The history of the first locomotives in America. From original ...

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town. Thence he went to the New Orleans and CarroUton Rail-
road, on a salary of five thousand dollars per year, where he remained
several years.
" Adam Kohinson was killed by accident on a railroad.
" Will you please procure and send to me one of the drawings,
or photographs, from the original picture you took in Albany, of
the old ' De Witt Clinton ' and train of cars ? I saw the original
picture at your room in Albany, and was forcibly struck by the
accuracy of your likeness to the old machine, the cars, and the pas-
sengers, several of whom I knew well.
" If I can give you any other information, write to me at once,
and I will try to be more prompt in my reply.
" Respectfully yours,
"David Matthew,
" 205 Pear Streeti Philadelphia."
Prom tlie freight-bills, custom-liouse charges, etc.,
etc., attached by Sage & Son to their lithograph copy of
a photograph of the original picture in the Hartford
Institute, the author is inclined to believe that these refer
to those made upon the first English locomotive for the
Mohawk and Hudson Eailroad, which was the " Robert
Fulton." This machine; as we see in the following
articles from the Albcmy Argus of' that period, arrived
by the ship Mary Howland, from Liverpool, early in
September, 1831. In several articles of the Argus, in
which this engine is spoken of, it is called the " Johns
Bull" This was done in allusion to the country where
it was made, in the same manner as the Argus also uses
the words "Brother Jonathan" when speaking of the
" De Witt Clinton." These sobriguets are familiarly ap-
plied and understood by every one when speaking of the
natives of either country.
A locomotive named the " John Bull " came from
England, subsequently, but not for nearly a year after
the events we are now recording,
Messrs. Sage