The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-19

pany PROPOSED TOUT years dko " Uuea tuo
works there. and ,oempty . gasotnster Of 100. I
COO cubic feet. with two listle goose quill pipes,
six inches in diameter. These pipes were to|
be continued to the market house. and there to
branch of each into couple of ten inch pipes
wha, for we never could understand, and they
could not tell. They could only say that they
had tried the project at Charleston and else.
where, and that il had succeeded; and SO !.
did, until the demand for gas began TO exceed
the capacity of their goose quills to supply it.
II has been ascertained that six inch pipe
will, at the distance Of 1000 feet from the
gasometer, deliver 1000 cubic feet Of gas per
hour. AT the distance Of q mile it will deliver
1--WE think, for we have not the calculation be
fore us) something like 1000. AT the mar
ket house, then, the two big pipes Tor four, we
do not recollect which, were to receive 1900
cubic feet OF gas, and with this quantity The
whole city ab,ve the market house, street
lamps and all, was to be lighted. To show
what admirable scientific gentlemen they were
who proposed this grand operation, one OF
them stated in the public prints. that the capaci
ty of two six inch pipes was greater than the
capacity of one ten inch pipe, inasmuch as
twice six made twelve, number greater than
ten! The capacity Of pipes, we understand,
to stand to each other so nearly in the relation
of the squares of their diameters, that calcu.
latiou based upon the assumption that such is
the fact, comes near enough to the truth for
all ordinary purposes. Six times six make
thirty and twice thiry.six make seventy
two. Twelve times twelve, the multiplication
table says, make one hundred and forty-four,
wrong in the proportion of two to one.
That error has been discovered and rectifed.
1t is proposed now to put in seventeen inch
pipe at Rockets. Seventeen times seventeen
make $780, so that this pipe will deliver eight
times as much as one of the goose quilts be.
fore alluded to, or $4,000 Cubic feet of gas per
hour, at the distance of thousand feet. This
will drain gasometer of 100000 cubic feet in
three hours and eight minutes, and, according
to the ratio observed in the case of the six inch
pipe, will deliver at the distance of one mile
1880 cubic feet, or about 5000 at the present
gas works. At this rate of delivery it will take
pipe of seventeen inches thirty.seven hours
to deliver 900 cubic feet at these works,
that is to keep the gasometer up here fall. The
next thing will be two more lines of seventeen
inch pipe at an enormous cost, all to sup.
ply the gasometers. The people ought 10
know to what an enormous expense they are
about to be put. They have gas works of
three hundred thousand capacity, while they
| do not consume more than half that quantity.
| They are now to have works which must be Of
three times the capacity of these, costing, we
presume, three times as much, in order to keep
the present gasometers full. They build works
which manufacture and transmit 80, 900 cubic
feet an hour, in order that they may get 5000
cubic feet at the gas works.
We have hardly begun with this subject.
A SINGING REBUKE TO FANATICIsM.-At
the celebration Of the 4th in Oswego, N. Y,
the Mayor, Mr.. Colver, made an address, in
which he launched out in the usual stain of
hypocritical demagogues. about rum and slave
| ry. The audience were astonished at such
speech on Sucn an OCCASION, LOT tncy Hdu mCt
without distinction of party, creed, or PROBES
sion, TO join a national celebration. But the
Mayor met with rebuke on the spot, from
Jacob Richardson, ESQ.,, which must have
made him feel like shrinking into his boots. or
boiling the settlement" We give his remarks
as reported in the N. Y. Times
"As the speech just delivered BY the Honorable
Mayor il not in the programme, l think it may be
well that Won have another which also is not In the
nroeramme The Mayor has introduced two subjects
which are not proper necessary to Fourth of July
celshraton am here to denounce his IsMs, and DO
Senonnce them and WILL denounce them on all &C.
casions when unfairly and improperly brought before
the neooIe TCries of good, good" This is 4th of
INV celebration. / like men to do what they do
oneny and not preach one thing and practice snoth
sr he il Temperance or be it what it may Now,
| Inow and the Honorable Mayor knows that know
that he wbe is preaching temperance here to-day has
drank-drank out of my bottle within the last two
weeks and, what is more, drank more than did
Now when any man undertakes to talk abolitionism
| or temperancesm any ether ISM, such an occa.
| sion as this, will denounce him ; and when that
turning to Mr. Colver began left my little girl
| in that crowd there, and came up resolved to de-
| nounce him, and have done it Let the Fourth of
July go on"-[waving his hand to the crowd
| The conclusion of this speech was greeted
with perfect roar of applause, laughter and
cheering, which lasted for several minutes.