The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-02-03
The First CaIOric.

Inc Raleigh IN. Z. Esprit OF the Age
boasts the pleasure and honor of having in
successful operation the first Caloric or hot
air engine ever introduced into this State.
The Editor says it is a grand little m achine'
and works like Charm, driving off twelve
or fifteen hundred sheets per hour. 1t is an
as inch cylinder, uses no water, and is reck-
oued so safe that the northern insurance Of
tees require no greater rate of insurance on
building where it is, than they do for
supercede steam altogether for light work.
~. G. Paper.
The editor of the esprit OF the Age"
surely gave evidence of his determination
to be even with the esprit of the age" when
he got Caloric engine to do his work. We
conceive there is some little credit due the
Individual, who, amidst the surroundings of
old notions, tesrlessly breaks through, and
ventures on the improvements which the
inventive genius OF the age has developed
and made ready ier his use. Great would
be the difference in the affairs of the South,
il her master mechanics would avail of all
the improved machinery for conducting their
trades. They would soon find that they
would be able to defy competition from the
North; and that the thousands of articles
now manufactured at the N orth and sent
South Tor sale, would have to seek other
markets. They would hnd that there was
really nothing to prevent them from work
ing as cheap, if not cheaper, than the Nor
therners, if they were possessed of all the
facilities which are afforded them in the way
Of ba oc
motive, power, &c. This, at all events, we
are grati6ed to say, has been the result OF
our own personal experience. We have now
used the Caloric Engine as motor for the
last three or four months, and we really can
not realize how we should be able to ge
along and do our vastly increas ed amount of
work without its Assistance, unless by re-
sorting to the steam engine, which would so
increase the expense of our operat ions as to
deprive US of much of our ability to com
pete, as we now can with our Northern
friends Then again, the dread of an explo-
sion from steam does not trouble as, and
every one knows what that is worth to an
individual who sees the papers teeming daily
Win accounts VI tAp losloAs Vi Stedu uolleIS.
a Patriotic Voice from Norfolk.
We clip the following communication of
one of our citizens from the New York Her.
aid of the I'd instant. Talk about protec
ton to Southern manufacturing interests J.
The spirit svinced in this communication
would probably be the best protection that
could be conceived by all the Southern peli-
iicians combined. Let those who own slave
and means come forward in the right spirit,
MS this writer is willing to do, and the mat
ter will need but little legislation. 1t is the
wealthy who can govern this matter; the
poor man has to buy as he can, but the rich
can buy to suit his convenience. The
money spent by the shareholders OF the
SOUTH if properly appropriated, would drive
every article Of Northern manufacture out
q! the Southern market in less than year.
To the Editor Of the Ne,c York Herald
NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 80, 1860.
our haielgh IN. C.) correspondent in |
last Saturdays HERALD states that several of |
the tanners OF North Carolina have estab-
nshed shoe manufactures in connection with
their tanneries, and that they turn ont a
good article for negroes at 81 so. He does
NOS name their localities on post Offices
VIII you therefore be SO Kind as to give me |
the name of your correspondent? fhaye a |
family of twenty-tour negroes, for whom / |
uuy annually, from dealers here, upwards Of
one hundred pair of shoes, which are mad G
IN Massachusetts. Now, as | consider that
State vastly more inimieal in spirit to US of
the South than Great Britain-even i'll time
ot actual hostiities-ever was to our whole
country, am unwilling, as II Southern man,
to coatrbute any longer my mite-as have
long been doing-to the aid and sustenance
Of such unnatural enemies, and am perfectly
wiling to pay the North Carolina manatac-
turer even So, or more, for his shoes, if that
price shall be found necessary to establish
aad continue his business. Hence my appli,
cation to you.t be put en- rapport with your
Raleigh correspondent. Oh.
Name and New York references enclosed.
Suicide in Prison,