ASHES NEW-YORK PRICES CURRENT: Corrected from the "New-York Shipping and Commercial List-Tuesday, July 31st, 1832. : Rye Flour .........brl α 4 50 Pot, first sort....100 lbs 440 44 45 Indian Meal....do 3 37 a FRUIT a 15 00 Raisins, Malaga..cask 700 a 800 bloom....box 225 a Do. muscatel..do 2 75 bunch.....do 300 a 2 60 2 87 Hog's Lard 7 Pork, Mess... 16 U. S. Branch.para Cumberland.... | Augusta.... NEW-HAMPSHIRE. 12 U. S. Branch.parał | Rockingham... Claremont .....jat Cheshire...... Portsmouth......do Grafton.........do 10 Concord.........do Farmers'........do Merrimack Co...do Exeter..........do Piscataqua.....do Merrimack......do New-Hampshire.do Dover...........do Commercial.....do VERMONT. a 14 00 a 11 00 S Do. Prime.. 5a 10 a 9 a Peari...............do 460 a Do. BEESWAX White..............lb 44 a Yellow.............do 45 18 a 20 Do. BOTTLES Bristol, Perter...gross 800 a Wines.............do 6 50 4 8 50 Do. 6 a BREAD Currants, Zante....do 7 Navy...............lb Pilot ...............do 3 Almonds, soft shell..do 4 a 4 Do. shelled....do Crackers...........do : BRISTLES 6 Figs, Smyrna ......do 10 a 16 Cheese, American...lb Filberte.. ...do 4 a Russia, first sort ....lb 60 a 70 Prunes Bordeaux..do 5 Do. Northern....do 15 De. comtnon...do 20 a 40 Tamarinds. .....do a American...........do Foreign............do 16 a 50 GRAIN Country .....do CANDLES Wheat, North riv..bshl a RICE... 12 a 13 Do. Genesee....do a 125 SALT 11 a 12 Do. Sperm..... Virginia....do 1 121 a Turk's Island.....bshl 45 a ...do 30 a 125 Isle of May.........do a SO a 83 31. Ubes 70 a 72 Cadiz.... ..do 70 a 73 Lisbon. ..do 40 a 62 a Mould, tallow .......lb COAL Liverpool....chaldron 1000 a Scotch 82 Do. N.Carolina..do 120 a ..... do 700 a 300 Sidney & Bridgeport.do a 8 50 Rye, Northern .....do .......do 800 a 66 Liverpool ground...do Do. blown....do 56 600 a 7 00 a 75 a 10 00 Boston city B'ksła Pawrucket......do Cambridge......do 50 Agricultural.....do Salem...... Beverly.........do Springfield......do Falmouth.......do ..do Andover........do Bedford Com'l..do Taunton........do Mercamile......do Commercial.....do Worcester.......do Lynn Mechanics'do Dedham........do Biackstone......do Merch'ts Salem..do 37 Gloucester......do Fall River......do do N. Bedford.do Hampshire......do Exchange.......do | Bunker Hill.....do ..sack 1 871 a 200 Franklin... Do. sack do. Refined. .......lb Crude E. I..........do SHEETINGS SOAP Russia, white....piece 11 00 a 13 American dew-rot...do 13000 a 150 00 New-York, Brown..lb a a 9 ..do Danvers.. Sunderland......do Asiatic. Hampden.......do Mendon... ..do Atlantic.........do ..do Franklin........do .de | Lowell..........do Mechanics'......do Oxford..........do Brighton........do 950 Phenix. 6 Manu. & Mech..do Leicester........do 12 RHODE-ISLAND. U. S. Branch.par ał | Village Bank...a | North Kingston.laf 21 Providence.....ta Smithfield Lime 54 Union... 10 Mount Hope....do ...do Rock.........do Pawtuxet.......do Exchange.......do Newport Bank..do Phanix.........do 11 Mechanics'......do Roger Williame.do R. I. Central.....do a 145 Globe....do Scituate.........do Warren.........do Sisal... Cuba... Brazil... .do 12 a Porto Rico..........do 121 Yarns, Kentucky...lb Laguira..... .do 12 a St. Domingo........do 13 LaPlata & R. Grande.lb 14 a 15 Cassia, in mats..... lb 11 a 12 Cloves ..do Java... ..........do 13 Do. α 20 a Jamaica........ wet salted...do 6 a ..do 12 a 13 Oronoco ..do α COPPER 6 Ginger, race. 13 Do. .do W. India & Southern.do ground.....do 7 a 104 a S. A. Horse...... piece 1 35 a 16 a 17 HORNS Old ....do 16 a 17 Ox...... .100 500 a 20 00 Bolt.. ..do 24 a INDIGO- CORDAGE Bengal... 10 a 11 Manilla.... 11 a Сагассав.. CORKS Guatemala. Velvet...... IRON Common.. ......do Phial ......do COTTON 101 a 8 a Sheathing..........lb Foreign.............lb American .....cwt New Orleans........lb Upland.............do ......do COTTON BAGGING Hemp..............yd Do. American ......do 9 a a 13 a 10 Pig, Engl.&Scotch..ton 40 00 Bar, do. ..... do 80 00 Do. Russia, P. S. I..do 100 00 12 new Sable.do 86 00 a 45 00 a 40 00 a 102 50 a 85 00 a 87 50 a 87 50 a 73 00 11 Do. Swedes........ do 85 00 21 16 Do. 21 800 round....do 120 00 a 150 00 Hoop, American...cwt 5 50 4 700 LEAD α 16 α Brandy, Ot. D. &Co.gal 1 624 a Do. Do. Do. Do. 15 Manufacturers'..do Kent...... Rochelle...do 145 a 150 Rum, Jam. 4th proof. do Do. Do. 100 a 1 18 a 1 40 95 4 100 85 a 45 a 50 34 a Gin:Holl'd, MederSwan 115 a Do. Do. 35 Rhode Island....do ....do Warwiek.......do Eagle, Bristol...do R. I. Agricult'i..do Hour Glass.do a 1 12 U. S. Branch.par at | Hartford ....... ..do Do. Country.. Trieste, in boxes....do 27 a Union.........ja 37 a 40 Bridgeport......do Middletown.....do Thames........de .....do New Haven.....do 27 Fairfield County.do Mechanics.....do Windham Go....do do Branch.do New-London....do Stonington......do East Hudson....do City Br, N. Hav.do NEW-YORK. a English ......lb 10 a 11 a 5 a American. .....do SUGARS British Island ....... New Orleans.......do Brown.....do Brown.... ..do 6 a Do. Zotoli & Kenop'ff 17 50 ..do 4 a 4 Do. 3d quality..do 15 50 Do. 20 a 27 Do. 17 20 Holland, A. A........ 14 a 16 Ravens a 11 00 75 4 2 75 Do. Muscovado.do 64 7 a Amer. Joy's, all fiax. Do. Do. .do No. 1 a 3.. ..do 15 50 a 12 00 LUMBER Do. Phenix Mills, Pa Boards, N. R.....M ft a 15 00 terson, flax, No.1a3. 16 00 a 10 00 Do. Do. cotton, Paterson, Do. East'n Pine. do 16 00 a 17 00 16 a 17 SUMAC No. 1 a 10 ......yd 4 35 00 Sicily.. DYE WOODS a 52 00 Trieste. Braziletto.. ... ton 30 00 a 37 00 American ...do 75 00 Do. a 29 00 TEAS Fustic, Cuba... Do. Imperial Do. Tampico....do 21 00 Do. Maine.......do 15 00 Logwood, Camp'hy.do 27 00 Do. Do. St. Dom..do 22 Nicaragua. Bonaire.do 60 00 Do. Coro....do 65 00 a Do. Hache..do 67 50 a 70 00 FEATHERS Live, Foreign ......lb Do. American.....do 35 a 40 FISH .do 22 00 a 23 00 a 21 50 a 17 00 a 28 50 Dry Cod........cwt 2 871 a 300 a 200 Scale ..............do Do. .....lb Smoked do. Do. No. 3.....do 2 87 a Do. Smoked...box 60 a 100 FLAX Russia.... American.. ....do 9 FLOUR AND MEAL St. Domingo.......foot Gunpowder.........do 100 a 125 Young Hyson Skin.... .do .do .do Souchong ..........do 75 a 1 12 Do. Camden... People's Harrisburg Northampton....do 70 a 106 Farmrs, Reading.do 45 a 35 α ......do Columbia Br.Co..do Carlisle ...do 80 Do. Lancaster..do | Delaware county.do Erie.. 26 Easton........do | York 4 Do. Branches..do 18 U. S. Branch.... ...do 25 a TOBACCO Richmond & Petersb.do 3 a 6 Farmers..... ... 3 a .....do 3 a 5 5 α 15 Crba... .....do Da St Domingo........do 25 a 28 Manufactured, No. 1.do 10 a 26 a 31 Do. No. 2.do 7 a a 26 Do. 27 28 Ladies' Twist.......do 30 a 32 Cavendish..... ..do WHALEBONE a 14 a 8 a 14 a .....do ....do 7 a Sa 10 a Cut, 4d to 40d.......lb NAVAL STORES Tar........ ...brl 1 571 a ..do 6 Slab... ...lb Bank Maryland.ja | Hagerstown....... 8 Do. Branches..do Farmrs & Mech..do Planters........do DISTRICT COLUMBIA. 16 Patriotic... al Alexandria....fal | Mech. Georget'n.fal 30 Metropolis......do Potomac........do Do. Alexandria.do .do Farmers & Mech.do 15 Madeira.......... gall 1124 a 200 16 Sherry... 200 a 162 do 1124 a 162 “ 11 Turpentine Wilm. soft. 2 50 a a a 37 NewYork suprfine..brl a Philadelphia .......do Do. a Country.do 6 124 a ....do 100 a 200 Canary, Cogswell's..do sweet......do Do. 40 Do. in bottles a 5 25 Lisbon 95 a100 Catalonia. 46 .cask 15 00 a 26 00 .doz 250 a 700 .gall 70 a 160 80 a 1 25 40 a 50 35 a ..do .do Olive...........gallon Alexandria & George. a Fredericksburg.....do Sperm, Summer....do a 6 124 Do. a a a 90 Merino, Am. fleece...lb 40 a 45 Common .do a 80 Pulled, spinning....do 87 a 90 Lambs, 1st quality..do Do. 2d quality...Jo 3d quality do Liver, Straits......trl 16 00 a Fine middlinge, sassade $25 4 5 50 Do. Shore&Bank do 14 00 - 15 001 Do 85 a 33 a 20 a NORTH CAROLINA. SOUTH CAROLINA. U. S. Branch..... 35 25 State of Mississippi 35 а 39 36 a 29 20 a MISSISSIPΡΙ. LOUISIANA. ..... 40 U. S. Branch ..... | State 4-Orleans 4 | Louisiana...... 4 32 ALABAMA 22 U. S. Branchuu | Mobile 5-State, 8 | Tombeckbe POETRY. [For the New York American.] ON THE DEATH OF COM. GEORGE W. RODGERS. Where is the warrior's grave? Shall we seek it by yonder willow? Alas! he sleeps with the brave On the banks of La Plata's billow. Rich in his ripening fame, The son of the sea went forth To add to the hero's name A gem of lovelier worth. He bore at his country's command Her thunders to hurl on her foes; But the olive waived fair in his hand Who the warrior's dirge shall chaunt For the brave cut off in his prime; And heroes shall point to the tomb As her holy virgil she keeps. THE PLAGUE. EBORACENSIS. As dying, and behold we live! T' unfold a judgment-seat as near, Disease may be employed by death To waste the form and stop the breath, But Death, nor Sin, nor Hell may crave The soul Jehovah deigns to save DAYS. MARRIED-At Norwalk, Ct., on Thursday July 26, by the Rev. Mr. Hall, Mr. John F. Mackie, of the firm of Mackie & July 4.... Murdock, to Miss Juliet Wood, all of this city. At Norwalk, Conn., on Wednesday morning, 25th July, by the Rev. Dr. Kemper, Francis Skiddy, of New Orleans, to Sarah Louisa, daughter of Wm. St. John, of the former place. At Glens Falls, on Thursday, 25th July, by the Rev. Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. John J. Barry, of Warren, Pennsylvania, to Miss Harriet K. Goodrich, grand daughter of John Folsom, Esq. of the former place. DEATHS. DIED-On Thursday 26th July, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr. Edward A. Ball, aged 30 years. This morning, in the 44th year of his age, Mr. David Har denbrook. On Saturday morning, July 28, after a long illness, Phila Delaplaine, widow of the late Samuel Delaplaine, in the 81st year of her age. On Wednesday, July 25, after a short illness, Edward Arrowsmith, sailmaker. Friday evening, 27th July, of the prevailing epidemic, Jeremiah Madison Fisher, son of the late Dr. Jeremiah Fisher, in 24th year of his age. Wednesday, 25th July, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr. Wm. Marshall, a native of Scotland, in the 71st year of his age, an old resident of this city. On Saturday, 23th July, of cholera, Robert Bruce, aged 23, son of William Bruce. Monday morning, 30th July, after a short and painful illness, Andrew R. Maverick, in the 231 year of his age. Friday morning, 27th July, Mrs. Alice Babcock, aged 44 years, formerly of Boston. On Saturday, 28th July, of the prevailing epidemic, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Lovejoy, wife of Alexander L. Lovejoy, in the 19th year of her age. On Sunday, 29th July, of the prevailing epidemic, Thomas Fairchild, in the 46th year of his age. On Sunday last, July 29th, of the prevailing epidemic, Hester G. wife of Charles F. Bunner. Dwellings. 71 CASES. DEATHS. Hospitals. Bellevue. Harlaem. Yorkville Total, + Dwellings. Hospitals. Yorkville & Bellevue. Total. 711 4 4 19 10 12 13 24 's 15 7.... 42 13 20* 25 6 613 35 21 23 44 This morning, Aug. 2. of an affection of the brain, James Kissam, Custom House Broker, ellest son of the late John B. Kissam, in the 47th year of his age. Wednesday morning, Ist instant, after a lingering illness, Mr. Wm. S. Ogden, from Charleston, S. C., aged 30 years. Of the prevailing epidemic, on Monday evening, 30th July, after a painful illness of 6 hours, Miss Sarah Simpson, Milliner, late of Horncastle, England, in the 30th year of her age. Thos. Brown. 2599 RAILROAD IRON. The Subscribers having executed large orders for Iron for the Canal Commissioners of Pennsylvania, as well as for se veral incorporated companies, have made such arrangements in Monday morning, 30th July, Mrs. Mary Brown, wife of Mr. England, where one of them will shortly be, as will enable them to import it on the lowest terms. Models and samples of all the different kinds of Rails, Chairs, Pins and Wedges in use, both in this country and Great Britain, will be exhibited. Apply to A.. & G. RALSTON. J23m* Philadelphia, May 26, 1832. On the 28th of July, of a lingering illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, at Greenwich, at the residence of his Grandfather, the Rev. Peter Stryker, Peter I. Ricord, in hie 21st year, Medical Student of Geneva, State of New York. On Sunday morning, July 29, at the house of his tather, Hen- TOWNSEND & DURFEE, Rope Manufactury Waring, Esq., at Brooklyn Heights, of the prevailinff epide-rers, having machinery for making ropes to any required length mic, Mr. William F. Waring, merchant, of the firm of Johnson, (without splice), offer to supply full length Ropes for the inWaring & Co, aged 21 years. Monday evening, at Jamaica, L. I., Charles, son of Daniel S. Miller, of this city, aged 16 months. Monday morning, 30th July, at 7 o'clock, at his residence in New-Brunswick, the Right Rev. JOHN CROES, D. D, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of New Jersey, in the 70th year of his age. At Greensburg, 2ith July, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr Jonathan Archer, in the 60th year of his age. In Albany, of bilious fever, Henry, third son of Nathan Sanford, aged 16 years 5 monthsand 15 days In Geneva, New York, on the 19th July, Marian Foot, aged two years and five months, daughter of Prof. Webster. clined planes on Rail-roads at the shortest notice, and deliver them in the City of New-York, if requested. As to the quality of the Rope, the public are referred to J. B. Jervis, Eng. M. & H. R. R. Co., Albany; or James Archibald, Engineer Hudson & Delaware Canal & R. R. Co., Carbondale, Luzerne County: Pennsylvania. Palmyra, Wayne County, New-York, 1st mo. 22d, 1832. J30 tf A RAILROAD IN PRACTICAL OPERATION, within ten miles of the City of New-York. THE PATERSON AND HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD nonk, a distance of 4 miles, and is now in actual and success is formed from the town of Paterson to the village of AquackaAt Detroit, on 9th July, of the cholera, Maj. Gen. OLIVER ful operation between those places. The Company have placed STRONG, of Rochester. The Rochester Daily Advertiser upon the road three splendid and commodious Cars, each of savs It is seldom that the death of any individual occurs un- which will accommodate thirty Passengers, and have supplied der more melancholy circumstances, or is more deeply felt than themselves with fleet and gentle horses, and careful drivers. that of the late General Strong." "He was a passenger in the With a view to suit the convenience of those persons who may Henry Clay-arrived at Detroit, and was taken sick on Friday, and expired on Monday following." On the 11th Inst. in New Orleans, Lieutenant N. N. Clark, of the 4th regiment Infantry U. S. Army, aged 21 years, univer. sally and deeply regretted. At Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 19th July, of apoplexy, in the 66th year of his age, Mr. Samuel Burr, formerly of Long Island, N.Y. WEEKLY REPORT OF DEATHS. The City Inspector reports the death of 879 persons during the week ending on Saturday last, 29th instant, viz:-348 men, 203 In the ship President, from London:--Rev. Wm Biddle, lady women, 132 boys, and 106 girls-Of whom 50 were of the age of and seven children, Mrs. S. Edwards, Mrs. C. J. Brymer, of 1 year and under; 34 between 1 and 2, 72 between 2 and 5, 32 London; Captain John Ewing, of the 2th Regiment, British between 5 and 10. 50 between 10 and 20, 165 between 20 and 30, Army; Mr. John Howard Payne, of New-York: Mr. John 184 between 30 and 40, 121 between 40 and 50, 83 between 50 and P. Wilcox, of Virginia; Messrs. John Craken, Wm. Shuttle- 60, 51 between 60 and 70, 23 between 70 and 50, and 5 beworth, James Woodhouse, Robert Robertson, James S. Law-tween 80 and 90.-Diseases: Apoplexy 3, asphyxia 1, casualty Con, Thomas 3. Spitty, George Wilson, and Master Edward 2, cholera morbus 10, cholera malignant 689, consumption 35, Keyser, of London: and 157 in the steerage. In the brig Charlotte Maria, from Bremen:- A Wehlrade, and fifty-nine in the steerago. In the schooner Consort, from Matanzas:-Jonathan Nor cross. convulsions 13, cramp in the stomach 1, diarrhea 3, dropsy 1, dropsy in the head 9, drowned 3, dysentery 4, fever 4, fever, oilious 1, fever, bllions remittent 1, fever scarlet 2, sever typhus 3, flux infantile 18, hæmorrhage 1, hives or croup 1, inflammation of the bowels 4, inflammation of the brain 6, inflammation of the chest 1. inflammation of the liver 1, inflammation of the In the ship Glasgow, from Liverpool-Mr. Sml. S. Northouse, stomach 2, intemperance 5, locked jaw 1, marasmus 4, measles lady and son, Messrs. W. P. Benson, Thomas Prichard, James 7, old age 8, palsy 2, peripneumony 2, scirrhus of the liver 1, Marshall, Richard Chaffey, and 160 in the steerage. stillborn 5, teething 4, unknown 12, whooping cough 4, worms In the Edmund Castle, from London-Capt. Sturgeon, R. 6. ABRAHAM D. STEPHENS, City Inspector. Slater, J. Stone, and 86 in the steerage. In the Agenora, from Savannah-J. Haggerty and M. O'Brien. [Of the interments, 454 werein Potter's Field, and 139 in St In the brig Dapper, from Hull:-Eliza, Mary and Jane Cooper, Patrick's Cathedral. wish to avail themselves of this rapid and delightful mode of traveling, the following hours have been fixed for leaving those places. PATERSON. AQUACKANONK. At halt past 7 o'clock, A.M. At half past 10 o'clock, A.M. + before 1 do P.M. half past 3 do do 5 do do half past 6 do do At 10 do do 3 do P.M. 4 do do do ON SUNDAYS. At half past 4 do do 8 o'clock, A.Μ. half past 7 do do 9 do half past 12 do P.M. 5 do do half past 6 do do : 7 o'clock, A.Μ. half past 3 do do halt past 9 do do half past 1 do P.M. 6 do do half past 7 do do Parties of twenty or more persons can be accommodated at either of the above hours with a private Car. FARE reduced to 18 6d--Children under 12 years of age, half price.-Paterson, June 20th, 1832. ELIAS B. D. OGDEN, Secretary. NB.-Persons leaving Hoboken by the 9 o'clock Stage, for Aquackanonk, will have ample time to view the Falls of the Passaic, and other objects of interest in the flourishing town of Paterson, and return to New-York the same day. jy:18 The public are informed that, until further notice, the 12 o'clock and hefore 6 o'clock P.M turns from Paterson, and the 8 o'clock A.M. and 7 o'clock P.M. turns from Acquackanock, are, for the present withdrawn. RAILROAD JOUURNAL. OFFICE, 35 WALL-STREET. CONTENTS. NEW-YORK, AUGUST 11, 1832. Major Douglass was aware of the intention of the VOLUME I....NO. 33. [From the Ohio Chronicle.] TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU, Washington City, July 20, 1832. Sir-I have the honor to state to you, that in con. 517 fer to Major Douglass, uncalled for, as we do those formity with the decision of the President, engineers 517 in the communication of H. to Capt. Green, or the and instruments will be furnished, at the expense of Home Affairs. Cholera....520 Engineer of the Morris Canal. With this explana. the United States, for the survey of a route for a railForeign Intelligence.....22 tion we would observe that Literary Notises, &c.......3131 Reply to H. on Inclined ..314 South-Carolina Railroad..515 Miscellany.... ...526 it is not our intention to road, from Geauga or Ashtabula county, on Lake Erie, to the Ohio river, in Columbiana county; but Susquehannah Railroad, Advertisements. 527 devote our columns to attacks upon, or defenco of, that the United States will be at no other expense Steam-Engine .......516 Varieties; Poetry; Deaths; Paterson Railroad...516 Passengers..... .....52s gentlemen engaged to superintend works of internal whatever, in relation to this survey. In case, there The AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL is pubi improvement, but rather to collect and and embody fore, the incorporated company interested in this surlished at 35 Wall-street, New-York, at 83 a year, in advance. such information relative to them as may be useful AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. to those interested in their accomplishment. The annexed letters show the grounds upon which vey, or any other association, will make arrangements for meeting the expenses of this survey, as above stated, and you will please to give this Bureau information on that subject, engineers, with their instruments, will be ordered to make the survey. Very respectfully, sir, your ob't servant, J. J. ABERT, Lieut. Col. T. E. Hon. E. WHITTLESEY, This statement and the letters are submitted to In No. 31 of this Journal, in our remarks upon McAdam Roads, we stated that we knew of no road in this country that could "stand three days of rain, or that is proof against the frosts of win. copy of the following order from the War Depart the candid and dispassionate perusal of those who ter;" and intimated that there was not a road in the ment, suspending the survey of the route of the have anticipated the commencement of both or either Hudson and Erie Railroad, (as ordered on the 5th of these rouds; or who have entertained the belief United States built upon the pure McAdam system, instant,) and all similar surveys, unless certain con- that the President was in favor of internal improve which we believed to be the fact; but we have since ditions are complied with by those making the ap-ments, and would pay any deference to a law he was been informed that the "Cumberland Road," or that plication for the survey. I cannot hope under all the circumstances attending the application to the War Department for the survey, and the advanced state of the season, that it will be in the power of the company to comply bound by his office to execute. The question naturally arises, are these roads of national importance? If the President thinks they are, the law of 1824 requires the expense of surveyButing them to be borne by the United States, if he directs them to be surveyed at all. If they are not of national importance, and such is the opinion of the President, authority has he detail an part of it from the Ohio river, opposite Wheeling, &c. together with any other information upon the subject of Roads, Railroads, and Canals, that the nature of his engagements will permit him to furnish us. DE WITT CLINTON, U. S. C. Eng. with his instruments to survey thom Thengineer E. WHITTLESEY. sion I draw from his ordering the survey conditionally, is, that he has decided the roads are of national Hon. G. IH. BARSTOW. importance; but that he does not consider himself reTOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU, Washington City, strained, restricted, or controlled, by the law. This July 20th, 1832 is in accordance with his views of other laws. Since Sir-My letter to you of the 4th inst. to suspend the passage of the act, at the late session of Congress, any further arrangements in relation to the survey appropriating different sums of money for internal which you had been directed to superintend, was the improvements, he said, (as was reported and believIn the 30th number of the Journal we published, result of an order from the Secretary of War, to pre-ed,) he would expend the appropriations, or withand called the attention of our readers to a commu-vent any erroneous steps on this subject until the hold them, as he thought proper. nication headed "Inclined Planes." In so doing pleasure of the President could be known, who had then the subject under consideration. we certainly had no intention to, nor did it occur to I have now received his direction in this and in us on reading it over before it was given to the prin every other similar one, which is, that such surveys ter that we might, injure the feelings or reputation are not to be made, unless the states, incorporated WARREN, July 30, 1832. of any gentleman; although, if we had read it over companies or individuals interested, shall meet all Messrs. Hapgood & Pease: a second time, we might have desmed some part of expenses; except such as belong to the personal Gentlemen-The inclosed letter and copy of an compensation of the engineers, or for the procuring order from the Topographical Bureau, at Washingit exceptionable, as referring to a person of whom and repairs of the necessary instruments. On these ton, I have received from Col. Clinton, U. S. Civil we knew nothing-not even the name of the Engi. considerations you may survey the route which may Engineer: And that the citizens of this region neer of the Morris Canal-and therefore erased it, be chosen by the state or incorporated company, or may be consulted, as to the expense of the survey of parties applying for the survey, but on no other con. the Hudson and Ohio Rail Road, a meeting will be held, at the court-house in Warren, on the 21st day Very respectfully, yours, You will therefore communicate with the parties of August next, at 7 o'clock, P. M. where it is re- OF A RAILWAY. V2 V2 R [For the Railroad Journal.] erred in some of the steps by which the expression from the Railway; besides that, much gold would INFLUENCE OF VELOCITY AND CURVATURE UPON was obtained. For instance: he asserts that, ac probably be found in the progress of the work, this being the heart of the gold region of South America. THE COMPARATIVE ELEVATION OF THE RAILS cording to the law of central forces, c= -; where- The Canal which is in contemplation at this time across the Isthmus of Panama, by an American culties and expense of which would be tenfold great. to the square of the velocity divided by the diame-er than the accomplishment of this great work by Engineer. Mr. Thompson commences his remarks ter, or by twice the radius of the circul. The equi means of a Railway for shipping. I suggest then, valent for the centrifugal force is merely a relative that a stock company of English proprietors of Co In the last number of Silliman's Journal is an as, it is in reality proportional to OR, or proportional joint stock company, is evidently a project the diffiarticle on the subject of "the elevation for rails on Railroads of a given curvature," by J. Thompson, upon this subject by noticing an empirical attempt V2 32.2R , lombian bonds would possess eminent advantages bonds of the government of the country. These bonds are in England depreciated almost nothing, at an investigation of the same problem in the Bal. expression compared with the force of gravity. It for this work, for the land, labor, and other materitimore Railroad Manual, a work which appeared the latter equals unity, then c = but if it e als, inay be obtained at par in Colombia, with the under the patronage of the Board of Engineers, to whom, previous to the appointment of Mr. Knight, quals g, as Mr. T. assumes, then c = was entrusted the direction of the engineering de- V2 of the loan by a State impoverished by civil war; partment of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway. I R The quantity g likewise does not appear, and it is therefore probable that this project would mention this fact more particularly, as the same as Mr. Thompson states, as equal to 32.2 feet. For of gv, instead there being no prospect of dividend, or the redemption 32.2R save an immense amount of British capital from entire annihilation, and even convert the bonds into a work is replete with errors, both of a theoretical the purpose of convenience, and of simplifying the spondid source of revenue from the Railway. The and practical nature, which render it of no value as expression in the comparison of the two forces, the condition exacted for the land and territorial rights a guide in the location and construction of Railways. effect of each is considered for the same interval For an exposition of some of the more important of of time or for one second. This gives for the com. these errors, see No. 208 of the New-England Weekly parative value of g in feet 16.1, and not 32 2 feet. Review. by the Colombian Government, from a former American joint stock company, by whom a Canal was projected across the Isthinus in 1826, was the reservation to the state Colombia of the tolls arising from The existence of the latter quantity instead of 16.1, the work for the first fourteen years; but an English As it regards the subject of Mr. Thompson's article, aV2 company could undoubtedly obtain more suitable it is necessary, in commencing the investigation, to in the expression E=2 32.2R, being the consequence terms by the immediate purchase of the soil by cancolling a certain portion of the loan, the authorities consider the forces by which a body in motion upon of making the factor connected with it equal to the of Colombia being known to bo intently anxious to a curved Railway is influenced. These are, gravity, radius instead of the diameter. preserve the bonds from depreciation, and to preserve or the weight of the body, and the central or con As the difference in elevation of the rails depends their national credit for a future loan from the mer. chants of England. To render the great work comtrifugal force resulting from the curvilinear direc- greatly upon the velocity, it should evidently be plete, and to anticipate future opposition from the tion of the motion, the former acting vertically, and adapted to the average motion of the cars upon the people of the United States, the entire isthmus, or the latter horizontally. The tendency of the body road. This average will depend upon the mecha. such part as lies between good natural boundaries is evidently that of the resultant of these two forces, nical facilities of the road in respect to its eleva. -as the lake of Nicaragua on the north, and the river of Darien, on the south-a narrow tract of three and in order to ensure an equal bearing upon the tions and depressions and horizontal curvatures, and hundred miles in length, should be obtained by trearails and steadiness of motion, the plane of the rails whether it is designed principally for freight or tra- ty from the Colombian Government, to be erected should be perpendicular to the direction of that re- vel,or both combined. When the latter object is to be into an English colony, independent of the State of sultant. This being established, the difference in attained on a road nearly straight and level, a mean the elevation of the two rails of the track is obtained velocity of 15 miles per hour would correspond with by a simple proportion, which Mr. T. has illustrated the prosent state of the improvements in the applica Colombia, and subject to the crown of England.Some consideration is also due to the ancient, yet undoubtedly just claim which Great Britain possessco upon the Isthmus of Panama, founded upon the by a diagram, and which may be stated as follows: tion of locomotive steam power, that being nearly the prior possession of the province by the Scottish com. As the force of gravity is to the centrifugal force, so average business rate upon the Manchester and Liis the breadth of the rail-track to the difference in verpool Railway. The value of Ve under this as elevation of the rails sought. The result by this proportion will be found to exceed the truth in the proportion of the ex. 484a 15a sumed velocity, becomes 222 or 484, and hence, E= cess of the tangent over the sine of the inclination is assumed at 4 2-3 feet, E= simple expression, and as the error mentioned is too 70 pany, under the Rev. Mr. Patterson, in 1699. The country at that period was not inhabited by Spaniards, but by a people entirely hostile to them, and, previous to the sailing of the expedition, the right of the company was recognized by the Spanish ambassador at the court of William the Third, yet the unfortunate colonists were attacked, harrassed, and at length almost exterminated, only thirty of the plane of the rails; but as it is the most The value of E in this last expression will not be small to be of any practical importance, it should sensibly affected, if the breadth of the track is as low undoubtedly be preferred. In the application of as 4 1-2 feet, or as high as 4 3-4 feet, and as the this rule, it is necessary in the first place to deter. majority of Railways in the country have their of which 400,000%. belonged to the people of Scot persons of twelve hundred whe composed the expedition ever returned to Scotland. The capital subserved for the purposes of the company was therefore entirely lost, consisting of the sum of 900,0001. land, 300,000l. to the English, and 200,000l. to the breadths within those limits, the following general people of Holland and Hamburg. The settlement of the company was at the mouth of the river of rule may be observed. Divide 70 by the radius of curvature in feet: the Darien, and the town of New Caledonia still appears quotient is the difference in elevation of the rails upon the ancient charts. The origin, progress, and mine the relation between the gravitating and cen- FRANKLIN. | From the London United Service Journal for June] unfortunate termination of this noblo project is de. scribed by Sir John Dalrymple in the twentieth volume of his Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, the ruin of the colonists being there attribut. ed to the injustice and prejudices of William the time is 16.1 feet; and the space through which a Across the Isthmus of Panama, and in the British Third. Having in preceding numbers of the United Ser- nected with this project, for the equinoctial current vice Journal exhibited extensive projects for marine and the region of the northeast trade wind must be Railways, connecting the various seas of the British crossed from Europe to Porto Bello; these are perislands, I propose, in the daily darkening prospects petually favorable to outward bound vessels, and the of our commercial horizon, to submit similar plans usual lightness of the winds and severity of the tending to produce an early and vast extension of weather in this part of the Atlantic are remarkably our commerce to the western hemisphere. favorable to steam navigation. Upon the return tral forces. Hence the force of gravity g is to the centrifugal force c, as 16.1: 2R, or the centrifugal First, I propose to form a marine Railway across voyage to Europe the gulph stream flows along the that spot which is destined to be the key of the new eastern coast of America to the Azores, and almost force is correctly represented by 32.2R; and by world-the Isthmus of Panama. The advantages of to the coast of Spain. Moreover, the westerly wind a pass here seem, indeed, to be boundless to a com prevails more than 9 months in the year in the lati-, the proportion stated above, we have, for the differ-mercial nation, for it will save a navigation of 10,000 tudes north of the tropic of cancer, annually inence in elevation E in feet of the rails for a breadth miles round Cape Horn, opening out the trade of creasing in prevalence; and with the progressive of rail track equal to a feet, the following: gV2 :: a: E. or E = 32.2R Peru, Chili, and all the western regions of North clearing of the forest of America, this will probably and South America, with the Sandwich Islands, and settle into a trade wind. Thus nature leads us in all the isles scattered over the vast expanse of the an everlasting circle to the east and to the west, great Southern Ocean. The Isthmus is at one spot and as no obstacle is now unconquerable to the not more than seven leagues across, but from Porto science and enterprise of modern times, and as the The expression for the value of E thus deduced is Bello to Panama, the capital cities of the province, English nation alone possesses the advantages the same as given by Mr. Thompson, a circumstance the distance is thirty seven miles, with vast moun. required for the accomplishment of a pass across a little remarkable, for although he was correct in tains intervening. What the size, stratification, or the isthmus of Panama, it is devoutly to be wished his main proposition in making the difference in el. direction of these mountains may be probably is not that no further dolay may arise in the completion of known, but though the whole thirty seven miles a work, the results of which, both to the old and evation of the rails to their breadth, as the centrifu- were required to be tunnoled, still the expense is new world, cannot be measured by the mind of man, gal to the gravitating forces, yet he has evidently warranted by the vast revenue which must result The British provinces in North America may also AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. be raised into great and immediate prosperity by a distance from the sea; and it will effect the work of being more prudent to retain the power afterward centuries to connect, consolidate, and strengthen to raise it, than by an unconditional act of incorjudicious formation of railways. Here I propose, first, to form a railway for wagons that giant territory, lying beneath all climates, and poration to load the commerce of the country with from Quebec to the harbor of St. Androws, upon spreading over a quarter of the globe. If then we an excessive rate which then can never afterwards which the bay of Fundy, a distance of one hundred would contend with these advantages in our Northte reduced. The example of the Liverpool and and ninety five miles, a work which will convey the American provinces, it is only by similar works that Manchester railway renders this suggestion now whole trade of the St. Lawrence in a single day to we can bring to the Atlantis the agricultural exports propor, for the toll upon that line is maintained af the Atlantic waters, -cutting off a navigation of one of the colonies, and secure the stream of emigration, 12 shillings per ten fer a distance of 32 miles, an of original speculators in a work in which there thousand two hundred miles down the river St. which otherwise with the facility of inland trans- excessive rate rendered necessary to repay the Lawrence and round the shores of Nova Scotia.- portation will be rapidly diverted to the western interest upon stock 90 per cent. above par, the gain Thus the timber, provisions, ashes, and other ex-regions of the United States. ports of the provinces may be brought to the Atlan- And not only by the diminution of our surplus never existed any hazard, and to the perpetual of the joint stock companies, by which exclusive privileges tic, not only with more speed, regularity, and secu. population at home, and the extending market for injury of the public at large. The principles of rity than by the river St. Lawrence, but with the our manufactures by the rapid population grand additional advantage of a navigation open at colonies, but by the improvement of the climate upon are granted to individuals in return for some public all seasons of the year, the harbor of St. Andrews the progressive clearing of the woods, will those advantages derived from their operations, render it being capacious, deep, and never closed in the win- provinces be rendered more valuable to the crown the duty of the government to secure these advan ter season, whilst the St. Lawrence is unnavigable of England. It is the impenetrability of a wooded tages to the country by the act of incorporation.-from ice from the month of November to May. The country to the heats of summer, which causes the The directors of the Manchester and Liverpool a very few lands of unwilling proprietors because the law route of this work will lie through the government severity of a Canadian winter. Already a remark-railway were not empowered to pass through the land, opening out fresh fields for the timber pidly disappearing from the banks of the navigable years, and in another generation the opening of the desired to advance their individual interests, but that The laboring classes will derive employment for rivers; and by means of this railway great bodies of forests will so mitigate the climate that cotten, silk, the people of Lancashire might be supplied with land which for ages would remain inaccessible in and wine, will be amongst the exports of the cheap coals and food. the absence ofinland navigation, nay thus be con-country, the temperature being rendered similar to verted into a splendid source of revenue. The mode the corresponding latitudes in Portugal and Frauce. many years in the construction of these works; the of construction may be copied from the railways We therefore see the extensive results of a judicious facility of travelling and intercourse will give more now in progress of formation in the United States, intersection of the provinces with railways, in intelligence, health, and amusement to the mass which are laid down upon timber, and though that facilitating the inland commerce of disconnected of the people, and the cominodities of life will material will not possess the durability of stone, regions, and in their rapid population from a country be reduced in price by the diminished rate of carriage, still the ground work may be renewed at little cost; desirous by emigration to be relieved from a great to an extent equal to the removal of the national and when the clearing of the roads in the vicinity weight of people at home, and when these works debt. The revenue of the Post Office will be of the railway shall have rendered timber less ac- may be completed by the proceeds of the public increased by the cheap transportation of the mails, cessible, the whole may be permanently recon- lands, without charge to the revenue at home; this, and the island will be rendered more easily defenstructed from stone, which then may be brought perhaps, may be found to be a timely suggestion to sible by the rapid concentration of troops and ships upon the railway at a small expense. The construc- the government. now ra- able amelioration has taken place in of war. tion of this work will furnish immediate employ. The railway system will soon change and improve Countless other advantages will result from this ment for a great body of emigrants, whilst, being the whole commercial aspect of the kingdom. By wonderful system, for it is a victory gained over undertaken by the government, the cost for the land the facilities of inland transportation, the cities space, the results of which will be boundless to the and the labor will be saved, and judging from the will lose their undue advantages of situation; future destinies of mankind. estimates for railways in the United States, where manufactures will no longer be crowded and confined HENRY FAIRBAIRN. [From the Charleston Patriot, S. C. July 28.] the flat rail is in use, the expense for iron work and to the vicinity of coal-harbours and navigable rivers; labor may be estimated at 5001. per mile, or 98,000l. and the cheap conveyance of lime, manure, and for a distance of one hundred and ninety-five miles mould, will at last equalize the fertility and value We take pleasure in laying before our readers the from Quebec to St. Andrews, a sum which may be of landed property in every part of the kingdom. following statement of the progress already made realized in a single month by the sale of the public By railways we now may cover with soil the towards the completion of the Railroad between this lands, which then will be purchased with avidity in barren tracts in the northern parts of the island; city and Hamburg, and feel much gratified to oband even all our mountains may be carried to the serve that the whole work will most probably be For the many millions annually paid to completed by the first of January next. THE RAILROAD.-The steam cars travel daily, the vicinity of the railway. Another great line of railways may be formed sea. from Halifax, through Nova Scotia, to St. John's in unemployed laborers in this populous country progresses rapid rapidly. The mile beyond the province of New Brunswick, and thence into would gradually, by the assistance of tramways, twice regularly, and an extra trip, if passengers ofkingdoms from the work new were the United Statos, joining the railways which are level all the mountainous encumbrances of the fer, to Summerville, 21 1.2 miles-beyond which The immensity of barren hills in the Summerville is nearly completed, and ready for trafast spreading through that country, and which island, and gain as it will soon reach from New York to Boston, and the sea. through the whole New England States. This west of Scotland would suffice, in the shallow velling; the next mile is now capping and railing, railway will not only bring to the Atlantic the soundings of the Irish sea, to cover the whole with a force of 38 men, including carpenters; belumber, provisions, metal and other exports of the breadth of the channel between Scotland and yond that, the succeeding mile is all capped, and aprovinces; but from the situation of the harbour of Ireland, and from the Rachlin Island to the Isle of bout half the rails on, with all the timber ready; Halifax, a thousand miles nearer than the United Man. Thus, by our immense cominand of machinery the next two miles are wholly finished. The disStates to Europe, it will doubtless command the and labor, the surface of the island may, in time, tance thence to the Cypress Swamp, 1 1.4 miles, whole stream of passengers, mails and light articles by the levelling of the mountains, be doubled in being mostly on sleepers, has all the ground sills of commerce, passing into the British possessions extent; nor is it improbable that after ages may see and cross pieces down, and but about five days work throughout, and the capping and railing going on and to the United States, and every part of the con- millions of acres of corn waving upón land gained of piling to join the Cypress contract, which, howetinent of America. A line of packets has long been from the sea, or upon the base of now cold and ver formidable it has hitherto appeared, is now piled projected from the harbour of Valentia, upon the barren mountains. western coast of Ireland, to Halifax, by which the The disuse of horses is also amongst the greatest briskly. The next 3 1.2 miles will be finished in apassage across the Atlantic may be performed by advantages of the railway system, for not only upon bout four weeks; the Four Hole Swamp is piled stoam shipping in about ten days in the summer the roads, but with certain agricultural improve-through, and the carpenter's work going on rapidly; months; and when passengers may be afterwards ments which are not far distant, it is probable that five miles thence upwards are finished and ironed; conveyed from Halifax by railways to all interme- the use of this animal may be superseded altogether, the succeeding six miles want but about one thoudiato distances, and even to the extremity of the and as one half of the produce of the earth is con- sand feet of rails to be completed; and the next. provinces in a single day, saving to emigrants the sumed by the horse, and as his existence is slavery, contracts, to the Edisto, are in a stato which will time, fatigue, and expense of travelling in a new his latter stage one protracted agony, and his car-render their completion certain by the 10th of SepThe whole is under contract to persons belonging country, it is obvious how rapidly these works will case useless to man, the statesman and man of be-tember. On all these contracts, the hands, as they nevolence ought to rejoice to see this abused though finish below, are sent up, so as to expedite the work. facilitate the population of the colonios. Indeed, if the difficulties and expense of con- noble creature disappearing from the world. structing these works in our North American colo- And not agriculture and manufactures alone, but to the state, and mostly residing on the line, em nies were tenfold greater, an imperative necessity the shipping interest will also derive its advantages ploying a force of near six hundred hands, indepenwould exist for their adoption, if it is desired by the from the railway system. Vessels may then be dent of horses employed by the contractors. The government of this country to maintain an equality built, repaired, or laid up in the interior of the bridge across the Edisto, which is sixty-five miles of commercial advantages with the neighbouring country in the vicinity of marine railways, and in from town, has all the abutments piled, and the United States: for the splendid advantages of the more cheap and convenient situations than the timber has been ready since January last; it is to in succession thence are railway system are well understood in that country, shipyards in the seaport towns; whilst the great loss be sixty feet span, and supported by one arch; the transporting goods the iron; and the ten miles where great navigablo rivers are about to be super- of timber and iron, occasioned by the breaking up of carpenter's work of which is now going on. ceded by railways of vast magnitude, reaching over vessels no longer seaworthy, may be saved by the first four miles beyond the Edisto are now ready for hundreds of miles. Upon one of these, about ninety employment of their hulls in miles are already completed from Charleston, through upon marine railways. The whole coasting trade of rapidly progressing. These, with the next fifty the Statos of South Carolina and Tonnessee, to the the kingdom will be annihilated, and the saving of miles, are under contract to the Messrs. Gray, who Mississippi at the mouth of the Ohio, a distance of vessels and property now annually wrecked round have on the same, with their sub-contractors, a very werk is in a very advanced state, and from the pesix hundred miles. Another great line is rapidly ap- our iron-bound coast will repay a thousand fold the large force, and a steam mill, together with numeproaching to completion from Baltimore to the Ohio; expense of constructing the railways required in rous saw mills, propelled by water power. Their and a third is now proposed from Philadelphia to every part of the kingdom. the Western States, in the course of which it is I cannot dismiss the subject of railways, without rusal of several reports of recent date, there is a very. proposed to tunnel the Alleghany mountains. a political suggestion of the expediency of a low great probability of the whole being completed by Indeed, in no country will the results of the railway rate of toll. That the country may derive the full the first of January next. On the thirty-five miles nland to system be so extensive as in the United States, for benefit of the railway system, the government ought nearest Augusta, a force equal to five hundred and limit the toll to the lowest remunerating rate, it twenty men were employed on the 21st inst. and will annihilate their only disadvantage, it The |