For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusett, eighty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Brooklyn, New York, fifty-seven thousand fifty dollars. For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Philadelphia, six thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For thh improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Washington, twenty-nine thousand five|| hundred dollars. For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Gosport, Virginia, one hundred and eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For the improvement and necessary repairs of the navy yard at Pensacola, twenty-six thousand lars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, ten thousand dollars. Fer defraying the expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: Destructive Fire at Hérkimer !—The Herkimer|| DESTUCTIVE FRESHET. 46 Great Sale.-The Company owning the "Old Line" of Liverpool packets, have sold six of the ships to a new Company, the Agent for whom are Messrs. Goodhue & Co. The ships sold are the Britannia, Caledonia, North America, South America, Europe, and Hibernia. The price is $36,000 each. They are comparatively new. The Pacific and New York, the oldest of the fleet, are not included in the sale. The Agents on the other side are Baring, Brothers & Co. That great house, we understand, are making arrangements to extend their business in this country, where they say they have made more money and lost less in comparison with the whole amount, than in any other country.—[Jour. of Com.] The arrangement of the Line, which will take ef fect on the 1st of March, will be announced by the middle of next month. The annual report of the Inspector of Pot and Pearl Ashes for the city and county of New York, was made to the Senate on Friday. Whole number of pounds inspected, including scrapings, 18,692,945; estimated value, $823,383 31; inspector's fees, deducting expenses, $4,304 85. The inspector adds that he does not know of any legislative provisions that would have a tendency to improve the quality or increase the quantity.—[Alb. Argus.] "I wrote the above several days ago-but owing to an unusual freshet in the Kanawha River, the mail did not leave our office. On Saturday, the 11th The old line of Liverpool packets, we are desired dol-instant, it commenced raining, which continued until Sunday night, and our whole country was inun. to say, will be completed by the addition of the dated with water. The Kanawha was within four Orpheus and the new ship Columbus, now building, feet of the rise of 1822, which was the greatest by Messrs. Webb & Allen, under the direction of freshet ever known in the river. Many of the bridges Captain Cobb. These ships will take the place of are swept away, and all have sustained damages. the Pacific and New York. For freight and transportation of materials and I understand that the water was four feet deep on stores of every description; for wharfage and dock-the floor of the Coal River Bridge, but it is said did age, storage and rent, travelling expenses of offi- not move it. The new bridge at Campbell's Creek cers, and fuel and candles, to officers other than was taken up the creek (by back water.) I have those attached to navy yards and stations, and for understood that they have been attempting to tow it officers in sick quarters where there is no hospital, back, and let it settle down, as the water falls, in and for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk its original place, and that they have hopes of suc. hire and office rent, stationary and fuel, to navy ceeding. The embankment has also been injured. agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of You will know where the water was in Charleston, recruiting; for apprehending deserters; for compen when I tell you it was 18 inches deep on the floor of sation to judge advocates; for per diem allowances the dining room of Captain Wilson's tavern. to persons attending courts martial and courts of "Two negroes went into Mr. L. Ruffner's coal inquiry, and to officers engaged in extra service be-bank. The entry is somewhat lower than the inteyond the limits of their stations; for printing and rior, where they worked. The water rose over the stationary of every description, and for books, maps, mouth of the bank, before they were aware of its charts and mathematical and nautical instruments, approach. They attempted to escape, but found chronometers, models and drawings; for purchase that the long entry, of more than one hundred yards, and repair of fire and steam engines, and for ma. was closed, and the water still advancing on them: chinery; for purchase and maintenance of oxen and They retuned to their room, and got on a pile of horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's slate in the highest part thereof, and in more than tools of every description; for postage of letters on mid-night darkness, awaited the sure approach of public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war, death. In this situation they remained two days and for cabin furniture of vessels in commission, and for nights. As soon as the water fell enough to let a furniture of officers' houses at navy yards; for tax- cruft enter the bank, one was sent in, but it could es on navy yards and public property; for assistance not pass the lowest point. The steersman called to rendered to vessels in distress; for incidental labor them; they answered, and were requested to be pa. at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropria- tient"-" the river was falling." What pen could tion; for coal and other fuel for forges, foundries, and describe the feelings of these poor fellows, when steam engines; for candles, oil, and fuel, for vessels they first heard the sound of human voices! It is in commission and in ordinary; for repairs of maga. supposed, that the air, which was confined in the zines and powder houses; for preparing moulds for room by the mouth's closing first, prevented the ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatsoev.water from filling it. But it is not certain that is the er, two hundred and ninety five thousand dollars. For contingen expenses for objects not hereinbefore enumerated, four thousand dollars. For pay of the officers, non commissioned officers, musicians and privates, and for subsistence of the officers of the marine corps, including arrearages and increased pay under the act, second of March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, one hundred and thirty-five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, and twenty-five cents. fact; or that the room, in which they were, was not "A considerable quantity of salt has been lost. La Normandie is the name of a new packet ship For subsistence of non commissioned officers, mu.of the Havre line, which is now preparing to sail on sicians and privates, and washerwomen of said corps, serving on shore, nineteen thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty cents. For clothing, twenty-nine thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars. For fuel, nine thousand and ninety-eight dollars. dollars. For medicines, hospital stores, and surgical instrumenta, for officers and men serving on shore, two thousand three hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy-one cents. APPOINTMENTS-Saturday, Jan. 18. NEW YORK--Isaac Sayrs, measurer of grain, in place of Aaron Howell, resigned; D. C. Colden, no. tary public, in place of Thomas Shankland, resigned; Jesup Jermon, notary public, in place of Evert A. Banker, resigned; Theodore Allen, commission. er of deeds, in place of John L. Creger, deceased; Thomas Frost, measurer of grain, in place of Wm. Frost, resigned; Henry H. Orrington, public notary, in place of Wm. Orrington, resigned; Edward M. Luther, culler of staves and heading, in place of James Rauvene, removed; Daniel Deitrick, inspector of sole leather, in place of Henry Leek, resigned; Edward Hueston, for pilot by way of Hell Gate, in place of Samuel Leaycraft, removed; John H Bell, notary public, in place of Thomas M'Cready, jr. deceased; Richard W. Blatchford, a commissioner of deeds, in place of Mitchell Sanford, resigned; Jas. Rogers, measurer of grain, in place of Samuel Bleecker, removed.-[Albany Argus.] From the Baltimore American of Saturday.] DESTRUCTION OF THE WARREN FACTORY.-A little before 12 o'clock on Thursday night the extensive Cotton Mill belonging to the Warren Manufacturing Company, about 15 miles from the city, was discov. ered to be on fire. The flames first appeared in the highest story of the building, near the belfry, about twenty minutes after the watchman had taken his regular half-hourly round through the rooms. He immediately attempted to give the alarm to the workmen by ringing the bell, but the second pull' of the rope caused it to sever at the place where the fire ed some little delay in rousing the workmen, but had already reached it. This circumstance creatthey were nevertheless at the premises in a compar atively short time, and using every possible exertion to check the fire, but without, we regret to add, be ing able to accomplish it. In a short time the whole building, with all its valuable machinery, was reduc ed to a heap of rains. None of the adjoining build Saturday next, 1st proximo. This vessel was built during the past summer, at Hartford, in Connecticut, under the superintendence of Mr. Isaac Bell. She is between 5 and 600 tons, of fine model for both speed and burden, and of great strength. Her main cabin is on deck, and it is finished with remarkably The whole is painted white, very highly good taste. varnished, with a light gilt moulding around the panneling. The state rooms are large and commodiously arranged; and from the after part of the cabin designed for ladies, a private stairway de.ings were injured. For balance due Lieutenant Colonel Anderson, scends into another smaller cabin between decks, nine hundred and fifty-four dollars and twenty-two admirably adapted to one or two families that might desire to be together on the voyage. One of the tioned at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, thirty most striking novelties in this ship is the arrange ment for the helmsman. The wheels are sunk in For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression the quarter deck, constituting the roof of the main of the slave trade, including the support in the United cabin, so that by throwing up a leathern covering, States, and for a term not exceeding six months after in the shape of a gig top, the man at the wheel is their arrival in Africa, of all persons removed from the United States under the said acts, five thousand completely protected from the weather. His posi-hundred persons derived, directly or indirectly, their tion too is behind, instead of beside, his wheel, as That so much of the sums appropriated by the act is generally the case, and hence he has more con of the twenty-eighth May, eighteen hundred and trol over it. Upon the whole, it is difficult to con thirty, for the relief of Alexander Claxton, as still ceive of more, or more ingenious arrangements for remains due and unpaid, and which has been carried comfort-if such a term can be predicated of any to the credit of the surplus fund, shall be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated. cents. For the erection of barracks for the marines sta thousand dollars. dollars. thing belonging to the sea-and safety, than is to be The cause of the fire cannot be traced. It broke and but little used, and the watch.clock indicated the out in a garret room containing nothing combustible, regular half-hourly presence of the watchman until the alarm was given. The fire was discovered at an early stage, but the combustible nature of the building, rendered still more so by the quantity of oil used on the machinery, baffled all efforts to subdue it. By far the most distressing circumstance connected with the event, is the fact that between seven and eight support from this establishment, and are thus suddenly deprived of employment at this very inclement season. We understand that the building and machinery were insured to the amount of sixty-three thousand dollars in several offices in the Eastern States. The property destroyed, however, could not be replaced for $100,000. roe. LITERARY NOTICES. MONROE CO. (M. T.) DEC. 5, 1833. a gently undulating grassy surface, as far as his favorite steed. I replied, however, so good the eye can reach; here clustered together in humoredly to his entreaties to trade, that he a grove of tall stems supporting one broad still persisted in them until taken aside by one I write to you from a log cabin on the banks canopy of interlacing branches, and there rear- or two of those present. He then came up to of the river Kaisin, about 30 miles above Mon-ing their gigantic trunks in solitary grandeur me in an altered manner-"I hope, sir, that I The worthy farmer, upon whose premi- from the plain. The feeling of solitude I had don't insult you by wanting to buy that curises I am quartered for the night, sits with while in the deep woods, deserted me the mo- some gun, for I dont mean to be uncivil not at all his child on his knee, in the chimney corner, ment I came upon this beautiful scene, and I inthe least." Upon assuring him that I had tawith a prosing visitor, pipe in mouth, opposite, rode on for hours, unable without an effort to ken no offence, he rejoined that if his horse was while the good woman is engaged doing some divest myself of the idea that I was in a culti- not worth $300 he would eat him, but he had "chores" at the further end of the apartment, vated country. Towards evening I found my- set his heart upon that gun and must have which is of course the chief cooking, eating, self in the thick forest again, and was glad as it. I did not like to expose myself to the sitting, sleeping and smoking chamber in the the night closed in darkly over a road where at temptation of seeing the horse though of course house. My dormitory, I have a shrewd suspi-every step my horse would either sink to his I did not think for a moment of taking advancion, is to be in a loft, from which a lad is at knees in mud, or trip over the stubs of the tage of the honest yeomans caprice, but had it this moment descending by a ladder with some newly cut saplings, to be overtaken by a mail- not been a present from a friend abroad I corn for my horse. The black walnut stand, rider, with his leathern charge, on horseback. should certainly have given my ardent acquainupon which I am writing, occupies the centre The lonely lad was as glad of company tance the toy which caught his fancy after of the room; and as I am at this moment through the forest as I was of a guide; and what followed. "I say mister, said he muskeeping up my share in a desultory sort of con- he willingly taking the lead, I flung my bridle ing for a moment "do you want a farm, eh! a versation going forward around me, and at the on my horse's neck, as the skies became black- house, eh! I'll trade you as good a tavern stand same time trying to check the undue familiarity er and blacker, and touching him smartly with two miles from this as there is in this county." of a large bull-dog-who, like other individu- the spur, away we went through the woods I got away at last as he followed me to the als, has become troublesome from being ad-together. "Take care of that tree, sir; look door and held my reins to mount, by promising mitted too rapidly into my intimacy-you must out for the mud-hole"-called my goblin usher to leave him the object of his desires in my not expect me to be very coherent in detailing at each moment, as we tramped and splashed will. the impressions of the day. along, where I would have defied the Evil One The charaster of the country continued for It was a gloomy, lowering morning, with himself to have seen any thing but the impene- some miles much the same as that passed over occasional flakes of snow driving through the trable dark. I heeded him not; but bending yesterday, though the river gradually degeneraharsh atmosphere, when I started from the low in the saddle to avoid the boughs, and ted into a narrow muddy stream. The log cabvillage of Monroe, well mounted on a stout glueing my knees to the surcingle, I surrendered ins which always occurred in the heavily timroan, whose figure and action would command myself to my destiny, and attended to nothing bered district, had nothing to distinguish them thrice the sum in New York that the animal but keeping my horse as close to the heels of from each other, and the openings were as sicost me here, and whose performance to-day his file-leader as possible. At length we lent as if man and beast had deserted them ; speaks well of the dependence I may place reached a clearing, and a few yards of better though I saw a couple of deer in one instance upon him to carry me through my arduous road brought us to a log-cabin. The family feeding afar off and met a settler who was carroute into the interior of the Peninsula. It were at supper when I entered; and sitting rying a wolf, just caught in a trap by the road was with a feeling of almost boyish pleasure down with the rest, I helped myself with an side, on his shoulders. I was struck too at seethat, after the slight taste I have had of stage iron spoon from a dish of suppawn, and fishing ing no less than three pet fawns near different travelling from Pittsburgh to Cleveland, and up a cup from the bottom of a huge pan of houses, within a few miles of each other. In from Detroit to Monroe, I found myself once milk, I poured the snowy liquid over the boiled one instance a tall hound was sitting erect bemore in the saddle, with the full privilege of meal that rivalled it in whiteness. The corn side one of these gentle creatures, who was lickregulating my motions as I choose. The de- from which it is made, my host tells me, grew ing the ears of the enemy of his race. The inlightful mode in which I travelled with S- to the height of 16 feet, the stalks being of a cident reminded me of an anecdote I heard told from New York to Wheeling, in a barouche, blackish green color. From the same soil, a by an old hunter in one of the wild districts of with two led horses under the saddle, was in- black sandy loam of easy tillage, wheat as New York. His favorite hound one morning, deed, both for pleasure and solid comfort, not high as a man's head has been raised; the when the deer were in the red coat and not t to be surpassed. But now, though I have produce from a single grain being from 300 to to hunt, came to him while chopping, and made neither the agreeable friend, the attentive 400, and in one instance one thousand and groom, nor the luxurious carriage, to enhance twenty-six. I see symptoms of sleeping in the gratification and relieve the weariness of those around me; and having no right to motravelling, the feeling of independence still re-nopolize this important apartment, will conmains. And though I confess I could not sup-clude this elsewhere to-morrow. press a sigh this morning, when packing up TECUMSEH, LENAWEE Co., DEC. the linen and books which, with my trunk, 1 The cockloft, as I expected, was my place shall not see for a month to come, yet that pair of rest. I stumbled over a pile of corn, and of saddlebags beneath my feet, though con- struck my head against the roof, almost as scious only of a shirt apiece, flanked as they soon as I had got my body fairly above the are by my light fowling-piece, which that trap-door. I found a clean bed, however, and weather-beaten worthy is at this moment curi-it was a very sociable place, after all; for ously examining, and my leggings, which are there were four persons besides myself stowed drying upon those andirons, make me feel as away in the different corners. So soundly did rich as did that famous soldato Dugald Dal- I sleep on my straw pallet, that the night getty himself, with his single change of cha- seemed to me but just begun, when the red glare mois leather and iron overcoat, while handling of a tallow candle flashing over my eyes, with his arms and surveying his compact appoint- the tap of the mail rider on my shoulder, told ments from the back of the doughty Gustavus. me that dawn was breaking, and that we must My road led, from the moment of leaving be gone. The landlord brought out a lantern the village, along the banks of the Raisin, for me to mount by, and we had proceeded far whose serpentine current flowed fuller and on our journey before the faintest streak in the clearer the further I advanced into the country. East indicated the waking of the sun. The land at the same time gradually rising, It was about 7 o'clock, when stopping to One of the other fawns which I saw, would; and though never hilly, yet leaving the stream, water at a little shantee, I found several labor- with the group attendant, have made a pretty ar enough below to form a bluff of some 10 oring people at breakfast within; and the mail subject for Fisher's pencil. He had thrust his 15 feet, where the timber land rose from the carrier consenting to wait for me, I sat down head into a bevy of rosy little girls, who were rich bottoms on its margin. After riding thus to table at once with the rest. The fare con- making "sand pies" on the bank of the river, for about 20 miles along the river, where the sisted of hot rolls and tea, with large pieces of and as his delicate hoofs threatened to demolog cabins gradually became fewer and farther pork swimming in its own gravy, with a plate lish the rural substitutes for the card houses between, I struck through a wood so dense that of noble potatoes, that pulverized when you of parlor bred urchins, one of the little archiit seemed to terminate the settlements in this touched them. My plate was heaped at once tects, covering her work with her hands, kept direction, and then at a sudden turning of the with all, while each one present vied with the the intrusive animal at bay with her head; path, I came at once upon the "oak openings." other in civility to me. They were talking of the long vellow locks of which streamed over It would be difficult to convey an idea of the a horse, for which $100 had been paid, when I his bluish crest while the perverse beast twistpleasing effect of such a surprize. Imagine entered; and an English poaching gun I have led his snout under and insisted upon licking yourself emerging from a New Jersey swamp, with me, not worth a fifth of the sum, caught her face. signs for his master to follow to a thicket not far off, where the woodman discovered a fawn so entangled that it could not escape. It was so small and feeble that he carried it away with ease in his arms, while the doe, which was near at hand, followed her bleating offspring. The dog accompanied him with great apparent joy, and, though one of the keenest of his kind, would drive off the grown deer only a few rods and then return at once to keep an eye on his master's movements. The fawn was taken home, and, being fed continually by the children, soon went tame about the house The dog,however, insisted upon sleeping with it,and could scarcely be separated from his long eared friend, and when it met with the usual fate of pets and died prematurely, a month or two after, poor Ring was inconsolable. The worthy English settler, whe had been a game-keeper in the "auld country," in his day, added, that he had the curiosity to dress a piece of the veni. son, which, fond as hounds are of that food, was rejected with disgust by the canine mourner. and coming at one bound upon one of the En- the faney of the owner. He insisted upon It was still early in the afternoon when I arglish Parks which Puckler Muskaw so admi-"swapping with me on equal terms," and rived at this place, and my surprize was not rably describes. Clumps of the noblest oaks seemed much hurt when I refused not only to slight after coming through a region where with not a twig of underwood, extending over" trade," but expressed no inclination to see every mile seemed to lead me further from ci PETER PARLEY'S BOOK OF POETRY. H. 63 NOVELTY WORKS, and other Machinery. Also, Dr. Nott's Patent Tubular Boil ment to Hudson, under the rame of Durfee, May & Co. offer to them in any of the principal cities in the United States. AB LO M. & H. K R. Co., Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer dal, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbou Hudson, Columbia County, New-York,{ January 29, 1833. LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES. THE AMERICAN STEAM CARRIAGECOMPANY,. OF PHILADELPHIA, respectfully inform the public, and es pecially Railroad and Transportation Companies, that they ́have become sole proprietors of certain improvements in the construction of Locomotive Engines, and other railway carriages, 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-. ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. vilization to light suddenly upon a pretty vil-interior, and hope to be able to tell you that I have lage laid out with broad streets, and having an seen a hill or a rock, the sight of either of which excellent tavern on a public square in the cen-would, I confess, be refreshing in spite of all the tre. I entered the town through an oak open-charms of oak openings, vine hung streams, and Engines, Boilere, Railroad and Mill Work. Lathes, Presses, ing. When a few hundred yards from the vil-grassy bottoms. lage, I passed a half dozen graves, apparently PETER PARLEY'S BOOK OF BIBLE STORIES. Boston: dug at random among the trees, though each was ornamented with a handsome head stone. LILLY, WAIT & Co. Agent in New York, J. W1. I have since learnt that the towns people, with LEY.-These are two little volumes, in the usual TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Nanu a degree a of consideration which might well style of Peter Parley, adapted for children and facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establish be emulated in larger cities, are already mak-youth, and adorned? with wood-cuts. The Book of supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for ining arrangements to lay out and plant a public Poetry is composed chiefly of short and well select-clined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver cemetery for the use of every religious denomination in the place. At Monroe I believe they ed pieces. The Bible Stories, is made up of two lit-the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. have already done the same thing. There, in-tle English books, "Bible Letters" and "Gospel deed they had an ample number of guests for the Stories," with some few alterations and omissions. narrow house, before even the abodes for the DENTOLOGIA, A POEM; by SOLYMAN BROWN, A. M. living were built. The bones of the butcher- with Notes Practical, Illustrative, Historical, &c. By ed Kentuckians bleached till within a few years ELEAZAR PARMLY, Dentist. New York: PEABODY & on the banks of the Raisin, and a gentleman Co.-A poem " on the diseases of the teeth, and their of the place told me that he had often walked over the execution ground and handled skulls proper remedies!" Was ever Muse invoked in such that were cloven with the tomahawk. There behalf before? This may well seem a very natural is also an Indian cemetery about 12 miles from exclamation, and yet, when one goes beyond the first Monroe, where the skeletons of the dead can be blush of the subject, it will be found that inspiraplainly seen through the crevices of the stone tion is sought, and found, too, by the poet, in lovely pile heaped above them. I am told that they woman's face, of which two rows of pearl form not are wholly unmolested by the white inhabitants; the least lovely feature. In serious truth, Mr. Browns partly from feelings of decency, creditable to themselves, and partly, perhaps, from fear of has here treated a subject, unpropitious certainly, the roving relatives of the deceased, who return with no common talent, while, in the notes of the yearly and observe the condition of the spot, friend to whom he dedicates his poem, there is much with a jealous eye. Not far from this place, re- that may be read with both profit and pleasure, by sides an old settler, who has killed a half a do- the admirers of, and those admired among, the fair zen Indians with his own hand. Three or four of them he shot with his rifle from his cabin,] LIFE AND WRITINGS OF MAJOR JACK DOWNNIG, &c. when they surrounded it to capture him; and Boston, Lil-engines. the stories told of his encounters with the others, written by himself: 2d edition, 1 vol. might better be detailed by a novelist than ally Wait, Colman & Holden.-This volume con. letter writer. I have seen nothing of the na-tains capital humor and satire; though much of it, procured from abroad. All orders for engines, &c. and other communications in retives yet, except a couple of Wyandott squaws, from its local application, referring to quarrels inference to the subject, will be addressed to the subacril e:, in the though the French settlers with their elf locks and blanket capotes, might at a distance be well the Maine Legislature, will be less relished here city of Philadelphia, and shall receive prompt attention. taken for aborigines. Ithink a little of starting than in New England. There are appended to it— at once for the rapids of the Grand River, and and that, considering they are denounced as spurispending a week or two among the Ottowas,ous, seems unfair-several letters of our Major Jack 772 of this Journal. who, I am told are still there in considerable Downing. The whole of these-which, bearing on numbers, and preserving enough of their ori- general affairs as they do, and revealing with such ginal habits to make them fair specimens of intimate knowledge, the doings of both cabinets at the Michigan Indians. They tell me however Washington, and of the interior of the Gineral's that a guide will be indispensable, and having already offered one in vain a fair compensation, I may be compelled to give up the attempt. sex. palace, are universally acceptable-will, we are glad for the construction of three classes of engines, viz. engines weighing four, five, and six tons. The engines made by them will be warranted to travel at the following rates of speed, viz. a six ton engine at a speed of 15 miles per hour; a five ton engine at a speed of 18 miles per hour; a four ton engine at a speed of 22 12 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 re pairs. The engines will be adapted to the use of anthracite coal, plne wood, coke, or any other fuel hitherto used in locomotive The terms shall be quite as favorable, and even more moderate, than those on which engines of the same class can be WILLIAM NORRIS, Secretary. By order of the Company, For further information on this subject see No. 49, page ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING d6 hir profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of ured in the United States; several which are entirely new: The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in construction and workmanship to any imported er manufacAmong which are an Improved Compass, with a Te.escope atLached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, for January.—Among the ofthe needle, with perfect accuracy-also, a Railroad Goniom The Grand river or Washtenoug is, as I have beGoniometer attached, particularly adapted to Railroad purpofore mentioned, the largest stream in the Peninsula, diversified and truly interesting contents of this, with two Telescop es-and a Levelling Instrument, with a WM. J. YOUNG, being 270 miles in length, while the country watered number, we remark a drawing and description of Dr.||ses. Mathematical Instrument Maker, No. 9 Dock street, by it consists of about 7,000 square miles. It has a Church's Steam Carriage for ordinary roads, now good harbor at its mouth, on Lake Michigan, for ves. Philadelphia. sels drawing 8 feet water, and it is navigable for in practical operation in England; and a clever pa- to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested, Baltimore, 1839. In reply to thy Inquiries respecting the instruments manu. factured by thee, now in use on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Iheerfully furnish thee with the following information. The whole number of Levels now in possession of the departThe whole num. inent of construction of thy make is seven. Accompanying this No. we have received a large ber of the Improved Compass" is eight. These are all ex. Tuation Department. and handsome 8vo. volume, comprizing all the num-clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra. bers of the past year. It is a volume which working men in all departments, and men having any turn for n fact needed but little repaire, except from accidents to which mechanical or scientific enquiries, should possess. HEATH'S BOOK OF BEAUTY FOR 1834.-We have Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have all instruments of the kind are liable. I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasses have been preferred by niy assistants generally, to any others in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other de on this Road. 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 mot completely adapted to later angles of any simple and chea instrument that I have yet those drawing 4 feet for more than 30 miles from the per on Mr. Burdon's steamboat. Mr. Verplanck's Lake: while further inland it traverses a country address, too, before the Mechanics' Institute, is represented, by my informant who has recently re. turned from surveying in that distant region, as of im- given at length, and will, we hope, be generally read and meditated. mense fertility. There are also beds of gypsum and lime, with sound stone quarries and mines of iron and with indications of the existence of copper, to be found on its tributaries, while a hundred mineral springs—which seem to abound in this country, for have already seen a half a dozen-enrich the central region where its branches interlock with the bright|| waters of the Huron on the eastern, and the myriad just seen this beautiful volume, which W. A. Col-cription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails of streams and lakes which form the sources of the Kecklamazoo on the western, side of the Peninsula. man has received by the George Washington. It is They tell me here that it would be in vain for me to in all respects of engraving and printing, worthy of attempt to cross the country from Chicago to St.Louis its name. He has also vol. 1. of "A Miscellany of alone at this season of the year, when, if the vast Natural History," containing the history of Parrots,al prairies are covered with snow, I should be lost be- and giving all their varieties in colored engravings yond a certainty, and as I am now compelled to remain until the new mail contracted for commences running on the first of January, I shall employ the intermediate time in seeing as much of Michigan as possible. I find myself among the most intelligent population of the middle class (the bone and sinew of a community) I ever mixed with, and every one seems so contented, I may even say delighted, with his adopted home, that I am catching a little of the spirit of those around me, and an eager to visit more intimately scenes which one would suppose were Ely. sian, by the way in which people talk of them. I find myself as yet only 35 miles from Monroe by the new U. S. road, though the route I travelled was 65.When you next hear from me I shall be father in the a well executed work. FOR SALE, 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 ae highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy friend, JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Philadelphia, February, 1839. ATLANTIC JOURNAL AND FRIEND OF KNOW. Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. LEDGE-A Quarterly Journal, by Professor Rafinesque, of Young's Patent Improved Compass," I cau safely say I be Philadelphia, begun in the spring of 1832, with wood cuts, &c.lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, dedicated to Historical and Natural Sciences, Botany, Agriculow in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to EnE. H. GILL, Civil Engineer, ture, &c. at one dollar per annum. gincers and Surveyors. MEDICAL FLORA OF THE UNITED STATES, in 2 vols. Germantown, February, 1833. with 10 plates, containing also the economical properties of For a year past I have used instruments made by Mr. W.J. Young, of Philadelphia, in which he has combined the proper500 genera of American plants. $3. MANUAL OF AMERICAN VINES, and Art of Makingties of a Theodolite with the commun Level. Wines, with figures. 25 cents. I consider these Instruments admirably calcula for layin FISHES AND SHELLS OF THE RIVER OHIO. 1 dollar.out Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of EnglAMERICAN FLORIST, with 36 figures-price 36 cle. neers as preferable to any others for that purpose. HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad., Germant, and Norrist. Ralroad warranted. AN INTERESTING AND USEFUL MAP. the present contemplated connexion of the different lines, as well as where others may hereafter be constructed to conneet with them. It will be completed in a few weeks, and may be had either in sheets, or put up in morocco for pocket maps, in any quantity, by applying to the subscriD. K. MINOR, 35 Wall street. New-York, August 14, 1833. At the commencement of the last year|| * I offered to send the American tri-weekly instead of semi-weekly, together with two of my periodicals, in exchange to those who would publish my advertisements of the different periodicals. In consequence of this notice, oui exchange list was increased to 165-to all, or nearly all, of which I sent the American three times a week and also two of my periodicals.railroads to be laid in the United States within a few years I soon found that the expense would be greater than I had anticipated, as the paper alone for this number of exchanges would cost me over $500 for the year, yet I had made the offer, and Builder of a superior style of Passenger Cars for Railroads redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and sure. would of course continue it through the year TO RAILROAD COMPANIES. STEPHENSON, No. 264 Elizabeth street, near Bleecker street, RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examin as I have done. I however find it too expensive ly reduce their exchange list. The semi-weekly American will hereafter be sent in exchange as formerly, (or until January, 1833,) to those who will publish the following advertisements for me to the amount of the difference of price. New-York, January 20, 1834. Also, Flange Tires turned complete. J8 ROGERS, KETCHUM & GROSVENOR. INCOMBUSTIBLE ARCHITECTURE. INCOMBUSTIBLE dwelling houses and buildings of all kinds devised or built in New York, or any part of the United States, as cheap as any other combustible buildings Actual buildings and houses rendered incombustible at a small additional expense. SHIPS of all sorts, and Steamboats, rendered incombustible, and not liable to sink, at a small expense. For sale, 10,000 lbs. of ANTIGNIS, or Incombustible Var VOL. III. OF THE RAILROAD JOUR-nish, at one dollar per lb. NAL AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVE MENTS is published once a week in quarto form, with 16 pages to each number, at $3; or in semi-monthly form, of 32 pages, stitched in a cover of colored paper, at $4 per anrum, in advance. The first and second volumes of the Journal may be had in two parts to the year, either stitched in covers or bound in boards, for the price of putting them up, 25 or 75 cents per volume. Those in covers may be sent by mail to any part of the country, the same as a magaxine. Published at No. 35 Wall st., New-York, by D. K. MINOR, Editor and Proprietor. It NOTICE TO MANUFACTURERS. SIMON FAIRMAN, of the village of Lansingburgh, in the county of Rensselaer, and state of New-York, has invented and put in operation a Machine for making Wrought Nails with square points. This machine will make about sixty 6d nails, and about forty 10d nails in a minute, and in the same proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for ships. The nail is hammered and comes from the machine completely heated to One horse power is sufficient to drive one machine, and may easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in operation. Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant ma. chines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soon as they may be made, and on the most reasonable terms. He also desires to sell one half of his patent right for the use of said machines throughout the United States. Any person desiring further information, or to purchase, will please to call at the machine shop of Mr. John Humphrey, in the village of LanA29 if RM&F singburgh.-August 15, 1933. ATHEMATICAL & C INSTRUMENTS. MANUFACTORY. Apply to C. S. RAFINESQUE, Professor of Hist. and Nat. 800 do. 2 do. do. 800 do. do. EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, nore, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, espeNo. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Balticially Engineers, that they continue to manufacture to order and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above Flat Bars in branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on lengths of 141015 fair terms. Instruments repaired fwith 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. feet counter sunk holes, ends cut at A. & G. RALSTON. To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some months since, I now offer you my opinion of the Instruments made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. This opinion would have been given at a much earlier period, but was intentionally delay, in order to afford longer time for the trial of the Instruments, so that I could speak with the greater confidence of their merits, if such they should be found to possess. THE MECHANICS' MAGAZINE AND REGISTER OF INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS is now just commencing its second year. It has, thus far, been received by those for whom it is designed, in a manner highly complimentary to its projector and pro-motive wheels. Axles of 24, 24, 21, 3, 31, 31, and 34 inches diameter for Rail It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding prietor. It will be continued by him in a manner not only way Cars and Locomotives of patent iron. equal, but altogether superior to that of the first year. The above will be sold free of duty, to State Governmente,the Instruments in the service procured from our northern cihas drawn forth many valuable correspondents, with and Incorporated Governments, and the Drawback taken in the assistance of whom and those who may hereafter con-part payment. tribute to its columns, together with the ability of Mr. JOHN KNIGHT, formerly, and for several years, proprietor and publisher of the LONDON MECHANICS' MVGAZINE, who is engaged, and has been, for the last 10 months, as Editor of this work, the proprietor has no hesitation in saying that it will be found worthy of an extended irculation and a liberal support. The first year,or two first volumes, having been stereotyped, may now he had either in numbers, or bound in boards-either at wholesale or retail. Price $1 50 per vel. in numbers, or $1 75 in boards, or $3 per annum. A liberal discount made to the trade. all st. N. Y. Office 35 9 South Front street, Philadelphia. Modele 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. POSITORY. d71meowr AL BANY SEED STORE AND HORTICULTURAL RE- manufactured by you. Of the whole number manufactured for ties are considered good, I have a decided preference for those he Department of Construction, to wit: five Levels, and five of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the a screw, or from accidents, to which all Instruments are liable last twelve months, except from the occasional imperfection of They possess a firmuess 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 work nianship. JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendent of Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. I have examined with care several Engineers' instruinents The greatest care and attention has been bestowed upon the growing and saving of Seeds, and none will be sold at this estab-of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and & urveylishment excepting those raised expressly for it, aud by experi-or's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion enced seedsmen; and those kinds imported which cannot be rais THE NEW-YORK FARMER ANDed to perfection in this country; these are from the best housesofthe excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels in Europe, and may be relied upon as genuine. 347 N. Market st. (opposite Post Office.) to wit: appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accu- WILLIAM HOWARD, U. S. Civil Engineer. * Mr. Thorburn is also Agent for the following publications, NEW VORK FARMER and American Gardeners' Magazine. MECHANICS' MAGAZINE and Register of Inventions & ImproveAMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL and Advocate of Internal Im-relieve us of the uecessity of sending elsewhere for what we provements; and the D. K. MINOR. y engraved. M4 ng the same. m25 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.] AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 8, 1834. 74 80 nations. [VOLUME III.-No. 5. No. 40 Eldridge street, where those interested in such matters are respectfully invited to call and satisfy themselves. The following is the plan of Mr. E. JOHN. SON for constructing railroads, referred to in our last. It is a plan upon which we should like to have the opinion of experienced engi neers. Mr. Johnson will also oblige us by communicating the probable expense of such a railroad in ordinary situations. A New Plan for the Construction of the Wood ments. Mr. Ogden and Mr. Cartwright were the heads of two co-ordinate branches of the service; the former having charge of the levelSIR,-Having introduced a new plan for ling operations, and the latter that of the travrse work but as both performed their duties in the construction of the wood work of railroads, immediate relation to myself, as the head or which is adopted by the directors of the Purarelations of responsibility or subordination through your valuable Journal, to give a brief the party, they acted without any particular lo and Black Rock Railroad Company, I wish, with respect to each other. description of the same, in answer to inquirics that have been made. Mr. Ogden. In fact, the dut es of the latter, a a a NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD.-This important public improvement seems to attract less attention at this moment of pressure and despondency, than it merits. The great question now seems to be how to pay old, rather In drawing up the roll referred to, the name than to contract new, liabilities; and so it should of Mr. Cartwright was placed first, in conbe: yet such a measure as that of opening a of character, without intending to imply, by sideration of his age and general respectability more direct, easy, and expeditious communica-any means, that he was the official superior o tion between this city and the great west, should not, for a moment, be lost sight of Every preliminary measure for immediate action, when the sun of prosperity shall again Place longitudinal sills, a a, of round timber arise, should be adopted, and every man who has one foot in diameter, hewed on one side, even an interest in the prosperity of either the country with the surface of the grade; cover the road at large, that through which the road is to pass, bed with plank, b, two and one-half inches in or of this city, should be ready to aid in its acthickness, and seven feet long, resting upon the grade and sills; over the sills place two complishment. We have often referred to this contemplated railroad, as a measure in which by four inch scantling, c c, on which are placed the state, as a state, ought to take an interest. the iron plates: all of which parts are secured It would be to the southern what the canals by eight-inch spikes, terminating in the sille. It has been for several years past, to the are to the northern part of the state; and by The plan is proposed for new districts of whom were those constructed? Were they not writer, an important object, and a favorite country, where the location of the line of read built by the STATE? If they were, why should study, to effect, if possible, a saving in the use is through low table lands, or the rich farming the state hesitate to confer equal benefits on of steam; and after a great variety of experi- lands of secondary formation, which are reother parts of the state, where the public atments on the subject, he has arrived at the con- tentive of moisture, or light sand soils; all of large would be equally benefitted? The people clusion, and believes he can demonstrate clear-which would require expensive preparations of the southern part of the state are equally en-ly to every rational mind, by actual experiment, of the grade by rubble or gravel blind rains, titled with those of the northern part, to pub. a saving of nearly one-half, by the use of double &c., to prepare for the reception of 'ne timber lic improvements, if those improvements will cylinder engines. In order to illustrate the fact, work. contribute equally to the general prosperity of he has fitted up a small model, so arranged as In the usual form of timber constructions, it to give every possible chance to test fairly the the country; and therefore the legislature can- correctness of his theory. The machine above has a superficial bearing of twenty-nine feet not, in justice, withhold the aid of the state mentioned is constantly in operation at Wm. upon the grade, to the rod. In the above form, from this important improvement. T. James' foundry and steam engine factory, there is one hundred fifteen and one-half feet Chief Engineer on the late Water Survey Economy in the Use of Steam. [Communicated for the American Railroad Journal, and Advocate of Internal Improvements.] |