Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-09-20

LOT Committees from the Raleigh and Gas
ton and the North Carolina Railroad com
lpanies, and the city of Raleigh, with COM
lmittee of the stockholders in the Chatham
Railroad company, the object of which is
to revive the affairs of the latter road, by
| adopting measures for increasingsits stock
land recommending the work of putting it
in running order. It is contemplated, we
learn, to scale the present stock to the pres
ent real value, and thus provide for others
to come in on an equal footing: We hope
the deliberations of the conference may re-
suit in the adoption OF feasible plan for
finishing up the work on this important
road -Raleiqh Indec, It'll inst. ...-.ss.
INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, AND
THE BLrSD.-We spent an hour pleasantly
at this institution to-day and under the
guidance of the worthy principal, Mr.. w.
J. Palmer, obtained very fair inside view
of 1t. There are at present between sixty
and seventy pupils, with the certainty of a
large increase. Not only are the education
al departments in full operation, but the
mechanical branches, broom factory and
shoe making, have been resumed.
One of the young ladies, mute, wrote on
! a large slate, in neat round hand, original
sentences, and their arrangement showed
correct apprehension of grammar as well as
| facility of composition. Indeed the sys-
tenn of instruction appears to be as com
| plete as it is possible to make it. The pro-
fciency of the scholars is. in the highest
degree complimentary to Mr.. P. and his
corps of assistants.-R0letgh Progress. ...
SUNDAY SCHOOLS IN RALEIGH. We are
gratified to learn that Col. VIM. T. Ander-
son, Superintendent of the Episcopal Sun
! day School in this city, has III hand funds
sufficient for buildinga neat Sunday School
room, on the Church lot, and that the work
will be Immediately commenced. Part OF
the funds are the proceeds OF a Fair gotten
up by the ladies for that purpose last
| Spring. The building is to be finished by
| Christmas. -R0l. Sentinel. ... ....
DAVIDSON CoLIEGE.-The Trustees Of
this College met in Charlotte, on the 10Th
inst The resignation Of the President
Rev. DR.. Fitzpatrick, was accepted. He
goes to Lexington, Va, as a Professor in
Washington College. The Board deter
mined to re-organize the Faculty and to re-
invigorate the institution. Prof. Richard
son, of the University of Mississippi, was
elected Professor of Latin ana Greek and
Prof. J. II. Anderson Professor OF Bellies
Lettres.
] CARTEREr CoUNrY-At q meeting Of the
| friends of President JohnsOn's policy, held
at Newport, Carteret county, john NJ Per-
ry, Esq, was nominated as a candidate for
! the House of Commons. The choice Of
I Senator for the district Of Jones and Car
| teret belonging by arrangement to Jones
county, the meeting suggested the name OF
T. J. Whitaker, of Jones, for Senator
These are excellent nominations Mr.. Per
ry is Il young man of fine abilities and high
character, and would make q capital repre-
sentative.
COMMISSIONED Gov. Worth, in accord
| ance with an act OF the legislature, this
morning caused commissions TO be issued
! to Robert Bingham us ma or and professor
in the Bingham school, and John n. Nor
wood as captain and professor i'll the same
| institution.
The Fair at Henders n, which is to come
off on the 18th, 18th and 10Th proX, prom
| ises to be successful and attractive. 1t IS
unfortunate that one Of the days should
conflict with the general elections through
| out the State, but the crowd jill attendance
on the other two will probably be large and
imposing. We have been furnished with
the list of premiums arranged for the Fair,
which, considering the eXigenchies Of the
times is in every respect liberal.
Important to the IRON Interests OF the Uni
ted States.
The United States Consul at Sheffield
! England, under date Of August y, i'll q
communication tothe Secretary of the Urea
Sury, states that he was present at Noting
ham on the reading of a paper before the
British Association on the conversion Of
melted cast iron into steel by the pneuma-
tic process. \ discussion followed, which
was participated in by Mr.. Bessemer and
other gentlemen. Consul Abbot further
says that he called the attention of Mr..
Bessemer to what has been stated by his
opponent to be defect in his mode of con-
verting iron into steel, namely, that when
large masses of melted iron, amounting to
from three to twelve tons, are converted in
to STEEL it does not become homogeneous.
Mr.. Bessemer partly admitted the force
of the objection, but stated that in the
works near London an Improvement has
recently been made by which, after the in
PRODUCTION of the Spiegel Eisen, the whole
is stirred up by arms fitted to a revolving
cylinder. He also stated that the iron Of
the United States which he has seen was
peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of
steel by his process. In England only the
very best iron can be used for this purpose,
and that which is most free from foreign
substances, especially sulphur ana pnOSpno-
rus. The iron which is chiefly used in the
Bessemer Works are varieties of red hema-
tite, the best of which is found on More
Gamble Bay, near Furness Abbey. Consul
Abbot closes by saying: "Valuable as is
the invention of Mr. Bessemer, | cannot
recommend it to American manufacturers
unless they make use, in the process, of the
very best pig iron and that which is com
paratively free from sulphur, phosphorus
and other impurities. D
The following is an abstract of the re-
marks of Mr.. Bessemer, alluded to in the
communication of Consul Abbot Before
the introduction of his process the entire
production of steel in Great Britain was
one thousand tons per week, and now there
was machinery for the production, on his
process alone, of FIVE thousand tons in the
same period. One of the most valuable
purposes to which his steel was applied was
the construction of locomotive engines and
rails Where iron had been worn out in a
few months, steel rails had been in con-
slant use for four years, at the end of which
time the first side was still in use. At
Camden Town there was a portion of rail
way over which an immense amount of
traffic passed. An iron rail and a Bessemer