The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-27

lis MOI with the Indians of Yucatan as it
was with those of Peru, it was not under the
mff.rinq Of bonds that they burst into revolt,
| il WAS not from oppression that they few to
arms. Whatever may have been the former
degraded STATE of their fore -fathers-and It new
er was one of actual slavery--it happened that
they themselves were freemen, the equals OF
the whites, the citizens of the State, made so by
the humanity-or folly-of the creoies, upo1
whom, and their wives and their little ones
they are now exhausting all the unlmaginaoie
cruelties ofan Indians revenge. There is no
Justice. then. in their cause, there was no ne
cessity for revolt, the whole insurrection APP
pears to have been mere capriceand wanton-
ness of savage nature, which slumbered under
the LASH only to turn upon the land OF kind
ness 1t was only when these Indians, so long
quiet, docile, passive, were made free citizens
and politicians-when they were called upon
to vote and perform military service,-when
they were taught the use of arms, and with
arms in their hands, made the fatal discovery
of their own courage and the degeneracy Of their
creole fello w -citizens,-that the jaguar blood
of the nj acegual-ofthe aboriginal American
awoke, and that ferocious appetite for slaughter
revived; which, in the ancient days OF their pro-
genitors, stained the affairs OF their idols with
pal div inites of the Indians of Yucatan was a
Iserpent,-whose colossal folds are still seen
winding in stone over the doors and along the
entablitures of their ruined temples god, of
subtle cunning, fiery malice, and immedicable
venom, worthy, were it only for the emblem
atical fitness, of his savage worshippers.
No; the Maceguales of Yucatan can never
expect to carry with them the sympathies of
civilized people, in their way Of butchery and
brutality. They may have elected king, aud
restored the blood royal of the old empire OF
Maya pan,-over which strange event men will
wonder as over a stroke of poetry, or a mystic
ry of fate; but wonder viii be succeeded by
horror, and horror by wrath; and then, sooner
or later, a stronger hand will be at their necks.
and stronger foot on their threats, than ever,
| in the days of Monteio. pulled down the pride
and trampled the idolatry of Maya in the dust.
No cause like theirs can prosper; and deeper
curse will rest upon the barbarity of the chill
dren than ever before fell upon the paganism
| Of the fathers.
"We quote the following account of
HOUSES Printing machine, from the n. Y.
Commercial Advertiser:
| HOUSES PRINTING TELEGRAPH.-We have
more than once adverted TO this machine which
is now, we believe, in working order between
this city and Philadelphia, and is capable of
transmitting printed messages at rate from
one hundred and twenty TO one hundred and
| thirty letters per minute. So far as lies with
in our power, We will give the reader an intel
| igent description of its mode of operation,
/ A part OF the machinery consists OF wheel
upon the periphery of which are twenty-eight
types; twenty six are the letters of the alphabei
one is dot or period, and one hyphon. This
wheel revolves by mechanical force, but its
motion is controlled by the magnet, so that by
keeping the electric current broken or closed,
it can be stopped by the operator. Near the
type wheel is cylinder, with paper around
it. When the type wheel stops, the cylinder is
brought against it and the paper receives an
impression from one of the types. The mag
net controls the type wheel by moving valve
and admitting the atmosphere to press upon a
piston, on the other side of which is partial
vacuum; this piston in turn gives motion 10
an escapement, working against pins upon the
side of the type wheel, so that al each mot ion
of the magnet up or down, as the circuit may
be broken or closed, the escapement liberates
the type wheel and it moves through a space
equal to the distance from one type to the
next.
| The operator at the other end of the line sits
at key board having twenty EIGHT ivory faced
/ keys, not unlike those of a piano-forte. Be-
meath the key board is horizo ntal shaft ex-
| tending the whole length of the hoard. and
having twenty-eight small pins projecting
| from its face; these pins are placed one be-
meath each key; and form spiral line about
the shaft, making single turn from end 10 end
upon one end of the shelf is wheel having
fourteen teeth; these teeth, with the fourteen
spaces between them, correspond to the pins
on the shaft and serve TO break or close the
electric circuit; thus, suppose the negative
pole of the battery in continued contact with
the side of the wheel, the positive pole then
rests or presses upon the end of the teeth; the
shaft and wheel are set in motion by mechani-
cal force, as the wheel revolves, the circuit
is closed whenever the positive pole pass
es over tooth, and is broken whenever it
passes over space. The motion of the shaft
is controlled by the opeatar thus: from the
under side of each key projects fiat pin against
which, when the key is pressed down, the cor
responding pin on the shaft will catch as it
comes around in its revolution, and cause the
shaft to stop.
Now in order to transmit any particular let
ter to the other end of the line it is only neces-
sary for the operator--the paris of the machine
al the two ends of the line having been put in
coincidence-to press down the key represent
ing that letter, stop the key shaft, maintain
| the circuit broken or closed as the case may be-
when The type wheel will be stopped the pa
per cylinder brought up to it and the paper
will receive an impression of the letter repre-
scented by the key pressed down.
/ IMPORTANT INVENTION David Isham
4 machinisi of Hartford, Conn.,, il 10 stated !,