Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1844-02-17

~ DrLroATE TO THE Arm OF MARCH Con-
vEvriov.--Gen. r. II Hammond was appointed
as the Representative delegate, for this county, |
10 the Convention to be held at Harrisburg on
the a,h of March, to nominate candidate for
Governor, with instructions TO support Henry A |
NIuhlenberg for Governor, and Richard VI. John
son for President There were several town
ships on this side of the river not represented.
The vote was close one. Gen. Hammond having
succeeded over Mr. Jordan by one vote
H. HARVESTING McmSE.-This machine is
one of the most important inventions of modern
times. In the large and extensive Praries of the
West, for wich it is peculiarly adapted, it must
supersede every thing else in the harvest field.
The following extract of a letter from Mr.. An
drew Y. Moore, formerly of Danvillc and after.
wards of pottsville, from whence he moved 10
Prairie Round, ," in the State of Michigan, in re-
relation to the performance of the machine, will
not be without interest to many of our readers,
especially TO the farmers:
al have operated Harvesting Machlno FOR
the last two years, and expect to operate onr
AGAIN npXt harvest The inventor. Mr.. Hiram
Moore, has one that cuts II feet wide, thrcsh-
es, cl ans, aud puts it INTO bdgs, all by the and
OF machinery, drawn by Il horses which walk
at the rate o!2l miles per hour. The mnchine,
last harvest, in its operation would fill
buahcl bag in every minute aud halt eX.
pert there will be four machines IN operation
in this praii ic next harvest. One OF NY neigh
! bors has now growing over 500 acres OF wheat
! two fields Of lGO acres each THIS Prairie
! will produce next year over 100000 bushels
. ,f, ,Ihp ha pip pnp pr.tin nj n.
/ chine will not exceed $40 per day, although
/ the price per acre has been charged at t.3. So
I vou will soc that the machine will be very pro-
ftablc. The expense of building one is from
g to 500. The Machine will cut from 20 t.
% acres per day, as you will readily perceive
from calculating that 1t travels at the rate of2l
miles per hour, and cuts II feet wide and can
work from to 10 hours per day"
Prairie Round is an almost circular Prairie, as
lis name indicates. II is situated in kalamazoo
county, and contains about $4,000 acres of land
Near the centre of the Prairie are two "lslands,
as they are called ono of coo acres and the snail
cr one of co acres which are covered with fine
timber or had been when we VT at the place in
1885. These islands of wood land are about two
feet higher than IN" Prairie. II is a beautiful
spot of ground, healthy, and was considerably
improved when we saw it eight years since.
IT, The bill to give the printing TO the low.
est bidder, il is now conceded, will be passed 10y
a large vote. The reaction in favor of Governor
Porter, on this subject has been great The
Governor has fully sustained the charges of cor
ruption in procuring the election of the STATE
Printer. 1t fully proved before the Com
mittec (and Mr.. M'kinlcy now conicSses the fact
that he was TO pay the wing editors of the Intel
ligcncer and Telegraph $500 dollars for theil
influence in clecting him. Here then, fine
nearly all the papers at Harrisburg, whg an,
de nocratc interested To the extent of $500
in putting down Gov. Potter and sustaining tn
state Printer. Yet, strange it may appear
the partners of VI Kinlcy seemed TO know nothin:
of the contract, by which they were to pay thi
money. How they could GBo'd to pay that sum
and also one fifth of the profits to Mr. Gloss
brcucr, OF York, and that the two principal part
ners should have no knowledge of this transac
tion is what the unbiased and unprciudiccd can
not comprehend We thought the Governor di
wrong in vctoing the former lowest biddrr-bill
and said so at the time The Governor, how
ever, we were afterwards informed, had bee
grossly deceived in relation to that bill. TIL
facts as developed by the testimony slow III
T necessity of such bill. These men complai
t that the prices are as low as they can be made
5 without loss yet, according TO their own confes
5 sions, thcy have stipulated TO lay lonus
I IS, 500 20 procure Votes 10 cl,ct ia, m.