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1t is said that the steam engine invented
by Mr.. R. W. Thomson, Of Edinburg, for use
on common roads, is likely to prove success
full.
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M. K. TROUT.

KERR's CREEK, Sept. %, 1870.
Mr.. C. E. WooD,
Dear Sir Il have had the Florence Sewing
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Testimonial From the Mayors Wife.

STAuNToN, VA, Sept s, 1870:
Some five years ago, on the recommendation Of
the Rev. Armstrong, obtained Florence Sewing
Machine, and have it now in use. 1t performs ito
work to my satisfaction, sewing rapidly neat
and substantial lock-stitch. have, in the mean
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that the Florence is fully equal, if not superior,
to any machine of the kind in my knowledge
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In St. Louis, Mo-. on Tuesday, at the Gratz
Brown screnade, the Governor elect said
''there are significant signs that the late OPP
ponents to the liberal movements are accept
ing the situation, that there will be no fur
Their hostility, and that there should be unan-
unity among the whole of the American peo-
pie on this point. He congratulated his
friends that Missouri had taken the initiative
step in this direction. He repeated that the
Democrats had been as much heroes as the Lib
eral Republicans, and urged all to go forward
to the problems of the future, with eye sim
gle to the Development of individual freedom
and equality in the social organization. He
added that more triumphs are to be achieved
in the future, that we are only on the eve Of
the greatest social developments !; and conclud-
ed by saying; Il can only recognize now that
the State needs absolute peace, the internal
development of her resources, wise adaptation
to the laws of labor, and an absolute honesty
of administration
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We desire to put conundrum to our rev.
erend brother of the quill Of the Gazette
Was St. Paul Benedict or notS If so, why
did he say married man does well, but a
single man would do "better 7" We pause for
reply Valley Viryiniam.
And '..frstly." Paul gives this advice not
by inspiration, as he expressly admits, but as
his own views.
"Secondy" He was member of the San
hemrim-the Jewish Senate. All the mem
bers were married Paul might have been a
widower when he wrote and spoke from per-
sonal experienced
"Mndy." He admits he wasn't ''likely"
and may be he had been kicked, and soured.
Z "FourAly." Times were uncommonly hard
then, and every member Of the Church was a
sort of sexhorter.'' Paul perhaps anticipated
the proverbial largeness Of preachers fami-
lies, (Sidney Smith advises childless and dis
consulate widows to marry curates) and coun-
seled against matrimony.
"FVihly." Don't Acknowledgment Ga
xefte.
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CHARLES T.. TODD.
~ Commission Merchant,
RICHMOND, VA.
Consignments solicited and liberal advances
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A Suggestion.

The growing Importance Of Staunton, as
central aud dlstributivc point west of the
Blue Ridge, the remarkable increase Of its
population aud trade since the late civil war
the marvellous energy displayed by its bust
ness men, mechanics, merchants, and capital
lists of all descriptions, both liz labor and
means-the enterprise thrift and judgment
exhibited by the farmers of Augusta county
the geographical location of this immediate
vicinity, which is destined to make it the great
crossing point for tho trade and travel of the
continent, from the Gulf to the Potomac,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific suggest the
appositeness Of ~ application to the Federal
Government, for an appropriation to erect in
this place, public building for the accommo-
dalton of the Post Office, Internal Revenue
and Judicial Departments of the United
States. The business of the Post Office De-
partment, at this point, is considerably larger
than at any other place East of the Blue
Ridge. The building, for that purpose, has to
be erected and paid for by the Government
The Offices for the Collector and Assessor for
the 9th District are procured in like man
ner, and the United States Court, which
meets in Staunton twice each year, has no
place to sit except in the Court House. This
is attended with moro or les Inconvenience
both to the Courts of the County and Circuit
and the United States, for their times of meet
ing sometimes come in conflict.
There are eligible sites in the city for
building, such as is here suggested, that coulc
be purchased at reasonable rates. The build
ing itself, erected upon ajudcous place coult
be made to yield to the United States, hand
some percentage. Independent Of the amour
saved, which is now paid for the rent of tn,
Post office and the Offices Of the Collector an(
Assessor Of Revenue. Were prominent loca
ton selected, the first floor could BIO made tt
bring revenue Of at least 81 900, in addition
to the reduction Of expenses at this point 70
Postal and Internal Revenue offices. In thcs
particulars, saving would be effected of a
least $500, making total of 81 600, or i
per cent on $4,000, besides the accommoda
ton Of the United States District Court
Twenty thousand dollars would purchase a
eligible site, and complete the building.
We are satisfied, if this matter were brough
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our Senator and Representative there woul
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We call the attention Of Senator Lewis an
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hope they will deem it of sufficient impo
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it energetic direction.
Our citizens should also move in the ma
ter, and by concerted action bring the que
, ton before the proper authorities in such
manner as will insure the necessary appropr
alton.
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New-York tribune., 1870-12-01

ner aualties breadstus at twothlrds the price, and
meat Mt half With this command OF our vast agricultural
and mineral resources VIC could develop our manu-
factures in such colossal proportions IA TO become the
first manufacturing nation Of the eart Instead OF our
excessive imporatons-ev OF staple products-causng
us 10 nay away our surplus profits our accumulated capt.
tai we would manufacture for Ourselyes-and not only
for but for the world We could send Iron
products even into England unless indeed she protected
herself against us by tariffs we have been 80 long
Obliged 10 do method OF transportation that VIII do
the freghtng country at the rate OF Oo miles an
hour and at prices firth to tenth OF those now runng
will ovo the problem of vast industrial development
and OF our commercial Independence, ana even supre-
macy III the new method Is success, the great natural
of the country will be rendered available for It's
industry and commerce; the East and West will be
united: new era OF activity and prosperity VIII open
before u.s. tariffs will be abolished and our accumulated
capital will remain at home.
What the new method proposes to do is this: 1t pro
poses TO substitute in the place OF the wheeled Vehc
with its Wheels axletrees, box, springs, braces &c,
single and simple body without any OF these parts
Sphere OF Globe constructed hollow so as TO carry inc
Spheres Of all sizes will be employed from two and three
10 ght and ten feet diameter according TO the freight
ing business to be done. They would be made OF metal
their walls thn turned round and smooth ana would DO
propelled through pneumatic tubes by atmospheric
pressure, rolling frict0ness on smooth metao pate
placed on the bottom.
he hollow Sphere will take the place for ransporta-
ton OF the wheeled vehicle in useof the wagon,
and railroad car. II smpes this complex vehicle, and
reduces aUEIT II takes with Its wheels, axletrees
springs and other appendages, and reduces them TO,
and combines them in single body. 1t thus replaces
n very complex apparatus by perfectly simple In It's
construction. With the wheeled vehicle high ratio OF
speed Is mpractcablethe friction rubbing, and strain
ing Of parts being too great and with the railroad,
owing to the expense Of management, and the wear
and tear cheap transportation Is impossible. On the
other hand with the Sphere, very high velocity can be
attained while the expense Of propulsion through pneu
mato tubes and management, will be very tr1ing
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
RAPID TRANSPORTATION.
A REVOLUTION IN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY

A REVOLUTION IN COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
We published some time since an article ex-
planning new Method OF Transportation, which. If true
and practicable will effect complete revolution In the
carrying trade and In commercial exchanges. The
method consists, explained, In using Hollow
Spheres carrying their loads inside, operating In comb
nation with Pneumatic tubes.
As the subject Is OF vast Importance In an midas
trial and commercial point Of vlew will again present
It, and explain fully than in the previous article,
it, practical details We will prelude by saying that the
primary industrial want OF country Is cheap and
rapid transportatOn-and for two reasons:
Frsl The distances between its different parts are 80
great that they are for the practical purposes OF com
Inerclal exchanges severed-cut off from one another
The corn for example, OF the great prares OF the west;
the meats Of Texas the coal and iron OF our finest de-
posts cannot be brought TO the seahoard and to the
manufacturing centers and pay the cost Of production
and transportation They are beyond tho limits so 10
say Of trade as was for example, the wheat OF the
Genesee region in the State OF NewYork before the
Erie Canal was built.
Second The natural resources OF our country, which
are greater than those OF any the globe for want
Of cheap transportation shut out from the general In
dusry and commerce Of the nation, and rendered una
valuable. Meat can be produced at cent pound In
Texas, and other Southwestern praries but IL
cannot be brought and at paying rates to the sea-
board and the ceners where needed Corn can raised
at 2b cents bushe In Iowa and Kansas, while 1t Is
four and five times as much I'm New-York The finest
qualities Of coal and be obtanedat many OF our
rich deposits at prices cheaper than in England but they
are beyond the reach OF manufacturers lron for ex-
ample in Glasgow half the price 1t Is In Newfork as
consequence, the bankS OF the clyde they are now
budng iron steamers so cheap that England has been
able 70 secure the monopoly Of the commerce OF the
OCEAN and TO drive ours from It. With cheap and rapid
transportation this state Of things would be changed.
Iron and coal could be laid down at the manufactures of
our Eastern cities at prices low as in England and Of
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01

made. confident that grades OF from soo t as
feet 10 the mile can be overcome. and without dla,
This is sufficient 20 solve the question OF the prac
bility OF constructing lines IN mountain regions
With slight curves, the plate or track on which ~.
spheres roll will be widened and raised on the es,
side Of the curve, the tendency Of the sphere nds
the influence OF centrifugal action, will be 10 rise WIN,
short curves the velocity will probably have TO w. slacS.
cned, which will be effected by the use VI the bratss
Experience viii settle these points.
We here close explanations Of practical detars
What we have said IL sufficient 10 show that an l,cI
cues can be ovcrcome-in fact that are Involved
in the method Some persons imagine that the sphers
win bound and strike against the top aud sides; ofer,
that the current OF air. rushing over The spheres and
against the sides Of the tubes, win dcrangc their move
ment; :; nothing Of the kind viii take place tla
spheres viii move with The greatest eYenness aud
regularity their weight viii keep them on the track.
and their rapid rotation will create center q gravity
which will mpart TO them the property thcy would
possess, we're they solid and perfectly hOIn0geneou,
masses We will consider the abstract theory On
which the new method Ii based It Is. IN view ell
impOFtSu.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
WAR NOTES.

Frankfort has sent 10000 1Orins to the suffer-
ers Of Strasbourg
On the anniversary of the battle of Jena
Oct 1 public speaker in Berlin stated that the stats.
tics proved that the French prisoners then In Germany
exceeded in number tho French army which conquered
ut Jena When this assertion made the Metz prs-
oners had not yet arrived
Notice was given short time ago that
French prisoners Of official rank would be allowed to visit
Berlin in uniform. They TO have abused this priv
lege and their offensive department has given so much
umbrhge TO quiet German citizens that the permission
has been revoked.
The recent loan of the North German Con-
federation subscribed for In the three provinces in
which the largest amounts received as follows;
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
HOW THE OFFICE WAS OFFERED TO D. A. WELLS.
To me Editor Of The Tribune.

HOW THE OFFICE WAS OFFERED TO D. A. WELLS.
To me EdiIOr Of The Tribune.
SIR A fair measure Of the truthfulness OF
the entire speech made BY d. A. Wells at the British
Free Trade feed is contained in his stunning statement
was not little astonshed to find the Chalrmansmp
OF the Revenue Commission offered to me-" The history
Of that offer is this That most accomplished ana dls
tinguished economist stephen CCwen, was appointed
on the Commission and designated as its Chairman
Wells went TO him and vhningy appealed to his gener
osity to help him up In the world He said that DO wa"
young and obscure that he wished to set ON ana ae
quire position that Mr. COlwell was famous ana near
she end Of his abors He begged the
head Of the Commission. have the profoundes rspeo
and yeneration for stephen Cowe but his generous con-
cesslon to this impudent demand was great pubic MS
fortune Wells had already come TO an UNDERSTANDING
with the importing interest. The position ne coaAeu
from Mr. Colwel enabled him. by delays adverse iePo'
adverse criticisms and secret lobbying, TO beat tAieo
successive Tariff amendments in the House or IN tho
Senate This is the true history Of Weils's appoint
ment and it was the most successful job OF WORK ln'
foreign importers have thus far done in this country
Nov. %, 1870 WILLARD h"4NN
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01

AS this is a great time for raking up old
grievances the University Of Freiburg in the Grand
Duey of Baden, have petoned the King OF Prussia TO
spuate In the coming treaty of for the restora-
ses9ed in Alsace These lands were cOnnscated at
tical property by the Republicans.
In one of the many balloons recently pierced
by German bullets and captured there were found a
number Of maps Of the Central and Southern Depart
ents, meant for the Loire and Lyons armies Being all
Photographic copies, they gave the Germans the agree
able certainty that the peculiar method invented and
employed by them for multiplying military drawings as
vet remains secret Of the Berlin War ONCE. This pro
cess, which is called anastatic, admits of unlimited
number of copies being thrown or no matter whether
me original i IN INK pencil print &C., and Is as eXpedi
uOus as IL ls cheap.
The Crown Prince of Prussia has sent the
following letter TO Col LoydLindsay: Headquarters
Vcrailes, Nov. 2The noble contribution brought by
Col LoydJ4ndsay for the OF the sick and wounded
from the English Society Of which he tine director dc
serves somewhat more than a simple acknowledgment
in this other occasions OF distress the help OF the
English public has been poured out with liberal and
impartial hand. The gifts which have been offered in
truly Christian spirit have excited feeling of heartfelt
gratitude among those in whose l speak In doing
80 am repeating the feelings Of the whole of the roo
PIE OF my country IN this instance represented by tlOse
Tor whose special benefits these gifts destined"
Mr.. COwasjee Jehang Cheer one of the Parsee
merchant princes OF Bombay, has forwarded 81 900 10
be haved between the French aud Germans and applied
70 the relief OF those wounded the war "Though the
"oeurehce loOK place" he writes In foreign land
ana a 30 great distance could not obtain peace t nv
lnnd ever since the fearful slaughter and manning of
ntSn I. iat pchssi now nom this day, shall satisfy my
bti lbat served people In great distress with little
money can spare 10 forward Tor the good Of my fellow
See tie year 1886 Mr. COwasce Jehangheer
has hph upward u tlZ- 90 in works OF Iubic charity
aud utility without respect TO caste creed or race in
the subjects o. n. bounty, beside ewing away large
sums Ia private charity. oe away '"ie
70 three Prussian batteries was allotted tbe
daty Of defending the center OF the German line against
the terrible ousiaughts Of ,he French ON the 1stb
OF August In dead and wounded they lost all thrae .,
their commanding officers. and also their st,n,ants.
twO-thrds Of all their captains fourseyenfbs of oil
lcuteudnte; ald tW0-fh4ds ~ an gunner. az
tbeir h0rses they lost nearly an one bafierv iosn
lO2. One artlcrlst, John Schroeder had IL borsess
Killed under him, without losing heart or tenner
they struck In turn he adroity changed them for
OtlcTs Wsich were brought up, took tnOs,, whose
riders hld been disabled At last no more horses co he
got and he dlsnOuted and served on foot with the gun
Iers For the striking bravery which he displnved in
s instance he received the Iron CrOos and also bonn.
u Ia uOaeY.
New-York tribune., 1870-12-01
Is WESTON A GREAT PEDEsTRIANI

To The EdltOF or INC IFfOhE''
Sir: Weston is no doubt plucEy young
fellow but IL is a misnomer to call him grrat pees
trisn. There are English professionals "ho can eno
him very long odds and beat him easily "eon 'aiiS
Imos constantly in the feats he atenps; and tina be-
cause he oyerrates his powers He mas hoi'ner tlo
ibt nor tbe bottom for good pedesrian and a inc
blc pluck" In the world VIII NOT oOnhtefDal-
.c' rho Lack ef these essentials weston y not iast
Talker me in 10 minutes is hol S9oa M NalAlng l9ra
'r'fessional nor is mile in sj1 any thlS Ecy MoheI
~ re,ne,ber an attempt, ON the part of IN English
obout 10 years ago, TO walk Tour nils IN ~
ninufcs ime beat him. but he accomplished the leat
m @ an 20 ,pnut-s let me cite some other Instances;
nnrls Iyssthall OF England walked Onch1lt mile IN
i M o. anJ q miles ttrnpikc) in Ia. 20 niu.l SEE;
u;,, W ~ ~ Royd Ungand) walked mile tCdrnpikcl ms
w, mi 40 ses and miles in 81 MIN; Chdrcs NestlAl
II,eTn walked 10 miles (turpplke) in d. 26 mu., aud
" ,,lies In h. SO MINI Mm. SpOOncr (E1g ND walked
"a ies rnplke) IN u. s. min see. In 1890, Newsam.
~ pbsAeipha walked 1000 miles in Is days. These IN
are an recorded In HGstelFs Engineers POcesE
BOOK, ed. 1861, p. fO5. so, -,
,y,li,ed a match at BrumpOn, England. IOpcY walked
pes IN 2s:52 min; mules IN jo.3T min.lcss Than Al
haur.-and tue first Is miles in h. 3N min 81 see.
az course an this does not touch the question O cndur
ouce But | have my self seen young man who lal
ed constantly. without rest or sleep period Ot
los hours This certainly outdoes ANYTHING that Weston
has accomplished during his recent effort POU@
AccdTk, " D., Nov. 26, 1870