The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-12-14

Ions of liquid flint every day. The liquid
quartz which saw Dissolved is chemically
pure, and the solution perfect; the liquid
forming thick pellicle when heated and
exposed to the air, although it may be
preserved any length of time in close res
ervoirs in the same liquid state. My at
tention was drawn towards Professor
Hardinge about two years ago by an ar
tcle on this subject occupying over four
columns of the New York 7ri5ane, and
signed by number of eminent European
chemists. Professor Hardinge has been
for many years laboring to perfect his vast
purposes; and | hereby stake my repu-
tation, ms a man claiming some scientific
knowledge to Judge of the fact, that he is
now ready TO build a city Of the most
durable as '0eH as most beautiful stone
s0hich as possible for The human mind to
conceive,, walls of variegated conglome-
rate, lined with colored porcelain (paint-
ed iu fresco), fre-proof roofs, moulded
statuary of the richest and hardest kind,
with tho aforesaid liquid flint as base.
"The question may be asked, what
has been Mr.. Hardinge's object in getting
digester of such enormous caliber as to
weigh, with its appendages, nine tons 2
One great object, as will be seen, is to
Dissolve too tons of quartz regularly in
water at time, thus treating six tons ev-
cry day in a single digester, showing how
to secure every particle Of gold in aquif-
erous quartz, be it fifty dollars TO the ton,
or thousand. Whoever examines his
process will find that not a particle Of the
precious metal can get away. There is
neither washing nor amalgam, and the So
luton of this quantity of quartz in water
would give 5000 gallons of liquor of flint
per day from single digester, with the
slick in far greater excess than has ever
been achieved before.
"The next question arises, What is
to be done with 5000 gallons of liquid
flint daily from a single digesterP / an
swer, that presses of quick delivery can
be erected along the Hudson, or elsewhere,
under banks of silicious sand and con-
glomerate, where tens of thousands of tons
can be rapidly moulded into beautiful and
durable building stone; the silicic acid be-
ing saturated, during the process of solu-
ton, with base in conformity with
similar law which spontaneously moulded
the conglomerate pillars in the Capitol at
Washington, costing the nation SO much
money. Common sand may be mould-
ed iuto building blocks through the agen-
cy of this base, which will not disinte-
crate by the action of tho weather.
"Mr. Hardinge is in correspondence
with his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome
Bonaparte with reference TO the immedi-
ate adoption of his process in moulding
the silcious sand in Egypt for the locks
and canal of Suez, so as 10 diminish the
vast expense to at least one half the cost
of quarrying and hauling the granite from
distant mountains.
a. The most beautiful building stone,
where palatial grandeur is the aim and
object, can be made by a mixture Of
quartzose rock, broken in small pieces,
combined with white pebbles from the
shores of Long Island, moulded as above,
faced and polished with the fint-varnish,
prepared in such way as TO be imper-
vious TO the action of the weather. Such
congomorate stone, interspersed with sill
very, shining scales of mica. together with
the variegations caused by the variety of
mineral oxyds in the angular pieces, in
contradistinction from the white, semi
translucent pebbles, would form the rich
est conglomerate that the mind could con-
ceive. Tens of thousands of gallons of
of this liquid flint, combined with sub
stances having synthetical affinity, will
be used for inside walls, plain and in fres-
co; also in stucco ornaments and in
moulded marble, chalcedony, DC. Every
variety of rock can be reproduced, richly
and cheaply variegated at pleasure by
mineral oxyds. Vast quantities will also
be shortly called for to saLurate thou
sands of those drab sandstone houses
which are being built in this and other
cities; because this peculiarly open, gran
uar stone is liable to fill with water in
winters rain, and suddenly freeze and
chip off.
1t would be too voluminous to men
tion here the many applications of this
material; suffice it to say, the result of
many long years of the experience of Mr..
Hardinge may now be looked for, not on
ly for the qualification of his friends, but
to set forever at rest all doubt on the part
of the public at large"
Es- Husband and wife, while travel
ing through the bush, in haste, met with
melancholy accident, which is recorded
by an Adelaide poet in the following fe-
licitous strain: