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ATHENS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 10, 1838.
“ Hush ! hush your gabble!” said the doc.
tor—“ there now! you’ve made the augur;
the trappan I would say, slip, by your con
founded talking.”
Whether it was that he was roused by the
small model on a wooden rail way in the Ad.
elaide-street exhibition-room. We have our-
selves at that place instituted the following ex
periments, with the results here detailed.---
The moving power was a spiral main spring
Sutton plane on the Manchester Railway,
followed fay above 100 tons of goads, and al
though not particularly timid, we cannot deny,
that we loft considerable apprehensions, when
applying the
of such an amount that the
was barely able to overcome
t incapable of moving the load,
the carriage and- load were
the undulating rail way, and
ing power impelled the load
with considerable velocity from
s other; and lest any difference
l exist between the extremities,
caused the same experiment to be made in
- contrary direction, which was attended
the model, a
the load be-
mce on a Icv-
: load with fa-
same distance
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THOUGHTS IN A PLACE OF WORSHIP.
One prayer to Thee, my God, one prayer to Thee,
In this Thy house of worship, ere my thoughts
Have wandered from Thy presence. Give mo now
To feel that Thou art here, and that to Thee
Belongs the incense of a grateful heart,
Which worldly cares engage. Assist me now
To leave the world without, and humbly bow
Before Thy footstool, there beseeching Thee
To mould me to Thy will. Oh ! Thou bast laid
Thy hand on those to whom I fondly clung,
And snatched them to Thyself, and I am left
To learn the way that leads to Thee, and feel
My need of Him who suffered on the cross
For me—for all. And I have stood
Beside the loved remains of her whose care
Had guided my young footsteps,—saw the grave
Forever close upon tho face, whose smile
Was light to me, and felt,—yes, then I felt,
That to lie down like her, and be at peace,-
Would be the only balm.
Days, weeks and years,
Have past, and time, with lenient hand.
Has brought relief;—But thero are hours
Of deep dejection, and of bitter thought,
That, like a withering blight, steal over all
That I have known of happiness;
And though fast fading :.ito dim remembrance.
Are all tho tr ices of thy sojourn hero,
And strangers take the place which knew thee once,
Yet still thy hallowed image visits me !
And when within Thy courts, thou Prince of Peace,
My feeble prayers are offered, then—oh ! then,
Docs fancy view thee, in the heavenly choir,
With intercessions to tho Throne of Heaven,
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Augusta, July 13—17—-it.
n w rnx motto* « w a From “ The Life and Adventures of Dr. Dodimus
EBjABESaLS v ft]ij&jR'j, QnEiVuIxlA. Duckworth, A. N. Q.” to be published in a few days
rSIHE undersigned respectfully announces to the j by ^ r> Stodart of Now York.
-£L public, that he still continues to conduct the j BORING A DUTCHMAN’S SKULL,
above well known establishment, where he will at all | Yaccup Donervogel, a bruising Dutchman,
tunes be happy to accommodate his friends and custo- i,... • j. . ■ . i
, in- having one nay cot into a battle with Baraev
incrs. Having recently nude some valuable improve I n J b J
O’Blunderbuss, the Hibernian gave him such
a blow on the sconce, that he was taken up
lor dead
Barney in a great fright ran for the doctor
Iv’c kilt a man ! Iv’e kilt a man, doctor
—ciane dead as a door nail; and l want you
should run and see him instantly afore lie’s
ciane gone and past all redemption. Och
, „ . , and ahonc! that iver I should come to Amer-
l he Hotel is so constructed a3 to furnish spacious . > i , , , , ,
and private accommodations for several families, bo ,ka t0 , bc when there a SO much hemp
sides the ordinary custom. Tho stables are exten- ra * scc l M ould Ireland
JVotice.
“ Who is the man ?” asked the doctor.
“ And whoj should he be,” returned the
Irishman, “ofall the world, but Mishter Don-
ervogeljthe fightin Dutchman, that’s for knock
ing ivery body down that stands afore him!
bad luck to him.”
“ Tis bad luck to him, sure enough, if you
have killed him.”
“ He’s kilt docthor, he’s kilt clanc dead ;
and that’s the raison I’m after ye in such a
hurry. I hope they wont hang me quite saa-
ia it was’nt done with malice afther afore
thought, but in a joutulc combat, as one jon-
tlcman kills another the world round. Saint
Patrick he knows I didn’t mane to kill him at
all at all.”
As the patient was no father off than land-
Ha has purchased the establishment at present occu- lord Lovejov’s the doctor was inst-uitly by his
pied as a Tavern by Dr. TINSLEY, where he will side. He was lying in a bar-room'on the
be prepared lor the accommodation of Families.— i . 1 _• . . .
mu I i • n i u • bench, without seuse or motion: unci the bv.
Tho stand is well known as being every way eligible. * * - v
No exertions will bo spared to merit a continuance ; standefs, of whom there were a considerable
of that liberal patronage, by which he lias been en- number collected, believed him to be fairly
agitation his braiu received, from the augur;
or whether he was re-called to his senses by
the returning powers of nature, one thing is
certain, that in a very short time Donervogel,
who had merely been stunned, opened his
eyes and exclaimed,—« What tc tyfel i3 you
toin mit mide hcadt?”
“ Boring it out,” returned the doctor.
“ Poria it out,” said the patient, putting his
hand up aud seizing hold of the auger. “ Vat
for you pore it out, ha ?”
“ Hold still! and ask no questions, you
thunder-bird,” said the doctor, endeavoring to
continue the revolutions of the auger.
“ Holt still! mine Gott!” exclaimed Don-
crvogel, in great warmth and astonishment,
sitting up and endeavoring to wrench the in
strument from the hands of the operator,
while the blood streamed down over his lace
“ Holt shtill! and let you pore mine head
trough yust like one blog of woat mit a tain
tull augur! I no understandl it.”
Duckworth still held fast to the instrument,
and insisted upon finishing the opertion ; alle
ging that it would be a great shame to let a
patient go through the street with his cranium
half bored through. But as Donervogel
thought the boring he had already had was
quite sufficient, and seemed not at all dispo
sed to submit to the further use of the augur,
the surgeon desired some of the bystanders to
hold him, while he finished the operation
“But the man is alive and kicking,” said
one—“ what more do you want ?”
“ That’s nothing to the case,” replied the
doctor. “ As to his being alive—any dead
man might be that under skilful hands—but it
is very ungrateful in him to pretend to come
to life, before I had fairly trepanned him—
and for his kicking and struggling, I desire
that he may be kept still until I finish the job
Will one of you assist me?”
“ That will I,” said Barney, stepping for-
ward and seizing hold of the arm of the Dutch
man; “ I’ll hilp you docthor dear, for I kilt
him and its no more nor right I should hilp to
cure him; so docthor, you bore away, whiles
I’ll be after holding his hands still.” “ Dun
der!” exclaimed Donervogc-l, and springing
upon his feet, he freed his arms from the grasp
of the Irishman, and wrenching the augur vi
olently from the hands of Duckworth, he
struch him over the head with the handle of
the instrument, and would have laid him
sprawling oh the floor, had he not been caught
by the bystanders. By a rapid movement
he next proceeded to knock down the Irish
man ; and by repeated blows would have dis
patched him out right, had he not been seized
and disarmed by the spectators.
Both the doctor and the Hibernian, howcv-
er, recovered without surgical aid; and the
Dutchman having got a shoemaker to stitch
up his scalp with an awl, was in a very few
days, ready for any new scrape into which
his boxing and bruising disposition might lead
him.
HE subscriber tenders his thanks to his custo
mers, for tho liberal patronage ho has hitherto
received. Besides continuing the business at his old
stand, known as the '
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eouraged thus to extend his business.
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March 1G—52—tf.
The Xew Yorli illercnpy,
dead.
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while.”
“ It’s just upon him,” said another, he’s
I S published every Wednesday at noon and sent ■ , ,
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Athens, 11th May, 1833.—8tf.
Dissolution.
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July 13—17—lt.
“ Who struck first?” asked a third.
“The Dutchman,” said one.
“ The Irishman,” said another.
• “ No, ’twas the Dutchman,’* repeated the
first, “for 1 see him with my own eyes.”
“ I say ’twasn’t the Dutchmau,” said the
second, “ for I was looking on all the time
and sec the Irishman strike first.”
“ I tell you ’twas the Dutchman.”
“ And I tell you you don’t know any thing
about it. Barney gin the first blow, and he’ll
have to be hanged if either on ’em.”
Thus they disputed aud were near coming
to blows among themselves. As for Duck-
worth, as soon as he saw the patient, lying
mute and motionless, and to all appearance,
dead, he declared he must be trepanned. No
sooner said than at it they went.
“ In the first place,” said he, flourishing a
scalpel,” I must denude the cranium by a criss
cross incision.” Thus saying, he cut down
to the bone, in the fore part of tho head, and
turned up the scalp.
“ Now,” continued he, “ the next thing is
ta bore through the skull: and here I apply
the trepan.”
As he said this, he produced an inch au
gur, and applying it to the cranium, begun
vigorously to turn it round and round.
“Do you call that a trappan, Doctor?”
asked one.
“ Don’t disturb the operation by foolish
questions, ’ returned the doctor, still vigorous
ly plying the carpenter’s tool.
“It looks to me,” said another, ‘*very
much like , a common pod-augur; and if it
'twasn’t in the doctor’s hands, I should say
’twas one; howsomever the doctor knows
best,
From the London Athcncum.
Undulating Rail-Way.—This contrivance,
we have already cursorily noticed, has oc-
casioned some discussion among scientific
and practical men; but it docs not appear that
any explanation of its effects has been sug-
gested. Indeed, we are inclined to think,
that the patentees themselves aro not fully
aware of the physical principle on which the
advantage which they have undoubtedly gain
ed, depends.
The problem is one, the full illustration
and development of which would require the
language and symbols of mathematical phys
ics ; some notion of it may, however, be con-
eyed in such a manner as to be intelligible
to the reader. We shall first state what it is
that the undulating rail way performs, in
which the level rail way fails; and wc shall
next explain the physical law on which this
depends.
Hitherto, it has been received as a prac
tical axiom, that rail ways can only be advan
tageously applied between points where a
uniform dead level can be obtained. Now
the patentees of the undulating rail way main
tain a proposition which is the logical con
tradictory of this. They hold, that even if
the projected be naturally a dead level, it
must be artificially cut into ups and , downs,
as to keep the load constantly ascending and
descending until the journey is completed;
and in so doing, they assert that the trims
port is produced in a considerably less time
with the same moving power, or in the same
time with a much less expenditurn of the
moving principle. Again, it has been held
as a practical axiom, that if on a rail way, it be
comes necessary to ascend from one level to
another, the ascent is most advantageously
made by a plane uniformly inclined from the
lower to the higher level. On the contrary-
the patentees of the undulating rail way hold
that the ascent is efiected with a lesser pow
er, by dividing.the intervals, into ups and
downs, so as to cause the carriage alternate
ly to descend and ascend until it arrives at the
upper level. Indeed, one of these propqsi
tions follow from the other, for if a greater
momentum is generated in going from one
point to another of the same level, by adula
tion in the rail way, that excess of momentum
will carry the load to a greater height than
the momentum which the same power would
generate on a lqvel rail way,
These facts have been illustrated by
regulated by a fusee: a load was placed on
level rail way of such an amount
moving power was barely able
the friction, but incapable
In this state the
transferred to
the same
with case and
one end to the other
oflevel Should exist
thp
with precisely the same result. Hence
was evident that, at least with the
power incapable of transferring the
tween two points at a given distance
cl rail way transferred the same load
cility and despatch through the
on the undulating rail way.
Our second experiment was as follows;—
We loaded the carriage in the same manner
on the level rail way, so that the power was
barely able to the friction, but incapable of
moving the load. Wc then transferred the
power and load to a rail way, the remote ex
tremity of which rose above tho nearer ex
tremity at the rate of one inch in eight feet,
The power which was thus incapable of mo
ving the load on the level, easily transferred
the same load from end to end of the undula
ting railway, and at the same time actually
raised it through one perpendicular inch for
every ninety-six inches of its progress along
the horizontal line.
Among the scientific men who have wit
nessed this exhibition, many, it is said, have
declared, what indeed appears at first to be
the case, - tho result is contrary to the
established principles of mechanics. We do
not perceive, however, any difficulty in the
phenomenon.
The effective impelling power when a load
is tracked upon a rail way, must be estima
ted by the .excess of the actual impelling pow
er above the friction. Now, it is well known
that the friction, being proportional to the
pressure, is less on an inclined than on a
horizontal rail way. The same impelling
power which on the level rail way, is only
equal to the friction, and therefore incapable
of accelerating the load, becomes effective on
the inclined rail way, where it is greater
than the friction. The excess, therefore, be-
comes a means of generating velocity, so that
when the load arrives at the extremity of the
undulating line, a quantity of velocity has
been communicated to it, which is propor
tional to the excess of the friction on the un-
dulating, above the friction on the level line.
This is theoretically speaking, a decided and
undeniable advantage which tho inclined rail
way possesses over the level. " \Vc could
make the point still more, clear, if we were
addressing mathematical readers.
Now, if it bo admitted that at the extremi
ty of the undulating line, a velocity is gener
ated in the moving body much greater- than,
any which could be produced by tho same
power acting on the level line, it will follow
demonstratively that this velocity will lie suf
ficient to carry the load up a certain height,
bearing a fixed proportion to the velocity it-
self; and hence it will be perceived that a
moving power, which is incapable of moving
tho load on a dead level, will be capable not
only of moving it between the extremities of
an undulating line when at the same level,
hut even of raising it to a higher level.
But the practical application of this prin
ciple seems to promise still greater advanta
ges. In tlic above reasoning, we have as
sumed that the impelling power acts with
a uniform energy in accelerating tho tnotiop
of the load. This, however, is not the ease
when steam power is applied: the load soon
obtains a maximum velocity, and the engine
becomes incapable of supplying steam fast
enough to produce effective pressure on the
piston. The cylinder, in this case, receives
steam from the boiler oply at the same rate as
it is discharged by the motion of the piston,
and scarcely any direct effect is produced by
its pressure fin the piston.- In tho undulating
railway, the working of the engine will be
suspended during each descent, and a part of
the succeeding ascent. .In this interval the
steam will be nursed and accumulated so ag
to be applied with its utmost possible energy
the moment the velocity on- the brow of the
hill begins to decline. When the load sur
mounts the summit, and. begins to descend
the next hill, the operation of the engine will
be again suspended, and its powers reserved,
and accumulated fqr the next ascent. The
duty of the engine will thus be, fiot to produce
steam constantly at a great rate, but to pro-
duce steam of excessive energy for short and
distant periods. Every one who knows the
practical working* of bigh-pressure engines,
will see the advantage likely to result from
this circumstance.
When tho line connecting two points at the
same level is thus resolved into curves, the
motion of the engine may not inaptly be conri
pared to that of a pendulum, and the moving
principle stands in the place of namUtining
power, the functions of which. are the same
drag to moderate the uiry of
was instantly burned to a cinder,
ower ot gravity in descending a plane
kind, which only falls one foot in nine-
ty six, is perfectly uncontroloblo—end if
great descents be attempted, we very much
tear that the-velocities will hardly be consis
tent with safety. It would be premature*
however, to pass judgment on what after all
can only be decided by expericacnt. Mean-
whilo, we have no hesitation in stating, what
every scientific man, after reading what we
have above said, will confirm, that thera is-
nothing erroneous ia principle, us many have
supposed, in the project. On tke contrary,
whatever be the impelling however, it will be
undoubtedly rendered doubly effective, by
the advantage gained by being, enabled to
suspend the action of the moving principle
from time to time, so as to collect its ener
gies.
We arc glad to learn that the patentees
have obtained the means of constructing an
undulating line of rail way of some miles in
extent, tor the purpose of testing on a large
scale what they have already proved on a
model.
Their success will mainly depend on the
judicious adaptation and selection of tho
curved into which the lines will be divided. It
may be worth while to consider, whether tho
common cyclovlmay not bo rendered, vuluablo
by its well known properties. It wiil likewise
require consideration, what succession of curves
will give a maximum advantage, when the ex-
trcmitics of the line are at different levels,
and to provide not only for the efficient as
cent from the lower to the higher level, but
likewise for the safety of the descent in tho
contrary direction.
Although upon the whole we have a strong
persuasion of the ultimate advantages of this
project, yet we can see macy practical diffi.
culties which still stand in the way of tho
patentees and which will require not ouly ex
pense, but no little ingenuity to overcome.
us
On ftie other hand, it is right to consider
the practical objections to this projected im
provement. The very small amount of fri®*
tion on iron rail-ways renders the rate of mo
tion when descending an incline frightfully
great. Wc have 'ourselves descended the
The editor of the New York American, in
his review of the new publications of the week,
thus notices Phxpon or a. Dialogue on'the im
mortality of the Sou!, by Plato ; translated,
from tbfi original Creek by Mutism Dacicr :
New York, W. Cowan:
“ It is certainly remarkable, that a writer,
whom Panceliusaud Quintillianuniteinterming
the Homer of Philosophers, and whose system
of doctrines as unto'ded in the work before us,
almost procured him divine honors among the
ancients, should now for tho^ first time appear
from an American press; yet such we aro
told by the preface is the case, and so far as
our knowledge extends, it is really so. It
may be curious to glance at his system. Pla
to, as Plutarch indeed mentions, in dwelling
on the opinions of philosophers, admitted three
first principles—God, matter, idea—meaning
not exactly one only divine personage by th.
first, but a universal intelligence, and super
adding the supposed existence of 3 classes of
divinities or different kinds of gods. Matter
he believed always to have existed, and to
have been moulded into shapes animate and
inanimate, but not croatcd, by the divine pow
er. Idea.was an incorporeal substance resi
dent in the divine mind. - This last, if we un-
derstand the text rightly, he held to be capa.
ble of division, so that each soul was an em
anation from tho Godhead, and might be resu.
med again and merged in the same. ia3t
process, however, was only temporary, for tho
purpose of purification ; lor, believing in -tho
transmigration of souls, he taught that after a
certain season they were dismissed again to
earth to animate new bodies, and thus- went
a continual round of defilement and purifica
tion, without any eternal resting place being
provided for them : a creed, which, though it
might satisfy Cato’s “ longing after immortal-
ity,” lias but little to recommend it to thoso
who with our bettor lights, regard the tomb
as a resting place for tho weary, and tho
bourne beyond it as one of bliss from which
there is no return. And yet how beautiful
and just are the sentiments of the heathen phi
losopher, and how sweet the language in
which they are delivered in the passage that
hero closes this notice:
“ If the soul is immortal, it stands ia need
of cultivation and improvement, not only in
the time that we call the time of life; but
for the future, or what we call the time of
eternity. For if you think justly upon this
point, you will find it very dangerous to neg
lect the soul,. • Were death the dissolution of
the whole man, it would be a great advantage
to the wicked after death, to be rid at once of
their body, their soul, and their vices. But
for as much as the sottl is immortal, the only
way to avoid thoso evils Aid obtain salvatioq,
is to become good add wiso. For it carries
nothing along with it, but its good or bad ac
tions, and its virtues or vices, \yhich are the
cause of its eternal happiness or miseiy, com.
mencing from th® first minute of its arrival in
thp pther world; and It is said that after the
death of every individual person, the demon or,
M s that was partner with it. aqd conduct*.
duringJife, leads -it' to a f certain place,
'where'all the dead are obliged to appear in
order to be judged, and from thence are con-
ducted by a guide to the world below. And
after they have there received their good
or bad deserts, and continued there their ap
pointed time, another conductor brings them
back to this life after several revolutions of
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