New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-26

felt, and attempts were made to supply it
BY privs.e enterprise. Several periodicals,
The Fyanklsa Lasfifs,e Journal lssding the way,
Rsye regular accounts u nex invasiOls.
TIE Scientific american now Publishes, every
week, descriptions and enaravinss, 50 a. TO
convey a clear idea Of thsir nature. dtnit
conine. itseif to port N only of she patents H.
,ued its sphere Ia limited one. Auot,sr period.
ica started in 1883, published the Iteots of that
year 10 susr monthly volumes. giving the c aims,
and short description, and epgrsvings together
with small wood cuts; but, being poorly c)niuct-
ed, it broke down in lite second year. Tee.e
wood cut' were bought by Congress on she
recommendation of the lste energetic Com.
missioner Of Pa.eots, WAC was doubles.
aware Of tire utter effectiveness of the old pl.n
Of getting up the Reports of the Office. To him,
indeed, belongs the honor Of having made the
fret official step 10 matter of so high import.
spce The P4tent Office Report Of 1853 msds
its appearance illustrated with those wood. c1ss,
which, although exe:uted In rather a primitive
STYLE gave in connection with brief description
more or less distnc. idea of q nlmb n at least
Of the patents thus published 1t WAS favor, ably
received by inventors and the public, who
were sereesbly surprised at this rare pheuome.
Lon of finding book for the people among the
host of public documents, published By tens of
Thousands Of copies, for Heaven koows what
earthly purpose. The head of the Office, uore-
miitpg IN bis attention TO this subject, did n,s
neglect to CO ali in mis- power to develop still fur
,her s.s Y,-H vDe~ o-ts-'A arnn We h I'd en-
cravings on copper pisiel prepared under his per-
sonal SUPERVISION in appropriate style, aud faith
fully representing ali the patented details Of the
machines on which letters patent were granted
during 1854, together with descriptions Of the
ssme-the epgravr &c intended TO form Volume
of themselves Unfortunately, howeSec, this
matter was reached by the last Congress too l..e
TO be considered with the attention due to
the u'ject Congress failed, therefore, to
make an appropriation TO have the cop
per.pl.tes printed, aid, as We understand,
resort to wood. cuts will sg.in be had. Bat
wood. cuts will never answer the purpose. Ii
the diagrams are done on small scale, the little
details Of the machines (Which almost invariably
are Just the very points Of the inven ops) will
effectiveness of even the best wood.cuts. II
they ere prepared on . scale sufficiently large to
overcome this difficulty, they will take up sspsce
which lie far beyond the limits of popular hand
book These are the reasons why they resort
70 steel epgraviogs in France, where the art Of
wood. cutting is as highly cultivated as ia any
other country. We are convinced that the moro
practical aud popular plan would be to have
steel p ate sagraviDgs of the machines made q.
the time The lesters.patent are granted thereon,
publishing ,hem with Ineligible and compre'
hersive descriptions, i'll weekly or, at furthes.,
ia monthly editions. That style Of engraving
would admit of very small scale, sill pre,erv-
ing high distipc.ness Of details; and by following
GU. the plan alresdy adopted 10 the engravings
for 1854, that is by representing merely the pa
en.ed features and leaving out the rest Of the
machine the space occupied by thess illustrations
could be comparatively small; and, accompanied
~ ds,rriptions which strictly confne themselves
TO explaining In the briefcst puss,uio 20. az. e..
pateLt.d details, We Sd ,uld have book which,
within email compass would Convey fail intel
lltnce Of every one of the patents grated, and
would seen find eager readers all over the
country.
The advantage of publishing this P4ten. Offs,
Report weekly, or at least monthly, chiefly lies
in The fact Mat here, where time is money,
anal pamphlet finds dozen resders where .
vonminous book fDds one. Thus, lno Wedge tf
Inventions would be disseminated much more
readily and widely than ever could be done with
annual publications. Beside increasing the ex
peDse, in comparison to annual reports By mere
tt6e if any thing it will ferve the nve ntor with
out any cost to him, as th, best advertising medi.
I'm he can desire; and appearing almost a! the
came date as bis letsrspa.en', will relieve him Of
the expensive necessity OF bringing his inventions,
through the newspapers, to the notice of the
public.
This is a plan which Is considerably cheaper, and
sppesrs to US to be far more practical than the
one adopted In France or any other coansry. II
IL plan which is democratic, and serves the In
terests of the public as well as of inventors who,
recruiting to the number Of two thousand yeM,
alone form class meri'icg consideration.
We publish this morning the details Of the in
famous event reported by telegra Oh few days |
ago, which lately took place at Parkvle, Mis-
souri, en- the borders of Kansas. This was the
destI ucticD, by mob of Missouri Shareholders, |
Of the prefs of The Lrmirary, q newspaper pu5. |
lished at thatplace BY George s. Park and w. J.
Pate rop. The proceedings are Of tia barbarian