Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-11-17

as forty millions of spinners would with
the old fashion onc.thread wheel. To
convert the large production Of yarn into
Goth, consequent on Arkwright's inven-
tions, was contingency next to be provi-
ded for, and this was effectually accom-.
plished by Edmund Cartwright's power
loom, patented in 1897, lie also invented
the wool comber, and was distinguished
emauation of minds of shallow mould, and
of that bigoted class, who look upon the
noblest of the arts without the elevating
emotion and sentiment that spring from
true souls, despite the grossncss that sur
round them.
The age of machinery was inauguratcd
nearly a century ago by the inventions of
James Watt, who found the steam engine
a rude, imperfect and impracticablc ma
chine. After years of experiment and
research, he bcqueathed 10 the world the
engine in all the periecions of principle
that we behold it now; and though it has
since his day, been produced in much more
extended forms, and adorned with rich
trappings, it has not undergone an iota of
change in principles since it passed the or
deal Of his fruitful genius. Contrasting
the engine as it came from the hands of
Watt, with the unwicldly and destructive
machine it was before he touched it with
the wand of his inventive mind, we are en-
abled to appreciate the value of his labors,
which, if not cmbalmcd in lofty poetry and
prose, as is the hcroism that overcast the
face of humanity with gloom, and is nour-
iShed by the tears of the widow and orphan
are nevertheless destined to an immortali-
ty as enduring as civilization itself, From
an imperfect atmospheric engine, in which
steam Of slight pressure was used to form
a vacuum, he transformed it into what its
name implies, by using steam of double
the pressure that was employed before and
made it act OH both sides of the piston in
stead of one only ,and applied it to the two
fold purpose of excrting a pressure in one
end of the steam cylinder, while by con-
dcnsasion it is producing vacuum in the
other end. Instead of condcnsing the
steam in the cylinder at large loss of
temperature, he prevented that waste by
condensing it in seperate vessel, termed
ne hot ptU. lie demonstrated the feari-
bility of using steam of very high pressure
through our own countryman, Oliver
Evans, led the way in tho application
adapted the engine to rotary motion, and
crowned it with the elegant automaton de-
vice, styled the gorornoT, by which the
throttle calrs that admits the steam to the
cyln ler is worked and the speed of the
engine regulated. But as a complete anat'
ony of the engine would occupy to much
space here, We commend it to the study Of
all who have any preensions to intelligence
and take an interest in an agency that is
doing more to equalize the condition Of meI
and t, promote civilization, than all til,
fine spun political theories that ever were
written. 4 machine is certainly worthy
of scrutiny and admiration that conveys u
with speed of forty and fifty miles al
hour, from place to place, coins the bullior
of idea through the printing press into the
currency of information, drives the loom
lathe, fan, pump, saw, plane and other ap'
plicnccs unnumbered ; and yet only the
threshold of its mission, who can bound the
illimitable field Of the future achievment!
of the steam engine, freightcd as it Is to b,
with messages of regeneration to the mil
lions who are groping in barbarism boyont
the pale of christianity, and destined t.
make the circuit of the earth, through sol
itude now undisturbed in their primeva
aspect, save by the rude wigwam of tn,
Indian and the hut of the Caffre.
The engine endowed with superior pow
er, or created anew and started on it
wonderous errand, it is interesting to trac,
the attendants, that sprung up around thC
great centre of mechanism, in the forms o
various machines of a secondary stamp
not only as mcchanits, but as poet an'
fine lite rary scholar. lie was an acquaint
anee of Robert Fulton, who, there ar
grounds for supposing, was stimulated il
his pursuit as an inventor by model of
steam barge which Cartwright made anC
exhibited to him, in 1893, while Ful'ol
was prosecuting his studies under Benja
min West, in London. The increased fac
ilitics for spinning and weaving were fol
lowed as a natural consequence by an en-
J larged demand for raw materials, an
! particularly for cotton, the culture an
cleaning of which, without the aid of ma
chinery, was tedious and unproftablc.-
Separating one pound of cotton from tn