Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-05-22

mechanical science, VIC quote from an article
on the subject published not long since in the
New York Tribune, as follows Viz:
.sOf course, great majority of the patents OBJ
tanned for either prove Of no practical value and
only entail loss on the inventors and their hackers
This 10 so IN all departments OF invention. OF the
two hundred patents sewing machines. proba-
bly, not more than ten ever yielded a net farthinR
to their contrivers, and not twenty ever will. OF
a dozen have any decided merit whatever But
must have merit, or they would not sell In
a constantly accelerating ratio We have already
cited the fact asingie thrifty and enterprsing
house, largely engaged in the fabrication Of
hoped skirts, has now one hundred and seventy
five sewing machines constantly at work, and is
steadily adding to the number. There are seam
stresses in our city who first borrowed the money
to buy one, and now own two or three, hiring
other seamstresses to work those for which their
own hands do not suffice. For sewing leather or
other work too heavy for delicate female fingers,
some Of them are unequaled, 1t might be ex-
t'avagant to-day to estimate that half the sewing
In our city Is done by machines but the time Is
rapidly approaching when at least three fourths
who does not now make at all, is receiving Of va
rious manufacturers at the rate Of 5000 per
annnm for the privilege of using bis patent.
be Am
said to MS some time since, ''my mower has paid
for itself the first year. indeed could not have
made my hay without it," Another said, few
days since: "My mower has made me gentle
man. meaning that 1t had relieved him of his
chief trouble-fhat of obtaining men to make his
hay in due season. In the great dairy and stock
regions OF our country it is impossible to hire men
season. Exorbitant prices will not command
them, for they do not exist. Harvesters have al
ready released thousands from the modification
absolute want Of labOrers. Even though the cost
were not diminished, as il VIGOROUSLY is, by har-
vesters, the fact that the work now be done in
season, and fine weather improved to the utmost.
would render these machines of immense utility
" Such Is but single chapter-at most, two
chapters-in that industrial progress which is
opening new era for mankind. Let us hope that
its blessings will be enjoyed by the many, not
monoPolized by the few ..
GREAT PUBLIC Loss. - On Wednesday
morning last we learn from the Fredericksburg
Herald, Eustace Conway, recently elected to
be the Judge of the eighth judicial district Of
Virginia, died ut his residence, in Fredericks-
burg His disease was recently ascertained to be
cancer i'm the cheek, which hurried him rapidly
to his grave, into which he did not enter before
making full preparation for the solemn change
He could not have been more than thirty seven
or e ght years of age. We knew him well, from
his earliest manhood up. He was a man of
most effective and valuable talents and acquire
ments, which, had he lived to a ripe age, would
have earned for him the reputatian of being one
Of the ablest and soundest jurists this country
has SO far produced. He was eminently a use
full citizen and q good and true man in all his
relations in life. We mourn the death of such
n man with keen grief, because, in his taking
off, not only the family circle, but the commu-
nifty blessed with the influence of his personal
association while living loses that which cannot
be restored to them-n this case deplOrabe
loss, indeed
DECISION OF GENERAL LAND OFFICE IN CASES
OF CLAIMS BY PREVENTION TO LANDS WITH
DRAWN FOR RAILROAD PURPosEs-1st 1t is
held that claims by presumption founded on
settlements made prior to the time when the
route of railroad is definitely fixed, or prior
to the date Of absolute withdrawal of the land
from market, are valid, provided the claimant
complied in all other respects with tho law
I'd. Claims resting on settlements made after
the route of a road is definitely fixed, or after
the date Of absolute withdrawal of the land
from market, are inadmissible
3. According to the opinion of Attorney Gen
eral Cushing of the 10th of February last, the
route of road any parts thereof. is definitely
fixed when they are surveyed, marked, and
fixed on the ground
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT.-Neav Offices
Estab!ished.- Armstrong county
Pa, Turney S. Orr, Postmaster; Soudersburg.
Lancaster county, Pa, Thos. T. Huber. Post
master; North San Juan, Neuveda county. Cal
John A. Seely, Postmaster; Raineys Creek,
Coryeli county, Tex, W. d. Clark, Postmaster
Russellville, Sacramento county, Cal, Charles
Ellis, Postmaster; Neosho Falls, Woodson coun
ty, Kansas, Nathaniel s. Goss, Postmaster
Wilmington, Shawnee county, Kansas, Ogilyie
II. Sheldon, Postmaster; Neosho City, Coffee
county, Kansas, T. J. Russell, Postmaster
Olive Green, Noble county, Ohio, James Cald-
well, Postmaster; Bloody Eagle, Hancock coun-
ty, Ohio, William Cameron, Postmaster; Bon
chea, St. Croix county, Wis, Joseph Brown
Postmaster Dserfeld Steel county. Mir,
Washington Morse, Postmaster; Red Ste no
Nicolette county, Min, Marshall B. s zone
Postmaster.
Name and Site Of Post Office Cha,,,esd -
Quihi, Medina county, Tens, changed to New
Fountain.
LAND WARRANrs--The financial circular of
Sweeny, Rittenhoase, FAINT l. Co., Of Nav 2lst
says:
Land Warrants are in setter demand. The
heavy decline which took place about the nth in
slant, has, IN great inca sure, stopped the usual
supply, holders being unwilling to sell at the
low figure offered.
On yesterday and to day the enquiry was act
i've and prices have ,llied
We quote the mar xet firm; the following being
our rates
.o- B'Iy'g, per acre. Selrg per acre
~ acre "a'idh's-.. 81 II -..........Sl IL
, c0 - -......>>. 90........... 1.G2
,oo :, " ....>.... 90............ 1.0l
i<U ....>.. 94............ 81
Money.-Our iocat money market has under
zone no quotaoie .hange since our last report.
supplying them elves
iHk WACO N ROAD Recommendations
tlOh Iecenp received by the Government here,