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Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-01-22
Rock HAVEN, MRADE County, Ky,
Oetober "a. 1856.
Ne. Ed,sard Wilder. Loui.piale, Ky. \

nv EuguFU HHdtft EOetsptttef ny. q
Dear Sir: / take pleasure in saying that was
suffering from Ague and Fever, or Chills ard
Fever, foT several months, when was advised
by friend to try your famous Stomach Bitters,
and after using two bottles / am entirely re-
stored 1t not only imparts new vigor but il is
truly the best strengthening and eppetizing
tonic mt the same time pleasant to the taste
have ever known used or afforded 70 the puplic;
and would say 10 all those similarly afflicted
that il they would be cured and have the disease
thoroughly eradieRted from the system, to use
your Bitters, and be convinced Of their wonder
full medicinal power and virtue.
Iremain yours respectfully.
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n e NO Al
DIR. L. L. COLEMAN

TTAs REMOVED FROM CHERRY STREET
f5 Ne. aIa corner Of Church and Mclse-
more streefs where aE who may desire his ser
vices as q Physician may nnd bin.
a nost and ELEGANT Drug Store containing well
selected stock Of
DRUGs, MEDICINES. PERHuMERN
FANCY GOODS,
And other articles usually kept ina such eriah
ltshmonts. which be Offers at the lowest cash
prices The Goods are fresh aud genuine.
Mr.. CHARLES Il. klsIlAki formerly Book
keeper and Pge1criniiouist % The DRUG Store Oi
Il p jenkins X Co. i with Dr. G., and will
take pleasure 10 Waiiing upon hc numerous
friends
Prescriptions promptly and accurately com
rounded I'd an hours. decs-u
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H&
KEEP: CONSTANTLY ON HAND AND
FOR SALE
100 bags choice Rio Coffee.
125 bbls Crushed Powdered and Granu-
lated Sugar.
14O bbls Coffee Sugar.
so Mackerel, No l and ,.
% Ne. 3.
$50 kits No. /, 3 and p.
200 boxes Star Candles.
lbs Soap (assorted.)
Tierces fresh Rice.
Is bbls Cider Vinegar.
$50 Extra Family Flour, Spring
field and Port Royal Mills.
100 bbls, bbls and kegs country Lard.
tierces Dried Beef
so bbls n. o. Molasses and Syrups.
so bbls Sorghum Molasses.
10000 bushels Cotton Seed.
Together with an assortment Of
FRESH CANNED FRUITS,
.sUoH As
Strawberry,
Peaches,
Tomatoes,
Pickles,
SaFdines,
Oysters;
Brandy Peaches,
and Cherries,
Worcester
and Pepper Sauce,
Spices, Pepper, etc.. etc.l
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saturday. February .. 1897,

r. IL. Childrcss Jr., vs.. Maris E. Crutcher
and Others
IN PURSUANCE OF A DECREE OF THE
/ Chaucery Court IN this cause, wiz sell at the
Court House at Nashville. on
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LoUisyrLLElKY. October 70. 1866.
To e. Wilder. Esq. City:

To E. Wilder. Esq. City:
was a good deal afflicted with Indigestion
and occasional attacks Of Dyspepsia. 1 was id
vised 10 use your Bitters | scarcely used one
bottle when felt relief, and from the use Of the
Bitters, though nearly sixty seven years of age
feel the same energy and vivacity and cheerful
spirits Of boy Of twenty Five. Your Bitters are
4 pleasant tonic and cordial and as they are pre-
pared from pure ingredients and good old Bour-
bon Whisky, l can safely endorse their use 70 all
afflicted as was. / would say to such persons
keer your minds easy. your bowels open, your
head COOL your feet warm, and use Wilder's
Bitters, and never mind the Doctor.
Respectfully, J. G. BUCKLES,
''0li Reliable" Agent Erie r. r.
If VIII rT7RR
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aCCOmpanYing cut.

It's operation will be readily seen from an
inspection of the cut-the letters descending
through the body of the lamp-post and await
ing the arrival of the mail-truck between the
fans of the wheel, which deposits them at the
proper moment on coming in contact with the
end of the truck
The next project that commands the greatest
share of attention at the present moment is
that for the transportation of baggage and
packages of a general character; but the sub
ject of passenger traffic is by no means ignored.
For the accomplishment of this last object
three different routes are now under discus
sion, all of them beginning in the neighbor-
hood of the Battery or City Hall, and running
thence towards the northern end of Manhattan
Island. The entire cost of the excavation,
tunnelling, masonry, temporary removal of
such instructions as water and gas mains and
sewers, together with the track and stationary
power, but excluding the rolling stock, is
variously estimated at from $4,000, 900 to
Sll, 900, COO, according to the route selected.
In addition to these amounts, it is
estimated that damages for the injury of lands
and buildings along the route to the amount
of from 100000 to 100000 would be
assessed upon the company. The tunnel,
rolling stock, and eXhausting machinery will
be OF the same general character as that
already described Stations for the purposes
OF local travel will be established at short dis
tances from each other the tunnel being
widened at these points to admit of the con-
structiOn of a platform for the accommodation
of the 300 or 400 passengers who will be carried
by each train. 1t is estimated that single
track would admit of the passage back and
forth of a sufficient number of trains to
carry million passengers daily, which
is three times as many as the united
capacity of all the street railways will
at present accommodate. For cheapness, COM
FORT rapidity of motion and absolute safety,
such an underground pneumatic passenger
railway would be unsurpassed by any system
OF transportation above ground, or even by
any other underground system. If such
project is ever carried out, New York city will
thereby be doing more than it can accomplish
IN any other conceivable manner in the way OF
overcoming the present inconvenience which
result from its indefinite extension in the
| direction of the Harlem river
= "Iis a consummation
| Most devoutly to be wished"
but whether the nineteenth century will wit
ness the contamination or not is a matter OF
| grave doubt.
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THE BATTERsEA FIELDS PNEUMATIC DESPATCH.
The tube as represented above is of cast
iron, in sections nine feet in length, and
weighing about ton, fitted to each other by
an ordinary socket-ioint. The trucks were
constructed of wood, about seven feet long,
and enclosed in sheet-iron. Each one was
furnished with four Hanged wheels, a foot and
three-quarters in diameter. The rails on
which the trucks ran back and forth were
raised lodges, one inch in height and two
inches in width.
The propelling power was simple exhaust
ing fan. At distance of three feet from each
other, two large branch-pipes rose from the
tube, having circular mouths, three feet in
diameter, opening towards each other.
Through both the branch-pipes ran an iron
shaft, three inches thick and nine feet long.
One end of this shaft was connected with a
small steam engine. A hollow iron boss, at
tached to the shaft, revolved closely between
the openings of the branch-pipes, the interior
of the boss being so constructed as readily to
receive the air ascending from the tubes, and
discharge it outward with rapidity. An iron
dish seventeen feet in diameter and one
inch in thickness, with thirty-two radial
wooden bars upon each face, revOlved in con-
nection with the boss, and was hanked on
either side by thin plate of sheet-iron,
twentv-one feet in diameter These plates
were two inches and seven-eighths apart and
GRADUALLY diverged from each other towards
the centre, thereby presenting uniform dis
charging area throughout. The eXhausting
pipe entered the top of the tube several yards
from the engine. The truck, therefore, In
coming towards the engine, began to compress
the air in front of it, its motion being thereby
checked The excess of pressure at this
point was relieved by satety-valve. just
before the truck reached the end OF the tube,
it opened the covering or door, and then glided
out gently upon an extension OF the track.
One hundred revolutions per minute Ill the
tube, which was four hundred and httytwC
feet long, produced an exhaustion measured 10y
three inches of water, while the exhaustion
produced by two hundred revolutions was
measured by twelve inches of water, or less
than one inch of mercury. A velocity o.
twenty-fve miles an hour was easily obtained
the speed depending only on the capacity anc
strength of the machinery. Packages of al
kinds we're sent through the whole length o
the despatch tube, distance OF quarter of ;
mile. and now and then a daring laborer mad
the Journey with safety and comfort.
CARRYING the Nails by AtmOSphori
Pressure.
To Mr.. Rammell Civil Engineer of Lon
don. is accorded the credit of harnassing tn
air Tor the carriage Of the mails. The expert
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senger traffic. There are three or four great
national express companies which collect and
distribute in the city every day about 5000
packages, and a dozen minor companies
through whose hands about $1,000 additional
packages pass daily. Excluding the vehicles
Oh these companies, which are not required to
take out licenses from the city, and there are
in New York 1900 licensed express-wagons
which carry hither and thither about sc, 900
dlherent parcels every day. In addition to
these, there are 1000 public cartmen. 1000
carts owned and employed by wholesale mer-
chants, 1000 by manufacturers, 1000 by butchers
and bakers, and 1000 by grocers, which gives
grand total of $500 vehicles employed in
the transportation of packages from one sec
tion of the city to another. Allowing To each
wagon the small average of thirty packages
per day, and we have about 500, 600, to which
the lOO,OOO packages carried in hand by
errand boys and porters should be added, giving
the total average at COO coo packages. The
cost OF the horses and wagons EMPLOYED in
this business-valuing the former at $500 and
the latter at $2OO each--is at least SS 500, 600.
Ihese hgureslpresent some idea of the capital
and amount of business on which the Pneu-
matte Despatch system would rest for a foun-
dauon. When it is remembered that the ave-
rage cost OF carrying each package at present
is seventeen cents, and that this would be re-
duced to ten cents by the general adoption Of
the rheumatic system, some idea of the
economy of the latter is conveyed to the mind.
With the above figures before them, certain
parties In New York are now discussing the
adoption of the pneumatic system in all seri-
BUSINESS. The plans under discussion are those
OF Mr.. Alfred 4. Beach One of them, which
has for its object the collection of letters at
different points, and their transportation to
the Central Post Office, is represented in the
accompanying cut.
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FROM WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON.
SPECIAL DISPATCHES TO EVENING TELEGRAPH. |
WASHINGTON, April 2.
DOIngs In the Senate To-day,

Mr. johnson (Md.) rose TO a privileged ques-
tion and defended Philip Frank Thomas, Sena-
tor elect from Maryland, against the charges
contained in the report OF the Bank of Com
Treasury, failed to provide for the payment of
the interest on the public debt falling due in
January, 1861. Mr., Johnson caused to be read
a long letter from MIR. Thomas In defense of his
LOYALTY and official conduct, and showing that
he successfully made such provisions.
Mr.. Howard Mich.) said he had brought this
matter last March before the Senate for the
Benefit OF the Judiciary Committee. He was
that, although the report was made five years
apo Mr., Thomas had not until recently heard
of IL, Notwithstanding extracts were Published
in the National Intelhgencer in May, 1862.
MIR, Johnson explained that after leaving
Washington in 1867, Mr.. Thomas went TO his
farm in Maryland, aud did not see the National
IntelHgencer, and only subscribed TO the Baltt-
more Sun.
Thomas, defending himself against the charge
of Unreasonable conspiracy to- o'damaEe the public
credit, ETC., was referred to the Committee on
the Judiciary,
The Senate then went into Executive Session.
Appointments Sent In.
The President has sent in a large batch of
appointments to the Senate this afternoon, but
none of special Importance.
Western COngressmen.
Quite a number CT Western Representatives
remain in town looking after the appointments
in their Districts.
What the Republicans Say.
Some OF the Republicans here attribute their
defeat in Connecticut te the speeches of Sena-
tors Sumner ara Wilson advocating enforced
negro suffrage in the free States.
An Indian Lawyer.
An Indian chief by the name of Boulinet
was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court
to-day.
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F OU RTR EDITION
FROM EUROPE his EVENING.
Financial and Oommerclal Advicss

Bv the Atlantic cable.
LIVERPOOL April % p. M.-The dullness in
the cotton market continues, and prices have
slightly declined. Middling Uplands are now
Observation-Disclosures: market is firmer and prices
are advancing. Corn Is now quoted at 4Os. Cd.
Galifornia wheat has advanced 2d., and Is now
auoted at 30s. 3d. 49, ,,, -
oeiyed from Dublin to-day says that party Of
british troops, while searching for Fenians In
tbe country near that city, yesterday, came
nnon three OF them, who were fully armed and
equipped. The troops fired upon them, killed
one and another, who subsequently proved to
be the notorious Mcclure, was captured. The
Adyices received here from Bombay state
that the growth Of cotton in that region has
been greatly increased.
LoNDoN, April -Evening.-Consols,0 0l U. s.
4. SOS. rs: Illinois Central. 20; Erie, 39A.
FRAEKFoRT, April 2.-U. s. 5.20s, 7S.
PARIS A priI 2.-U. S. 5-20s, S45A
LIVERPOOL, April 2-Cotton dull; sales of7000
bales uplands, 127s@l3d. The advices from
Manchester are uniavorable Breadstuffs are
firm: red western Wheat l3s. 3D.; California
wheat, 3s. Cd. Provisions generally unchanged.
Reef advanced 2s. 3D., closing at 127s Cd. Lard
4gs n decline OF Cd. Other articles unchanged
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The employment of any one of the forces of
nature as a motive power has always at the
outset encountered a strong opposition, and
generally not little ridicule; although it can
be said, for the credit of mankind, that this
ridicule springs only from the ignorant, and the
opposition mainly from those whose tempo
rary interest will be incommoded to some ex-
tent by the change. The history of the dis
sovery and gradual application of steam to its
present manifold uses affords sufficient illus
traton of this fact. But now that the world
is encircled with iron tracks, and every ocean,
lake. and river traversed by vessels thus pro-
PEELED, the thoughtful men who are never
content with the achievements of the present
are earnestly inquiring as to whether there is
not another motive power which nature in
the richness of her stores, still holds in re-
serve. This spirit, which will never rest from
its researches so long as there is remote
possibility of adding to the present stock of
the worlds knowledge and experience, has
within the past few years been richly rewarded
by the adaptation of atmospheric pressure as
a motive power. The achievements Of this
new motor, and the manner in which it is
made to operate, will be best understood by a
description of the experiments which have
been made in this connection.
The First Pneumatic Despatch.
The first attempt to transport loads through
a closed tube by means of atmospheric pres
sure, was made at Battersea Fields, London,
in the month of July, 1861, resulting in most
unequivocal success. Twenty years previous
to this an experimental atmospheric railway
had been attempted, the main difference be-
tween the two being that in the railway the
load was drawn upon rails Immediately out
side the tube, while in the Battersea Fields
experiment the load was drawn through the
tube itself. In the accompanying cut are
represented the tube, the car, and the
machinery by which the one is propelled
through the other.
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What the Republicans Saw.
The Connecticut Election.

HARTFORD, April 2.-The returns are nearly
all in. and the result will be as follows:-
The Democratic State ticket is elected by 700
majority. The net Democratic majority on
the Congressional vote is 1850, and the average
Democratic on the whole ticket 200.
Hotchkiss CDemocraD is elected to Congress
in the Second District by $500 majority.
Hubbard Democrat is elected in the First
District by 500 majority.
VIM. II Barnum iDemocraO is elected in the
Fourth District by 5On majority.
The Republicans elect Starkweather in the
Third District by 100 majority.
The Legislature will be Republican by small
and reduced majority in each House
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ment in this line was first made over dis
tance of 1900 feet between the District Post
Office in Eversholt street and the Euston Ter
minus of the London and Northwestern Rail-
way. At the latter point the Pneumatic Mail
Despatch is terminated in a small one-story
building. The tube is of cast-iron, arched at
the top and nearly fat at the bottom, and is
nearly three feet in dimensions each way.
The rails pass through the wall at one
side running into a short tunnel
opposite, which answers the purpose of a
buffer to check the velocity of the truck when
necessary, which but seldom happens. The
trucks are made of iron, of the same shape as
the tube, but small enough TO leave clear
space of an inch all around. The route of the
tube is under the yards and Streets and at
some points has down grade of one inch in
eighty feet. The tube has three curves, which
were rendered necessary by the locality; and
the ease and fexibility with which the trucks
dart around them prove concusively that
there is no necessity for making the tube en-
tirely straight. Two of these curves are at
the railway station, and are constructed upon
a radius of one hundred and ten feet each;
while the third curve, which is located at the
other end has a radius of only forty feet.
The tube terminates at the post Office station
in a small building underground, in the man
ner already described. The trucks are pro-
PEELED enc way by exhausting the air in front
of them, and the other way by forcing the air
into the tube behind. With an ordinary cylin-
der engine of forty pounds pressure, velocity
of sixty miles an hour has been attained,
which is as great as the necessities of the case
demand.
transportation of Passengers by At
mOspheriC Pressure.
But atmospheric pressure has been applied
to the carriage of passengers, as well as of
mails and other inactive matter. A pneu-
matte passenger railway has been in success
full operation on the grounds of the Crystal
Palace at London. The tube in this case has
the dimensions of a tunnel, being ten feet in
height and nine feet in width, and constructed
of brick. This tunnel is about six hundred
yards in length, and extends from the Syden-
ham entrance to the Penge Gate. 1t contains
single line of rails, and is provided with open
ing and closing valves at each end, together
with all the necessary pneumatic machinery.
The pneumatic carriage and the entrance
to the tunnel are shown in the accompanying
cut.
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BALTIMORE. April 2-Flour firm no sales.
Wheat, white, $3'4O@355 for fair, fair to good
prime TO choice; red wheat, 34O. Corn active;
advanced l@2c sales OF 1915 bush. white at
Sl'0S@lIl; sales of S260 bush. yellow at $1,000
l'l0; $500 bush. of mixed Western at Sl03@lOi
light at $40. Cloverseed sells at SlO50. ProVi-
sions unchanged. Whisky sells at 81 30@23l in
bond. Cotton, 30c for middling; market weak
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The Loss by The Boston Fire.

Boston, April 2.-The cotton which was de-
stroyed by the fire in Commercial street last
night is valued at 100000, and the total loss was
estimated at $4,000, fully insured.
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Ship News.

PORTLAND, April 2.-The steamship HISTORIAN
sailed at u o'clock last night for st. John to
load. She will return here for mails.
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AUCTION SALES,

by THOMAS BIRCH d SON, NO. lilo CHBs
- NUT Street, above Eleventh street.
SALE OF VALUABLE EUROPEAN OIL PAINT
On Tuesday Evening,
~ O'clock, at our Art Gallery, No. 1l1O Chestnut
living artists of Paris, comprising great variety ~
interesting subjects. Among the artists will be io3nd
HSiSranche, HhiS%5i eirSad, rTS@ bssSns, bbsSSsEdl
PeGrSiley, dSmSenet RTIhS bisSoRfsno'' bieSoid'
The paintings are now open for exhibition with
GREAT SALE OF SHEFFIELD PLATED WARE
AND CUTLERY.
d sons, Spring street Works, shefHeld England
.n.u on Wednesday Morning,
Chssnu street win 6e sold choice and beautiful as
compFisips Tea anS e FSteG ware ana Cntery
osh covers shlvers, cake baskets card receivers wine
pitchers salts and cups. gold sugar baskets, din
esss sI DTeaSiast Ssstors Hover vases dinner and
hsh caryeTs, butter and cake knives, pickle forks,
Also, large assortment OF superior ivory balance
aInner and tea Knives with meat and putry carvers
Full particulars in catalogues. 41
$780, Sale at No. lllO CHESTNUT Street
NNM NHT1AHD AHD p9 pS9ES92NDBAND 2 I6IiD HoUsEHoLD FUR
PLATED WARE, ETC
Ats O'Clock. at the auction store No. ll1O Chestnut
street. VIII be sold large assortment OF superior
Psrlor, chamber, and ainingroom furniture tsi I:
= SCOII, JR, AUCTlONEER, No, 1920
1Os CHESNUT Street,
AUCTION SALES OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
b. SCOTT, Jr., will give his personal attention
TO sales OF household furniture, at the residences
of parties removing or breaking up housekeeping ON
the most favorable terms. va
EXTENSIVE SALE OF IMPORTED CHRoMos.
WINGS, ETC, ~
on Tuesday and Wednesday, April and g.
AT IL O'Clock morning and "a o'clock evening of
each day, at SCOTS Art Gallery, No. 1920 Chesnut
street. VIII be sold without reserve large and ex-
tenstve assortment Of fine foreign Chromos Steel
Plate and Colored Engraylngs all richly mounted in
velvet and fine gold-leaf frames.
Open for examination on Saturday. [3295t
A. DHUYvETTER's FOURTH SALE OF HIGH
THE SEASON AT THE ACADEMY OF FINE
ARTS.
B. Scott, Jr., is instructed by A. DHuyvetter. OF
Antwerp to sell by auction,
On Thursday and Friday April and g.
ATTY o'clock, his entire invoice OF
HIGH CLASS MODERN PAINTINGS,
selected with great care and Judgment from
doubted sources, including many important and we'll
known works Of highly esteemed and eminent artists
of the English, French Dusseldorf, and Flemish
schools.
The Paintings will be view, nee, IN the eastern
galleries Of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
on Monday morning, April !. and remain open day
and evening until nights of sale.
sale peremptory. l3297t
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philada. Stock ExOhange sales, April 2
Reported by De Haven Bro, No. 20 s. Third stree

nIAM MON b X N A M S.
- The old and justly celebrated Diamond Brand
sugar-cuTed Hams, cured by Samuel Davis, Jr. q Co.
cincinnati, in store and for sale by Sole Agents
WAsHINGTON BUTCHER a SON,
sl6lmrp% Nos, l48 and 14s N. FRONT Stree