seat of war in the northern pronvinces is far from||If ministers will stop "agitation" by doing justice to||nest, who died Governor-General of the Netherlands being of a flattering description. The despatch of Ireland, we do not see why the best lawyer in Ire-at the end of the 16th century. Quesada is undestood by those who are best ac-land-which O'Connell is-should not be placed on quainted with the subject as little better than an||that bench which Curran occupied. apology for a very serious defeat. LATEST FROM EUROPE.-By the] Sovereign, Capt. Griswold; the Eagle, Captain Lyon; and the Henri IV., Captain Castoff,-we have received European papers to the 20th ult. With much speculation upon the affairs of the continent, they contain hardly a fact of interest enough to copy. The dates from Paris are to May 15th. Arrests, particularly of editors, continued to be frequent. Two extraordinary votes or credit for the War De. partment, amounting to about £890,000 sterling, were agreed to by the Chamber of Deputies on Tues. day; one portion of it, however, by a majority of 54 only. [From the National. May 20.] "The Foreign Ministers, doubtless, after concerting together, replied, that they expected the orParis May 15.-The King has granted from his ders of their Cabinet on the communication which privy purse the sum of 10,000fr. to be distributed at had just been addressed to them, at the same time Lyons amongst the innocent victims at the late riots. as a copy of the Royal Statute. The Papal Nuncio, The Bill introduced into the House of Commons who received a similar communication, has answered for the repeal of the Septennial Act has been lost, to the same effect. This act of our Ministry is not but the minority was so respectable in numbers, that public, but you may consider it as certain that it was the passage of a similar measure at no distant day is previously discussed with the Plenipotentaries of very probable. Ministers opposed the measure.-France and England. On the subject of Portuguese affairs, Lord Palmerston stated, in answer to some questions that were put to him in the House, "that a treaty which related te the affairs of the Peninsula had been signed by the Plenipotentiaries of England, France, Spain, and Portugal, and that as soon as it should be ratified it would be laid on the table of the house; that the ratifications of three of the parties had been received in London; that the approaching arrival of the ratification of Portugal had been officially announced, and that it might be confidently expected that the vessel bearing it would reach England in a few days. At the levee of the King of England, on the 7th ult., Captain R. F. Stockton and Lieut. Alex. Slidell, of the United States Navy, were presented by Mr. Vail, the United States Chargé de'Affaires. The cotton market continued in a very animated state, with a gradual advance in prices. to that date. on page 384. SUMMARY. Dr. JONES, in a letter to Professor SILLIMAN, states that there is a colony of Gipsies in Louisiana. They were brought over by the French at an early period, and colonized. They have lost, however, their wandering gipsey habits, and attend to regular busi. ness. Their complexion is darker than the French, and they still call themselves gipsies or Egyptians. A new Muzzle.-In the Select Council on Thursdry evening last, as we learn from the Philadelphia Gazette, Mr. Meredith introduced an ordinance, cal. culated more effectually than those now in existence, It provides to secure our citizens against the dangers apprehen. that after the first of July next, instead of the leather ded from dogs in the summer seasonstrap now used, all dogs shall be muzzled with a substantial wire basket, placed so as effectually to enclose the mouth, and prevent snapping or biting. This muzzle is believed to be much easier for the animal than the strap now used, while at the same time it is more effectual. A dog with a strap is not prevented from biting, but with the wire basket, this will be impossible, as the whole mouth is enclosed. The apertures between the wires will enable him to drink with as much facility as if he were without a muzzle. The ordinance was adopted without opposition, and promptly concurred in by the Common Council. "Since the treaty of offensive and defensive alli. ance between France, England and Portugal, has been made known here, our troops no longer content themselves with seeking in Portugal after a grotes-at que Pretender; they combat the Miguelites in concert with the Generals of Don Pedro. Some persons lately employed in quarrying stones Guernsey, Ohio, came across the body of an Indian child completely petrified. This extraordinary specimen was found imbedded in a solid mass of rock, and "General Quesada, greatly mortified by his late has the appearance of a stone image, somewhat imdefeat nea: Vittoria, has taken the field with 6,300 perfect, to be sure, yet on the whole, a very fair outmen, to combat Zumalacarreguy. The Goverment line of a young Indian-done in limestone. A small has just given orders to all the columns in Old Cas-row of Indian beads (too hard originally to need petri. tile, on the banks of the Douro, and in part of Ar-faction, we suppose) was found in the same cavity. ragon, to proceed by forced marches to his assistance. Part of our garrison is gone to take up positions on the road to Burgos, and to cover the points which the other troops have left." Large and Valuable Cargo.-The fine new ship Solon, Captain Dambert, of Portsmouth, (N. H.) for Liverpool, being her first voyage, was cleared this morning by L. Trapmann, with a cargo of 1900 bales of Cotton, weighing 618,607 pounds, and valued at $101,151 89. [Charleston Patriot, June 14.] INTERESTING MEETING.-It is intended that the Ju A courier arrived yesterday from Constantinople with the answer of Admiral Roussin to the despatch announcing his appointment as Minister of Marine.FROM EUROPE.-By the packet ship Silas Richards, The Admiral entreats his Majesty to permit him to Capt. Nye, which sailed from Liverpool on the 24th retain the Embassy at Constantinople. In conse. piter shall sail for Liberia on Wednesday. Among quence Admiral Jacob has been appoin:ed Minister the passengers will be the Rev. Mr. Skinner, Misult. we have received our files of English papers up of the Marine and the Colonies, and last night took sionary and Physician; Mr. Searl, a graduate of Amthe oath in the presence of the King. The Ordon-herst College, and Mr. Finley, a graduate of Princeton, Teachers, under the patronage of the Ladies' The only news of especial interest is the deceasenance by which the above appointment is made ap- Association of this city. Mr. Searl is also the ViceAgent of the New York City Colonization Society, of the true patriot and friend of liberty, General La. pears in the Moniteur of this morning. VIENNA, MAY 6.—We know for certain that the charged with selecting a suitable place for locating fayette, of which our readers will find an account Poles are to leave Switzerland. It seems that the the proposed new Colony.-Dr. Webb, from Washmeasures adopted by the adjacent states have render-ington, D. C. and Dr. M'Dowell, from Edinburgh, LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.-On Thursday week the an-ed the Confederation much more disposed to listen to Physiciaus, in the employ of the Parent Society, will nual debate on the septennial act took place, on the the well-founded remonstrances that have been ad- also sail in the Jupiter-together with Eunice Sharp, motion of Mr. Tennyson. After a sharp discussion dressed to it. In this case it acts conformably to its a col ored woman of education and piety, from Ver. -distinguished for very little argument and very many own interest; for what would become of its foreign mont, who goes forth of her own accord and notion, commerce if all the issues were closed against it. In-to devote herself to the cause of education in Africa. words-the motion was lost by a majority of 50. It is generally rumored that ministers and Mr. terest is paramount to principles, and whatever at- Preparatory to the embarkation of this self-devoted O'Connell have come, or are coming, to some sort of tachment to the cause of the Poles may exist even band, appropriate religious services were last evena compromise on the Irish tithe bill. It is pretty at Berne in a certain party, it must give way to neces-ing celebrated in the Brick Church, in which the concertain that Sir Francis Burdett and Lord Ebrington sity. gregation of the late Ceder street Church united.have communicated with the member for Dublin on An admirable address for the occasion was pronounced by the Rev. Cyrus Mason, and the concluding prayer by Rev. Dr. Young.-[Com. Advertiser of yesterday.] this point; and it is said that Sir Henry Parnell has been employed by ministers to negotiate the matter. It is supposed that if the appropriatlon clause be not adopted this session, it will be left over for subse quent consideration, which, no doubt, would end in its adoption. Mr. O'Connell has just addressed a letter to the editor of the Dublin Pilot. Speaking of ministers, he says:— "They have solemnly pledged the Parliament to remove the just complaints' of the people of Ireland. A cabinet minister-one of the first in rank, and one BRUSSELS, May 19.-The Court will go into mourning for a month, on account of the death of the Prince Royal. The remains of the Prince will be embalmed, and deposited in the Church of St. Gudule, in the sepulchral vault of the Dukes of Brabant. It is supposed that the funeral will not take place for several days. It was at first contemplated to inter the remains of the Prince in the Cathedral of Malines, but it has been decided that they shall be transferred to Brussels. Their Majesties saw nobody the day before yesof the highest in talent-has publicly and unequivo- terday. We are told it would be found difficult to cally declared that the tithe system in Ireland, as it form an idea of the profound affliction which they relates to the established church in its present form, feel at the loss of the first fruit of their union. The ⚫ is a just complaint. Shall it be redressed? Alas! King was obliged to make a great effort to sign I fear not. But why should I fear either alternative? some of the letters of notification laid before him by If this just complaint' be redressed, then the people Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Ministers and of Ireland will have obtained a great, a solid, a per-several persons high in office went to Lacken, but manent advantage. If it be not redressed, then the could not be admitted. The Theatres will be closed honest, the undismayed repealers, will, with me, for three days. Liberia Herald.-Several gentlemen connected with the type, printing, and paper business, have thought it time that the Herald should appear in a new dress. Some of the donations are as follows: E. White, 100lbs. small pica; Connor & Cooke. 100lbs. pica and a small font two line do., G. & D. Bruce, job type, flowers, &c. Hoe & Co. three pair cases, brass rules; printing office furniture, &c. Gracic, Prime & Co. six reams medium paper; Editors Ob. server, two reams imperial do.-[Jour. of Com.] Le Reparateur, of Lyons, gives the following characteristic anecdote of the behavior of a French soldier during the late riots in that city:-"In the Quartier du College, just at the termination of the disastrous struggle between soldiers and citizens, one of the insurgents suddenly rushed forward, and point to the falsification of the Address, and, exclaim- The sepulchral vault of the Dukes of Brabant, in putting his musket almost to the face of a soldier, ing against the living lie,' feel more deeply how the chancel of the church of St. Gudule, was opened pulled the trigger. The musket missed fire, upon impossible it will be to expect justice from any other on the 19th. Several tombs and numerous epitaphs which the man throwing off his jacket, kneeled than a domestic legislature. * For my part, of the ancient Dukes of Brabant were found; one in down, and addressing the soldier, said, "It is now I am ready to make every sacrifice to obtain the ful-particular, of the date of 1380, in a perfect state of your turn-here is my breast; I am a Republican." filment of that promise." preservation. On the tomb was deposited an enor-The soldier did not move from his ranks. nor did he The newspapers say that Mr. O'Connell is to be mous silver sword, with the arms of Brabant chased offer to raise his musket, but coolly said, "I don't made Master of the Rolls in Ireland. At present, on it; on another tomb is a gold vase, with the arms know how to fire so close," and allowed the man to we suspect that this is a premature announcement.of Austria, containing the heart of the Archduke Er-depart." * * The 29th Annual Report of the Trustees that they are commanded by incompetent men. The and flakes of snow which were hurried on by the of the Public Schools of this City has been latest date of the loss of any of the vessels mention-east wind. But at each side of the bier walked six published, and shows gratifying results of their ed is May 10th. And yet the number lost up to that or eight chief mourners, all bareheaded, dressed in extensive and faithful operations. The advantage.date, was nearly one-eleventh of the whole number full suits of black, with silk stockings, thin shoes, conferred upon the city by these invaluable institu- (205) arrived prior to the 27th, (17 days later) The and chapeaux de bras under the arm! How civilitions can hardly be too highly prized, or too careful-eight additional vessels lost are as follows: ly guarded and perpetuated. So excellent and ef ficient is the system of this Society, that its adop. tion, on proper modifications, may be confidently recommended to other cities and indeed to many smaller towns. Evtract from the Report of the Trustees. In the report of last year, it was stated that there were on the registers of the 26 schools, contained in the 11 buildings belonging to he society, and in the school at the Alms-house, 7,034 And of 6 primary scho .ls, 792 Boys, 5961, Gl's, 5304 Showing a total of 11,255 children now belonging to the public schools in this city. There are at this time in the employ of the public 75 monitors the aggregate of whose salaries for a school society, 49 teachers, 28 assistant teachers, and year amount to 35,650 dollars. provement of the children during the past year, is too The following account of the employment and im interesting not to deserve a place in every newspaper in the land. The first class learn the alphabet, and the the highest reading class. 2259 have been promoted from 1st to 2d ninth is] Class. 2343 do do 2d to 3d do 2546 do de 3d to 4th do 2525 do do 4th to 5th do 1557 do do 5th to 6th do Brig Scarboro' Castle, Moey, from Hull, abandon. ed at sea in long. 41, 30th April, all saved by the Retreat, from Alloa. Brig Cherup, Welsh, from Greenock, struck on Brig Robert William Harris, Ferrie, from Liver- zation and refinement lose themselves in burlesque, thought I; and what a chance there is of those foolish followers of an absurd fashion falling victims in their turn, but to a death less glorious even than that which had sent this one to his last account! A concentrated blaze of light, rising far above the tall and leafless trees, soon marked the spot where the mortal remains of the young duellist were lowered into the earth, while his hundred of former companions stood round in serried circles, doing honor to his obsequies. I could not withdraw from the contemplation of the scene, although it was only through the mind's eye it was evident. The whole procession had passed out of sight, with the straggling citizens of both sexes, young and old, by whom it was accompanied in solemn silence. The long street was quite abandoned, and the rays from the lamps which swung at wide intervals across, fell heavily upon the snow and the dark buildings at either side. Suddenly a loud burst of song rose upon the air. The deep harmony of hundreds of male voices was joined in the requiem, and quite overpowered the instrumental accompaniment, It was sad and solemn beyond all description. No female notes lightened the full throated harmony. Never did sorrow find a more fitting tone than in the chorus of that deep lament. I could no longer resist the desire to mingle with the throng. An impulse of sadness hurried me resistlessly along, as the swell of the sea heaves a vessel on its silent course. I was soon at the door of THE FUNERAL OF A GERMAN STUDENT.-I was one weaving a woof of historical events, crossed with a dark January night occupied at my writing desk, national portraiture or endeavoring to rouse a spark loosely piled over the body which had taken its dark warp of fiction-or sketching some light profile of the grave yard. But all was once more still. The death dirge had ceased, and the earth heap was of English feeling for the trampled.on country in it—but whether it was a volume, or a monthly or a outside, and it struck up a new, but a not less which I could not live without being interested for berth below. The crowd quickly began to hurry forth. In a moment or two the band appeared daily "article" at which I worked is of small mat ter to the event by which my labors were interrupted. solemn strain than before. It was one of those A low, moaning melody was borne on the gusts fine martial airs to which men move to battle, which swept down the valley of the Neckar, at the which thrill through the nerves, and call the opening of which the town of Heidelberg is situated. dull or stagnant feelings to arms. Every one preIts main street, running for a mile between the river sent seemed to feel the inspiration. The procesand the mountains, formed a channel for the free pas of a military train. There was sion which was now formed had all the appearance sage of the dirge, for such I soon ascertained it to no coffin, no bier, be. Looking from my window, I observed a lurid and apparently no mourners. A tone of excited, of glow rising above the house tops and throwing its desperate ardor pervaded those whose measured red reflection upon the snow which covered them. steps so lately kept time with the melancholy music A waving cloud of thick smoke marked the line of of the dirge. The horns echoed along the wood. the procession, the leaders of which soon appeared covered hill, at the foot of which the procession now coming round a slight curve in the long narrow street. moved back towards the building of the University, I immediately knew it to be a student's funeral and the majestic ruins of the castle above returned which thus roused with lugubrious harmony the the bugle's notes in wild and unearthly mimicry.— snow enveloped dulness of the place, and sent out a The grotesque diversity of costumes worn by the crowd of youths to parade the town, many of them students, their conntenances varying from beardless in costumes incongruous with the season, and not which each man tossed his flaring torch above his animation to hair.covered ferocity, the gestures with quite consistent with the scene; but the whole so. lemnity showing an arrangement of martial discipline head, the glittering of the sword blades here and which made it more than commonly impressive. there, the wintry harshness of the scene, the The six leaders were wrapped in dark cloaks, and branches of the trees, all formed a whole of comwind gusts heard at intervals in the skeleton stalked on some paces before the band, composed of horns, bugles, and bass instruments, whose wailing binations, each one in fierce keeping with the rest. tones swelled out as the procession approached, in a identified with the ceremony-arrived at the large We, for I had joined the crowd and felt myself strain of comingled depth and wildness. Next appear-square of the university. Here the leaders halted ed a young man of almost gigantic height, dressed in the torch bearers in double ranks, at each of the four a suit of black, with large military boots and spurs, a sides; and at a signal given, every one advanced to. huge cocked hat, trimmed with white feathers, a co-wards the centre, and flung his flambeau on the lored scarf across the shoulders, a long white cavalry carth. In a few minutes the accumulation of fiery gauntlet reaching nearly to his elbows, and a drawn brands formed a considerable pile; and, while a thick Sudden Death.-CHARLES BALDWIN, Esq., an emi.rapier in his hand. He was the director of the va volume of smoke and flame rose up, and was carried rious manoeuvres, and his motions of command were obeyed along the whole moving column, whose dou- rapidly down the wind, the whole assembly once more ble files, of some hundreds in number, stretched down shouted a chorus of almost stunning harmony. Every the entire length of the main street. one knows how the German youths are trained up to such an occasion as this, singing in parts and without vocal music! and the effect of severa! hundreds, on a note of discord, one of their grandest national hymns, baffles imagination and defies the pen. nent legal practitioner, and a highly respectable citi. zen, was yesterday struck by the band of death in a manner awfully sudden and impressive. He lodged at the City Hotel, and had just seated himself, without any indication of indisposition, at the large dinner table of that establishment, when, on reaching out his hand to receive a plate that was handed to him, he fell back lifeless. The vital spark was, as if in the twinkling of an eye, totally extinct.-Courier & En. quirer.] sides carried torches, which were flourished in irreAll the men thus forming the living hedge at both gular movements, some dashing the blazing ends against the frozen snow on which they walked, proIt requires but little strength of fancy to believe that ducing by the mixture of flame and smoke, a strangly solemn effect of brilliancy of gloom. There were the spirit of patriotism rose on this union of incense a couple of dozen of the youths dressed in the same and melody. It seemed emblematic of that holy desire More Shipwrecks!-A few days since, we pub-grotesque mixture of civil and military costume as for freedom which swells and glows in the German lished a list of ten square rigged vessels, bound from the chief captain, and who followed his comrades in heart. A people imbued with a strong passion so dethe old country to Quebec, which have been cast regulating the march. But not a word was spoken veloped cannot, I thought, be doomed to perpetual away this season, accompanied by the loss of 456 aloud, no sound was heard throughout the peopled thraldom. There is a longing after a liberty that must lives, besides all on board a bark unknown. The streets save the oppressive harmony of the dead some time find a vent and secure a triumph. Montreal Gazette received last evening, adds eight march, in strains indescribably plaintive and original, more to the number of vessels, accompanied with the slow tramp of hundreds of feet, and the heavy BEETHOVEN. From La Revue Francaise. the loss of 248 lives, making a total of eighteen ves-tolling of the church bell, as the procession approach When Beethoven was young, at the age of twenty sels, and 704 lives lost!! It does seem to us, that led the burial ground, which was a short distance eight, as every one knows, he was struck with deatafter making all due allowances for difficult naviga-|| rom, but not in sight of, the house I occupied. But it is not equally well known that this intion, such a constant succession of disastrous ship- The coffin bearers wore suitable cloaks, sombre firmity rendered him unhappy, mortified and irritable. wrecks indicates that crazy ships are employed, or and fitted to protect the wearer from the frosty airll" O my friends," he would say in his energetic lan ness. STEPHENSON, 1111་་་་ Builder of a superior style of Passenger Cars for Railroads New-York. RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examin LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES. THE AMERICAN STEAM CARRIAGECOMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, respectfully inform the public, and us. pecially Railroad and Transportation Companies, that they have become sole proprietors of certain improvements in the construction of Locomotive Engines, and other railway caroriages, secured to Col. Stephen H. Long, of the United States Engineers, by letters patent from the United States, and that they are prepared to execute any orders for the construction of Locomotive Engines, Tenders, &c. with which they may be favored, and pledge themselves to a punctual compliance with any engagements they may make in reference to this line of business. They have already in their possession the requisite appara dry. Paterson, N. J. All orders addressed to the subscribers us for the construction of three classes of engines, víz. enat Paterson, or 60 Wall street, New-York, will be promptly at-gines weighing four, five, and six tons. guage," you who believe me to be obstinate, ill-na- RAILROAD CAR WHEELS, BOXES AND Also, AXLES furnished and fitted to wheels complete J8 ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR. The engines made by them will be warranted to travel at the following rates of speed, viz. a six ton engine at a speed of 15 miles per hour; a five ton engine at a speed of 18 miles per hour; a four ton engine at a speed of 22 1-2 miles per hour. Their performance in other respects will be warranted to equal that of the best English engines of the same class, with respect not only to their efficiency in the conveyance of burthens, but to their durability, and the cheapness and facility of their repairs, The engines will be adapted to the use of anthracite coal plne wood, coke, or any other fuel hitherto used in locomotive rate, than those on which engines of the same class can be The terms shall be quite as favorable, and even more mode procured from abroad. "I," said Beethoven, "am altogether cut off from society. I cannot listen to the conversation of my friends to me is denied all the happiness which is Near Dry Dock, New-York. usually derived from social intercourse-and when THOMAS B. STILLMAN, Manufacturer of Steam I struggle to overcome my repugnance to mingle Engines, Boilers, Railroad and Mill Work, Lathes, Presses, with society, you can hardly conceive of the agony and other Machinery. Also, Dr. Nott's Patent Tubular Boil of my feelings, when some one near me listens withers, which are warranted, for safety and economy, to be supe-engines. rior to any thing of the kind heretofore used. The fullest apparent delight to the sounds of, distant music, assurance is given that work shall be done well, and on reawhich I cannot hear. At such times I am almost sonable terms. A share of public patronage is respectfully tempted to commit suicide. One thing only binds ||solicited. ne to life. It is my extreme devotion to the art of Music. I cannot quit the world until I have produced all which I am capable of producing." MATHEMATICAL & OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS. EDINBURGH-Strange Bed-fellow.-About a week since, an old woman, residing in a house on the Castle-hill, was unspeakably surprized, on awaking from her night's rest, to find a strange animal lying at her back, with one of its paws laid over her shoulder. Screaming with affright, she left her bed, and seizing a towel, she beat it with all her might, when, with one bound, it sprung to the furthest corner of the room, and at length took refuge in another bed which stood in the same apartment. When the poor woman had a little recovered from her alarm, and had dissipated the idea that it was a visiter from the nether regions, she remembered that a collection of SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENT wild beasts were at present exhibiting on the Mound, EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, and began to suspect that her lodger belonged to the No. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Baltinumber. It was discovered that one of the kanga-more, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, esperoos had made its escape during the night, and go-cially Engineers, that they continue to manufacture to order ing up to the Castle-hill, had found this poor woman's and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above door open, and, upon examination, finding that it fair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude. branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on might be as completely accommodated beside her as For proof of the high estimation on which their Surveying in its own den in the menagerie, betook itself to rest,Instruments are held, they respectfully beg leave to tender to which, however, was broken in upon in the morning distinguished scientific attainments. the public perusal, the following certificates from geutlemen of in the manner we have mentioned. SURVEYORS, INSTRUMENTS. warranted. MANUFACTORY. To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some months since, 1 now offer you my opinion of the Instruments made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Olio RailCompasses of various sizes and of superior quality earlier period, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford road Company. This opinion would have been given at a much Leveling Instruments, large and small sizes, with high maga longer time for the trial of the 1.struments, so that I could nifying powers with glasses made by Troughton, together with speak with the greater confidence of their ́ merits, if such they should be found to possess. a large assortment of Engineering Instruments, manufactured and sold by E. & G. W. BLUNT, 154 Water street, It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding the Instruments in the service procured from our northern ciJ31 6t corner of Maidenlane. ties are considered good, I have a decided preference for those TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manu manufactured by you. Of the whole number manufactured for facherers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establish.the Department of Construction, to wit: five Levels, and five ment to Hudson, under the name of Durfee, May & Co. offer to of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for in-last twelve months, except from the occasional imperfection of clined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver a screw, or from accidents, to which all Instruments are liable them in any of the principal cities in the United States. Asto They possess a firmness and stability, and at the same time the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. a neatness and beauty of execution, which reflect much credit M. & H. R. R. Co., Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer on the artists engaged in their construction. Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbon I can with confidenco recommend them as being worthy the dale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. 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 Hudson, Columbia County, New-York; } 幸 29, 1833. Railroad. wayCars and Locomotives of patent iron. d71meowr ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in 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 or the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 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 number of the "Improved Compass" is eight. These are all exclusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra. duation Department. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have 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. ALBANY SEED-STORE AND HORTICULTURAL RE- WILLIAM HOWARD, U. 8. Civil Engineer. This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer carcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later al angles of any simple and cheap instrument that I have yet seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, Ithink it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy friend, JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Philadelphia, February, 1833. Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to EnE. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. gineers and Surveyors. Germantown, February, 1833. For a year past I have used Instruments made by Mr. W. J. Young, of Philadelphia, in which he has combined the propercies of a Theodolite with the common Level. I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for layin but Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engleers as preferable to any others for that purpose. HENRY R.CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad., Gormant, and Norrist. Railroad mi by THE UNDULATING RAILWAY. (Continued from page 373.) saw one of the members of the troop of horse,||character, which will unquestionably be concurred in who had just returned to the city. He informs us by the mass of mankind; for the majority of men esThe Editor of the London Mechanics' Maga- that the troop arrived at the place of riot yesterday timate the superiority of their fellows solely by the morning, in advance of Major Finley's command, zine afterwards states, that and that they found the rioters pretty well tranquil. indications of power--of power, under whatever "An Attentive Reader of the Undulating|ized, although in the early part of the day there had shape it may present itself; no matter how unequal Controversy' proposes that a sum of money been some violent passes between them. One of the may be its developements, or how destructive its disshould be staked on the result of a trial of an rioters, who had fired at Gen. Ridgely, was shot in undulating line. He requests us to ask, Whe- the mouth, and this, our informant states, was the play. What mind does not shrink before the blazing ther Mr. Badnall and Mr. Cheverton have con- only occasion on which fire arms were used. Major intellect of Byron-the iron ambition of Napoleon. fidence enough in their respective opinions to Finley's detachment arrived on the ground in the But how few can appreciate the moral grandeur—the afternoon, and when our informant left, matters were wonderful assemblage--the just balancing and decome forward singly, or supported by their apparently quiet. In the course of the contests which velopement of good and great qualities in the friends and advocates, and stake a sum of mo. had already taken place, a number of shantees were ney on the event?' He, for one, he adds, burnt. Four persons, it appears, were killed in the character of Washington! and yet that characas singular was as much a phenomenon, 'would be happy to back Mr. Badnall.' The affrays, one of whom was a female. The rioters ter wager, our correspondent suggests, might be arrested will, it is supposed, be escorted to Annapolis a departure from the wonted exhibitions of human nature under its most glorious aspects laid so that the winner should pay for the jail to-day. as ever had a place upon the annals of mankind.— expense of the trial; which expense, in case of failure, would be merely that of laying down Iron Case.-United States District Court, June 17 the rails and taking them up again, on any pro-and 18-Judge Betts presided. The United States Unhappily for the best interests of the human race This was an action to recover men always connect the idea of extravagance with jected line.' The sum he names is from vs. John F. Sarchet. the amount of a bond passed by the defendant to the ability, and moderation is ever considered the sure £1,000 to £2,000.", Collector for 750 dollars, being the duty claimed at indication of mediocrity. The justness of Lafaythree cents per lb. on iron studs or stays, and links, ette's life, the singular devotion to principle imported by the defendant, but which he contended was illegal, and should have been but one cent. per under all circumstances which marked the calb. on the stays as castings of iron not otherwise spe-reer of the pupil of Washington, is, viewed by this cified, and that the links should have been admitted light, sufficient to abnegate his title to greatness, Who duty free as a non enumerated article, or at most that who was great in every thing but crime. they were only subject to a duty of 25 per cent. ad valorem as a manufacture of iron. The Collector rushed foremost wherever the good were up and WAGER OF £1,000.-Sir: In your "Notes claimed duty on both articles as parts of iron chains, doing in the service of mankind, and sunk into ob and Notices" of last week, I observe a corre- partly manufactured, and as such subject to 3 cents scurity when evil men were the popular idols. The spondent suggests that a wager might be laid chivalric champion of Liberty, where Washington between Mr. Cheverton and myself, or our Verdict-That the links were subject only to a dufriends, on the result of a trial on an undula-ty of 25 per cent. ad valorem as a manufacture of iron, led the way: the unheard of exile when Marat and ting line. Individually, I am not in the habit and the studs to one cent. per lb., as castings of iron Robespeirre had triumphed: the lonely recluse of offering or accepting bets, but if Mr. Che-not otherwise specified. This verdict reduces the when the splendors of Napoleon's reign made des. verton feel inclined to adopt the recommenda- amount of duty claimed by the Collector nearly 75 potism popular: and the first assertor of the peotion of your correspondent, I shall be happy, on per cent. For the United States. Mr. Price, the District At.||ple's rights when Bourbon stupidity had uncovered the chains his victories successfully gilded. the part of my advocates, to enter, (through the medium of your Magazine,) into an agreement torney, and Mr. Philip Hamilton. with him, and if he be similarly inclined, to stake £1,000 on the result of a trial on five or ten miles of road. The stakes to be lodged in a banker's hands. I trust that the memorial which has been presented to the London and This challenge has brought Mr. Badnall out again, and we presume for the last time. The controversy has been conducted with good feeling on both sides. The result we shall soon know, and our readers shall very speedily be made acquainted with it. con, Yours, very obediently, RICHARD BADNALL. Manchester, April 7, 1834. per lb. For the Defendant, Messrs. Charles Walker and DEATH OF GENERAL LA FAYETTE. But he was not great! Why? Because he did not place the crown of Louis Philippe upon his own temples! Because after turning king-maker, and choosing that man for the head of the government he deemed most worthy, expectation has been dis. appointed in the pseudo-republican Bourbon? Because he was so true to his principles as to refuse a throne, or because he selected the wrong person to place upon it? By such reasoning thrones make men great, and the unworthiness of those in whom we trust is fatal to our own superiority of character. Lafayette was great-great in the only true sense of the term;-for real greatness, like a noble edifice or a perfect poem, does not exist in the eccentric display of grandeur or brilliancy in some of the details, but in the due proportion, the perfect adjustment, and consummate glory of the majestic whole. For our own part, we can never listen with patience the want of intellectual power, always does de. to those who delight in depreciating-to intimate LAFAYETTE IS NO MORE. This true patriot-this Birmingham Railway Directors may induce noble philanthropist--this patriarch of liberty, in them and their engineer, Mr. Stephenson, to many lands, weighed down with years and honors, institute, as I anxiously anticipate, an impartial has yielded up his valuable life, and left a place that trial on that line of road, on their own account; in which case, if Mr. Cheverton be the winner, he no man breathing can be made to fill. He died in the will gain £1,000 without deductions. Should 77th year of his age, in the full possession, up to the he prefer betting a greater sum, I shall be last moment of his existence, of all his mental facul. happy to submit his offer to those of my friends ties. He died, as we learn from an English paper, who may feel inclined to speculate. on Tuesday, the 22d of May. "During the last The only sum that I, in conjunction with my fifteen years of his life, he was the only individual partner, Mr. Stephenson, should feel disposed alive who had taken a leading part, and figured to win or lose, (which may be added to the stakes,) would be the expense of a dinner and in a conspicuous manner, in the event of the first wine, at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate street, revolution. His political career is so well known, that for all who have written on the subject, pro or it would be hardly necessary to enter into any thing in the Mechanics' Magazine-your worthy like an account of it here. Up to his last hour he re-preciate the few nobly great men who live on the tained the fullest possession of his mental faculties.-pages of the world, to teach us, when despairing of self, Sir, being President. The infirmities of age had only visited his physical the onward destiny of our race, that there have been frame. Both he and his intimate friends had perceived some who have dared to be honest, under all circummany months ago that he had begun to sink. The stances, and who have retained their benignity and love of mankind, when philanthropy became a reRiots and Murder on the Washington Rail Road.-decay of nature, however, was more rapid with him||proach, and a byeword. History will regard LafayThe riot among the labourers employed on the than it had threatened when its first decided symptoms Washington Rail road, of which we made brief men. became visible. The venerable General was born tion in yesterday's American, it seems first assumed an appearance that attracted notice, on Sunday evening on the 1st of September, 1757, and consequently The parties arrrayed against each other are known wanted little more than three months to complete the as the Fardowns and the Corkonians. On Monday age of 77. The wondrous scenes in both the New morning a body of militia hastily collected in the World and the Old, in which the name of Lafayette neighborhood, succeeded for a time in restoring ap. parent quietness by the arrest of a number of the was prominently distinguished, are among the most greatness of Lafayette. rioters, but they afterwards congregated in great remarkable in the annals of mankind; and we may numbers and came to open collision. Some of the safely aver, that history does not in all her reshantees, or temporary houses of the laborers, were cords possess a name which has passed through the the county of Rensselaer, and state of New-York, has invented destroyed, but the injury on that day seems to have searching ordeal of public opinion, even in the dark-and put in operation a Machine for making Wrought Nails with square points. This machine will n:ake about sixty 64 been confined to themselves. est and most tempestuous times, more pure and un-nails, and about forty 10d nails in a minute, and in the same hammered and comes from the machine completely heated to sullied than his whose death we are called upon proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for ships. The nail is redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and sure. deplore." One horse power is sufficient to drive one machine, and may easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in chines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soon operation. Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant maas they may be ma le, 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 arther information, or to purchase, will please to call at the machine shop of Mr. John Humphrey, in the village of Lan. A29 if RM & F ingburgh.-August15, 1833. Yesterday morning Gen. Ch. S. Ridgely having transmitted a requisition to this city for a re-inforcement of troops, a detachment of Infantry and Rifle. men, under the command of Major Finley, proceeded to the scene of the disturbance. It was composed of Captains Hickman's, Branson's and Cheves' corps of infantry, and Captains Cook's and Maguire's corps of Riflemen. The troop of horse commanded by captain Bouldin also marched on the same service.[Baltimore American.] to The English papers generally, in speaking of this event, mention it with a due sensibility to the manifold public and private virtues of the illustrious deceased. They speak of him always, however, as "good" rather than"great:"the mere appendage of great events, Postscript.-At half past eight, last night, well not the moving spirit among them-a view of his ette as one of those immortal benefactors of our race, who have stretched their arms beyond one generation to embrace the children of centuries in advance-a living model of goodness in every age. There the honesty that rose to the dignity of heroism, and the moderation which in classic story would be dignified as the loftiest philosophy, will leave unquestioned the NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS. 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.] SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1834. [VOLUME III.-No. 25. distance, which shall be considered as in lieu of to write for your Journal. I hope the patronage .390 Tobacco, per ton of 2 hhds. .391 Wheat, .392 Flour, 395 Offals. .396 Corn Meal & Rye chop, 40 64 399 New-York Prices Current; Advertisements; &c.....400 Hemp and Flax, AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. NEW-YORK, JUNE 28, 1834. Hay and Straw, Bark (Tanner's), Square timber 5000 CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.-The following communication gives the rates of tolls on this canal, which may be interesting to many readers of the Journal, as well as a docu. ment for future reference. We ask a similar statement for every canal and railroad in the country, and we desire it may be forwarded with the least possible delay. We promise to give an account of five, and perhaps more, to every Pla ter, Stone, gentleman who furnishes us with one, and to pay the postage into the bargain. 66 Lime, 2240 lbs 28 bushls I should like you to have a copy of Dr. Wm. Howard's report on the improvement of the Monongahela River, which is, at present, a favorite project in the western part of PennsylvaPer mile Per milenia, and one which, if executed, will tend as for first over 15 miles 15 miles. much as any other work of internal improvement to add to the resources of that region of country, so rich in mineral and agricultural products, and where the arts have attained such perfection. Your obedient servant, 2 2 30 15 per ton of 28 bushls per ton of 15 cub. ft. 1 Cut or Wrought, 2 44 Grind and Mill Stones, 2 cents 2 cents H. N. C. "The act of the Virginia Assembly, which passed the 14th February, 1834, entitled An 1 cent act further to amend the act, entitled 'An act incorporating the Stockholders of the James River and Kanawha Company,' having continued the books of subscription for the stock of said Company open until the 31st December next, and having declared that the payment of one dollar upon each share subscribed by individuals or corporate bodies, at any time before the said 31st December, shall render such subscription valid. "Resolved, That the Cashier of the Bank of Virginia be, and he is hereby, authorized, to draw on the Chamberlain of this city for the SIR,-I forwarded, some time since, by a prisum of four thousand dollars, payable the first vate conveyance, an answer to your letter askday of November next-it being for one dollar ing for information relative to the Chesapeake per share on 4000 shares of stock subscribed and Ohio Canal, which gave you such statis- The above rates are established for the pre-by the Corporation of Richmond to the James tical information respecting that grand work as sent for the use of the canal between the city of River and Kanawha Company; and that the I could collect. I am not aware that it has yet Washington and Harper's Ferry Falls; and the Chamberlain be directed to accept said draft, reached you, though it has been nearly a month, same rates per mile will be demanded for the and to furnish the Second Auditor with a copy if not more, since I wrote it. I could not then use of any portion of the river between the of this preamble and resolution." get a copy of the rate of tolls demanded on the Little Falls and the Harper's Ferry Falls; for canal, but having since succeeded, I forward the use of the river above Harper's Ferry Falls, them to you. This rate is only temporarily the tolls established by the late Potomac Comestablished, and it is probable, ere long, that pany will be demanded. CITY OF WASHINGTON, May 27, 1834. To the Editor of the Railroad Journal: Iron, Pig, Castings, Salt, Fish, a more favorable change will take place. Should The canal is now in active operation, and you determine on publishing the inclosed, you will soon, I believe, be opened for several miles will be pleased to notice the fact that this ar-above Williamsport, where the slack water rangement in respect to the tolls is only tem- navigation of the Potomac is used, (for a disA COTTON FACTORY has been established at porary. tance, I think, of upwards of 7 miles,) making Greensborough, N. C. It has five hundred Boats or scows, either empty or having in all a distance, from the Georgetown basin, of and twenty-eight spindles in operation, and is cargoes, the tolls on which shall not pay 5 cents upwards of 110 miles. per mile, shall be charged at the rate of 5 cents I have used some exertions to obtain you sub-capable of manufacturing between two and per mile, and 3 per mile cents for any additional scribers, and have had the promises of several three hundred pounds of thread per day. |