Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1831-11-11

STEAM ExcAvArER.--The plan IT a macbip.
Tor sISginx or exsava ing was exhibited to US yes
,efdsy. IL 10 The Invention Of ar William Gr,-
ham, sitz.n Of this state, and Tor which he ba.
lately procured Patent The machine 10 exceed.
irgiy 'impl', aud may DO worked II her Ly horse or
steam power and " as there 10 reason 10 doubt i,
should prove 10 answer the purpoee in,enjrd will b.
OF van ban fl TO this country, moro particularly IN
Louisiana, which is,useepibe Of, and destined 10 be
sannsiiod 10 Prodigious extent. BY ibis machine
sumps and logs ars cut away and raised with tho esrlb
We borrow the following description Of II from The L.,
ters Patent OF The invsntor.
"Ths power applied to crank, gives motion To +,
spur p,Dion whsel attached to tho shaft OF tn, exeava
ting wheel, at the circumference of which the power
Is made 10 take effect.
A portion Of the power not expended on the .xea
vsiing " heel carried through Tho medium OF b. y.I
wheels placed on tho outside Of The carriage frame 10
into Tho two rear wheels that support the after pari Of
the carriage, by means whereof the locomotive me-
lion OF .he whole carriage 10 produced.
Ihs whole carriage 10 made to move forward, to-
wards the left hand, and the exsavating wheel in a
soniary diree ion or In direction contrary 10 the INC
ton OF the whsels which the carriage r,sts nv
which means, after the sxsava'ipg wheel has bsso
sunk toto the earib, ready for Tho opera lon of the
cam engine, and having this backward revoui n IL is
made TO take effect by means of is s eel Cuter-im
m'daiely after they havs passed line perpendicular
70 'ne sen're OF motion OF the whee, and raisiug or lift
ing the ear h forward, ii 10 continued on the eutsr,
by means OF their hanEes aud the rapid rotaory
ZION OF tbs wheel until brought past Tin. psrpsndieu.
lar to It's sen re he top OF The wheel; when he
earth 10 orsby discharged and falls on roof eovarir
The after part OF the carri'ge.
With an engine OF eight horse power Tai, maebip,
will perform the labor Of three hundred WORKING
hards." e
Mr.. Graham has besn for some time EMPLOYED in
uP.rin'epding the construction OF OF his machine.
70 shl' city. Already tho work I, about tive hrd,
completed but he 10 compelled 10 suIpepd il Tor
want oil fund.-, 10 continue H. SOM time since al the
ugges,ion OF his ends he'd re course to
lion, which but partially sucseeded; the sum of oniv
SIX hundred and nifty 1--we dollars having bsep raised
The amount still needed 10 enable bin 10 souolee The
w0rs J, one ih5ussnd dolars, very iri1ipg cum in
comparison TO The immense advantages thai sus IN ma
shine calculated 10 produce The people of hi, ate
and more particularly the Planters, are deeply inter
esed 10 The success OF this experiment, and 81 ouId
with their ateuttom,d hbersiy, advance the amount
required On the list Of subscription W q
regret that our ely, hitherto remaka for lie liner
", bad subscribed but jDty dollars 10 our opioioo
our Aldermen could s.ske no better use Of tbs monsy
Of their constituents, hso in encouraging, by a Hbe
raj loan, tbs sueseO Of Nc G. ahams ipysn ion. We
hope the subject will be TAKEN up al he next sizing oi
the eouneil. fN,io Orleans 1.a's "
An .leeiisn was he'd In hi, SONNY on Motd,v Ia,t
10 supply the vacancy 10 our delegation 10 the
Assembly, ssused by the Iam ted death Of M, Powell
which resulted in the choice Of Col John b ID Smith
70 whom there was no regular oppo,i'iop-Mr I,arop
who bad bsen announced as a candidate having syi n
drawn few days before ,b- election