[From the Courier and Enquirer.] The corner stone of the Monument to be erected and immediately filled with water. On the next day, LATEST FROM BUENOS AYRES.-We have received to the memory of the Mother of Washington, near her foremast was carried away. The crew, with the by the brig Erie, Capt. Penniger, a file of the Gaceta this place, will be laid on Tuesday the 7th day of exception of Thos. Bozman, mate, who was drown. Mercantil of 14th Feb., and the British Packet of the May next.-The President of the United States will ed, Nathan Phelps, and Samuel M'Carty, seamen, 9th. We have already laid before the public the be present to perform the chief ceremony. Accom. who perished for want of water, were taken off particulars of the taking possession of the Falkland panied by some of the Heads of Departments, he will the wreck ten days after, (during which time they Islands by the British. It appears that the excite-arrive in town on the previous evening, the 6th of had nothing to subsist on but a few potatoes) by ment which this event produced among the people May. The necessary arrangements for the occasion Captain Harding, of schr. Banner, from Plymouth, of Buenos Ayres had in a measure subsided. will no doubt be made known in due time.-[Fred. bound to Kingston, (Jam.) who transferred them, on the 31st. in lat. 26, lon. 69, to the schr. Jason, Dunwhich put into Hampton Roads yesterday, for the can, of and for Folly Landing, from St. Thomas, every thing but the clothes which they had on. purpose of landing them. The surviving crew lost Bozman and Mr. Phelps belonged to Plymouth (N. C.) and McCarty to Baltimore. Captain Douglass takes this opportunity, in behalf of himself and surviving men, for their kind attentions to them.-[Norfolk crew, to return thanks to the above named gentleHerald.] Mr. BUENOS AYRES, Feb. 9.-We feel considerable ericksburg Herald.] pleasure in having this week to notice an abatement Capt. BACK and his associates arrived at Montreal in the excited feelings respecting the late late event on Tuesday last, where he intends to remain until at the Falkland Islands. It is now a question left the Lakes are sufficiently open to admit of a passage for the discussion of the respective governments. In and in the mean time, he will make arrangements the first moments of effervescence, it was natural to for engaging thirteen Canadians, equal to the imsuppose some ebullition would take place, but we never for one instance thought that insult or moles-portant task this expedition requires. In a note to the tation would be offered to British residents for the paid him in this city, and the notice we took of his Editor of the Herald, in reference to the attentions political acts of their government, and we rejoice to departure hence, he says "Nothing would be more find that our opinion thereon has been fully confirmed. agreeable to me than to acquiesce with your wishes, and endeavor to express the deep sense of gratification which I shall always feel for the warm and enthusiastic reception that awaited the arrival of my little party at New York. Many were the letters Mr. Audubon returned to this City yesterday.expressive of the interest which the writers took in Louisville Courier.] also directed to me from different parts of the Union, From him we learn, and it affords us pleasure to state the fate of the expedition; nor can I forbear mentionthe fact, that within the last six months more than BURNING OF THE TREASURY BUILDING.-The Globe fifty subscribers have been added to his list, for hising the very spirited and handsome conduct on the of yesterday publishes the official report to the Presi great American Work on Ornithology. These at $800 Association, who tendered the Ohio for our convey-signed by Secretaries Livingston, McLane and Cass, of the Directors of the Hudson River Steamboat dent of the investigation of this occurrence. each, make the sum of $40,000.-[Philad. Com. ance to Albany." Herald.] (Mr. Woodbury being absent in the execution, ac cording to the report, of "some official duties,") by General Barry. Chief Justice Cranch presided at the Attorney General Taney, and the Postmaster the investigation. SUMMARY. part The Herald adds-" we have seldom been so We would call the attention of our reader to the wrought upon by such acts, so honorable to human prospectus which appears in our columns, for the nature, so happily influential upon all that contributes opening of a female Seminary in this village on the to the welfare of the human family. May the recepfirst of May next, under the immediate charge of tion of this band in New York, so delightful, so aniMiss A. Riley, and the general superintendence of mating, be the forerunner of final success in their he the Rev. Reuben Sherwood. The project is one roic undertaking. They have brought with them, we which cannot fail to meet the approbation of eɣery doubt not, the prayers and good wishes of our country individual of this community, to whom the prosper- men and enlightened Europe; they have received ity of this rapidly growing settlement is a matter of those of the United States, wafting them on to their interest. Institutions of the character intended to destined object; and shall not we unite, who are al. be maintained in the one in question, have a bearing most at the last stage of civilization where they repose, and importance beyond the immediate accomodation in aiding and encouraging them in their noble purand advantages accruing to the limited number in the suit?" neighborhood who may have occasion to avail themselves thereof. They give a general tone and character to the manners and morals of the place, and in CITY HALL, Saturday, March 6. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 28.-The steamer Reaper, Capt. Harrison, which left here for Pittsburgh en Tuesday evening, was snagged about 8 o'clock last night near Lafourche, and sunk instantaneously.— We have understood from one of the passengers that nothing was saved, and that several lives were lost. It is The report and documents are too long to re-pubresult of the inquiry is given in these words "We lish, and are moreover of no general interest. The have endeavored in vain to trace the origin of the fire, and are unable to impute it to any particular cause." Respecting the papers destroyed, although it cannot be settled "with precision" what they are, the report that are of much importance to the government or to says "We believe very few papers have been lost, individuals, and that the great mass of the most valuable books and papers have been saved." CHARLESTON, S. C. April 8.-Important Decision. that view alone are entitled to the zealous co-opera- The Chairman stated that the meeting had beenThe Appeal Court this morning reversed the decition and support of every respectable resident. It called, for the purpose of presenting to the Physi-sion of Judge Bay in Chambers, made in the case of will be seen by reference to the prospectus, that the cians of the Second Ward, the pieces of Plate which George Granstein, that an Alien on application for terms are sufficiently moderate to afford a very gen-had been voted to them by a resolution passed the Citizenship is bound to take an oath of Allegiance eral access to this establishment No similar insti- 22d December, 1833, in testimony of the high respect of Congress.-[Patriot.] to the State, in addition to the oath required by Act tution, we venture to say, combining so many advan-entertained by the Board, for the liberality and bene tages of location with so high an order of tuition, volence displayed by those gentlemen, in their grawill be found as reasonable in the respective char-tuitous attendance on the poor of that Ward, during the prevalence of the Cholera. ges. The names of the Gentlemen are E. Mead 46 Benj. B. Coit N. Edson Sheldon Doctor Jacob F. Gilford 66 Lynde C. Ferris We know of no location offering greater advantages for the establishment of an Academy for boys, and have no hesitation in saying, that should one be organized upon a proper basis, it might be rendered profita ble to all parties concerned. We trust that amidst the multitude of improvements in agitation, we may shortly hear of a Seminary for boys becoming a prom-fell a victim to the cholera during the gratuitous ex. inent one.[Ulster Star.] [From the Baltimore Patriot, of Tuesday evening.] GREAT FIRE. An endorsement on the Western Mail way-bill, dated Hagerstown, April 15, says ..THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND IS BURNT." Cumberland is situated in Alleghany county, (Md.) on the Potomac River, and about 130 miles from Baltimore. The conflagration it is presumed cannot have been so extensive as the endorsement implies the town being nearly equally divided by a broad stream. The ravages at the worst, it is probable, have not extended beyond one or the other side of this natural division. The eastern side is the most compactly built, and being chiefly of wood, would suffer most severely from such a calamity. [From the Philadelphia Chronicle,] FROM MATANZAS.—We learn from Capt. Staples of the brig Haiti, from Matanzas, that the Cholera was raging very badly at Matanzas when he left, 5th April, from 200 to 250 dying of a day. The Governor had issued a proclamation, forbidding any of the launches or boats manned by the negroes of the place from doing any work; and also forbidding the blacks from coming from the interior during the prevalence of the cholers there-it had got among the shipping, but very few had died-business very dull. MOBILE, March 29.-The Freshet.-We have heard from a gentleman of respectability who came down the Tombigbee yesterday, in the Hunter, of the distressing particulars of the almost unparalleled rise of that river. At Demopolis, the rise is said to be not less than 60 or 70 feet. It has every where overflowed its banks on one or both sides, and in some places spread out to a sheet of 5 or 6 miles in One of the number, Doctor Gerardus A. Cooper,||width, looking as it was expressed, "like a sea."— The plantatious are of course inundated, and in sev eral instances, our informant saw people white and black, and of all ages on the roofs of their buildings! which were apparently on the point of being borne away by the overwhelming, and still increasing flood. Great numbers of drowned cattle were seen, and "Presented by the Board of Health to, for many others struggling in the last effort of self preprofessional services gratuitously rendered to theservation, unable to reach the shore, which somepoor of the Second Ward during the prevalence of the cholera, A. D. 1832.” ercise of his service as Physician. The silver vases, which were elegantly finished, Master Edward Bruce, and Miss Catharine Cooper, times receded by rapid stages. It was not stated that any human lives had been lost, but the loss in buildings and live stock must be great. We learn from a gentleman direct from the interior, that the Alabama River has risen to a height greater than it has attained in many years. At Caha. ba, the water was on a level with the floor of the State House, and it was supposed the term of the Circuit Court would fail in consequence. The dam. age to the plantations on the rivers must be im. mense. A dreadful accident occurred at Bedford on Thurs. day last, when a man of the name of Macintosh lost his life when engaged in clearing his farm. He had succeeded in cutting a very large tree, and while falling it unfortunately struck another, which broke and striking him on his head, instantly deprived him of life. It is a singular circumstance that his wife, SHIPWRECK. The ship Anacreon, Capt. White, as if with a presentiment of some such accident, cau- from Liverpool, (sailed about the 24th Feb.) bound tioned him against going to the woods, that day; but to City Point, with a cargo of Dry Goods, Salt, Iron, went ashore on Hog Island, on Thursday under the excuse of clearing the barn, he left his &c. house and having subsequently commenced the fell-night last. Capt. White had two vessels along side ing of a tree, the catastrophe occurred, and deprived for the purpose of taking out the cargo-the vessel a wife of an industrious husband, and a large fami- will be lost.--[Norfolk Herald.] ||ly of a kind and generous parent.-[Montreal Gaz.] FROM HAVANA. Captain Chamberlin, of the brig MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.-The schooner Eliza. Franklin, in ten days from Havana, reports that when beth, of Bordentown, (N. J.) Douglass, master, from he sailed, the cholera had a good deal abated. The Plymouth, (N. C.) with a cargo of staves and shin- deaths were supposed to be about one hundred and gles, bound to Kingston, (Jam.) sailed from the for-fifty a day. The official reports for the city and su. mer place on the 7th of March, and from Ocracock burbs, made the whole number of deaths by Cholera, on the 13th, and on the 16th following, sprung a leak, ||FOURTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR. THE NORTH RIVER STEAMBOAT ASSOCIATION are|| Our City.-Business has commenced unusually ||served five years in the 3d U. S. Sub. Legion, under about to render the travelling on the Hudson most early this season, and present appearances indicate Capt. Pike, the father of the late Gen. Pike. When convenient. In addition to a morning and evening dom, if ever, so early in the spring, have presented ment of Capt. Schuyler's company, and was at last extended and successful operations. Our streets sel- the Legion was dissolved, he fell into the 2d Regi boat daily, there is, we understand, to be a third boat, such bustle and cheering activity. The whole busi- marched to New Orleans in 1812 in the regiment leaving this city and Albany every day at 10 or 11 ness community of the west, already appears to be in commanded by Col. Thomas Cushing, and was final. o'clock, so that each of these places, and every inter-motion, and throngs of the enterprising merchants and ly discharged in 1813, at the age of eighty three, by mediate one on the river, will have three daily op- riving, and opening the business campaign with us, or is poor-has a wife and two children-the youngest traders of the interior of our state are constantly ar- Gen. Wade Hampton, on account of disability. He portunities of intercommunication during the season passing through, to take a look at the "world," that about 15 years of age. of navigation. The price fixed, of three dollars for lies one hundred and fifty miles south. As the canal the whole distance, (meals being paid extra) every is not yet navigable, large quantities of merchandise, companies of the U. S. Troops at Charleston, (S. C.) Movement of Troops.-It is rumored that eight one will admit to be reasonable. The Albany, under departure for the west by the way of the rail-road, that three of the Companies now stationed at the for the last ten days or two weeks, have taken their are to return immediately to Fortress Monroe, and her old and well known and esteemed commander, which, incomplete and imperfect as its arrangements Fortress, are to be transferred to New London and Jenkins, is now a magnificent boat indeed, and very for the transportation of freight, at present, necessari- one to New York.-[Norfolk Beacon.] fast. Forty-five feet have been added to her length, ly are, has enabled the merchants of Schenecteday and in the distribution and decorations of the cabins and the neighbouring country, to get up their goods convenience and good taste have been alike consult. One of the locomotives took over at one load, last at infinitely less trouble and inconvenience than usual. ed. We have as yet only been on board of one other week, about fifteen tons. boat of this extensive line, the Constitution, and that have passed over the road for the Isat two weeks, The number of passengers there, we think, a little brushing up, as to the fare must have been very great. Who can fail to see the of the table, and the costume of the waiters who from Schenectaday to Utica? And if a private compa. advantages to the whole state, of continuing this road should not be permitted to move about the cabins in ny is willing and desirous to undertake it, we hope shirt sleeves-is needed. the legislature will not refuse them a liberal charter. -[Albany paper, April 11th.] CHOLERA AT HAVANA.-Mr. Erben of this city, who returned recently from Havana, furnished us with Mr. HASLER'S Report on Weights and Measures the following official list of interments in the Roman seems to have attracted more attention in Eng. Catholic burial ground, up to the 25th March, receiv-land, even than at home. We published some days ed from the hands of the Governor's Secretary at ago a letter from a distinguished English Hydrogra. Havana. pher, in relation to it. We have just seen the following additional evidence of the esteem in which 14.41.96.127 the work is held in England. It may be well to add 16....39...131....170] that some few copies of it are for sale at Messrs. 17....30...132.... 162 Carvill's, in Broadway. White. Black. White. Black. 2.... 5....16....21 3....13....43....56 4....14....40....54 5....37...64...101 6....13....52....65 7....24....91...115 8.24....65....89 9....42.64...106 10....43....92...134 11....32...117...149 Total.... 15....35...139....174) "I enclose a copy of a letter from my friend, Mr. 24....62...190....252 Francis Bailey, one of the most active members of 25....54... ...207....261 the Astronomical Society of London, requesting the .876 3107 3983 purchase of a number of copies of our friend Mr. There are five other burial grounds, where no ac- Hassler's Report to Congress, on Weights and Meacounts are kept; but the number supposed to have been interred is between 2 and 3000. The death of Mr. Shaler and of the Bishop of Havana were calcu. lated to shed deep gloom on the city. sures. "Extract from Mr. Francis Bailey's letter to W. Augusta, on the 28th ult. for Fort Mitchell. dleton, Jr. of South Carolina, to be Secretary of the now below at this port, sailed from Baltimore on same ship which, some two or three years ago, made Sunday afternoon, while playing with other boys on accidents have recently occurred by reason of the Power Wheel Grindstones.-Several melancholy pidly by means of powerful machinery. In Oxford, separation of large grindstones, while revolving rain this State, a man was killed instantly by one of these dangerous machines. It is stated, that the stone weighed nearly two tons, that it was six feet making 300 revolutions in a minute. Every one acin diameter; and was, at the time of the accident, quainted with centrifugal forces, will perceive the immense tendency of the parts to separate in such a case. The centrifugal force of bodies, is the tendency of their particles to fly off from the circle of the revolving bodies in tangents, or straight lines touchin a degree, proportioned to their velocity. A stone of 6 feet diameter would give a circumference of nearly 18 feet. Such a stone, revolving at the cles on the outer surface to move with the enormous rate of 300 tines in a minute, would cause the parti minute. velocity of 5400 feet, or more than a mile in a Late and Important from Havana-Cholera subsided. The brig Whim, Capt. Hatch, arrived here on Sunday last in 9 days from Havana, having sailed on the 4th inst. at which time the Cholera had entirely subsided and business had assumed its usual activity. The death of our Consul. Mr. Shaler, is confirmed.-number of copies, I shall be most happy to defraying their outward circles. The tendency to fly off is, Mr. Cleaveland was acting as Consul. The President has recognized Andreas Anton Melly as Consul of the King of Saxony for the Port of New-York. [From the Boston Globe of Friday.] THE SHIP HELLESPONT.-The safety of this vessel, for which so much interest has been excited, is at length ascertained. The first favorable news on the subject was brought to Baltimore by the brig George and Henry, from Rio Janeiro. She reported the ar. rival there of a vessel from Boston on the 10th of February, after a short passage, but did not learn her name. It was presumed to be the Hellespont, as no other vessel from this port was expected to be there at that time. cost and expense, and should at the same time con SHIPWRECK. The ship Anacreon, Capt. White, of which the circumference of such a stone was com. The tendency therefore of every particle of matter posed, to fly off, would be at the rate of more than a mile in a minute. As the particles of the stone were Centegenarian Pensioner.-There is in Washing in tangents, would of course be diminished, but they situated towards its centre, the tendency to fly off ton a man by the name of Andrew Wallace, applying would still have more or less tendency from the cenfrom Congress amounting to only 26 cents per diem. flaw in the stone, it will sooner or later burst asunfor an increase of pension, his present allowance tre. Hence is the great danger: and if there is any We are now happy to state, that letters were reHe is 103 years of age, having been born in Inver- der with tremendous violence. The person who ceived here last night which dispel all remaining ness, Scotland, March 14, 1730, and arrived in Ame- lately suffered in Oxford, was in the act of grinding doubt on the subject. Benj. T. Reed, Esq. owner of rica in 1752, and his present residence is in Chester a scythe. One fragment of the stone, weighing about the Hellespont, received last evening a letter from county, Pa. He retains a fine intelligent counte- 800 pounds, flew upward, killed the man, and broke Capt Wm. Henry, master, via Baltimore, dated Rio nance and full possession of his faculties, though his through the floor over his head, and lodged in the Janeiro, Eeb. 10, 1833, in which he says, "I arriv-body continually shakes from paralysis: ed at this place in the short and pleasant passage of soldier at the battle of Culloden, Scotland, on the second story. The man was mangled in a shocking forty four days-all well. The ship proves every manner. Such instruments are too dangerous for thing I expected. common use.- -[Boston Centinel.] Another Melancholy Shipwreck.-The Schooner which was sunk below the Light Boat, in the heavy gale on Sunday night last, was the Friends, Capt. Anderson, from Newport's News, with a cargo of Sand for the Dry Dock. All on board (four in number) went down with the vessel. She lies in about 11 fathoms water. The schooner belonged to Capt. Freeman of Portsmouth.-[Norfolk Herald.] He was side of the Stuarts. He was after his arrival in this ป.] Indiana, to be attorney of the U. States for the Dis. The number of letters from foreign countries re ceived at the Post Office in this city during the lasted in the army and was in the battle fought by trict of Indiana, in the place of Samuel Judab, retwo days, is upwards of ten thousand. Wayne with the Indians in 1794. He afterwards moved. TOWNSEND & DURFEE, of Palmyra, Manu. facturers of Railroad Rope, having removed their establishment to Hudson, under the rame of Durfee & May, 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. Auto the quality of Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. R. 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ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING The subscriber manufactures all kinds of Instruments in his profession, warranted equal, if not superior, in principles of construction and workmanship to any imported or manufactured in the United States; several of which are entirely new: among which are an Improved Compass, with a Telescope attached, by which angles can be taken with or without the use eter, with two Telescopes-and a Levelling Instrument, with a of the needle, with perfect accuracy-also, a Railroad GoniomGoniometer attached, particularly adapted to Railroad purpoWM. J. YOUNG, Mathematical Instrument Maker, No. 9 Dock street, Philadelphia. The following recommend ations are respectfully submitted to Engineers, Surveyors, and others interested. Baltimore, 1832. In reply to thy inquiries respecting the instruments manufactured by thee, now in use or the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Icheerfully furnish thee with the following information. The whole number of Levels now in possession of the department of construction of thy make is seven. The whole number of the "Improved Compass" is eight. These are all ex. clusive of the number in the service of the Engineer and Graduation Department. Both Levels and Compasses are in good repair. They have in fact needed but little repairs, except from accidents to which all instruments of the kind are liable I have found that thy patterns for the levels and compassos have been preferred by my assistants generally, to any others in use, and the Improved Compass is superior to any other decription of Goniometer that we have yet tried in laying the rails on this Road. This instrument, more recently improved with a reversing telescope, in place of the vane sights, leaves the engineer scarcely any thing to desire in the formation or convenience of the Compass. It is indeed the most completely adapted to lateral angles of any simple and cheap instrument that I have yet seen, and I cannot but believe it will be preferred to all others now in use for laying of rails-and in fact, when known, I think it will be as highly appreciated for common surveying. Respectfully thy friend, JAMES P. STABLER, Superintendant of Construction of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Philadelphia, February, 1883. Having for the last two years made constant use of Mr. Young's Patent Improved Compass," I can safely say I be lieve it to be much superior to any other instrument of the kind, now in use, and as such most cheerfully recommend it to En E. H. GILL, Civil Engineer. gineers and Surveyors. Germantown, February, 1839. 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. I consider these Instruments admirably calculated for laying out Railroads, and can recommend them to the notice of Engl neers as preferable to any others for that purpose. HENRY R. CAMPBELL, Eng. Philad., Germant, and Norrist. Railroad 256 PASSENGERS Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. Do. In the packet ship George Washington, from Liverpool-Mr and Mrs G A Brown, of Manchester; Thos Sands, Thos B Sands, of Liverpool; G J Goodhue, of York. U C; William Ritchie, H Chapman, Wm Smith, Jas Connell, of Montreal; RF Maitland, RP Ross, D Bellhouse, of Quebec; Thos Winn, of Philada; H Abbotson, of Sheffield; EJ Coates, of Boston; S C Lister, of Bradford, Eng; Wm Brooks, of Manchester; Chas Clegg, of do; B H Jones, of Liverpool; Rev R Calvert, of Keswick, Eng; SB Hargroves, of Leeds; Mr and Mrs Booth, of Huddersfield, Eng; John A Stevenson, E Cotton, of Staffordshire; Geo Cripps, JH Reed, W C Maitland, of New York, and 30 in the steerage. In the ship Ontario, from London-R Johnson, lady and family, of Jamaica; D Fox, of Belleville, N J.; Henry Todd, and Geo C Thorburn, of New York; Master H De Koven, of Middletown, Ct.; John Poore, W Walker, Miss Nicholson, Miss Rolfe, and George Miller, of London, and 144 in the steerage. MARRIAGES. On the 11th inst. at Friends Meeting House in Hester street, NEELY LOCKWOOD, to ELIZA BOWNE, daughter of the late Richard M. Bowne, all of this city. On Wednesday, 10th in, by the Rev. Wm. Quarter, Mr. ED WARD CRONLY, to Miss MARIA, second daughter of Mr. Andrew Fallen. Last evening, 16th instant, by the Rev. Dr. De Witt, PETER R. BRINCKERHOFF, to MARIA JEANETTE, daughter of the late John T. Lawrence, Esq., all of this city. DEATHS. - On Tuesday evening, MARY, wife of Samuel D. Wilkins, of Gwanas, L. I. and daughter of Nehemiah Denton, Esq. Monday morning, April 15th, Mrs. SARAH TAYLOR, aged 84 years and 9 months. This morning, April 16, after a lingering illness, Mrs. BRIDGET BANKS, wife of Henry Banks, in the 42d year of her age. On Thursday, the 11th inst, MRS. JANE POST, in the 86th year of her age, widow of the late Jacob Post, of Yonkers, West Chester County. This morning, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with christian fortitude, WILLIAN ANDERSON, aged 78 years. This morning, April 17, CHARLOTTE JANE, wife of JOHN R. KNOX, M. D. and daughter of the late John Bullus, Esq. On Tuesday afternoon, 16th instant, after a lingering sickness, which he endured with great christian fortitude, Mr. JACOB JUSTISON, in the 31st year of his age. Porto Rico..........do St. Domingo........do Java COPPER Sheathing Old Pig CORDAGE CORKS- COTTON New Orleans........lb Alabama ...........do COTTON BAGGING- Flax Do. American ......do Russia, broad....picce 2 15 3d quality.do 15 50 inferior.....do 11 00 German, Half......do 11 00 Holland, A. A.......do 24 00 a ....do 7 00 Ravens Amer. Joy's, all flax. No. 1 a 3.......do 14 00 a 10 30 Do. Phenix Mills, Pa terson, flax, No.1a8. 16 00 a 12 00 cotton, Paterson, 39 26 a No. 1 a 10......yd DYE WOODSa 30 00 Braziletto ...ton 28 00 a 82 50 ........do 80 00 a 27 00 Camwood. a 23 00 Fustic, Cuba........do 25 00 Tampico....do 22 09 Do. Maine. Do. ...do 19 00 a 21 00 a 27 00 Logwood, Camp'hy.do 26 00 St. Dom..do 28 00 DO. Jamaica..do 17 00 Of Consumption, on Sunday afternoon, the 14th instant, in||Nicaragua, Bonaire.do 42 00 the 40th year of her age, Mrs. ELIZA, wife of James Kearley. On the 5th of April, in the village of Jamaica, Queen's County, WM. PUNTINE, aged 80 years. At Charleston, 8 C. CHARLES WINTHROP, of the house of F. & C. Winthrop, aged 34 years. REPORT OF DEATHS-WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, Between the ages of 90 and 100-1150 and 60 9 | 10 and 20-3 5 and 10-7 80 and 90-140 and 50-10 70 and 80- 1 30 and 40-10 60 and 70-320 and 30-19 1 and 2-12 Of and under one year, 16-Total, 95. Apoplexy... Burned or scalded.. FEATHERSLive, Foreign ......b Do. American.....do FISH Dry Cod..........cwt 2 75 a Scale ........do 200 East'n Pine.do 16 00 Do. Albany do.pce Plank, Georgia do. Mt 25 00 Staves, W. O. pipe..do 56 00 do hhd....do 26 00 a 42 00 do bri.....do 28 00 R. O. hhd...do 25 80 Heading W. O......do 42 00 ..do 25 00 Hoops,. a 16 00 Scantling, Pine.....do la 00 Do. Oak.....do 20 00 a 25 00 20 Timber, Oak.....8q. ft Do. Geo.Yell. Pine.do Shingles, Cypress. M ft 400 Pine..bundle Do. MOLASSESMartinique & Guad.gall English Islands.....do Havana & Matanzas.do Trinidad de Cuba...do New Orleans.......do ...do .....do ..do ..........lb ........do .lb ...cwt ..do ..do .. a 15 a 12 G Almonds, soft shell..do a a 7 a Beans. a Mould, tallow .......lb CLOVERSEED..lb COAL 101 a 111 33 a 12 a Liverpool....chaldron 9 80 Scotch.. ....do 7 50 Sidney & Bridgeport.do Figs, Smyrna ......do Prunes, Bordeaux..do 31 950 8. 00 a 10 00 Do. - a Genesee....do Rye, Northern .....do 1 a 78 1874 Do. Shipping....do 2.06 Do. 12 a 2.28 Hog's Lard.........lb 7 a 9 s a 5 3 a 5 Do. Do. 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: To Engineers and others in charge of Railroads; Pro- page 257 SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1833. printed, for the use of the Journal-and we, in turn, will furnish each gentleman who aids us in obtaining the information, with additional coRemoving obstructions from rails; British Iron Trade..259 pies of the Journal, in which the article shall Scriveror's Patent Improvements in the Construction of Iron Railways (with engravings).. Meteorological Table; Arrival of the Steam Fire-Engine Patent Guard Rail-Bulkley's Reply to Sullivan's Ob- Comet at Berlin; Agriculture, &c... Literary Notices.... Summary.. Foreign Intelligence Miscellany-The Young Napoleon.. Poetry.. Marriages and Deaths; Advertisements.. .260 be published when received. [VOLUME II.-No. 17. The following remarks are designed to show the advantages of the proposed Railroad from Providence to Stonington: "To those acquainted with the utility of roads, it is unnecessary to point out the impor 261 GUARD RAIL.-Mr. Bulkley's reply to Mr.tance of having them established upon all our 262 .263 Sullivan's "Objections," published in our last, will be found in this number of the Journal; 266 also, a communication signed "U. A. B.," upon .267 the same subject. .264 268 .269 IRON RAILWAYS.-We give at length, in this 272 number, "Scrivenor's Specification of an Im provement in the Construction of Iron Rail AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL, &c. ways," with fifteen engravings, showing the NEW-YORK, APRIL 27, 1833. machinery for, and describing the process of, principal thoroughfares, and the route between New-York and Boston will, it is presumed, be considered as one of them. Upon the introduction of railroads into this country, one from Boston to Providence was among the first thought of, which road is now, after some delay, in the progress of rapid construction. Very soon after that was determined upon, the original projectors of that work foresaw the necessity of continuing the road to some place upon the Sound, so as to lessen the distance from TO ENGINEERS, and others having the care of It was our intention to have given a con- Providence to New-York, and to have the conRailroads.-The Editor of the Journal presents densed analysis of Mr. Babbage's work on the nection between the railroad and steamboats at his compliments to those gentlemen, engineers" Economy of Machinery and Manufactures,' some point where the navigation would be unand others, having charge of the different Rail- but, on a close examination of the book, we obstructed by ice during the whole year: Proroads in the United States, and requests of find it is written in so concise a style that to vidence river, as is well known, being generalthem another, in addition to the many favors abridge it would be almost impossible. Its con-ly closed a part of the winter. After a good he has already received from them in furnish- tents are so valuable, and of such great interest deal of reflection and examination, Stonington ing him with reports and communications to the lovers of Science and the practical Arti-was fixed upon as the best location for those relative to the works under their care. Hav-zan, that we conceive we shall be doing an ae- objects, the harbor being always free from ice, ing been requested by a distinguished Engineer ceptable service to our readers by inserting the arl having been made perfectly safe by a breakof Liverpool, to furnish him with a brief but whole of it in our pages, giving portions from water recently erected by government, and the accurate outline of all the Railroads now in time to time. It will be so arranged that three cities of Boston, Providence, and Stoninguse, as well as those in a course of construc- the whole will be found in this volume of the ton, being (as will be seen upon a map) very tion and in contemplation, for which charters Journal. nearly in a direct line. Accordingly, measures have been granted, in the United States, "to of Rhode Island and Connecticut, which were were taken to procure charters from the states form a portion of the article RAILROADS, now preparing for the Encyclopædia Metropolitana granted with the most liberal provisions, givof England," the Editor is desirous to obtain THE TIMES, has issued proposals for publishing to the company a perpetual right, and exfrom those intimate with each a description of ing a new work, in monthly parts, to be called cluding all competition for thirty years from the their particular work at the earliest possible" The Story Teller." We make the following time this road shall be opened for use. Very extract from the prospectus, and wish him a liberal patronage: Mr. FREEMAN HUNT, late one of the editors of the NEW-YORK TRAVELLER AND SPIRIT OF date, that he may be enabled to forward them in soon after these charters were obtained, an entime for the above publication. He would suggest the idea of their forwarding the latest re-monthly parts of at least 40 pages, quarto, equal "The Story Teller,' will be published in sion, Wm. Gibbs McNeil, Esq. was employed to gineer of the highest standing in his profesport published, and, in addition thereto, a writ-to one hundred octavo of the ordinary size, in make a survey of the contemplated route, which ten description of the progress of the work a superior style, forming a splendid volume of has been completed, and a report of the same, since its publication. MR. VIGNOLES, the gen-about five hundred pages per annum, and af- with the maps, profiles, &c. are at the office of tleman for whose use they are designed, re- forded to subscribers at the low price of twen- the Company, No. 46 Merchants' Exchange, quests also a transverse and longitudinal section, No subscription will be received for a less term where they can be examined by those who feel shewing distinctly the mode of laying down the than one year. To persons who pay for the an interest in the subject. It will be perceivrails on each road, with such other minute par-year, in advance, a liberal discount will be ed, upon a perusal of the report, that the route ticulars as may be useful to the public. In re-made. The work will be published simulta- is an exceedingly favorable one for the conturn for these documents, Mr. V. offers to fur-neously in the different cities of the Union. "The aid of some of our most distinguished struction of a railroad, the soil being good, with nish us with copies of the article as soon as ladies and gentlemen is promised." abundance of granite for foundations, requiring ty-five cents per number, payable on delivery. |