The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-13

b1 Ne powerful engines for the frat ID
towing vessels frsm the Gulf Of Mexico New Orleans
Mississippi which flows forward with powerful current
- Tho rate OF four miles per hour and s muddy water 10
forced some distance into the before It's momentu Il
0et mo stream In its course has several short bends
and formerly often took vessels three weeks 70
reach the city from the Gulf. Large boats were ere
long seen semmng the force the mghcst river In the
world, propelled by the strong engines OF Aiisre AMI
towing richly loaded fleets Of merchantmen from the Gulf
70 the wharves 1t New Orleans, in Comparatively few
hours, whereas days and weeks Of time were formerly
consumed
Mr.. Allaires name is proudly and permanently co.,
America; and Whatever may have been his faults or
foibles-and few any can claim total exemption from
them-the simple fact that he tho favorse of Robert
Fulton, that he was the first who built marine en-
CINE IN America and that his engines should have in the
steamship Savannah been the rs that crossed the
Atlantic, and that he should have lived 70 have tho
magnincens engines Of the steamships Pacin, and Baltic,
which made the quickest trips the Atlantic ever
before accomplished, must pass hs do xn 10 pos
teIy HIS pursuits, were alike useful and honorable 70
While TO Watt and to Great Britain bsons the honor OF
improving and introducing the low pressure engine 70
America belongs The discovery and invention Of the high
pressure engine-wthout when the Mississippi from the
muddncss Of s water could have been probably
or successfully navge.ed nor could railroads have been
supplied with locomotive engines.
Oliver Evans, poor farmer boy, born Of Welsh fsu
~ who had first settled in Delaware and afterwards be-
came citizens OF Pennsy the inventor OF the
high pressure steam engine He subsequently ced
their manufacture in Phisdelphis From his w0rs ahop
Their adopted for stationary purposes aud
for propelng boats the Western waters and ecaly
on the mississippi river, which could not be navgased
without item, as the mud continually held In solution by
it, WATER was found TO choke the valves Of low
engines, 10 destroy them by friction and 10 form danger
Gus deposits OF mud In boilers OF his established
himself the business Of engine building 81 Pissburg
High pressure boats are ct present exclusively en-
ployed as VOW boats At the mootn Of the Mississippi
Drawings Of Oliver Evans high pressure engines reached
Merther Tydv Clam ,rganshire, Sodth Wales. rvo
weshmen hessrs rrev.nIc and Vivian, proceeded, by
adopting the principles Of Evaos engine 10 construct
1884, the first locomotive 10 run on railroad ever built
Professor Brsnde In his "Encyclopedis article Locomo
tive, gives the following
The Grst practical application Of the seam engine .,
Tydyil tslsmorssnsbrs soph wsles 1he engine ws:
Ssssnsd by hsm rreyoasly or two Years before or IN s
ture those which have since been used for like purpose
There an aged gentleman, still living Philadelphia
Q native OF Wales, ~no worked the locomotives OF
Tevthic Vivian. The first locomotive Constructed by
them passed over tram railway OF I'VE miles
An hour and drew after several Wagons containing ten
tons Of bar IRON. Aesers Trevithc Vivian subsequently
made one on the same principle for Mr. Blackett, the
owner OF the Wyam Gallery, the north OF E0glaad,
which George Stephenson born One Of the engines
used by Mr.. BaCxet, AID built after The model OF the
Welsh engines was called the Back Billy" George
Stephenson Their trying methods Tor drawage of
coal from the killDgwoftE coliieries by pueys and
rOpee over inclined planes Not succeeding well IN shs
be went over 10 Mr.. Backes aud examined toe Black
Billy the fsst locomotive no had ever seep from
the construction OF which ,nere be doa but
derived the most important advantaRes Atthame many
engineers believed with frevilb'c Vivian that smooth
tyred engine wheels would not nave sufficient uacnoa "
revolve forward over smooth iron rails and ben5o con-
struced their driving wheels with cogs gears
In similar cogs or gears N iro1rai,s.
Mr. Stephenson, PROBABLY by GENE previous e1.
perimert his inclined planes, had discovered that
smooth wheels could be driven forward with Increased
speed and power over smooth rails. Az no had 70 do,
therefore, 10 mako toe first improy Ia the Welsh
locomotive, 10 turn OF toe Sogs gears FROM the
wheels and 10 pls 20 them THIS AID,
but retained al ,s other essential elements such as the
q yref kn1 he has NH
were then made By piston rode to revoye tue axo Of he
driving wheels In place Of the crsuks employed rhe
first engines he sent 10 TINS county, OF which
placed on the Charleston, o. Railroad IN 1851, only one
year after the opening OF the Manchester Liverpool
road was made on .hs plan SEQ London Quarterly Re-,
II Watt the father sf the low pressure engine
everywhere adopted FOR marine purposes, Oliver EvAns
was The inventor or the hgn pressure engine unver
sally railroads. me former mad s,stue of
mar BILE erected 10 bic memory Westminster Abbey, add
the latter deserves statue 10 be erected at the capital Of
the United States.
II Fulton was the fret pu, practical use the Steam
boat to Trevnc ana Vivian must be sacroed the honor
Of having first constructed and put In the locomotive
engine. Onver Evsns foresaw the applicability OF his
high pressure engines 10 Locomotive purposes. and
carly l77s petioned the Legislatures OF Maryland aud
N roxGs vRc frst ow phftknk sse Gun
CINE imported into tas country from Englsnd app-
ed 10 the steamer Csemont The wheel shat. having
cranke the ps,ons we're made 10 drive upon wnees
which again operated upon similar wnoes fastoned the
shaft, ana which, when runnIng made great noise.
TO Mr.. Aire was ascribed the honor OF constructing
shalS Win coubie which inc piston RODS
nom the waking beams produced smooth and direcs
action.
able drsugpts and good mechanic IN the Of
Mr. Guion, who Is also said 70 be- o. aug1snot descent
Mr. Alare was also successful builder OF hgn pressure
engines for various local purposes. ia saia that he
stated Mr. Mcqueen putting bp engine together for the
Claremort, by making the necessary castings. sc.
No doubt exists but Fitch wAs before Fulton in bis or
periments with his boat, made on the collect, 10
New York, and which IVES afierwMis sunk
during a gale, in Coffee House snip, and the
OF Bolton or Lyings his fate might have bsea FAR
different Tns fact, however. does deusct from the
merit Of Mr. Fulton who, a.r long period OF indomtA-
BILE labor and succecded in being the rs 70
make steamboat navigation ua fat GeoompA aud placing
is suooesa beyond contingency.
We have been more prolI than we had intended, hot
such has bccn The connection Of Mr. ASre with the his
tory OF tho steam engine and Ws manufacture 10
the United sA,cs, for over forty years, beginning
with ms connection with the Clsremont ant -avnn
nah, and ending with tho Pacific aud tbs Baltic,
thai IL seemed W justify and require general notice
Of steam engines he PROBABLY bull. larger nun
From the nc~cnabe Denen, the engine and steam
navigation have conferred the United states aud on
the civilized world, M Aares position and services IN
regard TO the will 70 be reconeeted long
afler marble monuments Of his time sna have Grumbed
into dust
Dublin MAY 2) correoporoepoe OF the Liverpool Iost
John OConne, Esq., clerk OF the HanSper IN Ireland,
Vincent Fitzpatrick, Kngs,own. rhe deceased gsntlo.
Was viii be reooliected, son OF the late Daniel
OCopDe and was associated prominently with hs father
the grta' repeal agtAon extending from toi2 10 1885,
Since the death OF bs father Mr. OConne bad taken out
hte part In political concerns. some few years ago be
became captain IN the County Duoin militia, and more
recently he succeeded his lac brother nss. Cnropher
Fhztnon Esq, in the ucrsvc post Of clerk o the Htna
per IN Ireland. Even tbose who differed sn Mr. OCon-
nell m political sentiments and siemned the Detuance
often exhibited IN the Of agitation, freely a.,
knowledge his smabty a. q private citizen. aud do jus
those qualities of head and heart by which the de-
ceased gentleman distinguished. Mr. OOonuell pas
lets widow and large family 10 deplore bis oss The
cenans Journal states that the OF death was Sc
attack OF bronchitis. contracted by sung 10 damp
garden chair.
ACuMBr FAsuA, BErR TO THE PAsHtLfC EGYrr.
By way Of Marselles have received from Aleysu-
details respecting the fatal accident 10 Achmet Pasha
Already briefly announced In the HERALD.
Amer attending the solemn receptos given 70 the Vice.
roy Alexandria the occasion OF the s OF BArsm
Achmet Pasha, nephew, and balm brahm PAha, brother
cf the Viceroy, Kereddin Pasha Rfaat Bey, Minister Of
Commerce. and nu nber Of distinguished personages left
by railway 10 return 70 Cairo On arriving ct Care OIL
Els the carriages compoGng their train, which we're ioor
plumber had usual be pushed Q steam ferry