The Arkansas banner., 1849-09-25
IRfmarkahIe InYrntIan,.

We have received the folIowlng letter in reference 10 the new discovery made by henry N Paine, by which he ls enabled te furnish most brilliant light by the decompoaitien of water by electricity. We some months ago sxtrac'ed paragraph in relation to this discovery, bat have never seen anything previous to our correspondents letter which gave any information Of how the light was produced.- Mr. Paine is the gentleman who has attained con siderable notoriety in the political world by being "shOt at for some secrets he was supposed to possess. We hope nos that he will reach fame by his Invention. and n h b what it is described to be- he will deserve something better thsn being shot ut for possessing 90 vnluahle secret.--PAa Led9er.
 WoacEsrKs, Aug l. ls49.
 Desv Led9z:--l have just witnessed the most wonderful invention of tho age-the barniDg of Paine's Hydro Electric Light in the drug store of Dr. Henry Bates. l hardly know how to give you correct idea of this glorious light. Suppose you imagine piece of tis sun, about the size of dol
 lar, suspended in the centre of your Otce. and you have the best description that can be given. And there t burus at the point of tube so small, that It seems to float in the atmosphere; flooding the magnificent store with clear, bright light, and making HoFn's patent CampheRe burn yellow on the opposite side of the wide street. And scafeT-- pare scatey alone, yields this bright effulgence!- When Mir. Paine announced his discoyery by q circular, some six months since, he regarded as a visIonary- in modern parlance, AsmbNg; and, without hearing, condemned as . crazy expcr- mensist. But now, that success crowns his efforts, l and places him m the front rank of the inventors of the age 1t is wonderful howmany there are, that "knew he would be successful" that !" had every confidence in his propositions
 had an introduction to Mir. Paine this morning, and foun nd him, as expected, man with the irI- press of genius ssampted every feature; modest and confident, with the Bsllect to devise and the psciiy to accomplish. He was at his laboratory, or
 light house, the citizens here iern 1t, and gave me NeveFy facility for examiuing tho sparstus which | produces such wonderful results, aud which con ssts simply of twelve large magnets and six pair of l helias. These heas kept moving between the 1 poles of the magnets by machinery, resembling a steepIe clock, and ihe motion Is sustained in the same way by means or weight. Copper aud pla- tina wires pass from the poles of the magnets into a number of small tanks, containing water, aud these tanks connected by pipes with large gas omeiers. When the helias are set in motion, by winding up the weight they evolve a earrent of electricity of such volume and force us to cause an ebu Hilton in the water tanks, great red hot pokers had been thrust tberin. And this seeming ebution is the process of decomposing the water. The poles in the water, and the method of mak ing and breaking the circuits, MT. Paine does not make public yet
 During stay of one hour, the apparatus gene. rated seventy feet of the gsses, which will burn for two hours, giving light equal to one thousand gas jets, and the cost cannot be made cent l The labor that is expended in winding up steepe clock will cause this apparatus to produce four thou saEd cubic feet of the gases. Is not this wonderful
 The City Council rooms and Public Buildings, are now being lit and few months will every other kind of light abolished-iis eheapness and other qualities, placing 1t within the reach of the most indigent. Verify, the question of setting the river | on fire, can be no longer mooted. VEKITAs.