New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-03

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- into ANAL sums, and promote az a,'''
.ndbe.ltby circulation of single DOLLARS ha,e s
-. dime, aud cents, that meet 'ne
f'' IA means of all conditions Of men, en-
'sl;ns,tbe poorest 10 lay up something. In sn'
5snsrtment newspapers have WORK Oe''''
elem of transcendent usefulness.
II bss only been by the repetition OF ioHs
continued. tedious and disjOinted efforts tna'
.oou;sitions in social, civil and physical science
1.,. been made. At every branch oil INC 'ie'
~ knowledge man has made blind passes
standing On tip-toe and stretching iOr'n nr'
hands he has beat the air In almost every ui'
rectiop but the right one. In all PROFESSIONS
10 has run hitler and tbither after nonentltles,
and has not ceased running after them. Is IL
essential to bis progress-a law Of bis being
that be should thus labor to find out truths
for himself; grope and struggle, and hounder
and struggle again and again, ere he succeeds
Perhaps so that their worth may beImpressed
On him by what they cost him.
There is certainly as large number oil De-
lievers now in the existence of selfmoving
principle in mechanics as ever, and proosoy
much larger one nor is there any lack amSng
them of men Of intelligence in other matters
Merchants, Editor, Teachers, Lawyers, Legs
lators and Divines are chasing it as eagerly as
boys after butterflies, and every now aud then
oxclairniDg they have got it. Some sly ones
think to steal in ard seize it under other names
sucb IA 81 Lever Powers" pendulum Powers"
"Power Helpers" &c. A few, though clearly
rot the most artful, Of strategists have, on be-
ing baked, strangely called in animals to assist
them to drag the lurking fugitive to light.
Others oomplacently shrug their shoulders
and move in different direction. They are
sure it is not in, and therefore cannot be drawn
out Of cold wood and metals. With them 1t
dwells in Huids--in water. They suspect 1t
worked some ancient watcr-wheels and was con-
coaled from the vulgar in legends of romping
naiades throwing themselves on and bearing
round the buckets The mechanism they put
in requisiti0n consists commonly Of upper and
lower cisterns. breast and over-shot wheels aud
all sorts of water-lifting apparatus. To this
sect belong quite a number of practitioners,
who, like those that experimentOn the human
machine, rely mostly on mercury, which they
have exhibited in various forms and modes and
In unusual quantities, but without any very en-
soursging results.
hat off
medium than thick liquids and an elastic one
that it is a spirit Of the air. They entertain
hopes of disclosing it by series of vacuums
and plenums-that by stretching and squeezing
il in some expanding and compressing apparatus,
it may be or tortured into submission and made
to show itself One or two have asserted that
by means Of modified air-guns they have start
led and made il leap out of its lair, aud have
actually caught it--but somehow or other it
has always been found missing when friends OF
the sportsmen called to see it. Occasionally
those who believe in water call in atmospheric
aid.
Then there is a class Of experimsnters who,
despairing of finding the tantasing thing IN
solids or fluids, in air, or earth, or Water. are
inclined to put their faith in irc--in successive
or alternating changes of temperature. They
think by genial warmth TO attract, by freezing
il into torpidity to arrest, or by treating it like
victims in the brazen bull OF Phalaris, as De
Bois Guilbert was about TO use Isaac of York,
to make it CRY out and yield. OF course. it
would not do for them TO use common fuel as
that would be consumed and have TO be rcplen-
ished To succeed they must reaiscover the
everlasting lamps OF old, or accomplish some
thing like feat of the ancient Friar who, visit
ing in winter a family destitute of wood and
coal, heated the house and oven with snow
and to please the palate of bis hostess convert
id tubiul into pail Of butter.
There are believers in Buoyant Power;
somewhat common mode of developing which
is to suspend large, light and alright hollow
drum ON a horizontal axis and enclose seq
ment at one side in a tall close box or tank in
which it is made to turn Then filing the box
with water, the immersed part OF the drum is
TO rise like u mass of sunken cork, or be pushed
up as an empty bucket is when held bottom
downwards in water, and thus produce pow
erful, continuous and ceassless rotation Of the
drum ami in the cheapest possible manner turn
anything attached to it at no expense at all.
Blessed and forever blessed win he be
who thus constructs even a working grind
stone: one of GOOD, for example, with its
periphery coated with emery or sand, and
which, by cofining the water in its trough on
one side, becomes selfacting. The man has
lot lived who could calculate the value of such
discovery, orthe amount of bone and muscle
Of sweat and sinew, it might have saved and
would hencefo.th save. What is there IL
domestic labors that a barrel of water standing