Washington telegraph., 1851-09-10


,.1,s of the 9th inst, says that German mecha-
:. Of that city, named Solomon has invented
locomotive and propeng power. We copy
:. foIlowing account of the invention and inven-
or from the Atlas;
:, the early part Of last week the new engine,
h;cb had been in course OF con truction Tor some
"n,bs r was completed, and upon testing its capa-
rtv and power the most sangune expectations of
~ inventor were more than realized On Mon
,n r, las, the engine was kept in operation during
ua' 10y d,v and hundreds of spectators witnessed its
;" l;ngs and were astOhished at its success,
The motive power is obtained by the generation
a,nan,;op, by heat, Of car0onic acid gas
~srmon v uhiting, suphuric acid, and water, are
.,sad in generating this gas, and the "boller" in
.b;cb these components are held is similar in its
sh,ne and size to common bomb-shell. A snail
snrpacs. about the size of one of Dodd's Parodi
nn,s with a handful of lgnited charcoal, furnishes
, ,ia rsouisi,e heat for propelling this engine Of
.,rso,y. five horse power The relative power of
',..,, and carbonic acid g as is thus stated; Water
. ,h. bolIiug point gives pressure Of Is pounds
,Ls souare inch. With the addition of 80 deg
ar baat he power is double, giving 3O pounds; and
90 On doubling with every addition OF 80 deg. of
I,a, nn,,I we have 3.S40 pounds under heat of
,so d.g-a heat which engine Can endure
D., with the carbon, 90 deg. of heat above the
i,;Ing nojut give $50 pounds; 4U deg give 2, go
Donnds: 80 deg. give 4.33O pounds-that is 4S0
rounds greater power with this gas than All deg.
OF heat give by converting water INTO steam.
Ma, only does the invention multiply power al
most indefinitely but ii reduces the expense to a
,.,- nominal amount. The item Of fuel for
ft class steamer between Cincinnati and New
Or.sns going and returning, is between ) 900
and 81 300: whereas five dollars will furnish the
material for propeng the boat the same distance
bv carbon Attached to the new engine is also
an apparatus for coudensing the gas after it has
psssed through the cylenders, aud returning i.
again 10 the starting place, thus usIrg 1t over and
over and allowing none to escape.
While the engine was in operation on Monday
# lifted d weight of ~ 900 pounds up the distance
Of five feet perpendicular five times every minute.
This weight was put on by way OF experiment,
and does by no means Indicate the power Of the
engine.
The name of the inventor is Soloman He is
about fifty five years of age, native OF Prussia,
and has resided IN this country oyer twenty years.
HIS talents and abilities raised him to the honora-
bIs aud responsible position of president of col
l,ge in his native Iand before he was twenty five
wears Of aye Ia the year 1921 he united with
large number of his countrynipn in asking Of the
King of Prussia certain constitutional rights and
pr:vIIrges ior the people, which, The sovereign
mad repeatedly promised 10 them several years be-
fore For this offence against the "divine ght"
Mr. Suloman and many of his m-pa,rots were
casi INTO prison. Mr.. Solomau was sentenced 10
twenty one years Imprisonment on brad and
sater. aud had served out eight years Of his term
.yhru n, escaprd HIS escape effected by
lht Kindly assistance of Mr. Henry Branchman,
rii-kuown merchant of this city and who now
resides on FIlih street, bet Smith and Park.
ID I.,,l a 4
r,. Au,ira. an1 wrrr there over.aken Dy the Pru>-
>lu p.iIce. Bianchman, however made out to
rludr his pusuers, aud finally reached this country
in SAFETY SolO.nan was taken back and again
confined On The 20ti, of January, 1929, Solo
man made another attempt to escape, and Was
tins tm- successful He soon after settled in this
cHy, and here he found facilities for pros-cu.-
iug thuSe scientific researches aud experiments
which promises 10 resul, in fame, waahh, aEd
honor himself 9 ory to the city OF his adop
tioL acd inc al. Clabr benefit TO the whole human
family.
One week froyn to-day tire machine will be
again in operation al the machine stop on Main
street, opposite Thirteenth All Interested in such
matters will then have all opportunity OF Investi
gdting The inv eution for themselves.
Mr Soionan will Immediately commence the
construction Of another engine on the prnc-
ratrely superseded by carbon, IN The course OF
few years, fer locomotive and mechanical purposes
-o~~o~~~OOO~oo~
Union and Disunnn have been SO well tried,
and the exper imeni so well worked out, in some
The Spanish South American States, especially
IN the Central American, that we do not well see
why the SecesSionsts and the A Abolilionists wish
totrl the experiment here upon us, in these Anglo
Saxon American States. The Central A mericau
States-viz: Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica and San SaIvador-were once the old
Spanish "kingdom Of Guatemala" and after the
Revolution, with after our Revolution, they
existed and AourlShed Confederation Ol States,
Union; but the spirit Of evil crept in among
item through dissensioa taking the name, it may
be, Of Secession; and. what was once respectable
nation, now presents the sad spectacle of several
small communities, often at war among them
selves, always at variance, and always prey to
foreign INT erercnce aud dictatiou. This is lesson
first.
In the M-xcan States, what is called Gov
eminent exists, with about tue power Of our old
confederation, prior TO the Constitution of 1887.
ii is not Government. but IT has the name OIL
dovefnmeut; aud if the States choose to execute
the laws of the Federal power, they do execute
them; but if they don't choose, they nullify
e'de, as Yucatan did, when even the Indians
oyerrun her, and called upon us TO rescue them
Hom the savages about her. The modern States
Rights doctrine, that is, the new Secession
Notification doctrine, practically exists in all the
Mexican States, and hence, when there is not
Revolution annually, the fact is extraordinary.
lhs is lesson second.
In the Argentine Republic, of which Gen. Rosas
is the head. Uruguay. of Montevideo, part and
parcel of it once, have seeded: and Rosas, in
order to keep them in order, has TUNED tyrant at
Tome, and rules by terror and the sword What
Is rrmarkable, his Government seems to be popu-
lar, as ever rational man prefers the tyranny Of
one man to the anarchy of many. THIS is the
Third lesson in DisunOn.
The struggle now IN the South, among the
eecesslonIsts there, is TO follow these Spanish
American examples-to make this one Governs,
ment OF ours thirty-on distinct and separate
governments; that is, to We one State the power
70 Veto the laws of all the other States just the
central Americans, or Mexicans, or Montevideans