The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-05-05

hsep sns,elv aonrousl Il ms been agreed that Bavaria
shall establish the line from Munich TO me no aS 80 h
Constance, Switzerland shall coe.nne n Government
frontiers of Piedmont and the Sandman , Ganna 10
shall make the head of the road gong IRON Ienoa W
Lake Maggion To this vast proleca y iaII leave the
line which goes TO Germany at Alexandria ana enter
France by Chambery and Grenoble, H.. .,,oo,.
In these two projects are oosn. xec",on and Which
some persons regard impossible Inc cutting hrous,
Mount Luckmaner, (the locus Magnus OF the ancens
which must be crossed by the German lne N ORDER 70
pass from the valley of the Tesn TO the valley OF the
Rhine, and cutting through the Alps Tor Inc raiiro
which will join Sardinia to France between o'lN ana
Modena nj Rcci, after having passed over ana studied
the land and the OF the soil when inc ihe o
road is pass over did not recol before ihe piercing
those granite masses, and he has invented mec'ile.
apparatus for the execution of these two tunnels when
has been approved by the committee on puphc WORKS.
and which TO be applied TO these gigantic operations
The following description OF this apparatus wmch
we describe as simply possible, and to which we ask
the attention OF engineers, -. ;,
The machine which is only three metres in all It's d.
mensions is composed of 65 parallel bars OF lron horl
zontay placed and arranged square eleven above
one another of eleven bars in each row These bars or
points of wrought iron are finished on one end oy
ront of tempered steel, the other by spiral spnng
Cylinders furnished with points like that OF the cylinder
OF an organ draw back in succession each OF these points
by pressing thespiral spring which terminates the ano
the reaction of which constantly forces TOE steel points
against the granite rock. One hundred and sixty live
streams of water beside directed to the points attack
ed, and facilitate their action at the same time hey pre-
peated shocks The portion OF rock which Is thus md
dled is afterwards easily broken down. 1t being unne-
cessay that the gallery should be more than double 1he
width of the apparatus the machine is made to take but
alternate positions, TO the right and lett IN every sef
that it takes in the operation In finishing this descrp-
ton, we will add some lnfomalon borrowed from the
documents, relative to the great projects OF which we
have spoken We have mentioned that the tunnel OF the
Alps will be made between Oulx and Modena Weglye
its exact position from the description OF this part OF the
line From Turin the line will arrive at Luze, and turn,
ing towards the southeast Exiles and oulx, it will
cross, underground the Alps between that place and Mo
whence it will divide and will go, on the one side TO
Geneva and on the other to Grenoble. From Genoa to
alexandria, and from Alexandria to Turin, the work is
going on with great activity The German road from
Genoa to Aroma going These lines will be finished
and be ready to be opened in three years They are built
Sayan, passing to the Royal Chateau OF Racconis !;
from Turin to Pigueroles, Bella, &C. The intention Of
taly and to make railroads Tortona, Voghera, Pais
ance Modena, and Boulogne -Joury'al dies Debats.
BERLIN, March 2l.-M Alexander bunker, Librarian
of the.court of Berlin, and whose house OF those
in Germany which sells the largest number OF French
books has for several years entirely excluded from his
business works published in France, unless he obtains
the copyright from the legal owners Of it. BY so doing
M bunker has voluntarily renounced great profit arts
ing from the sale OF French books and to maintain his
trade he has been obliged to pay good 6ce op ne
himself with very small profit M Guizot, on being
informed of these honorable and generous proceedings OF
towards
knowledge Of the King Of the French and the King, BY
way Of recompensng NJ bunker, has made him knight
of the royal order Of the Legion of Honor.
BERLIN March 25.--The minister of the interior has
lust organized board of shorthand writers to the Gen
era Diet. The members OF this board are IN number
sixteen. They put under OATH and their salary is
nxea at haeTs ' o per aairm e
At each sitting Of that assembly
AMSTERDAM, March 27.-Yesterlay was finished the
q The late NJ Tersok Van Locen Ths Collection was
composed of five hundred and two works and the sale
produced sc, 500 forms, 32 Ia sum which consider
brought the highest price was view Of the enyrons OF
Harlem, by Adrian Ostade, which had obtained purse
of 2,205 forms, about 1882.
LIMOGES March 24.--We have yesterday seen in our
city barrels of wood, which. from their peculiar FORM
were recognised of foreign manufacture These casks
in fact contain flour from the United States, brought by
by land carriage.
COPENHAGEN, (Denmark) March pa dreadful ac-
cident happened yesterday at the National and Royal
Theatre OF Copenhagen The chandelier OF this house
descends through aperture in the ceiling in the middle
of the buildings at the beginning OF each ACT the chan
deer drawn up out Of sight OF the spectators and at
allows the spectators OF the upper boxes and the gallery
to see the stage freely during the representation Yes
erday evening after the rst act CT OF Inc
deer which had four hundred lights, and weighs about
three hundred pounds, descended with great rapidy to
the seats of the middle of the second paquee and there
struck several persons who were severely wounded,
and who all, with exception, were so stunned
with the blow, that they were carried out senseless
An idea may be formed of the violence OF the fall,
from the fact that the massive oak benches on
which il fell broken floods of oil poured from the
usre and inundated the dresses of than hundred
persons great many ladies' in all parts oil the house,
made ILL., The play ceased, and the the
atre evacuated, the police officers Duty proceed
cd to make inquiries to the cause of the accident
They ascertaned that the usre, IFS Cords and all the APP
paratus excellent state, but that at the moment
when it to down, there only two OF the
four persons present whose business was to work the
heavy machines that these TIVE after having in vain
spectators in partial darkness, had venured TO lower
the chandelier alone but they leosened the
Cords their strength failed Them and they unable
keep up the heavy luste which fell upon the seats Of
the second parquette.
VIENNA, Austria, March 22-Famne and the want Of
work make dreadful progress among us. AT Funhaus,
suburban village, groups gathered yesterday
the street and went to the shops OF several bakers from
whom they took part of their stock of bread, without.
however, committing any other excuses. A squadron
of cavalry sent TO Funfhaus to restore tranquility
and the government resolved TO to the assistance Of
these unfortunate persons who in want OF bread
The manufacturers the neghborhOOd desired 10
employ in preference, the fathers of families To fur
nsh the means OF subsistence TO unmarried workmen
the government will undertake public works 1t may be
said, without exaggeaton, that at this moment onethrd
of the aborers are without bread
ALTENpuRGH. March 22.-Princess Alexandra Frede-
RIGA de SAKE Aenburgh the aianced bride of the Grand
Duke Constantine of Russia leave capital
go to St. Petersbugh and prepare herself for her
version to the Greco Russian religion This princess is
studying assduously under the direction OF professor
who has been sent her by the Emperor Nicholas