Americans In Russia

The London Mining Journal gives a brief debcription of tlie gignntic locomolive esíabi!hment at St. Petersburgh, Russin, orgnnizc-d and directed by Mossrs. Harrison & Eastwick, formerly of thiá city, inconjunction. we believe, wilh Mr. Winans, of Bnltimorc. It characterizes it as "tlié most extraordinary ns well aa' gigantic commercial ostablislnnent which can be found in the históry of the world,' ancient or modern.'' This establishment wascalled into operation to supply the large number of locomotives required for the great chain of railroads which the Ernperor of Russia! has directed to bè constructed, (Mnj.' Whistler, a Bostonian, being chief engineer,) and it is so huge in diroensiona[hal three thousand five hundred operatives are employed in it. To keep order in this mixed mass of Americans, English, Scotch, frisb; Germans, and Russinns, a company of sóldierá is kept on duty in conjunction wilh a pólice forcé,' whoseduties are confiued lo the works. If the operniives are refrnctory they are discharged,unless thcre happen to bc Uussians among them, and when any of these ofiend against the discipline of the place, they are iinmediately tied up to tho trianglers, soundly Hogec1., and sent to wo'rK ogfain, and' thispracüce is centinued, notwithstanding Messrs. Harrison & E;istwick, have strongly appealed agiinstit.'. „ When a man yresents himself for cmploymont nt this establishment, his namo is not asked, but'lie is presented witK a nVedal liaving on it a number. In the pay house are 3,500 wooden boxes, and" when the laborer presents hirftsêlf on Saturdav night for his money,'it is givenhim, and the medal taken from hini is a rcceipt. This medal isdropped into tlie box corresponding to its nutnber, and a new medal is given to the laborer as a pledge of eraployment for anothor week.