Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-12

""oSuiuC Ido Deeu Invented
ana may be seen in operation Mt the
printing Office of Messrs. Lucas &,
Deaver. Of N. York, for linking the
type IN printing. This operation usu-
any requires either the labor of an
additional pressman with balls, or tina,
OF boy with roller, and the machine
now under notice does the work much
better than either; and consequently,
saves the expense Of one hand, besides
a considerable portion of the ink.
which it applies with much more
economy than the most skiIful hand
eau 90 1t is not easy to describe this
machine. but we deem it so useful to
printers that we have ventured to step
ASIDE from our usual vocation to aid in
circulating notice of it. 1t was in.
vented by an ingenious watch maker
o! the north by the name of John
rrince, and made by r. HI. Hoe &. Co.
Oh New York. 1t can be applied to
any common press; is worked by the
turning of the rounce attached to the
press, and costs $l25. We saw it in
operation, and do not hesitate to say.
'nat 1t distributes the ink much better
than any hand roller or balls we ever
saw. The printed sheets exhibited
not the slightest variation in color. aud
were perfectly clear and free from de.
ieGt' and by turning small screw the
coioring can be regulated to any
required shade.
The following is given by a cores.
pondent of one Of the newspapers as an
exemplifcation of the force of custom
The French sawyers ia Paris put
one end oftheir saw upon the ground.
ana the other against their breast
ihey then take up stick of wood in
their hands and move it across the saw.
until 1t is divided. In vain has an A.
merican repeatedly attempted to teach
them the use OF a wooden horse in saw.
ing; they have only laughed at him !;
ana because none of their sticks are
large, have preferred to follow the Gus.
tom of their fathers.
Where Lancaster Pa. is now built was
once an Indian Wigwam a hickory. tree
$1,000 I'D It's centre not far from spring: un.
aer this tree the Councils met, and i was
rom one OF these Councils that a Denuia
tion was sent to confer with William Penn ot
ohackamaxon. The Indian nation was cal.
LED hickory, and the town was called Hick.
DRY before Lancaster was laid out.
Ih'rty wagons, says the Cincinnati Amer.
lean, passed through this city last week. in
company, bound for Texas.-They were. as
we understood, from the good state of Con.
hecticut, and were no doubt we'll supplied
with motions" fp"oo
on Thursday night last the house Oft. w.
Ludlow, Esq. New York, was robbed of n
large amount ofsilver plate.-Next morning
$Soo reward being offered, the articles were
FOUND by The Police at pawnbrokers, and
the Inlet, formerly servant in the house,
arrested.
oe9-soaght Justice.-A man down East
lateiy contsssed having been concerned, sew.
eiai years ago, IN the murder of an indis idu
al IN and.-Having partly cleared his
o"hsciehce,t Is expected he will obtain
hanged
CHeaP lraUeLting "A journal called The
ilineranl; published somewhere at the South,
authorizes Its Agents TO forward eight sub
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pense. Travellers southwark had better
sieze upon this conveyance, by becoming
| subscribers.
we were amused (says the editor of the Toll
land Advocatei a few days since, to hear
man who Is confined in this place, for ABUSING
MS wiie, singing, Through the iron gates, the
pialntiSe melody OF "HOme, saoeet Home !"
1t appears from information received bv
way OF Halifax and Jamaica, that Bolivar.
instead OF embarkiDg for Europe, bad again
accepted the office of President of Colombia
and mad Issued proclamation. He was a.
oout to leave Carthagena for Ocana, where
he mad been invited to proceed by Deputies
of Bogota.
young man has been committed to pris.
| on In New-York, to await his trial, for snap.
ping pistol at an officer who attempted to
arrest him on civil process, and another at
The gentleman to whom the warrant was
granted. Both pistols, on examination. were
found TO be charged, each with two balls.
The sentence of DIR. Cleaveland to death
for the murder of widow lady in Vermont
with whom he had an illicit intercourse. has
been committed by tho Legislature to FIVE
years imprisonment.
An extra session Of the Supreme Court at
INorridgewock, Me. was wholly taken I'd in
trying the case of the late John Wares will.
involving $4,000. The jury could not n.
gree. The question made by the appellants
was insanity of the testator.
A lad named Cheney, who a short time
since assaulted another boy of the name of
Partridge and beat him until he supposed him
dead, and then robbed him of his watch and
some other valuables, was tried before the
supreme Judicial Court, at Dedham, Mass.
and the next morning tho jury returned
a verdict Of Guilty. His sentence was
Death.
Seduction.-At late sitting of the Su-
preme Court in Kent county, Md the case
OF Elizabeth Johnson against John A. Col.
Inns, for the seduction of The Plaintiff dauoh.
ter, was tried, and verdict found for Plain
I'm. The case was one of aggravated charac.
ter the Jury gave exemplary damages-two
thousand eighty-three dollars-being the en-
TIRE amount Of the valuation of the defen-
dant's estate, real and personal" This is as
IL should be. He that takes away life, can
nave less fiendish motive in view, than he
VINO deliberately tramples upon confidence
and destroys happiness.
Steamboat Robbery.--Tbe iron ches,
OF the Steamboat Chancellor Living.