Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-01-14

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lsJoliti5n e Milanslfi lfiiY.saiag |. 81 =
Maine, Massachusetts, i and ,efmsnf,
have abolished ethe compn!sorys drills:
In Massachusetts lie SUM ofsfifiytihou-.
sand dollars PR annt.m has been appro.ii
priatcd 10 anyLnunibefsof TIE old inititia..
NOT exceeding ten thousand, a. ,lls rate.
Of five dollars eactffurvolm;iafy duty 4:
Certain number of days in every ], year +:
Ia Name lie system Il militia drills
was iely abolisliedsome te d 81 aIlssy,eII Is, d
years ago, when all lierr, Jaws requiring
thai useless service were repealed, Il tJnts
retaining The militia systen,, siinp|ysby.
continued enrolment Of all that iwonid
be bound at Ler call 10 come ffofit Tor
the support Of her laws or The e. d dcie.alee
of her soil. e - - s:5s
Vermonl, ar'ifie recent -ssaessi sion nc 81 lIer
Legislature, has followed e 81 n,ia
OF Maine. She passed M dct ta.1 fe ra "a al;;ns
all laws that heretofore required militia M 3
drills, and substituted meIeiysssanns slroi.,
ment, as for jury purposes, of i ails il iiIiIat. &
would, under the old s. STEM, have sb,ea been. I
liable 10 militia service. 40 ssss
We copied a paragraph from ths NeE' Sies,s
York Sun. day or two age; Stain 3 thar
a gentleman OF tina! city had sinygeio ofed q!
po@erful engine for slla1bos sasf faare
The New York Herald has q IN, an Eexs
tended notice of.lhc inyenlioini,,i 5WliicIffs::
said to be simply a modification 81 ths;;
principle of the sling, appIiedtosmachi,.s.s NJ
cry, in connection with az tIbez orr p,,,s.
throwing out discharge Of t5hinssballsa
IN a minute for hours togetlller. The
macI'ines SO constructed tilatsocil c,l1ll n,tina,
in al one eud tile balls 10 BE DISCHARGED 1 AZ &,
a 'olary motion is Produced by nisanis
OF u crank, and, by a few rpgoiatii,o,rnss ions Q ]
e.cll ba lrecr ives force and inomen ,er, nm m.
equal otilat cOsnn,unicated6v INV yuutl,,.s
tlty ofgunpowder. Whcn t,is,bss basin,s. i,s
done slide statts5and allows each ball
10 escape in succession from, tie ( eliasmdabef sda
into tube, when they are fhfsoswsihi tios::
almost any Distance, and Wi, IN 4 eff e5i Iflp
aim. The inyemoris Nj. AT e,aifIit,p.5i
a gentleman Connected with fiae Naeyps
Yard al Brookyn. A n,lnlber3 III ex.
peIIn'en's were rccenrlysmad <witli;tlifis
new engine OF dps1rurHon, order 5ot /,
the Government, and are said tosiiaye.
given entire satisfaction TO tIicE dfiislirn
gnls!icd persons who Witnessed Them;
On one occasion about twenty pie COS of
solid timber were United together, foirm.S
ing one compact body Againsi his!
piece OF wooden breaslWofk, NE. III g.
earthly opened the battrry5of ms piece
Of ordinances and in;less itaf len NM.
ules the whole sold 36rGastworS @as at-ss
sleciy demolished aud slIieefed 10 siite sj5iiti-s
.iers, by lie powerful aid fapifd sltccess,s
sion of discharge pom il 3eait,morsss
american. stssfss
asliingto1's Goai litIfJ SIX Z
nj tlisss ss
family; HE other i've beng derived rom E
the marriage Of his ancestor, seprges
Washinston,. @i1hs Eleanor lie fIeireaaofs
JohH Haslinss;7llle third hfortimer. Earfs
of Marcll;4 lhefHllrtb;De la Pofe., llan,niss
of Salisbury; lIle3iifh Lianel Duke ofs.
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