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(Mahft’jS FRIDAY, JOLT 2i, 1676. .1. V. OAIXAHKR. Editor. 11 • *''. ri nr '"n'M'."" ■’ “■ Newspaper Law. 1. Any person who takes a paper regu 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.