The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1850-07-04
WHOLE NUMBER 158.
pAlNE,s .saREAT DIscoyERy.n .

| PA1NE'S "GREAT DISCOVERY
Bona Eide Contract. expert.
ment oflighting the Astor House, New York,
by Pane's newly discovered process, will
test The credit Of what is asserted Of it,
The Tribune says:
II is expected that trial will be made
within month, as soon, indeed, as the ma
chine can be prepared for the purpose
The experiment will be tried under the eve
OF the proprictors md other gentlemen nd
coliusion or trick will be impossible. Every
means will be taken to insure fair trial, all
the parties being as dssrous Of SUCCESS as
MIR. Paine or his friends can be.
The conditions are, that Mr.. Paine shall
bring machine of his construction to New
York and produce at nominal expense,
say five cents per thousand cubic feet, gas
enough 10 light the Astor House for six sue
cessiye nights. Before he commences, par
ties who are to buy out the patent right, are
to deposit one hundred thousand dollars with
some person acceptable to the proprietor
John c. Pedrick, Esq, Of Boston, who has
aided Mr.. Paine in carrying on bis expert
ments tor the past two years-to be paid
over to MIR. z. as soon as the trial is declar-
ed successful. This is by way Of bonus or
guarantee, in case there should be failure
to pay over to him the sum Of one million,
which is to render those parties part procrie-
tors Of the invention.
The value Of the patent for the United
States Qhe city Of Worcester excepted,
which is reserved for Mrs. Paine,) is fixed
at ten millions Of dollars, and joint stock
company is to be formed to manage it. Ia
this company Mr.. Pendrick is to hold from
one-third to one.half the stock; on the re-
manning part which he sells, the million
handed over Immediately on the success Of
the experiment is to be considered an install
ment, and the balance is to be made up by
the sales ofrights. Thus the parties buying
in will receive no dividends until Mr.. Ped
rick shall have been fully paid. Such is
the arrangement agreed upon between Mr..
Pedrick and these gentlemen. If the trial
here should prove successful, it will no
doubt be carried into effect; if not, the New
York spectators will lose nothing, and the
invention will be heard Of no more al pres.
ent. We devoutly hope for successful re.
suit, though we shall not be very keenly dis
appointed by failure.
BY correspondent Of the Tribune, i
appears that Professor Henry, one Of the
most scientific men in the country, says
Paine's discovery is nothing, for il il ia
opposition to one general law, that the force
exerted by the bodies separated could not
be greater than that required to separate
them. Considerable Of the scientific srgu-
ment Of Professor H. is given, to which the
Tribune says:
The whole Of Professor Henry's reason
ing is obyiatcd by the assertion that Mr..
P. does not separate the gasses, but produces
them contemporaneously from two separate
bodies Of water, converting one ct those
bodies entirely into oxygen and the other
into hydrogen gas, according as the positive
or the negative pole Of his electrical ma
chine is inserted into either. Thus from
the water yielding oxygen or hydrogen is
produced, and rice rersa.
Mr.. Paine claims to generate electricity,
not by galvanic battery, but by means of
ordinary magnets, except that into the he-
Ices be has introduced substance never
before employed for that purpose. What
this substance is, is the secret, and the on
" secret which he does uot now commuui-
cato 10 the public.
New SCIENTIFIC DIscovERY.-The Par
is correspondent of the London Times
says:
"Thc scientific world has been ia state
Of commotion during the whole week, in
consequence Of the publication of the dis
covery Of the long sought for secret Of tho
fusion and crystalization Of carbon. The
Sorbonne has been crowded for the last few
days 10 behold the result Of this discovery,
in the shape Of tolerably-sized diamond
Of great lustre, which NJ. Desprezf, the hap
py discovcrer, submits to the examination
Of every chemist or savant who chooses to
visit him. He declares that, so long ago
as last autumn, he had succeeded in pro-
ducing the diamond, but in such minute
particles as to be visible only through the
microscope, and, fearful Of raising irony
and suspicion, he had kept the secret, un-
iii, by diut Of repeated experiments and
great labor, be had completed the one hs
now offers to public view. Four solar lens
Of immense power, aided by the tremend-
Gus galvanic pile Of the Sorbonne, have
been the means Of producing the result now
before US. NJ. Desprezt holds himself rea-
dy to display the experiment whenever it
may be required. The diamond produced
is of the quality known in the East as the
black dinmond, one single specimen of
which was sold by Prince RostoT to tho
late Duke OF York for the enormous sum Of
twelve thousand poundsn
A rery. fat man. (for the purpose Of quiz
Eng Dr.. Of NJ asked him 10
prescribe for his complaint, which, he de-
clared, was sleeping with his mouth open"
s.Sir," said the Docter, "your disease Is
incurahle. Your skin is too short, 30 that
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