The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 1, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 29 October 1823 — Page 2

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IMPROVE© STEAM ENGINE. $Yom i)v* Brewster's Edinburgh PhilosophicaF Journal '•There never lias been in our day an invention which has created such sensation in the scientific and in the ^manufacturing world.—The steam engine of Mr. Watt had 'been so long considered as the greatest triumph o! nrt and science, that it was deemed a sort, of heresy to regard it as capable of improvement and notwithstanding all that has been done by Mr. W ool!}', and other eminent engineers: the undoubted merit of their engines has scarcely yet been admitted by the pub lie- Uuder such circumstances, Mr

Perki'is* claims were likely to meet with various kinds of opposition.instead of hailingit as an invention which,was4to do honor to the age in weich we live, and to add a new and powerful arm to British industry, imperfect experiments and confined views were urged against the principle «t its construction, the jealousies of rival trades were arrayed against ft, imaginary apprehensions 01 danger were excited, and short-siyrhted politicians sounding the alarm, that such an invention would precipitate our country from its lofty jNre-eminence among ^he manufactermg nations of the world. '•Most of thesis grounds of opposition have been now removed bv direct •ipejiment. Mr. Perkins' engine is actually at work, its operations have been witnessed and minute!v examined by engineers and philosopher* of ail kinds and the most on reasonable sceptics have been compelled to ac knowledge the justness of UspriiKMple*. as well as the energy of its opperatton

The active And inventive mind of Mr Perkins, however, did nut remain satisfied with this experiment. He hadiscovered a method, which we consid Sr equal in value to his new engine, jbv which he can convey the benefit ibis original principle to steam engines ,«t the old constructui.t and this has recently been succeeded, we are told^ b* A most extraordinary discovery, th* the same heat may be made to perfom. its part more than once, in the activ 'Operations of the engine. ••Great as the invention is, yet .are disposed to think thatKhe application of the principle to old steam engines is not less important. When ceoaMei the eoormotw capilftl which is jat present embodied in Gr^t Britain fin die substantial form of stesu| engines,

4and

the admirable elegance and skiff *with which these noble raachirfe* impel and regulate the vast population ot wheels and pinions over which they reign, we feel as it some vast innovation -were proposed upon oar established ky the introduction of Mr.

Perkins, engine. The very idea that these potentates of the mechanicle world ^ouki be displaced from their thrones? that thp* strong holds should be dismantled their palace demolished, and t|##hole affairs placed under a more .-flMiiical management, is somewhat •WflK to those who dread change, •omire institutions that both work wear well. Mr. Perkins, however, saved them from such a degradation He has allowed tkemto retain their honors and privileges, ond proposes only to invigorate them with fresh influence Swtjvwer. this new system, the old engines their boiler*, remain unaitred ^furnaces are alone removed. Mr.

Jerkins constructs a generator consist oog of three horizontal tubes of gunmetal, connected together, filled

m%y

iX.Uvl

Wjtb

water, & supplied with wafer from a forpampas in his own engine. This *en erstor is exposed to heat in an analogs manner, so that, by means of a loaded "1uch

*nd

?P I?

shat8

the red

cosstrained till forced

gefn«rator »nto the water, in

he boiler, of B©itoti&

VVatt.

Bv this

means, as much low pressure steam of #. tour pounds on the square inch, may be generated by one bmhel of coals? as could be produced in the old enzine bv f»me busheU. This most important re"sult was obtained by actual experiment. "oince these great improvements nave been effected, Mr. Perkins has made a discovery, that seems, in its practical importance, to surpass them mil. He now entirely dispenses with the use ol the condensor, and works the engine against the atmosphere miotics and by method's with which we are not acquainted, and which iudi-ed it would not he prudent for him to discloseat present,he is enabled toarrest. the

.»tba» performed its mechan

ical functions, and actually pump it back to the generator, to unite with a

w®terj

aqd renew its

nnfti-(

Usffu! this,l£ob%lderab!e portion' of must still he lost, but the thai any should he saved, and we venture to say, that the most sanguine speculator on the omnipotence oftthe steam engine never dared even to imagine the possibility of such an ivention. "We ere all aware, that in announcing this discovery. we are exposing ourselves to the criticisms of those whose! belief is naturally limited by their own experience,* but it is satisfactory to! know, that Captain BUsil Mall, (whose account of Mr. Perkins* discoveries® and inventions, delivered before the Royal Society If Kdinburg, gave such news front

engines, and his apparatus tor producing low presure steam^for working the ordinary engine. ThetS price, we believe, ot the new engine, is only hall that of Bolton & Watt's, with one third of the savings of fuel for a period of vears, which we hi* not heard stated."

From the (Cincinnati) Nat. Republican. Through tire National Gazette, we tre furnished some interestiug extracts from Dr. Brewster's Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, relative to the discoveries of our countryman Perkins, bich will be found in our preceding ultttnns. In this section of the c«unry, the inhabitants of which are so impendent on steam boats for the transportation of their produce to market, •very improvement that will tend toinrease the facilities and to decrease the xpenses of navigation, must be regardwith great interest. Our readers i-p already informed of Nfr. Perkin's important discovery of oew^rinciples philosophy, relative sppiicaton of heat and the ^Slhrstion of ••'earn, hs hl3 with great ingenuity ap•Ited in giving i^u^& to#ivi^i»e of construction sdmewhat^p £HK from tiiy heretofore ltt ase.J&jdpatbSi&nd •ig th% great ecotiuMbbHngs &ine,

He revolulioa wbEwSejihou IfL^i aowedly caries w'v f^efuge, re-

4engines

universal ..tisliction,) has b.en en- arable, ami ,f true we have rauso ,1(rusted will, Mr. Perkin«S' discovery

of Bolton fit'

Watts, are worlced at a pressure perhaps a little lower than our engines, but owing to the bad construction of their boilers, with a greater consumption of fuel to obtain the same power.The engines used in our western boats have a variation in the degree of their pressure from tour to sixteen pounds they consume about the same quantity of fuel as the high steam engines, iri which the range of pressure ii from 30 to 60 pounds. Bo*ts of more than 230 tons consume on an average 16 cords of wood per dayj and the fuel now consumed onboard of any one of them, in twenty-four hours, lyoald, quince for a voyage Irom Louisville to' New-Orleans and twice that quantity wou'd be sufficient for their return.-^ The advantages that will result from this important discovery, are so obvious, that the improvement will speedily come into general use, whenever models ot the machinery shall reach this country. If this should be done, the saving in fuel and fireman's wages for one boat, during five years, will b* nearly equal to the original cost of the boat—And the saving on twelve of our large boats, in the same articles, would arm-UMt in tour years to a sum ampt

Miihcient to defray the expenses of cutting a canal around the Falls at Louisville.

NEW CORPS. Several new and vala lie rifle corps foave lately been raised Baltimore, composed almost cntirely oi \ouug men, lully and very elegantly rouiooed. The folio wing are the names

TERRE-IIAUTE, OCTOBER CD, 1823.

m°s'to,.

and that he speaks confidently of the wnslituUonahs s. soundness of its principles, as well as the practicability of its application. "After the 10th of June, Mr. Per-

kins is ready to take orders for his new ]^or*

Euruf stl"

de:P 'r

of lhe

the Peckins Engine itself. priced, by order of the W& com- ^°T° W mons. snerifv

It has been ahown by actual experi- mons, specifying the tonnage dutv raent, that the application of the genera- bounty and produce for theTas'tthirtv

access of the

The commissioners appointed to locate the state road from* this place to

a/ne'

season prevented them from progressing further this fall.

Commissioners are now exploring lhe

ute for a Canal which is to connect the

Uup

happy to say we have beared no grum- °.n ^Irs*

bling, except with respect to the size of

In order to raise funds to furnish us with a winter stock, we wiil, for four veeks yet, receive two dollars in money, for the first years subscription, although we are now entitled to fifty cents more.

FOREIGN NEWS.

thought that this .grain wo.dd fall 20s

per

hbes ml wht%«o.NJR/HIR.f,JtothecontUnt 100,0^ florins

quainted bat tMltow a.«? There are forty private mad-houses sewlv discovered pren4 and about London and, of these gines now in ose^savesan i&nemwm two establishments at floxton and Bethmoney already vested im ala- nal, alone, contain upwards of 1300 naehinery and as the tmprov§,ftgit msy tients! be introduced with comp»afively An'account'of the Greenland, Davis'" :m_a"^!^h8C'

aoP

Vthe ®doCTI^ P^ »ill Straits, and southern whale firsheries

probably long precede the general use of Great Britain, has recently been •n(K1H?B3e }'ear-1822»

t\a

tor to the engines of Bolton & Watts, years, except where the document !?,

..ll ,« u.:. 1 .. documents bies. ihe amount of its transactions will produce in the boiler a pressure of 'were destroyedb7 fire. Th~e ~n"" 4lbs. to the square inch, with a saving number of shins was fo5 in iPtftTnA ,?*

iof eight-ninths in the fuel. From this 1820, which was rcduce'd in .lhe profits of the bank, aft^.r deduct fact we may make some estimate of the 115 saving that may be effected in our own in 1818 boats The

which was reduced in 182* to

The bounty paid was 45,806/.

1820,. 5G ships were employed in the P?P" southern firsherr but, in 18-22,only 41:

ti, and 1600 tons of train oil. I he

quantity of oil in 1834, from New-

foundland, was 9,000 tons, the duties on

pear to have sailed from Hull to tlie

South seas, one in 1804, 1814 and 1821. $ ranee-. The missionaries in franco are endeavoring to suppress the custom ot dancing on Sundays

The name of the French national guards is to be changeu to guards of the crown.

The Rothschilds are said to have realized aprofitof lour millions of franca in their late operation iu French Rentes.

Another French stock broker hns failed for or 10 millions of francs, and i|el.

Spain. Sir Robert Wilson has left bpa.n and arrived at Lisbon, from whence, it is said, he would speedily return to hngland! This being the case .Unews at least, that he also has aban^ doned the caus« of Spain! Yet Corimna held out on the Gth of VJITUHI It was reported that the governor had offered to capitulate.'

Preparations were made for a more B!OCKADE of C^diz—from which ace we have nothing else new

FE O«7 publishdl, saying that Quiroga, when at Corunna cau

PERSONS to be. taken'on board and carried TO sea WHEN

sel

Vi'*

Bayonne fHfcle

.getsc proclamation from Minn, tohu soldiers, is spoken of, in which he isre 'ported to say, that -he has beared of thl infamous treason of Baljsisleros, but that he will never surrender: /and that his would sooner set lire to all tfie towns in

Spain.' The French have captured.* valu» ble British ship attempting to enter CJ diz—which trdduced a

Italy

have surveyed it as £at' "s

Crawfordsvuie—The lateness of the

August to take to him:

we have the pleasure of recording a ^,e. P°Pe will lie in state smilar event in this state as, relates to a

communication between the Miami o!

our sheet which we have already reme ''no° the ilomau Catholic religion* I died—

From London papers of the 23d Avr /, „/iambUr^h

Gmt Britain and Irelmui. Much

distress is expected in England, amon* f^Vr

tl,e farmers, on account 5f thi aburT- he cond n" of the P^?"

dance of the wheat crop It was J^cond|tlon

Vlstro:iirsens?

liori^' in London. 7 ^,StDsaf. \bo\it $150,000 have been raised-by subscript ion at Ilkvan, ami :hif*ay forwarded to Europe, as a donation'to the cortes. The bUhop gave 500:: dollars, lhe pope dieil on the l&th his last words we in refusing a refreshing beverage offered

no other care on tliiseartli

P'ace

'ind to render unfo

aec°l..int

ol my lon^ life."

... A -f

route ...v head waters of Lake Michigan, with letter from Koine says—"Accord those of the Illinois river,— VV hen shall ^uineinorial custom, the body 61' ,i ,• fhfi vtnrtA vaitll tin i.~

I.1-days,irinine

chapel, lhe burial wilt

ta^e

the Lakes and the Wabash? It is time the sacred college will assemble we were

and doing." ',n conclave Arrangements {ire making for the lirst formal rites observed at the This number of the Register com- ^ec^on °1 a pope. Ibe foreign ca^. pletes the first quarter.—So far we are

("na's

^ie 9th day, and, on thi

wiil be admitted to the conclav|

secon(lday

r.'va^

after their at-

^ome- Cardinal Peca, Cam^r-

iL-

has taken the temporal government qf. the states of the church. Germa-yy'-fThe emperor of Austrii has summoned the'lesser powers to held a congress at Vienna, no dotihjt^ strengthen the arm of the despots. Bavaria and urtemburg have refused to send representatives.

Prussia. The liamburirh Corre^

sUtewe"1

nuarter lhe. last year, the minister slat- the

S0-

hst

ted

oi.tt will Straits, and southern whale firsheries a 1 ^gmauon oi me sin^ng.

Uorre»

J"'y 2-'th»coniiuns

the sab-

C"r'D'°f

he.Prussian

acco"'

finance*

th: operations of

the debt, on the first of Jan.

«l»e Dm civ, debt

last, as follows: I he Dutch debt 48,100,OOP florins annuities 3.364,000 roubles, in silver, and 34,'50.',753 flonr» in paper six per cent, perpetual rente 20,620 roubles, in gold, 9,0l5,41*2 i& siiv*er, and 240,945,711 in paper five per cent, perpetual rents, 61,362,360 roubles in silver. The s\tm appropna-. by the regulation of the

a„„.,ties

3,36+^09

j..... 40i, 7 to roubles.

T,:C

,'n, ""'K,

the bounty paid on which, was 7 1001 roubles. 1 ho law prohibiting and the produce 5,900 tons of spcr'niace' If™

IMU®J b!ils»

their

1 A

tbe.j-educ ion

^P1^1 oi the Commercial bank

comPlJfted

thirty millions ol rou-

theyear»was

18 ),230,8 8 roubles,

1 OI

DauK'

aurr

c"?'ss'°"

which are suspended. The shins ton ?Jty ossociated lor the purnage and produce of each port ire eiv-

en separately and only three ships an- Tn

.7^

amount,'d.

in .823. In The amount of

to 1

paper now

ijft!

I nM Pnni 1m (k Krt i* 1*

A"s!S""t ba"k

f.?9,'fitj

"signals has been

en'olced

Under the Berlin date, in the samo

paiTr:,l.

,statod

that

P°f

9evoni' !fankerS

^tLablishinS

hnnkm^liouse,

payable to be^1sign-

Sale forTaxes

THE lidlovvtii'^ tracts ol land, ly"1^ in the county of Vigo and Slate ot lit' diana, will be exposed lo sale at the cmu house d«»or in Ttriehaute on the 10th day. of November .next, to p.l? tlia amount of tu't and cost,du« on

»npf(i*iv {'or the veaf*

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