Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-12-12

ASTONISHING EwENTIoN, and important to Print
IRIS, gtrue.-A German newspaper states that ma
chime Tor setting type has been invented at place
called Pesth, by man denomlnaled NJ de KegIer.
We lind the annexed account of it IN a letter from
MI, Walsh, the ilIustrous European correspondent
OF the National lnleIigencer.
For the benefit of the unlearned reader, we re-
mark that, in the extract, the word composition"
signifies setting or putting together type, and that
me WORD distribution" Is applied TO The act OF Ia
KING type apart and putting them back, each in its
proper box.
M. de Keiger, OF Pesth, has invented a machine
Tor composition in printing, which effects an entire
revolution in that art The machine which is of
an ocagon form, has many divisions as there are
letters IN the alphabet, and on pressure the letters
lall ou and take their places in the required order
ne composition goes on, It is SAID, with such rapid
ny, mat single workman can compose the matter
lor large sheet in less than an hour and a half
Inc distribution ofthe type when done with is said
10 be carried on with greater speed and facility.
cylinder turned, and the letters are restored in the
regular order to the divisions from which they were
taken. It's asserted that large sheet and half
OF type may be thus distributed in one hour. The
journal from which we take this account, says that
me process has been witnessed by the University at
Pesth; and that the Russian Ambassador at Vienna
having heard Of the invention, and received The par
llcuars OF 1t, Immediately ordered machine Tor the
Emperor Nicholas We give this extraordinary
statement as we find IT, for the mode of distribution
alluded 10, surprises even more than the compost
uon Something olthe kind was attempted in Eng
and great many years ago, anG completed, failed
The King Of Holland, who abdicated his throne
on the Iih OF September, and transferred his regal
authority TO William the H., has reigned 81 years.
tie Is % years old. William II. is 4s years old. The
proclamation OF the father gives reason for the ab
dlca'on, The approach OF old age, and lhe firm be-
hel that hrm, vigorous, manly, and more youthful
hand Tree from The weight Of old age, and uhembsr-
raised bJ anIecedent recoectons, will hereafter be
required on the throne Of Inc Netherlands" The
sou, whose ull name is William Frederick George
Louis, received his education partly al Berlin and
partly al Oxford. lie was once the aid-de-camp of
Lord Wellington. AT Waterloo he met the enemy
at The head of body OF troops and received |
wound.
1t reported that since the ahdicaton of the faith
er, deficit has been found in The public accounts.
Frugalty is the base oil RepubIieanism-the ear |
nest and conservative principle of independeDce- |
he assurance ofproud content, and unbendino self |
respect. II puts men upon an eQually-does awav
he odious and ant-repubEcan relations Of nalrons
Ind patronlZed. Our farmers understand this: and
therefore, II Is that Perpeuy Of our glorious insuu-
ions rests in their haeds
Keep out Of bad company, for The chance is
hat when the devil fires INTO fock be viii hi
onebody.