Year: 1860

ANEW MACHINE FOR TRANsPLANTING TREEs-Mr.
John A. G. Gray, one of the commissioners of the
Central Park, who returned from Europe in the
Africa, has brought with him drawing Of the
machine used in the Bois de Boulogne for trans.
planting large trees. 1t is the invention of the
gardener-in chief of the Bos, NJ. Bartlett. The
machine consists of solid frame of wood and iron,
with pole in front, by which it NAV be drawn
either by oxen or horses. 1t supports two heavy
barrewindlasses which are worked by levers and
ratchet wheels. The mode of transpantng with
it is this A trench some three feet deep is dug
around the tree three four feet from it. so as to
cut off bail of earth six eight feet in diameter
From opposite sides Of this ball small holes are
dug slanting downward and meeting in the CENTRE
so that chain can be run under the ball. The cir
cumference of the ball is wrapped round with
straw and ropes, so as to secure it against crumb
ling. The machine is then backed about the tree,
the rear windass, which is movable, being taken
out to admit of it. Then the windass is re-
placed; the chains passing under the ball are hook
ed on to the windasSes. The tree is now wheels
and may be transported to considerable distance
without damage, and dropped into the place where
it is desired. There a great many large and
beautiful trees the upper part of the island and
near the Central Park, which are being cut away
by the march of Improvement continually and
which, if added to the attractions of the Park, as
they may be in this way, would Immediately sup
ply its greatest deficiency the want of shade The
commission will probably nave one of these ma
chimes built without delay. II is easy to increase
the size of the machine as to take in still larger
trees, by increasing the distance between the axles
and allowing the frame to stand outside of them.-
~ Y Tribune.


AT THE CApIToL.-Preparatory to the meeting of
Congress, the Capitol is being renovated and put
in its usual order. Since the last session, several
changes have been made of no little Importance.
The seats and desks have been returned to the
House ball, and the benches, of course, removed
This is in accordance with the resolution passed at
the last session. The desk of the government re.
porters, in front of the Clerks desk has been
remodeed, so that those untiring gentlemen may
have more room. The old Senate chamber, where
Webster, and Clay, and Benton, and Calhoun and
first orators have entranced 'listening Senates"
and held crowded galleries enthraed by their eIo-
quence, is now nearly completed, for the use of the
Supreme Court at its approaching December term.
The change consists in the removal of the ladies'
gallery and the dais which occupied by the Vice
Presidents chair well the desks of the secretary
and his clerks and the substitution instead of the
latter of a long PLATFORM with heavy wood railing,
for the of the Chief Justice and his associates


square enclosure in front of the bench has been
rallied off for the of the bar, and outside of that
seats will be provided for visitors. Thus, this
august tribunal, the highest judicial body known
TO our laws so long imprisoned in one of tn e sub
terranean vaults of the Capitol building, will now
be brought ont into the open daylight, and hold its
sittings in chamber to which its exalted and
distinguished position in the government entities it.
The rooms of the Court of Claims have been changed
az we have stated and many other improvements
made which were necessary. The general press
reporters and correspondents would be a thousand
times obliged to Capt. Franklin if he will afford
them the same facilities, in fitting up the room in
the of the Senate with the cOnveniences given
the same class over at the House.-Sdes and Union.


GUN PRovIYG.-On Friday large mum Der of
cannon, cast at the Fort Pitt works previous to
the destruction Of the old works by fire, were
proved under the inspection of Lieut.. Boggs at the
new proving ground, on the right bank of the Ale
ghany river, nearly opposite Tarentum. Twenty
one of the guns were "a pr. howitZers carrying a
six inch ball, and eight AZ pr. columbiads, and all
stood the test of firing as completely as that of
measurement. Some curious illustrations of the
force and rapid flight of the balls observed in
the firing. Two OF the balls ranging rather low,
passed through "worm fence" one of them cut
out its width from the rail next the top, without
moving it from its place, although merely kept in
position by the ends of two adjoining rails, and the
other sheared off the end of rail- dropping it with
out lifting it out of place. One of the howitzers
was fired at large sycamore tree, and it was sup
posed the shot had missed, the tree gave indi
cations of having been hit. 1t was afterwards
brought down by training two of the 64 Founders
on 1t at the same time, when it was found that the
six inch ball, fired with the light gun charge, had
passed entirely through the tree, and knocked down
another small tree in range at some distance back.
One of the sixty -four pound (eight inch) balls had
also passed right through the centre of the tree,
and the other cut out its width on one side Ac-
cording to the experiments of Dir. Hutton, the
flight of cannon ball is {, 700 feet in one quarter
of minute, equal to five miles per minute, or
three hundred miles per hour. 1t follows, there
fore, that railroad train, going at the rate of
seventy-five miles per hour, has velocity one
fourth that of a cannon ball.-Pihsburg DESPATCH
Oct. %.


THE DISADVANTAGE OF GIVING A FIcrIrIoUs NAME
On Thursday night last, Wide Awake be-
longing to one of the country delegations, having
imbibed rather freely during and after the Repub-
lican ollification that night, was found asleep
on door step Penn street and taken to the
tombs, where he gave a fictitious name, under
which he committed to Jail on Friday morning.
Soon after his committal, some friends, aware of
his condition on the night previous, came to the
city, and finding him in Jail, set about having him
released. To do this an order from the commit
ting magistrate was necessary, but the records of
every alderman in the city were searched in vain.
At last the victim remembered that he had been
sent up from the Mayors Office, but his name could
not be found the docket and it not until late
in the afternoon that he was finally released he
having forgotten the name he had given the Off
GERS the night before. Next time ne is arrested he
will give his real name, and thus save his friends
much trouble and shorten his own term of impris-
onment.-PitsbHrg Post.