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New-York tribune., 1870-12-01

Spheres OF a small szethree to four feet in diameter
may be made of guttapercha wooden frames, or OF
street. cast quite thin and turned in lathe smooth and
geometrcaly round a lathe could easily be con-
struced to turn entire sphere at single operaton)
The middle sizcs-sx TO eight ee-w be best made OF
some one OF the metals-stcel thinkcast thin, and
turned like the preceding. The large szes-eight TO
twelve feet-wl be made OF boiler ron turned smooth
and round I'm the same circular door to screw
or slip n OF the material as the sphere, ana turned
with It. will serve for loading and unloading. The
spheres may in some cases. be divided internally into
compartments to facilitate equal loading and articles
packed in them in equal weights An inner sphere swung
I'm gimbas like a compass shipboard may be resorted
to for certain kinds of transportation.
MODE or OPERATING TIE NEW METHOD.
To explain the mode Of sending the spheres through
the tubes will Imagine line of 100 miles In length
constructed between two cities When the spheres are TO
be forwarded, the mouth Of the tube at the end from
which they to be sent Is closed, and the cir ex
hausted for short time from the other and at way
stations II necessary, by arpumps worked by steam AS
sufficient quantity Is exhausted to destroy It's
equilibrium I'm the tube to current to set in
the mouth at the closed end is opened and the spheres
are rolled in short interyalsthe exhausng process
being kept up In the time the current OF air rush
ing striking the spheres will carry them rapidly
forward to their destination. II they set in motion
by slight fall in the tube push they will then move
by the application OF very little force. II necessary
current Of air can be driven In upon hem Every true
principle produces in its collateral consequences results
that advantageous in o compound degree. An illus
tratOn of this point will be found In the fact that
sphere six feet in diameter will be propelled more easily
than OF two feet. Tho former presents q much
larger surface than the latter TO the pressure of the at
mosphere, while the rolling friction rather resistance
to motion, is the Thus the means OF propulsion
increases in geometrca ratio with the size, while the
sistance remains stationary.
ARTICLES EASILY TRANSPORTED.
Among the articles that be transported without
any trouble in packing the grains, tobacco sugar.
pressed cotton tho fruits with the precauton Of pack
ing them separate boxes the Ores and COAL the liquids
such as hghwines oils etc. fresh and salt meats prop
erly cu the malls and dry goods. Delicate objects will
be packed in soft material-straw oats or bran
and at the center OF the sphere In packing COAL the
smaller sizes will be thrown In with tho larger filling up
the interstlces. We will remark that the jar and
"thump" of the railroad will be avoided which win
greatly facilitate the transportation Of delicate articles
Ike tue softer fruits.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01

A new invention has been submitted 10 sno
Paris Committee OF Defense, and has been adop'u :,
them Ii no longer sufces TO drive nail into tne W.
of cannon 10 make t useless New instruments .sJ
been Invented by which the nails are specui beh
Tie invention is described IA small toi
H. Inserted In the mouth OF the cannon lts .llo
causes longitudinal assure, and renders tae pes'
sGthgr uAstEN lgeaDIe,
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01


seiious difficulty In the eyes of many persons s the
stopping OF the spheres. II ID o difficulty easily over
cone' AT each station sOn OF Brakes on sj1ngs
wi" be placed ON tho top Of the tube which can be low
ereu OF raised at viii by the stationmastCr There may
DO 90 of these Brakes IL necessar ranged one after tho
o'her In close proximity. They win he concaye aud OF
ample Width-one to two feeteo TO clasp th1 sphere
ana present large surface us 1t strikes them. They win
he lined with leather gutta perca to prevent any ab-
iuslon OF tho surfaces. When the spheres art 20 be
s.olpod tho Brakes viii DO put down, and the spheres,
striking them one after the other will raise each sue
'cs'lon with more and difficulty, until they are
brought 20 q stand.
iue strength OF the springs and the pressure they will
noo WIZ pe proportional To the size OF the sphere and
e weight TO be brought Ito bear. In addition to the
tue current OF air be reversed aud thrown In,
a"shs INC spheres to meet elastic ar-oushion ~
HoS arrive at their destination. IT, as Is the case,
e'y an OF cars can he stopped in few hundred feet
W narrow brakes brought TO bear the rims OF the
WHEELS there will bo difficulty IN arrosting the motion
oI single sphere by the use OF brakes. moro Efficient
'nan those OF the railroad Lines Of teegraphic wires
"rah through tAc tubes, iuEushns al every moment
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
THANKSGIVING AND THE PILGRIM FATHERS.

70 the Editor Of The TribUne.
SIR: l desire to call your attention TO your
article ON Thanksgiving" In common with many OF
our countrymen when auding TO tho early history of
New-Engand, you do not discriminate between those
oho laid the foundation OF Plymouth Colony and thoo
who settled In Boston aud Salem, the Massachsl.
Colony For many years they were separated lh usen
ecclesiastical and civil affairs. Thanksgiving was on
served in Plymouth nearly 20 years before Boston va
settled and the Pilgrim Fathers had nothing " 90 ~
the troubles in that Colony except To be felke va
Roger Williams when driven from salem. Very mug % S
De laid 10 their charge for bigory Intolerance As
were "wise by the things that they suffered pcvay
they came over The Pilgrims had confidence ia ,c H
and aith in man." two essential elements of an
Therefore, they established civil and religious hnsly -
the right ~ the majority 10 govern. BRApfoNO
Aetr- York, Nov. %, 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
NEM YORK.

New YoRK, December Ion Sunday
night the premises of Turgess a Co., 10
Dey street, were entered by burglars.
Six U. S. bonds of 1865, Of 5000 each
besides several articles of less value
were taken. 1t is supposed that the
burglars concealed themselves Saturday
evening in the premises of No. IA, and
during the night went across the rooi,
forced open the scuttle, descended to
the second floor and broke open the safe
A suit brought by the Government
against Jay Cooke 4 Co., for the recov-
cry of $4,000 and interest since 1858,
was finished to-day, after thirteen days
argument. The verdict was in favor OF
the Government The suit was for the
value Of eighteen $1,000 bonds which the
Treasury Department had received from
the firm about two years since, and dis
covered to be spurious. The hrm pnrl
chased the bonds being ignorant as %
their character, and it was not discoy-
cred till they were sent to Washington
The verdict against the defendants was
for So, $50.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
The Hamilton saunders Marder

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
In the course of my professional read
ing / have fallen casually upon the fol
lowing passage in the charge of the court
to the Jury, delivered by Walworth, j., in
the people VS.. Videte, / Parkers New
York Criminal Reports, 606-7, tried in
July, 1925, more than thirty-fiye years
ago. He was commenting on the. argu'
ment so often advanced in criminal cases
against convicting on circumstantial evil
dence, that innocent persons had often
thus been convicted, and cases cited.
But in nearly all of these cases the
fact of the innocence of the accused de-
ponds altogether upon hearsay or tradi-
ton.
at is but few years since a story was
published in nearly all the newspapers
in the United States, that a man by the
name of Hamilton had been condemned
and executed in one of the Western
States, and that his innocence was after
wards clearly established by the confes-
sion of the man who had actually com
mitted the murder. This story for o
time gained entire credit, and was gen
orally believed wherever it was told
Yet fortunately for the administration
Of justice, the report Of his innocence
was discovered to be base fabrication
put in circulation by some of his surviy
ing friends for the purpose Of removing
a stigma from the name Of the man whC
had Justly suffered the penalty Of the Law
for most wicked and aggravated rob
berry and murder
! Thus, from Chancellor Walworth
opinion, you perceive what was though
in judicial circles Of Hamilton limo
cence about eight years after thai shock
| ing tragedy. gg.s,e -s LEX.
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samnIsKANSAS.

Llwasxcr, December Z. "A rather
demoralized state of affairs exist in But
Ter county, in southwestern Kansas. On
the night of the 18th two men were hung
charged with horse stealing. The au-
thorities have tried to bring the leaders
of the mob to justice, but have been pre-
ventedr by,armed men from executing
the writ. On Thursday night four men
w, We're hung. About 200 men are saidAto
beunder arms. The officers of the law
have been arrested and placed under
guard by this armed band. The sheriff
Of the county has called upon the Gov
ernor for military assistance, and re-
quests that two companies of cavalry be
sent to the scene.gHfV ..f6 bn09oc
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, December IA dispatch from
Versailles, dated Monday, announces
that an officer was sent from the King
headquarters on Monday morning into
Paris, with letter TO the government
stating that the city Of Orleans had been
captured by the Prussians, and that the
Army of the Loire had been routed and
lost thirty guns and several thousand
prisoners " ~
General Daerot is supposed to have
been killed in the retreat across the
Marne.
A dispatch from Wilhemshohe an.
nounees that Marshal -Bazaine is se
riously ill., He has been nervously
psstrated since the eapitulation Of Metz.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07

stand. We would suggest TO sell
our railroad interest at what II
will bring in the market, and
dispose of other means and interests the
State may own, and thereby reduce the
indebtedness to an amount as low as
possible in this way, and the balance
must eventually come out ofthe pockets
of the people. We are opposed TO re-
pudiating one single dollar of the debt
and unless provision is made to meetthe
due indebtedness, II is nothing more or
less than Reputation. The present Leg
islature, we think, has experimental long
enough, and remained in session until
the people are worn out with its contin-
ued sitting. II any solution TO our diff
culties can be reached, it would be well,
however, to remain in session until next
October, If SO long time be found ne
cessary to bring about the desired result
But If nothing can be done to help our
financial condition, the members OF the
present Legislature had as well 60 home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07

Tours, December "A proclamation
has been issued by the committee of the
national defense. signed by Gambetta'
Cremieux, tslarz and Bazaine, and nd
dressed to the French people:
After sustaining several reverses, Gen
eral de Palladines, commanding the
Army of the Loire, proposed his eyac.
uation of the city Of Orleans. As he had
still at his disposal 100000 able bodied
men and FIVE hundred cannon, entrenched
in a fortified camp protected by the
rified guns Of the naval artillery, I'VE
asked him to attempt resistance and
to hold Orleans against the enemy.
He at first refused to attempt to
hold the city, asserting that re-
treat was necessary. He next intI-
mated to us that he had changed his
plans, and would carry out the defense.
This advice encouraged us. Gambetta
thereupon left for Orleans upon special
train with all possible haste, However
the train was stopped on the road by a
detachment of Prussikns, who fred upon
it and compelled a retrograde movement,
Gambetta narrowly escaped capture, and
went to Blois. "9
The delegation at Tours have received
no more dispatches from Gen. de Paila-
dimes, but through some of his officers
have since learned of the evacuation oil
Orleans under threat from the Prus-
slams that if the city was not evacuated
Immediately it would be bombarded.
The committee are uniformed as to the
subsequent movements Of the Army OF
the Loire. @ tiuagi fgti q ea
The committees proclamation is con-
sidered as charge of incapacity and
treachery against Gen. de Palladines.i (
Tours, December 6.-General de Pal
ladinesis bitterly assailed and denounced
upon ali sides, and the Government has
threatened him with court-martial. Upon
the evacuation of Orleans the French
spiked their batteries and destroyed all
their war material. The former retreated
across the Loire. .et
Tours, December G, p.m.-A balloon
from Paris brings copies of a bulletin is
sued by Gen Trochu on the I'd instant.
1t refers to his previous proclamation
the sortie by Gen. Ducrot,
and the indecisive fighting of Tuesday
and Wednesday. He then states that
on Friday, December ID, the Prussians,
in enormous forces attacked the Frerch
position at Champry and Brie, which
had been captured previously from the
Prussians, but the Prussians were re-
pulsed. The French then returned the
Prussian attack and carried the Prussian
position. The Prussians, however, con
tinued to mass troops in overwhelming
numbers from the northeast, south and
southeast, encircling the bends Of the
Marine and closing in upon Ducrot when,
on Saturday morning, Gen. Ducrot
crossed the Marine at a point near Trem-
bIay, and opposite 'Champry, removing
the bridges and concentrating his forces
in the woods of yincennes in order to
give effect TO further operations.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
The Diamond FieIds or Georgia.

Or. NJ. +. Stephenson, Of Hall county,
in communication TO the GAINESVILLE
Airline Eagle, says:
We are glad TO see in the Northern
and European papers that much excite
ment prevails on the subject of South
African diamonds, WHICH are now being
found over space of one thousand
square miles, Of great value This will
react on our section, which, from every
geological indication, and its peculiar
mineraiogy, will ultimately, whenever
developed, yield more and finer ones
than South America and Africa.
Our opinion is predicated on the fact
Of over forty having been picked up by
the gold-washers in every deposit mine
from Hall county, Georgia, for six hun
bred miles TO Virginia, some Of which
were Of much greater value than any vet
found in Africa. All we want is a little
capital, only one or two thousand dol
lars, TO develop the fact again aud draw
the attention Of capitalists to the subject
who can introduce diamond miners who
understand washing for them. By THU
course, | have no hesitancy in saying
that, IN six months, the most brillian
success would attend the experiment
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
AZ sCOUNDRERs CAREER. /.
EmyexxIement, Larceny, Breach OF
Promise and Seduction.

/
From the Boston Traveller. Nov. SO.l
: Last evening officers Dearborn and
SHELTON. of the secret service police,
!" piped him to his boarding place, and
arrested a young man named ID. u.
lDrinkwater. alias Henry Lacoste. The
fellow turns out to be a villain of the
blacRslye shade. He was first heard Of
at the chiefs office through respectable
Young lady, who told the deputy chief
that Lacoste had suddenly disappeared
from the city with three dollarsin money
and set of jewelry valued at forty dol
lars belonging to her. She said she had
known the young man intimately, but
too we'll for several months, and under
q promise of marriage she came TO the
city for the purpose Of having the nnp-
tial knot tied But upon going after the
necessary certificates Lacoste returned
and told the young lady that the
registers Office was. closed. and he
would have TO postpone the union
for week. The girl, in her limo
cence and confidence, supposed that
everything was all right until the follow
ing Monday morning, when she discov-
cred that everything was all wrong La
coste had disappeared, and with him
what few worldly possessions she had,
Making known her troubles at the chief s
Office. officers Dearborn and Shelton
were entrusted with working upthe case,
and in the course of bringing it to q Gull
minating point, one of the officers discoy-
cred a similarity between Eacoste's de
scription and the description Of a young
man that was wanted for larceny of a
gold watch valued at $3.50, from a gem
tleman named Drinkwater, and also for
embezzlement of 81 800 from the firm OF
c. i. Drinkwater 4 Co., of New York,
dealers in brushes, at No. 222 Water
street. When arrested Lacoste put on
a good deal of indignity, but finally ac-
cepted the situation with feelings philo-
sophie. The prisoner is twenty-six years
of age, weighs. about one hundred and
fifty pounds, has auburn hair, a sandy
mustache and a Roman nose, and is
withai a smart appearing young man.
In the course Of his short Hppt
brilliant career in this city he repre-
scented to several parties, and especially
TO the young lady whom he ruined. that
he was an attache Of both the journal and
the Transcript as reporter. The gold
watch that -" Iacoste stole from his
brother he showed at mine uncle OF
the three golden balls for the sum of
thirty dollars. The timepieee wassre-
covered this morning. In regard to the
embezzlement in New York, an agent of
the New York firm in this city fully
identified Lacoste this morning as the
guilty party. II is probable he will be
Of for embezzlement, larceny,
breach Of promise and seduction. The
larceny from the young womanwas com.
mitted ten days ago In the municipal
court this morning Lacoste waived an
examination and was committed TO jail.
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The English Roman Catholics
Asfir.


3 The English Roman Catholics are tax,
ing very active measures in promotion oil
the denominations schools. An impor-
tant meeting was held on the 2lth ult.,
at Liverpool, which was attended by the
DIXIE OF Norfolk and the Marquis OF
Butte among Others. These two young
noblemen are the great guns OF the
Roman Catholic party. The Duke Of
Norfolk who Is premier peer Of Englaud
and hereditary Earl Marshal, is not so
wealthy as the Marquis, but nevertheless
his ESQ. 900 a year comes IN very conYe-
niently TO the aid Of the faithful. IN
whose service his Grace seems disposed
to spend and be spent, for he has Jus,
given 10000 to the education fund, ana
Is further building magnificent ehurcn
near his ancestral seat, Arundel Castle,
In Surrey. The Marquis has also gwen
elO 600 10 the education fund. Under
the recent act Of Parliament, Catholic
children. unless their education be pro.
yided for by the Roman Catholics, will
he Iotbto 6e educated In schools other
Than those. kent by Roman Catholics,
and though not necessarily instructed IN
the doctrines Of other faiths, educated
without religious'instructions at all. ~ :
4 with the view of preventing either oil
these contingencies that the recent meet
inc has been held In the course o.
feryent address, Lord Butte stated tnat
every other man in Liverpool was 10
manist and that there were twenty 80
man catholic churches in that town. IN
conclusion. the Marquis observed that
there wss.no greater safeguard agaills.
the disasters which were devasiat1lil
other countries than the preserF anon on
Catholic principles among those chiiafe .i
for whom he was asking the means 70
teach religion. ~ OIL
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A Ku.Klux Trial.

. u =.
The Murfreesboro Monitor Of the Sd
inst. has the following notice Of trial
at that place under the Ku-Klux law OF
this State:
sThe Murfreesboro public has been
entertained during the past week with
It's first trial under the Ku-klux law:
The case was presented by the. grand
iury.. and underwent an investigation
on last Thursday before his Honor,
Judge Frazier of the Criminal Court.
The hero of the mask and the victim of
the prosecution was the notorious Char
lie Wendell, colored, who is, by the way,
the luckiest devil that ever went I'M
whipped Of Justice. He was discharged
by the court, not upon the strength Of
his Innocence, nor upon the want of
evidence OF the offense, but upon the
mere fact of the date of the crime com
mitted ia'i a
.Ttwas proved conclusively, as alleged
in the Indictment, that he, in company
with three others, masked, with bloody
disguise, and with horses covered all
over with ghostly looking sheets, made a
rad some tune apo I1:,I tne ,h hrs. =, ,aos
February, on DeP p:l, H. H. ~ -" TarJan ana
! n5,,ber of others Of the colored per
suasion. There was no discrepancy in
the evidence except as TO date, All the
interest oi tne 'Iiai K lln iow nasseJ NV
,hs RaJ;cal j, egisIature was repealed on
the 10Th of November, 1869, and the last,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-07
nEMocRArrc STRENGTH. \

The New York Herald, by well ar
ranged table, shows that the Democrats
are in majority in eighteen and the
Radicals in seventeen States Of the
Union, clear gain of ten States to the
former since the election of General
Grant. The Democratic States are Ala
.bama, Arkansas, California, Connect
cut, Delaware, Florida. Georgia, Indiana,
Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada,
New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia, en-
. titled to one hundred and fifty-four cleo
toral votes. The Radicals at present
hold possession of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Vermont and Wisconsin. These
States are represented in the
Electoral College by. one hundred and
forty-eight votes. The Herald remarks:
The foregoing represent the vote of
thirty-fve States The two remaining
States not included are: Mississippi,
with seven electoral votes, which by rea-
son of the preponderance Of the negroes
will probably be carried by the Radicals,
and Texas with six electoral votes, which
will certainly be given to the Democracy.
Thus with the States that are now Dem
ocratic, and Texas added, the Democrats
have one hundred and sixty electoral
votes, aud the Republicans, with Missis-
sippi added, have one hundred and fifty
FIVE, giving to the Democrats clear
majority of FIVE throughout the country.
We can now, in looking over the field to
be contested in 1872, come TO the very
correct conclusion that the successor of
President Grant must be Democrat
And when we speculate upon the uncer-
tainty of the States Of New Jersey
and Pennsylvania going Radical
again, as they have done in this last cleo
ton, the chances for the Radicals to
elect their candidate grow beautifully
less. Illinois, too, is exceedingly doubt
full for the Radical party, there being
such small difference between the par
ties as TO make the result one Of the
most exciting, Every effort will be put
forth by the Administration party to
carry the South, that was in the last
Presidential contest held down and her
people gagged with the bayonet. We
have some glimmer Of hope that such
will not be the case again, unless a resort
to force be found necessary to keep
Grant in his seat for four years longer.
We have long thought the Radi-
cal party intent on holding the reins
of power at the cost even Of Republican
institutions in the country. And II ialr
means be found inadequate to the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT aud continuance OF
power, then they will doubtless resort to
force. We have never believed IN the
patriotism Of the Republican leaders, or
their loud protestations Of love for the
Union and Constitution. They have
used this as cloak to hide their own
rascalities, when they would start the cry
of rebel and traitor against the indie
pendent and liberty loving people Of the
60 IT, c,trro will show whether
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ITALY. /

FLORENCE, December 6--The deputa-
ton Of fifteen members from the Con
stitutional Cortes, appointed to visit this
city aud present the crown Of Spain 70
the Duke Aosta, waited upon him on
Monday, and delivered to him the offer
Of the crown. In accepting the crown
the Duke made the following brief re-
ply; "fshall follow Loyalty the example
Of constitutional tradition, with honesty,
and above the struggle Of parties y {