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FRIDAY, JOLT 2i, 1676.
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Newspaper Law.
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larly from the poet-oflkw -whether directed
• to his name or another's, or whether he
has subscribed or not — it rmpontihU fot
(he payment.
2. If a person orders his paper discon
tinued, he must pay all arrearages, or the
pnMishor may continue to send it uutil
payment is made and collect the whole
amount, whether tiro paper is taken from
the office or not.
8. The Courts have decided that refusing
to hike newspapers and periodicals from
the post-offioe, removing and leaving them
uncalled for, is pHttta fade evidouce of in
tentional fraud. tf
On opening a halo of cotton at the mill
of one of tlie largest Liverpool spinners,
the other day, much surprise was mani
fested at the discovery within it of a box
of Lucifer matches bearing the following
label : "Superior telegraphic matches j
manufactured by Guppies k Marston, St.
Louis; every box warranted." The
matches were of the ordinary kind, and on
•mo or two of them being tried they wore
found to ignite with the greatest readiness.
The coltou came to Liverpool from Mo
bile and the most serious consequences
might have resulted had the least amount
of friction been applied to the lncifers dar
ing the voyage, or even after the cotton
had reached its destination.
A Baltimore Furtwo Machine. — A
young gentleman of this city, unmindful
of the fate of Icarus, has invented a flying
machine in which be proposes to cross the
ooesn during the present summer. The
machine appears to be n combination of
the balloon, the wind-mill and the steam
launch. The voyager rides in a boat con
taining a small steam engine, which in
usoil for moving the "wings” of the bal
loon and steering it through the air. The
boat is attached to the flying machine with
a rope, and thus is drawn through the
water. It is said that Mr. G, W. Gail (of
tins firm of Gail A Ax, tobacco-dealers,)
will furnish the iuvoutor, Mr. Meliroedor,
with the money to build one of these fly
ing machines, nnd the contract for the
same lias already been given out.—-Buf/i
--more American, 15/A.
Pomeroy, the boy murderer, has written
n history of his life, narrating his crimes
and the story of his imprisonment in the
reform school. 110 retracts Iris former con
fessions and professes to have been a reg
ular Sunday school attendant in early life,
and oluims that ho was not guilty of the
first crime for which ho was arrested, but
was goaded by the police into making a con
fession. Referring to the discovery of the
remains of Katie Curran at 327 ilroudwny,
he doubts whether Urey are the remains of
Katie Curran, and he ways he made a false
confession dn order that his mother and
brot her, who had been arrested for the
murder, and whom he knew were innocent,
might go free. He charges that lies were
used freely all aronnd by the witnesses lit
the coroner’s inquest, and intimates that
has knowledge as to who committed the
murder, but has not yet revealed his suspi
cions.
Justice to Jefferson Davis.
In alluding to theunthusinstio reception
of which ei-President Davis received in
Texas, the New York Tribune says: “The
Booth laid down its arras nnd acknowl
edged the defeat of the opinions for which
it was contending, but it has never aban
doned its hero-worship or censed to vener
ate the men who led its armies and councils.’
Tmf Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel
tlma answers the comments of the Tribune:
“It the Tribune means by ‘hero-worship’
that the Southern peoplo have not forgot
ten uor neglected the men whom they chose
ns their leaders because their struggle for in
dependence proved unanocaaful, the South
w ill promptly plead guilty to the charge.
Their gcDernls nnd their statesmen are just
as highly esteemed in defeat as if the cause
had been victorious.
“Nor is it right for the Nprth to ex
pect Southern men to regard their loaders
s the authors of their misfortunes. They
are not. If ever a people went into a war
advisedly, the Southern peoplo did four
teen years ago. If they were wrong (which
wo deny) they huve only themselves to
Mome. If their revolt was treason, Mr.
Davis was no more a traitor Hum the hum
blest Toter who asked him to be? President
of the Confederacy. General Lee was no
more a traitor than the private soldier in
nis army, who dared disease and death in
di fence of the lost cause.”
Theae uro truthful and just words. They
contrast most favorably with the meanness
of the little creatures who flattered and
fawned upon Mr. Davis when he lmd offices
to givo and a prospect of securing our in
dependence, and H.i me now continually 1
censuring the lenders of the rebellion. The i
lt war waa inevitable.
***“" been brewing for thirty veara, and ;
iho South rußned into it w ith a wild san
guine enthusiasu, anil it is unspeakably
contemptible and cowardly for n Southern ]
man to intimate that the Southern people
were so silly and stupid ns to be lend into 1
an unjust wnr though their loaders. Jeffer-1
eon Davis will never bo forgotten by the 1
Southern people so long as they continue |
to despise that meanest of all traits in the I
tinman character, ingratitude. Die leaders
of the South, although defeated, deserve
ns much credit ns the leaders of the North
who trampled them down.Lout*
i uneg.
. (Va.) Dispatch savs:
‘crunk Lannund n white thief, received
thirty lushes on his bare hack, bysentenoe
of a court, nt 6.30 o’clock on Monday
morning last. This is iimddition to twelve
months imprisonment. Tho instrument j
used Was a lesthor strap between one and
one and a half inches wide. Mr. Humming*
gave the culprit nine lashes and then turned !
I'ver tiie strap to Mr. Briggs, who inflicted
Xittoou lashes, and then allowed Mr. Cura
miiiiui tu couolnde the sentence with six
;u.e. Larumnd stood the punishment ns
weii as could he expected under the oireum
;'.Miiees, and, though ho laid some ex
penoneelu the same line while serviugout
n terra m Uiu penitentiary, is averse to a
repl-titioc of it
Baptism Not Essential to Salvation.
Ms. Exinost:—-"Enquirer's” last article
discourages me. He returns, ufter tem
porary abandonment of them, to his old
tricks so easily, and withal, so lustily, that
J my hope of his ultimate enlightenment K
diminished. But, us I promised to try "
instruct others through him—if ho wonld
not receive it—l will ask some fnrtber
space ill your columns. The old tricks I
allude to are the eubstitHtkin of whose for
argument, misrepresentation fur truth,
and false assertions for logical deJdStion.
Whether lam an idiot,or whether "Enquir
er” is a most wonderful prodigy of intel
lectual and logical acumen and accuracy ;
and whether each one shows himself up in
bis own proper character, has nothing to
do with the question; and until the ques
tion under discussion is disposed of, I
shall not consent to the introduction of
side issues.
I will point out one or two instances of
what I call the return of "Enquirer” to
his old tricks: One for substituting abuse
for argument is already before you in the
lines I have written ; one misrepresenta
tion for truth j’ou will find iu the follow-1
ing, on Peter’s declaration on the day of!
Pentecost: “Repent, every one of you,
nnd be baptized for (on account of) the
remission of sins, &c.” I offered the ex
planation which is mguested by the pa
renthesis above. How does this recon
dite and brilliant enquirer treat of thut
explanation 1 What does he represent me
as saying 1 What wonld you have thought
of Peter if ho had told the people to' ro
pent for, or on aocouut of the remission of
their sins ? You would say, etc., etc.
Is it indeed tmo that this writer, who is
so competent to ssy whether "Querist”
has knowledge of rhetoric, logic, or scrip
tural teachings, cannot discern the differ
ence between repenting on account of the
remission of sins, and being baptised on
account of the remission of sins ? Or
must we have forced upon ns the conclu
sion that his brilliant intellect, warped by
an evil disposition, or forced by the ex
tremity in which his cause is placed, is
compelled to resort to a deliberate and
willful misrepresentation ? Let him that
reads atiswer. Of his false assertion in
place of logical deduction, we have an in
stance in his treatment of this same declar
ation, where he says, "No question but
the people hail faith in Christ.” But that
the charge against "Querist,” that ho
changes his base, is susceptible of proof
’when alleged ngainst “Euquirer” "I pro
pose now briefly to show: Every reader
will remember that the enquiry was, "Is
baptism a condition precedent to admis
sion into Christ’s kingdom ? His first
article of the 10th of March has this
heading: “Is baptism essential to salva
tion ?” Now, if thero is no difference be
tween those two propositions, language is
certnifily intended to hide rather than
to elucidate our meaning. If there
is differences and that two of vital charac
ter, than I have proved that what he,
without proof, uocuscs me of having done,
ho himself has douo, and that too for rea
son* so evident tu every observer that they
need not bo pointed out.
I did charge, and do reiterate that
charge now, thut “Enquirer” did use lan
guage which means that faith, repentance j
and baptism are all tho N, S. law, or that ;
it moaus nothing. I liavo given the proof
1 this charge more than onoe. Ho tries in j
his last to ossert that ho said “it was tho
law applicable to the admission of aliens
into the kingdom, and that it was the only
law applicable to that." Another instance
of changing of base ; the enquiry ho pro
pounded nt the outset, was: “Is baptism
essential to salvation ?” The terms of ad
mission into Christ's kingdom was not the
question- In tho description of that oth
er question he used this language: “What
dees tho supreme law giver oommand ns
to do ? Believe, repent nnd bo baptized.
If more was necessary it would have been
commanded.” Neoessnry to wliat ? Ne
cessary to salvation. His language is
grammatically susceptible of no other con
struction. Now, note how this wonderful,
logical tactician manoeuvres. Ho opens
with tho question, “labnptimu essential to
salvation V" lie dees not preceed very
fur before ho changes that to “Is obedi
dieuoo essential to salvation ?" And find
ing that it does not, or possibly may not
suit his purpose in that form, he makes
another change to “Is baptism a condition
precedent to admission of an alien into the
earthly kingdom of the Lord Jesus ?’’.
Having already shown incidentally how
lie fails to meet my explanation at Peter’s
declaration on the day of pcntecost, let ns
ooamine his treatment of Paul's statement
to the. jailor. Unsays Paul told the jailor
something else. Admitted—but bear in
I mind that in reply to the all-important,
! direct question, “what must I do to he
j saved ?” His answeroontaina but one single
item, “Believe <>g the Lord Jesus Christ."
Was Paul carel, <*, or inadvertent, or el
liptical ? Did he leave out nnytliiug which
was necessary ? or did he answer thy
question fully and completely ? • ‘Enquir
er” would seem to say “he did not in
these words fully answer the qnestion, he
probat •:/ did so afterwards, for afterwards
we find Paul administering baptism to
him. ” Do uot let “Enquirer” hastily con
clude that it is idiotey that leads any one
to be believe that Paul answered the en
quiry wheu he said, “lielieve,” and that he
instructed the jailor afterwards to bo bap
tised “on account of the remissior of his
sins.” As to silencing “Enquirer" with
this, or any other declaration of tho scrip
tures, allow me to say, I have no such
hope, for some eontroveraidists (especially
if they be but beginners, ns "Enquirer”
writes himself down), are like dogs—the
more they uro beaten, the louder they
howl. In the hope, however, that others
may not bo so obtuse, 1 will here add one
\ confirmatory declaration to the already
nndisputed array I hove presented. First
John v 4 -5: “For whatsoever is born of
i Ood-ovcrcomcth the world; and this is
the victory that overcoraeth the world
even mi fiulb. Who ifce that overcom
eththe world but he that beUeveth that
Jesus is the Hon of God." Htill other pas
sages may be mentioned of the some direct
! imjiort.
Does "Enquirer” deny tlist to whomso
ever addressed "the works of God is to
I believe on him whom he hath sent ? Dooa
i he deny that it is still true, os Jesus said
| "ho that belifivetb on me hath everlasting
, life ?” Does he insist that something else
is necessary to give or constitute the vic
tory over the world besides onr faith ? In
reply to his last paragraph, I can only say
I .rave already tried to show him what I
think will save any man. In the lauugnage
of our instructors—than who alone can
claim infallibility for thoir instructions—
I say “by grace ye are saved through
faith "believe on tho Lord Jesua Christ
and you shall be saved “and whosoever
livoth and believolh on me shall not die. ”
Jesus, himself, had to say on one occa
sion “and because I tell you the truth, ye
believe me not. ” The reason they would
not believe the trnth, is also set forth by
the same teacher. "Enquirer” has a
mighty task to perforn ; lie has to get
rid of a great many direct declarations of
Christ and his apostles, in order to save
his pet. dogma ; or ho has to assume that
Peter understood this matter better than
they all," and meant to teach some
thing contrary to the others. Better and
wiser non Id it be for him and others to
conclude that that interpretation of Pe
ter's language which places him iu con
flict with others, is erroneous.
"Querist."
Alexander Campbell.
A general informal convocation of the
leaders of tho large sect known os Cainp
bellites, or Disciples of Christ, took place
Inst week in Bethany, West Virginia, the
motive being the onveiling of S statue of
their founder, Alexander Campbell, and a
discourse upon his life and work by Judge
Je.emiuh Black, of Pennsylvania. Tho l
selection of tho orator was a good one,
Judge Block and Bishop Campbell being
alike prominent types of a class of Western
men which unfortunately is fast dying
out; men of exceptional size and endu
rance of both body and mind ; of shrewd
insight and stern integrity; who made
hold grasps at truth and then forever af
ter defended their opinions with on obsti
nate, downright foree which belonged to
their Scotcli-Irish blood and Western
training.
Alexander Campbell had all the instincts
and qualities of u military leader; fate
made him n scholar, anil a polemical schol
ar, and the result may be easily guessed.
He Ix-cnine, as nmuy such men become in
the church, the founder of anew sect;
and not satisfied with the executive work
and contests which this position entailed
upon him, ho incessantly sought occasoiu
to defend orthodox Christianity, or Prot
estantism, against nil comers. His public
debates with Owen and Bishop Purcell,
and his fierce attacks upon Communism
and Catholicism, interested the whole re
ligious world for forty years ago. His
Scotch thoroughness made him a profound
scholar in his own lino of research ; he
wub undoubtedly the best pliisiologista tHe
country has produced, while the same sin
cerity and antipathy to sham forced him
to thrust aside all mere dogmas and creeds
and lead his followers to the broad basis
of simple belief in Christ osaHavior. Im
tuursiou was, however, urged as a neces
sary corollary to this. Upon this founda
tion each believer is permitted to erect
what doctrines he pleased. This liberal
| creed, and perhaps the personal influence
I of its teachers, caused the sect to increase
i with grout rapidity during his life, es
i pecially in the Southern anil Southwestern
! States. At tho time of his death it num
j bored over 600,000 members in this ooun
| try, besides influential chmcbes in Great
! Britain nnd Australia. Probably there is
no other sect which, in proportion to its
size, can boast of a larger number of col
leges or publications devoted to its inter
est.
The Clmrch of the Disciples also bears
strongly the impress of tho peculiar mind
of its founder. Its members are apt to be !
logical, argomentive Christians ; each in- i
dividual being driven to the Bible for his 1
doctrines, an exceptional familiarity with
Holy Writ is tho rule among them ; and |
as there is necessarily a great diversity in j
these doctrines, each man stands ready to I
defend the peculiar iaith that is in him at j
the shortest notice. Religious training of [
this kind is an education in itself, which j
fact offers an explanation of the exception -!
ally small number of illiterate members of
the sect.
No man of his tima, probably exerted
a more direct or wide-spread personal in- !
fiuenco than Alexander Campbell; and
now that he is silent forever it is but fit, j
even at this late day, that his disciples j
and friends should have assembled at his j
old home to do him honor.— N. 1’ : Tri-''
/nme.
What the Atlantic and Gnlf Railroad is
Doing in Florida.
We lmve heretofore referred to the new
movement inaugurated in the shipment of
melons from Florida direct to the great
market of tho West. Asa matter of gen
eral interest toonr numerous Florida read
ers, we publish the following interesting
statistical facts, with aoconipsning remarks
from the Thomasrjlle Eentcrprite:
Fnoiun* to -Chicago, —Central East
Florida hot stripped oyer 200,000 melons
to Chicago nnd the Northwest woThomas
ville over the Atlantic and Gnlf railroad,
nnd lust week two trains passed here nt the
same time with 30.000 m lons, nnd a dele
gation of thirty-three Floridians, bound
to the Northwest, for the purpose of
“slinking hands across tho bloody chasm,”
and opening up trade with the mighty
population of that section of tho country,
so much in need of the tropical products
of our sister State. The event is one of
significance, however lightly it may lx; re
garded l>x the thoughtless.' The North
west is the bulk-head of the great valley
of the Missis-sipi, which begins now nud
will ultimately contain a Test majoriiv of
the population of tho United States. “The
Floridians show their sag’neity by thus
early laying the foundation of a great
trade, and at the same time establishing
a growing and powerful competition
against the tropical fruits, of which Flori
da lias the monopoly. The passing of
these long trains over the Gnlf road to
Albany, powerfully suggests the impor
tance of the connecting link between
Thomosville and Mouticello, which would
shorten the route more than one hundred
miles, and enable the Floridians to reach
their great market in the Northwest a day
sooner than can now ho done. The trains
which cany iu tho spring hundreds of
thousands cf delicate Florida melons and
early vegetables to tte Northern markets.
Hon. Win, D. Kelley is making soft 1
tr.cmry speeches in Ohio and Indiana.
TELEGRAPHIC.
AW INCIDENT.
Columbus, Ga., July 20. On Sunday
morning while in the bathroom attached to
tho Eagle and PbißDix mills, Mr. W. M.
Murtineerc, one of their travelling agents,
was chasing a friend around the room,
when his feet slipped up and be fell npon
the plank floor on tho back of bis head.
For a time he was senseless. It was re
ported that he bad broken hissknll. This
report is incorrect, and the prosjieets are
that he will speedily recover, The only
trouble has been the compression of the
brain.
A NEGRO MURDER,
Memphis, July 20. —At a negro dance
on Murray street last night, Ed. Merri
wether, a noted ward politician, was shot
and killed. His brother, Johnson, has
been arrested as the murderer, and Lizzie
Patterson accessory, and committed for
trial. All are colored.
ANOTHER CROOKED OFFICIAL.
Montoomert, July 20.—Special Agent
Tims. B. Long has unested and brought
to this city B. C. Stewart, Postmaster at
Clayton, Ala., charged with embezzling
! money order funds. Failing to give bond
he has been committed to jail.
NEW VORK AFFAIRS,
New York, Jnly 20.—The sadden and
unexpected increase of the export demand
for wheat for European markets has given
a great in petus to our grain trade. Ex- ■
ports this yesr far exceed those of 1874. :
This activity is looked upon as a sign of:
returning prosperity. Other departures
will probably influence a fall in the premi
um of gold.
CROP PROSPECTS.
Advices from all parts of the country
state tho crop prospects favorable, thongti
in the west the season is backward. The
freight market is improved, hut provisions
have not yet felt the force of activity in
the grain trade.
THE CENSUS.
The census returns are still incomplete,
hut hv partial returns the population of
New York is estimated at 1,200,000.
A PICNIC DISTURBED BV RUFFIANS.
> During the annual excursion of the Mau
rice O'Connell Association yesterday at
Excelsior Grove, a notorious ruffian,
named Scotty Daval, witli a companion,
landed at the grove in a stolen bout, and
immediately began to create a disturbance
amoug the picuicers. Being remonstrated
with by one of the committee, named Grif
fin, Duval strapped a pistol at him. It
missed fire, and he then clubbed the pis
tol and struck Griffin on the head, breaking
the skull and inflicting terrible wounds.
Duval then ran to his boat and rowed off'. :
He is a notorious convict. Griffin will j
likely die.
THE INDIAN FRAUDS.
The special commission to investigate
the alleged indian frauds, held another !
private meeting to-day, at the Fifth Ave
nue hotel, winch lasted nearly four horns, j
Professor Marsh appeared before the com- j
mission, and explained some portions of
his pamphlet at of greater length, nnd fur
nished names of witnesses who are to lie
summoned. The committee will hold un
other meeting to-night.
ERIE OFFICERS.
The following gentlemen were elected
officers of the Erie railroad at a director’s
meeting to-day .• Hugh J. Jewett, Presi
dent; Shearman, Treasurer, and Macdo
uough, Secretary.
BEECHER TO BE OVATRD.
The committee to prepare for on ovation
to Henry Ward Beecher on his return to
Brooklyn, held n private meeting iu Brook
lyn last rn'g' t, ;it it is understood little
was done beyond the appointment of B. i
O. Halt' as president. The committee are
divided on the question hh to whether the :
reception should lie held at Plymouth
Church or the Academy of Music. It is
believed the affair will come off in the
Academy of Music about September 10th
or 15th.
A Bonn BIGAMIST.
Nnv York, July 17. —A hcaringwns had
in the Supreme Court Chambers this
moruing, on the- writ of habeas corpus,
sued out by George J. Allen, in the case
of Miss Emu Thurston, who eloped with
bitn'fi'om Fall River, Mass., a few days
ago, anti was here rescued liy her parents.
The girl’s father testified that she was hut
seventeen years of age, and J. J. Hatha
way, a lawyer from Fall River, proved
that Allen has a wife living. After a pri
vate conversation with Miss Thurston,
Judge Barrett dismissed the writ, saying
that the young lady, though evidently in
fatuated with Alien, had agreed to return
to her parents. He remarked that the
tnkitig out of the writ under the circum
stances was one of the moat audacious acts
he ever heart! of. Immediately after the
decision of the court was given, Detective
Thompson arrested Allen on a charge oi
! Adultery in Massachusetts, which is a
criminal offense in that State.
A QCEEB CASE.
New York, July 17.—A curious ease,
involving tLe constitutionality of the
amended postal law, has been brought in
the United States Circuit Coart for this
district. A gentleman offered a book for
mail transportation to Philadelphia from
this city, postage at the old rates beiug
affixed. Being refused, he applies for a
mttntiumm to compel the Postmaster to
receive the package. The argument of
the plaintiff is that the sundry rival appro
priation bill, iuto which the amendment
increasing the rate oi third-class matter
was inserted, was not a bill for raising rev
enue, and that the amendment provides
ways and means for raising revenues ; and
that the Henato lias no constitutional au
thority to provide measures for that pur
pose, it being'the sole prerogative of the
House and the postal amendment having
originated with the Senate and grafted on
the bill, which was not one for revenue
purposes, is unconstitutional,
thkJoottrse of cotton.
New York, July 17.—During tho week
tlie Cotton Exchange business has gener
ally been dull, and values of spot cotton
are half a cent lower than on Monday.
Buyers, both for export and spinning ac
count, were taken but few parcels, and the
aggregated sales were only 6,324 bales in
speculative way. The sharp decline caus
ed quite a flutter, and many of those who
were long on this and next month, created
quite a panic in their efforts to close up
unprofitable deals. Last week the situa
tion of nffairs indicated that there would
be a Comer in August, but the tables were
completely turned, nnd the hull element
are making the best settlement possible.
The total sales of contractors were 155,850
bales, with the market closing weak.
SCORCHING WEATHER —FRTTTFT'L HARVEST.
Davenport, July 27.—Yesterday was the
hottest day of the season, the thermometer
stood 110 d-grees.
The harvest in this section of the conn- \
try has commenced in earnest, nnd there
is an abundant and an unusually good
crop of all kinds of grain and vegetables.
It is reported that TV. H. Slater, Esq , a
book seller upon Broadway, is to lie a can
didate for the Second Branch in opposi
tion to Mr CVfcniver.
THE NEW SENSATION.
An Interview with Mr. Kerry, the ••Mo*
tor*’ Mon.
I From a FUUdelphiA Letter to the Cliic&go In
tor-Ocoaii.}
Mr. Keely’s appearance is rather that of
a retired business man than of an inven
tor whose brain is ever active. Besides,
there is not that look indicative of great
mental power which one expects to see in
u man of his character.'' When he entered
the room—l had been waiting some time—
I should have takeu him for any other
person than the iuveiiter of the new mo
tor, lrad I not trad a painting Indore my
eyes all the time I was writing. He is tall,
broad-shouldered, and very heavy built,
and wears tolerably long bushy hair. He
greeted me cordially, but with a sort cf
reserve, which seemed to tell me that he
knew my mission. He did not appear at
first desirous of saying much. But when
I informed him I had had a conversation
with Mr. Oliver, he seemed relieved, and
became very free of speech. I liked his
appearance much better after lie hail talk
jed a while. True, his conversation fre
quently betrayed n lack ol the intelligence
one would expect to see in him, but he
understood his invention thoroughly, to
all appearances, and became very anima
ted at times while reciting its merits and
the work it could do. He smiled repeat
edly at recounting some incidents that hail
occurred in his experiments, and alto- 1
gather seemed at the height of joy over
his discovery.
"It’s most wonderful,” he repeated,
after the subject had been introduced. “A
most wonderful thing. I can't hardly 1
myself see how it was I came to discover
it. It seemed to burst right upon me.
No amount of study could have produced
it. It is purely a discovery.”
R. And it was made while simply ex
perimenting with water ?
Mr. K. Yes. There whs no fire about
and I had no chemicals of any kind.
R. What does it seem to he ?
Mr. K. It is simply a vapor of so fine
an order that it will penetrate metal. It
is lighter than hydrogen and more power
ful than steal* or any explosive known.
When it comes in contact with the air it
almost instantaneously disappears. If
there is a large quantity left out into the
air suddenly it seems to draw the atmos
phere toward it ns if a vacum had been
produced. I remember on one occasion
I put too great pressure in the receiver
and it exploded, throwing the pieces and
a large-sized stop cock up through the
ceiling. My breath, it seemed, was taKen
from me for the moment
R. Mr. Keely, will yon state some of
your experience with the machine you
now have or the one yon have been experi
menting with ?
Mr. K. Well, I hardly know how to be
gin. It would take a week to tell you all
it Inis and ine. At first I experimented with
small objects Gradually increasing the
pressure, I found this vapor whs capable
of exertiug power infinitely. You must
remember that it takes nothing hut air and
wnter to do this, and very little of the
latter. As an instance of this I will state
that I once drove an engine, making 800
revolutions a minute, of forty-horse pow
er, with less than a thimble full of water,
and kept it running fifteen days with the
same water by dissipating the vapor as fast
as used. Tho vapor is exceedingly firm.
In due time I produced a pressure of
about 20,000 pounds to the square inch in
a shell (the receiver) which had a capacity
of a gallon ami a half, and was three and
a half inches thick. The pressure was so
great that the vapor passed through the
three inches and a half of metal, and
formed a dump circle on the floor, with a
radius of three feet. I used a half-pint of
water. On another occasion, in company
with several others, I experimented with a
gun. The target was a fonr-ineb plank,
placed against a steel plate. The best
government powder drove the bnll through
the plank. The distance was nliout eight
feet. My vapor threw the ball with such
force that it went through plank and steel,
tearing the bullet in shreds.
R. Would it be serviceable in the army?
Mr. K. Oh, yes I All that would lie
needed is a small iron receiver, about the
size of an orange, attached to the gun.
The power would last through the longest
battle. We shot forty-two rounds in this
instance, and there was no apparent di
minution iu the force.
It. How about the Pullman cars, Mr.
i Keely?
Mr. K. Well, I propose in about six
: months to run u train of thirty cars from
i here to New York, at the rate of a mile a
I minute, with one small engine. And 1'
will draw the power all out of as much wa
ter as yon can hold in tho palm of your
hand. Why, peoplo have no idea of the ;
power in water, I mean that can be drawn
out of it A bucket of water contains •
enough of this vapor to produce a power I
sufficient to move the world ont of its
coarse. An ordinary steamship can be
run so fast with it that it would beaplit in
two. During the Centennial we propose to
run a train of three cars around the j
grounds all the time, and a large part of
the machinery. The vapor, too, is capa
ble of causing much amusement. I have
time and again created artificial snow
storms in my shop. This can be produced
with no labor or trouble. The tube
through which the vapor passes is fre
quently covered with ice on the exterior,
although the passage for the vapor is no j
larger than a needle. You could not hold
your band on it without being frozen.
I have given bnt a few of the many j
things capable of being done, ns stated by
Mr. Keely, by his invitation. I think,
however, I have given sufficient to tax j
the credulity of any ordinary being, j
What will be looked for now by every one j
is the machine itself. It is impossible to j
believe such a power exists in the common
nffairs of life, or at least that it can be j
produced from so little, unless we ean see
with our owu eyes. Mr. Keely refused
my request to see his present apparatus,
excusing himself on the ground that it was
out of order at present.
If the motor is a fact, we shall soon be :
travelling about as fast ns the earth moves.
Philadelphians, New Yorkers and Bosto
nians can haTe rural homesteads in the
West, nnd be at their busiuess every day
in the East. No more will the producer
be troubled about transportation. We |
shall have nrrived at the millennium of
convenience. There is a Utopia for ns all j
—in that mind of Mr. Keely.
Two questions remain first to be an
swered : Why was a company formed be
fore the machine was patented ? Why,
when the company has been formed and
the stock has been thrown on the market,
is it still kept from the public ? Some
body knows.
A statement signed by George P. Deen
e.r. President, and James A. Long, Secre- i
tary of a social club in the third ward,
created a good deal of talk in political cir
cles this week. It protests that the pub- j
lication iu one of the daily papers ia rela- j
tion to the purpose of that c’ub, and con- i
tern plated political action incase Mr. Ken
refused to call a meeting of the city con
vention, nre entirely erroneous. The club
is merely a social organization and not in
the interest o£ any candidate. At the
meeting) referred to there was no talk
whatever about polities.
LIFE BENEATH THE WAVES.
Captain Boston's Adventures sin Hirer.
{From tliu ®i!iitleman’ Magazine.]
Soon afterword I worked down into the
Gulf of Mexico. The first coral 1 raised
was in Catoche. Knocking round about
there, 1 heard of the loss of the schooner
Foam. The first mate and three men got
saved, but the captain, his daughter, and
three men got lost. I slung round to see
if she could be raised. After we'd spent
the best part of the week we sailed over
] her and dropped anchor. It was a lovely
; Sunday morning when we struck her. She
lay in sixty feet of water on & bottom as
white as the moon. Looking down I
could see her leaning over on one side up
on the coral reef. When I got down to
her I saw she'd torn a great gap in the
reef when she ran against it The main
mast was gone and hnng by the fore ; I
clambered up ; I saw whole shoals of fish
playing in and ont of the hutches. First I
! went to look for the bodies, for I never
| like to work while there’s any of them
about. Finding the foreeustle empty, I
! went to the two little state-cabins. It was
: rather dark, and I had to feel in the lower
j bunks. There was nothing in the first,
and in the other the door was locked. I
pried it ojien and shot hack the lock with
my adze. It flew open, ami out something
| fell right against me, I felt at once it was
the woman's body. I was not exactly
frightened, but it shook me rather. I
■ slung it from me and went out into the
1 light a bit until I got hold of myself.
I Then I turneiJ back and brought her ont
l —poor thing I Hhe’d been very pretty,
I and so 1 carried her in my arms ; with her
white face nestling against my shoulder,
she seemed as if she was only sleeping. Ii
made her fast to the line as carefully as I;
could to send her up, and the fish played
about her as if they were sorry she was go
ing. At last I gave the signal, and she
went slowly up, her hair floating round
her head like a pillow of golden sea weed.
That mss the only body I found there, nnd
I managed after to raise pretty considers- !
hie of her cargo.
One of my expeditions was among the |
silver banks of the Antilles, the loveliest j
place I ever suw, where tlie white coral j
grows into curious tree-like shapes. As I ;
stepped along the bottom it seemed an if I
were in a frosted forest. Here and there
trailed long fronds of green and crimson
seaweed. Silver-bellied fish flashed about I
among the deep brown and purple sea i
ferns, which rose high as my head. Far
as I could see all round iu the transparent
water were different colored leaves, and on j
the floor piles of shells so bright in color
that it seemed as if I had stumbled on a ;
place where they kept a stock of broken
rainbows. I could not work for a bit, and
had n quarter determination to sit down j
a while and wait for a mermaid. I guess
if those sea girls hide any where, they se-,
lect that spot. After walking the inside j
ont of half an hour I thought I had bi tter j
go to work and blast for treasure. A little :
bit on from where I sat were the remains :
of a treasure ship. It was a Britisher, I j
think, and corals had formed all about her, I
or rather about what was left of her. The [
coral on the bottom and round her show- j
ed black spots. That meant a deposit of
either iron or silver. I made fairly good
hauls every time I went down, and sold
one piece I found to Banmm of New
York.
After I loft there I lrad a curious adven- 1
lure with a shark. It was down on a nasty
rock bottom. A man never feels comfort-1
able on them ; he can't tell what big crea
tnres may be hiding under the huge quar
ter-deck sea lanes which grow there. The I
first part of the time I was visited by a
porcupine fish, which kept sticking its
quills up and bobbing iu front of my ham- •
let. Soon after I saw a big shadow fall
across me, and looking up there was an in-
I fernal shark playing about my fhbing. It
makes you feel chilly iu the back when
| tiny're about. He came down to me slick
as I looked up. I made at him and he
i shared off. For an hour lie worked at it,
till I could stand it no longer. If yon can
keep your head level its all right, and
! you’re pretty safe if they’re not on you
prettv sharp. This ugly brute whs twenty
feet long, I should think ; for when I lay
down all my length <in the bottom he
stretched a considerable way ahead of me,
und I could see him beyond my feet.
Then I waited. They must turn siver to
bite, and my laying down bothered him.
He swam over three or four times, and
then skulked off to a big thicket of sea
weed to consider. I knew he’d come back
when he'd settled his mind. It seemed a
long time waiting for him. At last, he
came viciously over me, hut, like the time
before, too far from my arms. The next
time I had my cliauee, and ripped him
with my knife as nearly ns I could. A
shark always remembers lie's got business
somewhere else when lie's cut, so off this
fellow goes. It is a curious thing, too,
that all the sharks about will follow in the
trail he leaves. I got on my hands and
knees, and as he swam off I noticed four
dark shadows slip after him; I saw no
more that time. They did not like my
company.
Mexiewk Meteors.
[Loniaville OoariiT-Jonrnsl.J
A few days ago Professor J. Lawrence
Smith received from Philadelphia six
large and rare meteoric specimens, which
were found several years ago by Dr. H. B.
Butcher, in Mexico. The specimens had
been previously analyzed by Professor
Smith, and uro now in his possession to
be disposed of as he pleases.
They belong to the class called meteoric
iron, specimens of whioh are very rarely to
be found, but few being in this or the"old
country. On this account they are very
valuable. There is a particular region in
Mexico called the Bolsou De Mapiui or
Mexican Desert, which occupies the wes
tern portion of the province of Cohahnila,
where the specimens now in the city were
found, and the eastern portion of the
province of Chihuahua. It is four hun
dred miles from North to South.
Dr. Butcher resides in Mexico and has
spent time, money Sind labor in collecting
these masses of meteoric iron. Dr.
Butcher in 1868 found eight masses, six of
which are the ones that have just been
sent to Professor Smith, but fragments of
which have been previously examined by
him.
Those now in his possession vary in
weignt from 3SO ponnds to 651 pounds.
They are irregular, compact masses, with
out any evidence of stony minerals. Their
weights are 380, 430, 438, 550, 580 and
654. They belong to the softer irons, not
very difficult to cut with the saw. The
specific gravity of specimens, as examined
hv Professor Smith, is 7.502 ; they contain
iron 92.95, nickel 6.62, cobalt .48, phos
phorus .02, copper minute quantity.
The account of the supposed fall of these ;
meteors is very interesting. Dr. Butcher, !
in a letter written in 1868, gives the story
as told at Santa Rosa, near which point
the meteor fell. In the fall of the year
1837 there appeared over the town a most |
brilliant meteor, having a northwest direc-1
tion. It was described as most beautiful,
lighting up the whole horizon with a train i
of brilliaut light following in tlieprogress. i
Shortly after its disappearance among the ■
distant mountains, a rumbling noise fol
lowed, with a tremendous explosion. I
From the report, Dr. Long; a scientist,
who lived at Santa Rosa then and for
years afterward, thought it fell and exj
ploded as it reached the earth somewhere
between Santa Rosa and the mountains, a
distance of some thirty-five miles, and the
next day he started with friends to examine
the route, UopiDg to find it, but after two
j days’ severe and rough riding they aban-
I doned the search and returned to town.
Shortly after, an Indian brought a piece
weighing ten or twelve pounds into Santa
Rosa, supposed to be silver, having found
it some ninety miles northeast of the town,
being in the same direction in which Dr.
Long and his friends had been exploring,
! the doctor having been deceived us to the
; distance, he only going to the base of the
mountain, instead of crossing it and then
| following tiie valley some forty miles far
i ther, where Dr. Butcher says his search
would have been a success.
Dr. Butcher, in 1888, undertook the
search and was successful In a letter
written then, he stated that in making hie
preparations he hired eight Mexicans and
two Indians as guides, and started into
the mountains in a northwest direction*
the same as taken by Dr. Long, and found
some of the iron about ninety miles from
Santa Rosa. They consisted of eight
pieces, varying from 2!X) to 654 pounds,
making a total of nearly 4,000 pounds.
Before the explosion the weight mnst
have been greater, ns it is not probable
that we have discovered the whole, and
some was taken away by the Indians, who
thought they found great masses of silver,
nnd carried tlieir specimens to Santo
Rosa.
It appears the letter farther states, that
there is on record a statement of the me
teor having passed over the city in 18*7,
and one of his guides related as' a fad that
at the time (1837) a Lipman Indian was
riding one of their small ponies through
tho valley when his stirrup struck against
one of the masses, causing a ringing sound
like silver. He dismounted, and was con
firmed iu his opinion of Bilver, and took
away a piece ten or twelve pounds in
weight, which be took to Manta Rosa to
#:11.
General Items.
Recent dispatches announce a freshet in
the Ohio river and its tnbutarhs.
The Salmon Falls, N. H., Mannfactnr
ing Company dosed tlieir mill No. 2, last
Saturday, for two months.
A Prussian war ship lias been secretly
engnged in taking soundings and mappings
the coast of Jutland. An explanation has
been demanded.
The Brookly Jrgus says the weather is
so hot in St. Lons that the pious classes
have to stand in the shadow of the
churches to keep from swearing.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills, Lawrence,
Mass., employing 1,250 operatives, shot
don last Saturday, for eight weeks. The
operatives lose SBO,OOO by this operation.
The Cotton States Congress convened
in Raleigh, N. C., last Monday, President
J). E. Butler, of Georgia, presiding. Gov.
Brogden welcomed the delegates in an el
aborate speech,
A project to separate the manufacture
of sugar from the raising of cane, in Louis
iana, is on foot. If carried out it will re
quire less capital for tbc production of su
gar, one large mill being sufficient for a
number of planters.
Parties from the Black Hills sav they
have encountered fearful hardships, storms
and disagreeable weather. Many are still
at the hills. The military will drive out
all tho miners remaining. -
The Secretary of tho Treasury decides
that alien cannot he licensed a* Master of
mi American ship under any eireßrastS/nces,
but may be lewn-i-d ns engineer or pilot if
he has declared his intention to liecome
an American citizen.
A convention in the interest of Greenback
party is called to meet at Detroit August
25th, and B. F. Butler, W. D. Kelley.
Moses W. Field, r.nd others are expected
to address the meeting.
It cost almut $3,000 more per annum to
supply the White House with fuel under
Grant than it did under Lincoln. This
would seem to indicate that the more
whiskey a man drinks the harder it is to
keep him warm.
An arrangement has been made by
ooutisel to reduce the bail of Peter B.
Sweeny from three millions to one hun
dred thousand dollars, in order to . secure
Sweeney’s voluntary appearance in court,
be being now iu Palis and beyond the
reach of civil process.
For some unexplained reason the plan
of opening the Democratic campaign in
Ohio on tlie 21st inst. has been changed.
Instead of speeches by Senator Thurman
and Gov. Allen, the programme now says
speeches bv Gov. Allen and the Hon.
George H. Pendleton.
Political gossip iu Indiana says that Gen.
Benjamin Harrison will be the Republican
nominee for Governor there next fall, and
that the Democrats will put up ngainst
him Congressman \Y. S. Holman. That
shows thut both sides realize the impor
tance of nominating good men.
The republican organs are delighted at
the prospect of a want of Democratic uni
ty on the currency question, and (mint to
the Ohio platform as evidence of an irre
concilable antagonism to the hard-nnoney|
Democracy of the East. With such"
champions of inflation as Beu Butler,
Morton, Kelley and Logan, in their own
■ party, it is difficult to perceive wherein
the Republicans have much the advantage
| over the Democracy in the matter of unity
| on the currency question.
An old lady in Jefferson county N. Y. r
: acquired the habit of using morphia for
relief from the pains of a tumor. Her
family vainly dissuadod her, and last unit
ed in deceiving her by substituting' care
fully potato starch in morphia bottles.
I She used this article fifteen years nntil
the day of her death, often complaining
that it was an inferior article, though her
i physician declared it all right. He gave
I her Dover's powders once during an ill
j ness, but she could not rest until she took
some of the starch morphia.
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
i California consumes 10,000,000 oruDges
per annum, or about eighteen apiece to
each mnu, woman and child in the State.
| There are of course, so&ie who far Exceed
that fignre, and many who never taste an
| orange from the Ist of January to the 31st
of December ; hut eighteen is the average,
j Of the 10,000,000 of oranges consumed
1 over fifty per cent, now comes from Los
Angelos and the other southern counties
; of the State, and the supply from that
I source is constantly increasing.
Eight letter carriers have been dismiss
ed from the Washington city postoffice
since last December for tampering with
and abstracting money from letters. Their
eases were referred to District Attorney
Fisher, and that gentleman having failed
to bring the matter before the grand jury
or to secure the indictment of the delin
quents, he has been requested to rcsigD.
A movement is on foot to reorganize
the old Red Stocking base ball chib in
Cincinnati, under the same name. Eight
acres of ground have been secured near
the Union stock yards, and most of the-,
money necessary has betn subscribed.
Several of the best players of the old duty
are connected with the enterprise.