Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-05-05


Capt. Weems. Tor his prompt and eff
cirnt exsrtiops on this trying ccasion.
The shipment of such articles rs
Aquafortis ~ always attended with
danger, and we think the oncealment
Of its character by the shipper. highly
reprehensible. rs II prevents the Cap
tain from taking the necessary precau-
ton, by depositins It in place Of sale.
w.
In a card, the passengers express
their thanks to Capt. Weems for the
prompt and decided manner in which
he met and averted q very imminent
danger from the above circumstance.
! The common cause of Sfedni boat er-
blossoms. In reference to the late dis
aster ON board the Chief Justice Mar
shall. by which eight persons lost their
lives, the New York Evening Post, Of
Monday. says: at is now openly
stated, that the lamentabls explosion
which has occasioncd such n waste Of
human LIE, was owing TO the culpablr
neglect of the engineer, In emitting To
let oil the steam-and his own life IS
among those which have been lost thro'
his ignorance or tcmeritv. The IN.
happy man IS said TO have acknowledge
ed this fact just before he died"
Gurney's Steam Carriage We
find from a letter of Mr.. Hcrapath ia
the London Times, daiod March, that
dr. Quincy was then in Wales, enga
ged 10 making some experiments with
his carriage 90 railway in that quar-
ter. Preparations are making 10 start
some OF these long expected carriages
IN the ne'shborhood Of London as SOON
he returns. MIR. Herapath i, the au-
thor OF pamphlet which we noticed a
few months since, addressed TO the
Duke OF Wellington, giving q mathe-
NAUTICAL Development of the theory Of
this steam carriage. He has lately
been engaged IN correspondence res
Pecung ITS application TO common
roads.
Generally, he says, whatever roads
are good Tor stage coaches. are equally
Sood Tor steam-carriages; but hard lie
vel roads are Of the first i'm portance.-
A steamer would take double the
'uad, or the same load double the dis
lance, IN the same time, on level. that
It would upa hill Of foot rise in ID.
ana SO on, IN u rising proportion. In
all new roads, therefore, a little in
crease OF distance is better than ascend
ins hills, though steam carriages are
quite capable of ascending any of the
hills traversed by roads. As they hard
iy tcear the road at all, an increase of
distance does not involve much repair.
as IN the case Of common roads. A
steamer, he thinks might be constructed
to run .tY'y miles an hour. or more, OH
common road. He travelled with
Gurney. lover large graveily soil, at an
average rate OF seventeen miles, and
where there was no interruption, be-
tween twenty aud thirty. The earri-
age is more easily stopped and turned,
and can be more accurately driven, than
any stage coach. An increase Of |? or
20 per cent. in fuel gives 100 per cent.
increase in the velocity.
Ohio Canal MIR. Kelly, the acting
commissioner on the Northern division
OF the Ohio Canal, has given public no.
tee, that the Canal from Lake Erie 10
Newark. will be open for NAVIGATION
early next month. Great excrtinns are
making Says the Circlcville H,raldl
To forward the work at The GorD cut.
near the southern termination Of the
Licking summit II is probable, saw.
the same paper, that by the time that
Job IS completed, navigation will be
extended south 10 Circ.eville, and per.
hsps further.
AT late trial of Monroe Corey, for
the murder OF Hosea Hill. IN NIsgSfa
county, New York. lad was broueh,
forward as a witness, the only one Of
importance for the prosecution, whose
gross ignorance caused the reieo ton
OF his Testimony. The Rochester Daily
Advertiser says: "The lad vas totally
unacquainted with the nature of an
osth-dId not know his own ace--had
never been TO school or mceting-ne.
yer heard about a God till brought into
court. &c. Judge Gardiner remarked.
that The boy was incompetent; that
conviction upon such testimony should
not be riSked that any evidence he
mignt give. could not be considered as