MARRIAGES. THE ADDRESS OF J. P. KENNEDY, Esq. STEPHENSON, Last evening, at Carroll Place, Bleecker street, by the Rev. of Baltimore, delivered before the Members of the Ameri-Builder if a superior style of Passenger Cars for Railroads, No. 264 Elizabeth street, near Bleecker street, J. B. Seixas, I. M. HENRIQUES, Esq. late of Kingston, Jamaica,can Institute in this city, together with a full account of the to PSTNER, daughter of the late David Nunes, Esq. also of FAIR, held at Masonic Hall, for 1833, and for which a New-York. Kingston, Jamnica copy-right has been secured, is just published in pamphlet RAILROAD COMPANIES would do well to examine On Thursday evening, by the Rev. John Goldsmith, SAMUEL form, at the office of the MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, No 35 these Cars; a specimen of which may be seen on that part o LEVERICH, to MARAH, daughter of the late Jesse Leverich, Eeq.Wall street, where it may be had by the single number, the New-York and Harlem Railroad, now in operation. On the 4th inst. THOS. SEARS, to ISABELLA, eldest daughter dozen, or hundred. of the late John Westray, all of this city. of Newtown. L. I. In Brooklyn, L.1. on Tuesday evening, 12th instant, by the Rev. Mr. Dwight GEORGE WORTHINGTON Dow, (of the firm of Josiah Dow & Co. New York.) to Miss ANNA DE BE VORISE, daughter of the late Christopher Prince. At Albany, on Tuesday morning, the Rev. Wm. Lehman, Professor of Modern Languages in the University of Ceorgia, to Miss Harriet Maria, youngest daughter of Abm. Van Vechten, Esq of Albany. At Greenwich, (Conn.) on the 28th ult. 8. H. Seaman, of DEATHS. This morning, at the City Hotel, Mr. JOSEPH HAERTL, a na. tive of Bavaria, aged 23 years. Mr. Haertl was one of those accomplished musicians from Bavaria, whose concerts have delighted so many parts of our country. His remarkable bass voice will be long remembered. The deceased, who, with his comrades, was exposed to such great paril by the conflagration of the Hotel in Montreal last winter, never recovered from the cold he took on that occasion; andafter lingering, with occasional temporary improvement, until Now, bas su k at last in a strange land; and yet not among strangers, for he had made many friends; and those, moreover, so long his companions in his beautiful art, were faithful and assiduous arouud his death bed. On Wednesday evening, Mr. JOSEPH HILL, in the 32d year of his age. At Philadelphia, on Monday, 4th inst., in the 77th year of his age, R. E. GRIFFITH, Esq. FOR SALE, n16 ATLANTIC JOURNAL AND FRIEND OF KNOW. J25 if NOVELTY WORKS, Near Dry Dock, New-York. LEDGE-A Quarterly Journal, by Professor Rafinesque, of THOMAS B. 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For sale, 10,000 lbs. of ANTIGNIS, or Incombustible Varnish, at one dollar per lb. Apply to C. S. RAFINESQUE, Professor of Hist, and Nat. Sciences, Chemist, Architect, &c. in Philadelphia, No. 59 North 8th street. A pamphlet given gratis. means. MATHEMATICAL & OPTICAL References in New-York.-Mr. Minor, Editor of the MeFriday night, 8th instant, at before 12 o'clock, in full aneur-chanics' Magazine; Messrs. Rushton & Aspinwall, Druggists. ance of a blissfull immortality, after an illness of 18 months, Editors in the city or country, copying this advertisement, which he bore with a patience peculiar only to the Christian,||will receive a commission on any contract procured by their Mr. JOHN YOUNG, aged 39 years and 21 days. Si RJ M M & F TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manu ||facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establishment to Hudson, under the rame of Durfee, May & Co. offer to supply Rope of any required length (without splice) for inclined planes of Railroads at the shortest notice, and deliver them in any of the principal cities in the United States. the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. R. Co, Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer Hudson and Delaware Canal and Railroad Company, Carbon- SURVEYING AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENT dale, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania. MANUFACTORY. At his residence in Stillwater, on Monday, the 28th ult. Major EZRA BUELL, in the 90th year of his age. So fall our Revolu tionary patriots. He was an officer in the Revolutionary army for six years; but at the battle of Bemes's Heights he left his company and became a pilot for Gen. Gates's army, and led every brigade to its station. In the battle of October 7, 1777, he was wounded in the side at the time of leading Col. Morgan into action, but did not leave the field. He was never married, but lived with one family upwards of sixty years. In St. Mary's county, Md., on the 19th ult. the Hon. RAPHAEL NEALE, 1ormerly member of Congress, for that District. At Washington, on Saturday last, Mr. LEWIS CLEPHANE, aged about 81 years Mr. C. was a native of Scotland. He emigrated to this country and settled in New York in the year 1782. On the 17th of Oct at her residence, New Smyrna, East Florida, Mrs. MARY DUNHAM, widow of the late David Dunham, of this city. At Fort Smith, Arkansas, of fever, on the 26th of Septembe last, in the 30th year of his age, JOSIAH DWIGHT Harris, M. D. Surgeon to the corps of Rangers-son of the late Rev. Wm. Harris, D D President of Columbia College. Hudson, Columbia County, New-York,{ warranted. January 29, 1833. As to F3 tf INSTRUMENTS EWIN & HEARTTE, at the sign of the Quadrant, No. 53 South street, one door north of the Union Hotel, Bakimore, beg leave to inform their friends and the public, especially Engineers, that they continue to manufacture to order and keep for sale every description of Instruments in the above branches, which they can furnish at the shortest notice, and on SURVEYORS, INSTRUMENTS. Compasses of various sizes and of superior quality, Leveling Instruments, large and small sizes, with high mag-fair terms. Instruments repaired with care and promptitude. nifying powera with glasses made by Troughton, together with a large assortment of Engineering Instruments, manufactured and sold by E. & G. W. BLUNT, 154 Water street, To Ewin & Heartte.-Agreeably to your request made some It is seldom we have the task of noticing the death of so months since, I now offer you my opinion of the Instruments promising a young man. In his profession Dr. Harris stood The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in made at your establishment, for the Baltimore and Ohio Railfirst among its junior members in this city, and would no doubt his profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of road Company. This opinion would have been given at a much (had he possessed pecuniary advantages) have attained its construction and workmanship to any imported or manufac-earlier period, but was intentionally delayed, in order to afford highest honors His examination for bis situation in the army tured in the United States; several of which are entirely new: a longer time for the trial of the Instruments, so that I could was brilliant, showing an accuracy and degree of acquirement among which are an Improved Compass, with a Telescope at-peak with the greater confidence of their merits, if such they weldom equalled by one so young--he passed first and received cached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use should be found to possess. the highest honor that could be conferred. Dr. Harris had ofthe needle, with perfect accuracy-also, a Railroad Goniom- It is with much pleasure I can now state that notwithstanding warmly endeared himself to those with whom he was associa-eter, with two Telescopes-and a Levelling Instrument, with a the Instruments in the service procured from our northern cited, and his loss is deeply lamented by an afflicted family and a Goniometer attached, particularly adapted to Railroad purpo-ties are considered good, I have a decided preference for those large circle of friends-but the “brilliant noon" of his existence || ses. manufactured by you. Of the whole number manufactured for has been curtailed by "death's gloomy night," and the fair the Department of Construction, to wit: five Levels, and five promise of his rising greatness is shrouded in the tomb. of the Compasses, not one has required any repairs within the last twelve months, except from the occasional imperfection of a screw, or from accidents, to which all Instruments are liable They possess a firmness and stability, and at the same time In reply to thy inquiries respecting the instruments manu. i neatness and beauty of execution, which reflect much credit factured by thee, new in use on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail on the artists engaged in their construction. road. I cheerfully furnish thee with the following information. I can with confidence recommend them as being worthy the The whole number of Levels now in possession of the depart-notice of Companies engaged in Internal Improvements, who ment of construction of thy make is seven. The whole num-may require Instruments of superior workmanship. JAMES P. STABLER, AS ber of the Improved Compass" is eight. These are all exclusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Gra- Superintendent of Construction of the Baltimore and Ohio duation Department. BOSTON AND WORCESTER RAILROAD, the GRADING AND MASONRY of the Third Division of GRACIE, PRIME & CO. having this day taken into eo-partnership JOHN CLARKSON JAY, will continue their business under the same firm.-New-York, 1st October, 1833. The following recommendations are respectfully submitted to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested. Baltimore, 1832. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have Railroad. I have examined with care several Engineers' instruinente of your Manufacture, particularly Spirit levels, and Surveyor's Compasses; and take pleasure in expressing my opinion of the excellence of the workmanship. The parts of the levels appeared well proportioned to secure facility in use, and accuracy and permanency in adjustments. These instruments seemed to me to possess all the modern improvement of construction, of which so many have been made within these few years; and I have no doubt but they will give every satisfaction when used in the field. WILLIAM HOWARD. U. S. Civil Engineer. Baltimore, May 1st, 1833. To Messrs Ewin'and Heartte-As you have asked me to give 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 This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing nails, and about forty 10d nails in a minute, and in the same telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer proportion larger sizes, even to spikes for ships. The nail is scarcely any thing to derire in the formation or convenience of hammered and comes from the machine completely heated to the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to later redness, that its capacity for being clenched is good and sure al angles of any simple and cheay instrument that I have ye One borse power is sufficient to drive one machine, and may seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all other easily be applied where such power for driving machinery is in now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, I think my opinion of the merits of those instruments of your manuacture which I have either used or examined, I cheerfully state operation Said Fairman will make, vend and warrant ma-it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. that as far as my opportunities of my becoming aquainted with chines as above, to any persons who may apply for them as soon Respectfully thy friend, their qualities have gone, I have great reason to think well of as they may be made, and on the most reasonable terms. He JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction the skill displayed in their construction. The neatness of their also desires to sell one half of his patent right for the use of said of Baltimoreland Ohio Railroad. machines throughout the United States. Any person desiring workmanship has been the subject of frequent remark by my Philadelphia, February, 1833. self, and of the accuracy of their performance I have received further information, or to purchase, will please to call at the machine shop of Mr. John Humphrey, in the village of Lan-Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. satisfactory assurance from others, whose opinion I respect, and who have had them for a considerable time in use. The slagbergh.--August 15, 1833. lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind,efforts you have made since your establishment in this city, so now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En-relieve us of the necessity of sonding elsewhere for what we gineers and Surveyors. E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. Germantown, February, 1883. For a year past I have used Instruments made by Mr. W. J. Young, of 'hiladelphia, in which he has combined the properties of a Theodolite with the common Level. A29 if RM&F TO RAILROAD COMPANIES. PROFESSOR RAFINESQUE, of Philadelphia, will undertake to build CARS that will carry along their own railway, and may be used on level M'Adam roads. They will save ten millions of money to be wasted on 1000 miles of iron railroads to be laid in the United States within a few years, I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for layin and dispense with tracks and double tracks. These Cars may out Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engl be drawn by horses or steam. He claims to have discoveredneers as preferable to any others for that purpose. them ever since 1825, by his caveats filed in the Patent Offee. HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad Apply, post paid. SIRJMM & F Germant. and Norrist, Raflroad AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, AND ADVOCATE OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT No. 35 WALL STREET, NEW-YORK, AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. D. K. MINOR, EDITOR.] CONTENTS: Editorial Notice; New-York and Erie Railroad Convention; Railroad Meetings.... page 737 A Comparison of the Expense of Transportation between Locomotive Engines and Canal Boats; Chenango Canal Notice; Suspension Railway..... .738 Steam Carriage; Load of a Locomotive Engine; Trevethick's Patent for an Improved Steam Engine....739 Jessop's Patent Improvements in constructing Railroads (with engravings) Danger of Travelling by Railroads. meeting by adjournments till the evening o the 21st. designed expressly for those who may desire it from the commencement of the work. It has been suggested to us by several friends Delegates appeared and were recognized of the Journal, that it would be more servicea- from the counties of Chatauque, Cattaraugus. ble, because better preserved, if it were to be Allegany, Steuben, Tioga, Broome, Otsego, issued in semi-monthly or monthly parts, stitch- Cortland, Delaware, Sullivan, Orange, Rocked in a cover, instead of weekly numbers, as land, and New-York. heretofore. Of the importance of this suggesThe convention was organized by the ap743 tion scarcely a doubt can be entertained, as pointment of his Honor Gideon Lee, Presi745 there would be fewer losses in the mails, and dent; 740 .741 .742 .746 Steamboat Safety Apparatus (with engravings). Railroad Meetings; Meteorological Record Literary Notices... 751 Marriages and Deaths; Advertisements, &c..... 752 AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER 23, 1833. 748 they would be much more easily preserved; yet George D. Wickham, Esq. of Orange, and 0 FIVE Numbers more will complete the second Volume of the RAILROAD JOURNAL. It was stated in a previous number that thus far it had not paid its expenses-at the same time a suggestion was made to Railroad Companies, and to individuals who feel a deep interest in the success of Internal Improvements, and especially of the RAILROAD cause, that they would probably promote, not only their own, but also the public interest, by ordering a few copies of the Journal from its commencement, bound, in volumes or parts, as well as one or two additional subscriptions to the ensuing for aid to the southern counties, through the medium of the New-York and Erie Railroad Company, in the execution of the work; these counties having long been encouraged to expect the assistance of the State, in opening an avenue to market, by which they may be placed on a footing corresponding in some measure to the advantages which have been conferred, by the legislation and funds of the State, on the *** Necessity, and necessity only, will compel a discontinuance of many exchange papers, and the Proprietor trusts that those Editors Volume, and thereby insure its continuance, who may not receive the Journal after the first and increase its usefulness. In reply to that number of the ensuing volume, will attribute suggestion, several liberal and highly compliits discontinuance to the true cause, viz. a want more northerly counties. mentary communications have been received of patronage to meet its necessary expenses, Provision was made likewise for an address from gentlemen in different parts of the country, and not to a want of inclination to reciprocate to the public on the subject of the railway. from which little doubt is entertained by the their favors. Should a different state of affairs A more particular statement of the proceedproprietor of the success of the measure which result from his present exertions, he will be ings, together with the resolutions, petitions, he adopted to insure its continuance, and in-happy again to renew the acquaintance. He &c. &c. will be given in our next number. crease its utility to the public. It is proper, how-regrets also that he is entirely unable to com ply with the oft-repeated "Please exchange," RAILROAD MEETINGS.-We give to-day the ever, for him now to state, that, in order to which meets his eye from every quarter of the proceedings of two meetings called in different insure its success and prosperity, it will not Union. Nothing would afford him more plea- sections of the United States, for the purpose be sent to any subscriber, after the close of the sure than to exchange with all who may desire of promoting the cause of Railroads; and it present volume, who shall then be in arrear for it-except such an increase of patronage as the work-until payment shall have been made would afford him a handsome income over all may be proper for us here to observe, that it is our intention to notice, hereafter, in a concise expenses. for the past, and in advance for the then curmanner, all meetings called for the purpose of rent volume. It is also proper for him to state, NEW-YORK AND ERIE RAILROAD CONVEN-promoting the cause of Internal Improvements, that, should it be continued in its present form, TION.-A convention of delegates from the which may fall under our observation, that he will print, of the ensuing volume, a small counties immediately interested in the propesed those of our readers, who may desire to know number only in addition to what will be neces-railroad from this city to Lake Erie, through what works of the kind are in contemplation, sary to supply those who shall commence with the southern tier of counties, assembled in this may not have occasion to look elsewhere for the year-and that those extra copies will belleity on the 20th instant, and continued the the information. ( CAPITAL EMPLOYED. Five boats at $600 each bearing piles. Aqueducts with Wooden Trunks.-The propositions should in all respects be the same as for the aqueducts of stone masonry, excepting the arches. A Comparison of the Expense of Transport-the proper deduction made from the aggre-for the iron work, and a price per foot run for ing 5000 Tons of Coal 100 miles by Locomo-gate. tive Engines, and by Canal Boats, deduced from actual Work performed on the Little Schuylkill Railroad, and on the Lehigh and Delaware Canals. [For the American Railroad Journal.] It is proper to premise that a locomotive engine has for a considerable time during the past summer made three trips a day, with fortyfour tons of coal at each load; thus transporting one hundred and forty-four tons per day, from Tamaqua to Port Clinton. The usual business is however ninety-six tons for one engine; this is done with ease in short days, and could very conveniently be increased, if the daily distance to be passed was greater. It is proposed in the following estimate to allow for the work of the engine, one hundred tons a day for twenty miles, or twenty tons a day transported one hundred miles, for two hundred and fifty days. $475 00 Oil, 375 gallons at $1.12, $2, Five horses at $80 each $3,000 00 600 00 400 00 80 00 30 00 $4,110 00 $246 00 616 50 625 00 1,250 00 $4,979 00 As 5 4079.60 :: 4.8 : Unloading waggons from mine to boat, and waste 8 cts. per ton, Additional expense for unloading boats and screening $10 500 00 5,660 42 Which 5000=$1.13.11: or $1.13; per ton for 100 miles. Culverts. The propositions should state a specific price per cubic yard, for excavating for the foundation, for masonry in arches, and for other masonry, a price per cubic foot for hemlock timber, a price per M. feet, board measure, for pine and hemlock plank and boards. Bridges.-The propositions should state a specific price per cubic yard, for excavating for the foundation for stone masonry laid in quick lime mortar, a price per cubic foot for oak, pine, and hemlock timber, a price per M. feet, board measure, for pine and hemlock plank, boards, and scantling, a price per pound for iron work, a gross sum for painting with two coats of white lead. Waste Weirs. The propositions should state a specific price per cubic yard, for excavating for the foundation, for stone masonry in hydraulic cement, a price per cubic foot for oak, pine, and hemlock timber, a price per M. feet, board measure, for oak, pine, and hemlock plank, boards, and scantling. The prices for the enumerated items, in the structures above mentioned, are to include the expense of every kind of material and labor necessary for their construction. The oak and pine timber is to be cut in the month of February, 1834; the oak timber for The above statements are made from actual gates in the locks and waste weirs to be sawed performance on the railroad and canals referred previous to the first day of October, 1834, and to, and the expense thus ascertained for trans-put under cover; the timber for the pine plank, porting on the canal, viz.: 95 cents per ton for 100 miles, is almost precisely the same that it paid for boating coal on the Lehigh and Delaware Canals, exclusive of the charge for loading and unloading, which is paid for in addition. Yours, &c. I. boards, and scantling, to be cut in February, 1835, and sawed and put under cover previous to the first of June of that year. The contracts are to contain stipulations prohibiting the use of ardent spirits, and subcontracting the work, except for delivering materials, and are to be completed by the fifteenth of October, 1836. CHENANGO CANAL NOTICE.-Sealed proposals will be received by the canal commissioners Security will be required for the performance until the thirtieth day of November next, for of the contracts, and the propositions should constructing about thirty-eight miles of said be accompanied by the names of responsible canal, to wit: from the Erie canal near Whites- persons, signifying their assent to become sureborough, to the village of Sherburne, and also, ties. If the character and responsibility of eighty-seven locks, five or six of which are to those proposing, and the sureties they shall of, Or 87 cts. nearly per ton, for 100 miles.) be combined locks, of stone masonry, and also fer, is not known to the undersigned, or the The following estimate of the expense of the lock on the level, connecting with the Erie chief or resident engineer, a certificate of good transporting 5000 tons on the Lehigh and Dela-canal; two aqueducts of stone masonry, two character, and the extent of their responsibili ware Canals is deduced from statements fur- sary bridges, culverts, and waste weirs. aqueducts with wooden trunks, and the neces- ty, signed by the first judge or clerk of the nished by boatmen, of the work aetually done county in which they severally reside, will be For the Sections.-The propositions should required. by them. This, it may observed, can be in-state a specific price for grubbing and clearing creased but little without running in the night. the section, for extra grubbing and clearing by The boatmen say that they could gain nothing the acre, for extra side chopping and clearing by a relieve of horses, the locks are so frequent by the acre, a price per cubic yard for common that the horse rests and feeds sufficiently. excavations, for solid slate, and quarried rock, It is further to be remarked, that the railroad for cemented clay and gravel, or cemented sand waggons are loaded in or at the mouth of the and gravel, for quick-sand, for embankments, mine from whence the coal is carried to the de-for lining, for puddling, and for slope wall. pot, and that as the boat cannot be brought to No transfer of contracts will be recognized. The line of the canal and the maps and profiles, and the plans for the different structures, with specifications of the kind of material and manner of construction, will be ready for examination by the 11th of November. The chief and resident engineers will be on the line or in its vicinity, to give all necessary information, and For Locks with Wooden Chambers.-The will furnish blank propositions. The underthe mine, the expense of transporting the coal propositions should state a specific price per signed and the chief engineer will attend at the from the mine to the boat and unloading it into cubic yard for excavation, for embankment, for village of Hamilton, from the 25th to the 30th the boat is an additional expense incidental to masonry laid in hydraulic cement, for dry wall of November, to receive propositions. the canal, and the waste of coal by this opera- masonry, a price per cubic foot for oak, pine, tion is also in addition, for these items not being and hemlock timber, a price per M. feet, board precise data, $8 per ton are allowed. The la- measure, for oak, pine, hemlock, and cedar bor of unloading the coal from the boat at the plank, boards, and scantling, a price per foot wharf is also greater than that of unloading||run for bearing piles, and a sum in gross for a!. from waggons, and a part thus handled must wrought and cast iron, excepting paddle gates. be shovelled on the screen, which is not re- For Stone Locks.-The propositions should quired when the coal is unloaded from waggons, state a specific price per cubic yard for the mafor this labor $10 per ton are estimated. ESTIMATE. It is ascertained from experience low quoins, the coping and culverts, the face of sonry, which is to include the cutting of the holthat 2 good horses, with 4 men and 2 boys, will the lock to be hammered work, the proposihaul 100 tons of coal in 2 boats 100 miles on tions in other respects to be the same as for the the Lehigh and Delaware Canals, and re-locks with wooden chambers, excepting the dry turn in 12 days; hence 24 horses with 48 wall. men and 24 boys take 100 tons in 24 boats 100 miles in 1 day and return. accepted will be required to enter into conThe party to the propositions which may be tracts immediately after the 30th of November. WM. C. BOUCK, Acting Canal Commissioner. October 22, 1833. P. S.-Publishers of papers in the State of New-York will confer a public favor by giving the above one or two insertions in their paper. SUSPENSION RAILWAY.-The Boston Tran script, in noticing the proposed improvements in East Boston, that is, we suppose in the isl ands in Boston harbor, has the subjoined ac Aqueducts of Stone Masonry.-The propo- count of a suspension railway: sitions should state a specific price per cubic We were particularly interested with the noTo transport the same quantity 20 miles a yard for foundations, for masonry in the arches, velty of a Suspension Railway, located across day, or or one fifth of that distance, will require 48 and for other masonry, a price per cubic foot the marshes, for the purpose of testing, as we horses, 9.6 men, 4.8 boys, and 4.8 boats. To sim- for oak, pine, and hemlock timber, a price per are informed, this truly American invention, plify the calculation, 5 horses, 10 men, 5 boys M. feet, board measure, for pine and hemlock and to correct, by actual demonstration, the and 5 boats, are supposed to be employed and plank, boards, and scantling, a price per pound many misconceptions relative to this very eco norical and highly important mode of trans-working pressure is 50 pounds, ranging up STEAM CARRIAGE.-The following paragraph on this subject, is from a late Birmingham pa per: Specification of the Patent granted to RICHARD Secondly, The enclosing of the condenser in an air water vessel, by which the intention of safety from explosion is further provided for, and my engine, really rendered what I deno. minate it, a high pressure safety engine: the first, which is conical, the bottom or fire end being the largest. The first inner tube is closed at the bottom, but has an opening on one side near the bottom, through which the fire-bars are introduced and the ashes and clinkers taken away. To this opening a neck-piece about three inches long is rivetted, having a flanch to fit against the inside of the second tube, when the two tubes are concentric; through the side of which second tube is an opening corresponding with that in the first tube, and the flanch is screwed to the second tube so as to make one opening To all to whom these presents shall come, through the sides of the two tubes. The se &c. &c.-Now know ye, that in compliance cond tube extends downwards about five inches with the said proviso, I, the said Richard Tre. below the first tube and has a flanch turning vethick, do declare that the essential points in inwards, to which a round plate of iron is my improved steam engine for which I claim to screwed, forming the bottom of the boiler. be the first and true inventor, are The first tube has an external flanch at the condenser in order to obtain the additional se. both of the same height, and screwed to a cast Firstly, The placing of the boiler within the top, and the second tube an internal flanch, On Wednesday last, Messrs. Heaton, of Bir-curity of the strength of the condenser to pre-wide enough around the boiler to form also the ron circle plate or cap-piece, which extends mingham, made another experiment with their vent mischief in case the boiler should burst, steam coach, to ascend the hill at Bromsgrove ently make the condenser with a very exten-in the middle as large as the flue. The sides of and also by the same arrangement to conveni- cover for the air-vessel. This plate has a hole Lickey, which is a loose sandy surface, so much so, that the wheels of their machine, sive surface, enabling me to condense the steam the condenser and air-vessel are formed of four concentric tubes, each about two inches larger above fifteen hundred weight, carried a hill of without injecting water into it: sand before them about three inches deep. The than the one within it. The inner and outer of hill is about seven hundred yards long, and these tubes constitute the sides of the air-vesrises on an average one yard in nine, and in el, and are each furnished with an external some places one yard in eight, and is declared danch at the top, by which they are screwed to the cap-piece. The two intermediate tubes by eminent surveyors to be the worst piece of road in the kingdom. The hill was mounted constituting the sides of the condenser are by their machine, with a mail-coach attached, riv tted together at the top, leaving a space of fifteen hundred weight, and nine persons, in bout an inch between their upper ends and the cap-piece, so as to allow of a free communnine minutes. They then took up a number of their friends, and proceeded on to BromsFourthly, The returning of the condensedation over them between the outer and inner grove, as far as the market place, there they steam from the condenser back again into the parts of the air-vessel. The inner tube of the turned the machine around, and returned to the boiler, to the end that sediment and concretion ir-vessel extends downwards about an inch Crab Mill Inn, about fifteen miles; this was acin the boiler may be prevented: and, below the boiler, and is closed by a flat plate complished in two hours and twenty-two miscrewed on to a flanch projecting inwards from nutes, including all stoppages. Having staid a he tube. The two tubes of the condenser descend about three inches lower than the boiler, considerable time at the Crab Mill Inn, they rethe inner tube has an internal flanch to which turned home, having accomplished the greatest undertaking in the history of steam locot flat circular plate is screwed to close up the ube. The outer tube of the condenser is of motion on the common road. They arrived in he same length with the inner, and provided Birmingham, bringing with them up Worcester with an external flanch about three inches street, an ascent of one yard in twelve, thirtyThese my essential points will admit of vari-road. The outer tube of the air-vessel has two persons. ous modifications as to form and proportions, in external flanch two inches broad, and is such as must be and are quite familiar to every just long enough to come down upon the competent steam engine manufacturer, and therefore it will be sufficient for the perfect lescription of my improved steam engine that explain some of the modes of forming and combining the essential points of my invention with the other parts of steam engines in com Loud of a Locomotive Engine. By HENRY D. BIRD. [From the Petersburg Intelligençer.] GENTLEMEN,-The following account of the performance of one of our engines will no doubt interest you and many of your readers. On Monday last, the Liverpool brought in a train, consisting of 15 cars, and one coach, carrying 127 bales of cotton, 364 bushels of wheat, 162 bushels of coru, and about 30 persons, including passengers and agents of the company. The gross weight in motion may be summed up as follows: Produce and passengers, 83,620 lbs. Cars, Coach and Engines, 67,500 151,120 Thirdly, The condensing of the steam in the condenser by means of a current of cold air or cold water forced against the outsides of the condenser: Fifthly, The blowing of the fire with the air after it has been heated by condensing the steam. In forming my improved steam engine, I em. ploy several or all of these points according to convenience, in combination with the other ne. cessary parts of steam engines in common use. non use. road flanch of the condenser last described, ind these two flanches are together bolted upon a bottom piece of cast-iron, which is a lish of four inches deep, and equal in diamster with the diameter of the outer tube, and aving a flanch the same breadth as the Hanch of the outer tube, and the bottom piece In my most favorite form of engine, in which s secured to the air-vessel, and the outer tube place and flue, the boiler, the condenser and hree flanches. condense by a current of cold air, the fire-f the condenser by bolts going through all the the air-vessel, are made of six concentric An opening is made through the sides of all tubes, standing in an upright position. The he four tubes of the condenser and air-vessel, inner or first tube forms the fire-place and flue,pposite to, and as wide as the fire-place, openand at the same time the inner side of the boil. ng through the side of the boiler. The upper er. This tube is conical having its small end part of both openings to be of the same height, upwards. The next or second tube is cylin-but the outer opening is made as low as the drical, about six inches larger in diameter than bottom of the boiler, in order to allow room for the lower end of the first tube, and forms the pipe to enter that part of the boiler for forcautside of the boiler, leaving a space all around ng the water into it, and also another pipe and of about three inches at the bottom, and soock for drawing off the water or sediment, in much more at the top as the flue is taper, for case foul water be used by accident or carelessholding water and steam between the two ness. These two openings through the contubes. The third tube is about two inches denser and air-vessel, and through the boiler, larger in diameter than the second, in order to constitute one fire doorway through all the six low a space of about an inch for powdered tubes for access to the fire-place. A ring is This tube also constitutes the inner side of the around the fire doorway, so as to cut off all charcoal or some other slow conductor of heat. placed between the two tubes of the condenser air-vessel. The fourth tube is about two inch communication of the steam in the condenser es larger than the third, and forms the inner with the air in the doorway. Another similar side of the condenser. The fifth tube, about ring is placed between the condenser and the This is the largest load which has ever two inches larger than the fourth, forms the outer tube, to prevent the escape of air into the been on the road at any single time, and outside of the condenser; and the sixth tube, fire doorway. And a half ring is placed in the when we compare it with the small size of about two inches larger than the fifth, forms lower part of the fire doorway, between the the engine, and consider the various ascents the outside of the air-vessel and at the same condenser and the inner tube of the air-vessel, on the railroad, it may well be called im-time the outside of the whole of the generating to prevent ashes from falling into the air-vesand condensing apparatus, consisting of fire-sel, and yet allow a free passage for the air or nearly 62 tons. The weight of produce mense. The Liverpool weighs about five place, flue, boiler, condenser, and air-vessel. from the inner part of the air-vessel into the tons, and has 9 cylinders, with a stork of 18 These tubes are made of wrought-iron plates upper part of the fire doorway. These two inches, and drives four wheels. Her general||rivetted together, and are all cylindrical except rings and the half ring are secured in their places by rivets passing through all of them steam in some part of the engine. An upright Having clearly explained my improved steam and through the tubes, and uniting all firmly glass tube, having an iron tube of communica- engine, so that any person competent to make together, the interstices being filled with iron||tion with the lower part of the boiler, and ano-||a steam engine, can, from the description, uncement. A ring is also placed between the ther iron tube of communication to the upper||derstand my invention, and carry the same boiler and the air-vessel around the fire door- part of the boiler, is conveniently placed against into effect in as beneficial a manner as myself, way, against the outside of which ring the the outside of the air-vessel, to indicate at all I proceed to observe, that the extreme safety of charcoal powder is tightly ramined, and will times the height of the water in the boiler, as my improved steam engine will be seen from hold the ring in its place without the necessity is usual in steam-boilers. A valve is placed on considering that in case the boiler should exof either rivets or screws. That part of the the top of the air-vessel, to allow of the escape plode inwards into the flue, the power of the fire doorway which is above the fire bars is of a portion of the air in case that the quality of the steam would be first reduced by filling the flue supplied with an inner door to shut the fire-fuel should not require so much air for perfect and fire-place, and could not escape through the place even with the outside of the boiler, and combustion as the steam requires for good con- chimney and fire doorway faster than it would exclude all access of air to the fire, except densation. The degree of the condensation of diffuse itself and be condensed by mixing with through the grating. The whole of the fire the steam may be increased at pleasure, by in- the surrounding air, and thus lose all its force. doorway is enclosed by an outer door even with creasing the velocity of the air passing into But should the outside of the boiler burst, part the outside of the air-vessel, to exclude all air and through the air-vessel. of the force of the steam would be spent in filexcept that which comes through the air-ves- The other parts of my improved steam en-ling up the interstices between the particles of sel. gine, such as the steam-pipes, the throttle the charcoal, and would then probably be too A pipe is fixed in the bottom or dish-piece valve, the safety valve, the vacuum valve, the weak to effect a breach through the inner tube leading to a forcing pump,to draw the water working valves, crank, connecting rods, cross of the air-vessel, and should such a second out of the condenser and force it into the bot-heads, pistons, piston rods, and various other breach be effected, the space within the air-ves. tom of the boiler through the pipe before de-minor parts cominon to engines in general use, sel would allow the steam to expand and partly scribed. condense, and a portion to escape into and through the fire doorway, where it would divide itself, and proceed harmlessly up the flue and out at the doorway, so that the outer case being a reserve of strength would to acertainty withstand force remaining in the steam after the,before mentioned successive reductions of power. A blowing cylinder of about ten times the content of the main cylinder is screwed against the outside of the air-vessel, and opposite the two outlet valves of the blowing cylinder, two apertures are made in the air-vessel, through which the air is forced in. may be made in the usual forms and placed in When it is intended to use water for condensing instead of air, my improved steam engine must be made as before described, except that the communication between the air-vessel and The main cylinder of the engine of the usual the fire-place must be closed, which may be dimensions, according to power wanted, is also done by a perfect ring of iron surrounding the screwed against the outside of the air-vessel, opening leading to the fire-place, instead of the high enough above the blowing cylinder to al-half ring before described, and a forcing pump low room for the main crank shaft to work be-must be employed to draw water from a retween them. The forcing pump before mentioned is also screwed to the outside of the air-vessel, and thus my improved steam engine becomes more compact and convenient than any preceding steam engine. servoir, and force it into the vessel, which I In witness whereof, &c. Specification of the Patent granted to WILLIAM Jessop, of Butler Hall, in the County of Derby, Esquire, for certain Improvements in constructing Railways. Dated June 1, 1833. [From the Repertory of Patent Inventions.] To all to whom these presents shall come, &c.-Now know ye, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said William Jessop, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascertained in and by the following description thereof, reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon: that is to say, For the purpose of supplying the boiler with distilled water in case there should be a deficiency in it, a small vessel made of two upright tubes, one within the other, is placed on the cap-piece, the inner tube is of the same diamea strong draft. ter as the flue, and forms a continuation of it,|| In respect to proportions, my improved steam the outer tube is about six inches larger than engine admits of considerable latitude, and it will the inner, and the space at the top and bottom be sufficient direction to any practical engineer between the two tubes is closed by two ring to say, that for engines working with steam of My invention relates to the manner of conshaped pieces. This vessel may be about 120 pounds to the inch, used expansively till it be structing the chairs in which the rails are fixed, eighteen inches high; a cock is fixed in the top nearly reduced to atmospheric strength and then that is, in place of the usual mode of fixing and of this vessel to which a bent pipe is fastened, condensed, a ten horse engine may have a fire-supporting the chair upon a stone block, wood, leading to and united with a pipe which arises place of twenty inches diameter, the flue at the or other sleeper, the chair is made distinct from from the top of the condenser, and passes top ten inches diameter, and a boiler of ten feet the pedestal which is attached to the stone through a hole in the cap-piece, and thus aigh; a sixty horse engine, a fire-place of thirty- block, wood, or other sleeper, and the chair and communication between the supplying vessel six inches diameter, a flue of sixteen inches pedestal are connected by a universal joint or and the condenser may be opened or shut at diameter, and a boiler of twenty feet high. hinge, which permits the pedestal to adapt itpleasure. Another pipe also furnished with a In boat engines, and in other cases where self to any irregular sinking of the block or stop-cock arises from the vessel, and commu-height cannot be allowed, the diameter must be other support upon which it rests, and insures nicates with a water cistern, to receive its sup increased. The thickness of the two tubes a firm and solid bearing on its base; or this may ply of water when required. A third pipe, hav-constituting the boiler sides of a ten horse en-be effected by the combined motion of a hingeing a cock in it, opens into the vessel near the gine, may be one eighth of an inch. That of joint, or other means, permitting motion be bottom, to let out the sediment; a small cock a sixty horse, a quarter of an inch, and so in tween the pedestal and chair, and a moveable to let the air out is also fixed in the top of the proportion for engines of other power. The joint formed at the junction of the chair and vessel, which cock may also be used for letting tubes constituting the condenser, and inner rail, so as to produce the same effect, and thereair out of the condenser. tube of the air-vessel, may in all cases be an by answer the purpose of a universal joint. In order to supply the boiler with water, by eighth of an inch thick. The outer tube may DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.-For the bet means of this vessel, the stop-cock leading to be three-eighths of an inch thick to afford sta-ter understanding the improvements, I will now the condenser is shut, and that leading to the bility to the working cylinder, the blowing cy-describe the drawing which represents several cistern is opened, and at the same time the air inder, and the forcing pump fastened to this simple methods of constructing the universal cock is opened to allow the air to escape, tl tube, and as an ultimate perfect barrier against joint, although it may be effected by other the water may fill the vessel. When the ves-explosion." means familiar to the practical mechanic. R sel is nearly full of water, the air-cock and the The respective distances of the other tubes, R are the rails. C C, the chairs. P P, the pecock from the cistern are shut, and that in constituting the outside of the boiler, the con-destals; and B B, the blocks or sleepers. J the pipe leading to the eondenser is opened:denser and air-vessel, will be the same as here-are junction bars of cast or wrought iron, by the water being then heated by the flue, is con-inbefore given, and therefore their diameters which the opposite chairs are connected toverted into steam, which passing into the con-will depend upon the diameter of the fire-place; gether, and the rails are thereby held parallel denser is there reduced to water again, leaving the cap-piece in small engines may be half an to each other, and at a proper distance apart, and the sediment or salt in the supplying vessel, inch thick, and in large engines an inch. The are also retained in a suitable position to insure which sediment or salt may be occasionally bottom of the ash-pit and bottom of the boiler a flat bearing on the surfaces of the rails for blown out through the bottom pipe by filling must have about half an inch of thickness for the wheels to travel upon. S S are cast iron the vessel with water, shutting the water, every foot of diameter, or they may be cast bed-plates or sleepers, which may be used to steam, and air cocks, and opening the cock of with ribs to afford equivalent strength. support the rails where stone is expensive, so the outlet pipe at a time when the steam in the The fuel is supplied through a door in the constructed that the pedestal may be readily vessel is strong. flue at the top of the boiler, eonsisting of coke adjusted, by the introduction of a wedge or But the supply of water from the condenser or coals, the least liable to swell with heat. The packing to a proper level, without disturbing being always equal to that converted into steam flue may be filled to about one-third of the the seat which the bed-plates may have ac and used in the engine, there is no tendency to height of the boiler, and the water fill about quired on the ground; the same method of cona variation in the height of the water in the three-fourths of the boiler, leaving one-fourth struction being applicable to the pedestals, boiler, except there be leakage or waste of for steam. when they are attached to stone blocks. |