The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-04-06
TIE CALORIC ENGINE


Or During the visit of the Ca'oric ship Fri, ss
,e to Richmond, Va, Capt. Ericsson explain,
=, her construction, ac, TO the members OF Il
Legislature and others on board. Having fiji
lshed the description he sp Ike as follows oltl
! invention.
= One OF the srrat advantages Of this invention
and in point OF humsnity, the greatest is, th
there can be no explosion under any circuu
N stances BY its adoption will hear of r
n more heari-rending accidents which n,w 5
o frequently occur. And in Il commercial Poi,
, of view, its advantages cannot be sufficient
Y estimated. This ship IN Ter your feet, wi
e carry coal enough TO circnmnaVigate the glob
J, Five hundred and fifty tons will be sufficier
$ for this purpose. You can 90 to China an
g back without taking in Goals there You ca
l. 60 from the United States to Australia an
}. thence to England, without coaling in Austral
e ia. This vessel consumed four tons and
!. quarter only in tA enty-four hours during he
). late trip This, Gentlemen, is not Theory
A it is practice. Anthracite is the best fuel fo
d this engine, because We only require slo,
4 radiating heat; and I predict that when thi
new motive power shall have been introduced
England will come hlther for her coal Britls
vessels will coal this side, instead of tn
other side of the ATLANTIC Cur mountains o
anthracite coal are inexausGble. The Who'll
WblQ tlldy come mere Tor tnelr IueI.
Under our present steam system, we canno
carry coal enough to cross the Pacific wi,hen
intermediate coal stations. Fast steamers can
not exist on their own earnings so great is tn
: expense of the present system. A single FIRE
man on duty at time here suffices, whereas
in the ocean steamers heavy gang Of men arr
necessary. view this machine as Of grea
importance In Connection with the great interua
Improvements of your Stat, which you ar,
now engaged in carrying out. You have onl,
to complete your railway communications, il
connection with the West, and continue tht
same 10 the entrance of Chesapeake By I,
Norfolk, where you have an excellent harbor, Il
get vent for your great agricultural produce
apd send it to the countries on the other side OF
the Atlantic | say, complete your interna
mense mineral and agricultural resources
will become tn; great, if not the greatest State
of the Union. , .-....
Steam lines, if constructed at once, would
not pay, whereas Caloric ships would yield
immediate profits, although the trade is not so
great as it will be. | must again call upon you
to look at this new motive power in connection
with your internal improvements and you will
find that il has an important bearing upon
| them ...
| Capt Ericsson now said that he would be We
ry happy to reply to any questions in relation to
this new motive power. Several interrogation.
les were then propounded by honorable memb-
ers, and he answered them with exceeding
cheerfulness and distinctness. He said among
other things, that the maximum pressure is
twelve pounds to the square inch, and that the
temperature necessary 10 be added TO the air.
in order to produce this pressure, is only three
hundred and eighty four degrees. The amount
OF heat lost by the process Of transfer amounts
to only one eighth ofthe whole. The SAVING
could be carried still further, but it would not
greatly enhance the value of the machine as
we con now carry full enough to circumnavi-
gate the globe, and that is, sufficient As to
speed, in constructing this ship, nine miles only
was contemplated, as thai was sufficient to rem.
der the enterprise commercially profitable. A
year ago, he was ridiculed for undertaking to
ma Ike cylinder fourteen feet in diameter; and
now there are houses in New York ready to
cast and bore cylinders twenty feet in diameter,
at their own risk Such are the Improvements
in the arts we have here at one bound pro.
duced cylinder of three times the area of those
of he Collins steamers; while, formerly, by
| adding an inch or two, we thought we did great
things. Will rel eieience to locomotive engines
Capt. Ericsson sa d he could now build one fest
enough for ireighting purposes but in one year
hence he could construct one to run with the
f,stest.
Abiding to the .Calnrie ship, he stated that
she could, carry three times as much freight as
the fast Atlantic steamers, as she has an entire
freight deck, on which no coal is carried; the
Goals in this vessel being slowed below the
freight-deck, in bunkers, alongside the engines
The cost, including the patent charges, is the
| sane as that ot an ordinary ocean steamer: so
that the employer will have the benefit Of the
advantages of the new motive power without
additional pay. In relation to stationary en-
gines, he said that they would not be SO cheap
as high pressure engines, but about the same as
those Of low pressure. ........
"Gentlemen,' he said, 81 now want you to
join me in drinking the health Of gentleman 10
whom the country is indebted, to whom the
aoorld is indebted for having this new motive
power test.d d on such ma gnifcent scale as not
to render second experiment necessary
mean John Is. kiiching, OF New York, young
merchant OF surprising sagacity, enterprise, and
perseverance. is now only sixteen months
a 30 since first submitted this subject to hlm ;
and let me here state, that only seven mon his
ago this vast fabric, with its machinery, existed
only onpaper, and hardly that, for / planned
most OF the parts as the work. progressed As
have stated, only sixteen months ago he un-
dertnok to procure the means to carry out this
great enterprise, Notwithstanding the sneers
and the predictions Of failure in mercantile QUAR-
tiers. Tie viewed the success of this enterprise
with 'he most remarkable foresight | could
not, therefore. permit thus opportunity to pass
without expressing my infinite gratitude to MIR.
kitching, tor having enabled me to carry into
practice, in so efficient manner, his new mo-
tiye power. His name will be handed down to
PROSPERITY IN connection with the ADVANTAGES.
both IN point of humanity and commerce, which
| MI ncvttt II,
! therefore ask YOU to join me in drinking Mr.
kitching's health, and that with three cheers !;
From the Galcna Advertiser
SnIP BURNr-F!fteen Liecs Lost-The clip
per ship Golden Light, which sailed from Ros-
ton for San Francisco on the 18th February.
was struck by lightning on the 22d of that
month, while; at sea, and set on fire. All hands
were driven to the boats, numbering, passen-
gers and crew, thirty five persons. The ship
was shortly afer enveloped in flames, and burn.
ed to the waters ed re. The boats fiy. in
number. were abundanty supplied with prov-
sians and water. Two OF the boats were separ-
ated from the others, and after five days expo
sure, the remaining three boats were picked up
Fby the British ship Shane, and brought TO
Boston Fifteen only out of the thirty-ive are
knoon to have been saved The Golden L'ght
was new ship, owned by James Hu'chinrs Of
DostoIi, dHu WIFI the cargo, vas insured tor
100000.
THE LATTER Day SAINTS Yesterday :. here
arrived, via New Orleans, about $50 pc rsons,
Mormons, on their way to Salt Lake, chiefly
from England. We learn from Mr. Wheeock,
late Presiding Elder Of the Church in this civ,
and just returned from Englind, that there are
six more ships on the way, chiefly freghted
with members of the church and their families
He estimates, the, number expected by these
ships at from 2,5DO to 5000 He is advised
Of the arrival of ship at he BaIize, with about
800 persons from Denmark Arrangements are
making f"r ,he transportation from Europe.
next year, of about lj,00D The growth of
this b'dy is one OF the most singular novelties
Of the day.-& Lonts Republican,.
THE EUREKA DIAMaND--W osDxRFur, IF
TRUE.-We have received Communication
descriptive Of this remarkable stone, which was
found within two miles Of Columbia, in tn,
lumnes county. l, is to be exhibited IN Stock
ton and this city for a short time, prior to the
departure of the owner for New York. Our
correspondent informs us that it has been c,rc
fully and scientifically tested by Dr. Banks, y
graduate ofthe Medical University Of Louisiana