Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-13

at each stroke Of the piston and using it
over and over again. This is obviously i'm
practicable, if steam is employed as the
acting medium. Ericsson, THEREFORE, uses
the permanent gases, and, in preference to
all others, atmospheric air. The object
which he seeks to accomplish is simply this
that the heat contained in the air which
escapes from the working cylinder should
be effectually taken up by the air which en-
tiers it, at each stroke of the engine. This
result Captain Ericsson has accomplished
by means of an apparatus which he styles a
Regeneration, and SO perfectly does it operate,
that the heat employed in first setting the
engine in motion, continues to sustain it in
full working force, with no other renewal
or addition than may be requisite to supply
the inconsiderable loss by radiation.
The speed attained is known to have
been about fourteen miles an hour, while
the consumption of coal is ascertained to be
only six English tons in twenty-four hours
"a saving, compared with steamers, of more
than eighty per cent.
These calculations, made on trial cover
ing so short space and so brief a time, are
OF course, not to be absolutely trusted as
full scientific tests of the Inventions value.
Nevertheless, they prove the main fact.
They demonstrate that vessel of 200 tons,
and drawing sixteen feet ten inches, on an
even keel, can be propelled, speedily, by the
Caloric engine. We congratulate Mr.. Erics-
son and the country on so satisfactory re-
suit The ingenious inventor seems to have
reached the goal of his ambition, in the dis
covery Of force which shall not only be
capable of employment on long voyages Of
heavy freighting burthen, but will save
navigation from the risk of life attending
the use of steam.
"a The first train of cars, with the
excursionists from Baltimore to celebrate
the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, arrived at Wheeling at two o'clock on
Wednesday morning. The second train ar
rived at four o'clock. All were safe and
well, though considerably fatigued frsm the
loss of sleep, &c. The city is crowded with
strangers from the surrounding country.
@B@ The Legislature of Massachusetts
on Wednesday elected Mr.. Clifford (whig)
governor of Massachusetts,, on the first bal
lot. The vote stood, Clifford, 146; Bishop,
"a; Horace Mann, 81.
The LABOR MARKET AT AUsTRALIA.-Th
Australian papers contain very interesting
document, Price Current of Labor, pub
lished by Mr.. Fitchett, of the Victoria
Register Office. Of course the prices are
bona yfde ones, because Mr.. Fitchett is pre-.
pared to engage servants at the amount he
mentions. Married couples, as house SER
wants for country hotels, &c., can have en-
gagements at e65 to G70 per annum, with
rations shepherds, e38; hut-keepers, ESQ;
bullock drivers, ESQ, or by the week, FL 10
and on the roads from e3 to "a; farm SER
wants, ESQ per annum, and e1 10 by the
week; bush carpenters, e2 per week; cooks
for inns, FL 10 to e. per week; general
servants, G40 per annum, all including ra-
tons. Maid servants can have engagements
at G24 to $50, housemaids at s23, nurse
maids Ell, cooks and laundresses 924, in
Guiding rations. This was the state of the
labor market after the arrival of several
enigrant vessels, and, though it may expe-
rience q temporary decline in the course of