Daily National Democrat

The Highest Chimney-stalk in the World.

—The large chimney-stalk, in connection with the works of Charles Tennant & Co., [at Glasgow, Scotland,] has, for the last seventeen years—viz: since it was erected, in 1841—enjoyed the proud reputation of being the highest in the world. This lofty honor, however, is, it seems, in danger. On the canal bank, at a short distance to the westward of the said works, and on the same elevation, a new stalk is being built at the works of Mr. Townsend, manufacturing chemist, Crawford street, Port Dundas, and its projected height is 460 feet. "Tennant's Stalk" is of the hitherto unparalleled height of 450 feet. If nothing interferes with the present arrangements, 1859 will witness the completion of the highest chimney stalk in the world.—Glasgow Citizen.

There is a mammoth chimney at Charleston, S. C, which has been ignorantly called "the highest in the world," although it is but little more than half the height of "Tennant's Stalk," at St. Rollox, Glasgow. An exchange paper of recent date thus mentions the Charleston structure:

The mammoth chimney in the Navy Yard at Charleston is the highest structure of the kind in the world. Its height above the ground is 239 feet and 1 inches, and from the bottom of the foundation 256 feet and 6 inches. At the surface of the ground the base 24 feet square, and the foundation at the bottom 17½ feet below, is 32 feet square. The flue is round, and 7 feet in diameter. The general plan of the structure is a square, of 13 feet and 2 inches, supported by twelve diminishing buttresses, which terminate at 150 feet above the ground. Above these buttresses the chimney is a square, with a panel on each face. The whole is finished with dental cornices, the crown molding of which is cast iron, and weighs upward of three tons. In the construction of this chimney the number of bricks used was 1,050,000.