Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-01-03

we should be tempted again to speak Of
this lovely stranger.
PAINE's Cash the midst of the ridcule,
denunciation, scientific condemnation, &c Which
was heaped upon Paine and his discovery, from
the moment the discovery was announced, we
have not been without a confidence tina, it would
finally prove to be all that was claimed for it;
confidence which of course has been increased
by recent Investigations and developments. Our
confidence may have been more hope,F perhaps,
than any thing else, and grew out Of, what see-
med to US the wants and necessities of the race
for its continued progress and development.
Should it eventually prove 10 be true, of which
we have now little doubt it will revortlonize ev-
cry department of human activity it will, it
seems TO US cheaper every thing, and bring all
the necessaries and comforts of life within the
reach of every one who will but stretch forth
hand to receive. Ii touches great element Of
productions which is within the reach of almos
every man, and arms men with comparatively SUI
peEhuman power 10 90 forth and develop the re-
sources of the earth. Men have got to learn by
experience that wealth is not in ITSELF the great
object of Efe and this experience can result only
from the possession of wealth. This will devel-
op wealth to fill the earth to repleton, so that no
obstacle will exist TO the advancement of the
race to the true plane of activity and duty. But
we, nor any one else, can even family shadow
the results which must flow from discovery SO
yastin its character and universal in its appca-
ton. We can only wait and watch, confident
that it will prove most powerful instrumental
ty in Fastening the good time which we know to
be coming for the race. We copy the following
from the Worcester Spy with reference to the
matter:
On Tuesday afternoon, we call on Hen
ry NJ. Paine, at his shop, and had the sat
iSfaction of making most thorough exam
nation of his machine and apparatus for
making hydrogen gas, and preparing it for
Illuminating purposes. Every portion of
it was exposed, even to the interior of the
heies and electrodes, and the peculiarities
of their construction, in which the great
invention consists, were particularly point
ed out. We say gre at invention, for it
as great invention, and the world will vet
acknowledge it so, or we are very much
mistaken.
IA relation to the production ofgas from
water by the apparatus, we have no doubt
that 1t is done, precisely as is claimed for
II, and at an expense comparatively nomi-
nal. The whole was examined under such
circumstances as would preclude the sup
position of fraud. But, when the parts of
che machine in which the invention is con-
tanned, the helices and electrodes, were ex-
amincd, q Saffcieat cuuSe tUas found to ac-
coaat for the effect produced. The con-
Structien of these is different from ANYTHING
of the Kind before knowr, yet founded on
well established principles; and the instant
it is known, the wonder is, that an inven-
tien so simplein ITSELF so comfortable to
scientific principles, and so naturally pro-
ceeding from knowledge of those nrinci-
pies and one so certain to produce the de-
sired results, should not have suggested H.
self to some other person long ago. In
what this invention, or rather these inven-
tions consist, we are not, of course, at lib
erty 20 speak, at present; but as soon as
they are properly secured by patent in this
country and Europe, for which the necesa-
~ steps are already taken, they viii no long
er remain a secret. Now, as to the prac-
teal utility of this invention, in its present
state of advancement, we are not SO well
prepared to speak, as we feel that we
are, as TO its reality. We do not
speak thus because we have any particu-
lar cause of apprehension in this respect
but because we have not vet investigated
the subject in this respect sufficiently to
enable us to speak with entire confidence.
The difficulties in Its practical details may
not yet have been all overcome. But, the
'arentioa IS made, and they wiH be over,
come, as certainly as those were which
Fulton had to contend against in his first
experiments. The question is already
settled IN our own mind, that water is the
material upon which men are hereafter to
Feiy tsr their light, and probably, at no
very remote period of time, for their fuel
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