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01.1 Series—Vol. 25. No. 122. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. Jas. 6. Bailie, Francis Cogin, Geo. T. Jackson, proprietors, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily, one year *lO " .1 months 600 " a months \JL '• 26° Tti-Weekly. one year 6 00 “ ti months a6O Weekly, one year 2 00 “ e months 1 00 Single copies, 5 cents. 1o news dealers, 2% cents. On and after this date (April 21,1875.1 all editions of the Constitutionalist will be sent Tree of postage. Subscriptions must in all cases he paid in advance. The paper unit be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. Advertisements must be paid for when hand ed in, unless otherwise stipulated. Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Rejected communications will not be relum ed, and no notice taken of anonymous commu nications, or articles written on both sides. Money may be remitted at our risk by Ex press or postal order. All letters should be ad dressed to H. C. STEVENSON, Manager, Augusta, Ga. Parker had too maoy rogues in his partnership. - 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 • r 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.