NEW YORK. MAY 16, 1868.
nw MiTHOD or woEKore ne nov. able iron or steel, is melted in a cupola or reverberatory fur¬ conitmcted and opened with a lever in the usual way. Be¬ W« praMot this week illostretioiu of “ Player’s Blooming nace, and the fluid metal is there agritated, either in the same fore the (umaee is ehaiged, this door is shut and wedged Prooeoe” which is said to be very eflVcieat for prodneing large furnace in which it is melted, or othenrise, either by manual close, and fettling of red iron ore or other material is rammed mnsflT* of iroB and for sarii^ labor to a great extent, from the labor or steam power, or both, in contact with fluid oxide of from the working door against the lower part of it, so that the fact that no such things as “ balling np” “ mock rolling,” ent- iron and other matters, (as is usual when puddling iron), until fluid mass, when melted in, or, by preference, ponrad into the tiog, piling and reheating are reqair^. The mass can be the mixture boils or froths up and the iron becomes mallea¬ fumaoe, cannot run under the door. taken in its heated state directly from the hydraulic preaa to ble ; or, as it is termed, is “ brought to nature.” When in The operation of puddling is then commenced, and the the kn<«hing rolls. This is an adrantage, so claimed by the this state, the semi-fluid mass h forced or drawn out of the charge worked in the usual manner, until the metal falls and inventors, of the greatest importance to nul makers, makers of furnace in which it has been agitated, into a cast, or wrought is fit to ball up; it is then tamed over in the slag and exposed beams, heavy shafting boilers, fto., either of iron or of paddled iron receiver, form or monld. In this receptacle it is then regularly to the flame for a short time. In making ste^ the Steel It is moreover claimed by the inventors that this process compressed to such degree of density, that it cui be remov^ operation is hastened towards the end. The slag is then
“ will enable iron masters to produce from their present works, from the monld and forged or rolled to the > size that is re¬ partly run off in the usual way, the lower door is then opened, Bteei rails in one mass, without welds, and at pricea and quality quired. Whether the pig or crude iron operated on be con¬ any fettling in front of it removed, and the whole or part of to compete with * Bessemer’ Beils. Also, to produce large verted into malleable iron or steel by machinery or manual the charge, es SMy be required, is pushed nr foraed with a omsaee of iron without piling; and for the ordinary produc¬ labor, the proceae will be the same after the metal has been rabble or top (wUch is introdneed at the woririag-door). out tion of merchant iron a aaving of 25 per cent, on the cost, and brought “ to nature,” or, in other words, made malleaMe. One at what is termed the back door, into a form or mould here¬ an increased quantity from their works of folly one-third.” may snppoee a commoa puddling furnace to be uaed. after described. As soon as the furnace is elew, which only I'he object ia to Iseititate the forming of a ball, bloom or slab, Figure 1, of tbe aonexed drawings, is a front elevutioa of a takes two or three minutei, the back door is shat and the fur¬ of iron or steel, after it baa been deprived of a portion of its common paddling furnace in which sHglit alterations have nace refettled and charged again with ^etal, run in, by pro- carbon and impurities by the pnddlimr operatioo, and conaiaU been made to adapt it to this process ; Figure 2, a back elevw- fereoce, in a melted state from a cupola ftiraaoe.'- The saving in tnuMferriDg the semi-fluid malleable iron or steel, into a tioD ; Figure 3, a cross vertical seetioo; and Figure 4, a hori¬ of time in puddling one charge by this method is said to be form or mould outside the furnace in which the iron was zontal section thereof. Figures 5 and 6 are vertical sections, about twenty-five or thirty minutes. That is the time it takes operated upon and sobjeeting tbe metal to a heavy preesnre ia taken at right angles to each other, of the hydraulie ram for the pig to nielt, and the tiase the eharge takes to ball np. I'he the form or monld, thns causing it to agglutinate or weld preaaing the paddled metal into a Uoom | Figure 7 is u plan mould into which the puddled metal has flrileu, is, by prefeience, together into a ball, bloom or slab—instead of‘‘balling H np” thereof; and Figure 8 is a horizontal at the line a a of Fig- made'of vertical bars of square hroa. It ssay be constructed, by hand in the furnace in which it has been converted, which we 6. It is preferred there should be two doors opposite each as shown at a a, of tquare bars rivetted inside two stroi^: is ths method at present adopted with puddled iron or steel. other; one, the working door, is of the usual construction; hoops of iron, the heads of the rivets being flush on the inside; For this purpose,',the Qfqde or pig iron tp hp Oftde into malle- tbo Other door opens to the level of the hearth; it may bo thie fonn> * feceptscle with open top and ^bottom. The AMERICAII JOURNAL OF MIRING. LUat le, IMi. mould is placed on a low bogie, eo that the top of the monld tbe bo^es. Two large companies are busily at work there. can be broni^t under the level of the sill of the back door of Phtiag JNsiaung. Tbc nativea of Hot Spring district recently stampeded to Cana¬ dian gnlcb, northwest of Sterling a few miles, and staked it off the furnace, to receive the puddled metal when pushed throo|fa 003L.ID AISTD SIXj'VEII^. froBi source to meutb. Some parties have been prospecting the back door. If the metal has not been sofficientlj worked there Ibr some time past, and reoent developmenla, demonstra¬ in the poddliogl furnace, jets of blast from tuyeres suitably ting the extsteooe of gold there in paying quantittea occasioned Montana. the excitement. In Norwegian guicb which is bat a i _ . oar BegnUr Correapoodent] jr placed may be caused to impinge oir# daring the tima# is tanee from Canadtan, profitable mining has been carrleij discharged from the furnace; air thus applied, the inventors ^ YfMaB'iA CiTT. M. T., April?, 1868. greater or lets extent for several years, and stveral claim, i ms’ IWD |||p(T0>'’8 DISTBICrS. ^ waste, tb^Mwatond Boatimhst when “ pi uifO at Mtr bands" carbon fi I ahn nwralogia beingAffas! e rely. wNm tbe I ijwn’s dhutet, 00 iw east. thepi^; remhvSras qui This company are bow only waiting for the frost to ga tbe western and soatbwestern boundary of ibis district may be to the pi by preference, should be a hydraulic ram tbe ground to commence operations in earnest--- t mud to be tbe western limit of the Belt, at least as far as can be worked oiulutor. The arrangement preferred is from Mr. T. Mapes, superinteoJeat of the Hot Spring ^ determined frwm tbesnrface. for tbe immense wash aad depMit ooopanv, who is sow e^auniing in our city, that tboirl shown b _ ^6,7 and 8. 'Ilie bogie fits on toe top of the of sand, gravol and debris of a general cbaraoler render* it im¬ mill will be started to work in about six weeks hence, ram, and is earned upwards by it. Over the mould is a block possible, without deveiopemenl, to determine tbe exact geologi¬ company have run a tunnel three .hundred and eighty teet long, of cast iron which fils into it, when the ram raisei the mould cal formation of wbat is known as the Ruby munntain, dividing to s^e tbe pfonitor lode, which, by the dlagoaal ooniae mow and the block comes in contact with the paddled metal. Vniliams’ district from Barton’s on tbc west. Tbe immense being followAl. they expect to do early the nceseut month. winch is thus pressed into a bloom. On the top of the block, | gulches or eontneted canyons of Roby mountain show beds of | Tbe same paper of tbe 4th says of the Yellowstona mines: A. which fits into the mould, is another ram, fixed to which is a : gravel and sand two and three hundred feet in thickness : and few days since a parly of four men arrived here from the Yel¬ cross-head and hooks so arranged that it may be fastened to i wherever th«« beds have _l^n prospected, shot gold has been lowstone river, and report that they have made some new db- found, sometimes in quantities that woaid pay to work the banks the hoopa aurronodiog tbe mould ; then by nving an upward coveries of placer mines on a truiutary of that stream, which by hydraulics if it were possible to obtain suffleient water ; and motion to the upper ram, the mould is raisra up the side of they elaim to be good. They exhibited some nuggets of gold here let me remark that I have traced on the surface tbe plahily- the block, tlins leaving the bloom of iron or steel on the which were rrarssented to have been taken from thieir discovery defloed bed of some ancieut river that once flowed over or bogie, which is then lowered and tbe bloom taken to a with a pan. <5ne nugget weighed about iwenfy-flve dollars, the through tbe main divide of tbe Madison and Jefferson rivers, reat were much smaller. Th^ mines Ibey reproaentto be abont hammer or rolls, or otherwise disposed of. Tbe monld is now at an elevation of thousands of feet above tbe level of tbe lowered on a bogie and naed as before. 40 miles above Emigpwat gnlcb and npou the same aide of tba James Uendkkson is the agent for the invention, and all par- river; they consbt of bars that appear to be quite extensive and crmaL laxbs, outsxrs, a rtter of soilino hot watke. the faixs easily worked. These men belong to a par^ of seven that kava ticnlars relating to licenses, Ac., may be learned of him at or THE MADIBON, ETC. been m that section of the conn^ since ()ctober last, banting No. 30 Broadway, Boom 14. If your readers will pardon tbe digression, I will add that and prospecting during tbe winter, and have come in for aup- south and west of this immense wash to the main divide of the plies, leaving their companions there. They run a drift soma Caat-Iroa Btowea A Canae of Dlaeaae. Rocky mountains is a country, yet unexplored only by tbe hun¬ distance into tbe bar In which they discovered tbe gold, aod ter and trapper of tbe Rocky mountains. Tbe grand chain here fonad a bed of gravel six to eight feet in depth, aud they report When the attention of the Academy of Bcienccs, of Paris, makes a sweep to tbe south and east, and forms an elevated pla¬ that little labor and expense will bring an abundance of water was drawn, some time since, by M. Carret, one of the physi¬ teau, which, on the north and east, abounds in crystal lakes—the npon it to work. Upon the strength of these representations, cians of the Hotel Dieu of Chambery, in several papers, to the home of innumberable flocks of swan, and abonnding in tbe same eight or ten of our citizens were yesterday preparing out¬ possible etil consequences of the nse of cast-irnn stoves, but finest of fish. It is fromthe^e lakes that the Sassamlri or Stink¬ fits to return with them to tbe Yellowstone, and we have no ing Water river has its source, on the one side flowing northeast¬ little interest was excited in the matter. Recently, Uen. doubt the result will be that extensive mines will be discovered erly to tbe Jefferson river, while Dry and Camas creeks flow from Ailorin haa again brought the subject forward with better sne- there this season. A party of miners have also been during tbe 1 lakes (hard by but westerly) southwest into Snake river of tbe winter prospecting sliil further up tbe Yellowstone aad not a ceea. M. f)arret does not hesitate to assert most positively, _ __ ...„ j Paaaing on in this lovely basin for a few miles in a great ways from the lakes. Two of them have made their way that onat-iroo stows are sonreea of danger to those who habit-! Aouth westerly coarse, the explorer finds himself confronting tbe out upon snow shoes to obtain provisions and report that ihey nally employ them. Haring aiff epidemic which recently pre-1 Wind River mouniaina, and in what is known as Hot Spring val- have discovered fair gold diggings. They will take supplies in vailed in Savoy, hut upon wliick M. Carret does not furnish j ley, at the bead
of being one of tbe ricbeet jret dtecoeered. Looking off to ^ I gbaav, recently found a quartz boulder which conta'med about nie lode was run in about MR) feet on the vein, which in no one lell JOB will see raTlncs or cafiooes mnning Into the moonUina $1,000 worth of gold.A smnll cave which took place in the plnee is lem than six feet wide. Tbe amount of rock taken out known aa •' If ilia,” “ Big Negro ” and “ Little Negro ” gnlobea. Docile mine brought to light about $1J>00 worth of spemmens. of this tunnel is immense, and if it pays fifteen or twenty doUars Taming oblique! j to the i^ht. and croa^ng a amall ridge, brloga .T e miners engnged in working on the river are taking to tbe ton, we consider it tbe biggest thing in tbe mountains. In yoa into “ Michigan Gnlcb, and porauing the aame direction yon out good pay. Tbe prospect ia that the present mining season some places tbe Eogenie is over ten feet wide, ail aolid quvtz will aooB enter “ Gronae Gulcn.” which la conaldered rich. will be a proaperons one. aulpbnrets. We next visited the Galena mine, and were Biding up ttia gulch about two milea bringa you to ita bead, and ColavOTM County.-Clark's hydraulic operations at Railroad J"*® ^ on tbeanoinit at tte ridge there la located an embryo metropolia Flat are espedally noteworthy. ^ Tbe CkTwfde, of April 11. »eet, a drilt is ran in upon tte a dialanw of a^nt tweotv of three bouaea called the •' Monntain City.” And here liea the says :-Wat^conveved in an iron pipe a distance of nearly a 'vct “ Laat Chance Gulch.” where last anamer, from July to October, mlle-a fall of two hniidred feet being obUined. The power of the Colorado Co. (five in number) took out §24.000. and a abort the water forced through U inch nozzles, is almost incakwiable. smooth case-walls of talcose slate. The sulphurots in diatance from here the “ Arizona Co.,” with claima auppoaed to Boshes are tom up by tbe roots, large bowlders washed info the this mine resemble those I'mind in tbe Sterling lode, aod small be aa rich ae the above, and on the 6tb instant took ou> eleven sluices and the tough bedrock cut as if by a knife. Each of the lots of them, worked in San Fraccisro, have yielded from three onnrea in a aeven bnnra rnn. This gold aaaaya about $17, and two pipes will throw a solid stream 200 feet. Acres upon acres to four hundred dollars to the ton. Ttere are three shalls upon tbfa) mine. For richness of its rock, evenness in width of vein. eommanda $20 to $22 in greenbacks. Here also be.vdi^“ Willow of tbe Flat have been washed awnr, and yet the work has hut j- i •* j v . * ■■ ■ Gnlcb,” which cornea out about three miles from Virginia City. fairly commenced : one hundred ind sixty inches of water are ^ perp^diculanty and beauty of case-walls, l^e But should none of these suit von, then pay your money and used. Operations in quartz ate also being acUvely pushed for- anyttmg we ^ve s^n in a long time We smy^ over select from the following: “ HcElroy Gulch,” “New Orleans ward int^ locality. Mr. Said, who purchased the famous “>••• of Gray * Co. Mr. (Jray Informed us th^ un- Flat,” “Spring Gulch,” “ Mosklto Gulch,” “Neally Gulch,” “ Petticoat lead,” has^erected steam bolstLu works, and has a S. ® “ Limerick Gulch,” “ Spanish Bar.” “ Moreno Gulch,” “ Sardine large number of bands at work in the mine. The shaft has juill, be won d not again start « “'T® Gnlcb,” “ Gmb Gulch,” and Dead Broke Gulch.” re^ tbe depth of thirty feet, and the rock being taken ont ®f ,fin u w _sii ««_4^ A Imwp Chase lode n now down seventy-five feet. Tbe vein is six feet nucEs. will pay at tbe’rate of one hundred dollars per ton. A large „ r; . t- *l4«— .mA v number of claims are being successfully worked.Rich wide and ih^k is r.'' The retail prices of some of the principal aticles of trade with Gulch, like tbe generality of mining camps at this season of tbe ®®"® "* * nieingdewmpo^ matter out of the miners is as follows: Flnnr at $10 per hundred, coffee at 65 year, is dull, but the prospects for the future are flattering. Quite the Chloride lode. In one day’s run they took out $27.The cts. per lb., sugar at 45 cts. per lb., bacon at 45 cts. per lb., vine¬ a number of gravel claims aie being worked and paying well. Colorado company arc doi^ well—making fair (wages. Jim gar at one dollar per pint, lumber at $35 per thousand, beef at Anderson, Tom McWilliams and Chris. Bentle are working a bar Work on the quartz leads in that vicinity has not been commenced 15 cts. per lb., com at 7 cts. per lb., oats at 6 cts. per lb., hay at on the creek below Kirkland’s arastras. The bar was ground- this spring, but prepara ions are being made. $ cts. per lb., shingles at $10 per thouaond, molasses at $5 per sluiced by the winter flooiLs, which left about three feet of dirt gal., picks at $4 a piece, shovels at $4 a piece, pans at $4 a Inyo County.—A correspondent of t^ Esmeralda on it, Ibat paya from top to bottom, about three cents to the pan. piece, logc at 10 cents per ft (scored and hewed.) A two-horee writing from Independence, mentions tbe Yellow Jacket ledge. .English gulch, near Prescott, conUnues to pay fair t«am $10 per day. yielding flue quaitz. working $50 to the ton. and says other .At Walker’s district two or three water-wheels arc ^parently ae rich aa tbe Yellow Jacket, aw comiog to running, and considerable lock ia being cniabed. Up to Dakota. l^bt. He continues: The ledgfcs range frera six inches to two the time of l^ latest news from there, none of tbe companies The CbeyeM* Commtrcial JUcord says It seems to be gen feet and a ball in thickness, and all well defined. It might be mudp a clean up ; consequently, we cannot inform our read- erally admitted by geologists and mineralogists who have ez asked why those ledges were not discovered and worked at the ere how much money tbe miners are making. Alfred Sbnpp, wbo amined the Black Hills west of this city, that the rock formation time Inyo district was in its prime. Tbe question may be an¬ came to town daring the early part of tbe week, told ns that all is not favorable to the existence of gold in quantities sufflcient swered by stating that at the time everybody had “ silver on the tbe araslra men^ere crashing good rock. Tbe placer miners to pay. Of course this duium can only be accepted for what it brain,'’ and nbless the ore was compost of galena or anlimonj are making six and eight dollars a day.At Lower Lynx is worth. Gold, at the best, is a most slippery, uncertain cns they thought it worthless. Tbe Inyo district will be very apt to creek Little A Taylor are piping away.At Wickenburg tomet, liable at any moment to be discoverM when least expected make a stir this coming season. In Alhambra district, twelve Manbasseb A Griffin, wbo arrrivM here from Wickcnbnrg on However, the views of the geologists on the rocks of the Black miles south of Independence, Tbos. Passmore and some others Iborsday evening, have told us that both mills were grading Hills are entitled, in the absence of any proof to the contrary, to have discovered placer mines, which being worked with rockers away nfgbt and day. Tbe Wickenburg five-stamp mill was considerable widgbt. They are, doubtless, the result of a patient averaged to the hand six dollars per day of six hours. There is clearing about $1,000 per week. investigation into the origin aod position of the formation, when quite a stir at tbe Cerro Gordo mines ; a town has been laid out, compared with those beds of metamorpbio rock which, in con and all patties interested arc preparing for the next summer’s Oregon. junction with granite, have been fonnd almost invariably thedis work. A. B. Paul savs bo will commence operations on the Reports from tbe New .Shasta mines, acccording to tbe Walla tinctive geological fuatnre of rich gold-bearing districts. In the isilver Sprout company's mine as soon as the weather will permit. Walla Sia/es/nan, March 28, are favorable. It says : “ Some two Black Hills we find an almost total absence of these metamorphi .Dr. Delevan writes trom Cerro Gordo to the Virginia Ji»- hundred men wiutored in the mines, and, rumor has it, took out shales intersectbg the primeval granite. In their stead we have Itrprut. of April 2d, as follows Patties have already arrived large amount of treasure. An old miner assures us that tbe lime and sandstone groups npbeaved aud convulsed in many in tbe camp irom San Francisco, have secured mines, and are district will afford profitable employment for ten thousand men. places by the irruption of ignmns rocks. Large tracts are also about ereettng fnro ices. Those wbo have thus become inlerested A large nomber uf Walla-Wallains have already left fo%tbe new covered with a deep drift, or detrins, supposed by many to be in tbe minea of tbe country are men of much experience in diggings, and we hear of still larger numbers who are preparing of the glacial epoch. These signs on the surface of the earth smelting silver ores. ’They will erect large aod lasting furnaces. to follow.” A cori^pondent of tbe same paper indulges in quite must be very discouraging to any old miners in search of bed Tbe clumsy little furnaces become so burned ont sfter running a different strain. He says: “ Coming down to atern reality, and rock diggings. Indeed, no one eim'rlenoed miner in twenty twelve hours that it is necessary to allow them to cool off in looking facts iu the face, the country is spotted, and good claims would care to stay and waste a day in exploring such a country order to repair them. Tbe Doctor says a large amount of silver are few and tar between. There are some rich, very rich claims for the precious metals. The Black Hills, while they were in will be taken out of the mines in this vicinity during the coming here, that will probably pay thousands of dollars tbe coming sea¬ habitnd by hostile and savage Indians, and while it was a work Hammer...A correspondent writes to tbe Nevada Gazettt, of son ; bat there are a thousand poor claims here—claims that will of dangei to deviate a few miles from the stage road, were held April 6th, from Cerro Gordo, a.s Ibllows The mines of ibis dis¬ not pay one thousand cents clear of expenses, to one to tbe con¬ to be drained by gulches abounding in rich pay dirt. Every one trict are principally silver, and, in most cases, very rich, when trary. 1 have seen no one here yet willing to ventere an opin¬ who, at the risk of his life, had succeeded in passing a day or compared with mines of other camps in this region of country. ion for or against. They are all doubtfril, even those wbo are twp in the forbidden land, returned to tell of the great treasure 1‘be ore from some, assays as high as $2,000 a ton, many of them called the • lucky fellows.’ In my opinion, this place ia but a t int had gladdened bis eyes on every side. This was, at the best, averaging from $500 to $700 a ton ; but, of coarse, there are repetition of Big Bend and Lemhi; and will cause as mnch dis¬ a romantic view of what was then a Urra i»cog**la, but it bad others which are tar inferior. appointment and broken men as either of those two places.” become so 6rmly entwined a.^ part of the creed of the inhabitants of nothern Colorado, that gold existed in large quantities in the Virginia. British Columbia. The San Francisco MtntngPrett says:—We have been per¬ Black Hills, that no one could have affirmed his disbelief without We have news from the Cariboo mines to tbe 12th of March. mitted to make tbe following extracts trom a letter recently re¬ almost the certainty of having a quarrel on bis band.s. Now The British Columbian, on the authority of Mr. Wiel. “ one of ceived by Prof. Rowlandson, of this city, from Prof. Cbas. J. that tte veil of romance has been lifted and the mysteries of the the most extensive merchants of Cariboo.” publishes tbe follow¬ Richardson. Superintendent of tbe Vancluse mine, near Freder Hills are expoi ed to the gaze of every one, we Slid Snd that, so ing: *• Tbe weather had been spring-like, and very pleasant for icksburg. Virginia: “ We are not yet quite ready to start our far as the country has been explored, there is no gold there. Uf tbire weeks immediately preceding tbe 12Ui, and work was be¬ stamps, etc. • • • The following is tbe result of a lot of course this remark don't apply to the main body of the Black ing successfully carried on in most of tbe claims on Williams a'^rage ores, worked by Messrs. Seeor, Swan A West’s machines; Hills, which stretch far to the riortbeast across Dakota. It is Creek. The Cariboo, especially, was paying well ; one shaft first lot of 300 pounds uf green slate and quartz ore, trom our pos.'tible, but not probable, that the rock formation during this alone yielded 143 ozs. for tbe week. The other and richer shaft main lode, being an average sample, gave—gold, $13.75 ; silver, distance may be fonnd to have changed entire!v. and that in was not being worked, a cave having occurred in it. Tbe Lil- $3.25=$17 per ton. Tbe silver was obtained by cbloridizing the places gold will be found in paying quantities. If the grtwt ex- looet paid $1,000 lor the week. There are about 200 persons tailings after they had been run through the amalgamator. The pediticn ever starts from Yancton for these parts it will probably out prospecting in the Willow and Mosqnito direction, and mnch ore was partially calcined, ground dry. and run through a sixty- have a good opportunity for prospecting the Black llills in this excitement prevails. Several gnlcbes and small streams have mesh screen, i^cond lot, 300 pounds from a level (vast l^e) direction, and we shall be anxious to learn the result of its ob- be<‘u discovered in that promising district, and in some instanies forty feet below grass, not calcined, above tbe average yielil, servatiuns. The chief mineral resources uf the Black Hills, mmr good prospects have been struck. From Mosquito Gulch tbe yielded, gold, $6.^38 ; silver, $7J>0f $13.78 per tun. Third lot, the city, apiu^r to consist in the beds of coal and iron ore, and news is good ; for tbe week ending the 8tb, the Minnehaha yield¬ concentrated ore trom entire bulk of vein (east Imie) token from {lerfaaps veins of cupper ore. With the railroad racning in such ed 324 ozs. to one pick ? Mr. Wiel .showed us one piece worth the blankets—no mercury uwd—yielded $19.25 per ton of con close proximity to these coal and iron tields, we have no doubt $90, taken from this claim. Tbe new tunnel, being opened by centratod stuff, being about 8i> per cent, of the entire mass, to that iron will shortly be manufacturuil there in large qiianlilies. contract in order to lap the lead lower dowu, was in a distance In fact there is reason, with such tacilities for work existing, why about $1.15 per ton of ore os it came from the mine. No effort was made to save the very tine float gold, ibe object being to of 200 feet. The Willow claim on Red Gulch continued to pay the Black Hills should not supply an immense extent uf the cen as richly as ever, while the Discovery claim p.ild $50 to the share ascertain wbat gold could be saved by blankets alone, without tral portion of the continent with that great desideratum tor civ¬ for tbe week. Good pay has been struck iu an adloiniug claim. ilization—manufactured iron. The saving of the great expense quicksilver or copper plates, etc. The ore was much decom¬ posed.’’ It is estimated that about 100,000 tons of this ore can On Wilson Creek, about two miles from Mosquito, excellent of bringing this arlicle fhim the East, ought to leave a large prospects had been obtoined. The Creek, it is thought, prom- margin of profit to the manutactuier here. If once this business be delivered from tbe slopes to tbe mill, during tbe year, at was started near the line of rails, we believe that its growth and cost of fifty cents per ton tor mining and hauling over tram way Wbip^w Gnlcb, importance would astonish the West, Every year the demand from adit level. If is proposed to^h it with a head of seven- 1,'’^ ti?p ^ for iron increases, and in the territories there would be practical ty-flve stomps. It is calc'ilat^ that a yield of $2 per ton will r ®"’, if 4^?,.^ ^ f (bmited) had go tbeir ly scarcely any limit to the demand, if the article were fonbcom more than cover expenses. An Engl4 company worked this ‘“1\h®L^w ^ ’'41I® «“ ‘^® ing at anyth'mg like a moderate price. It is hoped that the Union mine in 1852-3 and^ at a reported cost of than seventy- T within live feet of tbe Pacific R. R. Co. will shortly find it necessary to build iron fiir- five cents per ton tor mining and milling. Tbe same company ®®®’ ^ ^ ^ '® *’® promising, naces and foundries in the Black Hills to supply their work-shops mined and worked rock from a level forty-two feet below tbe Canada- along the line. The project has. we ore aware, been already adit, in hard i^k, at a cost of $^0 per ton. Tbe correspondent The Madoc correspondent of the Toronto Monetary Times under consideretion in this quarter, and has, we believe, been above alluded to continues: “ M^ra ^>r. Swan A West are under date. May 5, that mining operations are, on the very favorahiv reported on. Let them once start such an enter ^ proprietors of the Munbatton Reduction Works, New York ^bole, quiet. “There has been no new sensation durinir the prise and we (lelteve the nucleus of a large and succes-oful branch S ’/; ba.s bad the management of similar works in week, and the croakers are asoondant. "rhe chief object of tbeir of indosiry will have been formed. Calitoroia. Mr. Swan is connected with the Mexican mines, and present animadversions is the Richardson mine. Tbe maebinerv Mr. a practical A^waosca smelter, ^ley claim no new iu- rao with Mjme trifling interruption, during tbe whole of last California. ventions. but they do engage to extract witbin one dolly per ton week, and some fif ty tons of miscellaneous rock was put through. Nevada County.—We hove news from this county to April of the fire assay on gold and silver in ordinary ores. Tbeir pro¬ On C’atuiday the mill was stopped for tbe purpose of examining S. A North San Juan correspondent writes that the celebrat^ cess is 4 ertainly simple, and, as far as I know, not expensive. the amalgam, when, finding that the merenry was still capable of Bnckeve claims of Evans & Co. paid lor the month’s (March !) Tbe ore, after being finely pulverized, is placed in a cast iron taking up a good deal more gold, tbe manager decided to go on operation $24.750.The Trantcript says that the Whiting, boiler or egg-ended cylinder, bolding two tons ot ore. A steam nntil fifty tons more shall have been reduced. Three and a half Chinn h Co. realized gross about $8,000, on the first run. from pipe- connects this with tbe mill boiler.« • , Inu this cylinder are re- tons ot ore trom the Toronto and Whitby company’s mine, are tbeir recently completed tunnel.The claims of Boweo A volving arms (^ilators) with a sufficient charge of mercury, say reported to have yielded gold to tbe amount of $84. or $24 ner Morgan, on San Juan Hill proper, realized to the owners, after a 200 pounds ; the steam of couw keeps the water boiling; they ,o5. This was reduced at Wallace’s mill, late TmTnrley A Gil- thrra weeks’ run, nearly $5,000. The Golaen Gate claims, also ran It for four boors, and then discharge into a washing tank with bert’s.” on San Juan Hill, cleaned up about the same sum .Tbe New revolving arms: the mercury that comes off with the discharge Nir»ammn» York Hill company, at Grass Valley, bevc increased the ciqiacity of tbe stuff settles in this tank. Six charges, of two tons ea^. iwICaragUa. of tbeir mill to twenty stamps, now running. The ore in tbe are made per day ; and if tbe ore is rich, the amalgam is tben A correspondent <>f the San Francisco Timet says that in the mine is lo jking first-rate.A French company is enii lapped, strained and distilled. They have smaller machines for Official statistics recently published by the government of N'ica- putting up exicDsive sulpbuiet works near Cau^a Hill, wbt>re testing samples. All ores sent them for trial have a fire assay ragua. the mining district of (Jbontales appears with only siilpburets will be reduced by a new French process.The test made from the same stuff as that which goes into tbe amal- $30,478 45 ot exportation. ‘ But (he remarks) we ought to re- Natumal says that the Wiscousin mine is now being worked on gamator—to show that 1 bey are correct in tbeir statements. They member that we are just commencing to explore our mines, a tbe fourth level 300 feet deep, and shows beaniiftilly in free gold claim, as the only novelty in the process, to use a simple, cheap l*rge amount of mMliinery is amving by nearly every steamer tmd sutphurets.The Moore & Toylor claim at (^Id Ran chemical compound, that decomposes Ibe snlphurets, produces a from tbe ctates or San Francisco, and we can Jusily believe that eleaoed up lately, after a run ot fifteen days. $8.008.The sulphate, interrupts the amalgamating action ot the mercury,and next quarter will show as large an amount as'tbe above an- GattUt says :—An immense slide occurred in tbe claims of Dr produces uniform results. Tbe entire cost ot an apparatus,such nnni- In fact the astounding news about tbe richness of the Fambam, at (.'balk Bluff, a week or ten days ago. tilliug up tbe as I have here described—with the secret of the cbemioal agent recently-discovered gold and silver mines in Jicaro, New Sego- drain tuoiiel and causing a suspension for a time of sluicing —is $3.00U. It IS guaranteed to do the worn, and at a cost not such ai to lead ns to expect much larger results.” exceeding $4 per ton. Now, if I had one ot these machines ope^i^ ' running m my mill, 1 would give you au opinion of tbeir merits: Ban ®f 28^^ r^ort b^t asl have not, and probably may never have, I shall not ven- OOFFEIFL. miners at work in the placera i frrro to give such an opinion.” proving those already known and thoroughly tested. 1 ^ ^ • Michigan. Sierra County.—According to the Downieville Messenger, ■■ Arizona. We have news from the Portage Lake district to tbe 7th inst- M irch 21, the Johnson ledge, waar the Docile. Is proving very j Tbe Miner of the 2l8t nit., describes a trip to Big Bug district, The Gazette publishes tbe following products for April: Hoar rich.Tbe owners of the old New York olum, near Alio- j and tells of tbe tiinfs therein, saying : “ The tunnel on tbe Euge- A Brothers—tjtampe, 20 tons, 1,049 Tbs. Quincy mine—Stamps Id, 186§J AMeftteAil JdttRNAl MtNiHe.
1.045 Ibi.; Mass, 12 tons, 1,696 lbs.: Total, 70 tons, 7411 says Tbe Mahanoy and Broad Monntain exteasi'>n of the Pbila* it might be made to riral the salt-wells of sonthwestem Virginia mine—Barrel 3 ions,J,750 lbs. ^ St^ps, 28 tons, | delphiadeipbia and HeadingReading railroad, from Waste-House Run to Maha- in tbe production of this Taluable product. A most beautiful noy City, upon which workmen have been engaged the past win- cinality of marble is found at various points in Ibis county, one 7'tons, 1,7S»0 lbs.; Barrel, 7 tons, 1,810 lbs.; Stamps, 8 tons, 870 ter and spring, is now approaching completion. Tbe bridge quarry of which was worked to a considerable extent before the lbs.; Total, 24 tons. 470 lbs. Isle Rojrale—Barrel, 3 tons, 787 actt^ Main street is nearly Snisbed, so that in a few days the war. Much capital might be profitably invested and many la? lbs.; Sitamp work, 9 tons, 1A38 lbs.; Tribute, 734 lbs.; Total, IS collieries in this neighborhood, shipping by the Reading road, borers usefully employed in tne manufacture and preparation tons, 1,059 lbs. Pewabic—Masses, 3 tons, 1,350 lbs.; Barrel, 12 can send tbeir coal via the Plane and Port Carbon, instead ot tbe for market of the two articles named—salt and marble—as well tons, 1,#70 Iba ; Stamps, 43 tons. 823 lbs.: Total, 60 ions, 203 Tunnel and Port Clinton, making, as we uuders’land, a difierence as iron, tbe ore of which is present in the mountains.” Our lbs. Franklin—Stamp, barrel and mass, 92 tons, 710 lbs. Huron of nineteen cents per ton toll in lavor of the shipper.The Marlon correspondent says “ the quantity of bituminous and —Masses, 580 Ibe.; Barrel work, 21 tons, 612 lbs.; Stamps, 38 Pottsville Standard says:—^Tbe property of the Susquehanna semi-bituminous coal and iron ore in this county is unlimited, tons, 680 lbs.; Total 60 tons, 872 lbs. Huron (tor March,)— Coal and Mining company, located at Mt. Carmel, in the Sbamo- with but little development of the former and uone of tbe latter, 15 tons, 827 lbs. It is again reported that there are movements kin coal basin, has been sold at private sale to Messrs. Thomas though the inducements are great, produce being abundant, and on foot looking to a consolidation of the Sbelden, Columbian, Wilson, George W, Abell and William A. Fisher, for two hundred transportation good and improving.” and Grand Portage properties.The Huron mine, with a thousand dollara..The Fret Prt»* says.—The Lehigh Coal total force not exceeding 175 men. returns a product of sixty tons wd Navigation company’s canal, from Maucb Chunk to Easton, CdlifomiSl- for AprlL As near as we can learn the coat will not exceed is in better order than it was ever known to be since the canal ,1. r n • -x ^ , t j j , <• $12,000.We condense from the same paper of the 30ib ult.. first opened. The Delaware division of the canal has also had » .flfiff from the Stockton Jndeptndtnt ol
kers. except a few ringleaders who were discharged, have re- reason, when Messrs. Sharkey and Huston, of Mauch Chunk, perties are now engaged in bauli^ it to San Joaqnin City. turned work.The Evergreen Bluff product for March started off one hundred of tbe remainder, which were lying at ^ specimen of tro metal was handed fo ua l^t evening by sbottld have been reported eighteen tons 770 lbs...... At a meet- Bristol. The object is to get all of the boats of the Lehigh Coal ^ steamer Fresno. One sid^e of the earn¬ ing of the Portage Lake creditors of the Bay State, it was decided and Navigation company in service during this season. Freights resembles the brown formgiuous^ manganese found in Ver- tbat the attachment could not be raised unld the claims against are the same as last year,.The Columbia Htrald says:—The which usaid to be ot inferior quality, while the other the company are met, it appearing that the money is in the trea.s- Reading and Columbia railroad company have two turn tables ^ presents specks of a dark, shiuing crystalline appearance, urer's bauds, but an extension ot lime is asked tor payment.. .. at their coal sebutes in this borough, in which they have erected Mexico They have been busy hoisting copper out of lhe_ central mine for platform scales, for the purpose of weighing the coal before tbe oaiuu. the past week or two, and will be lor some time longer. We car is dumped. These scales are probably tbe first ever put into Tbe Consti/utionaliaia of Morelia, Slate capital of Micboacan have beard tbe quantity that was on band variously estimated at a turn-table in this country. de Ocampo, contains tbe following letter from a miner who has from 200 to 400 tons of splendid mass copper. Tbe largest of five been residing for a year or more in the neighborhood of Umpan, masses that were hoisted one day list week is called ten tons. MlChlgSin. in that State. Tbe district he describes lies southwest of Mo- We d^’t remember ever seeing a prettier At We have news from the Lake Superior iron mines and furnaces =“ it ir k oa Amygdaloid the vein in the sixty leet drift, north of the nwth ^he Collins furnace has again blown in, and is Ubopa-x, March 20, 1868. shaft, 18 two feet wide, and a very good stomp vein. Ihe drift ^ ^ successful blast. The following paper contains such condensed observations on south is idle. The slopes in the back of the sixty we looking The Jackson furnace, Big Bay de Noc, blew out on the 17th inst. mineral subjects as I have been able to deduce from explera- very well, the veiu isfroin four to five leet wide. Three masses ^he hearth is badly burned out. Charles H. Lovelace has gone ‘‘ons which I have made during the past year. Tbe places spoken were taken out of this run that weighed two and a halt tons, Menominee to make examinations with a view to build a*^tur- of ore either in this immediate neighborhood or in the nearest The new vein is not looking as well as usiwi. There is » good nace there..__The stack of the Greenwood Furnace is being places of the Tierra Calunte warm region near by. In the long pile of stamp rock on hand, apparently rich rock, which will be rebuilt, and it is probable the furnace will be making iron by range of low bills to the eastward of our city, and which divide crushed soon...... At the Phoeuix mine, in the adit level south A.uga.st. Tbe Champion furnace is again working Taretan, I found and exploreddepoeit8ofiron,8ilvpr,cop- of B shaft, the ash-bed has been reached. 11 came to hand almost badly. James .M. Giay has been engaged as captain tor the per and gold, each of which deposits have been worked during to order, and it Clones considerable copper, the vein showing cliffs Mining Company for the coming year. Tbe tran-sportation Imit year, and have manifested very rich returns. In the better than it has for some tune pa**- “ w ould not be unreason- of pig metal from the Pioneer furnaces to Escanaba, to be ready range of hills between this city and Taucilaro, which is wi*st able to expect something really good here, ^ toe bells ol rock ,bo opening of navigation, began last week. These futuaces of *“,1 have found a valuable lode of gold; also some rich next to be driven tbro^h are those In which the Copper rails have about 2,000 tons on hand, which, considering that tbe two reins of silver, wbicu, to all appearance, are some of tbe best in deposit was discovered. In the Bay biafe vem toe prosp^ts are have been out of blast au aggregate of 4* months during our Republic. South of the ciry, we have the ridges where are cheering, toiu^n fwt having been drifted by toe side ol a m^ ^be winter, is a gbodiy stock. At toe New England mine but fo^od the largest deposits of silver aud copper; also, we have of copper. Tbe Robms vem alw never looxeu better.. me mining jg being done at this location just now. CapL Wil- here lead of an exceedingly pure and fine quality ; again, in the Hecla mill started ^ain on Friday last, and **1,^**^ liams is getting some slate ore, but has suspended work entirely Batea bills we have other lead and copper leads of large dimen- heard, ran well unul yesterday noon when toe cylinder-head and in ^be hematide beds, most of toe force being at work on the sions. fnalloflbeseplacestbereisasnperabnndanceofwater — bumper-bonuet broke into Ir^meuts. 1 bree months nave pa^d railroad extension, until the completion of which not much ore “ore than can ever be required for mining purposes. In tbe and it has probably ^coniplisued, altogether, eiguteen toil days be mined. The company has about 7,000 tons ot hematite, neighborhood ot Ciipnan there is a hill called the Condemharo, work. To-morrow the mill passes into the bamfo ot t^ iww mined during tbe winter, and will commence shipping as soon as where 1I found rich veins of lend copper and silver. Here 1 found management.A correspondent writes from Copper t^bor ^be boats begin running from Masquette. Matters at toe New the opening of two silver mines, which the Jesuits worked on a that there is a two ton mass m the 30 level north ot toe Aetna England look favorable for a gond summer’s work, with railroad large scale iw®two centunes and a halt ago. The veins of these tivotwo It occurs in the side of the vein. It is not prohahie. however, completed, which will be about the Ist of July. At the Edwards mines are wide and de^, and certainly not for want of metal did toatthe shipments from Copper Harbor Ihis year will ®xc^d mine everything looks exceedingly well, and speaks volumes in work on them cease. Two leagues east of CondemharoCandembaro is the those of last. The Aelna is employing only eight m®“- praise of iis superiDteDdent. In two weeks, or by the time ship- plantation ot Estanuia, where I found a very old mine, called the Vulcan shaft is stopped. The vein, in sinking, showed tairly lor menbi commence, it will be prepared to answer drifts of 200 Gnachlnango, where abundance of copper and lead are tonod in stamp copper. Operalioiw have been suspended until somebody ^ —jbe amount intended to be sent from there during imall quantities, aud silver veins are very rich. These mines comes up from Philadelphia, or sends up, to say whether a burM jbe shipping season. Captain Mitchell places the quantity of ore *** li*® oldest in the Republic, and were worked by the Indians whim or steam engine will be required to carry on tuitber work, gtoog at about 7,000 tons. long before the conquest. These same mines would yield the .Another correspondent writes: Tbe Garden City mine is / most happy resalts, were work to commence on them again. again going to take out copper- Theie is nothing strange in CstflftClft. Vears would be required to exhaust them. Between tbe roads hearing that tbe mine is rich, it being so continuously. Iteport . miniinr noai.i-iaiinn haa ho-n of nnoKo/. */, a., wkicii to Santiago, Zacatala. and Tnmbisvatio, a tract two
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rains srins aaaxca uixr orsasTMaa. Nalls arc active at $5 for lOd. MARKET REVIEW. “ The monthly dop^iu of Gold at tbe Fntted States Branch Mint ia this city Tbe machine shop, louodry.and hoe works are in ftUI operatioo. for tbe past quarlor oempora as toUosrs with 1867: Fmdat Ercstno. May 15,1848. Pimncaoi, May 9, 1868. 1667. 1688. Pm InoH AND Buiom Maxkxt.—A moderately fhir aggregate of bnsinef t is Hold aad llilT«r stoeki —A bettar feellDi praraiM ka the idIdIdk diare Jannary, onnees. 27,33IA7 9,143 04 biarfcet, aa
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SohuylkOl OmI Inia- Barleigh “ “ .630 .... I Bock Ridae W. A., Sblcia. Vo EAo Bi Spring ITn “ “ . 6 80 .... H. BbHiTk. FTtlln. Lorb.. 8 60 BT BAIUiOAD AXD CANAL. FOR WEEK ENDING MAT«14,18«8. L. V. H R. 66 RAILROAD ' Ciravar SMvOeak “ “ . 6 60 .... | New England Rad Aab.... 6 86 Morris k Essex R.R...1 18 Ai&bartoa “ “ . 6 60 _j Wyomlog. 6 60 Sblrplng Expensea....I...^.1... 36 81. Cktir... 36,8M Dtalera la thaaa Coala n>ap be ftMnd la nar advertising oolnmaf. PiTt Oirboo. Tt*T8 .. 1,437 At mUdolpUi. Kay U, IMS. SdiayBOll ^vea. 1T,T63 lataifb Lamp and St’mb’t. 6 00^.... | Locnst Mount Lamp and (BT CANAL.] .. «.»«* Broken and Egg.,. 6 00 .... Steamboat. 8 36 8 40 | Port Clintoo. 3,368 To Port Biokoaond. “ Stove. 6 60 .... “ Broken.a2^®*.t 36m 5 S Schuylkill Haven to Port Richmond.$1 00 » Obestnot. 4 36 .. “ Egg.3 00 Total for weak. 66,»a .J™ Freigbu and tolls by Raritan Canal.190 u’in? dobnylkUl R. A. 4 36 4 60 •< Stove. 4 00 Prertooelp ttala pear.1,00TA10 1 ’ “ Chastnut. 3 00 3 TO Lorberrjr Coal.4 60 18876 “ W. A. Lump and 83 35 __I Shamokin. Total.1,076,786 318,876 .. ftikeoT.!^.!..Broken.. 8 S36 ;3 60 I FTanklin, (lykens Talley) 6 00 Cumborlaad Cool Trode. Rgg and Stove.. 23 76 4 00 Brood Toip.4 00 Total. 3 60 By R 0 0. Raiiatui).—The shipments over the Bahimore and Ohio Railroad, ■““ylERi Cnestnm^.... 3 76# To Mow Tork. for the week ending May 9, were as fbUows: lanatanOoal at Blinhtttpcrt, May 1ft, IS6S. From Manch Chunk to New Broaswick, by Lehigh, Del. Div. and Del. fc From Cumberland fc Pa. R. R., via Cumberland: (Corrected weekly by D. L. fc W. R. R. Uo.) Raritan Canal.3 90 Oonsolidatioa Company.3,834 06 Lamp.34 009.... I Kgg. 4 60 . Freights through. 1 36 Borden do.1,741 00 Steuner...4 25 •••• I StOYO..#*******.5 00 Towage. 30 AUeony do. 10 00 Grat«. 4 25 •••• | Cbestout. 4 25 , New Hope do. Priaaa for ntMoa Coal at Vtwknrgk, May 16, lUA To Vew Tork via Morria Canal. 2 86 Midland do. 11 06 (Corrected weekly by Penna. coal Co.) Lebigh Canal.3 34 From George’s Creek via Piedmont. Morris “ 40 George’s Creek C. fc I. Company.3,346 19 Lamp, per ten ot 3340 lbs.34 109.,.. I 6^ “ “ “ 4 30 , Steamer, “ “ “ 4 10 ....I Stove « “ “ 4 66 . Towage..'.. 10 Savage Mountain. Grate *■ “ 4 30 .... | Chestnut “ “ “ 4 06 Freight.1 56 Oeatral “ .3,07417 TO cents additional to New York. Atlantic “ 061 00 Total. .3 so Piedmont “ 1,360 06 Laakawaaaa at Boadont, May 16,1666. American.3,367 03 Lamp.34 2olS..,, I Egg.34 369 XxponiM from Maoeh Chunk to fermy City for Bo-akipmont Swanton “ 411 06 Steamer... 4 869.>.. I Stove.4 76 Lehigh tolls (net). 3 84 Potomac “ 1,164 13 Orate. 4 359.... | Chestnut.4 36 Mums “ . 34 Oeorge’s Creek Mining. 70 cents additional to New York. Freight. 1 80 Hampshire..ifiiO 10 ResmpptBg...... ]...... 80 Franklin “ 436 13 Lakifk Coal at BUaabatkpart, May 16, UM. Lamp.6 009.... I Chestnut.4 3.5 Ttotal.17,468 10 | Steamboat and Broken.... 4 76 .... I Stove.6 00 From Eckhait Railroad. ' Egg. 4 76 .... 1 Provlnoial Frei(lit>. C. C. fc I Co.2,143 14 ^At ■altiaora.altiaoro.fcltiiaoro May 16.1S68. Sydney to N. Y Tntal .lOAOl 04 i WifcesbarreWifeesbarreifeesbarre fc Pittston W. I From wharf or yard, 60c,80c. UngM,. .. ^ I A. by car. ..36..S6.36 369636@6 6P I to T6c76c per tooton additional Xoport of Cofcl Tnaq^ortad oror Lehigk Talley Bailroad and Canal ‘ Lykensrkens Valleyvaiiey R.r. A.a. by | Rct.il, del’d, per 3.340 lbs 7 OO97 60 For the week ending May 9,1868, compared with same time last year: ' , car.9.®_ ®6 66 I George’siorge’s C’k and Cumber-Camber- Littleuiiie “ ..,, 3 00 L.l_ I Snnbury■nbury fc SbamokinShamokin R. or I land f. o. b. at Locust P’t IViimdwn FroiAbtS. RAILROAD. rend 1 .* “ 6 50 1 for ah^inf.94 75 ^ ...£13®15 keel Week. I Tottl. }iai. At Havn da ChruM, MA Liverpoe'....13s. 6d.9i6s. ton. Tons. I Tons. _ Wllkosbarre or Pittston,W. I Sunbury or Shamokin, R. Tork Imports af Matals, Ao- raoa uanen cbomk. Summit Minee. 46 972an ! iTevorionTi4^^S)^^A"Mii;rt u. a , on ooara. * "‘®6 0 00M | LyxeMLykeS'v’y v y, °K u. ^a. ra b’d.7?o u.(gw ij following will show the imports of MotaLs, Ac., at the portqmmtity of New Is givenYork Room Ran Hinee- _I At OeOTNetOWn, D. C. and Alaxundrut, Vu. in packages, unlessuolasa otherwise specided. 44440 George’s Creek and Camberland r. o. b. 3.--.9 6 36 Quantity. Value.ralne. Qnantity. Value. Tout. '^1 I Metals, fcc. Iron, other, tons... 'ki62e 166 378 WTOHura asGios. Franklin coal Co.... I Prices of Oaa Coals. Aimis..Aimta.. 267 2,468 Lead, Pigs. 10,319 53 4HU 522 Metal Go^. 187 Andenried. ' '(0: May 16,1866. Brass Goods. 7 622 MeUI Goods. 187 10,741 I Bronzes. 131 Nalb. 5 Lehigh fc Snsqneb’na raovrxaiL. Germania Coal Co.... 6 424 I Coarse. Stack. Coarse. Slack. Cbalos and An.... 3,919 Needles. 11 Wilkee Barre C. fcl.. 25.774 ■ Gold. Currency. OoMitr.. 398 OU Metti.. Westmoreland Co.38...38 26 38 00 Cutlery. 18,405 Plated ware.. 3 Wanrsir Ron. 10 700 I Bloi;k House.tl 76 3 76 Parish fc Thomas.... 2g[683 I Howrie. 1 76 76 I Deopord.... 8 26 8 00 Guns. 1,483 Percnasloa calls .. 18 New Jmasy. g’044 I Liugan. 1 76 76 Cameron.... 8 36 8 00 Hardware. 6,777 Saddlery. 22 71)4 Fona.... 8 60 8 00 Iron, hoop, tana .. 1,810 Steel.- 3,031 Dakm Goal Go. 2I4.33 Sydney. 2 13X Wyoming C. fc T. Co. 3.227 Pictou..2 13)4 1 18^ Newburgh Orrel Gas. 8 60 8 00 Iron, Pig, tons,... 16,W3 Silver ware. 3 Newport Coal Co.... 'JTT! i Llltlo Glace Bay. 1 76 1 00 I Deliverea in New York. Iron,Bailroad bars 13,404 69,476 Tin, boxes. 36AW7 Morris fc Essex Mnt’l I'.^i I IntemntloDal Co.’a.1 76 .... | Iron, Sheet. 2 241 Tin, slabs, 3,301... 94^08 Iron tubes. 100 189 Ziec, lbs. 278,360 ■aet Boatoa Onal on. 83 I Prloae of Foreign Coala. John Hortou. Duty 31.25 per ton. Plymouth Coal Co... 4 07- Corrected weekly by PAanaLU Bnoe., 82 Pine Street, N.-T. San Francisco Coal Trada. Billman fc Son.. *>*'' I Liverpool Gaa Caking.3 9 60 I Liverpool House Cannel. 18 1 (From the Commtreial Herali April 22,1868.] Bowkley, Price fc to. “ “ Cao^. 14 001 “ “ Orrel..10 I Mineral ^ings. Saa FnaiKssao, April 23,1168. ‘Per ton 2240 lbs.. Ex. ship. There is little of any descriptieo on the market from drst bimds. Imports Talley Co^ Co. . • ••• PRICES FROM YARD : Entemiae (Py, J.H.S 10 101 ' ... r,_ . .7 .. .T ■ ...... navehave beenD«wi inooosldersble,in«iDsia«raoio,uiou4ii though severaliwTorai cargoesc«n>«ani»uuwu are known toMi beOB enoa rantsronio irom 14.W1| Uverpool House Orrel,scr’d..318930 I Livp’l H0UMCan’l,9cr’d. 22 009-Australia. The cargo of 1)M0 tons Cardiff, ex Wm. Wilcox, has been sold open 0. B. Linderman fc Co per toD 2000 lbs. delivered. Washington Coal Co. terms witbbeld. In the absence of salee, wo give toe following Bgnres lor West Pittston. cargo parcels; Anetralian 313 6O914 ; Antbrarite, 3149I6; Cbila, 312(gil3 ; Barclay. Coal Freighta. Comberland, 330(922, the latter In casks ; Engliab, $13 50914 50', Belllogliam Shawnee. Bay, 311; Oalifomla, 3799 par ton. Anthracite, tons.14,363 I Coos Bay, tons.3,829 Oonsnmers Cool Co.. (Oorrected Weekly.) Harvey fc Bio. Aostraltao, tons. 1,679 I Engliab, tons.6443 Wyoming Talley.... Batsf of Friight from Miwbnrgh Bellingham Bay, tons. 4,960 | Lehigh, tons. 1,941 Henry OnRimry. Cumberland, cks. 1,399 I Mt. Diablo, tons.28,606 New England.I Del. fc Hodson C. Oo. I gj I bargee of the Peonsylvaiiia Cool Ooaa-1 Norwalk. 1 26 1 so! i PAoy, per too of 2,240 lbs. i Bridgeport. 1 25 Other Shippers.I BORTOV STOCK MABXBT. _ 'froy “><1 West Trov.3 66 I Now Havoo.1 25 'luc 003 Albany and Greenbosb. 50 I New London.1 40 (By Tetagrapb.) liofno 1 (jocynjans. 45 I Norwich.1.1 60 Boston, May 16,1861. raoH M. n. naQion. j Coxsackie and Stnyvosaot. 40 I Mystic. 1 45 The following were the prices of mining stocks bid,*to-day : N.Y. fc L. [T.H. fc Co 23,490 1 Hudson fc Catskill. 35 I Stooington. 1 45 Calumet. — | Qu^y.Quincy. 23 Hooey Brook Coal Co. 41,688 I siuigcrtteeand Itairylowo. 36 1 Sag ^rbor.1 45 SPPPf’F . I ^WyGary Improvement.Improvement, Ger Pa. Coal Co. 17,768 I BJiinebcck and Roudout. 30 I Bristol..1 66 JTarklln. 18)4 ] tale Royal. Spring Mountain.... 86,160 I Po’keepsic an.l New Paltz Land. 26 |I Newport. 1166 6656 2®*^**'--.H®®**. — Ij Water Power.•••,*• UIJi Oolersine W.T.C. fc Co 30 902 FahkiU Laoding. 20 jI Fall River.River...... 165 ...... 165 Hancock, 3)4 I Boe,, Hart fc Erie BR,.,,.•••• 16 R Meadow (D. W.).. ’ 66 Cold Spring and West Point. MlM Providence.Providence.'..100 1 00 Minnesota. 3 | Rockland. — John Connery...... PeekakiU. 40|Difta4oa. 160 ___ Lehigh Zinc Co. .... Haverstraw.. 46 | Warren.160 Spring Brook. .... Sing Sing and Nyack. ^IPawtacketMI SllSSirt;;;;:::;:::::;;;:;:. .176 i fl fbavcisoo stock mabkkt. Other Shippers. 163 Tarrirtown SLd Piermont. 60 I| New Bedford. 1 90 A lele,!Tam from Saa Franctaoo, dated May 11, to Memrs. Lan fc Wautt, _I_"*' _I Tankers.^. 661 Boston...1 90 Bankers. S3 Pine street, this city,qnotes stocks as follows: The Coal most be discharged with all I East Cambridge.2 10 sroexs. Bid per rt. Stocbb. Bid per P reasonable dbpatcb, at the expense ot | Salem. 190 Goold fc Curry. 686 9 Belcher. 3t6 9 361 aazuran aioiON. the consignee, whosbailatiopsy whnr-1 Newboryport. 2 00 Sivage (per share)... 166 9 — Uncle Sam... 249 9 362 Central Coal Co. lage 00 the boat. Boatmen will tend I Portsmouth.....195 Choltar PotneL...... 236 9 237 CalUornta. 86 9 87 Ashburton Coal Oo... guy while unloadlog. I Portland. 1 T6 Ophir. 167 (9 — I Imperial (per share). .. 9 Mt. Flaaaant [Hataey 8 OM while unloadlog. | Portland. 1 T6 Hole fc Norcroos.ifioa 92.650 Alpha... 9 -- Hazleton (A. P. fc Co) 07)300 Fraighti on Coal 8a»-boraa froM Fort Kiehmoad, Philadalphia- OowD Point.2,688 92,787 I Kentuck (perabar^.. 467487 9 470 East Sugar Loaf.. 61.873 luy 6,1866.—From Philadelphia fc Reading Railroad Wharves, Phiia., to Yellow Jacket.1,435 91,430 Cal. Fteom Nav’n Co.. .. 9 -• Monat . 219 Boston. 2 50 2 60 I New Yuifc.1Yuifc 30 1 40 Latimer (A. P. fc Co) 16,05816,068 (^alem.(talem. 2 70 2 80 I Jerseyjersey City. 1 36 1 40 Burnt Com Co. 16,‘184 Prevideace. 2 00 2 26 j Gloucester.2 80 Improveaeote fri Making Nitro-Olyotelne. Harieigb Coal Oo. 24.633 New Haven.. 2 00 I Ipswich.3 00 IbervaleOoal Oo.... 2 90 I Manchester. 2 76 60 Jeddo (0. B. M. fc Co) AW .^-Nantucket.2 .* 80m Z ~ Some improvements in the preparation of nitro-glycerine Woodside (J. C. Oo.. 7.710 chariw'townCbarleitown. .V.’.’.’.'.".’.*.'.) 2260 50 228o| 80 New todfoidBedfoid.2.2 0060 2 10 have been patented in Prance by Mr. K. Kopp, of Saveme. Ulfhtand. 28,619 Albanj.1Albany.1 60-|60-N Newport.ewport. 2 26 -He States that when three parts of snlphuric acid at 66“ and Ooaa Creek (C. B.).. 11,506 Brooklyn. 1 36 1 40 i Grcenpolot. 1 46 Cl Ridge (S.W. fc Co. 43,62611.’^ ! WiUtaaMbnrg.1w^uiiani^rgV.'.V.1 46-|M Westw^Smaier.'.'.'.'.'.’.'.’.'.’’ Chatter. 1 60w — Z OO* P®*'*' “f nitric acid at 48' or 49“ are mixed together, ni- Buck Moontaia. «.4*8IM,468 Fortiood.Portland...... 3 2 36 2 80 I DennisDennis.3 ’.'.’.’.’.‘.’.‘.’.*.. 3 60 -trons vapors are disengaged for a coneiderable time. Theee Other Shippers. .... Portamouth..2 2 00m 2 35 | Pawtnckel.2.ZZ 36 vapors, besides being in the glycerine—one of the principal ■ Cambridge. 2 76 -i Bridgepurt. 2 00 TnUI....^.. 46o,tin460427 Donversport.Danverspor’t".’..’.’.’!;!!!” 2 80_ -|M Mystic.ysu^.’Z’.!!.’.’!.’!!!! 2 00 _causes of SO many terrible accidents—are extreHioly dfuagerouB p, laama naonz. Dorebeater.Dorebesier. 2 80 -j-New New LonAow...2LonAou. 2 00 -to the health of the workmen engaged in the preparation of D. Lehigh 0 :^0 iMoo> ifltkf) foiog thhlier of Aen of i^ll kAoi^ KiMtflombUify— * way as to give it a commercial value. It is propose to men who are armed not only with skill and seienttlic research nMke nae of the Imporitiss, removed from the iron in Che pro- but also with practical experience enoogii to enable them to cesi of conversion, for the mannfiwture of phosphorus, {dios- meet with snceess in coping with the obstacles that lie in their phoric acid and other chemical compounds that will possess a WMIJUi * OOMPAirr. PBOPXUB«Olt& way. No one, at the present moment, donbts for an instant commercial value. B08BITEB W. BAYMOND, Eniron. the mint of treasnre that now lies, locked by the hand of na- Should this prove a success, what shall we look for next ? tnre, within the recesses of those mountains. No one should Periiaps in coarse of time we shall have some scientific mind, OPPICB, 37 PABK BOW, NEW TOBK. any longer donbt the fact, that the ores of Colorado, in regard penetrating muMgh, to invent a process by means of which ■r inMUiliie oootillMitiOD*, Um JooasAi ov MoraM Som not nem—rflj en- to their chemical and mineralogical character, are “ noUiing itorw the potUloiit upuned bj oootribnton. that other obstinate enemy, sulphur, may be got rid of as new under the sun.** Ores similar in composition, naturally effectnaliy, and as profitably as the phosphorus promises to be jost as obstinate as they, are now, and have been for years, in the present iostaoce. Such a desideratum would most as¬ worked easily and economically in other quarters of the globe. suredly prove a blessing to the two continents. StaiaU ooolM TM CaoU. ' AsvRnase : Twvoty.flve e«DU par Itaa of UiIrteeD wotetfWWea Wsirtioa iMrtda, aad Iwtjr esBis aataMa. Twbs Wvarlablr I Already a step in the right direction seems to hare been taken in Colorado. From an editorial article in the columns of the tTAlTLIire^ir TIUX. "**^D«5oHn*o, wooDnwnaviN^ liTB^GBAnaNO and MB PRIMiniO Colorado Miner we are to learn of the success of “ Qar- Cxscotad in alacaBt ttfla, oa WMOnabla tenns. The old saying, that when we consider ourselves the safest, rott Martine k Co.'s Reduction Works." In order to inform we are often in the greatest danger, has, in the run of human mr Kr. T. P. PiMMBTO* to Bdluir or UN Macbanlcal Dspartmaat Md Afaot our readers as to the success of the operations carried on at (or thd JouasAt m IbaiiM. life, proved itself true in a multiplicity of ways. Kor is it to those works, we will quote a few lines from the article men¬ be expected but that in one way or another, it will continue Oorraaaoiidtata, nahaosaa aad otbara iddrtaatps as iboald ba ettrmkn ••reW 10 wrilo •• JomoiAt or Mnaao," loataod ol “ Morara JooniL.” to ay. tioned. It says: to prove itself true. Within certain limits, we live in the aura aaSt earrbw*- OaaMBODlGattaaa lotaodad lor publicaUoB aboald ba ptolnlf " We are enabled to lay before onr readers the amount of midst of fortuitous circamstances, nor has the veil of igno¬ ore treated, and the gross production of these works, com¬ rance as yet been torn completely away from before onr mencing with the 7th of Au^t last, and ending with the NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 16. mind’s eye. When upon a cold wintw’s day we have sat let of April, 1866. During that time the works have run : about seventy days, and have treated 166 totm 1300 lbs. of ** toasting onr shins ’’ beside a hot cast-iron stove, who of os ore, from thirty-five different lodes. The capacity of the ever imagined that at the same moment we were taking into I works is less than three tons per day, and some of the ore was CioToauu. — BodocUoa ct Colarado ■tocwiAraon— Tanocwe*—CalUbr- onr system the seeds of disease, and perhaps even of death 7 Oreo—liptorotkiB of Lswrr OoiSbr- •to—MmIco. Who of ns ever imagined that that hot glowing furnace of ■to — flooMUitof oboet SropbUo — | MitoKAWOoa.—Coal CatUos bv Ma- SUrUInc, B Troo Stool Wom Eoc- I blow I Ifirrhit Wood—Oovern. iron performed a doable mission 7 That while it was infusing Itoh boo—StaoStoM SeMotlOe Scteoi ■Mat Tittoo tor Ptocor Ctolaa—Mn- —Boo Tisvolo—For OotaraSo. IcMi SUvor MIsm—StroBlom—Now granite, the amount produced in the time stated, being $18,- its superabundance of heat into our benumbed limbs, it was OiaonAi. PATtoto. — Notoo oo Uiwar Dtooovory tai MocnoUtB.toc. 124 90 coin value, and may be summed up as follows : GolilOrala, No. 1, br W. M. Oam, llAMVfACIVlUIO Am MKtoAjnCAL NOTH. also at the same instant, feeding os large doses of invisible Eoq.,PblltSolp»tla, lota o( tho 0*11- rnoMTlig PolNbae stool Som Bait ** Number of lodes, S.*); amount of ore, 166 tons, 1300 Ibe.; poisons 7 Ibfoto Bootoetcal Sarvoy. —OoAoat $or Cool Ooot ftol—Co silver coin value, $18,124 90. Ciiimtonaiwiri —a Mow LoaS Mao. ■toot Sir atiwblot Otooa ood Bnoo But there seems to be more than an even chance that such taMtotooMoa—Plajrar’* Now Uatbod —Prooorvattoa of flowon. " ’This result shows an average yield of $109 79, coin value *( WoMIre rtf Iroo-Oooka Ntw PowJCABom. per ton of silver, and will, we think, compare favorably with is the case. An article from the Lanott, found in the colnmns SnoALNoncao Miiwri SvMUASv—Sold and Sllrar: any silver region in the world.” of our to-day’s paper, has much in it that goes to substsnUate Mitollto* “—“— Tu Umi Tbam. Moxtoo—ItoSota—CalSbroU —Vlr- Tu COAt TaAM^qnoUUoofl, Sblp what we have said. If it has been, or is soon to be established, gloto—Orosaa—Srittob Cotanbla— mODto, FroiebU. We hail this bit of intelligence as a good omen. It indi¬ OB^v-Nlcan«aa—Coma: Mekl. PATMTUAiai. cates that steps are being taken, te some extent at least, in that onr cast-iron stoves, when heated up to a certain point, t|ML—OoAt Am laoo: PaoiMylva. SrooAL Sotomnc Butrib. ala—Orofoa—Miablfaa —CSaada— Oai-MT AOOOT MWEAU. the right direction. It is a fact, patent to all, that Colorado permit the passage of noxious gases through the interstices needs smelting works for the redaction of her ores. Has the of the metal, and that, too, in quantity sulficisnt to bring on time come when well-known processes for the smelting of ores sickness, and under certain conditions, an epidemie disease, most assuredly, it is a fact of the most vital importance in a Bnbeoifbers reeeiviag thefar paper in a Um wrapper will accept of their character can, upon ecenomical.grounds, be safely the same as a notifleatioo that their aubocriptiona have expired, introduced 7 sanitary point of view, and of the highest interest when looked aad that the youaasL will be discontmaed unless we are otherwiee ’The ores are there, great in quantity, and rich in quality. at from a scientific stand-point. • authorised. ^ We believe the auspicious moment is just at hand ; that now If it be true, that the stmospheri, ia the pressnee of these xEDVonov or ooloraoo out. is the time, for monied men whs would have a permanent, stoves, is poisoned by a iiibsion of hydrogen and oxide of substantial, and profitable interest in the natural wealth of carbon, as it is claimed that V. Dbville has shown in his lec¬ A serious obstacle seems to lie in the way of the present Colorado, to make thorough investigations, and then, other ture-room experiments, then we trust the era of cast-iron prosperity of the mining distiiets of Colorado, and thereby, things being equal, to set to work in right good earnest. Nor stoves will come quickly to an end. Stoves of common sheet of qourae, ou oppressive, deadening influence is exerted upon should they fail to keep themselves constantly under the gni- iron, lined with bricks, or perhaps better, the soiq^-stone stove the general intsrests and welfhrs of that entire community. daoce of konoMy, sUUvond good common aeuse. We believe must take their place, or if neither of these, a spirit of in¬ Hn advaneem^ of Colorado in the scale of wealth and dvi- the time is near at hand when the same scientific skill that vention will soon fhrnish us a substitute. htatwn, must, neceosoiily, be the result of a legfUmate, scien- takes the gold and silver bearing pyrites of the Hartz Moun¬ We are glad to learn that the matter has attracted the at¬ tifie, and economical development of her vast internal mineral tains, and puts H through a complicated series of metallurgi¬ tention of the Academy .of Sciences, to such an extent as to resources. Her proqieetive power lies not in a great stretch cal processes, causing it, in the end, to give up its copper, induce the appointment of a committee to make further in¬ of country that can* be devoted to agricultural pursuits, not silver and gold, and that, too, at a highly profitable rate of vestigations in regard to the real merits of the case. M in “ broad acres,” unsurpassed in fertility of soil, that are cost; we believe, we repeat, that the same scientific skill will Dbviu.b has bees appointed upon this committee, and as a re¬ welcoming the approach of the. herdsman and the husband- very soon take the pyrites of Colorado and, on the spot, sult of the resesichee of that celebrated chemist, we hope to tnan. Her mountain valleys are, te be sure, rich, and give either by means of the same, or allied processes, cause it to learn soon, in how far the conclusions drawn from previous ample reward to the work of the ploughman's hand ; but th^ give up its copper, silver and gold, and that, too, at a rate of investigations upon the subject will hold good. are eorrespondingly small; they do not furnish a field for cost that will render it a source of great profit to him who labor whereby the people and the State may soon become invests capital in the undertaking. Let, then, the owners of lOMITHDre AB^ eBAFERB. wealthy and influential. Nor yet, on the other hand, can Colorado mines be pstient. In the history of that young and she ho^ for futare eocoess in the comiiq; aad going of a We have lately received several samples of newly discov¬ entoprising Territory a new era is about to begin. The bal¬ great esaamercial fleet. The oceanic waters touch not her bor- ered deposits of black-lead, together wi^ letters adung infor¬ ance wheel that is to carry her enginery past the “dead-point,” dera. She can only contribute her mountain streams to the mation about the same. An article upon this subject will, already begins to move. Once well under way, who will ven¬ general commercial good. If then in her mining interest therefore, serve as an answer to the various inquiries made, ture to predict when her onward progress will cease 7 alone, Culoiado can hope for eminent distinction, if to that and we trust will also be agreeable to our readers in general. alone, she can look for a brilliant career, naturally enough, The name black-lead has, very inappropriatdy, been given she is more than ready to weleorae every means that shall to this peculiar form of carbon, partly on account of some have a teodency to give hwan impetus in the right direction; outward resemblance, but principally from the fact that it was whether sich means consist in opening new lines of railway first used in place of metallic lead, far purposes of ruling.^The oommunicatioB, whereby the cost of lab ab I can remember, was abont u foUowa: The vein appears, JflETML, VRG1*. where it cata the anrface of the ground, to lie in the ao-c^led ■etamorphie rock. It runa in a northerly and southerly direc* IVf 0 KEY, SPERRY, & CO., tion, and seems to strike into the crust of the earth in a wlWACTTnunis or ' very nearly perpeodicnlar direction. It lies only three or four ALL KINDS OF miRINa H&CHINER7. milee from railway communication, in the midst of quite a rich agricultural district. The vein haa been laid bare on the surface of the ground a distance of some five or ten rods. It is well defined, and has a width where R “ crops out" of from PREPABD) EXPRESSLY FOR ALL adtSEES OF MACHINERY. two to three inches. The mine was discovered, 1 was told, where it was crosseilltf an ordinary pathway upon the farm. DO NOT CHlUi. The wear of tnwi had .ezpoaed the vain to atmospheric influ¬ ence, and the discoloration that resulted therefrom naturally QCARANTEED FREE from 6DV OR OBIT. attracted attention. At the time of my visit, 1 found that a Endorsed by the lesdtng MscsAincuira and AanSASS of tbe United States and shaft had baen sunk upon tha vein to the depUi of about fif¬ Europe as tbe teen feet; it was jart then full of water. I was informed by BEST LUBRICATORS trustworthy parties, that at that depth the vein was some two or thiee times its width upon the surface of the ground. From Df USE some specimens that were shown me, and from the character 47 Send for Circulars. .^4 of the refuse matter lying around apon the ground at the mouth of the shaft, I found that the vein was made up of S. 8T. JOHN, Agent, the following minerals, viz.: lead ore, or as it is commonly called, galena, zinc blende, iron pyrites and quartz. The pre¬ Vulcauic Oil and Coal Co , dominating mineral of the vein was ^ena, though it was 7 Broadway, Mew York. sprinkled quite freely with zinc blende. I was told that the ore Box 4T8I. mayl6-ly was quite rich in silver. I believe there are other lead mines in that region of country that have been worked somewhat, at •pUE PROTESTANT CHURCHMAN, a place called, I think, llosue. Now, Mr. Editor, I wish to ask you or any of your sci¬ A Beligions Family Paper. THE LEADING EVANGELICAL ORGAN CALIFORNIA STAMP MILLS, entific contributors one or two questions in regard to this WITH WOOD FRAMFi!. dsposit of ore. In the first place, I wish to know if one would M mx PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Wbeeler, Randall & Bpairy'a Iron Battattea, naturally expect to find other veins in the immediate vicinity, and if so, under what conditions ? Secondly, would one come Devoted to the advocacy of Evangelical Tmth against Ritualism and Rational- WHEELER & RANDALL'S reasonably to the conclusion that as the shaft is sunk deeper istn ; tne detence oi the - Liberty of Preaching,” and the cultivation of traternal relatiens with Evangelical churches. PATENT EXCELSIOR GRINDER & AMALGAMATOR, and deeper along the vein, the latter will be fonnd to increase THE BEST IN UR:. correspondingly in width, so that at the depth, say, of 100 feet, Editors; Rev. Umeri. John Gotten Smith, D.D., Marshall B. Smith, and HEPTOBH k P^J^N ’S Stephen H. Tyng, Jr. it would be found to have a width of several feet ? Thirdly, PATEMT AVD^I^TOR. what would be the efiect in smelting the ore of tbe impurities The Editors are assisted by a large corps of clerical and lay contributors in so iuiimately mixed with it; or, in other words, would the all parts ol tbe United States, in England, and on tbe Continent. WHEELER & RANDALL’S Patent Conoidal Separator, witb Lataat Improvamenta. zinc blende he a serious obstasM in the way of smelting the Published every Thursday at No. 633 Broadway,New York. galena for Iq^ ? Lastly, woald it be advisaUe for one to WIRILRt & RIND ILL’S PATRNT CORCKIITRATOR, spend any cMsiderabie amonnt of money in opqping this vein Tbrus : Four DoHars per anonm ; to dergymeu, three dollars ; to theological With Z Wheeler’s Patent Sell-IHscharging Quicksilver Apparatus. This ma¬ students and missionaries, two dollars. Club rates, five copies to one ad¬ chine is an entire ■ in the egnctation that in the end it worn prove a profitable dress, fifteen dollars - twenty copies, fifty dollars. Rock Breakers, EnglMS, Boilers, Shafting, fcc., Ac. Furaacee. Shoos oM investmStt ? In the hope that, through the columns of your 47 Specimen copies furnished. Address. Dies o' tbe best Whit#Jron. Retorts to Sold end Silver. Also tarnish very abhi}onmal, we shall soon rsceive an answer to onr in- THE PROTESTANT CHURCHMAN, all kinds of mining sopWea. Frot Wurti*e Sodlam Amalgam. Nitrate of Ap.Ig:6m Box dj)09 P, O., N. Y. Mercury (application potoMod by Henry Brevoort, Esq.), he. terrogaihms, we remsin truly yours, h. l. s. Will also tarnish complete Plaos and Specitcations tor Mills, Machinery and gUSH & GANT, Baildtngs, and give practical inforinatioa in Mining, MllUng, Amaktonatlng 9^ Attention is called to the advertisement of J. C. and Concentrating Gold and Silver Ores. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Agents for H J BOOTH k Co., San Francisco, also lor Miners’ Foundry, Son Hoadlet & Co., in our paper. Their portable Steam En¬ Francisco. HOBBY, SPEBBT k CO-, gines are used in all parts of tbe country, and are highly re¬ HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, 65 Liberty street, New York. r. Moiirr. j. z.spzbrt. p. il xuoiau, BUILDERS' HARDWARE, commended by those who have tested them. mayfi Of Wheeler k Randall, San Francisco. WOOD. WILLOW, BRITTANU AND PLATED WARE- f atrat tSlaims. ALBO, SniTH A SATRE Vniveraal Patent Wtingera, Washing Maehinea, MAinXFACTUBINO COMPAHT, Till III sating to Miners, BliUmen. MeteUnrgists, Oil-Men, end OtbeiH. •PATENT BIRD AND ANIMAL CAGES, METAL TOP CHIM¬ PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACTURERS NEYS, AND SHINGLE BRACKETH. or TBl 77,469.—Fbockss or CoNVERTmo Cast laoM into Cast Steel N. D. BUSH, aks Malleable Ibon.—Francis EUershausen, Montreal, Canada P. O. Box, 6,WO. B. E. GANT. MACKEHXIE PATENT * East. (ebl;tf 429 Sixth Ave. Cor. 26tb street. 1 claim, 1. Cooverting cast or pig Iron Into cast steel or malleable iron, by bringing It, In a liqaid state, In contact with bot or cold solid oxides, snb- TPHE MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY stintiallv as herein specified. -4- OfTers a thorough and practical general odncaiioa, founded upoo the Mathe¬ 2. Brmging to an iostautaneons nnKorm contact, at a snfflcient heat, on a matical, Physical and Natural Sciences, English and other Modern languages, snlBcientiy largo hot or cold sorlace of pure oxide, the caroon contained in and Mental and Political Science; also, a full coursed Studies and Practical molten cast iron, ao as to caose a rapid viotont oombustion of tbe carbon, snb- Exerc«eator stodents preparing for the prnfesskms of tbe Civil, Mechanical, staotiallr as described. and Mining Engineer, Cheiui.sl, Metallurgist and Architect. 77,470’—Matebial fob PoBimNO ahd Decolobino Petboleum.— Tbe coarse expends tbrougb (our years, the studies of the first and secood John Ellis, Mew York, N. Y. being common to all ; those of tbe third and fonrth selected to suit tbe pro- Iclatm, 1. Tbe method of prapariog bones, animal charcoal, “ Narassa tesskm in view. phosphate o( lune,” and other phospbatic deposits, in Ibe manner described Minimum age of admission, sixteen. Entrance exam miitioos are beld July in the toregoing specifications, as materials for filtering and bleaching petro¬ IStb and September 281b. For lees and other particulars address “ Frol. leum and other fluids. WILLIAM P. ATKINSON, Sec’y of Faculty Mass. Inst, ot Technology, Boston.” •2. For tha porpoaa of ftIMringaad bloaching petrolo«m and all the fluids mayl6At WILUAM 0. ROGERS, President. produced ITom it, Ifacluding residuum and tne besviarpil, after the lighter fluids hare been separated from It, tbe use of pufe phoapnate of Hem, ssmI tbe commercial articia, and also either and all, separately or cambindd, of tbe ■pjEW AGENCY.—Messrs. M. A. LATHBOP & BRO. BLOWER buJ CUPOLA and SMELTING FURNACE. materials or substances which result from treating booaa, aaimal cbaroeal, have been appointed ear sole agents in the N,w England States tor tbe Also, Mackenzie’s Patent GAS EXHAUSTER and Narassa pbosphate of lune, or other pbospbatic dsposMi, in (ha aMMr 4e- Amibicah JouBSii, Of Miniku amfiotf d4w Spanisfr popw El Cobbso Hlspaxo- scribud in tha Ibragoing specitoatKma. AEnucaao. Their address is II Court street, Boston, Hass., where all inior- COMPENSATOR. Addreia matioa respecting communicatioiu, subacriptions and advertiaementa for tbess SMITH k iSAYRE MANUFACTURING COMPANY. papers wUI be gladly givea to tkoifr WM Way wRh to |tv«r at HMhAMlf pa¬ tronage. 66 Liberty strsst, N. Y. J^prriat §»vitbit. Send to lllostrated pomphlst. mar29 nOPPER SMELTER WANTED—A practical Copper zr It Duty not be generhUy known that Iron vewMli, bnilt on ^ Smelter, experienced in making Copper R)egulas from-Ore, with wood stocks pointing nearly north and sonth, become hi^ly magnetic, and are, In ihel. is wanted for a Collfamia m'ne. One that, thoronghly understands his BLAKE’S STONE BREAKER. tact, mariners’ compasaes cm an hnmense scale. Tnis efl'ect Is doe to tbe ri- business may apply witb relereoces, to Box No. 663 Boston Post Office. bratkm of hammering tbe ircm when In this posttloo. A common poker mayI6:3t:is treated in tha tame way will readily baeome a magnet. This cnrtons fact was recently iUnstrated by the British ship of war Nortbamberloud. Having bean bnllt arlthber bead pointing north, her compass abowed great deriatkm. By decking bar, however, with her bows pointing south tor some time. It was VaG 1*. foond that tkip daweiwsa graqpjb'Miq»e4, and M mtlaaaVboUy nentraliatd. ' ]^ANH ATTAN 47 Some parties in Philadelphia have been manufacturing a lettar-preat copy book to taking wsUotameoat ooptaa ot laa—acrlpt. |i^i(^ METALLURfilCiL AND CHEMICAL WORKS, are ibund to answer in tho beat inaniMr tbe porpuse for which it is intended. 593 and 554 WeatTvrentyelgMtla Street, M. T. A sympathetic ink it used with tbe paper of incb a conaisteocy and character that wheu a page (A manuscript it written, by placing It under a leaf of the ASSAYS OF GOLD, 8ILTBB, CQPPEB AMD LEAD ORES. book and tbe band over the paper, an excaUeat copy Isobtained. It Speckri aUenflon given to tbe Analykte of Ores, MtoeHOa, dayt, Walsrs, and is a valuable aid to buslnesa men heretofore accustomed to the irksome pro¬ Oeaaral Oomnaercial Prodacts of aS kinds. cess which requires a wet brush, ahsorbiog ntper, a press, and some pstleuce. Teats of Gold, sliver, and Lead Ores, by smelting, In qntatlties of One 47 Exp^otento made with toads by Oratiolet bolets and Hondred Ponods to Fifty Tana. vnlplao prove that matter it exnded near tbe ear which Is poiaoDoos wbeo in- Gold and Silver Oree vorked in Parcela of One Hundred Pounds to Fifty troduesd into tbe tissues af other animals. Dogs, after biting a toad, show Teas, by Amalgamation Process. slgbsofpaln Bat tbs bite of tbe toad is net patoaooaa Ittia said some In- Gold Dust, Ban, Old Gold and Silver bought. Jewellers’ aweept worked and dians in South Amerkm ose a fluid obtained Cram the back of the toad, in place refined. of corars, to poisoning the tips of tLeir arrows. Tbe ordinary toad may be Fonnders and Metal Workers (hmlibed with Alkiys of every deecriptioo. handlod with impunity, but should the secretioo slloded to come in contact Parties reqniring plans and speciflcatioiis for tbe erection of Smelting Works, witb abraded ikla unpleasant aeos^iOBS might ensue. can be supplied, and tbe actual process while working shown. Plans and specifications ftimishod for works, ane' processes for the mannlhc- tnre ot Snlpbnrlc Acid, Soda Asb, and general Cbeni cal produce. Superlntendente : MR. CHARLES F. SEOOR, for.m riy of Nevada and Ckli- Mottf. fomla, and MR. WILLIAM WEST, fonnerly of Swansea, Wales. For sale, 1 Hepbnm k Peterson Pan, and 1 Bogai dns Quartz MOI. Inquire 47 In the prooeaa of making p tOOJL DML.ERS S' SHIPFERS, E WESTMORELAND COAL COMP’Y JtESCROVrERV, oms TMKUt aUTEBIOB qUAUTT OP *Y^Hrri, FOWL* *gN«W, ^OUTH BROOKLYN BITXJMIlSrOUS CO^L BuceciMri to JOHS VTIUTK A CO., Ta Oaa CqaapMlaa, Steam Engine and Boiler Works, WilkMbarre and Lekigh Cocl, ■allroaJ Carparatlana, Aa4 ManaCactarera of ON IMI AT, SUMMIT AND TAN BRUNT STREETS, BROOKLYN, N. T FOB STEAM AND FAJOLT CSC. Own, IBOP9 S'TEKl^. D. MoLBOD, ProptlMtor K— Ha. TS, 111 Br— ■ * Hlfti and Low Rranore Steun ijentioR Apparatoa afiplied to FACTORIES, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, STORES AND DWELLINGS. Manofikctann and Sole Agenta for STOKER’S PATENT LUBRICATORS, lor sopplying lubricating matter in bulk to tbe cyllodera of Marine and Sta- tionery Steam Engtnea, Steam Pampa, Heatera,Steam Traiia, Pipe Tonga, Pipea, Tiees, Stocka and Dyee, ftc., ftc. We make Steam and Ooa ntter’a took a speciality. Colla for Breweries, Diatilleriaa, Soap Faotorlaa, Ao., Ao STEAM PUMPS. Bend for Rlastratad Circular. f:lT-ly STEAM PUMP AND FIRE ENGINE. STEAM, WATER. AND GAS FlTTINaS OF ALL KINDS. Alao, dealera la WROUGHT IRON PIPE, BORER TUBES, etc. Hotela, Cbnrcbec, Factorlea and Public PuiMInga, Heated by Steam. Low Preaanre Woodward BuUdiog, 79 aad 78 Centre atreet, comer oC Wortn atreet, Naw York. Formerly ol 77 Beekman atreet. m14:1.v GEO. M. WOODWARD, Preaideat.. TTYDEAULIC WORKS, MANUFACTORY, B nooK.ij'srisr. i>t. tt steam Pumping Engtnea, Stngto and Duplex, Wortbtngton’a Patent, for ail parpoaea, ancb aa Water Worka Engluea. Condenalng or Non-condenaiiw ; Air and Circulating Pumpa, tor Marine Engiiiee; BlowiDg Enginea: Vacunm ^mpa Stationaiy aad Portable Steam Fire Enginea Bniler Feed rampa, Wrecking Pumpa, Mininas PumpA, Water Meters, Oil Metara ; Water Pretunre Engtawa ; Staanp Milla for Gold, Silver and Copmr Ore; Eaton’a Patent Amalgamtora for 0er from wood, ae practiced in at tbe Manbattao Metallorgical and Chemical Worki, 592 and 654 West Twen¬ Tbs office of this Machins is to break Ores and Minerals of every kind into Enrope, round dbks of wood are first subjected to tha aettoo of hydro-chloric ty-Ugfatb street. small fragments, preparatory to their ftortber commlaotkiD by ether ma¬ acid to dlaaolve the spongy celhilose. This latter has, antil latsly, been a tortlM shipping Otm to these works Ibr treatmen t must prepay all freight chinery. charges. waste prodact, hot is bow ooovertad into alsahm m tbm way: Tha wood if Tbe machiae hat now been to ass, endoriag the severest testa, for tbe last boiM to twalve hours la fayiiraublorie said, dilated WEn ten ttoss ltd For engagemsDts and terms, apply at the Works ot to ten years, daring wbicb tinao It has boM intradneed into almost every coun¬ volume of water. Tbe acid liquid, wbicb it. ebarged with grape sugar fiirmed 8ECOR, SWAN k 00., try on tbe globe, and is steiyWhkrs tectWsd MIffivgiSat tand increasing favor as a labor saving machine ot the first order. from tbe spo igy oellnloee, Is tnen withdrawn, tho excess of aciu saturated P. 0. Box 1412. m30:iy *6 BrokdwEF, Mtw York. with lime or chalk, and a small quantity of yeast ia added, tbe temperature lllostrated circnlars, fhlly describing the machine, with ample testimonials being kept at about ego Fahr. FermeotatiOD toon ensoes, and when babbles to iU efficiency and utility, wHi be fwniAed on aypMcation, by letter, to tbs of carbonic acid gas are no loogsr evolved Ibe liqaid is distilled to obtain the •pjUEFEDEN A WOLTER3, ' uodarslgnsd. alcoboL 47 'ins Patents obtained to this machine in the United States and In Eng¬ land having been tally sustained by tne oonrla, after well contested suits in 47 Advices firom Alaaka to April 10 have been rsecived. ’ITiere ANAlrYTICAlj CHBBOSTS and ASSAY7CRS. both chuatrlaa, all persona are beieby fautloasd not to vMlatn them; #id they ware twelve marine veasela there in uor weeks, tuclading three steamers are intoned that every machine now in use or offered to sale, not made by The depaiturealor tbe same time ware three steamers, one steep, one bark, and consulting knoineebs, ns, in which the ores are cniahed between upright oonvergeut Ihoea or Jaws and two achoooers. Nearly all tbe arrivals brongbt passengers. Ttie Caotral City, Colorado. actuated by a revolving abaft and fir wheel, are made sad used in violatioo ot baknesa at Sitka is steadily advancing, and several new bniidiags era going our pAtMit. up, and tbe town presents a busy and thriving agqwarance. Examinations of, and Reports oo Mineral Lijids and Mines, fUmlshsd en ap- plicatioo. AnalyiM and Assays of <)rss execated with accuracy. Ptaos and * BLAKE, BROTHERS, 47 Bensude^ s French physicisn, found that tbe gossip com- spsclflcatlooa fUrnitbed to ersetloo of HmeRlng Works, Desniphariziog marl4-ly 861 New Haven,Conn. mnnicated by bus feusa one to SMit^ar bis patiesla, ebeered and ameliorated Faraaces,kc.,kc. 24:4.tf their oeoditioti, and he aooordingljr conceived and carried ont the idea of SSAY FURNACES.—Pistseh’s Improved Kent’s Uni- j^toting a dally boUstin, to circnlate among and amuse the sick and inSrm. BENJAMIN SMITH LYMAN, A This waa theorlgia of oawqrapen in Fraace. -aX. versal Furnacs to insltlog ores, copelling and distilltog. Light and durable, end all that is desired to tbs taboratory or to dentists’ ass. (tapal 47 A hsil-storm at BuahnsU. DL, laat Friday night, is de¬ MINING ENGINEER, moulds, tongs, and Iron Rstorta of all sizes. Address HERMAN PIETSCH, scribed os reeembling a shower of snow balls, some of tbe ball stoues measor- GEOLOGIST AND TGPOGBAPHEB, maanfitetarer of Cbemicnl Apparatus, 183 Delancey street, N. Y. Reference, tag thirteen ioehet in circumferereoce and weighing over nine ounces. iSky- EDWARD N. KENT, Chemist, Itth street, tomerly melter sud refiner at tbs lights were dsthed Into fragments, sad nasabctantial roofli somewhat riddled. Bfa. 135 Sowtla FUtW Street, Pklladelphla. k U 8. Assay Office, apfiZm kumtku JOttSIIAt tt MIIIIII6. 1861*
IRSeAP.S’WoodEn -ihAVlNaE^TiTABLr^HY.Er.T, The merits of this Wrench arc loo well known to need uomment Go to the Dianiat hardware store and LOOK AT IT BEFORE PCBCHASING ANY OTHER, ENGRAVING, DESIGNING AND PHOTOGRAPH- or tend for Uhutrated circular to ingon Wood, in all its branches, viz : Portraits, Fme Book Work, Ma¬ MANVEL ft LINDSAY. chinery, Maps, BelMings, lUnstrated Catatognes, Vievt, ftc. N. B epectal 00112,ly Mer York. . BBtWmoB'M Pgtent AdjWWbwUB Swag*, attentio - given to Colo' Work of aU dascrtptioiis. 48 BEEKMAN 7TREET or Bpreading, Sharpening, and Shaping the teeth of all SphttMif Sawt. Price New lor*. augl4;ly $5. Manufactured by the AMERICAN SAW COMPANY, IRON&WOOD WORKING Office No. 2 Jacob Street, near Ferry Stree4,New York. THE ANiniAL OF SCIENTinC D18C0YERT. Bend for new Deecnptire Pamphlet and Price I jit lv4-|» MACHINERY THE AHNUAL Of SCIEIWTIFIC DISCOTERT. ARION PIANO-FORTE. —Patented. THE AIVNUAL OF SCIEffTlFlG DISCOVERT. Pre-eminently the best Piano ever coostmeted, unrivalled Ibr tone, dor TURBINE WATER-WHEELS. ablity aod elegance ot finish. The Brooklyn Daily tisnes says : "]t has is THE ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERT. LOGICS W. POND, higher degree than any Piano that we have met with, tbe singhig quality nr character that musicauis so much admire and seek lor In a Piaao ; the bass - FOR 18i8. Wo, 96 LIBERTY ST. N. Y, and Worce«ter, Maas. note, reminding yo* cf the deep-toned notec of a large organ. The middle F( r sale by WESTERN ft 00. Seat on receipt of price, TWO DOI.I ARB. DOT.2.1y.q octaves are more elaailc and claar tban in most other Pianos, while tbe up per or treble notes pueness that pure, distinct, bell-lifce cloanieae that is ae neceeeory to tbe cwrect rendering of dUBcult pleoee of m*ilc, aod that also Ten Eyck Axe Mannfactnrin§ Co, rLXJOK. 8I*A.K! lends such a chara ^ mclo ‘y." Protewor J. M. AbboU, organist at the ■miTrxcnruBs or waanmnD Church of Our Savloar. in Bruoklya, aaya: “ For clasticily of loach, Ibr the FLUOR SPAR!! FLUOR SPAR!! ! singing quality 30 mnoB sought fiir by artists, and tor richaeaB and purity ot CAST 8TBBI. MZCSLaiOR AXES, "E'lT’E are prepared to furulati any amount of IT.U0R SPAR of a superior tone, it 18 unexcelled by any Piano I hare ever aaed.” Prefnaanr John W. TT qnallty.rarebiilyaelartadaadgraaDd.orN Iwip Henry Ganoll, editor of tbe American Educational Monthly, says ;«•••• Pi^, Hfttetaete, and Misiac Toola of all DMCripttona AHP Addreea _ _ . Listen, however, to one of another class, tor example, one of tbe Arioo Pianoe, FACTORY, COHOES, N.Y. . . . , A BOUAlir, iap;t made by Manner ft Co. ; bow year bead atlba base sends forth its riches, Fair T*w Leftd Mtnta, Rnae W*|r, Bardin Cb , Ill., clear and onblurred ; observe the singmg, swellmg melody that in its middle THOMAS E. OATMOH, Ageet, octaves so wondrottsly represents vocal expreaswo, and which predominates tanI8:fim tT ^eekmao street, N. Y. Or to A J. MITCHELL. above eves tbe silvery brilUaocy of tbe apitor treble ; tben reftset tbaf tbit li St. Lonie, Mo. Apl4«t. a adenttficaBy'ranatrueted mid d#mbl« MMftrnmr'* aee Is tor sale at tbe ManufUctory and Wareroems, 187 and 184 Bowery, ^ATER-PROOP SAFETY FUSE. second door above Delsucey street. MANNER ft CO. TifcNAB & EARLTN, N. R—We have a niunber ol Second Hand Pianos towtl or rent. 12-v;47ip ItX makittactdxebs or Warranted Sore Ffare if mot Cnt in Tampinf. MANUFACTURED BY BK^SS COCKS. J)UN CAN, SHERMAN & CO., PLUMBERS’ BRASS WORK, _ UREN, DUN8T0NE k BLIGHT, WROUGETT IRON PIPE, PITTINOS, *0. EAGLE RIVER, KEEWENAW 00., (L. S.) MKBIOAN. No. (6 John street. New York. ftplBdlni. JiVkaaTevirl All we aak is A Fait F|Bu> an> IK. Fxvoa. BliTtlly-tp CORMER PIRR AMD MA88AU BTREKTt, M. T. J' H. McALUSTER’S FILE-COVBRiT FUi^VERS. ISSUE ORCCIJIR NOTES AND LETTERS OF CREDIT FDR TRAVELLEBB. FILE COVSRS. ‘ FILC-COVERS. AVAILABLE iN ALL TUE PSlNaPAL CITIES OP XBE WORLD, HOUSEHOLD MICROSCOPE. FILE-C0TBR8. ' FILK-COVERS. MKbKyiOK powers from twenty to ono hnndred diamrtere (401) to 10,000 JCA7iCA#nU CUKDITS times toe area), wHb all tbe ouentiol parts of a first dan mstrameot. Tor preserv'Dg tue nambert U tha Anwnptk JocKiai. oe jLMro. Price $2. Price of the micrascupe with a collection of torty-eight Prepared Objects of For sale by WESTERN w Co S'' P»A Row.'N.Y. 4foz in €uxa|i; C^ini, tie. ^Iso 9*^ Natural Hlatcry, $10. T. a MCALLISTER,Optician, THE^UEL SAVING Traisfers tf Hmcj f Md fMliD C6iBt by May2 No. 40 Naasan street. New York. TelegpiiR. . RXJFLi
j* wmi.ic*unojys. J^UaTBI^ NEW,\VOl{K.:^A T11EATI8B ON TflE »JHE CHURCH UNION. ‘‘ The Freeat Organ cf Thov/ght in the Worid." ^ryTfce largest ReligloM f&MT In tbe WorM, areraging Mine ouhiinns o( read¬ INCUJDINO THE ing matter each waw more thaa aajr other comfietilar. It aims to lead public opIoioD upon all aahlecta, and to represent or echo tbe CHIiORINATIOir PROCBBS FOR OOUD-BBARXMO aeottmentE o( no party or sect. Edited by seven editors, ftom seven diflbrcnt de lominattons. whose names are not known even to each other. aUUHORBTB, d^Te'Dis, per yoar, • -t2 60 g^Terms to Agente (Ibr each sabscriber) - • • tl 00 BY GUIDO KU8TEL, -- (Mining Engineer and Metallarglst, author of '* Nevada and Chlitornia Piw A SCWING-MACHINE, worth $65, tor tereoty-^e snbscribert' and $62 50. Agents may choors tbetriaacblnos. cesses of Silver and GoM Extraction.”) WEOn'KR’S DICTION AKY, ior $25 and M games. This great work should be In tbe hands of every miaing engineer in the “ ECCE fcCOI.ESIA,” tor two names. ^ country. It Is tbe mily manual in the language containing tbe latest improve¬ A GOLD WATCH, American Watcl raarth $125, hr elghiv-flve aagMe. Silver Watch, tor twenM name M watch tor titeou names. ments wbicb Science has made la the Important deportment of concentration, TEN BOTTLES WOODWORTO’S VI WK, tor ten Mibscrihers and $26. and a (ud and detailed accoont of the celebrated and .snceessAil Plattner chk- gC^Tns Cnuacn Usios Is the onlj r that pubUsbeg Henry Whrd BeMi- rination process. Both parts ol the book are nlustrated with diagrams and er’s Sermons, which It does each i publisning tbe morning or evening SenuoD o( the Sunday preoeduig - plains, to that every Intelligent engineer can erect apparatus or make working Send for a spocioicu onpy, ouvloi^ loanli. AMrem, * . drawings tor himself. lENRY E. CHILD, Publisher, * Apl8.3m U Bvofcman street, New Pick Citjrr PRICK TBM OOU.ARS. , FOB BALE BY A MERICAN JOURNACaDF SCIENCE AND ABW. •n- Edited by Professors B. SILLIHAPM J. D. DANj^ Aide« by Br.JM- TYKST'lBRDr Sc CO»f;PAJN'ir« colt Gibbs and Prol. Asa Gray, of Camitiage: and ProC G. J. Bind$,X^IV. (Sole Agents tor tbe Atlantic States, at tbe office of tbe AamncAa JaoasaL ot Jobnion, and H. A. Newton, of New Hiveo,1s published at New Stveg. Con. necticut, in nnmbera of 140 pagea each, every two —a—*—-- MuriMO. feh22 tf year with January, making two volumes a yesg. ■vance. Each number contains original memoirs on varl besides iROFESSOR HENRY WURTZ, extended selecttona from__scientific Joiirnalaj t. This Journal is now in its fiftieth year. Tbe forty fill series Formerly Chemical Examimer In the U. S. Patent Office, may be employed began with tbe number tor Anuary, 1808. prolesslooally as a SciEmnc Exrmrr. Geological Exaralnatlona and Reporta, Postage prepaid alter payment for the year Is ( Analyses and Assays, etc., etc. Practicel Advice end Inveatigetions in the Orders shoi^ be addressed to the Propnetort', CnincaL Asm and UiNmcrram. Invention and Examination of new chemi¬ cal methods and prodnets. Addroae 28 Pine street, Rooms 35 and 30. Always apni:3t in Irom 12 to 3. g^ Written commonicatioas prefMred. Important to CloM and Wver l^era and Com-
^ILSON’8 PATENT PROFESSOR WURTZ, Who it tbe Inventor and Patentae of the new and wsnderfht uaea ot THE NEW YORK EXPREIS FOR STEAM STAMP-MILL COMPANY, SCHNUlf IN WOREING GOLD AMD SILVEB ORE AMD JEWELERS’ BWIEP. isee, or PHILAOELPUA. PA.. IN08. Are now prepared to supply Miners and other partlea with theh Will fnmlsb at tbe above addrea tafannattoo relating tharetn together wMh A.nd CKnhpKiflrn Weekly Kx:pi*eai», experlmeotial peckagea of SBMD FOB SFECIMEN COPT AND PROSPECTUS. new BTBAM BTAKP SODIUM AMALGAM- AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. All prsperations and instructions elsewhere obtained ora spurlons and nn To the Fiendt gf tke N. Y. Etprem rellible. We solicit Irom our frieuds, personal and potitical. a coutlnued Interest In These Mills, lor the Exraasnnd Its respective publications—Dally, fieml-Weekly, and Weexly. dnrabUity, efficien- Worklog ExpwimMiUi on Anmlghnuitloo of Oraa, Bto. It is nearly thirtyKme yean liaoe the Damv Exrans commenced in this city cv. and facility of Prof. W. has in operattoo a large and smalt Mepbnrn Pan, for working 1,000 with its present pruprielors. nod in alt that time it has been earnestly oo- transportation are lbs. and 20 lb. chargee of material Ibr experimental pnrpenee. voted to tbe Union ek Equalitg of tbe States, tbe rights of the people, aOon- not excelled by,and Gold Hills and all kinds of Miners’ MMbioery eelected with care and Jffilg etitatimial Government, tM maintenance of Law and Order, the Diffbsion of are believed to bo meat. 8.AjJb Knowledge, and lo.whatever would aaeura the greatest good to tho greatest superior to, any number of people. Our Plattorm is tbe some to-day oo all tbase pointa ol Na- other Hills manu- W. tiooal interest as In 1838. and tbnsigh all Administrations, Irom that time to 8. KBTBa, foctured. The Valve the present. Nor Is It likely that time will change It wbUie wo live and tlie ORADUATB OF 8CHOOM OF MINES, FEEIBERO, Gear is ot tho sim¬ ikivernmeiit eodores, loasnincbas we bclisvn m what is tried and good, rather plest aod most du¬ Having bad several years’ practical sxpertoaea hi the mines and ludncthui in that which is vacillatlog and revc^utionary. rable construction ; works ol Mexico, California and MooUwa, ogbra to mining compaulaa hla To that portion ol tbe pmple, therefore, who believe in a stable government, readily adjusted by vices as good men, good laws, and rqoal and exact (ustlee, we shall contioue to appeal moveable cams on Buparintendent, tor tbat measure oi pnbllc favor which is due jo the principles we avow. tbe Piston Rods or The year 1888 will be tbo most important in the history of tbe Government. Ac«nt, Stamp Stems, there It will test tbe right of the white race to mle tbe country, and whether the by giving the oper¬ or CoDBolking engineer American people have tbe power to resist the purposes of a Jacobin and law¬ ator absointe con¬ nl Will examine and reeort apou latiiea, lurniah warktag plans, or practically less Congress to give tbe nc^ro supreme control over nearly one-third of the trol of the length, direct smelling or amalgamation. States and niilHons of peopto. Ibis issne is to be decided at the Presidential and velocity ol mo¬ Can lurnlsb tbe higbeet retorencea. Wonld not object to go to Mexico or election in 188S. and we Invoke the aid of all who believe in tbe Government tion and lorce of tho Sooth America. Adless, by letter or telegraph, W 8. KEYB8. H. B., of tbe Fathers aod in the supremacy ot tbe while race. 1^1 llpp blow. Those mills Helena. M. T. Feb8-3maa. Tbe Exrnxss we shall aim to make more and more. In all its departments, a are adapted for Iborougb Natiooal aod Local Newspaper—a Home Journal for tho Family—a Political Newspaper for the Poliliciao—a Financial and Bosioess Journal for both dry and wet the Banker and man of busiooss. For tbe rest, in the fntnre, as in the past, crushing, and tor the hardest rock or the ExFara must speak Ibr itself. softest cement. For The E^tlsuiq Exnuss having tbe largest circulation of any established evening paper in tlie State or City, is ospocially worthy of tbs attentkio of all lull particulars call classes ol advertisers in their respective departments of trailc. on or address Wiiso.v’s Patett Steam THE EVENING EXPREtsB. STAMP MH-L CO . 0H||i Single Copy. . 4 cents 32« Walnut St., City SubKrIbtm, served by Carriers. ,24 cts. per week Philadelplila, "enn. Hail Subscribers, ooe year. .$« 50 Six Months. .5 00 N. B —One of tho Price to Newsdoalem. .13 perlOO above Mills can be seen in operation at THE SEHI-WEEKI.Y EXPRESS. Messrs. 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Manufacturing ani^Mechanical Notes. economical system. Since the panage of the law to provide The annexed engraving illustrates one of the eight day for acquiring the fee to vein mian, quartz mining in Califor¬ Clocks, manafactnrea by tka Waterbary Oock Company, who nia has received a great impataa. Many lodes have beeu PRESERMNO POLIBHRO BTERL PROM RUST. are well known as celebrated makers of Clocks in all variety, taken up, entered and opaBed, that would have rmnained un¬ It la laid that nothing is equal to pure paraffine for preaenr- and of all descriptions. The company have recently enlarged known or unworked till now, but for the oecurity thus offered ing the polished surface of iron and steel from oxidation. 1'he their factories at Waterbiuy, Conn., and having otherwise to persons able to undertake their devdopmeut. There is no pMaffine should be warmed, rubbed on, and then wiped ofi* greatly increased their facilities for the manufacture (A Clocks good reason why the advantages indicated shonld be confined with a woolen rag. It will not change the color, whether and Clock materials, to one class of mines. Most of the placer mining districts, bright or blue, and will protect the ••"■'’aoe better than any are now e.xecating all now langniahing under the old vagatwnd title-less system, varnish. orders for these goods might be restor^ to prosperity by encoaruging capital to take (CEMENT FOB OOAL-DUST FUEL. with promptitude. hold under the security of United States patents. So long as claims are liable to be jumped if not worked, so many days in (tne of the best cements for the agglomeration of coal-dust They are enabled to a given period; so long as the rules regulating tkeir tenure fuel is said to be that used in several continental establish- ® export their goods to may be changed at any time by a miner’s meeting, capital will meuts, consisting of coal tar, gluten, and starch. The quanti¬ foreign couutries, be¬ hesitate to embark in any mines but quartz. As the surface ties of these substances are altered according to the qualities sides meeting the great diggings, which cosld be worked at a profit by single indi¬ and properties of the coal-dust; but they are very easily as- demand in this coun¬ viduals without money or machinery, are now aearly all ex¬ oertained by a few experimeute. About 2 per cent, of this ty. The leading va¬ hausted, we must rely for the future succecs of placer mining mixlnre (containing, say 2| parts of coal tar, 1 part of gluten, rieties of clocks are made with cases of upon associated, systematic, capitalized labor. Even the vol¬ and one-half part of starch) would be suitable for coal-dust of untary system without title tends to th’s, and to the steady an average quality of bituminous coal. Rosewood, Mahogany, Iron and Bronze aggregation of small claims. Why not give it the protection CEMBRT FOR ATTACHIKO OLAIS AMD BRAJM. ('aies. We oookl fill of law at once ? A perfect statute mi^t not be pasted at A resin eosp is first formed by boiling 3 parts of resin and a column of onr paper first, but a year or two of e.xperience would suggest all neces¬ sary amendments. 1 part of caustic soda in 5 parts of water, and then mixing with a list of the dif¬ this with half its weight of plaster of Paris. 'I'his cement is ferent styles at the Btrontiiim. said to be impervious to petroleum, only superficially affected Company's Store No. by water, to adhere very strongly, and to be a bad conductor 4 Cortland St. New Strontium is a white metal, quite heavy, o.xydizable m the of heat. York, but we may air, and decomposes matter at binary temperatarue. It may FREKEBVATION OP PIOWERS. ment'on that there are be obtained from its oxyd by means of galvanic agency, and a At several fairs of the American Institnte dried flowers, in all varietes from the process similar to that used to obtain barium. It was dis¬ their aatural colon and shepe have been exhibited. Flowers one day Striking covered by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1808, at the same time and thus perfectly preserved are now for sale in London shops. Spring (Jlock to eight in the same way that barium was discovered. The name The proceae of preservation is this : A metallic vessel is pro- day Iron, gilt and strontium is derived from the mioiog village Strontis, in Scot¬ Tidea with a movable top and bottom. The top cover is re¬ Pearl. We also no¬ land, near which the native carbonate of the metal sms first moved, and a wire ganse of moderate fineness is fitted into the ticed V'ieana and Swiss Regulators, French, Bronze, Ormolu, found. Strontitio minerals arc rare. Strootia, one ^ al¬ top of the Tseeel, when the cover is replaced. Sufficient sand and marble clocks with a large assortment of bronze brackets, kaline eartte, resembles a grayiMi-white powder, is^ifiKble to fill the vessel is first sifted, and then placed in an iron pot figures, vases, busts, and match safes. As every householder in the furnace, hat an acrid, bnrning taste; it becomei hot with a small quantity of stearins—about half-a-pound to lOU as well as every business man knows, or should know the when moistened, and changee into a pulvereleBt kydrWte ; it pounds of sand. The mixture, is heated, and carefully stirred, value of punctuality and a reliable time-keeper which always disolves in 150 parts of water at 60 deg. Fahr., and in a mneh so as to equally diflhse the stearine. The first vessel is' then keeps “ good time," we need only say to those parties who lees quantity when the water is at the boiling point, forming tamed u^de down, the bottom cover removed, and the wish to " on time,” purchase your ticking monitors from an alkaline solution called strontia water, which deposits cry¬ flowen to .be operated on are placed in the wire gaoze, after the Waterbury Clock < 'ompany, as these gentlemen, by their stals ns it cools. It is readily distingoished from baryta by its which tbs prepsred sand is gently poured in so as to cover the large assortment of plain and ornamental clocks, prove, that inferior solubility and by its soluble salts giving a rea tinge to flowers entirely, the leaves miog thoe pmented from touch¬ however dilatory others may lie, they are " up to the times.” Hame, while those of barita give a yellow tinge. The com¬ ing each other. This veesel is tnen put in a hot place—such, The factories at Waterbury have a manufacturing capacity of pounds of strontia are not poisonous. The nitrate of strontia for inMance, as the top of a baker's oven—and left for forty- 12,(KH) clocks per month, and the reputation of the Company is is used to make red fire in pyrotechnics, and for this purpose sight hours. The vessel is .then taken out, and, while still well established in every Stato in the Union, as it has been in HUO grains of dry nitrate oi strontia is mixed with 225 of bottom upward, the lower cover is removed, and the sand runs operation since 1857 and is known in Great Britain, on the sulphur, 200 of chlorate of potash, and 50 of lampblack. The out throsi^ the gauze, lesving the flowen uninjured and dry, Continent, in Australia, China and Japan. strontia, the snlphur, and the lampblack are to be finely yet still retsining their nstaral odors. powdered and intimately mixed; the chlorate of potash in OovetnsMBt Tttlea to Placer Claims. rather coarse powder is ueo add^ without much rubbing, or Coal-CotilDC by Maohiiisry. the sulphur will cause it to explode. It is liable to spon¬ 'The San Francisco BuHfUn bstb : At the time of the pas¬ taneous combustion. Nitrate of strontium is prepared from Mr. J. Elliot, of Southampton, has invented improved ma sage of the law for conveying title to (|uartz claims, the opin¬ the Bulphuret of strontium, obtained by decomposing sulphate ehinery for tunnelling and cutting coal, slate rock, or other ion was e.xpressed in the BnUetin that it was practicable to of strontia with charcoal, by strongly igniting the mixed minsrale, which consists of a circular rotating disc, either with extend its provisions to placer claims, with some changes, on powders in a cracible. This sulphnret oeiog treated with teeth, or formed to receive movable tools of varied form, set the basis of a recognition of existing rights and local regula¬ water, and the solution being filtered, is to be neutralized with in a slightly spiral line, in the direction of the forward cut; tions. A motion to this end liasbeen made by one of the Con¬ nitric acid, as indicated by the test of tumenc paper, care be¬ he removes the core produced by the forward cut by means of gressmen from California. Our Washington correspondent ing taken to avoid breathing the no.\ious snlphuretted hydro¬ a crank-arm, connects by a pivot joint to the disc. The cen¬ says that^ Mr. Johnson has introduced a bill to enable miners gen gas which is copiously disengaged. 'Tlie neutral nitrate tral axis, whsD in action, on which the 'cutting discs revolve to obtain title in fee to all classes of placer claims. Provision being properly evaporated and set aside, affords colorless, trans¬ and adrsnes, rests at one end in a bearing in or fi.xed to the is made for the purchase, at a noninal price, of all such claims parent, slender octahedral crystals. It has a cooling, yet substance to be cat into, and at the other end in a bearing to which there is adverse titl«, in exact accordance with the somewhat acrid taste; is soluble in five parts cold, and in one- borne either by wheels, or by uprights, or by cross-pieces rales and regulations of the mining districts in which they are half part of boiling water, and also in alcohol It is permanent restii^ on or Id into the rock. When not at work, or for situated ; tMt is to say, the owner of a cement, hydraulic, or in the air, deflagrates upon burning coals, gives off oxigen transit, the sxlp either rests at both ends on bearings borne any gravel claim, na^ obtain title to just so much land as the when calcined and leaves canstic strontia. The salt consists by wheelB, or the varions parts can readily he transported sep¬ mining laws of his district concede to him, and no more. The of about 49 parts of strontia and 51 of nitric acid. This salt arately. The entting-discs revolve with and advance on the effect of each a privilege would add nothing to his claim, but 13 anhydrons; but there is another variety of it which contains axle, BO as to cut into the coal beyond the central axle bear only secure it a^nst jumpers and interlopers, and give it a nearly 40 per cent, of water of crystallization which occurs in ing. 'rfieTorwurd nislion of iIk ootting-discs is ensnrsd by n>ore definite negotiable value. With proper restrictions, large octahedrons. This is preferable for fireworks, because attaching a chain to the arm, and carrira over rollers, to se¬ such a bill would be of great benefit, it shonld fix some limit by effervescence it is easily obtained in a fine powder, which cure the proper direction. The forms of the morable cutting- for the size of single placer claims hereafter located, taking mixes more intimately with the chlorate of nota'
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