Names and Rank. Brevets and for- Names and Rank. Brevets and for mer commissions. Sep 14 Thomas Mountjoy 15 Jan 16 David Riddle 3 Dec 16 Maj bvt 17 W. Morgan 8 Mar 17 Bvt 26 June Major. Captains. 13 Wm Bradford 6 July 12 Maj bvt 20 Robert Houston 31 Mar 17 Aug 14 Joseph Selden 6 do Lt col bvt 1 May 15 Maj bvt 15 17 do Stoughton Gantt 17 do Paymaster Adjutant J. M'Gunnegle 28 Apr S.V.Hamilton 17 Sep 1st It bvt 5 Wm. Armstrong 1 Oct 16 Abm.Harrison 1 Mar 17 8 Mar 17 Qr master Bennet Riley 31 Mar 17 Second Lieutenants. 11 do T. F. Hunt 29 June Wm S. Blair 17 Feb 17 Horace Broughton 19 Feb 17 Surgeon. Edwin Wyatt 17 Feb 17 Surgeon's Mates. Th A. Smith 6 July 12 B gen bvt Sam P. Hugo 12 Mar 12 24 Jan 14 W.H.Pierson 4 Aug 14 1. art L C bvt art 2 inf C byt 5 inf C bvt 7 inf Alexander S. Brooks S. Burbank Stephen W. Kearney 3 inf M byt art 1. art 7 inf M byt 2 inf M bvt 1. art art M bvt art L C bvt 1. art M byt 1. art L C byt art M byt art art M bvt 2 inf M byt 5 inf M bvt rifle M bvt 1. art L C byt 4 inf M bvt rifle L C byt 6 inf M byt art 2 inf M bvt 7 inf M bvt 1 inf 8 inf M bvt 3 inf art 3 inf M bvt 4 inf art M byt 3 inf M byt 8 inf rifle 3 inf art art art M byt art 6 inf M bvt 5 inf M bvt 2 inf 1 inf M bvt art Thomas M. Read, jr. 6 inf J. Roach, jr. 1 Dr. Bollman has transmitted to a correspondent here, a description of a new experiment of sir Humphrey Davy's which is so curious and amusing as to deserve to be better known. Hitherto it is unpublished. It is a kind of invisible combustion. Put two or three tea-spoonsful of ether into a wine-glass. In the blue or lower part of the flame of a candle heat some very thin platina wire coiled up in two or three folds at one end. The coiled end must be heated. While red hot, hold it at about an inch distance over the ether, moving it slowly about. The incandescence will continue while any pure ether remains. Should the ether take fire, cover it immediately for an instant with your hand, to extinguish it. If this be done dextrously and the wire again brought immediately over the ether at the same distance, the incandescence will be renewed, and so on repeatedly, till all the pure part of the ether be consumed. Gold, silver, or steel wire will not answer. The platina wire must be about the thickness of the finest harpsichord wire. Platina produces the effect, because it does not oxyd; and because it radiates heat slowly. The flame of the ether while the wire continues red hot over it, and before the ether actually takes fire in the glass (which can always be avoided by a thin wire, and a small quantity of ether) is not visible even in the dark. The wire must not be so near the ether, as to be enveloped in an atmosphere of ether alone, nor so far above it as to be enveloped in an atmosphere of atmospheric air alone. The presence of air, together with the vapour of ether is necessary to the success of the experiment, which requires very little management to be performed with uniform success. C. THE ADVERSARIA.-FOR THE PORT FOLIO. FLECKNO. Why Dryden was so severe upon Fleckno does hot appear in any of the literary annals of that time. Fleckno had endeavoured to propitiate his kindness by an epigram; but it is probable that the resentment of the poet was excited by his invectives against the licentiousness of the stage, to which Dryden contributed. But Fleckno is by no means the despicable writer that we might suppose him to be from the niche in which his enemy has placed him, as the following verses will amply prove: |