New-York tribune., 1841-07-24

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80. no-,;on OF the capitalists and substantial
-; mon If ,ba, eninently solvent City Hon. TEusIs
yvcvr,, Mayor of the City, called the Chair
d sro,,ded By such zlea for Vice Presidents as Joel
R.,bt,o,e. Thomas W. Acot,, Friend Humphrey, David
Wood John TAYLOR, &c. A Committee appointed to
proceed to Washington and urge passage Of the Law
The Resolution. spirited and cogent We extract from
them the following
Resolred That population OF Bankrup IS not the sht
kind of population for young and growing na''o"' 'o
that as it every injurious the country and can oe IL
no wise advantageous 10 the creditor hold debtors IN the
continual slavery of unwilling inactivity and compulsory
poverty will be highly beneficial 10 the country ana mo-
unjust to creditor pass laws 10 relieve them from s
slavery, full surrender OF their properly lot 'i'
Of all their creditors.
Pe.olred That a. the erpedency OF including corpora
tons in General Bankrupt Law is disputed question: we
are willing te take Bankrupt Law with or without ihciua
ing corporations.
u There is silly fabrication going the rounds OF the
LocoF oco papers which pnrpors that Judge Huntington
he new Commissioner Of the Land Office. removed thirteen
of the Loco-Foco Clerks that Office and that President
TYLER reintated them whereupon Mr. Ewing threatened to
esign &c We are assured that there Is scarcely shadow
Of foundation for this Judge Huntington renewed one
Clerk whom Mr. Tyler had promised retain Oh hearing
which Judge H. rensa,ed him. though the promise had been
obtained by sapprehension the poor beggar of Wing meT
cv and support having been as might be expected OF
the biercst Loco Focos and vle belers of tie Wings in
The Globe. He the only man removed and reln''a'en
and out of h the whole story has been manufactured
ATMOSPHERIC RAILwAY-We have often seen illusions
the English papers invention whereby cars were
to be propelled on railways by ,mopherc pressure bur we
nave never until now any thing like explanation OF
the mode in which this power 10 be applied late Lon
Ion oapr contains an OF experiments made
Nth an engine constructed upon this pan in the presence OF
many distinguished and scientific persons from which we
make the following of its construction and mode
# operation. The plan is very simple: midway between
The rails of an ordinary railway lie. the seoper
continuous pipe of suitable diameter let piston attached TO
carriage for passengers in this pipe and stationary
steam engine exhaust the pipe before it. 1t Is clear that
he parts Of the machinery sufficiently perfect the a'Ros-
ohec pressure the back of the piston will move the car
ruge and its load with velocity resulting from the proper
ton that pressure and the resistance 10 be overcome
So far the theory ndsputabe of naked SCIENCE the
v question whether machinery be constructed sui-
GENTLY perfect to produce with certainty the theoretical effect
The railway on which the experiment made was
slightly Inclined the rails old and laid extremely uneven the
inches in diameter worked by steam engine OF sixteen
morse power Throughout the entire length of the pipe there
of necessity slit III its AFFORD the necdiul connec-
lion between the piston and the carriage this Is opened as
acl train passes and closes Immediately behind H. Ut
course some ur thus obtains admission but it found upon
experiment that this leakage OF the ppes mere than balanced
" the action of the air-pump: the latter exhausted half
nile of pipes inches of mercury in one minute and
quarter while the pipe reed from leakage in eight minutes
Four experiments were made in each of which the carriage
went down the plane by its gravity and was propelled
10 BY the pressure. The result by close and
accurate measurement was that the first trial the car
rage filed with persons 49, miles per hour on the
second 90 on the third 25 and the fourth 234 These
xpcrments would fully establish the fact that this
power NAV be successfully used for the propulsion of railway
arragcs Its advantages forth by its inventors,
Nessrs Cegg and Sumuda, that the weight OF locome-
yes often very great wholly saged lighter and less costly
rails NAV be used no collision of trains and great
saving NAV be effected by the substitution of stationary tor
locomotive engines The invention has not Yet received
the attention and scrutiny necessary decide positively upon
its full importance.
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