Berkeley And Jefferson Intelligencer

August 16.

A Machine has lately been put into the Secretary of State's office, by a Mr. John M'Bride, of South-Carolina, late from Tennessee and a patent taken out for securing the profits thereof to the ingenious inventor. This machine which is called the Columbian Spinner, is so contrived as to gin, card, and spin, at the same time is is operated on by one person who is perfectly adequate to the whole direction of it. This model spins 12 threads, and machines may be so enlarged as to spin any greater number.

The machine requires no other attendance, than the person who feeds it with the seed cotton, who also turns the wheel by which the operations are carried on. It might be advantageously worked by water, the owner of the present model finished one of 15 threads (which he left in Tennessee) that by great exertions extended each thread 7 yards in a minute. Many ladies and gentlemen of Georgetown have seen this model, and expressed the highest satisfaction at it.

We wish our ingenious countryman success in his invention, and we sincerely hope he may be rewarded in the sale of his machines. No doubt a discerning public will see their utility and avail themselves of the use of so valuable an article.