Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-08

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4 Nrw MoDE OF ArrLyiNG STEAM
PovGHro CtHAL NAylGArloy, Thencw
steam canal boat called Blue Bird.
reached Cumberland. Nd from Mex
@ndria Va on the Both ult with an
other boat in tow The Allcgauial says
She is propelled BY an eightccn-horse
power engine, attached to an adjustable
iestherug paddle wheel, five feet long
and five feet in diameter. So arranged
shat the paddles 60 down into the water
cndwise and come ~ edgewisc not
tbrashing the water as they 90 down nor
lifting it as they come up, and the wheel
IS also arranged that it can in five min
utcs be raised or lowered SO as to give
the paddles the requisite dip in the wa
ter according to the draft of the boat. -
The great advantage OF this wheel is that
it produces no lateral agitation of the
water; and the paddles always acting on
the upper surface of the water, produce
current Immediately behind the boat
and in the centre of the canal. 1t is
claimed for this wheel shat 1t will propel
an empty boat five miles an hour, aud Il
ioaded boat over three miles, and it is
believed she viii make this average speed
with another boat in tow. Her power
has as yet been but partially tested but
from present indications it is thought by
many who are competent to Judge, that
hia mode of applying steam power to
the propelling Of canal boats viii greatly
facilitate and perhaps cheaper the trans
portation Of coal to the eastern market.
DR.. X. S. McKaig, Mr. Brown. and a
gentleman Of Washington, d. c., are
abe patcntces.
NATURALIZATION by STATE CouRrs LIZ
GAL.--The question has been frequently
raised whether State Courts have the
power to naturalize foreigners. 1t must
be in great measure settled by deci-
sion given at Cincinnati on Thursday
week by Judge Mclean, of the United
States Circuit Court
The case presented was. whether the
Probate Court Of Hamilton county, Ohio,
had the power to naturalize Samuel
Smith, a German, owing allegiance to
the Grand Duchy of Baden. Judge
McLeaa states that the Supreme Court Of
the United States in case brought be-
fore it, held that the power of naturali-
zatlon Is exclusively in Congress, /" but it
has repeatedly been held that Congress
has power to authorize such jurisdiction
to be exercised by State Court. An
act of Congress passed in 1902 declared
that every Court Of Record in any in
dlvidual State having common law iuris-
diction shall be considered u District
Court, and have jurisdiction in matters
Of naturalization The constitution Of
Ohio declares that the Probate Court
shall be Court of Record, and hence.
under the act of Congress, Judge Me-
Lean decides that it has jurisdiction to
naturalize Foreigners, and that on com
plying with the remaining acquisitions of
she act of Congress, the fiaal certificate
of citizenship should be granted 10 Sam
uel Smith, tie party to the present pro-
ceeding The decision is an important
enc affecting as 1t does the action of
State Courts, as well as the legality of
thousands of naturalization certificates
already granted by those tribunals.
Mat Is SAID OF BALTIMORE. -- The
cincinnati Commercial" Opposition
pays the following handsome compliment
to the city of Baltimore ana its worthy
mayor: a
The most Horrible rowdyism is again
rampant in Baltimore. Half a dozen
murdercrs are now in that city awaiting
the execution of sentence of death. but
the slungshot reign Of terror is not over
The city is being most seriously damaged
by the reputation for lawlessness which
it has acquired, and which instead Of be-
ing lived down and passing away, is be-
coming more lurid with tie lapse of time
The Mayor Of the city, though personally
a gentleman Of education and refinement
aad correct member Of society, is Off
cially the representative and the creature
Of the rowdos The charge that he IS
30, has been often and vehemently but
never successfully denied He seems to
Rave no glimmering of appreciation Of
the proper formation of city government,
ami combines with his activity rs the ie-
gal head Of the plug-uglies The advocacy
of the most homogeneous aud prepostcrous
measures of city policy"
THE LoNnoS Press on THE SIcKLrs
TRAGEDY The London press have vari-
Gus comments on the SicAles tragedy -
The Times remarks
Tho form Of Mr. Sicklcs' revenge
was according to the fashion of his age
and his country. We think it probable
that had he been an Englishman, living
in London, he would have acted other
wise. Take it, however, as you may,
the story is a most lamentable one. In
England much interes; will be felt in it
from the fact that the unfortunate YOUNG
wle--and surely she is most unfortunate
was known in the social circles Of Lon
don. When Mr. Buchanan was minister
over here, her husband, Mr.. Sickles,
was secretary Of legation. He was ac-
compancd by his wife, child in years,
and still more child in appearance 49,
She excited interest in every one who