The Roman Catholic priesthood in India exceeds in number the ministers of the Protestant Church, in the proportion of about 300 to 1; and the population of each persuasion differs in an equal ratio. SUMMARY. Daniel Webster has accepted, as we learn from the National Gazette of yesterday, an invitation from the The Lord Chancellor is much opposed to general Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, to deliver an adabolition of sinecures, which would do away with the dress before that body in the last week of Novem. appointment he holds as keeper of the King's con-||ber next. science.-[Figaro in London.] dian.] APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT. I am thus particular. At present we have five steamboats which run constantly between this place aud Columbus, Geo. affording an opportunity to for. ward with cheapness and despatch, goods to any part of the country bordering on the Apalachicola & Chatahoochee rivers, and a very large business is now doing between this port and the interior. The Cotton crops are very abundant, and should the sea Tremendous Fall of Limestone-cliff at Marcross.- R. B. Taney, Esq. was yesterday appointed Secre. island continue good, as there is now every prospect On Thursday, the 24th of July, an immense avalanche tary of the Treasury of the United States. On ac. of, the quality will be superior." of the lofty cliff at Marcross, in this county, took cepting this appointment, Mr. Taney resigned the Naval Architecture.-A gentleman in this city, place, and it is calculated that 200,000 tons of lime-office of Attorney-General.-[Globe, of yesterday.] well known for his attachment to science, and pa stone rock were precipitated upon the beach. It has We have before us a copy of the specification of tronage of the useful arts, is building a sea schooner unfortunately occurred very near one of the newly- the materials and mechanical execution of the pro. of about 200 tons, intended to ply from this port, erected light-houses, and though there is no immedi- posed new Custom House in this city. The buil. on the plan* and under the direction of Mr. Annesley. ate danger, yet, when what Leland so aptly calls ding is to be 177 feet long, and 89 feet wide; and The model is allowed to be very elegant. As she "the rages of Severn" re considered, there is no its form and order of the building to be similar to now stands for planking, she presents a most singular calculating how soon these substantial and solid fab-that of the Parthenon at Athens. It is to stand on a and interesting appearance. Mr. Annesley's sysrics might be undermined. A large party from Cow-basement story, ascended by nineteen steps from tem must, we think, eventually succeed, as his ves. bridge and its vicinity had been spending the day on Wall street and six steps on Pine street. There are sels are seaworthy to the last, may be made to any the Marcross rocks, and some of the party (of the to be eight Grecian doric columns at each front, and model, and possess qualities that are indestructible families of the Rev. Robert Knight and T. Basset, fifeen columns and antæ on each side attached to the by ordinary wear and tear.-[Albany Daily Adv.] Esq, of Welch St. Donais) had only left the spot a few walls. There is also to be a second row of six *The U. S. schooner Experiment was built upon minutes before the fall took place.-[Merthyr Guar- smaller columns back of and parallell with those of plan. the main front, leaving a space of ten feet between [From the Norwalk Gazette.] A French paper mentions that the public library at the two rows; and nine feet between the inner row INDIANS. Some of our heavy land-holders have Caen has lately been enriched by several valuable and the front wall of the building. Back of the two been alarmed during the past week by the appearance volumes not less curious than remarkable for the extreme columns of the inner row there are to be among us of three Indians of the Mohegan tribe, beauty of the writing. They are presents sent from two antæ, and six antæ attached to the walls of the who came to lay claim to a tract of land hereabouts, Karibal and Coromandel, by Messrs. Firmin and Hip. rear front, leaving a space of eight feet and a half upon the strength of tradition in the tribe, that they polite Joyau. They are written upon lamina of the between the columns and antæ. There will thus be once owned a piece, which was not sold but leased to palm tree, called in the country aules, and contain twenty-four outside columns, five feet eight inches some persons of the name of Dixon and Townsend.— dramatic poetry and eastern tales, in Tamoul, one of diameter at the bottom, and thirty-two feet high, in-They further stated that the land was contiguous to, the principal languages in the south of Hindostan.- cluding the capital, and eighteen anta on the two or embraced "the Old Orchard," which has led to M. Joyau, sen. has also deposited at the Museum, insides, of the same height, five feet wider and much speculation respecting the location of the Old the names of his sons, a number of rare shells, but three feet nine inches projection from the walls.-||Orchard, and who at present was the unfortunate a still greater quantity have been lost by a singular The six inner columns of the main front will be possessor. After sauntering about two or three days, accident. When the boat which brought this valua. four feet eight inches diameter at bottom, and the they disappeared, as wise probably as when they ble addition to the science of conchology from Ceylon antæ to correspond. The building is to be two came. to Karibal left, the cholera had just broken out, and stories high, except the great business hall part of the sailors attributing the disease to the infection ari-which is to be vaulted as high as the roof will permit zing from the dead fish in the shells, they were all and its centre finished with a dome sixty-two feet in thrown back into the sea. Messrs. Joyau, hewever, diameter. This hall will occupy the centre of the hope to repair this loss, though it will be attended building, and will be one hundred and fifteen feet with considerable difficulty. long, leaving a small vestibule at each end to enter From Norwalk river to Saugatuck river, and one A Terrific Sea Monster.-A boat belonging to Mr. from. It is to be seventy-seven feet wide in the cen-day's walk into the country:-8 fathoms wampum, 6 Catt brought on shore at Seaford, a few days ago, a tre part, which is a circle of seventy-feet diameter, coats, 10 hatchets, 10 hoes, 10 knives, 10 scissors, 10 fish of an extraordinary kind. Its fins resembled the with the length and breadth of the room extending penknives, 10 fathoms tobacco, 3 kettles, 6 hams, about arm and hands (with finger nails) of a human being, beyond its circumference to these dimensions; and 10 looking glasses. From Norwalk river to Five Mile and it had two protuberances or sort of pockets on the four parts so extended beyond the circle are river, and as far as an Indian can walk in a day in the each breast, which were filled with small fish.-thirty-three and a half feet wide, leaving six rooms country :-10 fathoms wampum, 3 hatchets, 3 hoes, When taken from the net, it followed the fishermen and three circular staircases in the four corners, and when the ships come* 6 glasses, 12 tobacco pipes, round the boat; and in order to get rid of "so ugly the two largest rooms to be twenty-four by twenty-3 knives, 18 drillers, 10 needles. * Whether the 'ships' ever 'came,' does not appear. a customer," they procured weapons end despatched one feet each, besides a square staircase in the rear, it forthwith.-[Brighton Gaz.] and three vaults for papers at the two ends of each The London Athenæum states that Lander, the vestibule. The same division of the room is made African explorer, who has lost 25 of his party, was expected in England in September or October, and in the other stories, leaving all the area of the same the letters from him are said to speak very conshape and size as the great hall immediately about it; fidently of the ultimate success of the commercial with the addition of sixteen fluted doric columns to dome of the great hall.-[Evening Post.] support the vaulting and the pavement under the objects of the expedition. Nothing, however, in a mercantile point of view, could compensate, we U.S. ShipSt. Louis.--The following is a list of offi.should think, for such a fearful expenditure of human cers attached to this vessel, which went to sea yester-life as has already attended this wild undertaking. day afternoon. Every succeeding expedition into this fatal country Commander-Thomas Moore Newell, Esq. This strange mannered monster, that "walks erect in the second story. Nearly the same number, shape, and looks to Heaven," must surely be a descendant and size of rooms are had in the basement, as above of Shakspeare's Caliban, or of the nondescript sailor montioned by Aboulfoaris, in the Eastern tale, He might, if taken alive and properly conciliated, have wade a capital mate of a Nantucket smack cruising after the Sea Serpent. A friend has handed us the following memorandum of the cost of such of the original township of Nor. walk as lay between Saugatuck and Five Mile Rivers, extending an Indian's day's walk into the country: Lieutenants-1st, Wm. S. Harris; 2d, Wm. C. seems to be more disastrous than those which preWetmore; 3d, Samuel Mercer; 4th, Oscar Bullus;ceded it; and though the cause of science has been 5th, Richard H. Morris. Surgeon-John Wiley. The Destroying Engine.-Sir Thomas Urquhart tells us that John Napier, the father of the first Lord, and the inventor of the logarithms, had invented a destroying engine that would clear a space a mile in extent each way of the enemy; in other words, of 30,000 Turks without the loss of a Christain. But on being requested by his friends in his last illness, to reveal the contrivance, he replied. "That if he could lessen the means already existing for the destruction of man, he would with all his might apply himself to the purpose, but that they should never by his means be increased." He died 1617.-N. E. Lane, James W. Revere, Wm. W. Smith, T.rous, that while these considerations forbid the idea [Sharpe's Peerage, just published.] Six Children at one Birth.-On the 30th Decem. ber, 1831, the wife of Dernian Ploson, in the village of Dropin, in Bessarabia, was delivered of six daughters, all living, and only a little smaller than the usual size of children at birth, with the exception of the last, which was much the least. The mother was not quite twenty years of age, and of a strong constitution. The whole six children lived long enough to be baptized, but died on the evening of the day of their birth. The mother subsequently suffered indisposition, but got quite well.-[Gazette Medicale.] Acting Sailing Master-J. Wentworth Cox. A. M. Craven, E. C. Ward Jr., Thomas M. Mix, John J. E. Duncan. in some degree promoted by recent discoveries, yet to what does this extension of our geographical |knowledge amount, when the climate of the regions explored is so destructive to European constitutions, and the people that inhabit them so rude and barba. osity is the only reward of the perils encountered.of commercial intercourse, the gratification of curi. It is one thing with Denon and Belzoni to trace the School Master-Felix Giendicella mouldering vestiges of civilization in those parts of the same continent, where, as man once attained a high Gunuer-Francis Gardener. degree of refinement, he may again again assert the Boatswain-John Ferris. Sail Maker-Thomas J. Boyce. better qualities of his race and another to plunge Purser's Steward-A. O. Whelpley. among hordes of primitive barbarians, which Provi dence would almost seem to have placed in such an OYSTER STANDS.-In New Orleans these indis- inaccessible country for the very purpose of shutting pensable contributors to good living are, it seems, them out from the intrusion of the rest of the world. made a source of municipal revenue. The Mercan. Yet, while it is lamentable to think of so many noble tile Advertiser of 5th inst. gives the names of twenty- and adventurous spirits-men that would give soul William Hepplewhite, an apprentice on board the one let at rates varying from $180 to $900, producing to any enterprize-lavishing energies that might Indian, belonging to Shields, last year purchased and an aggregate revenue of $9455. be more usefully applied, in such a hopeless cause→ old clothes chest for 3s., which on being examined Extract of a letter dated Apalachicola, Aug 28th one cannot withhold a full and proud, though most by the Custom house officers in Cork, where the 1833.-"Thinking it may be a matter of some in- regretful tribute of admiration, to that undaunted vessel is now delivering a cargo, was discovered to terest to your eastern friends, shipping in this direc- courage, that most indomitable ardor of enterprize, have a false bottom, under which were found upwards tion, to fully understand the facilities of transpor- which urges these British adventurers upon a fate no of £2000.-[Durham Chronicle.] [ting all kinds of goods from this port to the interior, "certain and so melancholy. . A spot on the sun was seen in this town yesterday, for the first time since the Spring. It probably entered on the sun on Wednesday, and will occupy about a fortnight in crossing his disc. It is quite small, and cannot be seen without a telescope. Perhaps it may be remembered that the summer of 1816 was one of the coldest ever experienced in New England; a severe frost having occurred in every month, proving destructive to the hopes of the agriculturist, and causing as much loss as the embargo and war.' This remarkable coldness was generally ascribed to the immense spots visible the whole summer on the sun, which were sufficiently large to be seen through a piece of blackened glass, and were ascertained to cover about one third of his surface. But how shall we account for the almost equal coldness of the summer of 1833? It cannot be ascribed to the same cause as that of 1816, as during the last four or five months we have not been able to perceive any spot, and the whole surface of the sun has appeared, even when viewed through a powerful telescope, clear and serene.-[Newport Mercury.] The following extract from "Smith's History of Canada," would almost induce a belief that the aw. ful visitation of 1832 was not the first appearance of cholera on this continent. The author says: Early in the spring of this year a fever of the most malignant and epidemical kind broke out at Quebec, and generally throughout the country. It was called the purple fever, and so destructive was it, that thousands died in the course of a few days." The discoloration, and fatality of the disease, (which occurred in 1710) are two features strongly resembling Asiatic Cholera. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The disturbances in parts of Switzerland were pacified by the energy of the Diet, without the intervention of foreign troops. of the National, in aid of the payment of the fine to|| Don Miguel's staff. An autograph letter complain The Brussels papers state, that at Charterey, on the 8th August, 38 persons were drowned in a moat. This melancholy accident happened in consequence of a sudden irruption of water from an ancient aque. duet, which in less than two minutes rose above 70 feet. PARIS, MAY 13.-The Courier Francais gives the following as a communicated note: MADRID, Aug. 6.--By a royal decree, Don Josef Manuel de Anjona, Minister of the Council, has been appointed Superintendan, General of Police. SWITZERLAND. An English journal having announced that M. Antonio Carlos d' Andrada had arrived from Rio Janeiro, commissioned to invite Don Pedro to return to that ||city, where, it was said, a party was anxious to receive him, we are authorised to declare this is a Extract of a letter of the 10th inst. from Geneva: fiction, invented to divert Don Pedro from the Regen- "The complete pacification of Switzerland may cy of Portugal. Brazil is by no means desirous of now be considered as very near at hand, thanks to the return of this Prince, whose abdication was volun-the unexpected energy displayed by the Diet, and its tary; and M. d'Andrada would never undertake a mis- determination to occupy the whole of the cantons of sion to recall him, having himself been imprisoned, Schwytz and Basle, until the fate of these two states and afterwards exiled, by the arbitrary decree of Don be definitely settled. The hypocritical disavowal of Pedro, when he dissolved the Constituent Assembly the Conference of Schwytz is only a new fact to be of Brazil, of which M. d'Andrada was one of the most added to the history of the intrigues of the Sarnean distinguished Members. faction. A revolutionary manifesto was to appear if the attempt of Abyberg succeeded, and papers ex. citing to insurrection had been circulated in great numbers in the cantons of Lucerne and Berne. The Diet has duly appreciated the act of submission forced from the oligarchs of Schwytz. The Munich Gazette expresses a hope that the Congress of Toeplitz will restore peace to the world, by setting bounds to the spread of constitutional opinions. After recapitulating the various agitations by which Europe has been disturbed in consequence of revolutions, it points out to the Sovereigns the three prin cipal points which call for their attention and interference ;-they are Portugal, Italy, and Spain. PRUSSIA. In the spring of 1798, as in the autumn of 1822, these primitive Swiss, who boast of loyalty and pat. riarchal virtues, lulled asleep the vigilance of their enemies by capitulations, which they violated as soon A letter of the 1st inst. from Berlin, gives the fol. as they felt strong enough to commence hostilities. lowing as the principle questions to be discused at the The massacre of Nidwald, on September 9th, 1789 interview between the Emperor of Austria and the which became a subject of imprecation against the By the Britannia, from Liverpool, we have our King of Prussia:-1. The means of controlling the Directories of France and Switzerland, can be imLondon files to 16th ult., and by the Poland, from Constitutional Chambers of Germany without expos. puted only to the traitors who had misled the preHavre, we received on Saturday our Paris papers to||ing the country to a revolution.-2. The censorship vailing party by a foreign submission, and tore to the 17th ult. Such extracts as possess ordinary and freedom of the press.-3. The Universities:- pieces the act of amnesty. The fear of a foreign in4. A treaty on the commerce and custom duties of tervention appears now to have entirely subsided. interest are annexed. The quarrel in Portugal is Prussia.-5. The occupation of Frankfort, and the The Austrians have hitherto made no movement not yet settled, Pedro not being in ferce to move number of troops that Austria and Prussia are to towards the frontiers of the Tesin and Grisons. from Lisbon for the relief of Oporto, which was still send as their contingents, without exciting jealousy The Governor of Neufchattel has lately set out for beleagured and elosely pressed by the Miguelites. on either side.-The question of Belgium, so far it Cologne, leaving to his faithful allies of Sarnen all Of Miguel himself we have no tidings. relates to Luxembourg and the Germanic Confedera- the responsibility of the first attempts, in which he tion.-7. The question of Poland-but, as Russia would have subsequenly acted a part, in the name is a party interested in this, it is said that Count Or-of his master, if success had attended the wishes of loff, on his return from Constantinople, will be sent the Holy Alliance. The Ministers of Austria, Prusto Toeplitz to treat with the two monarchs. sia, and Russia, assembled at Baden, have, it is said, FALMOUTH, Aug. 13.-The Corsair yacht arrived To this series is to be added, whatever the Berlin addressed a peremptory note to the Diet, which aphere this morning from Lisbon, which place she left and Hamburgh papers may say, that the Portuguese pears to have answered it with dignity as well on the 1st inst. The following news will be interest-question and the treaty to be formed between Aus- as energy. The French Ambassador, on the ing, and will show the state of the public mind in tria and Prussia for opposing on the one hand, the contrary, has expressed a lively interest in the the city. Don Pedro was publicly walking about Anglo Gallican alliance, and on the other, to guard national cause, and much devotedness to the Chiefs with the greatest confidence, unarmed and unguard-against the Russian Cabinet, which, notwithstanding of the regenerated cantons. The Canton of Va. ed, and was greeted with the warmest acclamations. the harmony that at present subsists between the lais has hitherto made no hostile demonstration. A circumstance occurred on his landing which made Courts of St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin, gives On the least indication of treachery, three or four him at once popular with the people. When he was umbrage to the other two Cabinets. On several of thousand men from the canton of Taud could occu. stepping from the barge on shore, some of the police the above questions the King and Emperor entirely by the country from St. Maurice to Gondo.-We endeavored to clear the way with their swords, when accord; these are those which relate to the Con- learn from the Basle, that the consternation produc he called on them to put up their weapons, and tak- stitutional Chambers, to Luxembourg, and Poland,ed by the events of the 3d and 4th inst. has been fol. ing out his own sword, flung it into the sea. About but they are not so with regard to the Universities, lowed by general dissatisfaction with the govern 800 police or militia had been raised for the protec- to the Customs, or the occupation of Frankfort; and ment. M. Burkhard, the burgomaster, has taken tion of the city. The behavior of all classes was it is in consequence of the difficulties which arise refuge on the French territory, in order to escape the beyond all praise. out of these latter questions that the interview has popular vengeance. The diet seems to have come been agreed upon. to the wise resolution of maintaining an army on foot of 22,000 men, until the country be entirely pacified, and securred against the danger of foreign intervention. The conduct of Don Miguel's police had excited a great deal of sensation at Lisbon. It appears that the Duc Cadova, with about 3000 police, after they had fled from Lisbon, retreated to Caldas, about 25 miles north of Lisbon, and sacked the place for four heurs, committing the greatest depredations on the perrons and property of the inhabitants. On the 31st July they were on the road to Luceria. A division of Don Miguel's troops, about 1500, had forded the Tagus at Valoda, near Santerim, and a steamer was sent up by Don Pedro to negotiate with them. It was generally supposed that they would turn in favor of the young Queen. The following is an extract from the Zurich Ga. zette: Charles X., it is said, has addressed a letter to the Sovereigns assembled at Toeplitz, expressing his surprise at not having been called to the Conference about to be held in that town. He declares that the difference which have occurred between him and his subjects have not made him lose his right of being "The Ambassadors of Austria, Prussia, Rassis, a member of the Holy Alliance, in conjunction with Sardinia, and Bavaria, have arrived here, and made the Sovereigns, his former allies. The abdication a visit to the President of the Diet, with whom they which he signed with his son, in favor of the Duke held a conferenee, which lasted an hour: they set off of Bordeaux, not having been accepted by France, again next morning at eight o'clock. The conference ought to be considered as null and void. He conse-did not assume an official character, but these gentle. quently claims the full execution of the guarantees The Corsair called off Oporto on the 5th, but noth-stipulated by the treaty of 1815.-[Temps.] ing of importance had occurred since our last ad. vices. The Miguelites, however, continued to harass the city by continually firing on the town and at all the boats which came within the range of their guns. At Oporto they were anxiously expecting that the lines of Don Miguel would be broken by troops from Lisbon. No movement had taken place at Lisbon for that purpose, and, in the present state of affairs, it does not appear likely that a sufficient force could be collected by Don Pedro. The conMADRID, August 3.-"The King is still in a sending forces at Oporto must therefore fight it out. suffering state, although rather better. For three The Donna Maria was cruizing off Oporto. days he kept his bed, but yesterday he was able to The Committee of the Parisian Association in fasit up. The Government has received intelligence terminated with civility, because a tone of vigor was vour of the press have sent 2000 francs to the officellof Don Carlos having placed himself at the head of adopted. men expressed great interest in the men of Basle.-They inquired whether, in case of necessity, force The Frankfort Journal gives the following extract would be employed, and received an answer in the of a letter of the 30th ult. from St. Petersburgh :affirmative. They complained of the interference of "Several foreign journals have lately talked of a the Poles in favor of the people of Liestal; but it was journey of the Emperor in foreign states, upon po. explained to them, that as the people of Basle were litical affairs of the highest importance, but we be-enabled by their money to procure assistance of every lieve that we can confidently assert that there is no foundation for these reports, and that his Majesty will not quit his own diminions." SPAIN. They description, those of Liestal were entitled to obtain ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in AN INTERESTING AND USEFUL MAP. A friend of ours has now in a state of forwardness, a Map upon which will be delineated nearly all the Rail-his profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of roads now chartered in the U. States. It is designed to show the present contemplated connexion of the different lines, as well as where others may hereafter be constructed to connect 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, ber. New-York, August 14, 1833. 35 Wall street. ured in the United States; several of which are entirely new ses. The following recommendations are respectfully submitted to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested. Baltimore, 1832. In reply to thy inquiries respecting the instruments manu factured by thee, now in use on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail AMERICAN INSTITUTE. THE Sixth Annual Fair of the American Institute will road. I cheerfully furnish thee with the following information The whole number of Leve's now in possession of the depart be held in the city of New York, at Masonic Hall, on Tuesday ment of construction of thy make is seven. The whole num. ber of the "Improved Compass" is eight. These are all exthe 15th of October next, and continue three days. Premiums, consisting of Diplomas, or Medals, will be award-clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra ed, as usual, for such articles of American production, as skalluation Department. be adjudged superior either in material or workmanship. As a new impetus seems to have been lately given to American Industry, it is confidently expected that the Fair announced for October next, will present still more decisive evidence o the advancing condition of our agriculture, our manufactures, and the arts, than any of those which have preceded it. Such ingenious and useful machinery as may be conveniently transported, and put in operation, will give interest and spirit|| to the occasion. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They hav n fact needed but little repairs, except from acc dents to which all instruments of the kind are liable I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compasse have been preferred by my assistants generally, to any other: in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other decription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the raile on this Road. This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the enginee scarcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience o Each article should be labelled with the name of the manu- In this city. The design is to Inform buyers where they can supply them elves with the best articles In this way, by means of former Fairs, many excellent workmen have become better known and have obtained permanent and profitable customers, who, white they have been better served, have at the same time rewarded and stimulated American skill and industry. Articles entered for premiums must be delivered as early as Monday, the 14th of October. More particular notices wil! be published previous to the Fair. For any other information which may be desired, apply to either of the Managers, in person or by letter. TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manufacturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establishment to Hudson under the rame of Durfee, May & Co. offer to supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for inclined planes of Railroas at the shortest notice, and deliver them in any of the principal cities in the United States. the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J B. Jervis. Eng. M. & H. R. R Co, Albany: or James Archibald, Engineer Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Catbou dale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. Hudson, Columbia County, New-York,{ 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 to mails, and about forty 10d naila in a minute, and in the same proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for shiws. The nail is hanimered and comes from the machine completely heated to redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and eure. One horse power is suflicient to drive one machine, and may easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in operation Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant machines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soun as 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. 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This opinion would have been given at a much eatlier peiiou, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford a 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. It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding the Instruments in the service procured from our northern ciLies are considered good, I have a decided preference for those the Department of Construction, to wit: five Levets, and five manufactured by you. Of the whole number munufactured for of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the lasttwelve months, except f.om the occasional imperfection of a screw, or from acci ents, to which all Instruments are liable They possess a firmness and stability, and at the same time a neatness and beauty of execution, which reflect much credit on the artists engaged in their construction. I can with confidence recommend them as being worthy the notice of Companies engaged in Internal improvements, who JAMES P. STABLER, may require Instruments of superior workmanship. Superintendent of Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. PROFESSOR RAFINESQUE, of Philadelphia, offer his services to render steamboats incombustible, and not liable to sink, even by the bursting of boilers, or striking agains I have examined with care several Engineers' instruments snags, sawyers and rocks. This will save many boats, much property, and the lives of hundreds every year. Those whof your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and survey. neglect this easy improvement, deserve to be neglected and deserted by the public as unmindful of safety. Apply, post paid.or's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion of the excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accu. racy and permanency in adjustmente. SI RJMM & F TO RAILROAD COMPANIES. PROFESSOR RAFINESQUE, of Philadelphia, will The Troy Iron and Nail Factory keep constantly for Bale a very extensive assortment of Wrought Spikes and Nails, undertake to build CARS that will carry along their own rail from 3 to 18 inches. manufactured by the subscriber's Patent way, and may be used on level M'Adam roads. They will save ten millions of money to be wasted on 1000 miles of iron Machinery, which after five years successful operation and now almost universal use in the United States (as well as En- railroads to be laid in the United States within a few years gland, where the subscriber obtained a Patent,) are found su-and dispense with tracks and double tracks. These Cars may be drawn by horses or steam. He claims to have discovered them ever since 1823, by his caveats filed in the Patent Office Apply, post raid. perior to any ever offered in market. Railroad Companies may be supplied with Spikes having countersink heads suitable to the holes in iron rails, to any amount and on short notice. Almost all the Railroads now in progress in the United States are fastened with Spikes made at the above named factory-for which purpose they are found invaluable, as their adhesion is more than double any common spikes made by the hammer. All orders directed to the Agent, Troy, N. Y., will be puretually attended to. HENRY BURDEN, Agent. These instruments seemed to me to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have been made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field. WILLIAM HOWARD, U. S. Civil Engineer. Baltimore, May 1st, 1832. To Messrs Ewin and Heartte-As you have asked me to give my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manu. acture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think wel! of the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received atisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, to SHIPS of all sorts, and Steamboats, rendered incombustible, relieve us of the uecessity of sending elsewhere for what we and not liable to sink, at a small expense. For sale, 10,000 lbs. of ANTIGNIS, or Incombustible Var-may want in our line, deserve the unqualified approbation and our warm encouragement. Wishing you all the success which B. H LATROBE, your enterprize so well merits, I remain, yours, &c. Civil Engineer in the service of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road Company. A number of other letters are in our possession and might be We should be happy to introduced, but are too lengthy. submitthem upon application, to any persons desirous of perusling the same. Spikes are kept for sale, at factory prices, by I. & J. Apply to C. 8. RAFINESQUE, Professor of Hist. and Nat. m25 FROM CANTON.-We are indebted to Captain Ban. || grand cavern seemed to be supported by about 150 enduring-there, still as when first shaped out by an croft of the ship Boston for Canton papers to the 20th crystal columns, varying in height from 30 to 40 Almighty hand, repose those silent temples. The feet, and in diameter from 1 to 8 feet. In the middle hidden retreats of Nature, when man would pry into April. They contain some items of interest. of this spacious cavern is placed a crystalized petri On the 8th Dec. was discovered by the officer in command of H. N. M. schr. "Pollux," a shoal in the Carimata Passage, the middle of which is in lat. 3° 25 30" South, and long. 109° 40 50" East of Greenwich. The extent of this shoal is about 3-4 German miles, lying N. and S. It is supposed to be the same as that placed on some charts as the "Enhuiven Sand." A new species of portable gun or harquebuss has been invented, which is carried by two men, and which has been found to be very effective in the late rebellion near Leen chow; the governor accordingly, approving of the new weapon, orders those new making to be prepared immediately, and the troops instructed in their use without delay. For those who wish to know life in China," we add a few more amusing extracts. A LLD paper slip published at Canton, contains the following account of "fashionable arrivals," and an announcement of the Imperial condescension towards the Tsung-tuk and Foo-yuen. a THE TOMB STONE. To thee I fly from life's tumultuous noise, MARRIAGES. On Wednesday evening, the 25th inst., by the Rev Dr. On Monday, the 23d instant, by the Rev. J. M. Wainwright, At Bridgewater, Oneida co., on the 13th inst., by the Rt. Rev. DEATHS. sort of Josiah Collins, of Edenton, North Carolina. In this city, on the 25th instant, Mrs. ANN R. COLLINS, COn The Chinese report that intelligence has reached faction exactly resembling a table, about seven feet all her secrets, and revealed only from time to time, Canton, of the king of Cochin-China having des-in length and two in breadth, surmounted with as if to show, that when-the farthest regions of the patched a letter to his Imperial Majesty the Empe- crystal candelabras of the most curious construc-earth explored-he carries his view to other planets, ror of China, to which he has replied, concerning a tion." The subject would be endless were I to foreign ship which has appeared upon the coasts of enumerate the variety of surprizing creations which there are worlds beneath his feet he dreams not of; the former potentate, and from which some persons nature has displayed in this subterranean palace. At Teaching him, perhaps, to study further the myste. have visited the shore endeavouring through the me- the distance of 700 or 800 yards, and immediately ries of his own being, before he would attempt to dium of the Chinese character to establish a com- opposite the entrance, lies another passage, which resolve those of that One, who is thus glorified in mercial connection with the country upon terms of led them into what they called the lower cave, all his works, hidden and manifest. amity and good feeling. This vessel which has been which is about three-quarters of a mile in circum. conjectured to be the missing Sylph, is more likely ference, supported, like the former cave, by lofty to prove the U. S. ship Peacock, which left here pillars, and decorated with the most fanciful prosome time since, as was reported, upon a voyage of ductions. Having proceeded through this cave they the kind, though no official information was given discovered an aperture, which having ascended by respecting the destination of that vessel. We trust a flight of eight steps, a sight presented itself to that there is no serious ground for apprehension res- their view capable of impressing the strongest emo. pecting the Sylph ; she may have been detained by ations of surprize and astonishment on the mind of the variety of causes of which we here can know no- spectator. It would be useless for me to attempt a thing: had any serious accident happened to her, the description of this astonishing hall, as nothing less intelligence would no doubt have reached Canton than the descriptive powers of a Sir Walter Scott officially, long ore this. could render it even moderate justice; suffice it to say, that it is about three miles in circumference, supported, like the other caves, with innumerable pillars, and adorned with almost perfect imitations of all that art and nature presents to our view.However, I cannot forbear remarking that in the centre of this magnificent hall, and depending from its roof, appears a petrifaction resembling the body of a horse, through which, at the distance of fifteen SMITH LAWRENCE, to CAROLINE, daughter of Samuel Betts, Esq. On Thursday evening, 19th inst., by the Rev. Dr. Berrrian. feet from the floor, issues a stream of pure water,On Tuesday evening, Sept. 24, by the Rev. Dr. Lyeli, Mr. which, after forming several evolutions on its crys. JOHN J. AYMAR, to Miss SARAH BABB, all of this city. talized bed, disappears, with hollow murmurings, at McAuley, COURTLANDT VAN BUREN HASBROOK, of the firm the furthest extremity of the hall. Through an of Holmes, Bailey & Co., of this city, to MARGARET, daughter opening to the right, in the last-mentioned hall they of Robert Ainsiie. descended, by a flight of ten or twelve steps, to cavern called the long cave, which is about one mile and a half in circumference, supported in like manner by superb columns, and adorned with many of imitations of art is a hollow crystalized petrifaction the same imitations of nature and art. Amongst the resembling a drum, which, when struck upon, produces a sound, the reverberation of which will con. The Wan-wae, Lew-tih-chang, having returned the last mentionod cave, they came to a fissure in tinue for several minutes. Having proceeded thro' from a mission to the court at Peking, brought as its right side, which led them into what they called presents to the Governor and deputy Governor the the cellar cave. This cave, unlike the rest, is not word "Happiness" inscribed with the vermilion pen- supported by pillars, not adorned with those produccil, i. e. in the Emperor's own hand writing, and por- tions of sportive nature for which the others are so tions of deer's and tiger's flesh; in consequence of highly appreciated; but the spectator is amply comwhich all the civil and military officers of the city pensated for the absence of those ornaments by the have sent in their compliments and congratulations. view of a deep and river, which urges its subterraLiteral Translation of an Ink-Maker's Shop-Bill.At the Shop Shun-wang-very good Ink--fine, fine, ean course through the middle of the cave." -Ancient shop--grandfather, father and self make Discoveries of this kind, which are not uncommon this ink,-fine and hard, very hard,--picked out, in this country, many parts of it, like the limestone very fine and black, before now,--sell very good Ink, prime cost very high. This ink is very heavy,-so regions of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, being cele. is gold. No one makes like it. Others who make ||brated for their immense cavernous passages, exink, make it for money, and to cheat; I only make it tending sometimes for many miles in length, and for a name. Plenty of gentlemen know my ink. My spreading out in their various ramifications to an TER STUART, late of this city, a young gentleman of highly On the 24th instant, at the residence of his father, in Schenec tady, after a very short illness, of Consumption, WILLIAM PORfamily never cheats, always bears a good name. I make ink for the "Son of Heaven," and all the incredible extent, tend as much as any display of promising talents, universally respected and beloved by his acmandarins round. All A-kwan-tsae's (gentlemeu) her power to awaken our reverence for the mystequaintances and friends; aged 21 years. At Onondaga, New York, Mr. EDWIN K. SACKETT, eldest son uust cometo my shop and know my name! [We have long been in the habit of considering festation of her economy is that which hollows out ford, aged 22 years, youngest daughter of Mr. Elihu Sanford, of rious operations of Nature. What a singular mani.of the late Samuel Sackett, of Brooklyn, Long Island. At Albany, on Monday morning, Miss Elizabeth Phelps SanMr. Warren, of No. 30 Strand, London, and the this city. Lottery Office keepers in America, as the princes of those subterranean chambers, more vast than any the noble art of " puffing," but have been recently human art can construct, more splendid than any convinced that our friends the Chinese leave them human imagination can devise, which builds far befar behind. The following translation of an ink-neath the surface on which we move abodes as bright maker's card, will vie with the most perfect of the celebrated Blacking-manufacturer's tributes to the as those we dream of in other worlds, where new charms of his " liquid jet." glories of creation are to be revealed to us, and then A GREAT CAVERN DISCOVERED IN IRELAND.-A admiration at the dazzling forms of beauty heaped leaves them tenantless; with no eye to kindle with correspondent of the Tipperary Free Press, gives in prodigal confusion along winding aisles and vault-mity an account of a Magnificent Cave, lately discovered near the town of Caher by some workmen employed ed avenues that never echo to the voice of praise, in quarrying stones. The first indicatioa of the sub-with not even an animated creature to share their teranean edifice, was an opening in the rock, about shelter, or a ray of Heaven's light to smile upon 20 feet from the surface capable of admitting the their solitary grandeur! The mud hut of the peabody of one person. Prompted by curiosity, one of the men entered the opening, and proceeded along a sant is reared above their swelling domes, and centu sloping declivity which terminated, at the distance ries watch the prouder edifices of a city succeeding, of 40 or 50 feet from the entrance, in an abrupt de- while thousands wander homeless over roofs that scent of about 20 feet. Unable to advanee further might shelter their whole race, dreaming not that he returned, and having procured a ladder, he, ac-all the wealth whose profusion they envy in others.ton, aged 30, wife of Wm. Tufts, Es q. of the former place. ceeded to explore the cavern. Having descended could never purchase a palace or a tomb like that the ladder they proceeded along a passage about beneath their feet. Decay comes not there. The 300 yards in length, 40 feet in breadth, aud general-frail structures, reared by human hands above, perish ly between 30 and 40 feet in height, at the termination of which a superb cavern, nearly one mile in away from the earth and Time sweeps their very circumference, presented itself to their view. This memory to oblivion. But there-grand, solemn, and||PROCTOR. companied by two or three of the workmen, pro Jaggar, aged 2 years and 11 months. DEN, in the 34th year of his age. At Staten Island, on the 17th inst. Mr. JAMES S. PERINE, aged who knew him; and his death is deeply lamented by a numer37 years. While he lived he was respected and beloved by all our circle of friends and acquaintances. daughter of the late Peter G. Hart, Esq. of this city. his age. ville, Cattaragus county. In Wales, Erie co., suddenly, on the morning of the 14th inat. Gen. Joseph McClure, aged about 60, Postinaster at Franklinwhere he had been on business, and while sitting in his chair he He was returning from Buffalo, suddenly expired. In Poughkeepsie, on Sunday the 22d instant, Mrs. SARAH THOMPSON, wife of Hon. Smith Thompson, in the 56th year of her age. In Ohio, the Rev. President STORRS, of Hudson College.the institution, and his loss will be deplored as a public calaa scholar and a Christian. He filled the elevated station to He was a gentleman of great literary and scientific attainments, which he was called with credit to himself and usefulness to ISAAC PIERSON, aged 65 years, late a Representative in Congress wite of Dr. David Rosseter, of this city. 42 years. At New Orleans, of yellow fever, on the t inst., ROBERT aged 16 years WATERMAN. jr.; son of Capt. Robert Waterman, of this city, At New Orleans, on Sunday morning, PETER MARTIN, a native of France, but for many years a resident of Detroit. M. At the same place, on Sunday, Mrs. CAROLINE CLARE, of Boe At the same place, on the 7th inst. of yellow fever, FRAN KLIX At the same place, on the 4th inst. WN. LYONS, a native of New Jersey. the Rev. CARLISE LEIRIS, Pastor of the Evangeli cal Protestant At the same place on Friday last, in the 30th year of his age, Church of that city. At the same place, on the 8th inst. of yellow fe ver, DANIEL 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, OCTOBER 5, 1833. [VOLUME II.-No. 40. CONTENTS: Editorial Notices.... On M'Adam Roads...... page 625 Suggestion for a New Motive Power; Method of Clear- Dr. Hook's Joints; Ingenuity of the Spider; Ewbank's 631 .632 Babbage on the Economy of Manufactures, continued. 633 Suminary, Foreign and Domestic. Poetry; Advertisements; Meteorological Tables; Marriages and Deaths, &c.. .634 63 .639-39-40 AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. UNDULATING RAILWAYS.-A large portion of the Journal this week is devoted to the subject of Undulating Railways. It has caused a warm discussion in England, and will, no doubt, call out some of our esteemed correspondents. We have neither leisure nor science to discuss it, and, therefore, must rely upon those of our bers, and not yet remitted the money, will not possible-indeed, is it not highly probableplease do so, by mail, as early as possible. that they might be benefitted in the saving of The increased expenditure, in consequence expense, by some of the numerous suggestions of the improved appearance of the Journal since and plans therein published, to many times the .630 October last, has so greatly exceeded the in- amount of the cost of the Journal? In the crease of subscribers, which was anticipated survey of a route which costs thousands-in from the measure, that I am compelled eith-the construction which costs hundreds of thouer materially to reduce its cost of publica- sands-or in the completing of a long line of tion,-increase its circulation, and sale of Railroad, with its machinery, engines, freight, copies on hand, (of which I can furnish and passenger cars, and other numerous appenfive hundred complete sets from its commence-dages, which cost MILLIONS-is it not almost ment) or discontinue its publication, The certain that some useful information, or hint, friends of, and those interested in, Railroads, would be derived from the "Railroad Journal," are certainly the best judges of its utility, and which contains more reading upon the subject of its tendency to promote the cause to which of Railroads, Railroad machinery and improveit has been mainly devoted; and, therefore, it ments, than ALL THE OTHER PERIODICALS IN will be for them to say whether, by their aid in THE UNITED STATES TOGETHER? There canextending its circulation, and in the sale of co-not, in my opinion, be a doubt of the advantage pies now on hand, it shall be continued longer they would derive from such a measure. Should than the close of the present volume-FIRST OF those interested in Railroads agree with me in JANUARY NEXT-or whether it shall be then this suggestion, and act accordingly, by giving discontinued for want of a sufficient number of me orders for the Journal, at an early period, subscribers to pay the expense of publishing it. so as to increase my list of subscribers to fifThe sale of one half of the copies on hand, teen hundred by the close of the year, it will be Having, by experience, felt the want of a with an equal increase of subscribers for the continued with increased energy and improved more complete INDEX to the Journal, we have current and ensuing volumes, would be ample appearance. had one made for the first volume, and for the to secure its successful continuance, by enathe first six months of the second volume-and bling me to meet promptly its expenses, and for the greater convenience of those who desire also to derive a small compensation for my own to bind the Journal in parts of six months, in- time devoted to it, which, thus far, has not been stead of the whole year in one-the index is the case-but, on the contrary, it is indebted to printed in parts of six months, with a title me several hundred dollars, in addition to my page to each. They will be forwarded to all having superintended its publication without those who are now Subscribers, in the course compensation for nearly two years. I would, of the ensuing week. At the close of the year therefore, observe, that unless the sale of copies another index and title page, for the second half on hand, and the circulation of the present voof the present volume, or from the 1st of July lume should be considerably increased before to the 1st of January, will be forwarded with the close of the year, I shall either change its the last number of the volume. This measure form, reduce its size, and discontinue most of has been attended with some expense, but find my exchanges, and thereby reduce its expenses ing that most of our subscribers are desirous of publication, or discontinue it altogether, and to bind and preserve the Journal, we have en-devote my attention wholly to my other publications-which are far more liberally patroncountered it for their convenience and our ized, and from which I derive some compensaown satisfaction. tion for my services. friends who have both at their command. D. K. MINOR. P. S.-It may not be amiss to say that the expenses of publication have exceeded the receipts from subscribers, in conseruence of the publication of a larger number of copies than were subscribed for-upon expensive paper, and with a heavy cost for engravings-and that the sale of one half of those now on hand would place the balance on the other side of the ledger. I Should it be said that I have "assured the public of its continuance," or that "its permanence was established beyond a doubt," &c., I would reply that, from the favor with which it was received, and the assurances given me of aid in its circulation, of that fact I had not a doubt-nor do I now doubt its permanence-as trust that the friends of Railroads and Interal Improvements-who are also, generally, its friends-will make an effort to extend its sale and circulation, so as to place it upon a fair Three hundred additional subscribers will insure its continuance. basis. N. B.-Should it be discontinued, or changed in its appearance, at the close of this volume, timely notice will be given, and those who may Ceive the balance in money-unless they should have paid in advance of that period, will re Editors who receive this Journal in exchange, will please discontinue all advertise- *** Would it not be well worth the while for ments of my various publications which they EACH RAILROAD COMPANY IN THE UNITED now have in their paper, as I may find it neces. STATES to order a few copies BOUND, for the be willing to receive the MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, sary to discontinue it at the close of the pre-use of their Engineers, while engaged in sur-AND REGISTER OF INVENTIONS AND IMPROVEsent volume. Those who have received subscri-veying and constructing their Railroad? Is it|MENTS, to the amount then due them. |