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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paine, Thomas 1737- (search)
ed a loan of 6,000,000 livres from France in 1781. In 1786 Congress gave him $3,000 for his services during the war, and the State of New York granted him a farm of 300 acres of land at New Rochelle, the confiscated estate of a loyalist. Sailing for France in April, 1787, his fame caused him to be cordially received by distinguished men. In 1788 he was in England, superintending the construction of an iron bridge (the first of its kind) which he had invented. It now spans the Wear, at Sunderland. He wrote the first part of his Rights of man in 1791, in reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. It had an immense sale, and the American edition had a preface by Thomas Jefferson. An active member of the revolutionary society in England, he was elected to a seat in the French National Convention in 1792. He had a triumphant reception in Paris, but in London he was indicted for sedition and afterwards outlawed. Paine assisted in framing the French constitution in 1
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Spiritualism, or spiritism, (search)
Spiritualism, or spiritism, Words applied to the belief that certain phenomena or visible manifestations of power are produced by the spirits of the dead. These phenomena have been witnessed and commented upon in all ages; notable instances within the last 250 years at Woodstock, 1649; at Tedworth, 1661; at the Epworth parsonage, in the family of Mr. Wesley, the father of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism; the case of the Cock-lane ghost, in London; at Sunderland, at the residence of Mr. Jobson, 1839 (all these in England). The Fox sisters in the United States, 1848 (noted below), and, as some suppose, in the Salem witchcraft cases of 1692. They have been attributed to diabolical agencies. It is claimed that under favorable circumstances, by a force apparently residing in the subject itself, and with no external source, inanimate objects (articles of furniture, etc.) are moved, rappings are heard, articles disappear from one closed apartment to appear in another, writing is
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
rail (g), 1810. Losh and Stephenson's flanged rail (h), 1816. This was a lapping continuous rail. Hawk's cast-iron face upon a wrought-iron base. 1817. Birkenshaw's malleable face upon a cast base, 1820. Birkenshaw, of Bedlington, Durham, invented the rolled rail; the iron, while hot, being passed between grooved rollers of the required pattern (i j k l). m n o p are respectively the Spanish, Marseilles, Strasburg, and Great Western (England) patterns. q, Durham and Sunderland, England. r, Berlin and Potsdam, Prussia. s, London and Blackwall, England. t, Manchester and Birmingham, England. u, Saint-Etienne to Lyon, France. v, Wilmington and Susquehanna, United States. w, Great Western (Old), England. x, London and Croydon, England, which first dispensed Railway-rails. with longitudinal sleepers and chairs. y, Morris and Prevost, England. z, Birmingham and Gloucester, England. a′, London and Birmingham, England. b′, London and Brig
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
See sluice. Tide-di′al. See tide-gage. Tide-gage. Used in harbors to measure the rise and fall of the tides. A common form consists of a graduated spar, 24 feet long, and having boxes at the side, in which is a float with an elevated stem. The spar is secured to a pier or quay, or is anchored in a frame and secured to a pier or quay, or is anchored in diameter, and is supported by a cork of 3 inches cube. The stem is guided by staples in the spar. The tide-gage at Sunderland, England, invented by Mr. Meik, engineer of that harbor, is self-registering, and shows to mariners the depth of water on the bar at all stages of the water. A well is sunk beneath the building containing the apparatus, its bottom being on a level with that of the entrance to the channel. This contains a pipe, open to the water, and containing a float over which passes a copper wire cord conducted over a spiral cone turning on an axis in an upper story of the building. At the opposite end
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Cassius M. Clay and the London Times--"Our Foreign Relations." (search)
a will soon become the centre of commerce and emigration for the American continent. Our compilation from the foreign files, given to-day, in such connection, is worthy of serious consideration, and exhibits a manifest tendency towards an unfriendly policy to the Government at Washington, which, if carried out, may result in giving England a severe lesson, for which she is probably not prepared. Mr. Lindsay, M. P., who recently visited this country, in a speech to his constituents at Sunderland, has gone far towards indoctrinating them with the idea of the right of secession at the South and the necessity of maintaining the rebel cause. This gentleman advises France and England to step forward and proclaim the independence of the Southern Confederacy as the only means of allaying the thirst for blood which he says prevails at the North. The London Morning Post, Lord Palmerston's organ, asserts that the Southern States were de facto independent at the moment. "Misplaced Co
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 23 (search)
entlemen denies the charge, but admits that he carried open letters, which only serves to strengthen on the first impression in regard to his visit to the rebel capital. The recent declarations of British journals and statesmen in favor of a permanent division of the United States into two Confederacies, corroborate this view of the mission of Sir James Ferguson. And in the news by the Glasgow, which we published yesterday, it was stated that Mr. Lindsay, M. P. at a public meeting in Sunderland, said that in consequence of the impossibility of procuring a present supply of cotton elsewhere than in the Southern States, "he considered it the duty of the British Cabinet to endeavor to induce the Federal Government, in the cause of humanity, to remove the blockade. Considering the bold stand made by the Confederates, and the strength of the South, he thought it almost time that the Governments of England and France thought of recognizing the independence of so numerous a body of peop
The Daily Dispatch: October 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pluralists. (search)
ht of the 5th inst. Her intelligence is two days later than that brought by the North American. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Friday were 12,000, and on Saturday 15,000 bales. The market closed firm at previous quotations. Broadsfuffs were firm, and provisions quiet. Consols at Liverpool were quoted at 92,a93. The Pope of Rome repudiates all compromise with the enemies of his Government. The expedition fitting out in Spain against Mexico is progressing rapidly, and will sail at an early day. Mr. Lindsey, member of Parliament, in a recent speech at Sunderland, to his constituents, gave it as his opinion that the English Government ought to urge the raising of the American blockade, and that England and France should now consider the expediency of recognizing the Southern Confederacy--This opinion elicited cheers and some hisses. The financial depression continues in Paris, and there had been some agitation, owing to an advance in the price of read.