The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-02-01
LANCASTER, JANUAnY as, 1850.


letter I'd gentleman IN that city, dated
at Constantinople. Dec. 5th, containing
important intelligence relative to the
Refugee, question: .s r4 O.
The question was brought to salts
factory solution, on the Gath Nov. All
Refugees, either Austrian or Russian,
who are iii Turkey without their pass
potts. ere to be located id the interior tor
one year, Austria thinking that SHE cannot
quiet her dissensions before that perind.
To all who are furnished with passports,
of whateUer nature, free e&it ffJm the
Ottoman Empire is allowed to the Gdun.
Try of;heir choice. The Poles who have
embraced the Mahomedan faith are com.
pletly protected from Austro- Russian fu.
ry. by existing treaties. The writer
thinks that. as it is such an easy matter
to obtain passports, either from the Tur
kish authorities or the different embassies
all the Hungarian Refugees, who may be
desirous of quitting the country, can do
so. H.a
Diplomatic relations had not been
opened, but negotiations and intrigues
were active as ever. .'..
The English and French Fleets we're
still at anchor. The Russian Govern.
iRent continues its warlke preparations
and still levied recruits IN The interior Of
South Russia. ............. ...
ID. The newly appointed American Min
lister, Mr.. Marsh. had not reached his
post; but was daily expected.
COMMISSIONER OF PArEkfs-HiS Re.
pDtt far lS49.-The Commissioner of
Paten;s, Mr.. Ewbank, had laid the frs,
portion of his report before Congress. Ii
is represented as containing valuable
fund of information to inventors aud the
public generally. II will be some time
before The report is laid before the pub.
lie in printed form, and we avail our.
selves Of sume facts concerning it, which
are reported by tho Washington letter
writer's. The report is divided into eight
parts, as follows: bF4'l: ~. "@'
/. Finances and statistics Of the Pa,en
Office. .
2. Inventions and claims.
3. Examiners aud Machinist' . reports
a. Origin and progress Of invention.
8. The MDters-Chief Levers of Civ
iliZation.
6. Proposed publication of the Pateu
Fund
/. Publication of Speculation; 2
General Index of Invention; 3. In
stilution of National Prizes. ..
7. Historical Notices of Inventions =
from archives of States, &c.
s. On the propulsion of steamers.
The eighth section enters into an e
laborate and careful inquiry Of the sheer,
of propulsion, an atidlysis Of the various
methods now in use, and defidhstrale
that thefe is an actual waste of power i
the paddle. wheel equal to the aggregate
thickness Of the paddles and buckets
and that a dimnution of waste would bt
caused by diminution of the thickness
The Commissioner complains of th'
sum taken from his department and ap
piled to the construction Of edfces 70
other purposes. This ought to be al
lowed to remain and applied to the follow
sehenies:-- s .. t+
i. A regular annual publication of tn
specifications aud drawings of all new in
ventions; 2. The publication of gen
eral analytical and descriptive inde
IF intentl6ns. at an estimated cost G
$4,000; 8. The institution of nationa
premiums for new discoveries of tran
scendent value and enduring beni6cence
He also explains the means to be q
dopted to secure an impartial and ju:
award of these national premiums,
competent board of statesman, friends {
science and officers of scientific socie
ties, and then proposes the folowin
premiums .......-
One of $4,000 for an invention where
by land can be worked without anima
"a locomotive plow, or plow and ha
row conibined.
One of 500, 900 for the first steam {
other vessel which may make three cor
secutive trips across the Atlaftic at a
average speed of not less than twenl
miles per hour.
Another ufS $40 900 for the first vess
at an average speed of not less than Z
miles per hour.
sa.One of 100000 for the first persc
who within years shall render ele
tticity available as an economical, ef
cient and general prmemover or wi
shall within the prescribed period maxi
known the means by which Gtmospher
pressure can be pro6tably employed
sea'going vessels and land locomotive
as general propeller Of fixed machin
ry. ....l....s
Or who developes an erplosice or OF
er Prime.mover. applicable, energet
and economical as the vapor of water, al
whose exciting and transmitting me cha
L..