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n improved Patent Traction Engine, for use on COM
mon roads. 1t is manufactured Of steel plates for
IIEhtEesS; the large wheels are feet in diameter
and the small ones feet and are made broad so as
not to iajure the roads; the entire weight when
supplied Tth Is cwt of ccal and x ton of water
Is tons: ihe Elephant is hung springs to pre-
vent ITklGe; has an apparatus which does away
with the usual noise from the steam pipe and is
provided with hosting tackle for purposes ofload-
ing and unloading. The engine can do the work
OF ~ horses; the speed is six miles hour, and
with load Of Is tons, q miles, The Elephant is
very Iisht in appearance, and most compact; every
pafucie OF room being made available for useful
purposes Inc workmanship is unexceptiOnable.
Altogether the engine has been much admired and
commended by many engineers who have examined
it. The trials it has undergone have been most
satisfactory, and it has been proved to be admra-
bly, adapted for all descriptions Of road-eve and
/ hIly. This is the fifth engine of this kind that
has been constructed in this establishment. The
| lrst has now been at work for nearly two years,
| doing well. Differing from all other engines hith-
erto made, the traction driving wheels go first
| and the grinding wheels follow in the rear. 1t is
easily steered round corners, and with the incest
accuracy, rendering the whole under easy control.
The New ORDEa OF TulNGs IN MExIco.-It is be-
leTed that Juarez will endeavor to enforce the
Constitution of 1851, which provides:
| First. The establishment of a constitutional fed
eral government in the place of military dictator
| ship.
Second. Freedom aud protection to slaves that
enter the national territory.
| Third. Freedom of religion.
| Fourth. Freedom of the press.
Fifth The naturalization of the $500, 900, 600 of
property held by the clergy, from which, and 9TH
er sources, the church derives annual income of
not less than $50 .000, 600.
Sixth. The subordnation of the army to the civil
power, and the abolition of military and eccesias-
| ticai fueros, special tribunals.
Seventh. A reduction Cf the tariff, the stoppage
Of the system OF exceptional permits, and the en-
| tire abolition OF atcdcdt1 or interior duties; also,
the abolition of passports.
Eighth; The negotiation of commercial treaties
OF the fullest scope and liberal character, partcu-
! larly with the United States, and including reci-
| procty of trade with our frontiers.
Ninth. The colonization of Mexico by the full
opening of every part OF the country to immigra-
tion and the encouragement of foreign enterprise
in every branch of industry, particularly in mining
and in works OF internal improvement.
The Honorable Mrs. Norton has written a pa
per to the editor of NcNUaa's Magazine, in which
she bravey defends the memory of her brilliant an
| cestor, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, from the at
| tacks recently made upon it, in works writ
| ten by "Grace and Philip Wharton" The gifted
granddaughter of this man Of genius proclaims her
| own intention to supply fitting history of him,
| will doubtless perform the task in a manner that
| will do honor to herself and to her theme. She
writes with honest indignation of the scandals and
gossip So often retaed by biographers of men of
genius; she shows how, especially in the case of
Sheridan, those scandals were baselesS; how Moore
was wckedly careless in retailing them and these
recent dealers in a stock so cheaply gotten have
adulterated what was base before by an admxture
OF their own comments and creations. If some of
these pestilent writers, who seem, like crows, to
fatten upon the carr0n filth of literature could be
frightened from their ignoble game, by such out
spokenness that of Mrs. Norton, the world would
be better off, and the craft Of which they are un-
worthy members rid of one of its worst stains.
FIRsr SHIPMENT OF GAS TO LoNDoN.-We saw vcs-
erday at the passenger station of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, at Eleventh and Market, number of
wrought iron cylindrical vessels, which we were
informed contained compressed gas. Upon further
hat NJ -E,,I
ted up the cars on the Pennsy yvania Central Rail-
road for burning gas, had also taken a contract
from Hathaway Leach of this city, for fitting out
a number Of cars to be used the street railways
in London These cylinders had been sent to the
railroad work shops in Altoona, to be filled with
gas by means of the cOmpany's apparatus there; so
that before long we may expect to hear Of Ameri
can street raiIway-cars IN London lighted with gas
made at the foot Of the Allegheny mountains.-
Pbin. Gazette, Feb 5.
THE GHEAr "SALyE" CERrFlcArE.-HaIPs Jour
nal Of Hcoitb has the following:
DEAR DOCroE: | will be one hundred and seventy
five years old next October. For ninety four wears
have been an invalid, unable to move except when
stirred with a lever. But year ago last Thursday
| heard Of the Granicular Syrup. | bought bot
tie, smelt OF the cork, and found myself a man.
| can now run twelve and half miles hour,
and throw nineteen double someraets, without stop
ping.
piled to a wooden leg, reduced compound fracture
in nineteen minutes, and is now covering the limb
with fresh cuticle OF white gum pine bark.
The noME SQUADuoN.-The officers who will re-
sign, as is stated bv correspondent of the New
Orleans Delta, LicutenantS Morgan, Kennen,
Jones, Murdaugh, McCann and Mauray; Surgeons
Freeman, Barclay and Gait Engineers Manning,
Lamden, and Lamden again, and Purdv. We have
announced before, that Lieutenants Porcher and
ltutIedge, and Paymaster Clarke, had sent in their
designations. Lieutenant lngraham. a South Car
olinian is on board the st. Louis. The Powhatan,
on the 2lst of January, Mt Vera Cruz, was without
coal. The Tennessee was to sail on the 22d of that
month, and 1t supposed that the squadron had
been ordered to Pensacola.
COLD BATHs.-Notwithstand the extraordna-
ry GOODNESS OF the season, and the presence of
coating Of ice nearly foot thick some half dozen
members of the London Bathing Club perform their
abutonS every morning in the Serpentne. These
heroic bathers borrow a hatchet from the nearest
station Of the Humane Society, cut away the ice
until they have bath large enough for their pur-
pose, and take single dive, sea-like, beneath the
freezing water, emerging thcrefrom with icicle-
laden boards, and protesting, of course that the
plunge was delightful"
THE CmLDREX's AID SoCIErY-AnotEer Larqe
Company for The West-A party Of over sixty boys
and girls varying in age from six to sixteen years,
a large proportion orphan and destitute,
left New York on Tuesday, under charge of Mr.. H.
Fredgen, of the Children's Aid Society more
interesting company has never been sent to the
West under the auspices of this institution. The
Newsboys' Lodging House contributed a number of
its inmates to this company.
MASSACHUSETTS EMERGENCY BILL.-lne Boston
Gazette hears that the Emergency bill, placing
$780, 600 at the disposal of the Governor of Massa-
chusetts, was carried through the House because
intelligence received by the State officials, from
Hon. John Ii. Clifford and Hon. Stephen Ii. Phil
lips, who are at W Washington on law business that
there was every fear that Washington would be at
tackled prior to the l7th of February.
AMERICAN SHIPPING AT LIvERPooL.-Th The following
is an extract from a letter dated Liverpool, Jan.
10: GAS regards outward business there is very
little doing. There are seventy disengaged Amer
lean ships in port, at present. and but little ncli-
nation to charter American ships, on account of
the state of affairs in the United States; the un,
derwriters are fearful of insuring their cargOes,
fearing civil war and losses by privaeers."
The Spanish Consul recently recognized by the
President for the States of North and South Caro-
lima and Georgia, to be located at Charleston, has
taken up his abode there as it will appear from
the following from the Mercury of Tuesday:
We would direct attention to the notice of the
business office of the Spanish Consul, which will
be found elsewhere in our columns. The office is
in Law Range, No. 20 Broad street.
In Montreal the skating pond or rink is rooted
over, so as to prevent its being covered with
snow. 1t is lighted at night and the band of the
Canadian Rifles generally attends. The ladies fire.
quen it, wearing short dresses, looped up so as to
be out of the way, and Turkish trowsers.
A Georgia paper states that the town of Gordon,
situated tn Central Railroad at the junction of
the road to Mi!ledgevilie, has, by an ordinance
duly drawn Hp, signed and adopted by a meeting
Of the citizens of the place, formally receded from
Wilkinson county, State of Georgia.! The narrator
proposes to call it the independent city of Gordon.
The committee appointed to convey the remains
of General Harry Lee from Cumberland Island,
Ga, to the State of his nativity, have received a
passport through South Carolina from Col. Walter
Gwin, the present chief military engineer of that
republic.
The co!orcd population Of Boston numbers two
thousand and forty-eight, showing a decrease of
thirtysiX in the last ten years. There are thirty
eight families in which the husband is coored and
the wife white, and one only with white husband
and coored wife.
The opening of the Bergen Tunnel formally took
place on Wednesday. This tunnel is through Ber-
gen hill 4 800 feet The total cost of the tunne !,
approaches and long dock Sl,700 00O' 1t is
the terminus of The New York and Erie
railroad.
Grantley Berkeley has ready for q London pub.
Usher a book called ''The English Sportsman in
the Western Prairies." 1t is principally made up
Of the letters be sent from this country to a London
sporting journal.
Mr.. ThomasOn, a very wealthy and extensive
manufacturer of cotton goods at Bolton, England,
has invited his working people to invest their saw
ings of wages with him, and share in the profits
arising out Of his manufactures.
About 100000 hogs have been packed in Chica-
go, Illinois, this season, and from &c, 900 to 40 600