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Steam canal packets. ts.-Mr Parmalee, of Poughkeepsie, has invented sheet-iron packet boat for our canals. It is propelled by locomotive engine, and in an experi- ment at Albany day or two since, it went at the rate of seven miles per hour, washing the banks less with the ripple than the or dlnary packets do, which go only four miles, by horse power. The velocity can be easi- ly increased to ten miles, and tken the rip pie probably would be less.--N. Y. Star.