Daily national Democrat., 1859-04-30

HAVIN LEARNED FROM VA
II RIOUS sources that Tr adwell & Co., of thi:
city, are eDdeavoring to produce the impression in
the farming community that am manufacturing the
NANNY Machine, am once more in the field, to as.
sert that al such representations nnmitigated
falsehoOds
am not building the Nanny Machine, nor infrng.
ing on the Nanny Patent, do intend to do either
on the other hand, am building Machine of my
own invention, far superior, called the
California Combined Reaper & Mower,
Wholly unlike the NANNY Machine, except in the use
Of the knife, which there is not now has there
ever been, patent.
much experience as a PRACTICAL MECHANIC, and
have spent too much money in obtaining drawings
and specifications from the Patent Office Of the va
rious kinds of reapers, which now have in my DOS
session, not to know precisely the line occupied by
patents heretofore obtained and now in force,
also learn that am threatened with prosecutions,
and that the farmers who may buy Of me will be pros
ecued. This Is the old "BLuFF GAME" and has been
pretty well play, d out For two years the combined
force have been playing upon me, not openly, but
MEANLY and CowARDLY, behind masked batteries, with
view to the breaking up of home manufacture that
they might the more securely and successfully con-
tnue to monopoize the agricultural trade, aud keep
up prices at rates ruinOus to the farmer But thus
far their assaults have been en ely without success,
and will continue harmless If am sustained by the
farmer, for whose interest am steadily at work
The GREAT SECRET OF THEIR UNsoRUPuLoUs AND Ex-
TRAORDNARY WARFARE upon me at this particular
time is, that as the season for selling has commenced,
they be in to feel, as well as see, that my CALIFOR-
MA COMBINED REAPER AND MOWER is a dec-
ded success and that unless they intmidate the
farmer and force him to buy from them at greater
cost, machines much inferior to mine, they will be
obliged to hold large stock for next year; an
unpleasant nv, truly but Fate decrees that they must
"grn and bear it,"
Persons who threaten prosecutions would be much
better employed in actually prosecuting, and esab-
fishing the truth of their assertions, than by sending
their hrelngs and secret circulars and letters through
out the country, to poison the public mind with sto-
Ties KNOWN TO BIZ FALSE.
Why don't they prosecute me, and let the farmers
alone? They know full well that they can maintain
no action. As | said above, they find the "BLUFF
and consequently the Of their operations this
year has been transferred from this cly the farmer
in the country
REPEAT THAT AM MANUFACTURING THE CALIFORNIA
CoMBNED REAPER AND MOWER, mot the Nanny and
have purchased the invention called "Pecks Santa
Clara REAPER AND HARVESTER" whlcn am also man
ufacuring, and shall continue TO manufacture BOTH
IN nu 1bers equal to the demand. And now say
that persons who may buy either Of the above ma
chnes OF me, will II required, receiI written guar
antee of indemnity.
Forward your ORDERS and they shall be filled.
WIN this am done / am now, and ever have
Oeen' READY FOR THE WHENEVER THE FIGHT OPENS
THOS. OGG SHAW,
80 eacramento Street,
spTo'lmls San Francisco.