Southern Telegraph

American vs. English Machinery.—

The New York News mentions a circumstance which shows that American talent and industry, have at length succeeded in constructing machinery of a very complicated nature, in a style much superior to the French and English artisans. The brig Carroll which cleared at New York on Friday last, for Alexandria, (Egypt,) is freighted with machinery of American manufacture, and carries out a company of Americans, who have entered into an arrangement with an agent of the Pacha of Egypt, for the establishment of mills for husking rice, and for the expression of oil from cotton seed. Various attempts, it is added, have already been made both by French and English mechanics, to bring into operation mills of this description; but through defects in their machinery, their projects have invariably proved abortive. At length Mehemet Ali resolved to try the mechanical genius of America; and hence the present expedition has been fitted out, and, we are happy to add, with every prospect of success—that is, if the practical skill of the engineers and the science of the superintendents are considered guarantees of such a result. The machinery is from West Point foundry.—Bal. Amer.