Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-05-19
From the New York Gazette.

acute thinkers to whom our world is indebted I
for the most important improvements that have y
ever taken place, has made discovery in mo- \
tive power that really seems likely to suspend |
all other contrvances for s'getting along In the |
world''-whether in travelling on the land or
voyaging on the water-whether ii be in maxi
ing money by the propulsion of machinery In |
manufactures, or in the rapidity of our motion |
over Rail Roads. We Of course speak with |
difidence Of matter with which we are not con-
versant, but we have the right, we suppose, to |
form conclusions from the opinions of those
who are conversant in given matter, and il is
principally upon the strength Of those opinions
that we speak now.
! Mr.. Davenport has discovered mode Of ap-
plying Magnetic and Electromagnetic power,
which we have good grounds for believing will
be Of immense Importance to the world. He
has machines now in this city, which go very
far to warrant the most sanguine anticipations
Of a total revolution in mechanics. We have
not seen them, because our other avocations
have prevented it, but we have read Professor
| Silliman's description of them, and we are con-
WINGED from that, that new era Is about TO
commence in these matters. We recommend
to every reader perusal of the Professors ar
ticles on this subject, in the American journal
Of Science and the Arts for April, 1887. In
the mean time, we copy the best accounts we
have seen Of the practical operation Of the ma
chine in this city from the New Era.
= 1. We saw a small cylindrical battery, about
! inches in length, 8 or in diameter, produce
, magnetic power of about 500 lbs. and which
therefore we could not move with our utmost
strength. No. 9. We saw a small wheel five
and half inches in diameter, performing more
than GOO revolutions in a minute, and lift a
: weight Of "a lbs. one foot per minute, from the
{ power Of battery Of still smaller dimensions.
! s. We saw a model Of locomotive engine,
lls.. I'll al
: mensc velocity, and rapidity ascending an in
: clined plane of far greater elevation than any
e hitherto assembled by steam power. And thes
and various other experiments which we saw,
' convinced MS Of the truth of the opinion ex-
pressed by Prof. Sillman, Renwick, and 9th
$ ers, that the power of machinery may be in
! creased from this source beyond an assig nable
limit. II is computed by three learned men, that
a circular gslvanc battery, about feet In diam
c eter, with magnets of n propoTtionabe surface,
: would produce at least an hundred horse power,
c and therefore that two such batteries would be
sufficient to propel ships of the largest class a.
II cross the Atlantic. The only materials requir.
n ed to generate and continue this power for such
II voyage, would be a few thin sheets Of copper
/ and zinc, and a few gallons If mineral water.
: Whilst the cos, of this new motive power ].
;, merely nominal, it is perfectly safe and manage
:, able. There is not a possibility Of any shocl
u
d be conducted by child. We hastily announc,
is these important features Of this incidentally i'm
: portant invention, preparatory to a more scien
% tific and practical calculation.
II BosroN PoLIcE CoURT. Incident IN Ire Lif
st of Elisabeth j. blanchard as she nor calls her
II self.-Fourteen years ago, at a military ball il
N Cambridge, B----n and Elizabeth were deci
(. dedy the finest looking unmarried couple in tn
a assembly, and enjoyed, as they then merited
he the sincere respect and regard Of all their &C
v quaintances. She was certainly the pretties
d lady present, and he was tall and manly look
N ing gallant At that time they were known {
k be engaged and in time--as soon as b. ha
n built house for their ocoupation--ihey wer
" married, and for no young pair in the tow
m might more happiness be anticipated. He wa
TX steady, industrious and entcrpIisng; and sh
ne was handsome, agreeable, and apparently, ever
s. thing else that such a mans wife ought 10 bt
For few years they lived 10 harmony an
NJ happiness, and fully realised the fondest expes
II tations of their friends, but intemperance
- length assailed them both, on her part, she &c
h ded the crime of congugal inEdelity TO the vic
nd of iniemperance. He then enlisted In the a
in my, and she entirely abandoned herself to viz
ur in NIL its most dissolute forms but for the per
he Tod Of year was arrested in her career by
a. sentence 10 the Mddlesex House Of Correction
nd Since she came out, she has lived altogether
Ter the lowest brothes in this city, and nightly pc
ed ambulatedAnn street, and the alleys and whaTv
irl in its vicinity in search of prey. One night
:. week or two since, she was eniiced on board
zee Providence schooner, by some one Of d
les hands, and after experiencing every 9th
,ur species of outrage, she was stretched GU; upt
D the deck, and there fastened by nails driven i
nix to her clothes. After her tormcntors had Il
GU her she extrcated herself, but only by teariI
aid every article of her apparel TO shreds, and lea
no ing the fragments nailed To the deck. In
me state of almost entire nudity, she escaped In
ITO one of her old haunts, but on Saturday nigh
III for the tenth time, fell into the hands of d
e watch. To such depth Of degradation mi
he a woman fall, even in the city of Boston. VIII
re- among the gay party who were in her comp
IN ny at the ball, would have believed the 500
Il saving, who should have foretold them I'll
the fascinating Elizabeth J--,within fou
m" teen years, would, by her own vicious life,
O exposed to such ruflianly violencel She
ma learnt the bitter truth, that
ate 'Msery is wed TO guilt
But whether she will or can profit by the /
son, is very doubtful. At any rate, residen
T a of three months in the House of Correction "
of serve to recruit her for veal or wo.
vas
mes OPENING OF VAST LEAD MINE IN WIsco
SIN TERRIToRY. The Tazewell (Illinoi
ge Telegraph, printed at Picking, gives very
She teresting account of a great excavation ma
Of for lead ore in Wisconsin Territory, under {
,ed enterprising proprietor Mr. Kirkpatrick. II
four feet wide and six deep through solid roc
ore runs near half mile, and has been three yea
her completing It's greatest depth is 60 feet whe
,er il runs under the Pckatolik river, a tributa