Delaware journal., 1827-10-02
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THE ELECTION.

By the mails of Saturday Evening, the accounts
from below represent the friends Of the Administra
|tion as active and in fine spirits The lowest ma
ior,es in Kent and Sussex from their estimates, are
between and 900 in favor of Mr.. Johns.
Newcastle County will give but a small majority
either way.
All that is desirable is--that every man should 90
to the polls and vote his sentiments.
The aunt of the Lawyers to Sussex has been
productive only Of disgust on the part OF the sober
sided portion Of the community. Should MIR. Payn.
really have been :. rorastrRiaed to decline stand
ing as candidate for the Senate, as bandblll,
posted up in town, states, MIR. Dunnng, one of the
most popular men 10 Sussex. will probably fill the
vacancy
PoWer Loonas.-The power loom invented by tho
Rev. Mr.. Cartwright, clergyman Of Kent. is one
Of the most ingenious, efficient, and we will add,
supereminently useful machines thai has ever been
constructed MIR. Cartwright states in very III
erestng letter addressed by him to Mr.. Bannatyne,
of Glasgow, that the idea Of constructing power
loom was excited in his mind by being in company
with some Manchester gentlemen at Matlock. In
l794.wlo remarked that so many cotton mills would
be erected and much yarn spun, that it Woud be
impossible procure hands to weave it.. Mr. Cart.
wright replied, that Mr.. Arkwrisht must, in that
case set bis wits to work to invent weaving MILL
The Manchester gentlemen all declared that that
was impractcabe i; but Mr. Cartwright denied that
there could be any greater difficulty in nveutjng
machine to weave cotton than to spin it ; and me-
dtatng afterwards on the subject of this conversa.
tion, he succeeded in constructing loom, all the
movements of which were performed by means of
machinery Mr.. Cartwright, took out patent for
his invention in 1887. The progress of power loom
weaving was not at first rapid might have been
expected. That arose partly from the lmperfectons
that originally attached to the machine, but chiefly
to the circumstance of its being necessary to dress
the webs from time to time after they put into
the looms. which made 1t impossible for one person
to do more than attend to one loom. But beautiful
machine, invented by Mr.. Thomas Johnspn,of Brad
bury, for warping and dressing the yarh used a.
warps, has completely obviated this difficulty; and
at this moment, boy grl. of from twelve to tour
teen years of age with ease attend to two pow
Ier looms-and can, by their means, produce ttres
times as much we'll woven cloth as could be produes
ed by the best hand weaver During the last ten
years. the number Of power looms increased with as.
ltonishng rapidity. According to Mr.. Banps there
were, in 1918, in Manchester, Stockport and the
immediate vicinity, about 1000 power looms Ii,
1921 they had increased to 5732 and in July 1925.
in the parish Of Manchester alone, they amounted to
upwards of 2000O4 There are now. probably, a.
bout 45 900 power-loon,s in great Britain, employed
in the weaving of cotton only, exclusive of those ems
poyed in the weaving of wool and of these there
are supposed to be about 5000 i'll Scotland. i Ed
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