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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. VOL. 1-NO. 51. The Savannah Daily Herald (MORNING AND EVENING} 18 hr HUSHED by O. \v. MASON 4fc CO., At lit Bat Street, Savannah, Georgia, teems: Ter Copy Five Cect*. Per Hundred $3 50. Per Year. $lO 00. ADVERTISING: Two Dollars per Square of Ten Lines for first in sertion ; One Dollar lor each subsequent one. Ad vertisements inserted in the morning, will, if desired, appear in the evening without extra charge. JOB PRINTING every style, neatly and promptly done. ST. PATRICK’S DAYIN CHARLESTON. [From the Charleston Courier, 18th. 1 The anniversary of Ireland’s Patron Saint was celebrated yestesday with the old spirit and enthusiasm by tlie St. Patrick’s Benevo lent Society. The Society assembled at half-past eight a. m., in Masonic Hall, from which they march ed in procession to St- Mary’s Church, Hasell street, and ufier the usual service, listened to an eloquent discourse by the Rev. Dr. Baker, who officii t :d on the occasion. After service, the procession was reformed and marched back to the - Hall, where the annual election of officers took place, with the following result. Thos. Maher, President. James Cosgrove, Vice President. John Lb Kennedy, 2d Vice President. John McMahon, Secretary. Bernard Roddin, Treasurer. Committee on Finance—Garrett Bums. A. Farley, John Barry, James Wallace, Janies Powers. , Committee on Relief— Patrick Darcey, James Barry, Michael Kennedy, George Tandy, James Shannahan, Edward Kenne dy, Thos. Finnegan. Committee on Letters—Michael Feehan, Edward Wallace, Patrick Kennedy. The members of the Society, about one hundred and fifty in number, with their in vited guests, then sat down to a bountiful collation, gotten up by the Committee of Arrangements. At one end of the hall was the Society’s banner, alongside of and blended with a beautiful United States flag. R. W. Sey mour, Esq., presided at the head of the ta ble iii the absence of the former President, Rev. Mr. Crogan. We were pleased to meet at the board many old and familiar faces, for a long time absent in involuntary exile.— Conspicuous among others, was "Mr. P. J. Coogan, Mr. Mulvancy, and others. Among the invited guests we observedF. A. Sawyer, Esq. A committee which had been deputed to wait on Col. Woodford and invite him to be present, shortly afterwards arrived, accom panied by that officer and Admtant General Henry A. Batterson. On the appearance of Col. Woodford the company rose and greet ed him with hearty cheering. He was re ceived and welcomed by the Chairman in a brief and patriotic speech, to which the Col onel responded in a very happy manner, fre quently interrupted by the applause and de monstrations of delight made bv the assem bly. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Coo gan thanked the Colonel for his visit and said they lelt more than doubly honored in .be ing the first organized society that had the privilege and pleasure, since the rebellion, of having the presence of an officer represent ing the United States in the city of Charles ton. They would, therefore, if agreeable request the further honor oi |. entering his name as an honorary member of the society. On the Colonel's nodding assent, the motion w-as put and unanimously carried with great applause. We regret that our limited space prevents us fiom giving a luller report of the proceed ings, with the speeches of the Chairman,Col. Woodford, Mr. F. A Sawyer, P. J. Coogan, Mr Mulvaney and others. These we shall reserve for another issue. CEMETERY REPORTS. REPORT OF INTERMENTS IN LAUREL GROVE CEM ETERY. March 11. —Joseph Sliebo, Cos. L, Sth In diana Cavalry; Thomas Lee Rice, 1 year and 6 mouths, inflammation of bowels, Savannah. March 12.—John Berrien Auderson, 3 years and 5 months, typhoid fever, Savaunah. March 13.—Josiali W. Landrum, 8 days, lockjaw, Savannah; Shadrick Neidliuger, Effingham county, Ga. March It.—Elizabeth B. Barnwell, 39 years, phthisis pulraonalis, South Carolina ; Ann Maria Elkins, 4 years and 1 mouth, ac cidental death, Savannah. March 16.—John A. Lester, Cos. A, 14th Ohio; Abram Ankerman, Cos. A, 75th In diana. March 16.—Peter Dercharap, Cos. C, 13th Connecticut; Tobias Hites, Cos. I, 15th Iowa; Margaret M. Charlton, 55 years, and six months, abcess, Savaunah; Joseph Kratt, Cos. A , 2d Massachusetts. March 17.—Win. T. Janvrin, Cos. D, 14th New Hampshire; Hanford Knapp, 74 years, 4 months and 20 days, diarrhoea, Connecticut’. March,, lt>.—Thomas Corbitt, Cos. A, 18th Indiana ; Wm. James Bulloch, 47 years, ty phoid fever, Savannah. March 10.—Hiram Coney, Cos. G, 13th Mich.; Elias B. Giilman, Cos. C, 12tli Maine; Richard M. J. Tollman, Cos. D, 128th New York. March 20.—Tilfa Daniels, 3 years and 0 months, measles, Savannah; llenry Pad gett, 0 years, dysentery, South Carolina. CATHEDRAL CEMETERY. March 13.—John Gutley, 3 years, measles, Savannah. March 14—Louis Napoleon Purstill, 4 years, spasms, Savannah. March 18.—Michael Boylan, aged 53 years, Ireland. March 1 o.—Mrs. Margaret Huckett. In a suit brought to recover the value of goods destroyed by fire in a steamboat depot at New London, where they were stored, it has been decided that the responsibility of the steamboat company, as common carriers, when the goods were delivered on the wharf. By this decision, all goods are at the owner s vise while between the steamboat and store, as insurance companies only insure goods at the wharf. 6 SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 18(55. FROM MEXICO. * We have received advices from Mexico.— The four thousand prisoners captured at Oaxaca, have been removed to Puebla.— Among them were several deserters from the French army, who had been entrusted with important commands by the defending party. It is supposed that the prisoners will be de tailed to labor on public works. The dis persion of various guerrilla bands is reported. The Estapette and Franco Mexican journals declare that, in consequence of the fall of Oaxaca, the Juarist Generals Eclieagary and Jid is Garcia, have both given in their ad hesion to the Empire. Marshal Bavaine had arrived at the Capitol, returning from his successful expedition against Baxaca. M. Bonnefauds, the Inspector of finances sent by the French Government on a mission to Mexico, has arrived at the Capitol. He is accompanied by other officials, and it is sup posed that liis errand is to arrange pecuniary matters between the French and Mexican Governments. The French steam war fri gate Rhiro, and several other French vessels, have been lost in a storm off Mazatlan. By order of the Emperor, a war department, with the necessary officers and officials, has been formed in Mexico. MAXMILLIAN ON RELIGION. The mail from Mexico brings the text of the Emperor Maximilian s decree of religious toleration, the promulgation of which has been previously announced, but the entire text ot which is now for the first time trans lated lor the Associated Press. Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, having, consulted our Council of Ministers* we here by decree the following: Article 1. The Emperor protects the Catho lik Apostolical Roman Church as the religion of the State. Article 2. Free and ample toleration is ex tended throughout the territory of the Empire to all religions which are not opposed to morality, civilization and good habits. The establishment of anew religion, will, how ever, require the authorization ot the Govern ment. Article 3. As circumstances may require, instructions will be issued to the Police, re garding the exercise of religions. Article 4. The Council ot State shall be in formed of any abuses committed by the local authorities against the exercise of other re ligions, and against the liberty which the laws guarantee to the ministers. This decree shall be deposited in the archives of the Empire, and published in the official journal. Given in the Palace of Mexico, the 26th of February, 1865. , Maximilian. By order of His imperial Majesty. The Minister of Justice, Pedro Escudero Y. Echanave. . From Nassau. Dates to March 11. We have received a copy of the Nassau Advertiser of March 11, from which we make the following extracts. ASSEMBLY. The House of Assembly is at present em ployed on the Estimates, Petitions and Ac counts, with the view of making up and passing the Appropriation Act. The work ot legislation proceeds very harmoniously and rapidly. Large appropriations will no doubt be made for necessary Public Works, not only in Nas sau, but also on the out Islands of the Gov ernment. We are glad to notice that the claims of the Out Islands to their share of the Public funds, are being so handsomely ac knowledged by the Legislature, and that works of uttility will no doubt be speedily commenced among them. We are also pleas ed to notice that our new Governor gives, without the slightest reserve, in his various messages to the Legislature, the country the benefit of his enlightened and practical views on all subjects comiug within the scope of his observation. EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES IN CUBA. Intelligence has been received from Cuba, that a petition signed by over 100 of the principal planters of the island has been pre sented to the Captain General, urgiDg him to use bis best endeavors with the Queen of Spain for the abolition of slavery in that is and. THUNDER SHOWER. This morning during a heavy and grateful shower of rain, a startling peal of thunder accompanied by a brilliant flash of lightning, occurred. We understand that the residence of Messrs, Squires & Brothers was struck by the electric fluid, but no considerable dam age was done. TRADES. The following is an abstract of the Trade of the Port for the week ending Saturday, March 11th: INWARDS. Liverpool, assorted cargo, 1 Coal 1 2 Halifax, ditto 1 Swansea, Coal 1 St John’s, assorted cargo, 1 Bath, Me., ditto, 1 Cuba, ditto 1 Key West, ditto, 1 Bermuda, ditto, 2 OUTWARDS. Liverpool, assorted cargo, .2 Halifax, ditto, .- 2 St. Domingo, ditto 2 Beaufort, sugar, <fce 1 Cuba, salt 1, lumber 1, 2 Death of the Reiiel Gen. Whiting.— Major-General W. H. C. Whiting, who sur rendered to General Terry and Commodore Porter, with the garrisou of Fort Fisher, died yesterday at Governor’s Island, N. Y. He was about forty years of age. Whiting was a Mississippian by birth, and was educated at West Point, receiving his appointment from President Tyler. When he graduated in 1845, he was assigned to duty, and remained in the United States service until Feb. 20, 1861, when he resigned his commission and joined the rebels in Georgia, having removed to that State after receiving his military education. He was soon afterwards appointed a Briga dier-General by the rebels, and served uuiler Beauregard at Bull Rud. He was in the seven days' battles, and was promoted to be a Major-general. Afterwards he was sent to Wilmington, and the defences of Cape Fear river were constructed under his direction. He was considered, next to Beauregard, th'e ablest engineer officer in the rebel service. FROM KITORPE. Steamship Hansa, from Southampton on the Ist of March, has arrived at this port with three days later advices from Europe. A despatch from Nassau, of Jan. 26th, says. The following vessels. Flamingo, Falcon! Ilausa, Banshee, Stag, Emily, Dream, Secre * Night Hawk, Wild Rover, Susan, Bierne, Badger, Star, Rothsay Castle, Ellen Denma, Kenitworth, Marmhm, Mars, Little Hattie, Mory and Ella, Colonel Lamb, Watson, Alice, and General Clinch, are lying here idle, part of them having never made a run. The Vulture and Evelyn have gone to Ha vana for repairs. It is reported that the Will otthe Wisp has been captured off Galveston In the House of Commons on Monday, Feb. 27th, the adjourned debate on Mr. Henesey's motion respecting the state of Ireland was resumed by Mr. Roebuck against the mo tion, and ascribing the whole thing as a whining tor money for Ireland. Several other members addressed the House, among them Lord Palmerston', who in a long speech expressed his opinion that the want of capital was at the root of Ire land's woes. He thought the opinion of the House was against the proposal for a grant of public money; but if the motion was made for the re-appointment of the committee of last year, the government would be ready to accede • it. The House divided on tlie motion, and it was negatived by 107 to 31 votes: The Moniteur publishes the preface of the “History of Julius Caesar,” written by the Emperor of the French, which we published on the Ist of March. The Avenir National says: The correspondence we have received from Turin communicates to us the following news, obtained direct from Rome: The con gregation of the Index has received orders from the Pope to examine scrupulously the “Life of Catesar,” by Napoleon 111, mime diately it appeals, The Times of February 24th says: ' By this time the public will have been en abled to digest the intelligence communicat ed by Mr. Seward’s proposition for terminat ing the American war, by a combined attack of the belligerents on some Foreign Power. In the speculation itself there" was little novelty. We now learn on official authority, that this characteristic idea has been not only entertained, but deliberately discussed and considered by the representatives of the bel ligerent governments in conference assem bled. W ith the Confederate envoys, it was Jie solution which they “seemed chiefly to ,avor.” They suggested that the question of *Union or separation should sbe left in sus pense ; that in the meantime there should “be a mutual direction of the efforts of the Government, as well as those of ■the insurgents, to some extrinsic policy or scheme for a season, ” and that negotiations on the great point at issue should he resum ed after this diversion had produced its pal liative effects. It is stated that Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Sew ard did, m the course of the interview, rec ognize the prospect of foreign complications, and the probability that England, rather than France, would be the country involved. We must admit, too, that the “scheme,” if it was thus recommended by the South, had been conceived with considerable ingenuity iu the interests of the seceders. By tlie time the “extrinsic policy” had been carried into execution and brought to an end, the Feder al would have become accustomed to live without the Confederates, and to see in the Southern Republic only a kindred State and natural ally. We hope the public will hot lose sight of the fact that the adoption ot an “extrinsic policy,” at the expense ot inno cent neutrals, has actually been entertained and debated by the chief authorities of the two American governments. If the “scheme” was hatched by President Davis and his col leagues, it was at any rate taken into dispas sionate consideration by President Lincoln and his Secretary of State, while Mr. Seward himself is at the pains to inform us that it was not objected to for an instant on its own merits or from any consideration which a turn in the events of the civil war might not immediately remove. This lesson we shall do well to remember. Mr. Seward has most considerately forewarned us; it will be our own fault if we are not found to be fore armed. What He Might Have Been. —J. G. Hol land, cf the Springfield Republican, has been rusticating in Vermont, looking around among the farmers, and he writes to that paper, as follows: “Imagine your correspondent imagining the life he might have lead, and came very near leading lor that matter, among the hills as a farmer. He would have grown stalwart and strong, worked on the farm summers, and gone out haying for fifteen days in July, and taken for pay the iron work ami miming gear of a wagon. At two and twenty or thereabouts, lie would have begun to pay at tention 4 to a girl with a father worth two thousand dollars—aud a spit curl on her fore head, a girl who always went to singing school, and sat in the seats, aud sang with out opening her mouth, a darnation pretty girl any way. Well, after seeing her home from singing school one or two years, taken her to Fourth of July, he would have mar ried her and settled down. Years would pass away, and that girl with the spit-curl would have had eleven children just as sure as you live—seven boys and four girls. We would have had a hard time bringing them lip, but they would soon be able to do rnilk iug and help their mother washing days, and I getting i idependect at last, and feeling a little stiff in the joints, should be elected a member of the Legislature, having been as sessor and school committee for lour years. Iu the eveuing of my days, with my pipe in my mouth, thirteeu' barrels of eider iu the cellar, and my newspaper in ray bands, I should sit audlook over the markets, through a pair of gold mounted spectacles, aud won der why such a silly piece as this should be published. A. A. Paymaster F. A. Swan, Acting- Masters Mate Thomas Gay, and Acting As sistant Engineer Steever, of the Otsego, who were of the party which blew' up the ram Albemarle, on the 28th of October last, near Wilmington, and Acting Ensign Howard, of the Monticello, are among the offleers'lately exchanged and arrived North. King (* Nothing —A Story ok the French OecitA.r-Dr. Verou told some friends recent ly the following true story : —When I was Manager of the Grand Opera in Paris, a man some lift}' years old, tall,well built and hand some, entered my office. We were scarcely lelt alone when he knelt at my feet, and said to me in a voice trembling with emotion — “Sir, it is in your power to save my honor and restore peace to my life.” I was a good deal puzzled by this commencement, -and 1 asked, “In what way?” “By engaging me at the Grand Opera.” “Are you a tenor?” “No, sir." “A baritone?” “No, sir.” “A bass?” “No, sir.” “Ah! you are a dan cer ?” “I never danced in my life.” “Well, theu, if you are neither a singer nor a dancer how can you expect me to engage you at the Grand Opera?” “Asa figurant, but upon one absolute condition.” “What is that ab solute condition ?” “That I shall fill with out a rival the parts of popes, kings and em perors.” “Without a rival?” “Yes, sir, I must have the monopoly ot these parts; it is the condition sine qua nun of my engagement. I feel that I owe you some explanation of my request and this stipulation. My story is this. I married a woman younger than myself, and I adore her as I adored her on my wedding day, although we have now been married above twelve years. I have discovered for some months past that my wife’s tenderness for me has sensibly cooled. I would hide tlie knowledge from my eyes, but I cannot conceal the fact that my prestige is declining. 1 am persuaded hat were I to appear before her three times t week arrayed in gold and purple, covered aw ilh glittering arms, my brow circled with a i ara or crown, my prestige and her love w ould be restored. I beg of you, sir, do engage me ; satisfy my ambition, give reali ty to my dream. Ido not care about salary. I have enough to support me. My life is in your hands. If you reject my request, lam a dead man.” While he spoke, says Dr. Veron, big tears coursed down his cheek. I could not refuse hint; besides, we were then rehearsing Scribe and Halevy’s LaJtdve, and we wanted a man of his size and ap pearance to represent the Pope with dignity, tor liis Holiness figures in the solemn proces sion of the first act of this work. After a few minutes’ reflection I said to my visitor, whose heart panted, and whose eyes were fixed on mine, “I will engage you, sir.” “And I may fill the parts I would take ?” “Yes, I will give you a monopoly of those parts.” The words were not out of my mouth before he fell on his knees and covered my coat tail with kisses. The following week lie made liis first ap pearance on the stage of the Grand Opera in Robert !e Liable , when he represented “le Prince de Sicile, ” father of tlie Princess Isa bella, with a great deal of majesty. He made himself a superior head. He was re markably handsome. Tlie morning after his maiden appearance, I received through the post office, a short notice in these words: “Heaven bless you ! She was at the opera last night. She saw me. I have regained the treasure of her tenderness. I owe my happiness to you. All my blood is yours. Take it when you please.” Os course I didn’t take his blood. Soon after this inci dent oi:curred*tL« Chamber of Deputies seeing ed inclined to diminish the amount of money granted to the Grand Opera. I resigned my place as manager. May be I ought, before I quitted the Grand Opera, to have recommended in an especial manner, this man to my successor. I con fess that I neglected this duty. It was a fatal forgetfulness. When I returned from a long journey I found on my desk a second letter from that person. He wrote to me: —“Sir, I am the victim of odious Cabals. The new director, not satisfied in taking from me the part of ‘Pope, ’ which I created with so much success in La Juive, obliged me to appear as one of the mob. She saw me in my plebian attire, and I feel that her love is going to leave me forever. If your kindness does not promptly come to my assistance all is over with your faithful servant.” I consulted the date of this letter. It was a month old. I made inquiries, and I found that a fortnight before my return the poor fellow was discovered hanging by the neck, dead in his chamber. Nothing New. —“ The son of David, King in Jerusalem,” was right when he declared “there is no new thing under the sun.” “The tiling that hath been, is that which shall be ; and that which is done is that winch shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.” Just now our people are growing crazy over the Petroleum development. It is hailed with all the adoration paid to anew and strange revelation. The merits of Pe trolia seem suddenly to have burst upon the world with the brilliancy of light and efful gence which is perfectly stunning to even the strongest eyes. Many suppose this to be anew discovery. And yet oil wells were known to the ancients and worked by them in the times of the great Persian monarch Darius, five hundred years before Christ.— Turn to Herodotus, the first and greatest of the Greek Erato, book historians, Sec. CXIX, and you may read “This (the district of Cissia) is distant from Susa two hundred and ten furlongs, aud forty from a w T ell which produces the thiee sub stances of bitumen, salt and oil; it is drawn up with an engine, to which a kind of bucket is suspended, made Os half a skin; it is thin poured into one cistern and afterwards re moved into a second. The substances by this process separate; bitumen and the sa t form themseives into distinct masses. The Persians collect the oil, which they call rhad iuace, into vessels; this last is of a dark col or and has a strong smelt” This was written about 500 years B. C It is almost an exact description of the oil wells of Petrolia. What is remarkable about most of the Pennsylvania wells is that salt water is struck previous to striking “ile”— just as they were in the times of tiie author quoted. Again Heredotus tells us, book Melpomene, Sec. CPCV. “Having seen at Zacynthus (Africa) pitch drawn from the bottom of the water. At this place are a number of lakes, the largest of Which is seventy feet iu circumference and of the depth of two orgyice. Into this water they let down a pole at the end of which is a bunch of myrtle; the pitch at aches itself to the myrtle, and is thus procured. It has a bituminous smell, but in other respects pre ferable to that at Pieria.” Didyinua and Pliny describe the “tar PRICE, 5 CENTS wells” of Pieria and Mount Ida, and in Chandler’s Travels is a description of the “tar spring,” of Zante (the Zacynthus of the ancients.) He says? “The tar is produced in a small valley about two hours walk from the town, by the sea, and encompassed with mountains, ex cept towards the bay, in which are a couple of rocky inlets. The spring which is most distinct and apt for inspection rises on the farther side near the toot of the hill: The well is circular, and four or five leet in diameter. A shining film, like oil mixed with scum, swims on the top ; you remove this with a bough, and see the tar at the bottom, three or four teet beneath the surface, working up, it is said, out of a fissure in the rock ; the bub bles swelling gradually to the size of a large cannon ball, when they burst, and the sides leisurely sinking, new ones succeed, in crease and in turn subside. The water is limpid and runs off with a smart current; the ground near is quaggy, and will shake beneath the feet, but is cultivated. We fill ed some vessels with tar, by lettimr it trickle intothem form the boughs whicLwe immersed, aud this is the method used to gather it from time to time into pits, where it is hardened by the sun, to be barrelled when the quantity is sufficient. The odor reaches a considerable way.” What is described above as “tar” -s un doubtedly the same article in the crude state now taken from tlie oil wells of Penn sylvania. It “bubbled up” with the ancients as it does with the moderns. Long before the time of Herodotus, and even before. —“Abdallah read the slient stars, And wrote their mystic tracks." Job said that “the rock poured me out rivers of oil.” Had Job lived in these mod ern days, he probably would have turned that “rock” which poured out “rivers of oil” into a $20,000,000 Petroleum Company, and would thus have become a richer man than Solomon. • The Niagara Falls Marine Railway. — This is one of the most gigantic projects ever entertained on this Continent, and as its con struction intimately concerns the people of these Provinces, (the project lookiug to the strengthening of the military power of the United States,) a description of the plan will be read with interest. Its prime object is to transport gunboats between Lakes Erie and Ontario. The line of the proposed railway begins at a point 1,200 feet below the steam boat landiug at Lewiston, on the Niagara, and ends at the mouth of Gill Creek, where that stream flows into the Niagara river. The grade on parts of the road will be at the rate ol one hundred and twenty feet per mile for the distance of thirteen thousand feet, or about two and a half miles ; eighteen feet per mile for the distance of nine thou sand five hundred feet, or about one aud three-fourth miles ; and on the other portions ot the road the grades either ascending or descending are very slight. In grading the roadway it will be necessa ry to remove about eight hundred and sixty eight thousand cubic feet of earth, and one million two hundred and seventy-two thous and cubic yards of rock; and to form five hundred and twelve thousand cubic yards of embankment. The superstructure of track is to consist of six iron rails of one hundred and fifty pounds per foot each, resting on longitudinal oak rails twelve by twelve inch es, and cross-ties of oak six by eight inches. Where the raad bed is not rock througn, tne oak rails are to rest upon a foundation of stone two feet by two, beneath which is to be a bed of broken stone three feet deep; the rails are to be laid nine feet apart, the upper surface of the rail to be flat for the whole of its width, and the ring of the car wheels to be a diameter for their whole width. At each terminus of the railway the track is to descend into the water to a depth below its surface equal to the depth of. the car added to the draft of the vessel to be trans ported. This space, which may be termed either a lock or a basin, is to be located within land, and to be walled on each side with rubble masonry, and to be capable of being siiut off from the water of the river by bulkheads and gates, in order that, whenever required, the water may be pumped out, and the track be examined and repaired. The cars or cradles upon which the boats are to be moved will be of peculiar construc tion, consisting of two platforms, one above the other—the lower one to be a strong frame, to which the axles of the trucks are to be attached, and to be capable of a cer tain degree of flexture, both horizontally and vertically, so as to pass both horizontal and vertical corners. The upper platform being the cradle which is to receive the boat, is to be rigged horizontally, but capable of a lim ited degree of flexture, vertically from side to side, and from end to end, so that it may be adjusted to the form of the bottom of the boat. The vertical adjustment is to be ef fected by means of endless chains or wire cables passing over pullies. These very heavy and powerful locomotives will be needed, which will move the cars and bofcts over the steepest grades on the railway in the ordinary way by the friction of the wheels upon the rails. On the steep grades, friction wheels to operate against the sides of the rails will he used when necessary. The power of the locomotive will be used to pump the water out from the entrance basins at the termini of the railway. 'The fire box of the locomotive will be either elevated above the water, where it passes into the entrance basin, or inclosed in a water tight compartment. The vessels are not to be taken out of wa ter at any time during the passage on the railway. The car in which they are to be carried is to be a water-tight caisson, large enough to receive the largest vessels employ ed ou the lakes. This caisson is to be tilled with water, and when a vessel is received it will displace from the caisson an amount of water just equal to its weight. The platform on which the caisson rests will then be drawn over the submerged track, and the vessel, still floating, transported to the other termi nus of the railway. The locomotives are to be each about eighty tons weight, and of suf ficient power to draw a load of fifteen hun dred tons over a grade of one hundred aud twenty feet per miie, at the rate of six to eight miles an hour. The engineers engaged to survey the route and also those to whom the plan has been submitted, repoit that it is pertectly feasible.