American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-05-27


ment Of Register OF Wills for the counties of Frede
rick and Caroline, will form part Of the business
to be acted upon by the Council.
Fayetteville, May 10.
Mr.. Mclean, the Postmaster General, has Just
added another to his claims public gralitudes for
zeal and ability in the discharge of the duties of
his Department. We are informed that he has
given notice to the mail contractors 10 this place,
that he will shortly make it their duty, on occa
sions of great importance to the commercial com.
munity, to send express mails on their lines, at the
rate OF ! miles an hour and thus, by affording toll
all the news of important changes in the markets,
to put stop to the system Of speculation which
has lately been extensively practised by individ
uals of one commercial town, those Of another,
who were not possessed of the same means Of in
formation. Observer.
The above is the first public notice we have seen
of an experiment which we knew to be in agitation
lat the General Post Office, the whole credit Of the
intention of which, whether 1t succeeds or not, is
justly due to the Postmaster General. Wishing
for it all possible SUCCESS and giving to its author
the credit Justly due to his motive, we have some
doubt whether the plan for expresses can ever be es
tabshed as part of the Post Office system. We
Ihave,made greater innovations than this, however.
on established systems, and who knows but this may
|be added to the number which are, in our Govern
ment, already in successful experiment --vNat Int
steam engine has been invented by Mr.. Parker, of
Illinois, for the purpose of propeng carriages for which
he has sent to Washington to obtain patent.
MIR Parker gives it his opinion, that carriage OF 20
tons burden will not require than 20 or Is bushels OF
good coal per day and that 800 gallons of will pro-
ducc 80 revolutions each minute eight feet Wheel at
which the carriage will travel good urnpkes, up
wards of 200 miles day. One and boy will be sui
tn lei uDona oft
made light for pleasure carriages well as for burden
The carriage will perform its duty without the aid Of the
rail oa any b gTOa own
few months is going to New York to set his machine IN
motion
A new invention in the construction of steam
boats experimental on in New York, is announced.
The principle on which it acts is simple in its nature,
but likely to produce great advantage, The plan
is, that the boat shall roll orer the water on buoyan
cylindrical wheels, instead of being propelled
through it, The chief benefits Of the system are,
the facility in moving over waters obstructed by
shoals and bars the additional velocity to De gained
by the rif1ing resistance of the WATER and the COM
paratve economy in the construction OF the vessel.
! -<s ocoorco s.--
i The President has appointed Lewis Shoemaker,
lof Pennsylvania, to be Consular Commercial Agent
of the United States at Matanzas, in place oil
l Francis .fdGnlS deceased.
i A colored woman, named Cumber Green, in the
i 10Th year OF her age, In good health and sound
intellect was baptized in the Roman Catholic
Church in York, Penn. on Sunday, the 18th inst.
! ValuabIe cargo.-The ship Shenandoah, which
cleared at Charleston on the I'd instant, for Liver
pool, has cargo of 1896 bales Upland and lac
of Sea Island Cotton, weighing 408,OS2 lbs. vau
ed at Sl23,s16 IA cts.
:. Three brothers, OF the name of Thayer. have
1been condemned to death, at Buffalo, N. \. fo
5 the murder Of man called John Love and iron
1.-THE circumstances of the case, as they came out OF
s 1.-The trial, it is not at all probable that they will b.
u pardoned. A like condemnation of three brothers
: never, perhaps, before took place in the United
d States.
Il Vaccination-Dr. Harvey Knapp vaccinated fiv
hundred and twenty lone children in the district
Southwark, Philadelphia, in the last twelve moths
u for the Commissioners OF said district.
IS AT Montgomery, Alabama, merchandise has bee
N received in eighteen days from New York.
u On Holy Thursday, the king of Spain pertorme
e 1.-The ceremony of washing the feet OF twelve poo
men, representing the twelve apostles His ma
iesty afterwards caused sumptuous repast to be sc
before them at which the queen, her faher and sis
:, tier, were present
Z. Henry Fusel distinguished artist and accom-
ID plished Scholar died in London the 18th Of Apri
y at the age of 81 years.
D The British Premier has proposed grant
~ sOOOI to MIR. MADAM, for his improvement respec
!. ing roads.
:, ~ sOOOOl has been granted by parliament to PR
!, mote emigration to Canada, from lreland.-ln til
~ debate on the resolution, Mr. Hume said, ne WI
- crediby informed, that out of every 20 emigran
,s to Canada, passed over to the U. States.
IN RISE OF PROPERTY.-We understand tn