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VOLUME 5.] NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 29, 1849. [NUMBER 2.

THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, THE BEST MECHANICAL PAPER IN THE WORLD. CIRCULATION 12,000. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. At 128 Fulton Street, New York, (Sun Building,) and 13 Court Street, Boston, Mass. BY MUNN & COMPANY. The Principal Office being at New York. Barlow & Payne, Agents, 89 Chancery Lane, London.

TERMS - $2 a year - $1 in advance, and the remainder in 6 months.

MACHINE.---Figure

s tuds, A A changing the position of the

gear at any time, to cut barrel heads, the cor� ners of which may be sawed off afterwards. FIG. 3.

TERMS-$2

the

IRuil 1Jlnnn .Jrtn Communication with

a year-$1 In advance, remainde r In 6 months.

Lane, London. ,. ._-

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The

attention of London

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merchants and

capitalists has again been awakened to the subject of a communication with the Pacific, across some part of the narrow strip of land which unites North and South pamphlet has just been published on the sub

America.

A

ject by Capt. Liot, colonial superintendent of the vVest India P"oyal Mail Steampacket Com pany. This gentleman in company with Mr. McGeachy, the crown surveyor of J ama ca, ex_ amined the Isthmus

then came to the conclusion that the most fea

of P anama in �1845, and

be by maki ng a Macadamized or wagon road in New-Grenada, from lantic side, forty miles south of Chagres, to Panama on the Pacific.

sible mode of connecting the two oceans would

Porto Bello on the At

Capt. Liot estimated

the cosi-"road from 40 to 50 miles in Iength-' the profits from traffic $500,OQO,a year.

at �400,liOO or $2,000,000, and he calculated at from $300,000 to Messrs. Howland

He gives the foundation of

these calculations in detail.

& Aspinwall's project of '" railroad has now sup perseded the plan of C apt ain LiM. the English, who

c apitalis ts is regarded with intense interest by

The railroad undertaken by the American

This machine is the invention of Mr. chas. 1t is united by ties, C, to apla, E,whieh has B. Hutchins on, of Waterloo, N. Y., f'" which two curved grooves, H H, cut on It. This '" patent is now pending. It rllbrac s three plate pr oje ct s outside of the stand"'rd, on each parts. F igure 1 is a perspective view of the I of which there is a guide pin, F, which passes ' Stave Cutte r, Figure 2 is a front Vie w of t he thr ou gh the g re ove s, H H. The knife is draw'!! Shingle Cutter and Barrel Header; and figure backwards and forward from side to s ide. In 3 is a section of it, showing how the face plate doing this it cuts the stave out lengthwise, bnt is moved to cut the angle of the shingle. Fig. traversely, also by '" slanting cut; for, when 4 is a p erspe ctive view of the Stave Jointer. i the knife is drawn io iheo ne side, it is guided The same letters refer to like parts. downwa rds, to cut throngh the b lock by the Figure 1 is a frame, composed of two up- groo ves, H, on the plate, E, d irec ting the said right side s tandards, � A A. T here is a table plate (and conseqnently the cutter) circularly, in front (not seen) on which to feed ..the j;> lock hile it iedrawn longitudinally. . The cutter, D, and the plat;;, E, Corm a fral11e to be cut into �tayes. This table u; screwed to each stanaJtrd inside, and joins them together. well fitted in the st!!,ndard grooves, IIond com In ea ch standlYrd there is a semicircular groove, bined with the guide cheeks, B. G is a h",ndle as indic a ted by the l i ght spaces. In this to move the cutter. It will be evident to eve groove &fe nicely fitted sliding guide c he eks, B ry person that this m!!'chine embr!!'cesa De-lIou- . B, these cheeks move Mound in the c ircular tiful principle for cutting out the!itiLV'. grooves. D is the cutting or� splitting knife.

4, the j o inter, is just a table to feed in 1, to joint them. A is the standard; B is the feed table. The knife, C, cuts lengthwise ",nd downwards, like the shin" gJe knife. E E are tli. e g-r oov es in it, and DB are guide pins to direct its action downwards, when it is di",wn toone side, to give the' slant ing cut. Fi . th e staves, f rom fig.

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conceive that the profits

which are sure to accrue, would authorise the Construction of another route. ted or rathe r suggested by them, combines the

The on8 selec

be no doub t its utility is b eyond question. Mote information about righ ts, &0., m ay be obtained 'by letter (p.p.) addr.essed to the ingenious inve ntor. rna-chine cuts, ,there can Boon Island, fly against the iron railing which surrounds the light, with snch force "'s to ldl d ered by the about the great number of birds which, bright

.Aft it regards the pririciple uPQn,�ich tbJs

profits of great passenger traffic with the devel_

,opement of vast natural resources. It is '" ro",d

from Gre yton, at the mouth of the San Juan to Lake Nicar a gua, and thence to Realejo in that state, or to the port of Lalinas in Costa This is almost identical with the route

We have heard, says the editor of the POl't8 m ou th (N. H.) Journal, mal}}' strange stories Lighthouse ==

Bird Trap.

glare� of

the lamp

bewil. on

M the

Rica.

New-York and New- Orl ean s company, in their agreement with the State of Nicaragua

to make a canal communication ,two oceans. We foresee that which has unusual facilities

the

betwee n

the

latter route,

will one day or other be a strong rival to the Charges and P a naUla railroad. Hudson River Rallroad.

for navigation,

Last week, the first locomotive run from thirty_second street, to Peekskill without stop. ping. The distance Was performed in one This was 'hour-40 miles. ind the first trial.

tlxcellent considering the curves on the road

good time--most

Direct Road :from New York to New Hampshire.

Fig. ting

!If a road to connect the Connecticut River This plate has two lI.nd the Cheshire and Rntland Roads, by a or screws to the plate B. angle grooves, D D, cut on it, through which tra ck of about 26 miles. This link would bpen up a direct communic ation between New pass the guide pins, II, on the standards. The York city, and the interior of New Hampshire knife and plate are guide d in side g roo ves (not seen, in the standards. When the knife is nd Vermont. :::::::>c:::: drawn s ide ways it is also guided by the grooves, In England, in 1847, 211 persons were ki lled D, on the plate, to cut downwards at the same and 174 i nj ur ed, out of 54, 854,019 pa.ssngers time. E is the table 011 which the blocks are and, in 1848, 202 we re killed and 2i9 injured, placed to be cut; and H is the face pla.te against they lire p ressed to guide the "'ngle of 6ji 6157,855,133 passengers. 'ivee k, to project measures for the construction

A meeti ng was held at H ar tfor d, Con., l a.s t or cutter is not directed circularly side and downwards. AA are the npright

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shingles

2 embra s the

aill barrel heads,

same principle in cnt only tM knife

but to the

standards; C is the knife.

It is united by ties

which

a gate behind it, which slides up arid doWn in of the stllndarda; On this circnlar frame is a small� rllotchet pinion, G, fixed o n a short axis. This pinion has a pro jection or cam on eiL6h side,pln-ced r eversely to one allother. When the knife is brought dowp, this pinioll does llt tl'-ke into thera h" .at 'rod, F, but only when itfii raised up, and thus altern!ltety the cams a.ct upon t.i).e twp the side grooves

gathered in one heap three l1ilh'dred and sixteen birds which hadfallen the pie'Vioi$ night. They were ill this heap at lelLst t eiV th edt. ThIs is done ill a beautiful and I!'im ig. 3. F ty variet es of land and ea bird;-somof pIe m an ner} as better represented by f beaut iful plumage, SllCh.as had never� seen is a statio nary latched rod, se cure d on the befo e. Ca.pt.; ftdor. A small circular frame is secured ",tthe Thompson,.SWrnaeY more whi ch .VlSiilil haVe lower end of the face plate, fl, 'the which added l a rgeli t o . the heap. Fletche r, number th"'n common. His plate mons up and doWn, ",ndis connected to

of d ead birds h",ve been light, which hail victims to the briHiancy of the previous A few day since we inquired of Thomps o n, the keeper, whether there truth in the stories; heid that such tion was no of d",ily ocurrence, but a quentlya large number of dead birds around the light house. Oue morning, three months since, there was a rath gathered

ings s ev eral bushels

themselves.

up around the

We have heard that s ome morn.

t

assistltnt,

,

states that a. v"in theNUe, in Upper Egypt, ring.

there, will

There IS� now and has beah a great droutli in Nova S cot ia, by whig the crops havesm_ lJ' fered severely. It isilO1.l,btfuUf the fa ,rmers A the comiq.wkter.

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Waling

gmeer ha s just discovered

letter from. Cairo

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