The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-08-06

Russell, who have both said, that if he would
not vote for their ticket they would not support
him. This gives him great trouble, and he de.
clares j! "not fair sailing for, agreeable to
our present law can only vote for one Repre-
sentative" thereby showing his accommodate
ing disposition, and indicating his willingness
to vote for both if the law would allow it.
But how is he to get out of this quandary and
secure the votes of both parties? This is the
mode he proposes. '"Suppose, then, vote a
sentimental. vote and every man do the same !;
for we all have sentiments, and we differ too "
" fault no man for voting differently from me.
hope every man will vote a sentimental vote,
and place it where it will benefit himself and
his country" Now, if the electors of Marion
county, whether Russelli:es or Kinnardites,
have any bowels of compassion, they will per-
NIT VIM. d. Rocker to " vote sentimental
vote" and they will "vote sentimental votes"
themselves, and then elect him to the Office Of
Associate Judge-if they cannot get better
WATER Power. In the New York Journal
OF Commerce of July %, we find the following
notice of new invention for the application of
water power
Mr. Hastings of this city, has lately con-
structed the model of new continuance for
applying water power. The main parts are
cylinder and piston, much the same with those
used in the steam engine. The water is let in
alternately above and below the piston and dis
charged at one end ofthe cylinder as ii is let in
at the other Mr.. H. calculates that with
given fall and given quantity of water, he shall
be able to gain at least so per cent. additional
motion by this method ofappiying the power, and
his calculations seems quite plausible When
water is discharged upon a wheel it does not
come to operate with its full force till it has de-
scended in the bucket to a level with the shaft
of the Wheel and its force goes on to diminish
immediately after it has passed that position,
but when applied in Mr.. Hastngs's manner it
evidently exerts it's whole force undiminished to
the lowest point of the fall, and not drop of
water is lost. Mr.. H. claims as another advan-
tagc, that his machinery may be entirely i'm
mersed in water, and Of course placed beyond
the reach of FROST
However plausible the calculation of the
inventor may seem, correct knowledge and
application of some of the most common and
best established principles of hydraulics and me-
chanics might have satisfied him that it is en-
trely futile, and that no greater motion is gain
ed by this invention than in the common buck
ct wheel. In the descent of water, the force
which it exeIts or the resistance it overcomes,
is always the same in any given space of de-
scent, and is the same in falling through any
given space, whether the descent be perpendc-
ular or oblique. In the example, above cited,
of the water Wheel the diminished force with
which the water acts before the bucket comes
10 level with the shaft, and after it falls be-
low it, is exactly counterbalanced by the lon
ger time it occupies in descending through the
same space. For instance, if, when it is hori-
zontal with the shaft it tails through the space
of one foot, perpendicular descent, in a second,
when it has fallen so much below, that the force
il exerts is diminished one-third, it will occupy
second and half in falling through the same
space, on account of the obliquity Of the mo-
ton, and thus exactly compensate for the d.
unfinished power by the longer time it occupies
in descending the same distance.
In the application and use Of water power,
the most important question to be considered
is, in what manner can the weight of the water
be applied through its whole descent with the
least friction? No other mode has yet been
found equal to the bucket wheel, nor do we
apprehend that it will very soon be superseded
by any thing else. The friction in the plan
above proposed, we should suppose, would be
considerably greater than in the water wheel,
and it must be still further increased by adapt
ing the reciprocating motion to machinery
which revolves,