The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-09-28
Improved Steam Engine.

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improued Steam Engine.
A new Steam Engine has been invented
by John Babcock, of Portsmouth, R. /. which,
from the accounts we have oft, promises to
be the greatest improvement in the application
of steam power which bias been made since
the invention of Watts engine. A boat is
now running between Newport and Provi-
dence, which is propelled by one OF those en-
gines, in which the whole space occupied by
the machinery is about feet by 8. The wa
ter for generating the steam is injected into
the boiler or generator, on each stroke of the
ger to be apprehended from bursting. The
boat performs her trips, distance of 80 miles,
in about four hours, and consumes but two
feet Of wood each trip The quantity of wa
ter used is about half pint at an injection,
and about fifty gallons for the whole voyage
Foreign NEws.-Our accounts from Eu.
rope are but one day later than last week, al-
fording but scanty gleanings for our mail col
umns. The report of the defeat of Ibrahim
Pacha in Greece is confirmed. 1t is said that
he is wounded, but not captured. The reac-
ton in the cotton market at Liverpool has
produced tremendous effect, several large
houses in the American trade having failed
one of them for above million Of dollars. It
is feared that the effect will be seriously felt
in New-York. The fall Of cotton has been
more than one third from its highest price.
1t has been reported that Gov. Troup has
demanded Of the President the arrest and trial
of Gen. Gaines, according to the articles of
war; the fifth article of which provides that
''any officer, who shall use contsmptuous or
disrespectful words against the Chief Magis-
trate of the State in which he may be quarter
ed, shall be cashiered or otherwise punished,
as Court-Martial may direct" The report,
however, has not been officially confirmed.
The President of the United States with his
atQuincy, on the Goth inst. The Philadelphia
q. S. GGsette of the 23d, says : President
Adams and his family are at present at the
Mansion house. Should the health Of Mrs.
Adams permit, they will leave this City at IL
o'clock" This is the last account we have
from them.
During his stay in Baltimore, which
was only for single night, he lodged at
Barnums' Hotel. On the subject of his
avoiding all public ceremony, we find
the following paragraph in the Ameri-
Can
s He wishes to travel as private citizen,
and as a private citizen he travels. No roar
ing cannon--no military pomp mark his route
from city to city--he is looked upon as plain
citizen, and the President Of the United States
is forgotten. Would not a foreigner, falling
into his company, and observing the noiseless
tenor Of his way, think him but lightly regard
ed by his countrymen. The commauder.in-
chief of the army and the navy of the United
States, the :s:aa of free millions, to travel thus
with far less parade than many of our private
citizens. And yet this very mode of travel
ling, this very obscurity, results from the dis
ciplined respect paid by Americans to their
First Magistrate.-An Englishman, in Phila.
delphia, during the Presidency of WASHINGTON.
was expressing a wish to an American 10 be-
hold him. While this conversation passed
'there he goes replied the American. pont
ing TO tall, erect, diguiGed parsonage. PASS
ing on the other side of the street. that Cen
eral Washington = exclaimed the Englishman.
- where is bis guard?'--' Here y replied the
american, striking his bosom with emphasis.
"The President goes on journey to visit his
venerable father, who we believe is covered
with the 'hoar of lightweight years. winters.
Charles Carroll, Of CarralIton, yesterday at
tanned his eighty-ninLh year-and Thomas
Jefferson, we believe, has numbered eighty.
five or eigbty-six. These tme-honored relics
of an illustrious day-standing on the isthmus
that divides the stream Of time from the ocean
of eternity-these living links that bind, as It
were, the present generation to ages past, can
scarcely be approached without sensation of
awe mingled with that Of gratitude--the few
remaining stars that twinkle in our galaxy are
soon to be removed to regions more glorious.''
The author of the following communication
will excuse US for not publishing the postscript
to his letter. We have no objection to play
full irony, because it is always taken with all
due quali6cations-but it should never over
step its proper limits, by making illusions
which perhaps, have no foundation, and if
they have, SAVIOUR more Of ll-nature, than in
nocent rsilery.
SCIENTIFIC.
6. Paruuns in naulto.'
Friend P.--On the Goth inst. after having
put upon my table the works of Button. Rear.