New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-14

relax effort and make poor turnout But The
result is good enough for tie occAsion, ssd If Mr.
Buchanan viii only be on hand one week
before next election day, We shall show him
such returns as viii fan Ike thupder on
he cotton. stuffed ears Thus far we ssll before
the wind This victory will tell on New Jersey
A census of this city, lutt completed for one OF
the Directories shows our population 10 be
ESQ., 600. This is an Increase OF u 235 since $780,
or IN round numbers t6 per cent, the increase for
the previous ten years being only SO per cent.
This grow tn shows that foreign comm cree is not q
necessary element in the growth even Of city
. which may be well situated for prosecuting it. but
that manufacturing railroad facilities, and the
coastiDg trade are quite sufficient.
very interesting patent case 10 DOW before
Judge Grier in the United States Circuit Court, TO
recover damages for using machine patented by
Mr.. Battin for breaking coal, the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company being defendants. Before
Battn's machine was invented, coal was broken up
into sizes suitable for burning BY means of ham,
mer, OH man being able 10 break only twO tuns
daily making the cost of breakage equal to 80 cents
a tun. This primitive method continued up 10
}s43, when Bsttin invented his machine. 1t con-
.ists Of two iron rollers geared together, and fur
nisbe1 on their surfaces with projecting spurs, 30
arranged that the spurs on one roller antas onize
against . vacant spot of the other The large
humps Of coal as they come from the nine, being
fed In between these rollers, are crushed between
the spurs at very rapid rate, and at less loss OF
fine dust than when broken by hand. The whole
machine ia a very simple one, yet 1t does the busi-
ne,s efectually. 1t was the very thing demanded
by the rapidly growing wants of the coal trade.
1t was patented in 1913; in two years nearly 90
machines were put up, and now they are in use all
over the coal region. The inventor has been, how
ever cOntnu Ally harrassed by suits to maintain his
rights. On the first occasion he was on-suited,
and compelled to obtain reissue OF his patent:
Again he sued for damages aud failed, but obtained
a reversal Of the ruling which defeated him. But
three years ago be obtained seven verdicts in his
favor. Two years ago bis patent was extended
seven years, and the coal miners agreed to pay him
one cent for every tun broken on their machines.
The defendants refused to pay this small sum,
alleging, among other things, that in the machines
they use the points of the spurs come directly oPpo
site to each other, which is wide difference from
Battin's. 1t is probable that millions Of tuns
now annually broken and got ready for market by
this machine. At cent tun, taking only half the
quantity mined, say g. 000 coo tuns, the license to
Battin would amount TO $50, 900 yearly. The case
has been on some ten days, and, ss macy witnesses,
models machines, &C.. are to be examined, there
is no telling how long it may last.
The charter of the lately exploded Lancaster
Bank rendered directors and stockholders indvidu-
ally liable to noteholders and depositors, in case
dividends were paid without being earned. An
effort is now being made to compel these folks to
fork over. Creditors who hold $500, 900 of habili-
ties have employed five lawyers, aud these lawyers
are after the directors and stockholders with a
sharp stick. They have issued thirty writs, re-
turIable in November, and great CONSERVATION
has followed in and about Lancaster. The chance
ofrecOvery for the notehoders is considered 90 good
that lively demand for notes has sprung up among
our brokers. This case promises to lead TO an i'm
mense amount of litigation.
The L. S. steamer PawDee has been launched
and is now receiving her machinery and armament
The former is 100 horse power the latter Of four
immense Dahlgreen guns. She is 23S feet long,
and will draw but ten feet of water, with engines,
guns, and crew on board.
Last week has been an exciting one in the relgi
Gus community. The noon prayer meetings con.
tDue crowded, and the presence Of the American
Board with the clerical strangers from Ireland,
has given unusual interest TO their proceedings.
At one of them little Indian boy from Bengal was
produced, having been picked up friendless in the
streets of Baltimore unable to speak or understand
our Language and BROUGHT on here to save him from
Slavery An Indian missionary interpreted for
him on the PLATFORM but in reply to question in
Hindoo whether he knew who God was or Jesus
Christ, he answered that he had never heard of
them. The missionary then prayed aloud in Hin
doc, and this was followed by general prayer for
the conversion of India. Tb, poor helpless waif is
in Christian keeping, and will be well taken care of.