Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-11-02

Ordcr.
These miscreants, for such they are,
instead of being praised for their vir
tues! should be consigned to infamy;
and we hope the people of N. Orleans
ELECTROMAGNETIC their graves,
telling to future generations that they
were dcservedly slain in violent as
sault upon the majesty of the lands.
Com. Herald.
The LAST GREAT WONDER OF THE
woRLD.-The most important inven-
ton that human ingenuity has ever a.
chieved has just been triumphantly
completedby Capt. EDMUND BADGER,
late of the United States army, but at
presentresidingin North Adams, Berk-
shire county, Mass. This gentleman
has discovered the grand mechanical
principle, so much needed and SO long
sought for in rotary machinery-that
IS how to gain power, and at the same
time retain the motion. 1t has long
been an established principle in me-
chanism, that where power is gained,
there must necessarily be diminution
in motion. This principle Capt. b.
has exploded entirely, and he now has
model Of the most powerful machine
on earth. The force and motion are
accelcrating, and the machine is con-
sequently capable ofbeing propelled to
any velocity that may be required, by
the application of very small degree
of power. From minute examination
of the model, which is sufficiently large
to propela car with one or two persons
on a railway, we do not hesitate to say,
that in our candid opinion the power of
one man, applied to this wonderful ma
chine, would be sufficient to propel the
largest ship across the Atlantic, in an
incredible short space of time.
The importance Of this invention to
the world at large can not be estimated.
To say nothing of surmounting the dan
ger of loss of life by the explosion OF
steam boilers, the proprietors of all
steamboats, and railroad locomotives
may now prepare TO extinguish their
fires, throw their boilers overheard,
and disencumbcr their boats Of their
fuel and costly machinery, as they will
all be superseded and rendered utterly
useless, by the application of this new
ly discovered rotary power. We hope
the ingenious inventor will be prevail
ed upon to crafty our fellow-citizens
with an exhibition of the model, while
on his way to Washington to secure
hispatent.-M Y. Weehly Messenger.
From the New York Times.
The aOdy aOe build cities n0D-a-
days.-Rome was not built in day;
Carthage was unfinished long after Pr
Us .Hneas joined his sire in Elyisium,
and SO little did men learn formerly
from the experience Of foregone time,
and SO slowly travelled the OK cart of
Improvement, that down to the age of
our own immediate predecessors town,
simple town, was the work of gene
rations, left unfinished like an old chan
Gerry suit from age to age-and to car
Try out the simile, each succeeding ge-
neration paying the costs for their pre-
decessors.
We have performed all this. We
have no longer like Cheops, to use up
Il whole people for the erection of one
house, and that without a chimney.
we have no longer to mourn that we,
IKE Moses, may never see the unborn
city, but even as Minerva-perfect
Dorm, leapt from the brain of Jove. So
30 western intelligence knowsno child
hood, but springs from the prairie and
the forest, and men behold with uncer-
lain eyes, towns, cities, squares, water
OTIS and water privileges rising under
The wand of the photographer, like the
palace Of Aladdin.
To illustrate this, look into the bar
room of some tavern-be it in the CEN
re OF some small town on the very
PutskirtsofIllinoi there you shall see
wo dealers in land, and listen to con-
ersation very much after thisfashion--
Mr. Float, good morning; you and
nave got some land here lying pretty
UGH together, and I've an idea that
you :gres with my notion, that we
4ake itkzaze.uiA hhoygpeeulation for