Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-10-21
(For the Baton Rouge GazeHe.)

+" Knowledge Is PoWEE,"-it may seem
stlpefiluous 10 insist on this truth at the pres
eHt day, when every department Of material
s fence il crowded with new discoveries, and
when tie beneficial and splendid result Of this
vast accession of knowledge are 50 apparent.
- Dict. Thdmas Brdan.
The above remarks of Doct. Brown, how
ever trlle, are nevertheless, strictly correct,
rs every observing person will readily &C
knowledge; and the truth is also more appar-
| ent in The mechanic than in the fine arts.
And what reasons are We to assign for
this RAPID progression in "tnaferial science +! !"
is il that Tie human mind is more powerful
| at The preyont day than it was At any former
period! we think n%ot--for among The Greeks,
1900 years ago, many of the arts were as well
understood AS they are at the present day aud
some of them much better, the same may be
Of Italy, although the height Of her grandeur
was at q period more subsequent.
1t is true TINT since the invention Of Prin-
tinr, the arts have expanded over a much WI
der field, and from the diffusion and acqnisi-
ton Of knowledge generally, has broug ht out
capacities in some which would not other
wise have been developed; but the improve
ments in most of the arts for the last three
centuries have not been commensurate with
the diffusion of know edge, until, p%rehaps,
within the past thirty or forty years: and a.
mong the most important of these is The dis
coGery of the use of steam as applied 10 labor
saving purposes.
We were lately shown in the upper part Of
our state, by an ingenious mechanic, a ma
chine in the form. or rather representing a
double plough which proposes to cut or throw
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ed by steam power. This we consider quite
new and TO our common understanding, sur
passed any design of the kind that we recol-
lect of having ever seen or heard OF, either in
ancient or modern times.
The proper name of the machine ought to
be the CtRfirator. as it is intended, that the
machine shall answer more than the special
purpose of plouahing. Should the design
ever be brought to that state of perfection as
the author attempts to show, it will certainly
be one Of the greatest discoveries-for labor
sauing purposes that ever was exhibited in any
country or could possibly enter the human
mind.
We are not authorised at present to give
any further description Of the machine in
question, but the author promises 10 exhibit
the model cfthe machine at our nert state
Fair. The public and particularly the plan
ting community will have an opportunity Of
forming a correct opinion of the merits Of
the invention and its purposes.
Meantime, we would remark that to our
knowledge several intelligent planters and
mechanics in the different parts of the state
each in their respective occupations are pre-
pairing interesting specimens for our next ex-
lbition, as well in the agricultural line, the
general productions Of the fields, and gardens
as in the useful art. This bespeaks some
credit of the efforts the people of the state
are now making to foster agricultural indus
try. MORE ANON.