POETRY. [FOR THE NEW YORK AMERICAN.] SONNET Written in St. Mark's Church Yard, New York. [St. Mark's Church yard is situated in a beautiful and retired place, originally about three miles distant from New York, but the city, so rapid in its growth, has already nearly reached k, and will, undoubtedly, in a few years, entirely surround it.] Ye dead, a gentle feeling pure I deem, Prompted the wish, when life's short day was past, Calmly to sleep, in this sweet place at lastCourted by wild flowers and the pale moon's gleam! Where pensive meditation loves to dream. O thou, too frail to bear life's chilling blast, For when on earth a bitter lot was castWho dropt into oblivion's sunless stream, Like a green leaf, snapt from a summer's bough! Ah! soon no more shall silence round thee reign, (No more the wild birds trill sweet notes for thee!) But soulless sound, and revelry profane— Yea, list! comes rolling onward even now, Ouce a dear young friend of the writer's. The following beautiful lines are from the "Juvenile ForgetMe-Not" for 1832. They are written by Mr. Laman Blanchard upon the picture of a boy endeavoring to lay salt upon the tail of a bird: "Gently, gently yet, young stranger! Light of heart and light of heel: Ere the bird perceives its danger, On it slily steal. Silence!-ha! your scheme is failing No: pursue your pretty prey; Hush your step some note is giving; Glide ou, ghost-like, still inclining Twill escape the lure. Caution now you're nearer creeping; Sure the winged creature's sleeping, How your eyes begin to twinkle! Yes, you have it in your tether. Hear it—hark! among the bushes, Time, thy feathers turn to ariows; On what captures I've been counting, Half my life I've been pursuing Rhapsodies that end in ruin I, and thousands more. This, young sportsman, be your warning- In no wiser way. No village monumental stone Records a verse, a date, a name: To pay their morning sacrifice.' Heard, haply, when the evening knell Up spring to heaven's eternal day?" MOONLIGHT. [From the Amulet for 1832.] When all of feeling or of thought, Thy radiant eyes, to watch and weep The heaven ward wanderer asks a home; Who makes a temple of the heart. MARRIAGES. MARRIED-On Thursday evening, 19th inst. by the Rev. On Thursday evening last, (19th inst.) by the Rev. John A. At Oswego, N. Y. on the 5th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Yates, DEATHS. 30, 12 between 30 and 40, 12 between 40 and 50, 8 between 50 and 60, 6 between 60 and 70, 4 between 70 and 80, and 2 between 80 and 90. Diseases-Aneurism 1, apoplexy 2, burned or scalded 1, caries 1, childbed 3, consumption 28, convulsions 4, dropsy 2, dropsy in the head 10, dysentery 1, fever inflammatory 1, fever scarlet 15. fever typhus 1, hives or croup 6, inflammation of the bowels 3, inflammation of the brain 2, inflammation of the chest 2, inflammation of the liver 1, inflammation of the stomach 1, influenza 4. intemperance 2, marasmus 3, measles 17, mortification 1, old age 4, peripneumony 3, pneumonia typhodes 2, rheumatism 1, scirrhus of the liver I, small pox 10, sprue 1, stillborn 5, teething 1, unknown 2, whooping cough 3. ABRAHAM D. STEPHENS, City Inspector. PASSENGERS: Per Bremen barque Elizabeth-Messrs. Sonff, Bollermann, Topken, and the steerage. In the ship Great Britain, from Liverpool-Capt. Smith, of New York; Mrs Gibson and 6 daughters, of Edinburgh; T Ma nuel, do; Mr Ring and lady, of Baltimore; W Shaw, lady and daughter, and S Shaw, of Sheffield; WTWhitehead, of Saddleworth; J Ferguson, of Limerick, and 129 in the steerage. In the ship Columbia, from London-A Atkinson, J Smith. E Friquet, lady and two daughters, Aspasia Henri, Sarah Vane, Ed Thompson, son, and two daughters, Thos. Edwards, Geo. Henry, purser-248 in the steerage. In ship Franklin, from St. Petersburg-Dr. Charles Mifflin, Lieuts. Wm. Hudson and Ezra T. Doughty, U. S. Navy. The two story double brick douse and Lot 39 Cedar-st, near William street, lot 38 feet 7 froa., 36 10 rear, and about $21,000 DIED-In the 41st year of his age, William Seaman, Esq. 60 deep, for On the 21st inst. Mrs. Lanah Fuller, aged 47 years. 2d year of his age, youngest son of Abraham Rossett. relict of the late Richard Furman. By Hicks, Lawrence and Co.-Jan, 16. This morning, 19th inst. Jane Mun o, daughter of A. S. Mar. son street, with stable, &c. in the rear, was sold for Wednesday morning, 18th inst. Isabella, daughter of Ralph NEW-YORK AMERICAN, TRI-WEEKLY. On Monday evening, 16th inst. after a short illness, Emme- The NEW-YORK AMERICAN is now published THREE TIMES A-WEEK, in addition to the Daily and Semi-weekly, as usual. This arrangement is made to accommodate a large class of business-mer. in the country, who are desirous of see ing the advertisements of the day, yet are unwilling to encoun ter the expense of subscription and postage of a daily paper By this arrangement, it will easily be perceived, their wishes On the 9th day of November last, at Havana, in the Island may be gratified, at one half the expense of a daily paper, as of Cuba, Vincent Grey, Esq. at an advanced age. This gen most of the advertisements, both of the Daily and Semi-weektleman was a native of the state of Virginia, and for more than 'y papers, will appear in the Tri-Weekly American; and the thirty years had resided at the place of his death, where his reading matter as published in the Daily paper. It will be memory will be long embalmed in the hearts of his countrymen, issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at FIVE both residents and sojourners, by a retrospect of the attention lollars per annuni in advance,--to subscribers out of the city and kindness which they uniformly received at his hands, and of New-York, and forwarded, according to their order, and by the disinterested and benevolent tenor of his character. or any length of time. [Nat. Intel.] of Hydrophobia, Garrett Lucas, Jr. in the 16th year of his age, On Tuesday morning, 24th inst. Mary Monroe, youngest child of James Monroe, of this city. PATENT, RAIL-ROAD, SHIP AND BOAT SPIKES. THE TROY IRON & NAIL FACTORY 30th of October last; the animal was not known at that time to keep constantly for sale a very extensive assortment of Wrought be mad, and no danger being apprehended, the wound was per- Spikes & Nails, from 8 to 10 inches, manufactured by the submitted to heal and he suffered no inconvenience until the 26th scriber's Patent Machinery, which after five years successful ult when symptoms of Hydrophobia made their appearance.-operation and now almost universal use in the United States (as Medical aid was called in on the 28th, until which time he and well as England, where the subscriber obtained a Patent,) are his relatives remained insensible of the nature of his diease or found anperior to any ever offered in market. the perilousness of his situation. The disease having already RAIL-ROAD COMPANIES MAY BE SUPPLIED WITH made rapid advances his case was pronrunced hopeless by his SPIKES having countersink heads suitable to the holes in the physician. The symptoms continued to increase rapidly and iron rails, to any amount and on short notice. Almost all the steadily until about 12 o'clock, on the 28th ult. when his system Rail roads now in progress in the United States are fastened sunk under the pressure of misery,' nearly two months after with Spikes made at the above named factory-for which purhe received the wound. This is not the only case of Hydropho- pose they are found invaluable, as their adhesion is more than bia that has occurred in this county produced by the same cause, double any common spikes made by the hammer. viz: a bite of a pet fox, and this is a melancholy proof that ought All orders directed to the Agent, Troy. N. Y., will be HENRY BURDEN, Agent. punctually attended to. Troy, N. Y., July, 1831. [The following lines of Mr. Bowles, are a congenial tribute to to be sufficient to convince individuals of the danger and fully of the author of the Morning and Evening Hymn.j THE GRAVE OF KEN. And, eve, with gentlest hush repose. But some faint flowers of summer bloom, attempting to domesticate these very vicious and entirely use- Spikes are kept for sale, at factory prices, by I. & J. Townsend, Albany, and the principal Iron Merchants in Albany and Troy J. J. Brower, 222 Water street, New-York; A. M. Jones, Philadelphia; T. Janviers, Baltimore; Degrand & Smith, Boaton. P.S. Rail-road Companies would do well to forward their orders as early as practical, as the subscriber is desirous of extending the manufacturing so as to keep pace with the daily increasing demand for his Spikes. WEEKLY REPORT OF DEATHS. H. BURDEN. CONTENTS. RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. NEW YORK AMERICAN. Illinois and Michigan Rail. Literary Notices....71, 72, 73 road ......83 "Feathers from your own Rail-road from New-York to Wings," and Remarks, ..74 .... .....66 Lake Erie........66 Uniformity of Rail-road Tracks Rail road from Newburg to the Delaware river.......67 Rail-road from Providence to New-London.. Views on the Baltimore Railroad... .67 .67 .67, 70 Rail-road Advocate........67 Congress, N. Y. Legisla ture... NEW-YORK, FEBRUARY 4, 1832. VOLUME I....NO. 6. Delaware and Chesapeake canal. It is apparently embankment is about 420,000 cubic yards. At two well constructed; for it will be seen by the commu- points the excavation has been attended with great difficulty and expense, especially at the western ternication already referred to, that this Rail-road, of mination of the road, where the cutting was 37 feet which the very name is now for the first time proba-deep, through a solid mass of tough red aud black Foreign Intelligence.......75 bly announced to most of our readers, and which has clay for à considerable distance. Home Afairs-Support of There are six principa! embankments, varying in the Poor, Massachusetts, been going along so noiselessly, is "now nearly reaNorth-Carolina.... 75dy to go into operation." The distance is short; the length from twelve hundred to three thousand feet each, and in height from fifteen to twenty-five feet 76 ascents nowhere great; and the cost complete, with each, or thereabouts. Re-organization of the Nacars, engines, &c., will "not exceed four hundred The road crosses four bridges or viaducts, varying vy, Value of Public Libraries..... 27 thousand dollars"-equal to about $25,000 per mile. in dimensions from 12 feet by 10, to 5 feet by 6, and Summary 29 culverts, varying from 12 feet by 4, to 2 feet by From Liberia. ..78 This Rail-road is one great link, which, when the 2. The hole of the bridges and culverts are of State of Thermometer, &c..79 Camden and Amboy Rail-road is finished, will be-substantial stone masonry. The width of the road come still more important, in the great chain which, bed is 26 feet exclusive of the side drains. It is ren. so is in our day to stretch along the Atlantic coast, and ced on both sides its whole length, the fences enci. bring its chief capitals in rapid, constant and mutu. sing an area of never less that 70 feet in width, and at the western deep cut of 170 feet. The superstrucNEW YORK AMERICAN. ally beneficial relation with each other. New York ture of the road is formed partly of stone blocks Foreign Intelligence.......87 must desire, and should always be prepared to ad- containing two cubic feet of stone, each weighing Home Affairs-Debate on vance. the completion of such a chain. .77 Prices of Stocke, &c... .79 No. 6. ....81 RAID-ROAD JOURNAL. on the leading principles .84 AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 4, 1932. ..96 about 360 lbs. and partly of substantial white oak sleepers, upon which are laid and secured in the most approved manner, the string pieces or rails, of GeorPerhaps no work of equal magnitude and impor- gia pitch pino, 6 inches square; on the top of these tance has progressed so rapidly and noiselessly to. are fastened the iron bars 2 1.4 inches wide by 5.8th wards completion as the New Castle and French-of an inch thick, with iron plates beneath them at the points of their junction. The inner edge of the town Rail-road, now nearly to go into operation. As this road will constitute an important link in string piece is chamferod off so as to bring the bearthe chain of communication between New York and ing of the iron bar nearly in the centre. The blocks are laid three feet apart from centre Washington city, and as it appears to have thus far attracted but little of the public attention, the follow-te centre, and bedded in holes two feet deep and two ing description of it may not be entirely devoid of feet square, upon pure sand or gravel well rammed; We already find that notices of Rail-roads in pro-interest. and where sleepers are used, on the embankments, gress and in contemplation thicken upon us; and we The road commences at the town of New Castle &c. they are laid at the same distance apart, on sills are much encouraged thereby in the confidence that on the Delaware, and terminates on the Elk River of hemlock, four inches thick by eight inches wide, this Journal will prove a focus for the concentration near Frenchtown. Its length is a fraction less than placed longitudinally, which are, in like manner, 16 1-2 miles, being but 853 yards more than wouldbedded in trenches filled with sand or gravel well of a great deal of useful information on the subject be a perfectly straight line drawn from one end to the rammed-these substances being supposed to furnish the surest safeguard against injury from frost. to which it is especially devoted. Among the works other. The total cost of the New Castle and Frenchtown Rail-road, (which will certainly yield to none in this country in beauty of design and execution,) including the land for its location, wharves, land and 4750 ft. long, on a radius of 14,898 depots at both ends, locomotive engines, passenger and burthen cars sufficient to put it in complete opc10,560 10.560 ration, with a single track and the requisite number of turn outs, will not exceed four hundred thousand 10,560 dollars. 20,000 13,243 heretofore little known in this part of the country is It is composed of six curves and six straight lines, that of which a description will be found in the arti. three of the curves deflecting to the North and three cle from the National Gazette, the Newcastle and The 1st curve on leaving New Castle is Frenchtown Rail-road. This is a route to connect the travel on the Delaware with that on the Susquehannah, and will materially abridge the time, already much shortened, of a journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore-both for travellers and light merchan. That their investment will prove profitable to the dize. The Delaware and Chesapeake canal will of Variations so slight as these must be admitted to stockholders, cannot be doubted. The travel alone course still be the great channel of communication be altogether unimportant; we may therefore safely must make it so, independent of the light freight assume that for all practical purposes this road is as which will, for the sake of greater speed, pass to and from Baltimore on this route. The time that across the isthmus which separates the waters of those perfect as if it were entirely straight. noble bays, for produce and merchandize generally; The aggregate length of the curves is 27,240 feet, will be saved to passengers will, in itself, form a because the vessels laden with them, can pass thro' 5 16-100 miles; that of the straight line, 59,670 sufficient motive of preference to them, as the jourthat canal; but the Rail-road will undoubtedly carry feet, or 11 3.10 miles. The longest straight line ney from hence to Baltimore can certainly be perthe passengers, and such light freight as it may be is nearly six miles in extent. The graduation of the formed two hours sooner by crossing this Rail-road road varies from a perfect level to ascents and de. than by any other route. an object to transport rapidly. There will be enough cents, or slopes, of 10 feet 6 in. to 40 feet 4. in Nor should any jealousy or unkind feeling exist for both; for we are not now to learn how much in. the mile, and at one place, for a distance of about between this company and that of the Chesapeake tercourse, both of trade and amusement, is increased 4000 ft. the slope is at the rate of 29 feet to the and Delaware canal. Both are noble enterprises, mile. and each will be eminently useful in its appropriate by diminishing difficulties and adding to its comforts, The whole amount of excavation is about 500,000 sphere. They can scarcely be considered in the celerity and certainty. We are, therefore, far from cubic yards of earth, exclusive of the side drains, light of rivals. It should be the wish of every good considering this Rail-road as an injurious rival of the which are on a magnificent scale. The amount of citizen to see them both prosper. 32 AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. Letter from Lieut. Colonel S. H. Long, U. States horses, actually hitched, or five and a half horses, height is readily computed. We shall accordingly Having no treatise at hand for ready reference, and TABLE I.—Showing the comparative advantages of which a given load may be conveyed with the same Speed per hour. Canals and Rail-roads. Daily duration of labor. Daily distance travelled by a horse drawing 112 lbs. Load for one horse, moving with different velocities on a canal. ling at different velocities Load for one horse, travel. on a rail-road. tona. Number of horses required to draw on a canal the load of one horse on a rail-road. horses. expense of power;-the distance on a level road, through which a given load may be conveyed as equivalent to the ascent of a plane whose height and length are given; the amount of tonnage, or number of tons that can be conveyed upward daily, on inclined planes of a given length, and of different heights, by means of a given power;-the time required to ascend such planos with a given load and power, (viz: 55 tons, and 5 1-2 horses ;)—the num. ber of horses required to ascend each plane, with a speed of six miles per hour;-and the cost of ascending, estimating at the rate of one cent of principles, I shall confine myself to such remarks as a general view of the subject may suggest. The topic first presented for our consideration, as immediately connected with the means of transpor. tation, is a proper estimate or expression, for the locomotive power employed for that purpose. Inasmuch as all expressions of this import-hitherto adop ted are of an arbitrary character, (except in as far as relates to a proportional part of the load being re. garded as capable of giving motion to the residue) we shall choose that which approximates a mean of the various estimates that have, from time to time, A great variety of experiments have been made. been tried in England and elsewhere, for the pur. pose of ascertaining the average power of force of a horse, or the greatest useful effect resulting from an application of the power of this animal. These have led to various results, each of which has been assumed by different writers, as the measure for estimating not only the effective force of animal labor, but that of mechanical agents of various kinds.The results we shall choose as approximating the mean of these alluded to, is the same as that adopt. ed by Mr. Wood in his late treatise on Rail-roads.This result which 18 usually denominated a "horse TABLE II -Showing the comparative advantages of roads, a locomotive engine, in order to perform the power," may be expressed as follows, viz: A hori. zontal stress or traction of 112 pounds, moving at the rate of two miles per hour during ten hours of each day. This amount of force being resolved into a continual action, operating day and night, will give for the expression of the power of a horse, 46 3.4 pounds, continually moving at the rate of two miles per hour. But as we shall not have occasion to consider, very particularly, the speed or rate of travelling, at which a horse can labor to the great. est advantage, or ease to himself, we shall assume a traction or draft of 112lbs. acting through the space of 20 miles as the daily performance of one horse. miles. 10 20 30 10 0.23 3 640 20 13.33 9.86 5 42 20 9.8 9.8 1 5 20 7.5 9.75 1.3 20 4.8 9.64 3.33 9.53 2.86 2 51 20 2.43 9.42 3.87 2 30 20 1.87 9.31 5.98 1.48 9.2 6.22 1.2 9.2 7.68 20 9. Agreeably to the statements of Mr. Wood and others, based upon experiments, a single horse la. boring at the rate above stated, viz: two miles per hour, and ten hours per day, with a stress of 112 lbs can draw on a canal 30 tons, exclusive of the weight of the boat in which it is conveyed. But as the re sistance to the progress of a boat through the water, as the square of the velocity with which it moves, and consequently the lead is inversely as the square 10 of the velocity it follows, that when a horse moves with a speed greater than that above mentioned, the load he is able to draw will be far less than if he moved slower. In the construction of the foregoing tables, no allowance has been made for the unavoidable deten. The resistance to the progress of carriages on a tions, that must occur, both on Canals and RailRail-road of the best construction is governed by roads; of course the daily performance will be somelaws widely different. According to experiments of what less than that stated in the tables ;--moreover, Messrs. Coulomb and Vince, this resistance remains in reference to canals, the weight of boats is not invery nearly the same, whatever may be the velocity, cluded in the estimate, whereas, in reference to except in so-far as relates to atmospheric resistance. Rail-roads, the carriages are regarded as constitut which, though inconsiderable, at the greatest speed ing a part of the load; of course, some allowance attainable upon a Rail-road, is to be estimated on the ought to be made in favor of canals, on this aecount. same principle as that encountered by bodies in their But as the difference thus resulting is small and passage through water. The amount of this re-somewhat difficult to estimate, it has been altoge. sistance, according to Mr. Wood, is equal to 1-200 ther omitted in the tables. part of the load, on a horizontal Rail.way, weight of for each horizontal mile. We would pre mise, that the daily performance of a horse is to be rated at six miles per hour, for 3 hours and 20 min. utes of each day ;--that a locomotive engine, weighing five tons, can perform, during every hour of the day, the labor of five horses actually employed, independently of its own locomotion and that of its tenders;-of 5 I-2 horses independently of its own locomotion ;-or, of 6 horses inclusive of its own locomotion and that of its entire train of carriages, the whole weight being 60 tons. N. B. It inay here be suggested, that in all estimates of mechanical la. bor in its application to transportation upon Rail. work of five horses actually hitched, in addition to TABLE III-Expense of surmounting Heights, the We shall next consider some of the circumstances carriages being included. Hence a traction of 112 attendant on the passage of hills, by means of in- TABLE IV.—Comparative pounds, or one horse power, will propel on a level clined planes, with the design of exhibiting the comRail-road 22.400 pounds, or 10 tons, through the parative expense of transportation, on horizontal and inclined Rail-ways. Our estimates under this head distance of 20 miles per day, It is obvious that a horse exerting the force above will be predicated on the supposition, that this exmentioned cannot attain a speed greater than four pense will always be in direct proportion to the or five miles an hour, without serious injury; never-quantity of power applied. theless, for the sake of a more cxtensive application Height of Plane. 0 13.2 We would farther premise, that all descents are of the principles involved in the discussion before to be regarded as equivalent to levels of the same us, we shall suppose him capable of moving with this extent, inasmuch as the maximum speed admissible force at any rate of speed not exceeding 11m's an h'r. in descending a plane, whatever its inclinations, Mr. Wood, in the treatise before alluded to, esti- ought not to exceed that determined upon, as most mates the expense of a locomotive engine, including proper for level roads; and, although no locomotive feet. first cost, cost of repairs, fuel and attendance, as equal power, except that of gravitation, may be required to the expense of four horses, every thing included. in the descent, the usual power (or rather the means But as horses can be procured and subsisted some-of generating it) whether animal or mechanical, must what cheaper in this country than in England, we descend in company with the load, in order to be in shall estimate the expense of an engine as equal to readiness for application at the bottom of the plane. 52.8 All ascents, whatever may be the length of the 66 that of five horses, which is probably near the truth, inasmuch as machinery and fuel will cost much less planes, will be attended with an expensive power, in in this country than in England, owing in no small direct proportion to their heights,-double the ele- 92.4 degree to the great difference in the expense of pro. vation in all cases requiring double the expense of 105.6 curing coal and other fuel, in the two countries. As power. Hence, if we assume for the cost of trans. 118.8 a mere matter of convenience, we shall regard the portation on a horizontal road one cent per mile 132 power of such an engine as equal to that of five for overy ton, the absolute cost of ascending any 145.2 deg. m. Rail-rouds. of Transportation 354444WNETI Equated distance on a le vel road. Number of horses re. miles per hour. can pasa daily, power being 5 horses-load 55 | tone. Load for 53 horses, or one locomotive engine. ton ascending the plane. Expense per mile for each maile horses. min. tons. cts. 00 0.5 5.5 5 017 11 0 10 7920 55 1 26.4 0 34 1.5 16.5 39.6 0 52 2 22 1 9 2.5 27.5 33 3.5 38.5 27.5 2 18.33 3 15 5280 13.75 20 3960 11. 25 3168 30 2640 9.16 6 35 2262.8 7.85 7 5 2 4 44 40 1980 6.87 8 2 17 2 345 4.5 49.5 45 1760 6.05 9 50 1584 5.5 10 6 66 55 1440 5. 11 4.58 12 3.10 .1 It is apparent from Table III. that the cost of] [From the Wilmington (Del.) Journal of Jan. 25.] [increase the commerce of the Lakes and be an intransportation on a Rail-road will be greatly en- THE WILMINGton and SusquEHANNAH RAIL-ROAD. dissoluble bond of interest and union between the hanced by the passage of hills;—also that the extra-The bill incorporating a company to construct a East and the West. expense thus accruing will add quite as much to the Rail-road from the Fennsylvania line, through this Resolved, That among the many reasons why a cost of transportation, as the tells upon a horizon- Borough to the Maryland state line in the direction Rail-road from the Hudson to Lake Erie should pass tal road for the distance corresponding to the height, of the Susquehanna, has passed the legislature and through the southern tier of counties, are the folas represented in column 3d of the table. Whether become a law. Believing that this undertaking, if lowing: this expense is incurred in the purchase of power to carried into effect to the extent contemplated by its. It will reach the Lake at a point where, generally, surmount the height, or in the payment of tolls, may projectors, will prove eminently beneficial to the in in the spring it is navigable from three to five weeks be regarded as a matter of little moment, either to terests of our town and state, we may congratulate earlier than at the termination of the Erie Canal.the public or the proprietors of the road, provided our fellow citizens upon the event. A law, it is go. Goods and merchandize for the West, and the proan adequate power for the passage of inclined nerally known, passed the Legislature of Pennsylva- duets of our inland seas, could find their place of planes is always at hand. Nevertheless, the mode nia last winter, authorizing the construction of a destination long before the ice disappears at the harof conveyance being much more simple and uniform Rail-road from Philadelphia through Delaware coun. bor at Buffalo: by this means about six thousand on a level than on an inclined road, it is obvious ty to the line of this state in the direction of this tons of shipping will have employ, and property to the that wherever hills can be avoided, even at the ex. Borough-the stock required for the construction of amount of nearly a million of dollars would reach pense of horizontal distances, nearly or quite equal the road has been subscribed, the company organized owners, find a market, be offered for sale, or be placto those stated in the table, this measure is to be and the route surveyed. The Wilmington and Sus. ed in active operation. preferred. quehannah Rail-road is intended to unite with this This pathway will lead our neighbors, the CanaAgreeably to the statements in Table IV. it may road at the line of the two States. to continue it to dians, to New York for trade, and prevent a part of be inferred that when the inclination of a plane is 3 the S. W. line of this state, and to the Susquehanna our own western produce from passing down the degrees, or 277 feet in the mile;—its length balf a river, if the consent of Maryland can be obtained.— Welland canal to Montreal. mile; the load 55 tone, and the power 5 1-2 horses; Proper measures to obtain this consent are in train, It would enable our western farmers of this state -the time required to ascend at a speed of 6 miles as will be seen by the proceedings of the town meet. to dispose of their surplus produce-enjoying the per hour will be about 55 minutes, and the load for ing last evening. same or equal advantages with the northwestern 51-2 horses, or one locomotive engine, about 5 tons. An appeal will immediately be made to the libe- counties near the canal. On the supposition that the horses employed for the rality and also to the interests of our sister states, It would enhance the value of lands through and conveyance of the load, (the inclination, number of on the subject of the improvements referred to in near where the road may pass—cause the soil to be horses, &c. being the same as just stated.) are ex. these proceedings. Knowing as we do the prompt cultivated, and the products of the country greatly clusively employed in the ascent of the plane, the attention which every similar application from Penn- increased. Several counties interior and on the number of ascents will be eleven, and of descents sylvania and Maryland has received from this state, line of the route would carry or send their staple arten, amounting to a distance of 10 1-2 miles, we have good right to anticipate a favorable result ticles of produce direct to the city of New York, which, being travelled at the rate of 6 miles per to these applications. and receive their merchandize, instead of Baltimore hour, and allowing only two-thirds of a minute for RAIL ROAD MEETING.-At a large and respectable and Philadelphia; thereby increasing the trade and turning, hitching, &c. on each arrival at the top and meeting of the citizens of Wilmington, assembled enriching New York-inducing our neighbers of bottom of the plane, will occupy two hours nearly at the Town Hall, on Monday evening, the 23d Ja-western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and some parts of In case a locomotive engine of the power just men-nuary, for the purpose of adopting measures to faci-New Jersey, to share in the benefits of this great tioned were substituted for horses, the time required litate a Rail-road communication with the neighher. Railway. to ascend such a plane, (the load, &c. as before) ing states of Pennsylvania and Maryland, Joseph It will have a strong tendency to divert western with its entice train of carriages, would be as fol- G. Rowland, Esq. was called to the chair, and W. trade from Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans, lows, viz. time required for the engine to ascend H. Naff appointed Secretary. to the city of New York; furnishing the western unaccompanied by its load, 5 minutes-time requir- John Wales, Esq. addressed the meeting at con. country with a rapid, easy conveyance, and a ready ed to draw its load upward, in proportions of 5 tons, siderable length, and concluded by submitting the market, and diminishing the probability of competi in 5 minutes each, 55 minutes, amounting to one following resolution, which was unanimously ation from other Rail-roads. It would be a strong and hour, no allowance being made for detentions. dopted: powerful link in a Rail-way to the Valley of the In case the same labor, (load, &c. as before) were Whereas, the legislature of this state has passed Mississippi, and finally to the Pacific Ocean. to be performed by means of a stationary engine, or an act authorizing the construction of a Rail-road It would be rendering justice to the people of the horses operating at the head of the plane by meaus from this borough to the Pennsylvania state line in dle section, between the Canal and Rail-way,a choice southwestern part of our state, and giving the midof an endless chain or cable,-the power, or num the direction of Downingtown; and an act author- of market routes, at the same time enabling western ber of horses requisite to the conveyance of 50 tons izing the eonstruction of another Rail-road to con New York, and the country still beyond, at all sea(which is equal to the load of a locomotive engine, nect with the Philadelphia and Delaware County sons, to pass rapidly and safely to the city of Newexclusively of itself and its tender,) will be that of Rail-road at the line of the state of Pennsylvania. York, the great emporium of riches, trade, and com50 horses, and the time 5 minutes-or, if the power and pass through this borough to the line of the be equal to that of 5 horses, the time will be 50 mi-state of Maryland; and whereas it is necessary and merce of North America. nutes, no allowance being made for detentions or desirable that the co-operation of the legislature and Lastly, it would be honorable to the enlightened extra friction. It is manifest, that Tables III. and IV. have a di-ed for the carrying on and completing of those imcitizens of those states respectively should be obtain-policy of New York; presenting her on the roll of fame, among her sister states, in the highest niche rect allusion to the passage of inclined planes by provements, therefore of the most splendid monuments of internal improvemeans of locomotive engines. The mode of ascent Resolved, That a committee be now appointed to ments. It was then by the meeting further just intimated is, that the engine first ascend the correspond with such persons in the states of Pennested in the proposed Rail-way through the southern Resolved, That the county of Chatauque is interplane unattended by any part of its load, and be sylvania and Maryland as it may be advisable to con- tier of counties, and it is recommended to our fellow come stationary at the summit, where its power is sult with, and to employ all proper means to obtain citizens of the several towns in said county to call to be applied, by means of an endless chain located the sanction of their respective legislatures to the within the ascending rail track, and other appropri- laws necessary to carry into effect the objects of this meetings to promote said object. ate gouring for the purpose of drawing up its load, meeting. either in portions or the whole at once, as may be deemed most expedient. Resolved, That the following persons compose that committee, to wit: John Walsh, Joseph G In column 2d of Table III. is represented the Rowland, Nicholas G. Williamson, William P. Brob. power, or stress, required to draw upward on planes son, David C. Wilson, Richard H. Bayard and Ben of different inclinations a load of 55 tons. Hence, jamin Ferris. we may infer what ought to be the strength of a Resolved, That these proceedings be published in chain adequate to the traction of the whole or any the papers of this City. portion of the load. Resolved, That D. G. Garnsey, I.. Farnham, A. Hopkins, I. M. Capron, E. R. Thompson, M. W. Fink, W. Gifford, John Briggs, J. Barnaby, R. H. Abell, William Mellen, be, and they are hereby appointed a committee of the Village to aid and assist in carrying into effect the object above contemplated. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and publishGEORGE A. FRENCH, Chair'n. J. VAN BUREN, Sec'y. ed. Signed, J. G. ROWLAND. Ch'n. In the event of a single ascending rail track be- W. H. NAFF, Sec'y. ing inadequate to the conveyance of the whole amount of tonnage on the road, additional tracks RAIL ROAD MEETING-At a meeting of the citizens From the Chittenango Herald of Jan. 17.] may be constructed, as the occasion may require. of Dunkirk, convened at the Dunkirk Hotel, on RAIL ROAD CONvention, at DE RUYTER-On the In regard to stationary engines, it is pretty cer- Tuesday evening, January 10, 1832, George A. 10th day of Jan. 1832, delegates from the counties tain that two will be required at the head of every French was called to the Chair, and J. Van Buren of Broome, Chenango, Cortland and Madison, met inclined plane, in order to insure an uninterrupted appointed Secretary. On motion of D. G. Garn-in convention at the house of T. C Nye, in the viltraffic on the road. Their power, as adapted to the sey, it was lage of De Ruyter, to concert measures to secure ascent of planes of different inclinations, is indicat Resolved, That we highly approve of the proceed. the extension of the Madison County Rail-road, ed by the number of horses in column 4th of Table ings of a Convention lately held at Owego, recom- from Cazenovia to the Susquehannah river, and to IV. An estimate of their cost, and the expense at- mending an application to the Legislature for a Rail. procure and present to the Board of Directors of the tending them would require more data than I have road from Lake Erie (commencing between the Rail-road company, information as to the facilities at command. mouth of Cataraugus creek and the line of Penn- and inducements offered by the route through the A full investigation of the subject we have had sylvania,) running through the southern tier of vallies of De Ruyter and Otselic, for the construction under consideration would require far more time counties to Owego, and from thence to the city of of said road-The Hon. John Miller of Truxton was and attention than I have it in my power to bestow. New York, on the best Rail-road route, called to the chair, and Charles H. S. Williams of The foregoing remarks and statements, although Resolved, That we will use our best endeavors to Cazenovia, and Virgil Whitney of Binghamton, they may not be entirely free from inaccuracies, are promote an object of such general importance to were chosen Secretaries. believed to be a near approximation to the truth, the people of this and the wes ern States and Terand are cheerfully submitted, with the hope that they ritories may be of some service to the cause of the great work you have in prospect. Resolved, That the proposed Rail-road from the city of New-York through the southern tier of coun I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully, your ties to Lake Erie, is a work of great magnitude, wor. most obedient servant, S. II. LONG. thy of the present age; and when completed will PHILIP E. Thomas, Esq., Baltimore, On calling the delegates, the following gentlemen appeared, and reported their names : Bingham-Virgil Whitney. Lisle-George Wheeler, Graves Collins, Oliver Stiles, Paul Havens. Willet-James W. Mandeville, Stephen Adams, Altitius Bur lingame, Oliver Delavan, Caleb N. Burleson. Cincinnatus-Barak Niles, Charles Kingman, Glover Hart, Binghamton, of primary importance to the inhabi- The following paragraph is taken from the Erie, Solonion Gritman, Alfred Cook, Moores W. Hurlburt, Samue tants of the counties of Madison, Chenango, Cort- Pa. Gazette of Jan 12th. Roberts, jun. Jones, Samuel Pulford, Charles T. Fairchild, Levi Darime East Linklæn-Samuel Plumb, Morrison Rollo, Zira Smith, De Kuyter-James Nye, Abraham Sutton, Le Baron Good "We have received the first number of the "Rail Resolved, That this meeting will use their best ef. Road Journal," published at New York, by D. K. forts to procure a survey of the route named in the Minor, the principal object of which is to diffuse a. preseding resolution, and to procure subscriptions more general knowledge of the mode of internal for the stock, in case it should be practicable to con. communication by Rail-roads together with its ad. struct said road. Resolved, That we know of no route for a Rail. vantages. It is the opinion of the publisher that Rail-roads are far superior to canals, and must in a road that offers so many inducements for the in. few years entirely supersede them. The correct. vestment of eapital as the one proposed by this ness of this opinion we would set down as doubtful meeting. Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed commissioners of Pennsylvania, in which the quesand refer our readers to the late report of the canal from each of the towns represented in this meeting. tion is succinctly discussed, and the superiority of Woodstock-Isaac Morse, David Smith, Calvin B. Stowell, to elicit such information as may be in their power, canals, apparently. proved. Stephen T Collins, Allen Dryer. Uston Village-Joseph T. Card, Alvin Card, Barry Car-in relation to the practicability of the construction of said road, and the probable amount of revenue that might accrue to the company, and present the result of their investigation to the directors of the Besides the regular delegates, a large number of Resolved, That it be recommended to the inhabi. citizens of De Ruyter and its vicinity were present, tants living on any practicable route, (betwen Caz. of Canals," is "set down as doubtful;" and the making altogether a very numerous meeting. enovia and Binghamton,) to ascertain any advanta. Report of the Canal Commissioners of Pennsylva The meeting was opened by Mr. W. K. Fuller, ges which said route may possess and also, what nia is referred to, where it is said, "the question is who commenced his remarks by stating that the re-subscriptions for stock, and other facilities, may be succinctly discussed, and the superiority of Canale lation in which he stood to that part of the com- obtained thereon and lay the same before the Di. apparently proved." ter. Georgeto ve-Samuel Hitchcock. Vi-Jonathan U Ledyard, Chas. H S Williams, N. th company. munity interested in the extension of road would rectors of the road for their information. It will be seen that the correctness of an opinion expressed in the first number of this Journal, that Rail-roads would in a few years, especially where new works are to be constructed, take precedence not permit him to identify himself with the proceed. Upon the question of agreeing with the report of We have not examined the report of the Canal ings about to be had. He had been chosen one of the committee, an animated debate ensued, in which Commissioners, but presume the annexed extract the directors of the Rail-road Company. But as he Messrs. Plumb, Sherwood, Sweet, Ledyard, Niles, from it, which we take from the Pittsburgh Gazette, and one of his colleagues, P. G. Childs, Esq. were and the chairman engaged. It was contended on present by particular request, for the sole purpose one side, that the three first resolutions ought to be is that to which the Editor refers, as showing the inof imparting information in regard to the concerns sticken out, because of the preference given to the correctness of our opinion apon the subject. of the company, he felt himself bound to comply De Ruyter and Otselic route-and on the other that The Report is undoubtedly entitled to great respect with the wishes of the convention, so far as was the convention had assembled for the purpose of ex--but it neither convinces us of the correctness of consistent with his other duties. Mr. Fuller explain-pressing an opinion as to that particular route, and the conclusions of the commissioners, nor of the fal ed the causes which had delayed the opening of the it was therefore proper that the sense of the meetbooks for subscription to the stock, and gave a brief ing should be ascertained and expressed in relation lacy of our own opinions. ame. f account of the measures taken by the friends of the therete. Besides no injury could possibly result "While the board avow themselves favorable to project, in pursuance of the provisions of the char- from so doing, inasmuch as the last resolution repor- Rail-roads where it is impracticable to construct ca. ter, up to the election of directors in December last. ted by the committee invited a simultaneous exam-nals, or under some peculiar circumstances, yet they The Directors, (he said,) since their election, had met ination of all the routes; and as the selection of the cannot forbear expressing their opinion, that the once at that meeting it had been determined to pur route aust ultimately devolve upon the directors of advocates of Rail.roads generally, have greatly oversue the most active and vigorous measures for the the company, it was not to be feared that they would rated their comparative value. To counteract construction of that part of the road for which the adopt any other route than such as upon actual sur- the wild speculations of visionary men, and to allay stock had been taken up, as soon as the state of the vey and examination should be found to be the most the honest fears and prejudices of many of our citi. ground and the weather would permit-and in fur. advantageous. zens, who have been induced to believe that Railtherance of that determination, a resolution was pass. The resolutions were agreed to without a dissent- roads are better than canals, and consequently that, ed, requiring the stockholders to pay to the Treasu-ing voice. for the last six years, the efforts of our state total zer of the company $1 on each of their shares, by In pursuance of one of the above resolutions, the achieve a mighty improvement have been misdirec the first Monday of April next, The subject of ex following committees were appointed, to collect and ted, the canal commissioners deem it to be their tending the road was discussed by the Directors at report to the Rail-road corresponding committee, all duty to advert to a few facts which will exhibit the same time, but owing to a want of the necessary the information within their power. the comparative value of the two modes of improve. information to enable them to judge of the most preBinghamton-David C. Case, Myron Merrill, Samuel Smith. ment for the purpose of carrying heavy articles ferable route, nothing definitive on that point tran- Lisle-George Wheeler, Thornas Whitney, Oliver Stiles spired, A resolution, however, was passed for exWillet-Oliver Delavan, Stephen Adams, Altitius Burlin- cheaply to market, in a distinct point of view. Flour is now carried by the canals to Philadelphia tending the road according to the provisions of the Cincinnatus-Barak Niles, John Osgood, Charles Kingman. from Lewistown, 211 miles, for 62 1-2 cents. and charter, and receiving proposals for subscription to Salon-John L. Boyd, Enos S. Hurlburt, Ezra Rockwell, jr. from Harrisburgh, 150 miles for 40 cents a harrel; the stock for that purpose. Mr. F. concluded his Pitcher-Abel Chandler, Cyrus W. Avery, Elen'r Wakeley. remarks by reading a copy of the resolution as fol- Burdick. West Linktan-Carey L. Beebe, Charles F. Fairchild, Perry gypsum is taken back for three dollars a ton to Harrisburgh, and five dollars a ton to Lewistown, lows: De Ruyter-Le Barron Goodwin, Abrahani Sutton, James therefore the freight (exclusively of tolls) is down. Cazenovia-Stephen P. Collins, Isaac Morse, Joseph T.wards 14 1-2 mills per ton per mile, and returning, 7 mills per ton per mile; or on an average both Pharsalia-Myrtaleu Waldron, John Gledden, Hendrick ways, one cent and three fourths of a mill per ton Fast Link len-Samuel Plumb, Daniel Root, David Smith. per mile, for carriage. Oise ic---the Hatch, Luther Bowen, William Cooley. On 9 miles of Rail-rond at Mauch Chunk, and 'on Georgetown-John Brown, Ira B. Howard, Samuel Hitch ten miles of Rail-road between Tuscarora and Port Nelson-Eri Richardson, Timothy G. Chitsey, Oliver Pool. Carbon, the carriage of coal costs 4 cents, and the On motion of Judge Niles, toll on the latter road is a cent and a half per ton, On motion of Gen. Ledyard, a committee consistResolved, That a committee of five be appointed per mile. ing of one from each town or village represented, to receive the reports of the committees in the sevwas appointed, to draft and report resolutions expres-furnish before the board of Directors of the Madison Fort eral towns, and lay such information as they may The following gentlemen were appointed said County Rail-road Company, and if they shall think committee, viz: Virgil Whitney, of Binghamton; it expedient to call another meeting, and fix the time George Wheeler, of Lisle ; Stephen Adams, of Wil and place thereof. Said committee to be called the let; Barak Niles, of Cincinnatus: John L. Boyd, of" Rail-road Corresponding Committee." "Whereas, by the second section of the act incor. porating this company, the privilege is given to extend the same southerly to any water communication between the Susquehanna river and the Erie canal-Therefore Resolved, That it is proper to avail ourselves of this provisio in the charter, and that the board will adopt measures to extend the same, and receive proposals for subscription to the stock for that purpose." sive of the views of the convention. Nye. Card. Crane. Chs. H. S. Williams, } Solon; Charles F. Fairchild, of West Linklæn ; Barak Niles of Cincinnatus, J. D. Ledyard, Wil. The comparison will then stand thus: On ten miles of Rail-road between Tuscarora and Carbon: Freight per ton Toll on coal per ton On ten miles of the Pennsylvania Canal: Toll on coal at half a cent per ton per mile, 40 |