of every kind, and he follows them FRANKLIN, who taught the world, home. He passes readily into by a Lightning Rod, how to prothe apartments of the Editors of tect their habitations from the newspapers, and quarterly and forked lightning, and a FULTON, monthly magazines. But he is who has enabled his countrymen "undeviatingly just." He will and the world to navigate streams, report to the Social Companion, otherwise impassable; but they and his associates, every thing he have produced artists who have sees and hears, and as he saw and given almost absolute perfection heard. He will slander no one, to the Printing Press. Upon unless it be scandal to tell the objects of minor importance, altruth, and even truths, improper though of incalculable utility, they to be divulged, he will conceal. have, it would seem, nearly exHe calls no names, lashes vice hausted invention itself! rather than the vicious, and gives virtue the reward it deserves.

The Patent-Office at Washington, may be called the MUSEUM He is now upon a very impor- or THE ARTS. It contains models tant excursion; and in the next of an almost endless variety of number of the Rural Magazine inventions, from the water-wheel, and Farmer's Monthly Museum, to the gimlet. Labour-saving will furnish a variety of interest-machines, of every description, ing original matter.

W.

USEFUL INVENTIONS.

are there found; and distinguished Americans, as well as foreigners of distinction, resort to it as a place of rational amusement. The artists of Connecticut have Under this head of our Miscel-furnished their full proportion of laneous department, it is our in- these curious and useful inventention to furnish our readers, tions. The machine invented by with the best accounts we can Eli Whitney, Esq. of New-Haven, furnish, or procure, of the numer- for cleansing cotton from the ous inventions of our inventive seeds, which are mingled with countrymen. It is the glory of it when gathered, may be ranked Americans, that they are not on- with the most important inven、 ly teaching the world that the tions of any country. Omitting blessings of freedom may be min- to mention at this time, the nugled with the energy of govern-merous useful machines and mement, but that they are augment-dicines invented in Connecticut, ing the comforts, the conven- we cannot suppress our wishes to iences, and the elegancies of life, add our humble tribute of approby the mechanical inventions of bation, for the admirable PRINTtheir ingenious artists. They can ING PRESS, invented by Mr. JoHN not only boast of a RITTENHOUSE, I. WELLS of Hartford, Conn. whose Orrery explains the prin- While we admire the ingenuiciples upon which the celestial ty of the amiable and worthy and terrestrial bodies move, al artist, we cannot but lament, that

he has yet received but a little a native genius, and improve the remuneration for his excellent art of printing. invention. The writer, being ignorant of the noble Art of Printing, himself, has called upon experienced printers, to learn their opinion, in regard to the value of Wells' Printing Press. They readily furnished the following

CERTIFICATE.

COBB'S GRAMMATICAL EXPOSITOR.

THE very heading of this article, may excite a smile amongst the sturdy sons of literature. Crasus, the richest prince of the WE, the undersigned, being great geometrician, invited him East, admiring the science of a educated as Printers, and having to his palace, and told him, that worked upon a variety of Presses, have no hesitation in pronouncing should be his, if he would immea large portion of his wealth Wells' Printing Press, as superi-diately make him as learned as he our to any (of the same expense) was. we have ever seen or used. At aed, "There is no royal road to geThe great scholar answersingle pull, a folio, quarto, octavo, ometry.' duodecimo, or indeed any other form, is printed with a more even

The road that leads to a know

impression, and with greater fa-ledge of Grammar, is infested with cility, than upon any other press

we have seen or used.

SIMEON L. LOOMIS.
ROBERTS & BURR.
JOHN RUSSELL, JR.
F. D. BOLLES.
R. STORRS.

P. CANFIELD.
N. TOTTEN.
J. LOWD.

Hartford, Feb. 1819. The foregoing remarks were made, and the certificate was signed without the solicitation or knowledge of Mr. Wells, whose modest merit has restrained him from puffing his own works, or begging others to puff them. Convinced of the excellence of his Printing Press, from the beauty of the work executed upon it, we have attempted to attract the attention of Printers to its merits; and sincerely hope, that, by patFonizing the artist, they may aid

and any invention or improvement thorns and clogged with rubbish ; that removes them, and facilitates a knowledge of this indispensable branch of education, may safely be pronounced useful. The ingenious WRIFFORD, by a novel mode of instruction, in a very short time, made his pupils elegant penmen; and the ingenious Mr. COBB, assisted by Mr. BEALS, a gentleman of literary acquirements, has advanced his pupils in the knowledge of grammar, with a rapidity which excites the astonishment of every one who has become acqainted with the progress of his pupils. Having examined a young lad of about thirteen, son of Mr. Horace Wadsworth, of this city, the doubts of the writer relative to the efficacy of this mode of instruction, were entirely removed. The pupil declared that when he entered

the grammatical school of Messrs. / an agricultural country like ours, Cobb and Beals, that he could is an important branch of female not distinguish a noun from a industry, and in the usual mode verb, a conjunction from a preposi- of making it, very laborious. tion, a transitive from an intransi- Mr. Porter, of Suffield, in this tive verb, and knew nothing of cases state, has invented, and obtained or tenses. Having attended school a patent for a churn, which faciliabout twenty days, his preceptor tates the making of this very imdirected him to parse, wherever portant article of life, in a manhe should be directed. He pars- ner scarcely to be believed withed with the accuracy of an ac-out actual experiment. complished grammarian, different Although in New-England, butparagraphs in prose and verse; ter is generally made from cream, which he had never before parsed, yet in many places in our counand by a mode of instruction, it try it is manufactured directly is believed, peculiar to these in- from milk. By the operation of genious instructors, he readily, this churn, either are converted from a noun, formed a verb, ad- to butter in half the time, and with jective, adverb, perfect participle, less than half the labour, than in present participle, and compound the usual way. In Connecticut, perfect participle. especially in Windham and LitchThe world has so long been field counties, immense quantities deceived by quacks in literature, of butter are made; and from as well as quacks in medicine, having examined the model of that it is extremely difficult to this churn, and having obtained introduce any thing new, in either. for the inventor, a patent for his But we may safely pronounce invention, it is, without the knowthat good, from which good, and ledge of the inventor, recomnothing but good, is produced; mended to every farmer, as and we sincerely hope that Mr. a most excellent implement in Cobb, who is the inventor of the houshold manufacture.

Grammatical Expositor, which

symbolically represents the vari-UTLEY'S REMEDY FOR TOOTH-ACHE. ous parts of speech, and their Amongst the useful inventions relation to each other; and Mr. and discoveries, by the citizens Beals, who, by the most approved of Connecticut, that of Col. Joauthors, and by oral instruction, seph Utley, of this city, is certainaids the mechanical instruction of ly entitled to notice. The Medithe Expositor, may meet with cal Faculty, may deem it an that patronage and encourage- encroachment upon their pecument, which their laudable exer- liar privilege of curing every distions entitle them to from an in- ease -secundem artem-(accordtelligent people. They are now ing to art;) and may scout a teaching grammar in Hartford. discovery in the healing art, made by a merchant, or any other class of citizens, but themselves. The manufacture of butter, in But it is a fact, perhaps not gene

PORTER'S PATENT CHURN.

rally known, that a Conn ecticut However highly we may estimerchant, (Mr. John Watson, of mate some of the Reviews of our East Windsor,) not many years country, we confess we are since, had a premium awarded amongst those who sincerely beto him by the Medical Society of lieve, that in some instances they Massachusetts, for furnishing the have done an injury to the literabest thesis, or dissertation, upon ry character of our countrymen. a deeply scientific subject.

That Englishmen and Scotsmen Col. Utley makes no preten- should assiduously endeavour to sions to science, having spent his decry the scientific and literary days in the active business of life. character of Americans, excites Without possessing a knowledge no surprise. The rapidly rising of Botany, he, perhaps by acci- greatness of our Republic, in a dent, to which many of the most literary as well as in a political important discoveries may be at-point of view, is wormwood to tributed, discovered shrubs in Britons. They endeavour to imConnecticut, which, applied to press upon the minds of their an aching tooth, would remove its countrymen, that America is an pain. From those, he has formed howling wilderness, or an out a decoction or tincture, which, ap- spread heath-that the people plied to the gums, after scarifying are semi-barbarians, and but just them, almost invariably effects a emerging from mental darkness. cure. It also removes scurvy from Their travellers in America rethe gums; and, by its strong astrin-turn home, and slander our coungent power, often fastens loose try, and their Reviewers at home, teeth. Scarce an individual can abuse and torture our literary be found, who has not been more productions. To give a check or less afflicted with the tooth-to the alarming emigration from ache; and to lose them by ex-that country to this, is not only traction, is not only painful, but the object of a watchful and jealhighly disadvantageous to the ous ministry, but of an haughty public speaker, and a great blem- and insolent literati. Let them ish to personal beauty. To pre-go on-they "bite against a file." serve teeth, is most desirable; and it is believed that "Utley's Remedy" will preserve them.

No wonder that a country which in ancient days produced a Bacon, a Newton, and a Locke, a Shakespeare, a Milton, and a Dryden ; and in more modern days, a Pope, NEW PUBLICATIONS. an Addison, a Johnson, a Cowper, As we have already mentioned, and a Byron, should excite adwe do not aspire to the character miration. But, that, at near the of "Professional Reviewers ;"close of the first quarter of the but shall endeavour to notice the nineteenth century, the American publications of the day in a man-reader should adopt and cherish ner we deem most conducive to the malignant aspersions of selfthe advancement of useful know-created censors on the other side ledge, and correct literature. of the Atlantic, is literary treason.

A country, no older in civilization it treats of. Although not written than America, that has produced in the flowing and gorgeous style

a Marshall, a Ramsay, an Ames, a Payne, &c. may justly lay claim to an exalted rank in the literary world.

of Gibbon-the finished periods. of Hume, nor with the classical elegance of our own Ramsay and Marshall; yet the language Connecticut may justly be comports with the nature of the ranked high amongst the sisters work. It is to be remembered

of the American Republic, in a that the venerable historian is literary point of view. When also a divine, and an ancient diit is remembered, that she has vine; having reached to the age. given to the world an Edwards, of eighty-four years; and if his a Barlow, a Trumbull, an Hum-style is in imitation of that of the phreys, and a long list of poets, fathers of the state, he uses as divines and scholars, that might Shakespeare says, "words fitted be mentioned with rapturous ex- to the subject." ultation, its limited territory The mechanical execution of seems to be expanded by its litera- the work, does credit to the Pubry eminence. lishers; and we cheerfully acAmongst the recent publications quiesce in a declaration of Doct.. in Connecticut that have fall-Morse, the American Geograen under our observation, we no- pher, that, "Trumbull's History tice, with pleasure, mingled with of Connecticut ought to be in the veneration, hands of every family in the state."?

cut.

Trumbull's History of Connecti

The first volume of this invaluable work, was printed in ARITHMETIC SIMPLIFIED, &c. By John J. White. Hartford, by Mess'rs. Hudson and The knowledge of Arithmetic, Goodwin, in 1797. It has, the like that of Grammar, constitutes past season, been republished, an essential branch of common, together with a second volume, as well as classical education; by Mess'rs Maltby, Goldsmith, & and the ready attainment of it is Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, at a great desideratum. Treatises New Haven. upon Arithmetic have been multiThe reputation of this work is plied, within a few years, almost too well established to be advanc- beyond the enumeration of the ed by any thing we can say. arithmetician himself; and alEven the British critics, with all though the fundamental princitheir hostility against American ples remain unchangeable, the productions, upon the receipt of manners of treating the subjects, the first volume, condescended to by different authors, and teaching pronounce it a work of some mer-it by different preceptors, are alit! Although its minutia may oc-most as diverse as the authors casionally fatigue the reader, he and preceptors themselves. will acquire, what it is the busi- Mr. White, having long been a ness of history to teach, a thor- Preceptor of high reputation, and ough knowledge of the country having discovered, from practical Vol. I.

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