South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-06-20

the league, the coalition OF those who
would consume without producing, live
without working, know every thing
soithout learning any thing, carry a.
pay all the Aonors without haoing de-
servcd them, and occupy all the places
of government without being capable
offlling them."-Intel.
AS the question of the origin Of
rail roads and steam wagons in this
country seems TO have created an inter-
rest among some of our contemporaries,
we subjoin for their use the following
extract from work published in this
city twenty-five years ago, by Oliver
Eyans--than whom few or none have
contributed so largely TO produce our
present advanced state Of Improvement
in the means of travelling and the
mechanic arts.
1t appears Mr.. Evans conceived or
entertained the idea, of steam wagons
and railroads anterior to the year
1873 for shortly after this period we
find him applying to the legislatures of
Pennsylvania and Maryland for aid to
carry into effect bis views on these sub.
jects. The first rejected his memori-
al, or paid no attention TO it--deemipg
its author INSANE! The last granted
him patent for fourteen years; but
from the want of public confidence in
the practicability of his schemes, and
his own want OF means, this patent was
of no use to him. He lived and died
comparatively poor and neglected; and
was compelled TO leave all his vast
conceptions and designs TO be executed
by smaller minds and later days, as
almost all the benefactoTs of our race
have had to do before him. - Phsladei.
phia Pennsylvania.
The time will come when people
will travel in stages moved by steam
engines, from one city to another, al
most as fast as birds fly, fifteen or
twenty miles an hour.
Passing through the air with such
velocity, changing the scene in such
rapid succession, will be the most ex'
hilarating, delightful exercise.
A carriage willset out from Wash
ington in the morning, the passengers
will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Phil
adelphia, and sup at New-Yolk, the
same day.
To accomplish this, two sets Of rail
ways will be laid, so nearly level as
not in any place to deviate more than
two degrees from a horizontal line,
made of wood or iron on smoth paths
of broken stone or graval, with rail
to guide the carriages, SO that they
may pass each other in different direc.
tons, and travel by night as we'll as by
day and the passengers will sleep in
these stages as comfortably as they
now do in steam stage boats.
x
A steam engine that will consume
from quarter to a half cord Of wood,
will drive a carriage one hundred and
eighty miles in twelve hours, with
twenty or thirty passengers, and will
not consume six gallons of water
The carriages will not be overloaded
with fuel or water.
These engines will drive boats ten
or twelve miles per hour, and there
will be many hundred steamboats, run
ming on the Mississippi, and other
western waters, as prophesied 80 years
ago, by one who could predict them
better than the poet can now. But the
velocity Of boats through the water,
can never be made to equal the veloci.
ty of carriages through the air, be-
cause the resistance of water is eight
hundred times greater than the resist
ance of air.
And it shall come to pass, that the
memory of those sordid and wicked
wretches who oppose such improve.
ments, will be execrated by every good
man as they ought to be now.
Posterity will not be able to discov-
er why the legislature, or congress, did
not grant the inventor such protection
as might have enabled him to put in
operation these great improvements
sooner, he having asked neither money
nor monopoly Of any existing thing.
OLIVER EVANS.
Novez Spectacle.-The Ogdensburg
Times states that Car is now exhibit
ing on the Saratoga and Schenectady
Rail Road. nronelled by horse walk.