Petroleum In Locomotives

enoo to the uso of petroleum as fuol for locomotivos, tho opinión of an English cQgineer of emincnco is oited, who thinka it is a mere qusstion of eoonomy. He desoribes an engine wliich could be used, and by whioli tho firo eould be so directed as to regúlate at plensuro the concentration on the boiler, no eutting of the tubes by partióles of fuel, no eparks or smoke through the cbimney, imd no sulpbur or carbon iu fumes to damage the copper or annoy the passengere. In building an eugine purposely íor such fuel, mnny tilinga inight bu arranged advantugeously ; but there is no diff'erenoe in npplying tho principio to any exietiüg engines. The advantages are abaenoe oí' smoke and dirt, and no.xious gases, and ooul duHt, and occasioual coal on the rails. The Provisional Governor of Alabttina, judging from tho doeuments to which he has acces!, oslimates that the fíoutli fiTiiished 1,124,000 men to the Confedérate armieg, oi vvhum 060,000 are dead or disablod.