American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-06-08
baltimore. .J,Dp I.

So"tN"Hec vi vi. hcinpeteH, when mas occasions
ed 50 much curious conjecture and excited so nue
interest IN the princinal cities OF Europe, aud il,
various parts OF the United States, after period
of nearly sixty years Of doubt as to the mode oi
its operation, has at length been discovered by
accident to be merely the case in which human
agent has always been concealed, when exhibited
20 an audience. This discovery, as we learn, was
made by person who had not formed any plan
or design for that purpose an accidental circum-
stance exposed to his view the concealed agent as
he emerged from the case just after the conclusion
Of All exhibition of the Automaton. Gazette.
The piece of mechanism above noticed has, as many Of
our readers know, been the puzzle Of Europe for nearly
three quarters of a century Wte,her the secret has
really been discovered, whethertte proprietor hes play
ed Oft rnse TO mslead the public, we know not bit il
seems by the following communication that the Chess a
ing contr, ance ingenious it is, has been matched in
this country The Ameries says the communication is
from source entitled to weight; that the writer good
chessplayer and has encountered both Turks with
cess l. is really strange as the writer remarks that The
mechanism which has puzzled all Europe for three quar-.
tiers Of century, should have been guessed and
fully inflated by Yankee in less than years acquai-
lance. Mar. Intel.
From The Ne1v Yark .7nerican
went last evening to the American Automaon,
which of Wesern mechanists have made in ni-
taiion of Kempeens and had the pleasure oi seeing
play whole game 1t is in every respect. equal to that
which made such noise in city last year. II is Of
about the aud the only percep,ibe difference is.
the side of the machr The whole laid open The
view thoroughly think, than Maelzc exposed his
and therefore, il the ingenious, from the almost
manifest mpossbiy Of any body being concealed within
and vet strange say, the exhibitor take in.
erest in the game. and even think little nnderst nls il
BY what magic the machine is directed, know not
only sayf cunning devil has been bro gh preside
the European instrument, our Western ingenuity has
evoked still more cunning devil to direct This. There is
point, and only, in which Mr. aIaelzel has The all
vantagc-he plays better game but practice and the
patronage which this ought to and must receive, will i'm
it, To conclude-,le only reason which render
this Anomaton less attractive than the other is that has
not been transported from foreign shore; and the
which should induce ten times more every one to ratro
Misc it, IS that it is the production Of Yankee ingenuity.
nursed on the borders Of of our New York lakes.
Strange: that the European A 0maton, which in all
Europe has been the wonder, almost the miracle If
~ years has been year in country, before
slccessulI had almost said, improvedcopy arises
eclipse it. A.
New Fork, Tune 41he American .7omaton Chess Piu,
Of the curious pieces of mechanism that
nvented in this county 1t is not perhaps
nice as Aaez,'s. but it proves ut once the astonishing
ingenuity of he yankees. In The exhibition there is
eceit--no deception whatever The exhibitor shows the
audience the whole of the machine.i,s weighs, Wheels,
springs, departments SC This is done with so mnch
simplicity and without any pretcnsion mystery Before
the game commences the machine is wound up IN two
placeshe in which the chess board is placed an;
the breast Of the Turk. From this circumstance there ia
doubt but The machine is different in its wheels. &c
from that Of Maelzcls, and must be perfectly Original H.
8 made haca in this state We consider It far
greater curiosity that of the foreign TUX. The pco.
pie are beginning TO flock TO lis exhibitions.
Nat .4drorcte.
Hafi,no,e lime 5.
The .7,omQ:on Chess Player Tho Editor Of the United
States Gazette expresses doubt as TO the discovery
of the Agent in the Box Table by whose aid this ngc
Nous and profitable deception has been effected, because
did not youc for it in paper on Friday last, when
first announced 1t necessary here to youch
for fact which very generally kown and as gene
rally believed Two persons in his iftcc nh, the other
in his nineteenth year, the time witnessed tlc
iransacon--and assured from which
know rely on, that the cacy Of their statement
may be fully relied on-inteed from HE position in which
they placed and their description OF the ccunsta
there be doubt that they what they relate
and fully believe that their relation is We take
this opportunity of noticing observation made by the
Editor Of the Baltimore Republican Saturday last,
that the boy who states he made the discovery deman
cd money for disclosing IT. which ought to discredIt his
testimony" We feel assured that the circumstance
which this observation was founded has been either strange
~ misunderstood or much msre presented otherwise an
impuia,on injurious TO a correct and reputable youth
ly circulated of the discovery Of the concealed Chess Play
relation of the circumstances, until il became livery
noyiug" the elder youth, who tired Of telling tbs
oft repeated tale, and to his employer, whose business
interrupted by many curious ntrideis. 1t WAS
therefore advised By the employer that lie youth sol
demand payment from all future enquirersthis eApc,ieu,
put end to the annoyance for although tie
willing to pay for being deceived, Mr. Macl
gel no doubt testify, few it any willing 10 cnptn
safe the cxposer of the deception. Gazette.
MARltIED--On Tuesday evening the 3ist nlt. hy the