in which he has combined the properB. H. LATROBE, ties of a Theodolite with the common Level.

I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for layin
out Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engi
neers as preferable to any others for that purpose.
HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad.,
Germant. and Norrist. Railroad

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Civil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company.

A number of other letters are in our possesion and might be introduced, but are too lengthy. We should be happy to submit them, upon application, to any person desirous of perus ng the same.

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AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL,

AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.

D. K. MINOR, EDITOR.]

CONTENTS:

page 369

Editorial Notice; Burden's Boot; Harlaem Railroad;
Meteorological Stone; Fossil Horns....
Statistics of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
The Undulating Railway...

Burden's Boat and an Account of Steam Engines and
their Inventors, &c..

Literary Notices...

Foreign Intelligence...
Summary...

Advertisements, &c..

Death of Gen. Lafayette; Undulating Railway, (continued); Advertisements, &c.........

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Yorkville, are completed. The first part of it, the Hudson River, and the result fully bears or to 14th street, has a single track, laid in the you out in what you have before stated, "that most substantial manner on granite sleepers; Mr. BURDEN will accomplish all that he has 371 from 14th to 23d street, there is a double track, professed to do." The boat went at the rate 373 also on granite sleepers; from 23d to 84th of more than 20 miles per hour. I will ven378 street, wooden sleepers are used, and a double ture to assert that if a person was blindfolded, 381 track nearly all the way. and put into the cabin, he could not possibly

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AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. ly a little south of Murray Hill.

NEW-YORK, JUNE 21, 1834.

.383 There has been much deep cutting; in some distinguish that he was on board any vessel, 384 places to the depth of 30 feet, through solid even if going at its greatest speed-no noise is rock. Also some high embankments, especial-heard from the working of the machinery-the entire absence of that tremulous motion so unThis road was chartered in 1831, with a ca- pleasant in other steamboats, is a sufficient pital of $350,000. Cars were first used on a test of its improvement. Another advantage, Should this number of the Journal fall part of it-to Murray's Hill-in June, 1833; and a very important one, will not fail to attract into the hands of any gentleman who is not a they now run every half hour to Yorkville. the notice of every reflecting mind-it causes subscriber, he is desired to consider it a modest Probably 150,000 passengers have rode upon it. no swell whatever in the river; the smallest invitation to become so, and to remit a $5 bank The cars are elegant and commodious, drawn wherry can come alongside without inconveniIt will be obvious how useful vessels note, and in return he shall receive the Journal by horses. The fare for each passenger is 12 ence. commencing either with the 1st, 2d, or 3d vol., cents. When the road shall have been brought similarly constructed will be on canals and or at the middle of the 3d volume, which will down to Wall street, as it should, and will be narrow rivers. No injury will be done to the be on the 1st July, and a receipt for the money.-when the citizens become satisfied that it is banks, which hitherto has been the chief obstaLet him look at the contents of this number, not only easier, cheaper, and far less dangerouscle to their introduction. And when it is taken and then ask where he can get more practical than the omnibuses-thousands will ride where into consideration, the extraordinary speed and useful information for 6d. ? or where he can there are now only hundreds; and thousands which can be accomplished by such a boat, find a work that contains the same kind and will ride out and take the fresh air, and a view we must come to the conclusion that it will amount of information for $3 a year? of the green fields, who now never, or seldom, confer great benefit on this country. Are the people in his neighborhood engaged enjoy that luxury. It must and will be extendin constructing railroads or canals, or M'Adamed to Wall street, if not to the Battery, short ing all that he has promised. He is sole owner roads? then in the Journal will they find some-of which it ought never to stop, so that those of the boat and of the patent. The contemthing to aid and promote the cause. Does any living at the extremes may interchange civili-plated arrangement with the Hudson river comnew plan or method of constructing make its ties without the expense of a hack, or the incon-pany last fall having been abandoned. appearance, or excite action, some account ofvenience of being jammed into an omnibus, and it may be found in the Journal. Allow me then the risk of a race in Broadway with a rival line. to urge every one who reads this, that is not a This road will, I have no doubt, great as the subscriber already, to send his order at once, and it shall be supplied, either for past, present, or future volumes.

Bound volumes, in two parts, $4-in one part $3.50; stitched in paper cover $3.25; forwarded by mail as published once a week, $3.

The attention of our readers is called to the article on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and to that on Steam, and Steamboats. They are both interesting.

expense is, be a good investment, when com-
pleted, for passengers alone.

BURDEN'S BOAT.

Mr. Burden's Boat has been out twice since the drawing (see page 373) was taken, and each time has acquired a greater velocity than on its previous trial. It acquired yesterday a velocity of twenty-five revolutions of its wheel, of 30 feet diameter, per minute, or more than 20 miles per hour.

Not having been able to accept of Mr. BurHARLAEM RAILROAD.-The Harlaem Rail-den's invitation to accompany him on his exroad commences at Prince street, in the Bow-cursion on Thursday, we avail ourselves of the ery, and follows the line of the 4th Avenue to following from a gentleman who was on board Harlaem, 7 miles, 5 miles of which, to Another excursion was made yesterday on

Mr. Burden is very sanguine of accomplish

METEOROLOGICAL STONE.-A Finland journorth of Finland, where it answers the purpose nal gives an account of a singular stone in the of a public barometer. On the approach of rain, this stone assumes a black or dark grey color, and when the weather is inclined to be fair, it is covered all over with white specks. This stone is, in all probability, an argillous rock, salt-petre, and absorbing more or less humidity containing a portion of rock-salt, ammonia, or in proportion as the atmosphere is more or less In the latter case, the saline charged with it. particles, becoming crystallized, are visible to the eye as white specks.

FOSSIL HORNS.-In excavating the Lancaster Lateral Canal, near a place called the "Deep Cut," bones of extraordinary dimensions have been discovered. Among the curiosities found and measuring at the butt end sixteen inches. is a horn six feet in length, weighing 44 lbs., Also, a tooth weighing 63 lbs.

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-The fol- on the first surveys, was.$22,375,427.69; and, giving a cross section of 366 feet. But for the lowing interesting and valuable communica- by Geddes and Roberts, the company's engi- purpose of giving sufficient water for manufacturing purposes, the first two miles above tion was duly received, but it has been detain-neers, since that time, was $9,347,408.69. The projected route, (and in its location, Georgetown were widened to 70 feet, with a ed for the purpose of publishing it in another thus far, it has deviated very little from the line depth of 7 feet, and the succeeding two miles form at the same time, to accompany the originally laid out,) was up the valley of the have a width of 80 feet, and 7 feet depth. Beforthcoming Railroad and Canal Map-with Potomac river, as far as Cumberland; thence tween Harper's Ferry and the Point of Rocks, which we hope to be able to give some particu-. it follows the valley of Wills' creek, as far up in some few places, and for short distances, it as the mouth of Bowman's run, from which has been narrowed to 50 feet, and above Harplars relative to other canals, as well as rail-place it is to cross the summit ridge by a tun-er's Ferry it has been widened to 90, 100, 120, roads, in the United States. The apology will, nel, railway, or inclined planes, as the company and even 150 feet, in several places. The locks we trust, be satisfactory to our correspondent, may see fit, the privilege of selecting being are 100 feet long by 15 wide, in the chamber, and our readers also-who is particularly re- that the company will adopt a railway with sta-wide, and the berm bank 8 feet. All the culgranted by their charter. (It is most probable and 6 feet deep. The tow paths are 12 feet quested to continue his favors, as he may find tionary power, as it will in the end prove the verts, aqueducts, and locks, are built of solid leisure. Such communications will be found cheapest and most convenient.) The western stone masonry, laid in hydraulic lime. Many of interesting and useful, not only in this country course is thence down Castleman's river and the locks are so constructed, by lengthening the but also in Europe, where they will find their the Youghagany, and the Monongahela, to side culverts and multiplying their outlets, as to way if they are to be found in the Journal-(we Pittsburgh. (It is doubtful, I think, whether be filled in one half the usual time. this line, the western section, will be adopted, In November, 1830, the sections extending say this without boasting.) as the United States have been projecting im-from the Seneca feeder to the termination of We may now, we think, again call upon en-provements on the Monongahela river, so as to the old canal, around the Little Falls of the Pogineers and other gentlemen, connected with render it navigable as far as Brownsville, 55 tomac, (a distance of 17 miles and 774 yards,) railroads and canals in different parts of the miles by the course of the river above Pitts- were finished and opened for use. The secburgh, and it will be shorter and more conve- tions in Georgetown were finished in August, country, to furnish us with similar state-nient to end at Brownsville than its present 1831. The sections from the Seneca feeder to ments of the works under their charge, or with projected termination.) The total length of the Point of Rocks, (a distance of 26 miles and which they are familiar, that we may be able this projected route is 341 miles, 676 yards, 363 yards,) were open for use in the spring of to give a condensed account of them. It is and is divided into the eastern, the middle or 1832, and by the end of 1833 it was completed mountain, and the western sections, the former as far as Shepherdstown, (72 miles from that with which the public cannot be too familiar extending from Georgetown to Cumberland, Rock Creek Basin, Georgetown.) -nothing tends more to promote a useful ob- 185 miles, 1078 yards; the middle section, Between the Georgetown Basin and the ject than familiarity with its details. thence to the mouth of Castleman's river, 70 Point of Rocks, a distance of 48 miles, 118 miles, 1,010 yards; and the latter thence to yards, is a rise of 217 feet, overcome by 27 Pittsburgh, 85 miles, 348 yards. locks for the lift and distribution of which see DIMENSIONS OF THE CANAL.-The size of the table given below. Between the Point of Erie canal was at first adopted as sufficient Rocks and Williamsport, (to which the canal for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. But will be open from Shepherdstown this spring this idea was soon abandoned, and the fol- or summer,) a distance of 66 miles and 762 SIR,-The following statistical facts, in re-lowing size determined on: 60 feet wide at yards, is a rise of 136 feet, overcome by 17 lation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, I surface, 42 feet at bottom, and 6 feet deep,locks: see table. have collected from the mass of documents which have been printed by Congress and the Company, and which amount in bulk to several octavo volumes. I have not, either, all of their lock. reports to refer to, as the price of an entire copy of the proceedings of the board of directors and Tide 1. engineers costs now $20 to $25, and many of No. 1 the papers are very scarce. Such as are given below will, I hope, answer your purpose. Alter them and change them as may best suit your views.

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Statistical Facts in relation to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. To the Editor of the American Railroad Journal.

WASHINGTON, April 11, 1834.

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The general convention of Delegates from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, and one or two of the Western States interested, first met at Washington, D. C., in November, 1823, to determine on the proper measures to be adopted in reference to the successful prosecution of this great work of internal improvement. The first charter was granted by Virginia, in January, 1824, which was confirmed by Maryland in January, 1825, and by Congress in March of the same year. Pennsylvania granted her charter with some restrictions, (relative to portions of the appropriations of Congress being applied to the construction of the western section, &c.) in February, 1826. All four of these legislative bodies have since passed various acts, extending and restricting the powers of the Company.

SUBSCRIPTIONS.-Books were opened in 1826, after the confirmation of the charter by the se- 33

veral states.

Private subscriptions,

By Maryland, in March, 1826, Maryland, in 1834, granted $50,000 additional: $25,000 cash, and the remain. der when a further subscription was made by Congress.

By Virginia, in 1833,

Virginia had subscribed, in 1826, her interest in the Potomac Canal Company, which was then valued at 2 or $300,000.

By Corporation of Washington,

By Corporation of Alexandria,

By Corporation of Georgetown,

By Congress,

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The cost, as estimated by the U. S. Engineers to be constructed similar in size and construc-are subserved by the transfer of locks Nos. 41

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