The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-01
TFrom the Louisville J0urnal.I


From the Louisville Journal.
Paine,s Electrical Light. .
So much has been said on this subject, and
the rumored discoveries of Mr.. Paine are so
that the public are beginning to
take an interest in whatever relates TO them.
We therefore copy from the N. Y. Journal OF
Commerce of Wednesday, the following
Wet hink there are some things in Mr.. Paine's
course calculated TO excite spicion-espec-
tally his anxiety to enter into newspaper dis
cussions upon the subject of the genuineness /
of his alledged discovery. However, we
shall soon know whether the man, who few
years ago, was shot at every few days and
never hit has made a"great hit" himself.
There's no telling just now what the world
might have lost if some one of the numerous
guns, blunderbusses and pistols, discharged
at Mr.. P, had been more skillfully aimed:
At the request of Mr.. Paine's friends. three
gentlemen, well known to most of our citi-
zens viz: Messrs. Simeon Draper. r. NJ.
! Blatchlord, and Mr.. Coleman, OF the Astor
/ House. visited Worcester for the sake OF wit
Messing an exhibition Of the new machine.-
Upon arriving at Mr.. Paine's residence, they
/
near the House. which contained gas, as was
proved by actual experiment. Upon enter
ing the House, they found in the corner of a
room box. like an enclosed Washstand, from
! which the nine passed which supplied the Gas
ometer. On the top OF this stood metallic
cylinder. about q feet high, and perhaps a
! foot in diameter, supporting on its top a
smaller cylinder, out OF which passed u pipe
connected with the burners.
L. L. IF Eo \,
sisted simply of a gasometer filled with gas
on one side of the box, and pipe which
passed the gas through glass receiver filled
with spirits of turpentine to the burner on
the other The box and apparatus were
: kept closed, and there was nothing to show
whether the whole supply came from the
| gasomcter in the cistern, or was rap dly evolv-
ed from pure water, by some mechanical pro-
cess, inside the mysterious box, as claimed by
the inventor. The only preliminary to the
development o! the secret is, we believe, the
; payment TO Mr.. Paine, or the gentleman
who has been his banker. oil Il large sum OF
money, variOusly stated at from 100000 to
! $4,000 The gas shown was oil an excel
] lent quality and produced most beautiful
e jet.
II The citizens of Worcester had offered to
Mr.. Paine the means OF an exhibition 10 theiI
city hall, and he had actually prepared a ma
= chine for this purpose, but, about the time the
i affair was to come off, the machine was bro
e ken, as the inventoralleges by some mischev
? Gus persons who entered the premises in hi
absence. The gentlemen referred to VISITED
: the hall and examined the machine, which
: did not appear very seriously injured the as
! sailer having, as if by design, spared its mos
material parts Mr.. Paine thinks it will take
about a month to repair t. but in the mcaI
tC trial
i us invited, at the Aslor House in this city
9 and his presence for this pa pose is anxiousI.
S desired by those who hope something ma,
o grow out of the invention.
is We find the following in.the New Yor
l. Herald of last Saturday:
r The Great Discovery Of Henry W. Paine
N Mr.. Paine is now at the Astor House. il
% this city, and has declared, in direct and un
equivocal terms, thai he will light that es
10 Enlistment, by means of his new Invention
= by the fourth OF July next. A tremendou
4 money influence is at work against him; be
20 cause, upon his success, will pend the down
~ fall of the most disgusting mOnopolies whic
" have cursed all the cities Of The world. sine
gas was introduced within their walls. w
Iy now wait for him to redeem his promise. II
re has very frankly and satisfactorily cXplaine
a the nature of those impediments which hav
interposed themselves between his desires an
" the demonstration, and, being now at libcrt
to free his name from the abuse lavshed upo
it, by Il e fourth OF July he will either be or
to OF the most envied, or the most unenYiable.
=, men.
an We earnestly hope that Mr., Paine's ale.
he ed discovery is what it purports to be, but "
ng are constrained to acknowledge that we ca
,r- not believe it. long article upon Il C SUI
Jet has made its appearance from the pen
Professor Robert Grant, gentlemen of nluc
,al practical skill and celebrity in the productic
WI of different gases, who is now operating
DIV Washington under the auspices of the Go
1se ernment in that line. He slys:
viii My own opinion is that Paine has the g
itv previously made and condensed in meta
vessels from whence it is allowed to pass in
the waetr assumed to be drawn torwa
through tube. The metallic condcns
es; being concealed in the box which it is pretcn
n cd contains the magnetic machine, while t
no tube appears ike magnetic conducting vi
- from the same; the point Of this wire, repl
seniing the pole immersed in The water,
made TO assume the appearance OF decompC
ing this water: by perioratng it with hume
rk Gus fine tubes from which the gas pusses
,ed minute streams as through a cullender.
to
& I=The Ben West arrived here yeaterd
len morning besprinkled with flags of all siz
lis and thus presenting an unique and varigat
appearance. She had on board the Uni
Fire Company No. 2, of St. Louis, who we
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