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01.1 Series—Vol. 25. No. 122.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
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Parker had too maoy rogues in his
partnership.
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The Life Insurance business is the
last analysis of an American editor.
A racy letter will be found in the
South Carolina Department, from Barn
well. _ _ _
Grabbing, division and loud testi
mony is the biography of Niles G
Parker.
It is now Don Carlos who is getting
whipped out of Spain. Alfonso’s time
will come next..
A citizen of Oglethorpe county nomi
nates James Hi llyer for Governor.
Platform : his refusal to take a hand
in the Atlanta Fourth of July.
Ie the Plymouth congregation know
of another church in want of a preach
er at a salary of one hundred thousand
dollars, they will please write to this
office.
A desperate effort was made in Illi
nois yesterday to rob an express car.
The engineer was killed, but the brave
messenger stood his ground and beat
the desperadoes off until reinforce
ments came up and drove them away.
In respouse to the speech of Lord
Dcfferin, Governor General of Canada,
pledging fidelity to the crown, the Lon
don Times intiq&ates that it required
the American civil war and the enor
mous taxation following to keep that
people loyal.
The question of Headquarters of the
Grangers has been settled in favor of
Louisville, Ky. We congratulate the
Patrons of Husbandry upon getting
out of Washington city, “where the
moths corrupt and thieves break
through and steal.”
The Dalton Citizen says “forty-six
swords were on exhibition at the re
ceut celebration at Boston that were
positively declared to have been worn
by Gen. Warren when he fell.” And
they no doubt were. We have seen
seven hundred and fifty thousand men
who surrendered with Lee at Appo
mattox.
The Atlanta Constitution is lumbered
with Sam Bard. He has the power of a
Keeley motor in keeping in the papers.
He is now trying to transmit himself to
posterity as a martyred here, but so
far has only written unmitigated hum
bug. Here lies Too Unanimous Bard,
sycophant of Gen. Grant,.
He was everything by tir ns, nothing long:
In the course of one revolving moon,
Was fiddler, statesman and buffoon.
We publish this morning the death
of Frank P. Blair, and give a sketch
of his life. He was at best only a fair
type of the American politician, with
scarcely the first element of the states
man, though long elevated to positions
occupied by great men. Bom on South
ern soil, he spent his manhood in the
ranks of its enemies on the forum, and
as a General in the field warring upon
its people and institutions. He com
manded a corps of that army of Sher
man which marched through and deso
lated Georgia and South Carolina with
lire and sword. The support the South- ■
eru people gave him for Vice-President
only added contempt to his natural
hatred This hatred was impart
ed to his father by the Jackson ad
ministratiou duiing the nullification
days, by him transmitted to his son,
and which culminated in the flames of
Columbia. A renegade is worse than
ten Turks. The South can shed no
tears over the grave of her recreant
son. }
The trial of Niles G. Parker, now
going on at Columbia, is attracting a
great deal of attention in South Caro
lina. We gave the initial chapter of it
yesterday morning, and our Columbia
reporter has another long letter to
day. Our Charleston letter yesterday
gave a brief history of Parker’s career
as Treasurer of South Carolina. We
will publish from day to day the pro
ceedings of this trial to its conclusion.
He is indicted for stealing an enormous
sum of money from the State while its
Treasurer. From a gutter snipe or
bar-keeper the negroes elevated him to
this important position. No better
evidence need be asked of his guilt
than the fact that upon a
salary of #3,000 per annum he, in four
years, accumulated a fortune of more
than one million. He is one of the
giant rogues who plundered South
Carolina of its wealth. Service
in the penitentiary for ten thou
sand years would not expiate his
offense. The testimony we publish
this morning is startling, and bide fair
to unearth a mass of theft and corrup
tion without a parallel in the whole
history of crime. The testimony of
the witness, Ladd, implicates both ex-
Governor Scott and Governor Cham
berlain. It wouH make John A. Mur
rell blush.
SB* fails Constitutionalist
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DEATH OF FRANK P. BLAIR.
St. Louis, July 9.—Gen. Frank P.
Blair expired at midnight, surrounded
by his family and a few intimate friends.
He has been in a precarious state for
several months, but under blood-trans
fusing treatment had begun to grow
stronger and was generally supposed
to be steadily improving. During the
past few days he has taken frequent
rides and yesterday walked down stairs.
His death came suddenly and will be a
painful surprise to his many friends
who had confident hopes of his re
covery.
Sketch of His Life.
The Blair family was first brought
iuto notice and public life by General
Jackson. Soon after he was elected
President, in 1828, someone sent him an
obscure Kentucky paper containing
a powerfully written communication
against secession, the attitude of South
Carolina then making the question a
very grave one.
Geu. Jackson was so impressed with
the article that he at once sent a re
quest to the editor of the paper for the
name of the author, which was Francis
P. Blair, who was invited to Washing
ton and requested by the administra
tion to establish a paper as its organ.
Thus was the Washington Globe start
ed in November, 1830.
He had two sons, Montgomery and
Francis P., the subject of this sketch,
who was horn at Lexington, Ky., Feb
ruary 19, 1821. Graduating at Prince
ton in 1841, he soon afterwards settled
in St. Louis aud began the practice of
law. In 1845 he made a journey to the
Rocky Mountains for the benefit of his
health, and whilst gone the Mexican
war broke out. He euiisted on the
plains as a private iu the expedition of
Col. Doniphan to New Mexico, and took
part in the battles of Bracito aud Sac
ramento.
Returning home, he became the
editor of the St. Louis Democrat, the
organ of Coi. Benton. The paper was
avowed free soil, and had much influ
ence in splitting the Democratic party.
In 1852, and again in 1854, he was elec
ted to the Legislature, and at once be
came the leader of the small faction of
Abolitionists and Bentonites in that
body. In 1850 lie was elected to Con
gress. but at the election in 1858 he was
defeated by his Democratic opponent.
In 1860, and again in 1862, he was re
turned to Congress. Iu 1861 he was
commissioned Colonel of volunteers,
was appointed Brigadier General Au
gust?, and Major General November
29, 1862, resigning his seat in Congress
in 1868. In the Yicksburg campaign
lie commanded a division, and iu 1864-
’5 the 17th corps in the army of Sher
man, in its march through Georgia and
the Caroliuas. Iu 1866 he was appoin
ted Collector of Customs at St. Louis.
Just before the meetiug of the Na
tional Democratic Convention in 1868,
he wrote a letter to the Hon. James O.
Broadhead, in which be severed his con
nection with the Republican party aad
joined the Democrats. The letter made
such a powerful impression upon the
Convention that he was put upon the
ticket as the candidate for Vice-Presi
dent, with Horatio Seymour for Presi
dent. They were defeated by Grant
and Colfax, since when General Blair
has been in private life. His father aud
mother aud brother are still living—
the former having reached the age of
81 on the 12th day of last April. He
still lives at Silver Spring, but has
wholly lost that influence once so po
tent in the politics of this country.
The stumbling block in the path of
the family was a want of stability.—
They could turn political summersaults
with perfect ease, were always the first
to desert a defeated party, and among
the first to ask for office in the ranks of
the victors. The dead B 1 tir was about
a fifth rate statesman, never great out
side his ward, a rather vigorous writer,
but a poor speaker.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Extracts froin Barr’s Scrap Book.
Washington, July 9. —The wives and
children of the Indian prisoners at Fort
Marion, St. Augustine, number 300. The
expense of their transportation will be
#15,000.
The Vicksburg and New Orleans re
fuse to carry the mails at the Postmas
ter General’s rates. The Postmaster
General says he is restrained by law
from paying more. He says if the pack
et companies refuse to take the mail
the responsibility is with them, not
with the United States.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
called for the condition of the national
banks, at the close of business on the
30th of June.
Nothing new regarding Chief Clerk
Avery and the whiskey frauds. Should
Bristow receive official notice that the
grand jury has presented Avery, he
will suspend him pending the legal pro
ceedings.
The Comptroller of the Currency de
sires an account of counterfeits, to re
tire five dollar bills of the following
banks : The First, Third and Traders
Banks, of Chicago; tbo First; National
Bank of Paxton, Ills.; and the First
National Bank oi Canton, Ills.
THE GRANGERS.
Removal of Headquarters to Louisville
Washington, July 9.—Tho Executive
Committee of Grangers agreed to re
move its headquarters to Louisville by
a vote of 3to 2. Also, resolved to hold
the next National Grange at Louisville,
on the third Wednesday in November.
The headquarters will be removed to
Louisville within a month or six weeks.
The Bankrupt Erie Railroad.
Milford. Pa., July 9.--A bill in
equity was filed iu the Clerk’s office of
Uus county agaiust the Erie Railroad
Company for consolidated mortgages
of thirty millions. The Court appoint
ed President Jewitt receiver. Bonds
in #50.000 filed. '
Shooting and Hanging.
New Orleans, July 9. —Emile Gerara,
a storekeeper of Labadieville, Assump
tion parish, was shot and killed by a
drunken negroon the Fourth of July.
Alexander Newtou was to-day sen
tenced to be hanged for the murder
of Justice Bourdonay—the day to be
hereafter appointed by the Governor.
The Yellow Fever at Key West— Two
Deaths on Thursday.
Key West, July 9.—Two deaths oc
curred here yesterday from yellow fe
ver. [Signed]
J. V. Harris, Health Officer.
Bonds of the Telegraph Company.
New York, July 9.— The Western
Union Telegraph Company has given
public notice that the Company is ready
to cash at par and interest its bonds
maturing November Ist.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Canada and the Mother Country.
London, July 9.—The Times, in an ar
ticle on Lord Dufferin’s speech, says
Canada has been advancing rapidly,
but not so fast or with so free a tread
as the United States. If any Canadians
formerly felt a lurking wish to join the
Republic they became loyal when they
saw the enormous load of debt and
taxes left by the civil war. Canadians
might, however, have sought annexa
tion ere this in some fit of petulance if
the mother country had left them any
grievances, but on the whole they
have scarcely felt the restraint of the
Imperial Government. Canadian loy
alty has been admirable, but we may
yet have to call for larger proofs of
patriotism if we intend to knit the
colonies iuto firmer union with the
mother country, so as to make them a
source of strength instead of weakness
iu time of war.
The Direct Cable.
London, July 9.—The Prussian spoke
the Farraday iu latitude 49 longitude
48, engaged thirty days with the direct
cable, which was buoyed in two places.
It had two flaws. Delay iu opening
traffic sufficiently explained.
The War in Spain—Alfonsists To-Day
On Top.
Paris, J uly 9.—A dispatch received
here states that the Alfonsists have
opened communication with Vittoria.
Tiie war in the Centre may be consid
ered finished, and the situation in the
North ameliorated.
The Ritle Teams.
Belfast, July 9.—C01. Gildersieeve
declined the propositions for team
matches. The club adheres to its de
termination that it would shoot but
one team match.
A farewell banquet was given to the
American Team til is p. m. Mr. Bobt.
Thompson, a prominent merchant, pre
sided and made a speech, Wishing the
Americans every success. Mayor Lind
say entered near the close of the ban
quet aud presented Col. Gildersieeve
with the cup, won by him at Clande
boye. The Mayor said the citizens of
Belfast were glad the cup was going to
America. Col. Gildersieeve returned
thanks and declared he should ever
consider the cup his most important
trophy. After further speeches and
toasts the company rose and the visitors
proceeded to the pier to take the
steamer for Glasgow, escorted by the
Mayor and a delegation of citizens.
Thousands of people liued the docks
and piers to see them off, and there
was loud aud hearty cheering as the
vessel steamed out. The party will
visit the Scotisli Lakes to-morrow, and
expect to arrive iu Edinburg in the
evening.
Madrid, July 9.— Official dispatches
report that the Carlist General Dorre
garay, after reaching the villages of
Augues and Casbas at the foot of
Mount Guara, betweeu Huesca and
Jaca, succeeded in entering the Boltana
District in Aragon, near the Pyreness.
Three brigades are actively persuing
him. The Impareial says Don Carlos
and staff have hurriedly decamped
from Trevino to avoid pursuit.
The Alfonsists relieved Vittoria and
entered the city on Wednesday. The
Carlists have been defeated at Trevino
with a loss of 400 killed and 60 prison
ers. They are retreating to the north
ern port of Alava.
London, July 9.— A1l foreign Mayors
to whom were sent invitations to the
international banquet at Guild Hall, on
the 29th instant have accepted except
two.
Threatened Inundation in France.
Paris, July 9. —The waters of the
Rhone are iisiug and inundations are
feared.
ROBBERS ATTACK AN EXPRESS
TRAIN.
The Engine and Express Cars Detach
ed—The Engineer Killed—The Ex
press Messenger Defies and Baffles
Them.
Cincinnati, July 9. —There was a des
perate attempt to rob Express Messen
ger Burke at Long Point, 111., on the
Vandalia Road. The engine was cut
loose and the engineer killed. Burke
barricaded the doors and kept the rob
bers out till help arrived.
Terre Haute, July|9.—At Long Point,
where the train was stopped, there is a
dense wood and no house within a
mile and a half of the station. The
robbers boarded the engine, one from
each side, and ordered the engineer,
Milo Ames, to start the engine, who,
after a moment’s hesitation, did so,
when one of the robbers, saying ; “ We
will run things 'ourselves,” shot the
engineer. Both fired, killing him in
stantly. The fireman, hearing this, ran
to the rear of the train to alarm the
train men. While this was going on, a
confederate detached the Express car
and engine. The robbers ran the train
two miles, when they demanded ad
mission to the Express car, which the
messenger, Burke, refused, saying he
was ready for them, and if they enter
ed they were dead men. The robbers
commenced firing into the car. The
messenger thinks there were a dozen of
them. The train men came up and the
robbers fled.
Minor Telegrams.
Cincinnati, July 9.—A meeting of
distillers, rectifiers and liquor dealers
of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky,
convened. Resolutions were adopted
recommending the chauges of guagers
every thirty days from one State and
district to another, and atarkeepers
every sixty days; to request the prompt
release of goods seized upon insuffi
cient grounds, and that officers be held
to a more strict accountability, and
pledging themselves to assist the Gov
ernment iu collecting taxes and the
suppression of frauds.
Detroit, July 9 —ln a #2,500 trot,
Lady Maud took the first, Judge Ful
lerton the second, third and fourth.
American Girl was second iu each
heat. Time 2:20, 2:21%, 2:22%, 2:19%.
London, July 9.—Prof. Cairnes is
dead.
New Orleans, July 9.— Collector
Kockrem seized anew establishment
for making ellieit rum. Value of prop
erty #20,000.
A few days ago, as a menagerie was
stopping over Sunday in Somerville,
Tennessee, considerable excitement was
created by the escape of four monkeys.
After an exciting chase from tree to
tree, and housetop to housetop, they
were finally captured and returned to
their cages. One of them was badly
bitten by a dog, and the affection
exhibited by the other monkeys for
the wounded auimal is said to have
been very touching.
That Frenchman who for years
dressed in women’s clothes betrayed
himself by writing a note without first
wetting the pencil on his tongue.
AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING JULY 10. 1875.
GROWLS AND PATRONAGE.
Various Views of Southern Men—
Peppering Gen. Toombs with Small
Shot—Bombarding Gen. Preston-
Sneering at Beauregard, Davis and
Semmes—Smiling at Mr. Stephens
and Grinning at Gens. Forrest and
Pillow—The Sage of Liberty Hall
Supposed to Have “Recanted Here
sies.”—You Pays Your Money and
Takes Your Choice.
[Philadelphia Times.]
And now it is Toombs to the front.—
He could not be silent when Davis and
Beauregard and Preston and Semmes
have made their regular Summer dis
play of tomfoolery. He would not be
alone, and he attacks the Fourth of
July. He will have none of it, not as it
is celebrated now wish our profusion of
fire crackers, beer and patriotic ora
tions. If he could get back an old
style Fourth of July, when he could
command the flag and guns of the
nation under the shadows of Bunker
Hill to return the shivering fugitive
slave to servitude, and under which he
boasted that he hoped one day to be
able to call the roll of his slaves on
Boston Common, he wouldn’t object to
taking a little of it along with the
rest; but what is a Fourth of July
to Toombs with no chattels? It is a
new Fourth of July, and he likes it not
It has been “both lost and betrayed,”
and he is not iu the mood for shaking
hands over “the bloody corpses of the
brave aud the true,” aud the “bloody
chasm which engulfs also the princi
ples of 1776.” And he will not be fra
ternal, and won’t be coaxed or per
suaded or bullied into “fraternity with
States or people without liberty or
equality.” Therefore, the Fourth of
July must be blottc*d from our history
if Geu. Toombs is to be reconstructed
iuto approval of our Government. The
man who found himself iu an insane
asylum expluiued it by saying that
there had been a chronic dispute in his
neighborhood; he thought that all his
neighbois were insane, aud they all
thought him insane, whereupon he
yielded to superior numbers aud ac
cepted an asylum. It is possible that
Geu. Toombs has read the stor} 7 of
that unfortunate individual, and, beiqg
of a sympathetic turn of mind, has
insensibly fallen into his ways. It is
pretty clear that his case would stand
about thirty-nine millions aud some
odd hundred thousands to a scant cor
poral’s guard of Jeff Davises, Beaure
gards, Prestons and Semmeses on this
little dispute about the Fourth of July,
aud we can’t possibly encourage him
in the hope that the eight millions or
so to one will be inclined to surrender
their views to his and abolish the natal
day of the Republic. Besides, there
are some five millions of boys to be
consulted on the subject, and if Gener
al Toombs doubts the difficulties in his
path we suggest that he try them on
the issue first, say by calling them into
counsels the evening before the fourth,
just when their supply of rockets and
flags and drums aud torpedoes is well
iu hand. He may win them over to his
way of thinking, but it strikes us that
for every boy he would get under con
viction on the subject, he would find
forty “othcriu’ standing outside saying
they’d take sugar in their’u !” * * *
How different is the manly and pa
triotic exhortation of Mr. Stephens
from the snarling and malicious ex
pressions, pregnant with sectional
jealousy and hate, given forth by Oen.
Preston. Even among those surviving
statesmen of the South who were for
merly ardent advocates of secession
and civil war, there are very few now
who do not applaud the expressions of
Mr. Stephens. The sympathizers with
Preston are only the .soured and dis
appointed political bigots and section
aiists represented by such leaders as
Davis, Semmes and Beauregard, what
ever certain Northern newspapers and
politicians that still aim to make capi
tal out of the utterances and acts of
certain Southern fools may say to the
contrary.
[Correspondence of the Courier Journal.]
Then followed au event of great ex
pectation, the address to the Society
of Alumni by General John S. Preston,
of South Carolina, a graduate of the
class of 1825. *
The orator appeared upon the stand
singularly handsome ar and graceful gen
tleman, with mustache worn in the style
known in Kentucky as the “Breckin
ridge,” and white hair, but looked ten
years younger than the date of his
graduation proclaimed him. He comes
to Virginia the representative of a
family long distinguished in that State
and in South Carolina and Kentucky,
and heralded by a high reputation for
oratorj 7 . In addition to this many of
the great crowd who now sit
before him, and all the members
of the faculty and board of visitors
who occupy the stage behind, have
heard him when iu July 1868, he spoke
in the same hall and upon a similar oc
casion. Then the wildest enthusiasm
accompanied the delivery by the fervid
Carolinian of a eulogy oa Virginia, and
the recollection of his success upou
that occasion now puts expectation on
tiptoe. The oration commences iu a
polished and ornate exordium, and
bogu falls into a reactionary harangue
upon the war and its results. The ef
fect of this upon au audience composed
largely of young Virginians and South
ern men was most ink. rating to an ob
server of the signs of t times. There
was applause at first, which rapidly
fell off us the sentiments expressed by
the speaker grew more extreme, and
so decided were the marks of disappro
bation that Mr. Barbour, who was pre
siding, rose and requested “ that those
who came to listen might not remain
to talk,” a request which mauy of the
audience literally complied with.
There seemed to be but oue opinion,
which was expressed with more or less
indignation. “This may have been
true in 1868 ; at any rate we believed it
theu ; now it is not true, and, coming
after the hospitality extended by Mas
sachusetts to Virginia at Bunker Hill,
it shames us to have suc h sentiments
uttered at our university.” The ora
tion has fallen utterly flat, and groups
of alumui may be seeu discussing the
propriety of some public manifestation
of their disapprobation. The general
opinion seems to be that there is no
mode of doing this excepc by refrain
ing from publishing it.
[N. Y. Times.)
Gideon J. Pillow and Gen. Forrest,
who have been held in high contempt
by the colored Republicans of the
South, have been formally forgiven by
those who have most cause to cherish
their old hatreds. Forrest was pre
sented with a bouquet of flowers on In
dependence Day, a colored lady pre
senting this token of amity and friend
ship. When we remember what the
colored people have to condone, shall
we be reluctant to accept as genuine
these evidences of amicable feeling?
With an honest and enthusiastic
shaking of hands on Bunker Hill,
aud an exchange of greetings be
tween Virginia and Massachusetts, we
have also a touching tribute to the
prevailing sentiment of the occasion
from Alexander H. Stephens, who took
the Fourth of July as his occasion to
recant whatever heresies he had afore
time preached. The ex-Vice-President
of the Confederacy referred, with
touching pathos, to the history of the
divided and scattered Jews, who, hear
ing the words of the law read in their
own tongue by the prophet Ezra, wept
piteously as they remembered their
sufferings and exile. So, we may im
agine, the returning prodigals of the
South were touched with an almost di
vine sentiment when they stood once
more withiu the influence of the tra
ditions of the founders of the Republic.
LETTER FROM LOUISVILLE.
The Weather— b ourth of July Reflec
tions—Taking Care of the Babies—A
Novel Expedient—Will Augusta Fol
low Suit? High-Pressure Politics—A
State Without a Debt —The Industrial
Exposition.
[Correspondence of the Constitutionalist.]
Louisville, Ky., July 6,1875.
I see by the weather report in the
Constitutionalist that you are swel
tering through 92 degrees of heat, I
am sorry for you. lam sorry for any
body who has to endure such a ther
mometer as that. With us it is only 91
degrees, and we are happy. Still, it is
warm here, rather too warm for letter
writing, but it rains evavy day, aud
blows, not, I am glad to say like your
Georgia cyclones, but mildly and re
freshingly. The stay-at-home crowd,
including the two great powers, edi
tors and proachers, are doing as well as
could be expected. Ice is abundant,
soda fountains are pleasantly sugges
tive of arctic regions, faus are cheap,
and there is always a shade of comfort
for the hottest and the weariest.
Like you we have had our
Fourth of July,
spinning it out into the sth, aud ex
pressing our joy in Sunday praises
and Monday fireworks. Crackers, the
abomination of the Celestial Empire,
startled the staid church-goers on Sun
day and excited the maledictions of
would-be sleepers up to a late hour
last night. To one accustomed to con
nect these celestial noises with cold
weather aud Christmas, the incongruity
of yesterday’s popping and fizzing was
shocking. But boys will be boys, and
if you are not careful to point out the
gross impropriety of degrading these
Christmas concomitants to a vulgar
adjunct of the glorious Fourth, you
will never pass another independence
day in peace. It there is one thing
upon this earth that delights the boy
ish heart, it is a chance aud au excuse
for “shooting” a fire-cracker.
We are making arrangements to
take good care of
Our Babies.
The plan is to have a floating hospi
tal—in other words, a boat anchored
in the middle of of the Onio, where the
dear little flowers suffering with chol
era-infantum and other Summer com
plaints, will be carried every morning,
to inhale, during the day, the purified
and freshened air that comes over the
water. It is said that this plan has
been tried in other places with the
happiest results—the effect of the
change of air upon the little sufferers
being instantaneous and wonderful. I
do not know whether the Savannah is
broad enough to furnish a lateral ex
tent of water sufficient to ensure at
mospheric purity in the middle of the
stream. It is asserted by scientific and
practical persons here that at the dis
tance of a thousand yards from shore
the air is absolutely pure. In that case
your beautiful lake furnishes the ne
cessary cjndition; and, at a trifling ex
pense, arrangements might be made
tbere that would save the lives of
many of Augusta’s suffering and sink
ing little children.
We are to nave
An Election
at uo distant day for Governor, but the
interest in the event all terminated with
the nominations, politics in Kentucky
being as one-sided as in Georgia. The
candidates, however, are stumping the
State with great zeal, and pitting them
selves against each other just as
though there were some use in it.
Think of heavy discussions on finance
with the thermometer at 91; and in
terminable expositions of protective
tariffs to a swelting crowd of perspiring
and sleepy fellow-citizens! The fun of
the thing is the utter absence of fun in
the speeches. They are eminently
grave, “proper” and gubernatorial, I
was interested, however, in one point
made, and supported by a goodly
column of figures, in a published speech
of the Democratic candidate. It was
to the effct that Kentucky
Does Not Owe a Dollar,
save on a few bonds which are not due,
and for the payment of which the
money is already provided. What a
temptation this furnishes for moraliz
ing—but I resist it.
Already the parties charged with the
duty are making preparations for the
Annual Grand
Industrial Exposition,
which will open eaily in September.
This is one of the institutions of Louis
ville, to be described after I see it.
Suffice it to say now, that it furnishes
a favorite trysting place for all classes
and conditions during the month of its
continuance, and provides a happy ex
pedient for seeing everybody and show
ing off one’s be3t clothes at little ex
pense. What with fine paintings, in
explicable machinery, wouderful curi
osities, an endless variety of fair
things, and the ever-varying charm of
fair faces—to say nothing of gas light
and music—if we fail to have the best
show in the world, I warrant you we
shall have a good time. Wouldu’t you
like to come ? L.
Persons who are weary of saying
“ How doth the little busy bee,” may
try the following Chinese version :
How? Sie belly small ching-ehing, sting
bug
Im iw-plovo ebly slixty minnit all a
time.
Go, piekee up sting bee juice all a day.
All kin’ places ’loua’ flowels jest got
bustea.
Lorenzo Day having married Miss
Martha Week, a local paper comments:
A Day is made, a Week is lost,
But Time should not complain—
There’ll so n be little Days enough
To make the Week again.
A woman of Indianapolis has shown
that she could be as murderously bru
tal as almost any man. She pursued
her rival in love into a closet, shot her
fatally, and then, patting her revolver
gracefully, exclaimed: ‘ Oh! quiver!
That’s right, die bard! I enjoy this,
I do! ”
LETTER FROM LINCOLN.
Au Unexampled Crop Prospect—A
First-Rate Chance for Corn—Brag
Fields—Death of an Old Citizen—Elec
tion of Tax Collector by a Slim but
Significant Vote—A Religious Row
Among the Negroes.
[From Our Regular Correspondent].
Goshen, Lincoln County, Ga., I
July 6th, 1875. ]
If the seasons continue as favorable
for the next four or five weeks as they
have been iu the past month, and the
grasshopper and cotton worm do not
visit us, it is very probable a large cot
ton crop will be made iu this section
the present year. Up to the present
writing, we have nad a very fine season
for crops, nearly everything favoring
us. Some glorious rains have fallen—
just enough to causo everything to
grow off rapidly and make it lock
fresh and green. Cotton has been
growing very fast within the past two
weeks aud looks well. For this time of
year, aud considering that we have had
several rains lately, the crops are com
paratively free from grass. Some have
have grassy crops, but they are the
exception and not the general rule.
Cotton
is blooming very fast, and here and
there we can discover bolls formed.—
While, Mr. Editor, down nearer you,
our plantiug friends may think we are
slow In this weather, at least behind
them, we feel that the plant is do
ing well to bloom this early, consid
ering that we did not get a stand
until late iu the season.
What I have said of cotton, will ap
ply as well to
Corn.
Wherever you g.o there is seen good
prospects for a corn crop, and very
seldom does a poor field of tbis plant
show itself. It is growing off rapidly,
looking fresh and green, showing gen
eral indications of being well worked,
and promising a very good yield. If
you remember, I wrote you two weeks
siuce iu regard to a gentleman iu Wilkes
who had six acres of corn, from
which he expects to get 70 bushels
to the acre. One or two of my friends
seeing the article in your paper are
disposed to criticise it, thinking
doubtless those are high figures. I want
to say, iu order to clear my skirts, that
this planter stated it was his expecta
tion, and if what he states is true,
about the amount be has realized in
the past, I have very liltle doubt, but
that he will come very near his expec
tations. He has made it a specialty to
improve his seed corn for several years,
and has it up to a very high standard,
and that, together with his mode of
cultivation, will cause his field to go far
beyoud any ordinary one, even if it does
not reach 70 to the acre. But this is
not the only “extra” field of corn in
these parts. They can be seen ever and
anon as you pass the farms of the good
people of Lincoln aud Wilkes counties.
Altogether the crop prospects of this
section are very encouraging, and the
general outlook indicates better times
to the planting fraternity; and as a
natural consequence the farmers are
very much encouraged. But the crops are
not yet made, and a great deal could
happen to injure us in the shape of
droughts, too much rain, cotton worm,
etc., between now and the time for the
crops to mature. Some persons think
the
Prospects are Too Good
to last long, and while Providence is
smiling upon them, they are fearing
that He will blast all their bright hopes
for the future. A friend, remarking
upon the exceedingly fine prospects for
a good crop, stated recently that he
felt very much like a calamity would
overtake the crops before they were
gathered, in the shape of grasshop
pers, cotton worm, or something else.
His only ground of fears is that the
prospects are too fiue to be realized.
We hope his fears will prove untrue-
At any rate it is not good to cross a
bridge until we reach it.
Mr. Charles Wallace, an old citizen
of this county, aged about 70 years,
died recently at his house on the Sa
vauoah river, of dropsy. He was a
member of the Baptist Church, and his
funeral was preached last Sunday week
by Rev. Mr. Burgess.
The Election
for Tax Collector and Surveyor, or
dered to take place to-day, passed off
very quietly, very few voting. The
election of Mr. William Murray to the
former office, and Mr. Thomas Hollins
head to the latter, is rendered certain,
though the full returns have not come
in, as they were the only candidates in
the field. Your readers will readily
perceive that the people of Lincoln do
not care a great deal for politics when
they learn that out of a voting popu
lation of 700 or 800 there was only one
election precinct at which the polls
were known to have been opened, viz:
Liucolntou, the county seat, and the
total vote at that place was only 37.
And when you take into consideration
that one of the offices to be filled was.
one of the most important in the
county—that .of Tax Collector—and
also that the negroes outnumber the
whites by at least three to two
you will doubtless agree with me in
saying that the people deserve censure
for displaying such a spirit of careless
ness aud “dont-care-ism” about a mat
ter of so such importance, which surely
is uot to be envied by other counties.
It will be said there was only one
candidate in the field, aud this was too
busy a season to lose time to go to the
polls. But though these things are
true, a matter of such consequence
deserved moro attention Ilian they
gave it; aud a gap was left open at
the Lime, affording a fine chance for an
enemy to step into uu office in which
much money is handled. This would
have been one of the finest opportuni
ties ever offered to a set of corrupt
men, if we had have had them, to have
run in a dishonest person for this im
portant office, and the county should
indeed feel that it has been very for
tunate in securing a gentleman to fill
this position who will make a good
officer, being well qualified for it.
A General Fight
occurred among some negroes at Old
Union Church last Sunday, in the up
per portion of this county, where they
were holding a religions meeting, in
which a negro named Peter Dunlap
cut another named Simeon Oliver in
the back with a razor. The wounded
man is not thought to be injured fa
tally. Dunlap was arrested on Monday
and committed to jail to await the re
sult of Oliver’s wounds. Have heard
no particulars. C.
M. Thironin has been imprisoned for
one year in France because his dog
killed a little boy.
The best rules to form a young man
are, to talk little, to hear much, to re
flect alone on what has passed in com
pany, to distrust one’s own opinions,
and value others that deserve it.— Sir
W. Temple.
THE WONDER OF THE WORLD
Conclusion of a Letter by Charles B.
Collier, Attorney for the Keely Mo
tor Cos., to the Scientific American,
and Letters from Mr. Keely, and
from Engineers Who Have Seen the
Motor.
I Scientific American.]
Mr. Collier’s Letter.
First—The apparatus, of which I
had at the time accurate sectional
drawing made from the machine, sub
jected to such tests as I believe would
have satisfied any intelligent mind, as
the tests did satisfy the minds of the
eleven persons present, that there was
nothing in the apparatus but air at at
mospheric pressure.
Second—l saw the Inventor blow
from his lungs for the period, say of
thirty seconds, into a nozzle upon the
“generator;” then I saw him connect
this nozzle by a small rubber tube with
the uozzle of his hydrant, and intro
duce water direct from the hydrant
through this rubber tube iuto the “gen
erator,” until say five gallons of water
had been thus introduced under a pres
sure, as indicated by a gauge applied
to the hydrant, of twenty-six and a
quarter pounds, the communication
with the hydrant being then cut off.
Third—A connection being then made
between the “generator” and a register
of force by a tube of one-tenth inch
bore, the register of force, consisting of
a piston of one square iueh area press
ed down in a cylinder by a lever of the
third order and weighted so as, accord
ing to the calculation of Mr. Bell and
Mr. Rutherford, to require upward of
1,430 pounds to the square inch to raise
the lever -I saw Mr. Keely, by a very
simple manipulation of his generator,
requiring no more force than a child
could exert, make an “expulsion,” as
he terms it, of his vapor, aud with it
raise this weighted lever, and this he
repeatedly did.
Fourth—l saw him, in the same man
ner, make “expulsions,” Jilting a cham
ber of three and one-half gallons capacity,
with his vapor at a pressure proved to
be a fraction less than 2,000 pounds to
the square inch. This operation I saw
repeated several times, and saw the
produced vapor conducted through a
tube or the dimensions aforesaid, upon,
not a “dollar toy engine,” but one which
it did not cost less than $250 to con
struct; which was run at a speed of sev
eral hundred revolutions a minute, de
veloping no inconsiderable power.—
These expulsions were made in an in
appreciable period of time, unaccom
panied by noise or the use of heat or
appreciable production of heat.
Now, what I saw is stated, not as a
matter of opinion, but of fact. You
may deny the fact, and assert that I
falsify. If so, I would recort that you
are a ruthless traducer of character,
and will hold you personally responsi
ble for defamation. Again, you may,
with propriety, assert that I am mis
taken, To this I will reply, that what
I saw was witnessed by ten other gen
tlemen, who will at any time attest to
my accuracy, and three of whom, at
least, are of equal ability with your
selves. Again, you may accept t the
truth of the facts and undertake to ac
count for the results upon other hy
potheses than as claimed by the inven
tor, and to disparage their importance.
You have, in your article of the 2Gtk
inst., undertaken to account therefor.
W hile I have not space to review your
attempted solution of the matter, I will
simply say that if the writer of your
article had seen and examined Keely’s
generator, and another, not seeing
it, had written what appears in your
columns, your editor would have
said he was a fool. I simply say he
is mistaken. Again, I have repeatedly
seen in Mr. Keely’s workshop a receiver
with a capacity of twenty-six gallons
containing this pressure at a pressure
of upward of 10,000 pounds to the
square inch; have seen this vapor con
ducted through a tube of one-tenth
inch bore to an engine which was pro
pelled by it at a speed of about 1,500
revolutions to a minute, developing a
power of certainly ten horses. This
fact I can corroborate by the testimony
of persons, among them some of your
best known and most influential citi
zens. You think that we confound
“pressure with power.” We do not.
We understand, probably as well as
you do, the distinction between “press
ure” and vis viva. You may say, ac
cepting the fact, that it is compressed
air. If so, please enlighten us as to
the means by which it could be so com
pressed. You may say that it is a
gaseous product from chemical action;
remarking that this vapor is totally
negative in its properties, and pure as
mountain air. Please inform us from
what chemical substance it may, in
your opinion, have been produced/
I append hereto some communica
tions addressed to me on this subject.
In conclu ion, I would repeat that the
company I represent is a private cor
poration. It has not offered, nor will
it offer, its shares in the open market;
nor can it be held responsible for the
action of individuals who, having ac
quired, may have again offered its
shares, which was, however, their un
doubted right. It will pot in “thirty
days,” though I believe it will before
many months have expired, exhibit to
the world that which it is claimed to
have. In the meantime it has not
sought, nor does it now seek, notoriety;
but the invention on which it is based
having, through newspaper correspon
dents, been publicly discussed, we must
expect, and do not shrink from, fair
and legitimate criticism, and if you,
Messrs. Editors, cau satisfactorily ex
plain or account for indisputable re
sults which are astonishing in their
character, and have produced profound
impression upon many excellent and
able men, no one will be more grateful
to you than
Yours respectfully.
Chas. B. Collier,
Attorney and Counsel of Keely Motor
Company,
Philadelphia, June 28, 1875.
Next we give a letter from Keely to
Mr. Collier:
To Chas. B. Collier, Esq., Attorney Keely
Motor Company:
In view of publications in the Scien
tific American, deriding me and my in
vention, I feel it to be my duty to de
part from my intended policy of mak
ing no public declaration relative to my
invention. I now publicly assert that
I have produced the results which
many persons have seen in the precise
manner heretofore stated, to-wit: the
introduction of atmospheric air into
my machine; a limited quantity of
natural water, direct from the hydrant,
at no greater than the ordinary hydrant
pressure, and the machine itself, which
is simply a mechanical structure. With
these three agents alone, unaided by
any and every chemical compound,
heat, electricity, or galvanic action, I
have produced in an inappreciable
period of time, by a simple manipula
tion of the machine, a vaporic sub-
JNTew Series—Vol. 3. Tslo. 142.
stance at one expulsion, of a volume
of ten gallons, haviug an elastic energy
of 10,000 pounds to the square inch.
This I solemnly assert, and am ready
to verify by my oath.
I only ask of the public their indul
gence until anew and perfect machine,
now rapidly approaching completion,
is finished, when I will publicly demon
strate that which I now publicly as
sert. Jno. W. Keely.
Philadelphia, June 25.1875.
Here follow letters from mechanical
engineers and others, who had seen the
motor, referring to the attack on it and
them by the Scientific American:
Letter Prom J. 11. Rutherford, U. 8. N.
Philadelphia, June 20, 1875.
Chas. B. Collier, Esq., Attorney Keely
Motor Company:
Dear Sir : I have read the editorial
article which appeared in the Scientific
American advanced issue dated 28th
instant, entitled “The Keely Motor De
eeption,” and presume that I am in
cluded as one of the “confederates” of
Mr. Keely witli yourself and others.
I was present at the exhibition given
by Mr. Keely ou the night of November
10,1874, of which you made a report
dated November 13, 1874. This report
being submitted to me, I carefully ex
amined it, aud gave to it, and to the
conclusions therein stated, my unquali
fied indorsement, and I now reaffirm
the same.
I have read the communication of
Mr. John W. Keely, addressed to your
self, dated the 25th inst,., and, of my
own knowledge, can and do attest to
the truth of that which he therein as
serts. Respectfully yours,
W. H. Rutherford,
Chief Engineer U. S. Navy.
Letter from Mr. Haswell.
Office of Chas. H. Haswell, j
Civil Engineer and City Surveyor, '
New York, June 26,1875. \
Dear Sir: Your letters of the 23d
and 24th instants, in relation to a brief
communication of mine, in reply to an
unfouuded assertion in one of our city
papers, are this day received; and, al
though I am indisposed to meko any
communication regarding the Keely
motor until its elements of operation
are made known to me, I cannot refuse
to reply to your queries as to the na
ture and extent of such of its opera
tions as have come under my observa
tion, and my deductions therefrom.
Referring, then, to your several
queries in the progressive order of the
operations submitted to and observed
by me, I advise
LI have witnessed the development
by Mr. Keely of a cold vapor void of
pungency or of temperature in excess
of the surrounding atmosphere, having
an expansive energy of fully 7,800
lbs. per square inch, as tested by my
measurements and computations there
on.
2. I have been present when Mr
Keely has applied a like vapor to an
Ashcroft gauge, and the index pointed
to a pressure of 10,000 lbs. per square
inch, and upon writing to Mr. Ashcroft
to advise myself of his capacity to make
such a gauge, he replied that he had
made gauges that would indicate such
pressure, and that he had delivered
some of them at Philadelphia.
3. I have satisfied myself fully and
conclusively that the instrument of
Mr. Keely was operated wholly inde
pendent of any external attachment,
other than that of a chain suspension
and a flexible connection with a water
service pipe.
4. I have seen a double-cylinder 3 by
3 inches operated by a like vapor from
a reservoir, through a conducting pipe
3 feet in length, and having a bore of
but one-tenth of an inch diameter,
though it was resisted by a friction
load equal to 2,250 lbs. per square
inch, and which engine I individually
operated for a period of 15 minutes
without any visible reduction in its
speed, or indication of the exhaustion
of the intensity of the vapor in the
reservoir from which the supply was
drawn.
5. I have seen reservoirs which were
said to contain vapor at pressures of
5,000 to 10,000 lbs. per square inch, and
in volumes of 2 and 26 gallons, but my
only meaus of verifying such pressures
were in the operation of the engine and
the indication of the steam guage re
ferred to.
6. I am of the conviction that the
vapor is not generated by any chemical
decompositions of heat, or that it is
atmospheric air compressed by an ex
ternal connection.
7. I was present upon one occasion
only when Mr. Keely essayed an “ ex
pulsion,” as he terms it; that is, the
operation of generating vapor, and the
result was not sufficiently conclusive
whereon to base a conviction of its in
tegrity, although the imperfection of
the development was very reasonably
attributed to the imperfection of the
original and rude instrument of genera
tion.
Iu conclusion, my assertion on the
communication referred to was, that I
have never indorsed the integrity of
the Keely motor, and my declaration
is, I do not now do it, and for the man
ifest reason that I am wholly ignorant
of the manner iu which the vapor is
generated, and in the consideration of
a physical operation ,1 could not, in the
absence of a knowledge of its elements,
indorse the declaration of anyone.
My position has been confined to re
porting that which I have seen. I have
said, however, and I now write, that
Mr. Keely has submitted to me a cold
vapor of an expansive eneigy of fully
10,000 pounds per squaro inch ; that iu
its character and in the instruments of
its generation it is wholly novel, aud
that if ho can generate it with the fa
cility, economy, density aud continuity
that he declares, that he has arrived at
a result hitherto unattained, and one
that is as valuable as it is novel; but
until I am in the possession of the ele
ments of generation of this vapor, I
cannot arrive at any satisfactory con
clusions as to its merits.
I am, very respectfully,
Yours, etc.,
Charles H. Has well.
Chas. B. Collier, Esq., Philadelphia.
If you see a young man, about dusk,
sneaking through the back streets,
keeping close to the house walls and
wearing a pair of immaculate white
trousers, with a ghastly clot of green
on each knee, you can bet he has just
got home from a pic-nic.
Thackeray must have read some of
Dio Lewis’ books. He said one day.
“The intimacy begotten over a wine
bottle has no heart. I never knew a
good feeling to come from it, or any
honest lriendship made by it. It only
entices men and ruins them.
The soda water keeps on exploding.
A tank of it in a Boston express wagon
• burst the other day, and threw a keg of
butter over the tail-board and forty
feet away. The astonished driver was
hurled to a seat on the curb stone, tea
feet from the explosion.