The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-07
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the opportunity to reach some country railway
depot and leave the vicinity. @-..... .--..s
We sincerely sympathise with the bride and
parents. The guests were invited, the min
ister was in the parlor, the supper was laid
Mr.. Lougary, who had advanced his lordship
$3.50 in jewelry, was to act as his groomsman,
and he was there. The police officers were
there also, to watch the arrival of his lordship
But his lordship disappointed all. ="..5-
We presume we have not named half the
persons who have been victimised by this pre-
cious scamp. A man named Broadhead, Il
brakesman on the Central road, and an Eng
lisman, was induced to loan him 500 and 60
to Philadelphia to lift f11 200 sterling, which
he alleged was lying there for him. Mr.. B.
was to bethome at O'Clock this morning. His
)ordship also induced simple Englishman to act
as his servant, and take care of his hounds-he
had none.
Notwithstanding the seriousness Of one or two
phases of this occurrence, it is as whole the
most laughable affair we have ever heard of
ranspiring in this city. The money losers have
not the least sympathy, and they will be targets
for 'sroasting'' by the delighted know nothngs
ney was also deceived but rather had his eyes
opened towards the last .....
We have the pleasure of recording the arrest
of the titled gentlemen by officers Hamilton and
Wray, about half-past ten O'Clock last night.
They reached the stable at that hour, and as
soon as they saw the police they ran, but they
We're SO goriously drunk-drunk as lords-that
they were soon overtaken.
When taken 10 the mayors Office, $50 and
a gold watch were found on lord Arthur John.
Both were committed for hearing to-day. In
the police Office they still retained their hauteur.
Ny lord said dctatorially ''hand me a chair"
The officer replied, "you are old enough to help
yourself" So he did help himself.
lPittsburg (Pa.) Gazette.
MASUFAcTURE OF IMPROVED CoTToN YARNS.
An invention which is forced, from its charac-
ter AMI nature, to occasion such revolution in
the operations of commerce, and add so enor-
mously to the annual productive wealth of our
nation, deserves description far more eIabor-
ate, extended as this article may appear, than
we can now devote to it.
Before we proceed to describe it, however,
it is due to the subject to say a few words about
cotton itse]fo.
1t is admitted by all to be the great basis of
the now extended commerce ofman. During no
five centuries has the progress ofthe world equal
led that OF the last half century, at the com
menccment of which era, the production of cot
ton and its manufacture may be regarded as hay
ing been just inaugurated. And the transcend
ant progress of the arts and the extension of com
merce has only been equalled by the increase
of this production and its manufacture.
Gladly would we indulge in a review of this
bright epoch, but lsaving it to the reflections ol
our readers, we mus. turn to the Immediate
business of our article.
| 10 estimate the extent Of this improvement
in the manufacture of cotton yarns, we will first
describe the mode the seed cotton is prepared
for and in which it is sent to market.
Cotton in the seed being over three times its
weight when ginned, and very bulky article
} besides, the gin houses must be located in, oil
very near the lands upon which it is produced
The gin is placed in the second story of large
building, and the cotton is taken up to it, that
as the gin takes the fibre from the seed, brush
wheel, running in the rear of the gin saws, Will.
! it brushes the lint cotton from the saws, may
also throw the fibre, now In very open, stralgh
and flexible condition, into the lint room on the
side of the house below; the horses OF mules
working to a segment wheel below, giving mo
ton to the gin. From the lint room the cottor
is taken in baskets to box, under huge screw
and there it is pressed into, and becomes a bale
When it reaches the ports, each bale is sam
pied by the seller TO sell by, and Is re-samplet
by the buyer, which operations are repeated il
the foreign ports. So light is the article, ever
after it is pressed as described, that a steam
boat only drawing three feet water may be pill
ed over with cotton bales until the hurricane
deck, as it is called, is as completely covered
as is the hull and between decks. On being
sold in the ports, it is almost universally com
pressed at the instance of the shpmasters thai
they may stow into their ships a greater mum
Der Of pounds.
Shipped, via Liverpool to Manchester, it is
opened in their factories there, and about one
bale of short ap|c Surat cotton is added to two
or three of our American cotton and we'll mix
ed together.
By this process of baling and packing the
cotton, it becomes tangled and matted together,
and the leaf, trash, DC, which the gin did not
extrcate the fibre takes fast hold of, and to open
and dsentange it, and free it from this trash,
leaf, &C., which must be done to make good
yarn, the cotton is run first through a machine
Cdiltu q piChcI. Ibo y llli0Cl iSNoiNSo toou'
1900 times in minute, qand is armed with
strong iron teeth. 1t is then taken through the
lap machines. These have two or oftener three
beaters, revolving some 100 to 1900 times
in a minute. The fibre is passed through two
Of these, in many factories, from whence 1t is
taken through set Of carders, and often thro'
another set to finish it for the drawing heads.
The Improvements arise from this. The lap
machine is attached to the gin, and all the pre-
ferred spinning machinery isso arranged in con
necton, that from this gin and lap the cotton
is taken on through the different machines used
in the process of spinning, without any hand
ling from the time it enters the gin until the
yarn is put into bales. ~. g.. $50.
The gin, in the process of Mr.. Henry, is not
required to gin over onethird the quantity gins
now do. For example, planter now making
100 bales of cotton, has some 1000 pounds gin
ned in day, that is, clear of seed, and is
three to four months ginning such crop, off
and on. The same planter beginning to gin on
1st September and ending 1st March, at about
$40 pounds day, will gin and spin this crop.
Running the gin thus, we exact from it more
of its natural functions, (that of the carder to
c1oanea rho cott,n \ than is now eynpcted of If