New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-11

house. Messrs Bsrrrtts s. Shaae-. vAo hsv. cae d.
pstrert exclusively for those styles Of goods I, u
probable ihs, the arount Of boys cothicg vhoessed
in this city independent OF the quantities maruf.e.
turtd by the retailers, somewtA, exceed. oas m loo
Per aDnum.
Plat FrEL TOR lRos WoRxs.-PeH he b-.n
Used u some extent In Europe. mixed with chsrco.l
In smelling iron, and one hundred pounds Of sir dried
peat found equal to fortythree pounds of wood char.
coal. Furnace Manager" in Eagiand pubshe
the fac, ia, be hiss possession specimens OF yery
strong pig iron snelted With pea. 1o.e s.d th., h.
"a. used as the only fuel for remel,iaS Dig iron
ard also for pudding, welding and refining a iron
works Of considerable magnitude. He claims ths-
there ia no practical difficulty whatever in u.ins
Ien without chsring ~ fuel in blast Furnaces.
THI SUBURBAN RAIRoAps-A horse railroad. in
al respects like our city railroads has beea recently
finished rem BowtOin squEe in Boston TO Mount Al.
burr Cemetery. distance Of between FIVE and sir
mes and the fare fixed at the reasonable rat. Of zen
ctris. The Fitchburgh Railroad Co hiss nov redu ID
its farce TO the same place SIX ceus which induce.
very interesting state Of things.
E1.crKIcIIr Asa MorNy Powrs TIL Loadoa
Morning. Chronio> announces an experiment recently
tired q; yincennes, which has proved that electricity
is fairly harressed and is To supercede steam at once
and without any more palaver. The inventor h.d
pe,i.ioned for ine of steamer or rather electricity
ers from LOrient to Norfolk, in the United States
which was to make the passage in ~ hours The ex.
pertinent on which this was based Wa tined /, the
presence of the officers of the port, aud seem, to h.ye
consisted OF firing mortar "et the rate Of 100 sh,s
"a minute, wlthos flashing smoke, or ,se." Web ,pe
there is merit IN the invention, but the navigator
.cheme appears decidedly premature.
U,ysHsAN's METHOD OF GENERATING Srr,x-
The editor Of The Railroad Record, q, Ciocian,t
h. oased with copper the boiler which generates the
s,e. for his establishment, and thereby diminished
the consumption of fuel from seven hundred and fit
10 four hundred and fifty pounds per dsy-the stea
generated remaining the same He styles thi.
"Hashman's Method, and it would seem to be
worthy Of considerable attention. wood OF iron
Gazing simply to preserve the hea, could not have
effected 50 great an economy Who can tell US the
nature and theory of "Har.hmans Method
AxyRIc,S ALUAIsUa- Common clay is the oxide
of aluminium, and aluminium is q ewly-d-covered
metal which We have before noticed, very plen,ully
distributed but exceedingly difficult to extract. Alum
mum IL now worth rather il bought and sold for,
about 0lO or tl2 an ounce-about three-Qusrtes IS
mrch as gold Mr. Alfred Monnler Of Camden, M
has now succeeded in reducing this metal by process.
s, chesp4r than that by Devie before described, and
exhibited at late meeting of the Franklin Institute in
Philadelphia quantity of the pure NETS, and also
Of the material partially reduced. II has been made
for UPWARD Of year in France. but the processes bid
fan to REM far expensive and slow to meet the
warts Of commerce. Who will solve the profile n
which now racks the brains Of chemists and metal
lurgists, Pure clay is ten parts by weight aluminium,
and eight parts by weight Of oxygen; aud although
large proportion Of ordinary clay is shcs and other
foreign substances it cannot be question led that all the
orockery ware and broken bricks of the city, and the
solid miles Of clay beds in the country, contain metal
o. white and ductie silver, as untarnishable and
usleable as gold, capable of being plated upon other
metals, and 90 light as almost to float upon water.
What viii not chemistry vet reveal fewspSmods
kicks of dead frog under the battery of Gigan has
resulted in showing that nearly the whole crust OF the
eatb 10 formed of oxides OF different metals Chem
stry il the newest and most hopeful q all the natural
sciences II is the Young America OF the schools.
Let every facility be afforded TO the enthusiastic eK-
permetters who.e insignificant researches with glass
retorts and spirit lamps continually extending 10y
their final practical results the field OF active AMI
rp6,able labor. Aluminium bas not yet been made
available in the arts except experment.ly
it never wi-but discovery at this time, or at any
future period which will make il easy of separation
will ike the cotton gin Of Whitney, at throw into
our possession abundant material. and Possessing
all the elements Of the greatest practical utility.
A REvoLvIsG STEAM BoiLER.-A late English
patent is for making steam boilers reyove ~ A. to
bring rev .uriace constantly in contact with the hre,
ard thus make them last longer There are two hol-
low trur Mons through of which the feed water Is
received, and through the other the steam Is taken
for the engine The whole apparatus is thus made TO
resemble some Of the new fashioned wash boilers IN
which the clothes are stirred by revolving the whole
or ike the coffee roasters in which peas are reduced
to well burned "prme old Java by continually turn
ing over moderate fire.