MISCELLANY. TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS-1 SESSION. the Committee of Ways and Means, reported bills name. I started at the sound. The next instant making appropriations for the Indian Department, I was clasping to my bosom the fairest maid of [From the Telegraph of Thursday.] and for fortifications for the year 1832. A number Nantes-the Inst and brightest link in the broken CONGRESS. In the Senate, Wednesday, after the of local bills were acted on; after which, the House chain of my affections. High souled and noble presentation of various petitions and memorials, and adjourned over to Tuesday next. hearted girl! I see thee now through the dark me Årst and second readings of bills, the following bills dium of years, with a perception as clear as if thou were read the third time and passed The bill to wert a being of yesterday. That clear expanse of amend the act passed for the benefit of George John. brow, so touched with intellectual paleness, and that son, 2nd March 1830, the bill for the relief of John H. Harrison; the bill to revive and continue in force THE VENDEEAN'S STORY.-The royalists had re-eye so proud, and yet so full of tenderness, are liv. The pencil of memory is an unerthe aut providing for reporting the decisions of the tired from the siege of Nantes, a city which was held ing before me. Supreme Court; and the bill supplementary to the by the representat ves of the French convention.-ring one, when its powers are called forth by an several laws for the sale of the public lands. When Although the people of this devoted city had remain. affection, which but gathers a deeper intensity from the bill to provide for the armanent of certain forti. ed quiet during the siege, although they had taken despair. fications of the United States came up, Mr. Benton, no part in the horrible war of the Vendee-yet it [From the Globe.] and aristocratic." There are moments in life, when the affectation of from the Committee on Military Affairs, moved its was decreed that it should suffer the tortures of a re- indifference, and the constrained coldness of cereindefinite postponement. A short debate then follow.volutionary tribunal, that its wealthy and quiet citi-mony, are forgotten, and the deep and holier feelings ed, in which the motion was supported by Messrs.zens should be massacred by hundreds, because, in of the heart itself are poured out in all their freshBenton, Hayne, and Holmes, and opposed by Mr. the significant language of the day, they were "richness and original purity. Such moments cannot exSmith. The question was finally decided by yeas Carrier, a man whose name ist in the sun lit places of worldly prosperity. They and nays in the affirmative, yeas 31, nays 7. The should be associated with those of Marat and Robes are found in the shadowy paths of adversity-or neWhen the great and busy world around us has Senate spent a short time in the consideration of Ex. pierro, was commissioned by the legislators of Re-ver. publican France to pour out upon the devoted cities proved but a vain and gorgeous deception, a mockeecutive business. In the House of Representatives, among the pe. of the Vendée, the full vials of Republican wrath. ry, rendered more terrible by its promise of beauty, titions presented was one by Mr. Choate, of Mass., Nantes suffered most severely. Its very streets ran then it is that the fountains of deep sympathy are from a lady named Smith, the widow of Lieut. Jesse with blood-and the tranquil bosom of the Loire broken up, and hearts are mingled together in a love Smith, of the United States Navy, one of the gallant bore witness of "many a foul and midnight mur. which belongs not to earth. der." and ill-fated crew lost in the sloop of war Hornet.It was so at this moment. Agnes and myself had Mr. Wickliffe, from the Public Lands Committee, We had laid long in prison. The world seemed both tasted bitterness from the same fountain. The It was only when our surly crimes-I should rather say the virtues—of our pareported a bill to grant pre-emption rights to actual to have forgotten us. settlers on the public domain, who might pur serable sustenance which we were compelled to par- thrown together at a moment when every whim and keepers bestowed upon us their curses, with the ni-rents had been visited on us in vengeance. We were chase a quarter section of land, at the rate of one dollar and twenty five cents per acre. It was read take of, that the horrible monotony of our confine- caprice of our enemies became unquestioned autho twice and committed. A large number of private ment was broken. We indeed knew nothing of all rity for deeds of abhorrent cruelty. We knew that bills were discussed and acted upon; and the MILI. that was going on around, and our fears could never we were in the hands of those who would exult at TARY APPROPRIATION BILL FOR 1832, was introduced by have equalled the frightful reality. Separated from our destruction-fiends who feasted upon human sufMr. McDuffie, from the Committee of Ways and our families, alike ignorant of their fate and our fering, and trampled down the altar, and extinguishMeans, and read twice and committed to a Com. own destiny, hope at length deserted us, and weed the household fire, with a zeal surpasted only by the enormity of their crimes. We knew all this, and mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union.were silent in despair. We were, at last, roused by the entrance of a re- yet that moment was the happiest of our lives. The resolutions of Mr. Blair, of Tenn., and Mr. A shout rang from the deck above us, and a quick Duncan, on the subject of the distribution of publican officer-one of the Guards of Carrier. I the public lands, were further discussed until had noticed him before my confinement and marked dashing of oars succeeded. Then there was a crash, the close of the hour, when the House took up the him as I would some dangerous serpent. The in- as if the planks beneath us were rent away by' a question of the South Carolina claims, (the special press of the demon was upon his countenance. strong hand. The horrible truth burst upon us. order of the day) which was passed through the Com. I had seen him once when a group of pleasant farm The vessel had been fitted up with a sous pape, or mittee of the Whole, and afterwards considered in houses were bursting into flames, and the work of false bottom-the fatal bar had been withdrawnthe House till the adjournment. destruction going on, writhing his scarred visage we were in the middle of the Loire, and the up. into a smile. I never had seen such a smile before. rushing of its waters was already felt. It told of dark and hateful passions-of exultation Never shall I ferget the awful shriek that went up CONGRESSIONAL ANALYSIS.-In the Senate, Thurs-like that which an infernal spirit might be supposed at this moment. I had been on the red battle field, day, very little business was transacted. The Com-to feel when some new victim is engaged to the un- and heard, in the pauses of the fight, the groans of mittee on Public Lands reported upon the proposi quenchabie fire of torment. intolerable anguish arise from a thousand writhing tion referred to them to reduce the price of the pub- He told us he had orders to conduct us from the victims, but never, never, had my ears been tortur. lic lands, that it was inexpedient to act on the sub-prison. Eager questions were made as to the de-ed by a cry like this. It was an unearthly einbody. ject at this time. The bill to authorize the State of sign of this command. He made no reply, but coming of terror, which can be compared to nothing Illinois to sell 20,000 acres of the Ohio Saline' was nanded the door of our dungeon to be thrown open. but the shrieks of the doomed multitude, when the passed; and the bill providing for the establishment We passed out-many, with a joyous hope of speedy last curse shall have smitten then from the preof an additional Land Office in the State of Louisia release, and the enjoyment of their home. A band sence of the just made perfect. It rose wild and na, was ordered to a third read ng; Mr. Benton in of soldiers received us and conducted us into the horrible for a moment,-then followed the dreadful troduced a bill to abolish the duty on Alum Salt. sounds of strangulation, blended with the groanings open air. In the House of Representatives, among the pe. It was a beautiful night of moonshine. The soft of the vessel, as the water forced its way upwards. titions presented, was one, ubmitted by the Speak light rested on the hills around us, silvering the I remember a suffocating sensation—a struggleer, of several thousand females of the city of Phila- pointed roofs and old spires that stood up among a sinking down—a convulsive shudder! delphia and its vicinity, in relation to slavery in the hem. The broad sheet of the Loire lay before us, United States. It was laid on the table. Mr. Root like a vein of silver upon a ground of emerald.- I rose to the surface. The bosom of the river was resumed his remarks on the resolution in relation to Nantes-the once rich and beautiful metropolis of ruffled and black. Boats were hurrying across it. the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands. He the Vendee, was silent as a sepulchre. Black smoke filled with demons in human form. Wherever a had not concluded when the hour expired. The curled up at intervals into the moonlight, from the victim struggled above the waves, a corse floated, bill to provide for the settlement of the claims of sinouldering ashes of fallen dwellings. The hand of or a garment caught the moonshine, pistol shot and the State of South Carolina, for advances made du- the spoiler had been there, the tide of revolutionary sabre blows were directed. I had passed many boats ring the late war, was further discussed at some madness had gone over the fair city in a mingled unnoticed, and hope began to invigorate my limbs, length; but the debate was arrested by an adjourn wave of fire and blood. We reached the water's edge. A low, dark hulled ine. My motion was retarded. I shook off and In the Senate, on Friday, Mr. Benton's bill for vessel lay ready to receive us. "On board, trai- spurned away the wretched sufferer. The body sunk abolishing the duty on Alum Salt was taken up for tors!" said the officer who had guarded us thither before me-I saw the dead like countenance, and, consideration, and on the motion of Mr. Benton to "You are destined for Bellisle." I marked his fe1-Oh God! it was that of Agnes! I saw one implor. refer it to the Committee on Finance, a discussion tures as he spoke. The same infernal smile was ing extension of the arms, one look of agonizing sup. arese, in which Messrs. Benton, Hayne, and Smith, playing upon them-but more fiendish-more re-plication, and she went down-down to her cold supported the motion, and Messrs. Clay, and Dick. volting than ever. Belisle lay at the mouth of the sepulchre, and almost within my reach. erson opposed it. The motion was Inst-ayes 17-Loire. The outline of its fortress was just visible, One moment of unutterable anguish followed, and Boes 22. On motion of Mr. Dickerson the bill was grim and rugged, towering to the sky. The Revo- my reason forsook me. How I escaped from the referred to the Committee on Manufactures. Some lutionary banner was flapping above it, like a bird river I know not, but my returning consciousness time was spent in the consideration of Executive of evil, hovering over its destined prey. found me in the dwelling of a peasant, who, I after. business. The Senate adjourned over to Tuesday We were hurried on board the vessel, which to wards learned had discovered me insensible, upon our astonishment, was already crowded with pri. the margin of the river. The horrid recollection of In the House of Representatives, Mr. Root, con- soners like ourselves. The young and beautiful the past came over me, and fled from my deliverer eluded his remarks on the resolution in relation to and high born of both sexes were there. There us if to escape the dreadful thought which has from the proceeds of the sales of the Public Lands. Mr. were many, very many familiar faces in that group, that moment to the present, never ceased to haunt Mitchell of South Carolina, offered an amendment seer dimly in the lamplight--proud men and lovely me. The images which it conjures up are distinct in lieu of that proposed by Mr. Duncan, in sub. women, whom I had known in happier hours-but and living-fearful blendings of tenderness and terstance that a Select Committee be raised to inquire there was no look of recognition given or received; ror. At one moment I behold ny lost Agnes, mild into the expediency of selling the Public Lands to every one felt the pressure of some unshared and and beautiful as an angel, with the words of her af the States in which they are situated, at a low price peculiar anguish, and our meeting was in silence, fection melting upon a music voice. and on a liberal credit, and of apportioning the pro- broken only by the thick sob and passionate burst| Then the scene changes-the shriek-the ingulf. eeeds of such sales among the States according to of tears. ing waters, and all the horrors of that night of ago. the terms of the several deeds of cession. Before the A light hand fell upon my shoulder, and a voice, ny, are present in my mind. I feel the death-clasp question was taken on the amendment, the hour to whose tones my spirit would have responded upon my arm, and a strong shudder goes over me, as allotted to resolutions expired. Mr. McDuffie, from from the very threshold of eternity, announced my if I were again shaking the dying from my support. ment. next. * * * # when suddenly a drowning person caught hold of Then the outstretched arms-the pale and supplicating countenance-the mute appeal for suceour, and the vain attempt to afford it, darken the cloud of memory which settles upon my soul. AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. It is our painfu. duty to announce the death of John Wilie, a gentleman advantageously knowu for several years past, 10 The subscriber is now publishing a weekly paper, called the the commercial community of the United States, as Editor of AMERICAN RAILROAD JOURNAL. A princi-he Commercial Intelligencer, and more recently as the proprie pal object in offering the proposed work to the Public, is to diftor of this Price Current. He expired on the night of the 13th ult. after an illness of four days only Few citizens in hia My story is told. Those who have marvelled at fuse a more general knowledge of this important mode of inter-sphere have been more generally esteemed during their life or dejection, who have mocked at grief which they nal communication, which, at this time, appears to engage the in their death more regretted.—[N. O. Commercial Report.] could not fathom, may here learn the secret, which attention of almost every section of our country. for years has lain upen my soul like the malisen of a parent. a PASSENGERS: In the schr. Railway, for Havana:-Mr Ferdinand Clark, THE AMERICAN RAILROAD JORNAL is printed on sheet of the largest size, (mammoth) and put up in a convenerchant, Havana; Geo. W. Brinckerhoff, supercargo; Geo. M. In the ship Wm. Drayton, Halsey, from Charleston-Mrs. I have been a wanderer and an outcast in the land ient form for binding, each number containing sixteen large oc- Merrill. Howard, Messrs. Bascom, Van Geason, Wrightman, Ray. of my fathers. I have seen its populous places made avo pages of three columns each. The selections, upon the su desolate, and its orange groves sprinkled with the ject of railroads and other works of internal improvement, wil mond, Burden, Langur, and A. A. Humphreys, of U. 8. Army. In the ship Hibernia, Maxwell, from Liverpool :-Miss Laublood of those who had nursed them. I have seene from the best authors, both of Europe and America, and will Havana; Mr. Walter, of London; "Mr. E. O. Ledward of the multitude shake off the chains of priestcraft, drage occasionally illustrated by engravings. A part of this Jour-renson, of Baltimore; Mr. Searle, of Boston; Mr. Knight, of the cowled head in the dust, extinguish the saeredal will be devoted to the subject of internal improvement-giv-Mexico; Mr. C. O. Ledward, of Liverpool; Mr. Ruedooffen, of flame of the altar, and trample on the crucifix. They ing a history of the first introduction of railroads into England Munich; Messrs. W. Heromann, Muhlause, Meyer, Haertt, at Munich, and E Abel, of Middletown, (Conn.) had set up a new idol-a new divinity which they and their improvements to the present day. It will also notice and $ Heromaun, Members of the Royal Academy of Music knelt to under the sacred name of Liberty. It was the meetings, in lifferent sections of the country, upon the sub jeet of railroads The remaining part of the paper will contain that liberty which opens the floodgates of crime, and casts off from the arm of the assassin, the fetters of the LITERARY, MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS matter DECREASE OF DUTIES.-The following table prethe law. of the NEW-YORK AMERICAN, as prepared for that| paper, omitting all political subjects, except such as are of gene-sents the rate of duties now payable, since lat in. ral concern. Bohea COMMERCIAL RECORD. Yet a change came. I have seen one herde of assassins swept away by another. The wretch who conducted the fatal Noyade, himself perished by the The terms of the American Railroad Journal are THREE stant, on the articles enumerated, and of those prohand of his fellows. I saw him on the stained scaf. lollars per annum, payable in advance; and will not be seviously in force: fold, awaiting his inevitable doom, with a grim and without. Any person who will obtain eight subscribers and re- Decrease of Duties on Teas, Coffee, and Salt, from and after the 1st January, 1832. terrible composure. He bent himself to the block,mit the amount, shall have a copy gratis: and to companies of TEAS-From China, in vessels of the U. States. and died with a curse upon his lips! ten subscribers, who associate and remit twenty-five dollars, it Late duty. Present duty. I am a broken down and gray-haired man-yet it will be sent for $2,50 each per annum. The Journal will be 4cts. per lb. 12cts. is not worth the weight of years, or the silvering of eat for any length of time desired, if paid in advance. It wil Souchong and Black ; and time. Sorrow has more than done their work be published on Saturdays. Campoy or Conge (considered I go out among the smiling faces of mankind, and Letters upon the subject of the AMERICAN RAILROAD the glorious creations of the divinity. with a spirit JOURNAL may be addressed, free of postage, to the publisher which takes no hue of gladness from the beauty and harmony around me. One thought from which there is no escape, rests like an evil shadow upon me, and lends to the glory and loveliness of earth, its own sombre coloring. But the light of my earthly existence is rapidly waning, and I look forward with a blessed hope to the moment, when, casting off the sorrows of humanity, the tired and weary spirit shall rejoice in that destiny which awaits the afflic ted and truly penitent of earth. and part proprietor, D. K. MINOR, NEW-YORK AMERICAN, TRI-WEEKLY. 25 10 as Souchong). 25 TO Gomee, Gunpowder, or Imp'l TEAS-From any other place than China, or in vessels of or in any other than vessels of the United States Bohea 6 Souchong and other Black 18 Gomee, Gunpowder or Imperial 68 37 27 38 30 2 1 Hyson and Young Hyson lb. Extract from a letter dated Liverpool, 15th Nov., 1831. "The unsettled state of affairs abroad, with the present ex citement at home, together with the dread of the Cholera extending itself, has interfered much with business the last two weeks. We are happy to state now that the fears of the Cholera are daily diminishing. is usual. This arrangement is made to accommodate a larg class of business-mer in the country, who are desirous of seeing the advertisements of the day, yet are unwilling to encoun ter the expense of subscription and postage of a daily paper According to the annual report from the Ordnance By this arrangement, it will easily be perceived, their wishes Office, the work performed at the several arsenals may be gratified, at one half the expense of a daily paper, as and armories, in the year ending 30th September most of the advertisements, both of the Daily and Semi-weeklast, was as follows:-110 gun carriages and equip- ty papers, will appear in the Tri-Weekly American; and the ments, 997 holsters, about 830 sets of accoutrements reading matter as published in the Daily paper. It will for small arms, have been made at the arenals; and issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at FIVE that 16,741 small arms have been cleaned and re-dollars per annunı in advance,--to subscribers out of the city paired, and 26,481 muskets and their appendages New-York, and forwarded, according to their order, and have been manufactured at the National Armories. or any length of time. All letters relating to the TRI-WEEKLY AMERICAN may Of these, the army and marines have obtained 34 field gun carriages, 33 field guns, 2,209 complete ve addressed to the Pu lisher and part Proprietor, D. K. MINOR, No. 35 Wall-st. N.Y. The transactions in cotton have been very limited: sales the muskets, and about 700 sets of accoutrements for The New-York American is published DAILY at $10 small arms. The militia have procured under the done; in good qualities we notice no alteration, but in the lower act of 1808, for arming and equipping the militia, 58 per annum, and SEMI-WEEKLY, at $4 per annum, in ad past week only 8239 bags, and so far this week less has been descriptions prices have given way per lb. The supplies of six pʊunder cannon, 103 field carriages with equip-cance, as heretofore, at No. 35 Wallstreet, New-York. grain from Ireland and coastwise readily find buyers: new Irish ments complete, 150 sets of timber for gun carriages, The total and 10,230 stands of muskets and rifles. On Sunday evening, ist inst. by the Rev. Cyrus Mason, red wheat at 78. 10d. a 3s. 2d. per 70 lb. In bonded grain some purchases have been made; St. Petersburg hard wheat at 68.; number of the militia is given at 1,262,315 [1,756 heAt Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 17th instant, by the Rev. Dr. Wil-and for American as high as 7s. 3d. has been ob'ained. The ing of the District of Columbia]: and the total of George Lewis, to Clara Musson. arms delivered to the militia during the year, is, 1on, Mr John B. Whetten, of this city, to Miss Jane Amelia ales in flour are for sour 218., and sweet 228. a 24s. per brl.brass mortar, 47 fourteen pounder cannon, 22,575 Sherwood, daughter of Dr. Henry H. Sherwood, formerly of Cotton, uplands, 5d. a 64d.; Orleans 3d. a 8d.; Alabamas 44d. a muskets, 6.463 rifles, 2,913 pistols, 921 artillery and At North Hempstead, L.I. on Tuesday last, by the Rev. Mr non-commissioned officers' swords, 1461 cavalry sa- Wheeler, Wm. W. Kissam, M.D. of Jamaica, L.I. to Miss bres, and the necessary accompaniments of caissons, Jane daughter of Whitehead Hewlett, Esq. of the former harness, accoutrements, belts, holsters, and cartridge place. boxes.-[Nat. Jour.] [From the Churchman] I go, and farewell to thee, dreary earth, And a mother laments for her nursling gone; On the 6th instant, of consumption, on his passags to St. Angustine, on board the schooner Agnes, Mr. James McKinney from the neighborhood of Londonderry, Ireland, but for several years a resident of this city, aged about 32 years. At Bellville. N. J. on Saturday evening, last, Miss Gertrude Van Cortlandt, in the 70th year of her age. On Monday morning, 2d instant, Lucy Ann, daughter of John On Saturday morning, after a few days illness, Mra. Sarah On Monday morning, 2d inst. Mrs. Arietta Bancker, widow of In Albany on Thursday evening, 22d instant, by the Rev. Mr. The Morristown, N. J. and Charleston, S. C. papers On Friday evening, Mrs. Catherine Wilkinson, in the 71st year of her age. This morning, Julia Ann, daughter of Henry J. Knapp, aged 1 year and 4 months. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, at No. 37 Bowery. At Croton, Ct. Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt, aged 95. This morning, 4th inst. & the seat of Joshua Clibborn, Esq. In this city, on Thursday last, in the 25th year of his age, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Nov. 16.-Our Cotton ly, the supplies very moderate, still prices have not declined. market is still gloomy; the trade continue to purchase sparing. Savannah papers to Dec. 24, state that freights had improved: to Liverpool, for cotton, had been paid; to France, 13 cents; to New-York, cent, and one dollar per bale on deck. Export of cotton from New-York since October 1, 1831, 39,279 bales, of which shipped to Great Britain 18,349 bales, to France 18,114 do. SALES OF REAL ESTATE AT AUCTION. One lot on Attorney st. 37f. 6in. by 100 Messrs. Litchfield and Otis were appointed to con duct the Speaker elect to the Chair, upon assuming which he tendered his acknowledgements for the honor conferred upon him, in the following Ad dress : Sunday Monday Tuesday for a Bank at Attica, Genessee; for a Bank at Le Roy; COUNTING-ROOM ALMANAC FOR 1833. Mr. Stillwell offered a resolution for inquiring into The House then resolved itself into a committee Gentlemen-In accepting the station to which, by of the whole, on the Message of the Governor, your partiality, I am called, I sensibly feel the un- which was referred to the appropriate Committees. deserved honor thus conferred. For this flattering Mr. Seymour called for the consideration of the manifestation of your confidence, I offer, in return, Resolution for the appointment of Chaplains. the sincere acknowledgements of a grateful heart. The duties of the Chair have ever been considered ment. The motion to postpone was lost. Mr. Milldollar moved to amend the resolution so Mr. Moulton stated that there were petitions aarduous, requiring, in their discharge, prudence, in-gainst the resolution, and he hoped it would be laid on the table till the petitions were acted upon. dustry and firmness, joined to a perfect understandMr. King hoped it would not be laid on the table. ing of the Rules and Orders of the House. In enu- If the resolution was laid over, it would loose much merating these as sonie of the qualifications essential of its grace. Chaplains have always been appointfor a presiding officer, I am conscious how few of ed by the House. It was an old and salutary cus. them I possess. Although frequent difficulties and tom, which he hoped would not be departed from. embarrassments will be encountered, growing out of Mr. Monlton replied, insisting upon the postpone. the complicated forms of Legislation, still, I am cheered with the belief, that in the execution of the trust assigned to me, I shall receive your cordial cooperation. If I should fail to display the ability that may be as to invite the Clergymen to officiate without compensation. expected from a presiding officer, I trust, that I may Mr. Granger said that after the Red Book yesterat least exhibit an uprightness of intention, an unbi day, the Chandelier, and two Carpets to-day, he ased impartiality, and a due respect for every mem-doubted the expediency of turning economists by ber of the Assembly. Upon your generous liberali- cutting off the compensation to the Clergy. ty, Irely for pardon of all involuntary errors, and Mr. Milldollar hoped that the motion to amend upon your aid and assistance in correcting them.the resolution by asking the Clergy to officiate with. Feeling as you all do, the solemn responsibility of out compensation, would not create an "excitement your stations,-animated as you must be, by an ar- in the House. dent desire that the legislation of this Session may exert an auspicious influence over the best interests of the State, we may safely engage in the several duties that may be assigned to us. Francis Šegar, was unanimously re-appointed Clerk. Mr. Otis thought the laborer in all honest vocations, was worthy of his hire. Mr. Milldollar withdrew his amendment; but it was renewed by Mr. Moulton. Mr. Myers thought there was a constitutional ob. jection to paying the Clergy. He was opposed to Mr. Scollard, was then appointed Sargeant-at-paying them on every ground, He was apprehenArms, and Messrs. Crosbey and Courters Door-sive of a connection between Church and State. He Keepers, by resolution. would rather dispense with services of the Clergy in this house, and listen to their instructions in their The Speaker then appointed Mr. Granger and Mr. Ostrander, a committee to inform his Excellency Churches. the Governer, that the House was organized and ready to proceed to business. Messrs. Moulton and Tilford were appointed to convey a similar message to the Hon. the Senate. IN SENATE-Wednesday, Jan. 4. of a Supreme Being. FEBRUARY. MARCH 19 20 21 22 23 26 27 28 29 30 31 9 10 11 16 17 12 13 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 30 1 2. 7 S 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 21 22 23 24 25 26 28 29 30 31 NOVEMBER 4 5 6 7 8 11 12 13 14 18 19 20 21 25 26 27 28 29 30 DECEMBER 2 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Mr. Butler, of Columbia, opposed the amendment and was in favor of the resolution. He never had learned, as a part of his creed, that it was unconsti tutional for the state to acknowledge the authority U. Mr. Hammond, of New York, was opposed to the u amendment, and in favor the of resolution. Mr. Otis replied to the constitutional objection. U. S. Threes The Senate then went into committee of the Mr. O. had a great repugnance to discussing reliwhole on the Governor's message, Mr. Westcott in gious matters in this House. the chair; and the several subjects of the message Mr. Myers moved to refer the subject to the select were referred to the appropriate committees. Ad. committee which had charge of the Dutchess peti tion, which was lost by a vote of 69 to 41. journed. Mr. Westcott presented a petition of the inhabitants of Newburgh for the incorporation of a Whaling Company in that village. IN ASSEMBLY-Tuesday. Mr. Remer offered the usual resolution furnishing the members with newspapers, which was adopted. Mr. Seymour offered the usual resolution for the appointment of Chaplains, which, on motion of Mr. Moulton, was laid upon the table. Mr. Arnold, of New York, was in favor of the amendment, and it that was lost he should vote for the resolution. The amendment was lost, ayes 35, noes 85. Mr. Kemble, of Troy, offered an amendment, directing the payment of the Clergy by subscription On motion of Mr. Stilwell, the Speaker was di- from the Members. This proposition was rejected rected to appoint a standing committee on Rail- by a vote of 86 to 27. roads. And then the Resolution was adopted by a vote A report was received from the commissioners of of 96 to 27. the canal fund, and ordered to be printed; and then the House adjourned. IN ASSEMBLY-Wednesday. & Neptune... offer. ask. 711 ..120 N. Y. State Marine.. 80 Jackson Marme..... 96 97 8」sg「aཎྜ「g|| | | 88 || | || ....120 Eagle.. .115 116 ......... Merchants .........105 106 Ohio Sixes, 1850...121 121 Manhattan....... Ohio Fives, 1830.. 1831. BOAT SPIKES, BOAT SPIKESHIP SPIKES. Phenix Bank... 3 in. 4 in. 5 in. 6 in. 7 in. S in. 9 in. 10 in. Greenwich Bank Mercantile........ North River... Phenix............ Jefferson United States Firemen's.......... .103 104 .106 109 North River Bank...113 1153 Troy to Whitehall; for the Chemung Canal Bank; VOL. I. CONTENTS. RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. Address, &c....... .33 The Poles.. .39 Jaccession of patronage to the Rail-road Journal, we tion we find ourselves able amply to fulfil by the liCabinet Encyclopedia....39 take the opportunity of thanking the Editorial terary matter of a leading journal in this city being Harlaem Railroad....... 33 Constitutional History......40 Corps generally, for the liberal commendation with completely at our disposal. The second additional 41 which they have noticed the appearance of this object we had in view, was to supply all the foreign U. S. Bank.. 34 History, &c. of Railroads...34 Ohio Railroad.... ......35 .36 Col. Stevens's Pamphlet. 36, 37 road, &c.... ..37 NEW YORK AMERICAN. Review of the Week Maine, Massachusetts, Del aware Loss of Geo. Canning. Library of Religious Knowl-Passengers.... .38 Prices Current.. .41 .42 ..44 .47 .47 47 . publication. In doing this, we are bound to news of interest, and miscellaneous intelligence of admit, that whatever merit may be ascribed to the day that would tend to make our columns 43 the paper, must be due rather to the manner in entertaining to the general reader; and this, too, .44 which it shall be hereafter conducted, than to the we are enabled to do by having the matter of attempt to start it: for it is our own conviction, the American at our command. Our opportuni46 that there is an actual call for such a Journal in ties, therefore, of ministering to the instruction and 47 the country, and that in establishing this one, we entertainment of our readers, upon subjects other only meet public opinion upon these matters; and than those of Rail-roads, it will be perceived, are by .48 we do not aim at leading, though we may attempt re- no means slender, and do, in fact, bear comparison gulating and giving efficiency to, its operations.-with those of any other Journal around us; and we The subject to which our columns are chiefly de- are enabled-if the conceit be excused-to promote voted, is one upon which light is flowing from many the cause of "overcoming Time" not less by assistsources, and facts accumulating from many points. ing to make it pass usefully and agreeably, than by This is the third number of the Rail-road Journal; Be it our task to collect, condense, and modify the disseminating imformation regarding Rail-roads and and as "3" has always been considered a magical scattered rays of intelligence and experience, and Locomotives. It remains to be seen whether this figure, let us treat it here as if we acknowledged its pour them forth again in one broad stream through attempt to engraft the interests of business upon mystic influence, and pause a moment upon the re. out the land. those of amusement, and to unite what is practically AMERICAN RAIL-ROAD JOURNAL. NEW-YORK, JANUARY 14, 1932. flections the present paper calls forth upon this our Rail-roads are in the physical world what Print- useful with what tends to embellish life, will be susundertaking. And first, as to the title of this pe- ing is in the moral: "Time is money," says Dr. tained with the same liberality that it has met at the riodical, we have been not a little amused at the Franklin, and if it be allewed that Distance is Time, outset. May we not be permitted to promise that it comments it has excited. "The Rail-road Jour. surely the means of over-coming the one are second shall be doserved? nal!" Phœbus what a name! I should as soon in importance only to those which facilitate the im- HARLAEM RAIL-ROAD.-The Harlaem Rail-road, of think," cried a gentleman in our hearing, "of a Pa-provement of the other! To collect and dissemin- which so much has been said, is now located by an tent-Furnace or Cooking-Stove-Journal! A news-ate practical information with regard to those means, ordinance of the Corporation of this city. It is to paper devoted to Rail-roads? You might as well is the object of the Rail-road Journal, and it cer- commence at 23d street, and pass through the centre have an Aqueduct Chronicle,' or a Turnpike tainly is not more extravagant, nor less feasible than of the 4th, or Broadway avenue, to Harlaem River, Commentator,' as a Rail-road Journal!" "Cer- those of the different publications among us, whose at a point about 300 yards above the bridge. The tainly," echoes another; "and the Steamboat- aim it is to illustrate the pregress of certain branches distance is five miles. The contracts are all to be Egis,' or 'the Steam-Bath-Locomotive,' or the of literature or science, or to further the advance-made by the 1st of February, when operations are Steam-Scouring.Visiter,' would be a far more at. ment of the Fine Arts, or of particular professions. be commenced. It is intended that this road shall tractive title!" So they might so they might, As a publication of immediate utility the claims of be constructed in the most permanent manner, with Gentlemen; and you may add, that the Automa- this Journal can be questioned only by those who double track, and the cost to be about $50,000 per ton-Working-Man' would be a more engaging ti. are ignorant of the general interest the subject of it mile. Application will be made to the Legislature tle still to those who sit with their arms folded is exciting, or who look with apathy upon the strides at its present session, for permission to continue the quietly at home, and when the whole world is of improvement through our widely extended land: Rail-road down to 14th street, and to such other part awake and bustling about them, not only put their and as valuable to bind up for future reference, it will of the city as the Corporation may pormit. There is hands to no work of enterprize, but close their ears be prized by every person of intelligence who recol-little doubt but this will prove a profitable investment to the din of business, and shut out all sounds that lects that, embodying as it does the records of mea- to the stockholders, even if no other use should be would remind them of strenuous exertion. But, sures daily transpiring in every part of the Union, made of it than for passengers. It is however so lohappily for the success of our undertaking, in this it will contain the actual history of Rail-roads in cated as to meet the road now in contemplation from country there are but few such. They who this country. But in projecting such a paper, there Albany to New York, on the east side of the Hudwould chill the ardor of enterprize by an infusion were other objects, which, though secondary, have son river, a more particular account of which wo of phlegm into its aspirations, or dash its endea- not been the less cordially embraced within our plan. hope to be able to give in our next number. vors with a sneer, are in a small minority here; at The first of these is, to publish a constant record of The following gentlemen, says the Mercantile least, so far as this little project is concerned, a what is doing in the literary world, and keep the at- Advertiser, were chosen Directors of the Providence table covered with complimentary letters from tention of our readers awake by giving them the and Boston Rail-road Company, on Wednesday, at every part of the Union,-but few of which are earliest notice of what men of learning and talent an election held for that purpose, in Boston. Wm. not marked double postage,-implies such to be the are from day to day, in every country, eontributing W. Woolsey, of New York; Thos. B. Wales, J. W. fact. And here, while acknowledging this early to the stores of literature and science. This inten-Revvu, P. T. Jackson, and J. F. Loring, of Boston. OF RAIL-ROADS." * * * CONTINUATION OF THE "HISTORY AND PROGRESS meeting was stated by H. Hubbell, esq. and several much cheaper terms than from the city, as the aur. statements and addresses made. It was resolved to rounding country abounds in light-wood, and light. I think there is every reason to believe that the make the proposed application, and a committee of wood knots; the latter, though hitherto valueless latter is the more probable term of the first introduc. nine persons appointed to present the petition to the as a marketable article, is suitable for our purpose. tion of cast-iron rails. In the first place, iron legislature and solicit the passage of a carter. The wheels were not used until about 1753, and at that committe consists of Hiram Hubbell, B. K. Wright, time only very partially; it was not until several Isaac Hatch, I. Torry, Gilson Dykeman, N. J. Rose- my part, to travel out of the obvious line of official It may be considered an act of supererogation on years after, that they came into general use-so long velt, Miles Hotchkiss, Erasmus Store and Hunter duty inte miscellaneous matter: still, the current therefore, as weeden wheels were made use of, we Crane. In one of the resolutions adepted by the objections urged by those who withhold their aid may suppose that cast-iron rails had not been inven-meeting, it is urged in favor of this improvement, and patronage, should be noticed. Among the most as a connecting link at Salina, with the great prominent of these objections is the destructibility Mr. Carr, in his Coal Viewer and Engine Build- contemplated road from Albany to Buffalo, and its of the material. It is commonly remarked, "that er, published in 1797, says, "the making and using intersection at Pulaski with the proposed road from the road will not last;" "that one end will be rotof iron Rail-roads were the first of my inventions, Watertown to Rome, thereby opening a direct Rail-ten before the other can be completed:" "if it was and were introduced at the Sheffield collery, about road communication from the northern counties of built of stone or iron it would have confidence," &c. twenty-one years ago." This would make the date this state and Lower Canada, to the fertile and pop- I have heard these observations frequently made by of their introduction about 1776, which is subsequen: ulous regions of the south aud west, it will com- persons sensible on other subjects, and seen them mand an importance for the transportation of pas acceded to as truisms, by the by standers, and by sengers possessed by few routes of equal distance in them, no doubt, again reiterated." the state."-[Alb. Argus.] ted. to that of Colebrookdale. 1 that " An extract from the report of Alexander Black, It is the province of wisdom to conform to cir. cunstances, to the means and resources available. In a country where stone and iron abound, and capital is redundant, roads, houses and bridges are chiefly constructed of those materials. In many situations it it economy to do so, owing to the high price of timber. The timber which was used to make one To Elias Horry, Esq., President of the So. Carolina mile of the State Road, would cost in England an pected at any period of our career. The late ex. The repairs and renewals will be no more felt than tions were, however, only partial. In situations By referring to the original reports on the subject remote from the large water courses, both the of this Rail-road, it will be remembered. in the calcu ground and the climate have been as favorable as lations made as to the probable nett revenue, that usual. 20,000 dollars was previously deducted from the asThe annexed tabular statement will exhibit in a sumed gross income, and set apart for repairs and succinct form, the exact situation of the work in all reconstruction-a sum nearly adequate to keep it up Fig. 4. Represents the form of Mr. Carr's cast-its bearings: The arrangements made, and prepara- in perpetuity, admitting it should require renewal iron rails, which were used under-ground at the tions in train, to urge the work on to a speedy com- of the perishable material every ten years. Duke of Norfolk's colliery, near Sheffield; a a a a, pletion, are on a scale which will secure all the a- That attention must be bestowed on it, and means are the rails, which were six feet long, and in form as vailable aid that can be procured; even at prices be- taken to protect the timber against the influence of shewn in Fig. 5; near each end of the rail small yond the usual value of labor. To prosecute the the weather, is admitted. Paint is used to protect hoies were cast, through which a nail was driven work with the utmost vigor, is regarded, for many a house; tar, varnish and pitch to preserve a ship: into the sleepers, which was of the same description considerations, of primary importance. omit these precautionary measures, and how soon as those of the wooden rails, Fig. 2, and shown It has been previously stated, that nearly the does the one become a ruin, and the other a wreck. by the dotted lines in Fig 4.; at the joinings of the whole line to the Horse-creek Bridge in the vicinity Turpentine and oil well laid on in a hot state, is the rail at cc cc, they were merely laid against each of Hamburg, was placed out under contract. In a preparation applied to the transverse pieces and rails. other at the ends, and nailed down to the sleeper, few instances of minor extent, the contractors failed A regard to economy influenced the selection of the intermediate sleepers having only one nailing; to fulfil their engagements. These failures are as- these ingredients from the many which were propoFig. V. shews a section of this form of rail; a b, the cribable, either to unskilful management, negligence sed for the purpose. horizontal bearing in which the wheel travelled; and or the intervention of the sickly season, which de- The ulterior substitution of stone as the foundabc, the upright ledge or projection to prevent the terred those who were not acclimated from reinain. tion when the wooden supports give way, is a view wheels from running off the road. ing, and bave all occurred on this side of the Four. of the subject which early occurred to the Beard.Various forms of this rail, which is called the Holes Swamp. The work is now placed in more This question is to be determined at a future day. "Plate Rail," appear to have been used with either competent and diligent hands, who are doing their It may, however, be gratifying to know that the fawooden sleepers stretched across the whole breadth duty. of the Rail-road, or short square wooden sleepers, cilities for accomplishing this object are within our as shown in Fig. IV., on which the rails were nailed. ted in a connected line between ten and eleven mined. I am informed that there are several beds of It is known to the Board, that the road is comple-reach whenever the expediency of so doing is deter In the year 1800, we are told that Mr. Benjamin miles from the depository; and that a station, with stone contiguous to the line of road, between the Outram, an engeneer, in adopting this rail on the a revolving platform, is located about eight and a Upper Three Runs and Hamburg, which readily public Rail-way at Little Eton, in Derbyshire, in-half miles in distance on the road, immediately pa- yields to the workman's chisel, and by exposure to troduced stone props instead of timber, for suppor-rallel with, and about a half mile from, the Tenmile- the atmosphere becomes very hard. Should our exting the ends and joinings of the rails. Mr. Outram, however, was not the first who made system of arrival and departure of the Engine is nute examination, recourse may be had to those vast house, on the State-road. So soon as a regular pectations as to its fitness be disappointed, on a miuse of stone eupports, as the late Mr. Barns employ-organized, the advantages of this station will be de- bodies of granite which lie on the margin of the Saed them in forming the first iron Rail-road which veloped. Travellers, in terminating a journey, will vannah river, within a few miles of Hamburg. was laid down in the neighborhood of Newcastle- gladly relinquish the fatigues of common travelling, upon-Tyne, viz. from Lawson main colliery to the and finish their trip on the Rail-road; the horses where it is wanted, will add very little to the annual The transportation of the material to the spot river, in 1797,-[To be continued.] will be relieved of part of their burden over deci-expenditure. The crop is generally conveyed to the dedly the most heavy and distressing section of sea-board market by the latter end of June. There RAIL-ROAD FROM PULASKI TO SALINA.-A numerous road (to them) in the State, viz., at the Quarter. will therefore be but little descending trade in the meeting of the citizens of Onondaga and Oswego house; or they may remain to recruit over night. months of July, August, September, and October. counties was held at Union Square, Oswego county, By an arrangement with the proprietors of the In the two latter months, considerable up freight in on the 23rd ult. for the purpose of considering the stages, the expense of keeping up one change of merchandise will offer. On the return trips, the propriety of an application for a Rail-road from Pu. horses can be saved.-the mails from Columbia and moving power had better be used in conveying the laski to Salina, N. J. Rosevelt, esq. chairman, Hi-Camden delivered two hours sooner, and the pas stone than wasted, no interruption to the regular ram Hubbell, esq. vice-president, and Rufus Tiffany sengers accommodated by a pleasing relief. It is transit of commodities will be in consequence ocORand Erasmus Stone, secretaries. The object of the a point also at which our fuel will be supplied on sioned. |