American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-20

Lfor the American Republican,
Mr.. EDIToR-I was pleased to see "a ualua-
Die Tube" published in the Sun of yesterday,
said to have been calculated by J. Nj. GARNET,
Esq. of Va, and bought the paper expressly
on account of that article Long habit, how
ever, induced me strictly to examine its accu-
racy, and found that the public would have
been grossly deceived if it had placed conf
dence in the dimensions of the barrel and half
barrel. There were also few errors of the
printer. send you correct statement, never
having seen the farmers Register, with an
additional measure, for the benefit of your read
ers and the public. Yours, SC. f.
A box "a inches by l6 inches square and IS
inches deep, will contain barrel, or 10, 1852
cubic inches.
y box "a by lG inches square and ii in. deep,
will contain Il half barrel, or 3 ,376 cubic in.
A box i6 by lG.8 square, and inches deep,
will contain Il Winchester bushel, or 2I5O.4
cubic inches.
A box II by ll.2 square and inches deep,
will contain half bushel, or lO15.2 cubic
inches
box by 6.4 inches square and inches
deep, will contain one peck or 5376 cub. in.
A box $ by in. square and i ? inches deep,
will contain one half peck, OF 26S.S cubic in.
VIA box by inches square and AS in. deep
will contain half Il gallon, (dfy measure or
1914 cubic inches
A box by inches square and 40 in deep,
will contain one quart, (dry measure,) or G12
cubic inches.
A box by inches square and 9.2i inches
deep, Will contain wine gallon, or 30 cub. in.
These measures come within small fraction
of a cubic inch of being perfectly accurate as
near indeed as any measures Of capacity have
ever yet been made for common use; tie diff
Gully of making them with absolute exactness
has never yet been overcome.
The FIRST two items, "a published in the sun il
can he a,certaned by figures, would only contain
8,i4e and 4224 cubic inches, instead of 1882 and
5,3'6, as barrel and half barrel, respectively.
EXPLOSION OF THE BOILERS OF Mill
Fipe Lees List A disastrous explosion took
place near Ripley, Ohio, OH Friday last, which
is thus detailed by a correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette:
The middle boiler Of three, in one bed, of the
Steam FIGURING Mill of Pangburn s. Kerr, en-
ploded inst as the Engineer was letting on the
steam to start the engine, by which two men
Zone OF them the Eaginccr,) were instantly
killed, and four Others badly wounded Three
of the wounded men died within a few hours:
the fourth still survives, with slight hopes u
his recovery. The engine house and stack
were entirely demolished by the explosion; auC
the exploding boilers projected to the distance
OF 20 or so yards. The destruction of life anc
property is complete. All who were in the
engine house at the time, were killed, EXCEPT
the one man above mentioned, and little bow
and thirty Orphan Children, left by the deceas-
ed collectively, mourn the carccssncys or Grim
inal parsimony Of continuing to use ,corn out
boilers, that has made them such. The names
of the killed and wounded are-Joseph Sewers,
Engineer, VIM Boggs, John Hugh, John
Moore and Barney Bartholomew. Sam'l Bar
tholomew and son, wounded.
Another correspondent narrates the particu-
lars as follows: The explosion was more de-
structjve, made greater havoc with building,
engine, &c, than we ever heard OF before from
Il similar engine. There were three cylinder
boilers, without iueS, one of which parted near
the after end, leveling the engine house, the
furnace and large stack or chimney all to the
level Of the fre-bod. The boiler that bursted
was scut forward, and foremost, out Of the mill,
over the turnpike road in diagonal direction,
and lodged under Il warehouse on the opposite
side Of the road. One Of the men who was in
stan!ly killed, MIR. Joseph Sewers, was thrown
high up in the air, through the roof Of the
house, and fell some distance from the mill II
was hcart-rending scene; the very sight Of the
sad havoc, the dead, and the distressed dying,
made the stoutest hearts faint. The cries and
shricks Of the wives, children, and friends of the
unfortunate, pierced the very chords Of the
heart. We have heard no cause assigned for
this appalling disaster other than the condition
OF the boiers-hayng been in use for near 20
years. Men that will endanger taking life
with old last-caten boilers, arc to say the least
oft, very culpabc
TENNESSEE ELEcrIox. We deem it unnc-