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

re ached SIT ,622 pounds. The immense
increase and prosperous phase of the cot
ton trade, was brought about by the ingc.
nuity of Eli Whitney, young man of
Massachusetts,, who, after having educated
himself, on paying for his course at Yale
College, with his earnings in the way of
manufacturing nails and bonnet pins, set
out for the South, in the capacity of a
teacher. While residing with the family
of Gen. Green, near Savannah, in 1893,
he invented the cotton gin, which with
motive power, equal to two horses, will
clean the seed from five thousand pounds
of cotton in one day. The genius of
Whitney not only unfolded boundless
stores Of wealth to the Southern States,
but by means of their vastly increased sup
ply of cheap cotton, rendered mcrchanta.
Bile by the gin, he gave impetus to the
overshadowing manufacturing spirit of
Manchester and Leeds, and prepare the
way of the supply of cotton for the spin
die and loom of Europe and America
In 1897, Amos Whittemore, also of New
England completed his extraordinary card
machine, which by a series of ingcnius
movements, holds the sheets of leather,
picrccs the holes in it, draws the wire
from reel, and shapes and sticks it into
card with precision and exactness truly
wonderful so much so, that the Hon. Ed
ward Everett said there was nothing to
which he could compare the machine but to
the human system, and has enshrined it in
his eloqucncc, ,and thrown additional charms
around the labor and ingenuity of White
more. The spirit of invention, having star
ted on its mission, and commenced dispen-
sing its talismanic gifts through the medium
of master minds, in different parts of the
world, was not deferred from visiting
France, even when the reign of peace and
the arts was usurped by military deapotism.
No event connected with the reign of Napo-
leon the first, possesses more interest than
the invention Of the loom, by NJ. jacquard, g,
for weaving shawls of varicgated colors,
of the richest patterns, and other styles of
goods, which. before the advent of the Jac-
guard machine, were confined to the wear
of the affiucnt alone, but the almost mirucu-
lous inventive powers Of Frenchman, have
] placed them within the reach of nearly all
: classes. This loom was originally intended
to weave nets; and the Emperor hearing Of
its magical structure and capabilities sum-
moncd jacquard, through the Perfect Of
Lyons, to appear before him. The mechan.
ist was hurried off to Paris without an ex-
planation, and when in the presence of Ma
poleon, he was confounded and shocked by
the impious questions of the notorious Car
not, who asked him, whether he was the
man who could do what the Almighty coult
not, "iie q knot IN Sircichcd string" Ii
the conservatory of the place, Jacquarc
was put to work to build his net loom
which he modified and improved at th
same time to weave a shawl for the En-
press Josephcnc; and the machine so alter
ed and constructed under the very shadow
of n throne, is the one of worldwide celeb
rity, and which has conferred more benefits
on France than all the warlikc exploits o
her renowned Emperor. Other inventions
such as the hydrostatic press, the Blanchard
lathe for turning shoe lasts and gun stocks
planning, morticing, drilling and nail ma
chimes, might be included in this catalogue
with the interesting and instructive Incl
dents connected with their invention, but t.
attempt such a history in my ramblin,
sketch, would be as vain as the effort t.
crowd the noblest triumphs of civilization
of the last hundred years, within the sam
circumscribcd and narrow limits
From the standing point of the presen
taking rctrospectiAc glance, sweeping owe
but half century, how calculable the ben
efts and inestimable the material resources
f that are grouped in production on the field O
vision, and easily recognized as the ricl
fruits of machinery. Amongst them W
behold fields more thoroughly cultivate,
and productive and rapid and cheap com
munication between communities. State
and nations, wearing apparel of variou
textures of cloth, silks and sattins, fur
nishod at prices that enable all classes, i
our country especially, to appear in vest
ments, which before the era Of the spinnin
jenny, power loom and cotton gin wer
confined to the use of the opulent; an
ether similar advantages and blessings
| If the great movements of industry an
and progress, that derive their pulsatior
from machinery, are susceptible of inte
G probation or point to any thing, what els
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