The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-01-14

Imports, ..................... I6S fUt
This is great exhibit. OF the foreign trade
(besdes C1nada) thirteen rsssels hare gone direct
from THIS inland city during the past year ttrou0h
The Iteltand Canal to Ltrerpoo., Loaaon, Germany
and acottdhd! They were built at Cleveland,
which has become great shipbudiug port and
manned and registered there. They are mostly
hermaphrodte biigs rating from $50 to 45O tons
bat really carrying from i've to six hundred -
They come back in first rate condition, and q! Q
SAID TO equal in speed anything on the OCEAN
They carry out principally wheat, q superior
quality OF black walnut lumber, oiIcaks and shin
knees, and bring back Liverpool coarse {packipe
salt, pig iron, crockeIy and other merchandise To
wholesale dealers. 1hs is the fret year of n
srade which Is increasing and is going to be yery
large The saiilnS vessels engaged in the coast.
wise trade are from three to seven hundred toni
burthep, and the steamboats, range from one n
two thousand tons, and are equal ia flush and
style 10 any in the world.
Cleveland has become great saughtering g
place, competing in that with Cincinnati, and
packing for foreign and domestic markets There
are four large saughteriug establishments, ave-
raging during the killing time from three 10 fve
hundred head OF cattle, and from one to two thou.
sand hogs day Manuiacturirg 10 carried on
extensively. There are extensive forge furnaces
bucket and blind and sash factories car locomo.
tive, steam engine, and agricultural implement
factories, paper mills and copper smelling works
great trade n carried on aud is increasing with
the Lake Superior couHtry. The Lake Superior
iron ore 100 per cent. pure from is brought by q
Cleveland Company from the Cleveland Iron
Mountain. There are six railroads, principal
routes, leading to and from Cleveland, which have
common depot on the margin of the lake.
The Cleveland Water Works deserve more space
than / am able to give them They alone would
reward visit TO this prosperous city. The water
is obtained from Lake Erie by an Inlet Pipe made
Of boiler plate, three eighth OF an Inch thick
Ity inches diameter and 800 feet long, extending
from the shore to the source of supply at 12 feel
depth of water. The eQueduct is built OF brick
AID connects with the Inlet Pipe immediate y al
the lake shore, and conveys the water to the
pump-weli at the engine house, a distance Of 800
feet. The water is elevated by two purely Cornisl
lever engines, exact duplicates. each capable o.
furnishing supply. They are worked alter OF J
week about, aud are of the following dimensions
Steam cylinder 20 inch diameter, and 10 feel
stroke Of piston. Walking beam is double and
unequal; the long end from the nteam cylinder &c
fuci un is u feet III inches. The short end FROM
piupger TO fulci am is l3 feet II "a inches. Whole
length of beam between end centers - feet l0}
Inches; width across the widest part of beam feel
inches; weight Of beam with center shaft ~
tons.
Working velocity Of engine at maximum, 10
strokes per minute. The engine making ktrokes
per minute under fall load exerts 100 horse power
Available power of engine 200 horse.
Connected with each engine, there are boilers
6 feet diameter aud 2s feet long; each boiler cons
tains fire box and four fles. The two upper
lues are II inches diameter, and two lower ones
Is inches diameter.
To the short end of the beam is attached the
piunger Of main forcing pump. The piunger is
80 iaches diameter; stroke feet inches. The
load on the Puuger necessary to force the water
TO the Reservoir, is equal to column Of water l5O
feet high with the friction OF the engine and that
required to overcome the passage OF water through
the pump main to the Reservoir, which 10 "A tous
E4cn stroke of the Pianger eievaiss 40 U. :. gale
ions of water into tue Reservoir.
Tota, cost Of the two engines set up and pus
In to succs ssful psration, $S5 19s %.
The grounds f,r the Reservoir embrace nearly
seven acres The works are capable of applying
an abundance Of water for at least Zeooo people.
The total cost Of the Water Works ives 1915 1l2 3d.
These facts tell their own tale CT enterprise
aud prosperity. In politics, Cleveland 10
Democratic city. In intelligence and hospitality
it is no where surpassed. am glad to learn that
the spirit Of Conservatism and OF leys OF the union
is gaining strength, and l have met personally
with . number Of gallant spirits who sre DOW as
they always have beer, arm aud devoted friends
of Inc Constitution aud OF the Rights Of tho states
may be perunitied 70 mention that j. heard fre%
the lips pf ths sfarkwesthers, Wilson's. sDd
other generous Aitbiui and heroic friends Of their
copu.ry and their church, glowing snso0iaus Of