The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-23

measures are adopted as VIII efiect0al. ly check the recurrence of these dreal fill accidents.''-If something etlect s, .- ual be not done, there is an end to steam @ boat travelling. The dangers Of tbs stage-coach are not in the ratio of i se
 I06, if late experience affords any ias criterion Of their comparative safety.
 BALTIMORE, Moy 24.
 This day is a proud and memorablA day in the annalso of Baltimore. O1tSs day our citizens enter into the elias
 ment of the first fruits of their toil' eo
 terprise and perseverance,, in the eop. struction of their great work. The ep
 tire line of the first division of the Ral
 timore and Ohio Rail Road, betwec0 < this city and Ellicott's mills, having been finished ard put into state for use. tbe
 necessary arrangements have been made <; 10 commence operations and to unden
 take the generaltransportation of goch
 and passengers on that part of the route
 which will be continued daily hereafep
 withoutinterruption. We congratulal
 our feilow-citizens upon this interestino
 occasion, So gratifying to the just pride
 ef Baltfmoreans, in the successful ae Ecomplishment of the most difficult an3
 expensive portion of the greatest enter.
 prise yet undertaken in this ceuntfy E ard upon the arrival of an era from E which we may safely date the com.
 mencement of an increased andincreas
 ing prosperity to the city and the state
 On Saturday the road was visited by E
 the Mayor and the members of the two 5
 Branches of the City Council; the Pre-.
 sident, Directors, Counsel, EngineeE
 and other officers of the Baltimore and E
 Ohio Rail Road Company, the Editon
 of the different papers of the city, and a
 large number of strangers.
 There was not less than seyenty.fye
 or eighty persons who were carried
 along in four cars, each drawn by sin
 gle horse, with perfect case and much
 rapidity. h the splendid car Pioneer,
 Whichheaded the proeessiefi,f fos5, os5,d [ sillioug
 others, the venerable CdQries Cay7oR, | of Carolton. No attempt was made
 to test the velocity with which the Cars
 could be propelled, the object having
 been merely, to survey the whole route,
 and to give fair opportunity of enjoy.
 ing without fatigue or exertion,, tde beautiful and romantic scenery, through which the road passes, as we'll as the specimens of successful science and art, displayed ill the construction of the work. A pause was made at the Ia tapsco bridge, and the passengers alight ed to examine it, at leisure, and to e& press the admiration, which is generally
 felt, at the picturesque manner with which it harmoAizes with the surround. ling scenery. A change of horses vas made about half way when it vas cd. Eserved, that notwithstanding the enof- nous weight which had been drawn along at so considerable a speed, the rate having never been less than nine and halfto ten miles an hour, the hoFs. es didnotappear to have suffered at all. After spending some time among the , beautiful scenery which makes Elliott's mills so desirable place of resort, .
 large part of the company returned p : the city, and arrived about one o'clock. ; Itisstated, that the leading car trapersed the whole distance of thirteen miles in the short space of one hour and four , minutes.
 The remainder of the visitors remain. ed and having partaken of all excellent dinner, returned to the city al , 0 clock
 All were delighted with their excursion.
 and satisfied, by personal inspection, oi the immense value of the itail-Road te this community, as well as of the excel : lence with whichit has asbeenconstructe , The last car which came in, was yery 5 large and heavy, and contained twenty l six passengers, the aggregate weight o !, the car and passengers being not much , less than three tons, which was drawn by one horse, with as little trouble or , apparent labor, as a sulky in one of out streets and with more speed. Rep,tb. -arsother WaEksng ske5etos..--Aan Eng fish paper lying before us contains an account of rcmarkable individual who under the appeIlation of tine Walking iSkeieton, is exhibiting himself to the in habitants of Douai, city in the north ern department of France. By the ae- count given of this man, it does not seem :. that he is quite so attenuated as his brother skeleton in New York, but he
 possesses some properties which render
 him quite as much an object of euriosl- A1 4l. e c.o,rIt1y If