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RAIL ROADS.-A late English paper furnish
es the following valuable information on the subject
OF an improved rail road carriage, which will be
perused with interest and satisfaction by every friend
to the internal improvement Of his country -


Improved Rail Road Carriages. es.--The great
obstacle to rail roads is the enormous expense OF
leveling the line along which the rail way is TO be
carried and also of carrying the path OF the rail
way nearly IN direct line !; because the carriages
hitherto constructed for rail roads, have not been
able to drag weight, except upon level OF nearly
level path, and have been able to deviate in any
considerable degree from the straight line. The
Birmingham papers inform US Of most important


invention, by which, If it prove successful, this
great obstacle will be removed. 1t is an invention
OF steam carriage, which dragging weight is
able 10 ascend upon rail Way an elevation oi 440
feet in mile, with perfect ease, and also TO turn
angles devating from the straight line i.2 inch
in the yard. The inventor is w. IL. James, OF
Birmingham. His models have been exhibited.
They are on considerable scale, the rail way be-


ing one hundred feet in length. The ascent from
the level, and the deviation from the straight line
are expressed above. On this scale the modes
have performed with perfect success. Mr.. James
estimates the saving in the expense OF laying down
the line between Birmingham and Liverpool a, fully
two thirds, and the saving of time requisite Tor
laying down the road he considers will be much
greater than that. We are almost transcribiDg
from the Birmingham paper, and cannot, OF course,
speak of our own knowledge OF that which we
have not seen. If however, there be any truth


in the principles of this invention, its Importance


is very obvious. Even on the present calculation
of the expense Of constructing rail ways between
plaee es where the intercourse is very great, as be.
tween Liverpool and Manchester, it is confidently
expected that saving, not of time only, hut even
of charge will accrue to th@ public from the mode
of conveyance. But it the great expense OF the
construction of rail ways. namely, the leveng the
line in which they are to pass can by the new in
yenton be diminished two thirds or one hail. the
saving to the public in the charge of the convey
ance of goods would be certain, and at the same
time there would disappear nearly all the opposi-
ton which the country gentry have thrown in the
way Of the rail ways; for as direct line would no
longer be necessary, it would not be difficult by
slight deviations, to accommodate the humor, iastes
or pleasure of persons through whose estate the rail
way was made to pass.


The total amount Of coinage at our Mint, since
I. first establishment, is only 93,65o,5 SOP dollars