The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-08-29

Rev. VIM. s. Plumer and Rev T. " Moore,
preached at Lewisburg, Va, last Sunday.
Horace Maynard, of Tennessee, addressed
the Union men Of Boston, Friday night.
ma THE GRRAT sEwING MACHINE CASES De
WaRE p Usr Wilson 5Ss and q syG
KER Companies, against GEO. b. SLOAT, JAS
6AF w SBsS s snf W Gtbf5i q
& WILSON Manufacturing Company as the orr;
ginal inventor of one of this most remarkable and
useful inventions of the age one which Is used ~
ali Se,cing MAGAZINES; and for the use OF which all
licensed under and Pay tIlbqss to the prss eI
syn FnsqatNsfGffa st;fn5 IN and
GROVER & BAKER SEWING MACHINE
vices patented by Wilson without a license; but
his as deGsGr Fl SSTs nSs.on who Ssds
prevent them from any LONGER robbing a worthy
inventor of his rights, and swIndllng the pubic
With , ,h mseh9e ,ba ns IT'S
nature of the invention In controversy, and the
ground of defense: t-,
by the plaintiffs, the material to be- sewed had
been advanced under the needle, or sewing appa-
ratus, b, the hand of the operator, or fixed perma-
basteT plate. which was advanced with the cloth
BY regular progressive MOTION, TO the needle,
through the agency OF suitable machiners. by the
former process. feeding by hand, the cloth could
be turned at will so that seams OF any given cur
for regularity of st,tch except the care and skill
Of the operator. BY the latter, the regularity OF
stitch WAS attained; DIAL from the Pc mdnent al
tachment of the cloth to the batter plate seam,
with curgatures and ar gies at the will OF the ope-
rator as the sewing I'D, could not be iorm-
ed. The object OF ths Improvement In question
was to remedy these defects, by causing the cloth
10 be moved sutom atie ally under the needle. and
tbs device so arranged as to admit oil seams of any
curvature, and at the same time secure regularity
OF stitch. This, Wilson accomplished by the ma
chlnery and process described in the specification
of the patent.
instead Of the baster- plate. the cloth was ed
vanced under the nees'le mechanically, ccoTding
TO the arrangement bS the ioiHt of two sur
faces, between which IL was held, an Intermittent
motion being giyeR to at least one of them, which
caused the cloth TO progress regularly, securing
anifoEmty Of stitch. ana at the same time permit
ting the Material to be turned by the hand 80 as to
sew sfrRlgh or curved seam. - IA &
The GLAZING IN the Fe-issued patents. numbered
$40 and ~. which are IN CONTROVERSY these sui
ate all founded upon this feed Improvement upon
the previous sewing machines.
The utility Of the improvement 10 admitted; in
deed, IL 10 apparent that without it, some equiv
aient which won 4 sdmit Of curved seams to be
sewsd automsticai.y, the sewins machine, now in
almost universal use. would have been com para
tiveis very hunted in its operation IL il insisted,
however. that Wlison was not the hrst and origi
nal inventor, which objection raises the principal
question in these cases.
!, We fofbssr going over the proofs in detail upon
.nis Question OF priority. and hall content Ourse
~ SAYING. alter VERY careful aaslyss and exami.
nation the weight oil way and that - az slnst
ne pre,ensIop get up IN the defense and in favor