St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1860-09-27

and temporary eruptions of its water.
by sudden eObing and flowing, occa
slonally noticed, have their origin in
the escape of hydrogen gas from be.
meath the surface of the bottom of the
| Lake.
AS long ago as when the late NJ. NJ
Noah published the Star in New York,
addressed him a communication ex.
! pressing tho opinion that mineral coal
originated in the condensing Of car.
burettcd hydrogen gas forming petro
Ieu!n and in the crystalization of the
petroleum forming coal, and my sub,
segment investigations have confirmed
me in that opinion.
1t is about forty years since Mr..
Whiting, of Boston, first introduced
anthracite coal into the City of New
York (for fucl) from PENNSYLVANIA.
tie then published in the newspapers
that he would exhibit CRATES in which
the coal could be burnt, and succeed
ed in the effort Of making heat from
the coal, but the first attempt was
ridiculed.
AS the population Of our cities in
crease, Providence opens new store
houses in the earth to supply the
wants of the increased population.
The coal first for fuel, and now the
oil for light.
1t is but little more than twelve
years since tue gold deposits in Cali
lorna were first discovered, and the
abundance Of gold since mined in that
district Of country has furnished an
Illustration of the Scripture account
OF the abundance Of gold in the days
OF King solomon, the account of which
some had regarded 50 marvellous.
We sec thus that the most ponder
ons fuel in use, the anthracite, results
from one Of the lightcst of the gasses,
the hydrogen. Thus it is the etherc-
ais become fuidized, and the fluids
become crystalizcd, and thus matter
is continually changing. We are fa-
mllar with the change of vap0r to
water, aud water to ice, and see ice
IN passing through the streets in sum
mer, become vaporizcd, smoking like
burning wood. 1t is the melting Of
floating ice which produces the fogs
met with in such abundance in
European voyages.
Human breath in cold weather be-
comes hoar frost, smoke Of wood fires
conIcnscs in chimncys, forming SCOT.
|! suffered to remain, chrystalizcs and
forms a substance resembling btu.
mInous, and is equally inhammablc.
Manufacturers Of gas use mineral
coal, and also vegetable rosn. for the
production Of inhammable gas, and
the petroleum or mineral oil can be
used for the same purpose.
In one Of the Eastern British Prov
IncCs on this Continent, is a large de-
post of mineral resins. 1t has the
ustrc OF vegetable resin when broken, |
but has dark color like black bottle |
glass.
On Elk Creek, near the Kaulawha |
Salincs, Va, is Il deposit OF the finest
canncl coal.
| have sample Of petroleum, and Of
many kinds Of coal in my cabinet, to-
gcthcr with specimens Of the incrus-
tatioms formed by the gas a, Kan
lawha.
The fuidiziug Of solid bodies, the
'apo.izinS Of fluids, the etherealizing
If vapors, and the subimation Of |
metals, are wonderful operations in !
he great laboratory of nature, and
'et simple and in harmony with the
great economy Of nature, exhibiting
he variety Of change and the bound
cssncsS Of the muniiiccncc Of an over
'ulmg Providence. E. MERRIAM.