MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 
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HINTS FOB GARDENERS. 
High Culture for Grapes. —Dr. Under¬ 
hill, of Crown Point, whoso grapes have 
attained high reputation in the New York 
market for size and flavor, pays great atten¬ 
tion to the thorough preparation of the soil, 
and keeps it in the highest stato of fertility 
by manuring and deep culture. Ho usually 
applies bone dust at the rate of twenty-five 
bushels por acre, and uses largely a compost 
of swamp muck, rich loam, leaf mould, sods, 
leaves, and grape cuttings, with stable ma¬ 
nure, liquid manure, or yard drainings and 
potash. Grapes will grow on any soil if 
properly prepared. lie has thirty acres in 
vineyard, and it is nearly all trenched throo 
or four feet deep, but he now trenches by 
running a double Michigan plow some four¬ 
teen inches deep, and following it with the 
largest size subsoil plow, about as much 
deeper. This is a cheap and effectual mode 
of deepening the soil. Of courso his land 
is thoroughly drained and in constant culti¬ 
vation. Wo gather this from a statement 
in the N. Y. Agricultor. 
Summer Planting of Shrubs and Trees. 
—Tho Prairie Farmer says, that shrubs and 
trees with full, fibrous roots, can bo safely 
moved when in leaf, if it is dono expedi¬ 
tiously and carefully on a cloudy day, so 
that thero is no wilting of tho leaf. It is 
desirable that considerable soil cling to the 
smaller roots—tho moro tho better and safer 
will the removal bo. 
Slitting the Bark of Trees. — This is 
sometimes practiced with bark-bound trees, 
but it is always bad management. The 
bark remains thin and is apt to pool off and 
injure, and even kill the tree. It is a better 
way to aid the growth by loosening and ma¬ 
nuring the soil about tho roots, scraping off 
tho moss and rough bark and washing the 
trunk with weak lye or soap suds. 
Soap Suds for Watering plants. —Noth¬ 
ing can bo better for summer watering of 
plants and vines, than tho suds of the week¬ 
ly wash, and no one who desires a good gar¬ 
den will suffer it to be wasted. For cab- 
bagos, cucumbers, beets, and the like, it 
seems especially adapted, and ono of tho 
most thrifty grape vines wo ever saw, was 
watered with soap suds almost daily in dry 
weather. A large supply is not needed at 
once, but frequent watorings promoto rapid 
and vigorous vegetation. 
Manure for Autumn Roses. —Mr. Rivers 
a famous R^oso Culturist, applies a mixture 
of wood-ashes and guano, in tho proportion 
of half a peck of guano to a bushol of ashes 
to his lato roses, with most excellent effect. 
About two quarts of the mixture is applied 
to each shrub or tree, in a circle eighteen 
inches in diameter around tho stem, where 
it is suffered to remain undisturbed until 
autumn. It should be applied early in 
June and covored with a thin grass mulch, 
and tho offect will be that it will retain tho 
dew and showers, and keep tho tree in con¬ 
stant and vigorous growth, which is very 
necessary to the production of a good crop 
of flowers in tho fall. 
Planting Strawberry Vines. —Those who 
wish to cultivate this delicious fruit, per¬ 
haps nood reminding that the prosont 
month is tho proper season for planting tho 
vines. Tho ground should bo propared by 
trenching to tho depth of at least twenty 
inches, and should bo well-drained and 
richly manured. For tho subsoil, well-rot- 
teo stable manure is a good application.— 
The surfaco soil should have a coating of 
guano, and charcoal dust, also a half-bushel 
of wood-ashes to the squaro rod. Give the 
plants plenty of room and water them as 
they need, and they will generally bear 
fruit tho first season. 
DEPTH OF THE ROOTS OF TREES. 
In the spring of 1850 I removed an applo 
troo which was growing on a gravelly ridge, 
to a place proparod for it a short distance 
from whonco it was taken. Tho treo was 
six inehos in diameter, had been planted, I 
should judgo about twenty years, and had 
been top-grafted a fow days provious to its 
removal. Tho troo and most of tho grafts 
set in it are growing thriftily. 
In tho place whore tho troo stood, I sunk 
a well, and in the digging traced tho roots of 
tho apple tree downwards to a depth of ovor 
twolve feet below tho surfaco of tho ground. 
My attention was called by tho appoarancoof 
tho roots, as tho workmon were going on with 
their work, and a moasuroment was rnado. 
IIow much deeper tho roots could havo boon 
traced I cannot toll, but I was well satisfiod 
that they did extend somo little below tho 
moasuroment. From tho groat loss of roots, 
by their spreading so doop and wide, I had 
littleexpectation, o&saving my tree, and still 
loss the grafts so rocontly sot, but was most 
agreeably diappointod in both. 
Randolph, N. Y., July, 1853. 6. S, 
WATERING TREES AND PLANTS. 
Many cultivators havo very indefinite and 
vague notions on tho subject of watoring 
plants; and henco we often see water given 
when it is not wanted, and again when it is 
most needed, it is not unfrequently applied 
in such a manner as to produco no benefit, 
sometimes positive injury. Tho great se¬ 
cret of success in watering, consists in fur¬ 
nishing just such an amount of artificial 
supply as tho plant needs, without flooding 
on the ono hand, nor stinting on tho other. 
This must bo judged of by tho actual con¬ 
dition of the plant at the time. If, for ex¬ 
ample, it should bo in nearly a dormant 
stato, when it throws of scarcely any mois¬ 
ture, vory little water is needed. Young 
trees, for instance, which are set out in the 
spring, sometimes remain several weeks 
without growing, and to flood thorn at this 
period, would tend moro to cause decay 
than growth. It sometimes happens that 
such trees dry up at tho top or branches, 
while tho roots are kept deluged, in conse¬ 
quence of the want of circulation from tho 
absonco of leaves. In theso instances it is 
bettor not to apply much water, except to 
tho stem and branches themselves ; and this 
if often repeated, will directly impart mois¬ 
ture to tho treo, and not unfroquontly stim¬ 
ulate it into a growing stato, when other 
moans would ontiroly fail; becauso in tho 
absence of circulation, tho moisture is ap¬ 
plied precisely whore it is wanted. 
We havo known cases where young trees 
havo been actually destroyed by injudicious 
watoring. Again, we have seen trees perish 
for want of watering. In tho latter instan¬ 
ces, growth had already commenced, and 
the young leaves were rapidly pumping the 
water from tho soil up through tho roots 
and stoms, and a larger supply was needed 
than could bo obtained. A plant in a stato 
of rapid vegetation will consume or throw 
off in tho air moro than ton times as much 
wator as a dormant plant. 
When artificial watering is given, the 
operator shouldjjascortain whether tho sup¬ 
ply descends sufficiently to roach the roots 
for which the benefit was intended. It is 
by no means an uncommon error to pour 
wator on a hard baked surface, without de¬ 
scending an inch below, nor within half a 
foot of the roots of tho plant. Such water¬ 
ings will of course do more harm than good. 
It would afford instruction to superficial 
operators, to throw up a little of the soil, 
and witness the dry, ashy earth beneath tho 
thin moistened crust. Water will penetrate 
freely into a mellow and well cultivated 
surfaco; but tho removal of a fow inches, 
to bo again replaced after watering, will bo 
advisable in most cases whero the roots lie 
deep in tho soil. 
A hint as to tho best time of day for 
watering, may be derived from an observa¬ 
tion of tho condition in which natural 
watering by rain is given. One reason why 
this penetrates the soil so effectually, is the 
moist state of tho air, and tho shading of 
clouds, preventing immediate evaporation, 
and ’connected with the even and gradual 
application which showors impart. Henco, 
watering under the hot rays of the sun 
should bo avoided, evening proving tho 
most advantageous timo for this purpose; 
and if several light and successive applica¬ 
tions are given, the moisturo will penetrate 
moro deeply into the soil.— Cultivator. 
CULTIVATION OF THE CALCEOLARIA. 
It has often been to me matter of great 
surprise that the large flowering, or, as they 
are generally called, herbaceous calceolarias, 
are not more cultivated. You may visit, in 
this neighborhood, a dozen gentlemen’s gar¬ 
dens, and not seo moro than a dozen plants 
of this beautiful section of calceolarias, and 
those few but miserable, half-starved, half- 
choked specimens, which, for tho credit of 
both tho gardener and calceolaria, would bo 
better on the rubbish heap. 
If you inquire the cause why they are not 
grown, ten out of twelve persons will con- 
toss “ that thoy are beautiful things ;” but, 
says ono, they are so subject to tho green 
fly; another says thoy were so bad to win¬ 
ter—I invariably loso them at that season ; 
a third says that thoy die as soon as thoy 
have dono blooming; and one good garden¬ 
er told mo tho other day, “ If a person gets 
them to do well once in his life-time, ho has 
had his share of good luck.” Now in an¬ 
swer to tho first, are not geraniums, cinera¬ 
rias, and a host of other plants which those 
men “ grow rcspoctably,” subject to the 
green fly ? And will not tho smoko of to¬ 
bacco, with which ho kills the fly attacking 
his geraniums, kill tho fly which is on cal¬ 
ceolarias ? As to their boing hard to winter, 
it is moro fanciful than real. If a person 
attempt to keep tho “ old plants ” it may be 
true; but if cuttings are stuck in August 
or September, and bo potted in 4 inch pots 
in October, anil kept in a cold framo until 
Christmas, then placed on a shelf in the 
green house “ near tho source of ventila¬ 
tion,” not kept too ivet, not more than one 
in a hundred if even that will go off in win¬ 
ter. 
Propagation. —Select a place shadod 
from tho mid-day sun, say under a north 
wall or hedge (not under tho drip of troes ;) 
spread six inches of rough cinder or coal 
ashes over the space requisite to hold tho 
number you want, then put on six inches of 
tho following compost:—leaf-mould, loam, 
and silver sand, in equal quantities; the 
whole passed through a fino soivo. Let tho 
rough bo placed next to the ashes, and over 
all this put half an inch of silver-sand ; wa¬ 
ter tho whole; place on tho land lights to 
mark tho places. Take young shoots, as 
abovo-montioned, in tho boginning of Sep¬ 
tember, prick thorn i t tho prepared bod, and 
place over them the glasses, koop them 
closo, ayringo thorn frequently, and not 
many will fail to grow. 
Time for Potting. —Pot the cuttings, 
when rooted, in 4 or 5 inch pots to wintor 
in. In February give them a shift into 6 or 
7 inch pots, and when tho roots reach the 
ontside of this soil, put them into their 
blooming pots, say from 8 to 12 inch pots, 
according to the probabilities of the plant. 
Soil. —For wintering, loam and loaf- 
mould, one part each, and half a part of 
sand; for February potting, loam and loaf- 
mould, ono part each, sand and rotten dung 
half a part each, and for final potting add 
moro dung.— Floricullvral Cabinet. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. 
The following note from our friond, Mr. S. 
Maxwell, Jr., describes a discovery he has 
made, which will prove of considerable val¬ 
ue, on account of the ease with which the 
nit is removed. We have examined a num¬ 
ber of plums since receiving the note and 
find in every case the nit under tho brown 
speck, except whero tho puncturo has exud¬ 
ed gum—then tho worm is hatched out and 
has commenced his depredations. 
Curculio. —I have within a week dis¬ 
covered a fact about tho curculio which was 
new to mo, and have also found it entirely 
new to others to whom I have communica¬ 
ted it. All those who have had fruit bitten 
by the curculio, have probably noticed a lit¬ 
tle brown spot on tho inner edgo of the cres¬ 
cent-shaped puncturo. That little brown 
spot covers the egg left by the bug, and the 
puncture seems to bo made for a place of 
safety for the young worm when hatched, 
and also to facilitate its operations in bor¬ 
ing into the fruit. Persons having plum 
troos, and leisure, and wishing to prosorve 
a few of tho fruit after it has been bitten, 
can with tho point of a penknife, or with tho 
thumb or finger nail, easily removo the spot 
from its place, and no harm will come to tho 
fruit except tho scar left by it.— Greenfield 
Republican. 
FRUIT TREES TO SUPPLY A FAMILY. 
No two porsons would agree on the num¬ 
ber of fruit trees required to keep up a good 
supply of fruit for a family of medium size. 
With any ordinary number, somo seasons 
would cause a deficiency, and others occa¬ 
sion a large surplus. Good or bad cultiva¬ 
tion would also make a difference of four¬ 
fold. The following may, however, be re¬ 
garded as a full average, taking all circum¬ 
stances into account, in connection with 
good management, and will frequently af¬ 
ford a largo surplus: 
40 applo trees, with a full sharo of long 
keepers; 20 pear trees; 15 poach trees; 12 
cherry trees; 10 plum trees; 6 apricots: 
4 nectarines ; 5 quinces ; 4 grape vines ; 30 
currant bushes; 15 goosberry bushes; 20 
raspborry bushes: 5 squaro rods of straw¬ 
berries.— Fruit Culturist. 
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PRESERVED MILK AND OTHER EXTRACTS. 
Gail Borden, Jr., formerly of Texas, but 
now of N. Y. city, to whom was granted a 
Council Medal at tho World’s Fair of 1851, 
for his colobrated meat buscuit, has taken 
measures to secure a patent for some ex¬ 
ceedingly valuablo improvements in pre¬ 
paring and concentrating sweet milk in such 
a manner that incipient decomposition is 
completely prevented, and a concentrated 
extract produced either in cakes or in a more 
fluid state, which will koop swoet in any cli¬ 
mate for months and perhaps for years.— 
We havo kept a quantity of this milk for 
throe months, and although it has stood in 
a tolerable warm place it is as sweet to-day 
as when wo received it. 
Mr. Borden, by the same improvements, 
extracts and concentrates coffeo, tea, and 
other useful diotary matters, and produces 
those extracts in such a form that tho 
strength of a pound of coffeo can bo carried 
in a vessel no larger than a small tea-cup, 
and it will keep fresh in any climate, and for 
a number of years. Wo have given sam¬ 
ples of coffee, prepared by Mr. Borden, re¬ 
peated trials during tho past four months, 
and cannot but speak in tho most favorable 
terms respecting its good qualities, and the 
real bonefits which wo anticipate from its in¬ 
troduction into public use. For persons 
going on sea voyagos, or on long overland 
journeys, a fow small tin canisters will bo 
sufficient to equip them for partaking, with 
a little warm water, of a good milk and cof¬ 
fee beverage, properly swee.’enod, in tho 
midst of tho ocoan, or in the depths of tho 
forest. 
For domestic use it will bo the moans of 
saving much in families, especially in warm 
weathor, and at no timo need thero be any 
necessity for a person taking a cup of milk¬ 
less coffeo, oven after a thunder storm, or a 
week of hot woather, with tho thermometer 
daily at 97° in tho shade, as it has been in 
this city the past week. 
Tho moans by which Mr. Borden prepares 
his extracts are now, ingenious, and philo¬ 
sophical, but as measures are adopted for 
securing patonts abroad, we cannot describe 
them at present ; suffice it to say that al¬ 
though milk and other vegetable extracts 
havo been made heretofore, tho now process 
is entirely different and vory superior. The 
milk proparod by an improved process of 
Mr. Borden, even after it is months old, will, ; 
when dissolved in warm water and left to i 
cool, produco a beautiful and sweet covering ; 
of cream. Tho coffeo and tea have all their 
aroma preserved, and retain all their pecu¬ 
liar qualities. In largo dairies at a distance 
from cities, largo quantities of sweet milk 
can bo prepared by Mr. Borden’s apparatus, 
and sent down to bo sold in evory grocery, 
and it may yet become as common to ask 
for a cake of milk as it is now to ask for a 
quart. Tho mode of preparing those ex¬ 
tracts is economical, safe, and certain, and 
wo belie o it is ono of most useful improve- 
monts that has ovor been di&coxered.— Sci. 
American. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FIIO.M THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending July 26, 1853. 
Cyrus C. Bisbee, of Rochester, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in shower-bath tables. 
Richard C. Bristol, of Chicago, Ill., for improve¬ 
ment in rotary steam engines. 
Wm. V. Burton, of Orange, Ohio, for improve¬ 
ment in plows. 
F. B. Hunt, of Westfield, Ind., for improvement 
in mills for grinding apples and other substances. 
David A. James, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for im¬ 
provement in processes for making glue. 
Owen Redmond, of Rochester, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in lamps. 
Milton Satterlie, of Louisa, Ill., for improve¬ 
ment in seed planters. 
Wm. M. Warren, of Watertown, Conn., for im¬ 
provement in railroad car seats. 
Ezra R. Benton, of Cleveland, Ohio, for im • 
provement in bran clusters. 
Jacob H. Carothers, of Davidsburgh, Pa., for 
improvement in corn planters. 
Sylvester Davis, of Claremont, N. H., for im¬ 
provement in bee-hives. 
Ziba Durkee, of Alden, N. Y., for improvement 
in the beaters of smut machines. 
F. O. Deschamps, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in omnibus lanterns. 
Jno. A. Elder, of Westbrook, Me., for improve¬ 
ment in curving the backs of books. 
Daniel P. Hinman, of Philadelphia, Pa., forim- 
provement in dying yarn parti-colored. 
Levi Pitman, of Tom’s Brook, Va., for improv¬ 
ed plotting theodolite. 
Jackson A. Rapp and Edward S. Wright, of 
Buffalo, N. Y., for improvement in straining saws 
by compressed air. 
Frederick G. Yettercke, of New York, N. Y., 
for improvement in dying compounds. 
Henry Lee Norris, of New York, N. Y., assign¬ 
or to Samuel T. Armstrong, of same place, for im¬ 
provement in preserving India rubber in the liquid 
state. Dated July 26, 1853. Pateuted in Eng¬ 
land, Feb. 24, 1853 ; do. iu France, March 13, ’53 
RE-ISSUE. 
Josiah Warren, of Harmony township, Ind., as¬ 
signor to Leondardo Westbrook, of New York, N. 
Y., for improvement iu composition for stereotype 
plates. Patented April 25, 1846. Re-issued 
July 26, 1853. 
designs. 
Julius E. Merriman, of Meriden, Conn., for de¬ 
sign for a sewing bird. 
Eliliu Smith, of Albany, N. Y., for design for 
a parlor stove. 
Hosea H. Huntley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, assign¬ 
or to Daniel E. Goodhue, of same place, for design 
for a stove. 
Hosea H. Huntley, of Cincinnati, Ohio, assign¬ 
or to Daniel F. Goodhue, of same place, for de¬ 
sign for a cooking stove. 
Thos. Barry, of New York, N. Y., assignor to 
North, Chase it North, of Philadelphia, Pa., for 
design for a cooking stove. 
Reuben II. N. Bates, of Providence, R. I., as¬ 
signor to North, Chased: North, of Philadelphia, 
Pa., for design for a cooking range. 
CHEAP PAINT.-INQUIRY. 
Eds. Rural : —Will your correspondent, 
who gives the recipe for “cheap and dura 
bio paint,” of which tho constituents aro 
hydraulic cement, white lead and oil, please 
give us a somewhat more dofinite article ? 
I do not understand how to proportion 
“white lead ground in oil,” with tho hy¬ 
draulic lime, “in bulk.” I showed the 
recipe to a painter, who pronounced it 
good ; and now I desire to mako a trial of 
its merits. How much surfaco wculd a bar¬ 
rel of tho lime suffice for ? IIow much 
whito load and oil would be required for the 
same ? and, what color would the result 
show ? Not white, I presumo. s. 
Wellsboro, Pa., July, 1853. 
MANUFACTURE OF LIME. 
TnE “ Wisconsin ” gives a description of 
somo limo kilns, recently erected at Mil¬ 
waukee by Mr. P. C. Halo : 
Ho has in operation one kiln, 16 by 20 
feet in size, and 12 feet high, with an arch¬ 
ed roof of brick, containing seven chimneys, 
and another kiln, nearly completed, much 
larger than tho first, in which ho can manu¬ 
facture 600 barrels of lime per week, and is 
prepared to increase tho number of kilns as 
fast as buisiness demands. These'kilns are 
so constructed that nearly an oqual amount 
of heat is thrown upon each stone at the 
same time. In consequonco of tho arch no 
cold air reaches the top stones, and the 
whole contents of tho kiln aro equally burn¬ 
ed, leaving no small stones half burned, as 
is inevitable in the old fashioned kilns. As 
it is noither burned too much nor too littlo, 
it is purer and stronger than othor lime.— 
Tho kilns aro so constructed as to savo 
about one-third of tho wood and about half 
the labor of other kilns, and are burned in 
fifty-four hours, no matter how largo tho 
kiln. It is only necessary to keep tho fires 
properly tended with suitablo fuel, to insure 
a burn with as much certainty and accuracy, 
as tho baking of bread in ovens. 
Refrigerating Car. —The last improve¬ 
ment is a car built expressly for tho preser¬ 
vation of perishable grticlea of food, in 
which the delicacies of the season can be 
transported any distance without injury.— 
This car was loaded at New York with oys¬ 
ters. clams, fyc., from .that market, and sent 
to Cincinnati, whence it is to. bring back 
choice, fruits from the Soqth, 
BRISTOL’S ROTARY ENGINE 
Our readers will notico that a patent has 
been granted to Richard C. Bristol, of Chi¬ 
cago, Ill., for improvements in Rotary En¬ 
gines ; a patent was also granted in England 
on tho 17th of last January. This rotary 
engine is very simple in all its parts, and it 
embraces features which romovo many ob¬ 
jections to the heretofore economical work¬ 
ing of such steam motors. Tho description 
ot the rotary engino to which these improve¬ 
ments relate, consists of an outer fixed an¬ 
nular case with open ends, and an innor 
wheel so fitted to it as to close its ends and 
leave a channel or steam way within it, out- 
sido ot the wheel, tho outer case having ono 
or more abutments which project from its 
inside and lit to tho periphery of tho wheel, 
the latter having sliders or wing pistons, 
upon which tho steam acts for the purposo 
of giving rotation to the wheel, by admit¬ 
ting tho steam between the slides and the 
abutments spoken of. 
Tho outer case is so supported that it i 3 
capablo of yielding in any direction to en- 
ablo it to preserve, at all “times, the proper 
position in relation to tho wheel inside and 
the working parts of it, notwithstanding any 
inequality of their wear, or any other cause 
which might induce them to “work out of 
lino. 
The sliders aro pushed out against tho 
concavo face of tho annular case by means 
of small pistons attached to thorn and acted 
upon by the steam, but only at such times 
the sliders, or wings aro acted upon them¬ 
selves by the steam, tho pressure of tho said 
pistons ceasing as soon as tho exhausting 
commences at tho back of the sliders to 
which thoy aro attached, and before tho 
withdrawal of the latter to pass the abut¬ 
ments, so that no resistance is offered to 
their withdrawal or back stroko. 
This engine cuts off the steam at any 
point desired; tho packing consists of ad¬ 
justable metal rings, and is not liablo to 
wear uneven, or quickly, as tho friction is 
small.— Scientific American. 
ARTIFICIAL MARBLE. 
Mr. Benjamin Hardinge, of Cincinnati, 
has made a valuable discovery in synthetic 
chemistry, by which ho is enabled to pro¬ 
duco an artificial marble from common 
pebbles and sand. It is stated by the Ex¬ 
press Messenger that bo is about to erect in 
or near the city of Montreal a model palace, 
to bo built ontiroly ot marble and precious 
stones. The stones for tho walls, whicharo 
now moulding, aro formed of silicates in 
combination with mineral earths and pob- 
bles, and angular spots ot granito variogatod 
with mineral oxides. The roof will bo a 
lava of crystalized silicates of limo and whito 
alumina, resembling the snow crust. Tho 
stylo of architecture will bo unique. Tho 
pillars, pilastors, columns, capitals, cornicos, 
architraves, mantels, &c., will bo of agato, 
jasper, porphyry, &c., with collossal statu¬ 
ary of snow-white marble. Tho inside fin¬ 
ish of tho walls will be of porcelain, in 
landscapes, with ceiling of fresco of porce¬ 
lain, rosewood and zebrawood, inlaid with 
pearl. Tho tables, both tops and frames, 
will be of sapphire and amethyst, embedded 
with bands of opal,—others of lapis-lazuli, 
chalcedony, onyx, set with garnet, topaz, 
ruby and cornelian. Others with entire 
frames of blood-stone moulded in rich pat¬ 
terns of altorolievo, with tops of onyx, and 
other chalcedonic formations. 
THE I-IILLOTYPE. 
The Troy Times understands that Mr. 
Hill has perfected his discovery, so far as 
regards transferring all tho colors by a sin¬ 
gle operation. The only desideratum re¬ 
maining is an aid in reducing tho time 
required for making pictures from thirty 
minutes to, if possible, less than as many 
seconds. A similar difficulty, but not so se¬ 
rious, occurred in tho bringing out of tho 
Daguerrean discovery. Iodine, &c., wore 
found to answer the purpose for tho lattor, 
but Mr. Hill lias to deal with many colors, 
and a chemical that serves with ono, may 
spoil or provo useless with another. Tho 
“ stick ” is now on tho yellow. Mr. H. may 
discover tho necessary accelerator of this 
color in one week or six months, but until 
he does find it, ho will not be coaxed out, 
driven out, or smokod out. When tho Ilili- 
otype comes before tho public it will bo as 
I a full grown invention, ready to bo mado 
available to tlio fullest extent; as a fixed 
fact. 
THE NEW MOTIVE POWER, 
We have already roferred to the inven¬ 
tion of a new motive power, from which its 
projectors anticipato great results. The 
force appliod is magnotic attraction, and the 
powor is applicable to driving machinery, 
locomotion, navigation, and all other purpo¬ 
ses for which steam is employed. It is also 
capablo of lighting and warming. The 
great advantage of this power is its cheap¬ 
ness, nothing is consumed, and no cost being 
necessary in generating it. The machine 
has been applied to the magnotic telegraph 
with entire success. An engine is nearly 
completed to test tho invention as a motive 
power on a largo scale. The stock is in tho 
hands of some of the shrewdest business 
mon in Providence, and so much confidence 
is felt in the success of the experiment, that 
shares, tho original cost of which was $50, 
havo changed hands at $250. If it an¬ 
swers tho expectations of its friends, limits 
can hardly be put to its value ; if it fails, it 
will be in the category of many other good 
things.— Providence Journal. 
Rice Straw Paper. —Tho Charleston Mer¬ 
cury says :—Paper made from rice straw is 
so abundant with us, that the rice-growing 
States should have the monopoly of tho 
business of paper making. 
