Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-09-29

| tuoe, out tnefe cannon DC any explosion,
or scattering expulsion Of its fractured
parts. The experiment 10 mere OBJ
server was certainly curious and salts
factory and SO tar as the power Of as
cent was involved, was clearly dc mon
strated. 1t is tor scientific persons who
have leisure Tor these pursuits, to est.
mate and assign the degree OF metit OF
the inventor.
In the 700 years which preceded lhe
reign oil George the Third, including
tae reigns OF 81 sovereigs, our expenses
as nation were 795 millions. During
The SO years which George III reigned,
they amounted to 2 357 millions, being
about three times the amount expended
IN the preceding 700 years ID
Power of Machinery Mn. OWEN,
in one OF his Sunda lectures, al New.
Harmony, Indiana, relates the following
facts:
think have before mentioned to
some here, that am acquainted with
all individual whose father al the age oil
SO, was in the habit OF shaving his neigh
bors and customers at cents head.
Al that age he was plain unlettered
man, but possessing great genius fot
mechanism, he turned his attention to the
invention OF machinery for spinning co..
ton. lie met with many obstacles in tht
early stages OF his progress, but he u!u
mately overcame them all, and died al
the age OF so or 70 years, leaving for
tune OF halt a million sterling. Mr..
Arkwright, Che inventors SOM who bad
been bred to industry while his father
was poor, continued the business alter
his fathers deceasc, and is nov the rich
est commoner 10 Grcal Britain. Blu,
what has been the result The genus e
one man has produced machine which
at this moment is performing, in Great
Britain alone, as much work as before
this invention would have required the
manual labor OF a population of eighty
millions. That single individual invent
ed a machine which has within period
OF 60 or 70 gears, performed with the
cooperation of $40 900 men, women
and children) as much labor as could
have been accomplished prior to its In'
vention, By population of 80 millions.
Now, the whole population OF Greas
Britain does not exceed "a millions: it
would require therefore, three times the
amount OF her present population to per-
form annually as much labor as is now
accomplished by this machine, with the
aid of only 100000 men, women aud
children"
"Now this great change effected by
the mechanical genius OF single per-
son, is after all but small part of the
result The improved cotton machine
ry, gave rise to the invention of many
other machines equally important with
the former, and by the aid of which, the
people OF Great Britain, not amounting
to "a millions, have been anabled to
perform as much labor as would, prior
to these inventions, have required all The
manual labor derivable from twice The
present population Of the world. There
is such combination of mechanism at
This moment, in full operation in Great
Britain, that its results are equivalent to
the manual labor of twice the popuh-
ton of the world, amounting, in gross
estimate, to about 800 millions"
Alerander O'ConnelPs escahe from fvt
Indians.
Early one morning in the year 1881
Mr.. Alexander Mcconnell, who resided
in 'nsighborhood of Lexington, wan
dered into The woods on foot in pursuit
of game. Having succeeded in killing
a deer at some distance from home, he
found it necessary to return for horse
on which to carry it off. While he was
gone, FIVE Indians came to the spot where
the deer lay, and naturally concluded
that some one would soon return thither
for it; three Of them remained to watch
it, and two placed themselves in ambus.
cade near the path, along which they
rightly supposed the hun,sman would
pass. As he rode, therefore, near their
place Of concealment, they shot al him,