Eastern times., 1855-09-20
American Machines in France.

The following account of American thresh-
ing machines at the French Exhibition, taken
from the N. Y. Tribune, will no doubt be
read with interest -
The train which conveyed the Prince Ma
poleon and suite arrived on the ground at half
past ten, and the experiments commenced at
once. A whole regiment of soldiers was re-
quired 10 maintain the lines around the fields
where the experiments were made, and no one
was permitted to follow closely the expert
ments but the Prince Napoleon and the Jury
men and heCommissoners. The programme
embraced what is in France the entire series
OF agricultural operations. Drainage, tillage,
diverse preparations of ground, threshing,
sowing, wedding, reaping, moving, and hay
scattering and gathering. A large number of
implements were on the ground for the minor
operations, and in these the English carried
off at least two-thirds of the honors against all
the rest on the ground. But the great interest
of the occasion attached to the reapers, now
ers and threshers, and in these contests the
American machines were so far superior to all
others that the struggle was confined TO them
selves. There were, in fact, but four ma
chimes of any kind on the ground manufactured
in the U. s., and those were the reapers and
mowers of Mccormick, Manney and Wright,
and the threshing machine of Pitts of Buffalo.
The threshers were tried before the mowers
and reapers. Six men. were set to thrashng
with fails at the same moment that the differ
ent machines commenced operations, and the
following were the results of half an hours
\ work -
Six thresherS with fails, 60 litres wheat.
Pits American thresher, 740 g ="
CIayton's English thresher, 4l0 I"
/ Dunoir's French thresher, 260 +" /"
Pinet's Belgian thresher, $50 "
[The French litre is little less than
Suart SO litres make bushel, very nearly.
In regard to Mr. Pitts machine, the Moni-
| teur says -
Pitts machine has therefore gained the
honors of the day. This machine literally de-
YOURS the sheaves of wheat the eye cannot
follow the work which is effected between the
entrance of the sheaves and the end of the op-
Grafton. 1t is one of the greatest results which
it is possible to obtain. The impression
which this spectacle produced upon the Arab
Chiefs was profound"
The Monite,r might have added that the eff
feet was no less wonderful 10 the Prince Ma
poleon, who returned twice to the machine,
and declared that it ''frightful to look at -
as it must have been to all those who never
before saw genuine, fast American thresher.
The Messrs. John A. and Hiram Pitts are
natives of Winthrop in this State. where they
resided many years, and where they invented
and first put in operation their now world-re-
nowned Horse-powers and Separators. We
had the pleasure last week, of visiting the es-
tablishment of MessTs. BENJAMIN & Co., in
that town, for the manufacture of these ma
chimes, of which we have before spoken
They have manufactured some fifty or sixty the
present season, all of which found rapid sale.
One of the Messrs. Pitts, we were informed,
now resides at Buffalo, N. Y, and the other
at Chicago, ILL.,, where they severally are en-
gagged in the manufacture Of these machines,
AN INTERESTING Liquor CAsE.-Mr. VIM.
R. Preston, of Portsmouth, n. H., "a highly
respectable druggist, has been arrested and
brought before the Police Court in that city,
charged with the crime Of selling pint of al
cohol to Mr.. John K. Pickering, highly re-
spectacle citizen of that city, to be used for
bathing by his wife, who was quite sick. At
the trial the County Solicitor stated that a
plain and evident construction of the law pro-
hibits the sale of all tinctures and medicines
into which alcohol enters. The Judge or
dered Mr.. Preston TO be bound over for trial
before the Supreme Court in the sum of 5000.
He has given as sureties the Rev. DR.. Bur-
roughs, rector of the Episcopal church, and
the Rev. A. P. Peabody, d. d., pastor of the
Unitarian chdrch.-Erchange
We have been told that the defendant in the
above case did not sell the alchohol. He gaze
it to MIR. Pickering for the purpose stated !;
but the liquor law of New Hampshire, like
our own law, makes delivery from store
prima fdcie evidence of SALE