Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1857-08-29
Growth Of Machinery.


the growth of the machine shop, Six HUI
dred years ago, Roger Bacon explained III
procession of the eQuinoxes, the COnsequeI
necessity Of the reform OF the calender, mrN
ured the length Of the year, invented GU
powder, and announced las il looking frol
his lofty cell over five centuries into ours
''thnt machines can be constructed TO driy
Smore rapidly than whole galley Of rover
could do; nor would they need anything bu
a pilot TO steer them. Carriages also mirT
be CONSTRUCTED TO move with an inc,,ls
speed wiuon' the use of any animal, EiIs
/ ly, II would not be lmpossIuie 10 make H.,
chimes, which, by means Of suit of wit.
should hy in the mir in the manner of bird
But the secret slept with Bacon. The
hundred years have not yet fulfilled his wo
Two centuries rgo, the saving Of timber -
done by hand the carriage wheels ran
wooden nxclS the land was ulled by wo0C
Iplows. Aud il was TO little purpose that tie
/ had pat coal, or that looms were improved, n
less Watt and Stephenson had taught them
work iorcc-pumps and power ooms by. steaN
| The great strides woro all taken within u
/ last hundred years. The Life of Sir Robe.
Peel" who died the other day, the mo lei En-.
lshmon, very properly has for fronuspiee
a drawing of the spinning jenny, which woJ
the web Of his fortunes. Hardgreaves invc.
ed the spinning.jenny, and died in the wor.
house. Arkwrght improved the iuvento
and the machine dispensed with the work O
nincty.ninc men that is, one spinner rouI,
do as much work rs one hundred had don
before. The loom improved further. But 'h
men would sometimes strike for wages, an.
,.1., ..ll
30 mach fear was fclt lest the trade woul.
be drawn away by these interruptions, and tn.
emigration Of the spinpers to Belgium aud thi
United States.
Iron and steel are very obedient. Whelhe.
it were not possible to make Il spinner tha
would.not rebel, nor mutter. nor scow, mol
strike for wages nor emigrate! At the soici
taions of the masters, after mob and riot az
Stall ybridge, Mr.. Roberts, of Mnnchpsier, IN
dertooh to create this peaceful fellow IU.'ea.
of the quarrelsome fellow God had mad Az
ter a few trials he succeeded and, 0 ,~3G
procured n patent for his seif.actiaa m9lH
a creation the delight of mill owners. and "tr.
Stincd,' they said, "to restore ordar ana1a
the industrious classes :" machine raaprial
only chiIds hand 10 piece the broken yar.s,
As Arkwright had destroyed domestic spin.
ming, so Roberts destroyed the factory spinner
The power of machinery in Great T ''iaa I'd
mills has been computed 10 be equal 10 Goo
100000 men, one men being able b, the ai
Of steam, to do tbe work 7hch required pot
men 10 accomplish dle vr.rs ego The pro
durtigu has been commensurate. Eugi'ul 3i
ready had this iaborous race, rich soil, wood
conI, irou and ayorabLa climate Eigh, hun
drad years ago commerce had made Il. rich
and it wa recorded, "EngIoal is ine richest
of ell the northern nations" The Norman his.
torians recte, that sin 1861 William carried
with him INTO Normandy from England more
gold and silver than had ever before been in
Gaul." But when to this labor, and trade and
these native resources, was added this goblin
of steam, with its myriad arms. never tired
working night and day everastngly, the am
asslns of property has run out of all figures.
1t makes the motor of the last ninety years
The steam pipe has added to her population
and the equivalent of four or five Engands.
Forty thousand ships are entered in Lloyd
list. The yield of what has gone on from 2,
900 900 quarters in the time of the Stuarts,
to 100000 in 1854.
A thousand million of pound sterling are
said to compose the floating money of COM
merce. In 1913, Lord John Russell stated that
the people of this country had laid ont f20O,
900 900 of capital in railways, in the last four
years. But a. better measure than these SCUM
ding figures is the estimate, that there is
wealth enough in England to support the en-.
tire population in dleness for one year. The
wise, versatile, all giving machinery make
chiseIs, roads, locomotives, teIegraphs. Whit
worth divides a bar to a millionth of an inch.
Steam twines huge cannon into wreaths, as
easily as it brads straw, and vies with the VOL
canic forces which twisted the strata. 1t can
clothe single mountains with ship oaks, make
sword blades that will cut barrels in two. In
Egypt, it can plant forests and bring rain af-
ter three thousand years. Already it is rud
dering the balloon, and the next war will be
fought in the air. But another machine more
potent in England than steam, is the Bank.
1t votes an issue of bills, population is stimu.
lated, and cities rise it refuses loans, and EN-
igration empties the countrv trade sinks !;
revolutions break out; kings are dethroned
BY these new agents oursocial system is moul-
ded. By dint of steam aud money, war and
commerce are changed Nations have lost
their old omnipotence the patriotic ties does
not hold. Nations are getting obsolete; we
go and live where we Will.-Steam has ena.
bled man to choose what law they will live
under Money makes place for them.-Em-
erSon.
D1sTRIcT JUDeE.-From the returns which
we have received in the late election for Judge
in this district, we ara led to believe that X.
A. Reeves, Esq, of this place is elested by
majority in the neighborhood of fifty votes.
We have experienced great difficulty in gather
ing up these returns, and had no answer TO
make to the question which was asked us sew
sral times a day, of "Who's elected Judge 3"
We could tell them how the elections had
gone in Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri,
but we could not tell how the eIecrion had
gone in this District for Judge We hope