JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, September 5, 1S50.
FOIt CANAL COMMISSIONER,
JOSHUA DUN GAT,
' . OF BUCKS COUNTY.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
HENRY W. SNYDER,
OF UNION COUNTY.
1 FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
JOSEPH G. HENDERSON,
OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
Judge Robeson of Belvidere, whose name has
been mentioned in connection with the nomina
tion for Governor of New Jersey, in a letter to
the Editor of the Intelligencer, declines being
considered a candidate before the convention,
soon to assemble.
Vessel's Gap Itailtoad
The managers are pushing this work forward
with remarkable energy. Several miles of the
track are ready for the iron, and the tunnel, above
half a mile long through the mountain near the
Tunkhannock creek, is progressing as rapidly as
possible.
Arrival of Jenny Lintl.
Jenny Lind the Sweedish Nightingale, arrived
at New York on Sunday afternoon, in the Atlan
tic. Thousands of persons assembled on the wharf
to see her, and escorted her to her apartments at
the Irving House.
r4fre "Harmonious Democracy."
Under the above head, the editor of the Phila
delphia Daily Ncios makes "a hit, a very palpable
hit" at the amicable slate of feeling now existing
in the Locofoco ranks. Hear him:
"The strife among the Ovenshines, Kickapoos
and Winnebagoes, is becoming interesting. Mr.
Buchannan and General Cameron are at daggers'
points. "" The Pennsylvanian is lecturing the "de
mocracy" of the interior for preferring Gen. Cass
to Buchannan, and the "democracy" of the interi
or insinuating somewhat tartly in reply, that the
Pennsylvanian might perhaps make more money
by minding its own business. The " Bedford ar
rangement" is completely upset ; Col. Bigler o
pening in the field for Governor ; Judge Black
most ungraciously overslaughed, and Gen. Came
ron apparently in high feather at the prospect of a re
election to the U. Sf Senate. Such is the present
aspect of things. The Pennsylvanian denounces
Gen. Cameron, in editorial letters from Washing
ton, but.Gen. Cameron works on, now in North
umberland, now in Union, now in Cumberland,
now in Mifflin, securing erery where the nomina
tion of his own friends for the Legislature, and the
pasage of resolutions in favor of Cass and Big
ler. Some of the country presses attack him it is
true some of those even who taunt the Penn
sylvanian with inconsistency. Others again de
fend him ; and still others the old Porter faction
with nothing to lose, and no prospect of gain,
look on and laugh at the fun. So the world wags."
Foreign News A Week sparer.
The Asia arrived at Halifax on the 27th ult.,
with news from Liverpool to the 17th inst. Cot
ion has fallen a halfpenny; and breadstuffs has de
clined slightly.
Parliament has been prorogued by the Queen.
The French National Assembly has adjourned,
and ihe attention of the French nation is now prin
cipally employed by the progress of the President
through ihe Piovinces. With some few exceptions,
he appeais to have been favorably received by the
people.
Some farther skirmishes have taken place be
tween the Danes and Holstieners, in which the lat
ter appeal to have come off victorious. There are
rumors of an approaching settlement of the quar
rel, under the auspicies of Russia, England, and
France. Copenhagen letters report the King of
Denmark's left handed marriage with a dressma
ker. The Potatoe disease is spreading in numerous
districts in England and Ireland, and it is general
ly admitted that it will take a larger per centage
off the crop. The other crops generally promise
well. Cuuing is now general, and the weather is
very fine for harvest operations.
Arrival of the Steamship Atlantic.
By the arrival of the Atlantic, vie have four
days later news from Europe. The new po.
liiically, is of no moment. Corn is pretty
much as at last advices. Cotton has declined
and fears are entertained of a further decline.
The news fiom the East by the over land ex
press, is unimportant. The resignation of Sir
Charles Napier, is confirmed.
A man and woman of genteel appearance and
manners stopped at a hotel in Troy, N. Y. a few
days ago, and next morning they were found in
their room dead, with their throats cut. The man
was Wm. A. Caldwell, of Whitehall. He was of
a respectable family, but had lapsed into bad hab
its, been convicted of a crime, sent to state pris
on, pardoned out, gone to, sea, and recently re
turned to New York, where he made the acquain
tance of Mrs. Louisa Van Winkle, wife of the tav
ern keeper with whom he lodged. She was a
woman of remarkable beauty, of reputable con
nections, but she consented to elope with him.
They were pursued, and goaded by remorse of
conscience they destroyed themselves.
High Water.
The heavy rain on Sunday and Monday caused
the Lehigh to rise to a -fearful height. At the
mouth of the river it was about twenty inches
higher than at the freshet in July last. On Mon
day afternoon between two and four o'clock the
water rose at this place ahout five feet, filled ma
ny cellars in the lower part of the town, and des
troying considerable property by its sudden and
rapid movement. At the " Point" the Borough
and State works have suffered some Iosb, by the
destruction of the wall and in washing away of
the street.
Serious apprehensions are entertained of de
struction of property along the upper waters of the
Lehighr Perhaps some of the Companies' dams
gave way, causing the unusal rise at this place of
five feet in less than two hours.
Mr. Browne, of the telegraph office, has receiv
ed a despatch, stating that the flood on the Schuyl
kill was veiy high, having carried away ihe two
substantial bridges at Reading, and destroying a
large amount of proper.tyin4js course.
Huston Whig,.
Tlie ParKer Water Wheel.
Impor tant Decision Injunction Refused.
The application to grant an injunction against
the use of these wheels by those now using them,
on the ground that it was an infringement of the pat
ent, has been refused by the Circuit Court of the
United States, after a patient investigation.
Justice Grier gave his opinion on tTie 26 th ult.,
The principal grounds upon which he bases the
refusal, is, that the Proprietors of the Patent claim,
more than they are entitled to, and that it is still
doubtful whether the Wheels now used are a vio
lation of the Patent if they are, they are only
partly so. That their use was acquiesced in for j
a long time, and ihe notice of infringement, if
any, had been delayed for a long time, and given
only a short time before the Patent expired.
"To suddenly stop one hundred mills and man
ufactories, by injunctions issued at this timer
would cause great and itre parable injury, not only
to the defendants, but to the public at large, and
be of no corre3poning benefit to the plaintiff,
whose interest it is lhat they should use his in
vention if they pay him for it. The plaintiff can
be compensated for damages if ihe defendants
shall be found to have infringed his patent, arid
they are amply able to pay both damages and
costs. In ihe six or eight weeks which this pat
ent has lo run, it cannot be expected that the com
plainant would sell any new licenses. And if the
defendants continue to use and pay him for his
invention, so much the better for him. There
may be, and often are, cases where the patent is 1
for a machine to make some articles of manufac
ture, or merchandise, in a cheaper method, lhan
was before known, and where the source of profit
to the patentee arises from hi3 monopoly of the ar
ticles, and having no competitors in the market.
In such a case, the damage to the patentee by a
piracy of his invention might be very great, and
the court would issue an injunction on a plain case
in the last month or week of the patent's life, or
even after the time limited for its expiration, to
restrain the sale of machines or aiticles piratical
ly manufactured in violation of the patent, while it
was in force. But in this case, the injunction can
not benefit the plaintiff, except by its abuse. His
standing by for so many years, without complaint
or demand of compensation, is conclusive evidence
that a continuan2eOf a use of his invention, for
a few weeks or even months longer, if paid for in
the end, will not be an injury of such an irrepara
ble nature as to require this sharp and hasty rem
edy." There are a great many of these Wheels in use in
this county, and the decision is therefore an im
portant one to our citizens.
Abolition Convention in Cazcnovia.
A convenlion of Abolitionists met at Cazenovia,
in the State of New York, on the 22nd ult.
Frederick Douglass, a colored man, was made t
President of the Convention, and blacks and
whites, males and females, promiscuously mingled
together, to the disgust of all right minded and or
der loving people. Thirty fugitive slaves were a
mong them. The following brief account of the
doings of the Contention is given in a letter writ-
ten on the 23d :
A great many violent speeches have been made. ,
Chaplin, who is now in prison in Maryland, for
abducting slaves, was a prominent subject of sym
pathy and admiration. A subscription is to be
raised to enable him to conduct his defence.
Last evening the Trustees of the Free Church
refused to allow the convention to occupy their
building, and they proceeded lo a grove.
The convention then adopted an address to the
Liberty party, and also an address to the Aboli
tionists of the North, and also an address which
had previously been adopted by the Fugitive slaves
present, to their brethern in the South.
The following are some of the resolutions adopt
ed by the Convention :
1st Resolved. That Slavery is the curse of all
curses, the robbery of all ioberiea and the crime I
of all crimes.
9H 7?.,W. That innsmunh as it is the riffht ,
of every man to serve his God with all his power,
we believe an active effort to prevent the blave
traffic is the best.service we can render.
3d. Resolved, That our hearts are in the cell of
Wm. L. Chaplin, and that while his enemies de
ride his condition, and his false friends are a-
shamed of his chains, he will ever, whether he
dies in his cell or on the scaffold, be cherished by
us as a statesman and a scholar, a Philanthropist
and a christain.
There were seventeen resolutions presented, of
which the above are specimens. The seventeenth
proclaimed as the motto of the party " Chaplin,
Freedom and Civil War" ! ! !
In the address of the fugitive slaves to their col
ored brethern, the following advice is graciously
tendered to them :
" We are poor. We can do little more for your
deliverance than pray to God for it. We will fur
nish 5ou with pocket compasses and in the dark
nights you can run away. We cannot furnish you
with weaponssome of us are not inclined to car
ry arms but if you can gGt them take them, and
before you go back into bondage, use them, if
you are'ohliged to take life. Th slaveholder
would not hesitate to kill you rather than not take
you back into bondage. Numerous as the escapee
from slavery are, they would be still more so were
it not for the masters protection of the rights of
property. You even hesitate to take the slowest
of your master's horses, but we say, take the fast- .
est. rack up provisions and clothes, and either
get the key or force the lock and get his money
and start."
This infamous address was endorsed by the
Convention, and is a specimen of the abominable
spirit inculcated by the Abolitionists. Can fanat
icism and wickedness go further 1
What's in a Name? We sometimes come across
very curious hymenial combinations. For exam
ple : Married, in Castroville, Mr. Lucius Henn
to Miss Malvina Peck. Thus we have a pair of
hens matrimonially cooped, while the poor he fowl
becomes hen pecked.
Rattier RfysterioMi.
A bay horse was found dead on the Broad
Mountain, about onemile west of the Lorberry
Creek Mines, and about a mile and a half south
west ofKimmei'a Tavern, on the21st ult. When
found he had apparently been dead about a
week. The horse is unknown in that neigh
borhood, was shod for turnpike travelling, and
from the fact that his head was cloven with
some sharp instrument, which unquestionably
was the cause of his death, it is supposed that
he belonged to some drover passing that way,
who has been foully dealt with. The horse
was found in the woods, about a mile from any
public road, and apparently valuable, so that no
cause can be assigned for his destruction, un
less conoealnenl was the object. Miners1
Journal.
A
Execution of Dt. John W. Webster.
Boston, August 30. This morning Professor
John White" Webster suffered the extreme penalty
of the law, for the murder of Dr. George Parkman
in the. Boston Medical College, on the 23d of No
vember, 1849.
The execution look place in the yard of the Le
veret Street Jail, ip presence of about three hun
dred persons, who were invited to attend by Sheriff
Eveleth.
Long before the time fixed for the execuiion ihe.
stieets in the vicinity exhibited an extraordinary
excitement, and thousands congregated on the roofs
and in the windows of all the buildings in the vici
nity, in the hope of getting a view of the prisoner,
either as he stood upou the scaffold, or as he passed
through the yard to it. Premiums were freely of
fered and given for choice places where the scaf
fold might be viewed.
Strangers poured into the city by thousands, and
vied with the citizens in exertions to get a good
view of the last sad scene. A large awning was
erected over the scaffold, which, to a considerable
extent obstructed the view. It was announced that
the execution would take place at nine o'clock
ihough the persons admitted were notified to be
present at eight o'clock.
Among those admitted to the jail yard were
several reporters for the press of ibis and other
cities.
The prisoner was attended in his ceil, before the
execution, by Rev. Dr. Putnam and a few others,
and appropriate and deeply affecting religious ser
vices were held.
Considerable time wa3 consumed by these and
other causes of detention. The prisoner was at
length conducted from the jail through the yard to
the scaffold, walking firmly and conducting him
self with the composure that he has all along ex
hibited. He ascended the scaffold, the rope was adjusted
by Sheriff Eveleth, and at precisely twenty min
utes beforo ten o'clock, the drop fell, and he was
swang into eternity.
He died without a struggle, and after being sus
pended for some time, the body was taken down
and carried into the prison again.
Professor Webster's bearing up to the time of
the execution was as firm as ever. He expressed
the deepest penitence for his crime, and his
sense of the full justice of his sentence and execu
tion. No new confession was made as was reported
would be the case, and no new statements have
come to light as yet, since the execution. The re
port that he left any other statement, to-be opened
after his death, is not believed.
In complience with one of the last requests of
the unhappy man, his body will be laid out in the
prison, and remain there until lo-night, when it
will be removed to his late residence in Cambridge,
from whence it will probably be interred privately
at Mount Auburn.
Mrs. Webster and her daughters are as yet un
acquainted with the fact of his execution. Their
last visit to the prison was yesterday, the usual
day for their visits and as they always parted as if
lney were never l0 meet again, nothing unusual
occurred to indicate to them that the day of exe-
cution was so near. The sad intelligence will be
communicated to them as quietly as possible, to
day, to prepare them, in a measure, for the recep
tion of the corpse to-night.
2. P. M. The execution took place at a quarter
before ten o'clock.
Yesterday, at two o'clock, Mrs. Webster and
her daughters paid their last visit to the unhappy
man. They remained until nearly seven in the
evening. A great crowd of persons were in front !
of the prison, and there was great difficulty in get
tj a passa(re for lhe famny l0 the carriage at
. . ,
ine,t aepMiuie.
Mr. Sobier and Rev. Dr. Putnam were with him
in the morning, and during a part of the time with
the family. Neither Mrs. Webster nor her daugh
ter, exhibited any extraordinary emotion on leav
ing, being still in ignorance of the lime of execu
tion. No one apprehended that Webster would com
mit suicide, but officer Leighton, the jail clerk, and
constable Jones were selected to watch the prison
er during the night, lhe precaution of keeping a
watch being thought advisable.
Jones was the officer who attended the prisoner
throughout the protracted scene, and he, as well
as Leighton, were very kind and attentive to the
unfortunate prisoner. Last night Dr. Putnam re
mained more than two hours with Dr. Webster,
engaged in devotional excercises.
When Putnam left, Webster continued his de
votions at intervals, and conversed with consider
able freedom with the officers, and being fully con
scious of his doom, repeatedly said he had a great
dread and horror at the thought of being hung, but
was now indifferent to it.
He said he had no fear ; was perfectly and en
lirely prepared to me0i his fate. His appearance
through the night confirmed hwatatement of being
reconciled and resigned. His heanu remained
good and his spirits calm.
He slept from 12 o'clock until half past 4.
When he awoke he was as calm as usual, and ate
a tolerably hearty breakfast. He had apparently
not lost flesh during his imprisonment, but proba
bly gained in that respect.
The erection of the gallows was commenced
after daylight and completed before 8 o'clock.
Upon the requisition of High Sheriff Eveleth, a
force of one hundred and twenty-five men, con
sisting of 100 police and watchmen, and 25 con
stables were detailed for guard, of whom 25 con
stables and 25 policemen were stationed within the
yard, and 75 without.
The scaffold was in the centre of the yard and
more open to the outside view than it would have
been at any other spot.
, It gave perhaps, double the chance for seeing,
which was given at the execution of Washington
Goode.
The scaffold was changed from the northwest
corner to the centre of the yard, and did not dimin
ish the view from the rear of the buildings on Lo
well stieet, and added much to the view .from Lev
erett street..
The officers present at the exectuior were High
Sheriff J. Eveleth ; Deputy Sheriff Watsqu Free-
man; Daniel J. Coburn, Jabez Pratt, Erastus
Rugg, Benj., F. Baily and Joseph Ceburn.
From Middle sex countyHigh Sheriff, Samuel
Candler ; Deputy Sheriff, Charles Sumner and
Adolphus Smith.
The witnesses invited by the High Sheriff and
by the State authority, were admitted, numbering
125, at ten minutes before 9.
The High Sheriff called the names of the list of
witnesses to the execution. He slated that they
had assembled by his invitation, as lawful witness
es of the execution of John White Webster. He
requested them to keep order during- the solemn
ceremonies.
A company then formed in column of two and
two, and visited the prisoner'scell, where the Rev.
Dr. Putnam offered up prayer; the hall leading to
the cell was, full, and stillness and solemnity pre
vailed. The witnesses then returned to the yard. At
twenty minutes before ten High Sheriff Eveleth,
attended by deputies Coburn, Freeman, Rug and
others among whom was Dr. Putnam were at
the scaffold.
While the sheriff was reading the death war
rant Webster was conversing with Mr. Pulnam
apparently with usual earnestness ; at the conclu
sion, his legs were then pinioned and the rope
placed about his neck which caused his face to
blush.
There were evident signs of suppressed power
ful feeling. The black cap was placed on his
head, the Sheriff proclaimed with a loud voice
that he was about to do execution on the body of
John W. Webster, for the murder of Dr. G. Park?
man.
This commencement of the approach of death
caused a movement of the body of the prisoner,
whose face was hid from view. The spring was
touched, and, with a fail of nearly 8 feet, the mur
derer of Dr. Parkman was launched into Eternity.
He died apparently without scarcely a struggle
The body, after remaining suspended for half an
hour, was taken down and examined ; life was
found to be extinct, and it was placed in a jail cof
fin, for transmission to Cambridge.
Prof. Webster died firmly and penitently, and
with hardly a struggle.
From the Morning Herald.
America England' Best Customer.
The value of the produce and manufactures of
Great Britian and Ireland, for the year 1848 was
a little above jC-247,000,000, and of that amount
nearly $194,000,000 worth was consumed at home,
and 1 3,000,000 worth in our colonies, making
together 208,000.000, or thereabouts ; while the
whole amount exported to all the foreign countries
of the world was not much more than 39,000,000;
that is to say, in round numbers, eighty per cent
of our whole manufactures were bought in the
home market, five per cent in the colonial, and fif
teen in the foreign the whole of the foreign na
tions of the world thus purchasing less than one
sixth of the productions of Great Britian. A cal
culation of lhe average consumption per head at
home, in the colonies, and in foreign countries, af
fords some curious results. Taking the popula
tion of lhe United Kingdom at 31,000,000, and the
whole consumption at jl94,213 151, we get an
average consumption of j6,5s,4d per head. Cal
culating the population of nil foreign countries to
which we export our commodities at 607,681,000
and their consumption at 39, 430,481, we get an
annual consumption per head of ls.3, or less lhan
lhe 26th part of the British consumpiion per head.
If we take the population of the British colonial
possessions at 218,890,200, and their consumption,
of $12,819,345, and, add thenTto the home popu
lation and consumption, we arrive at an aggregate
of 148,000,000 souls, and a British consumption
of 297,523,125, or an average of 7s lid. per
head. If, in the calculation of the foreign average,
we deduct the population of China, which amounts
to the formidable sum of 250,000,000, we shall
raise lhe average of foreign consumption from Is
3 l-2d lo 2s 1 3-8d. If, on the other hand, we ex-
elude from our colonial table the East Indies with
their 114,000,000, and exports amounting to.5,
077,217 as a set-off against China, we leave for
the United Kingdom and the colonies a population
of 33,814,200, consuming on an average 5 16s.
per head of all the productions of Great Britian,
in other words, more than 52 times the average of
the foreigners at the higher calculation. Assum- j
ing lhe population of the United States to be 19,
500,000, and the amount of their consumption of
British productions 9,564,002 an amount con
siderably exceeding the average of 12 years we
get an average consumption per head of 9s. 9d. or
more than four times lhe highest general average
of foreign consumption, and considerably greater
than the average of any other foreign country. If
we take the American consumption at a little more
than 7,000,000 a year, which was the average of
the 12 year3 concludiug with 1848, we shall still
have an average consumption per head higher than
that of any other foreign country.
The Americans are, therefore, our best foreign
customers, individually, if we may so speak ; but
lhy are also by far our best customers regarding
them as a nation. While they took nine millions
and a half worth of our 'productions in 1848, all
Noithcrn and Western Eope, from Russia to
France, took but twelve millons -, tiie South of
of Europe, with the whole of the Mediterranean,
from Portugal to Morocco, but eight millions and
a half; and South America, with Mexico, con
siderably under six millions. The average a
mount of exports from tho United Kingdom to
France during the five years ending with 1818,
was 2,348,453; to Germany for the same period,
6,601,393 ; and to Italy 1,733,552. It is clear,
therefore, that no nation takes so much of our
commodities as the United States, even calcula
ting their consumption on the average of 12 years.
Taking the amount of their consumption of 1841,
viz : nine millions and a half, we still find the
States consuming less than a quarter of our ex
ports, while we consumed more lhan two-thirds of
the vhole of theirs in the same year, amounting
in value tb more than 37,000,000 sterling.
New Platform. A candidate for offiice in
Michigan, thus announces his platform : "I am,
sir, in favor of the next war opposed to the chol
era in favor of high salaries opposed to uncur
rcnt funds and poor brandy."
T lie Siamese Twins.
Dr. Warren, of Boston, lately communicated the
following among other interesting particulars in
regard to the Siamese twins :
The connecting substance is very strong, and
has no very great sensibility ; it can be severely
handled without causing pain. No pulsating ves
sels can be felt in it. The slightest motion of one
is immediately followed by the other in the same
direction, so that the same wish seems to influence
both ; this is quite voluntary, or a habit formed by
necessity. They always face in one direction,
standing nearly side by side, and cannot without
inconvenience face in opposite directions. One is
rather more intellectual, being rather irritable, the
other being extremely amiable.
The connection between these twins might af
ford some very interesting observations in physi
ology, therapautics, and pathology. There is
doubtless a connection by minute blood vessels,
absorbants, and nervous filaments, which might
transmit the action of medicine and the causes of
lhe disease. As far as known, any indisposition
of one extends to lhe other; they aTe inclined to sleep
and eat at the same time and in the same quanti
ty, and perform in the same manner oiher similar
acts. It is supposed that when they are asleep,
touching one awakens both, but when awake, an
impulse given to one does not affect the other.
The slightest movement of one is so soon perceiv
ed by the other, lhat a careless observer might
jhink they acted simultaneously. No part seems
to have a perception common to both, except the
middle of the connecting substance, and its neigh
borhood ; for when an impression is made at this
part, it is felt by both, while beyond this space it
.is felt only by the one of the side to which it is ap
plied. From the limited vascular nervous connection
that can be discovered, Dr. Warren supposes that
the influence of medicine, transmitted from one to
the other, would be inconsiderable ; and the same
would apply to most diseases for instance, a
slight fever would not probably extend from one
to the other, while diseases communicated through
the absorbants or capillaries, (small pox) would
be readily transmitted. The beatings of both
hearts coincide exactly as also the pulses under
ordinary circurffstances; if one exerts himself with
out the olher, his pulse alone will be quickened,
while the latter is unchanged. They breathe al
so exactly together.
This harmony in corporial functions would lead,
us to ask if there be a similar harmony in the in
tellectual functions ; if they are identically the
same persons. There is no reason to suppose that
their intellectual operations are any more the same
than they would be in any two persons, confined
together, educated under similar circumstances,
and with similar habits and tastes.
Then would corre the question whether they
could be separated with safely. Perhaps such an
operation would not be necessarily fatal, but the
peritoneum may be continuous from one to- the oth
er, and the opening of this serious cavity might be
attended with dangerous symptoms. Should one
die, before the other, it should be immediately per
formed, but no surgeon would be justified in at
tempting such an operation to free them from a
mere inconvenience; which inconvenience, if we
may believe the reports of their domestic affairs
and flourishing condition in worldly goods, is after
all of no great consequence.
Singular Elopement.
The Steubenville (Ohio) News mentions that an
old man, accompanied by his step daughter of 18,
and his step son, aged nine years, came to lhat
city on Thursday, having walked 40 miles that
day, in pursuit of the slep daughter's husband and
the step father's icife, who had eloped together.
The eloping parties were not found.
Perpetual motion.
A machine was exhibited before the Ameri
can Scientific Convention, in session at New
Haven, last week, to produce a uniform con
tinuous motion. It was invented by Messrs.
Bond, of Cambridge, and is called the Spring
Governor. It is thus described in lhe Con
ventional proceedings :
It consists of a train of wheels communi
cating with a fly-wheel intermediate between
which and the motive power is a dead beat
escapement, connected with a half second
pendulum. The connection between the es
capement wheel and the rest of the machinery
is through a spring. The elasticity of the
spring allows the mo'ion of the circumference
of the escapement wheel to be arrested at cvo
ry beat of the pendujum, while the rest of the
train continues moving. By this means all
changes in tho mouve power are effectually
controlled, and a rotation perfectly continuous
and uniform secured in the filywheel o that
tha moving force may be increased without af
fecting its velocity. -
The principal may be applied to various
forms and kinds of machinery. The disign,
in the present instance, was to secure an inva
riable motion to the recording surfaces employ
ed in the electro telegraphic operations of the
coast survey.
A clock of this description is to be con
st runted for the Great Equatorial of the Cam
bridge Obscrvatoty.
Educational Couveliou.
This body assembled in Philadelbhia, on
Wednesday last. Representatives were pres
ent from New York, Penna., Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire,
Maine, New Jersey, Delaware. Maryland,
Louisiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
the District of Columbia. The meeting was
permanently organized" by the appointment of
the following officers :
For President Rev. Dr. Noit, N. Y.
Vice Presidents Prof Henry of Washing
ton ; Bishop Potter of Pa. ; G. T Thayer of
Mass., Prof. Grisuom of N. J.
Secretaries P. Pemberton Morris Pa., J.
Kingsbury, R. I.
.We have not yet received a full account of
the proceedings, but may have occasion to al
lude to them again. Several members were
called upon to give the state of Education in
their respective States. The testimony from
Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and
other Stales, whera the Free School system
had been tried, was greatly in its favor, and
promises much towards its universal introduc
tion throughout the country before many year3,