Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-08-25
Tine Thompson Road Steamer.

COnSEl{U-
tionalist h,s recently witnessed the working
of u road steamer which is employed in haul.
ing stocks for a saw mill, OH the line of the
: Central railroad, between Augusta and Savuu.
nah The account says;
"Tho Thompson road steamer has circu
lar vertical boiler aud smoke stack identical
with tho fire steamers, but only three wheels,
one in tro.t, in the centre, 3 feet in diameter.
and one on each side ut the roar end, 5 feet
in diameter, all with gutta pcrcha tires Is
inches wide by inches thick. covered with
steel plates four inches wide and half inc b
thick. held in their places about Que and a
half inches apart, by steel joints on either
side, that permit theft moving like an endless
+ chain. This steamer WAS built ut the Grant
Mechanic Works. Patterson, New Jersey for
the Ccnirai Railroad Company, who desired
to test their "daptaGity fol the common
roads in our State, and we are informed is
now the only Que III this section IF the couu
! try. 1t is Of Lighthouse power, ten incl.
| stroke OF piston. aud water tank Of three hun
! dr"d gallons capacity, which wnua be D snf
| tcltnt supply Tor running the steamer eight
Or ten miles The power is not applied by
tank directly to the driving wheels, az with Il
! railroad locomotive, but throueh a cou.bina..
tion Of cog wheels that arc gearrd so it may
be run with either six o. sixteen strokes 70
Que revolution Of the driving wheels. 1t re
/ qu'res two men to work lt-our rs guide.
and ono engineer. Every prcii,nnury ho
ing arranged for tic test, the road s,cancr,
with two heavy four Wheeled log trucks at
tached started over the con'n,nn, sandy umlu
lpting road for u load 81 logs, two niles dis
tant, aud moved alnng with u,purcnt r,so at
Il speed If three to four miles per hour, uutil
| it came 10 Seam Of deep saul, where it
stalled, the supply Of steam Nniuy exhausted
A delay OF fifteen ninu,cs cnsucd in order
to generate supply OF siea,l. when it moved
! forward again. Arriving at the place whore
| the logs were to be loaded. the steamer aud
two trucks were wheeled in a short curve
with rs much ease and precision nv an ordi
nary six horse team and WAGON could be
| turned in :'hrcc pine stocks, weighing in
| the aggregate about 5000 pounds, were load
ed on one of tho true s, and the "RundScr"
returned to the Gii!l having to halt twice for
want cf steam.
The trial demonstrated Jcynnd doubt the
eash'ilty and rractcati!ity OF steamers for
turnpike roads So 'ur rs relates to the qucs
ton uf "traction." The bite" of the wheels
OF the steamer tested on Vhurs'l,y WAS 81 cf.
iectaai that not tic Test slip or Slide was per
| CCPlIplI unucI tnC SSNCllSt StThiI. ne lhlI-
ure OF the steanerns to supplying sui.ccncy
ofs,c was solely owing to defects of con.
structon and not to the principles upon
which the patent was granted.
On prepared and graded roads fo' heavy
work, at slow rate of speed, we think the
coad stcnmcr will prove all that is claimed
for it. There must hc. as f,r railroads. con
vcncnt wood and water stations, especially
| fn Rut f,r H..
used on different and common roads in differ.
ent directions we do not think the invention
Of practical value"
a BEAUTIFUL Tn,nuTE TO VIRGINIA.
! In a speech made last week ut Louisville,
Ky, tho Hon. IL. ~. Voorhees,, Of. Indiana,
said
IF ,on the other hand. was calling witness.
cs Tor the Democracy would poin; first to the
old State Of Virginia, the most afflicted of
all, the most torn to pieces Of all, with her
male population driven away, her bosom
thrashed, with the tlrashing. machine Of death
FROM one border to the othcI She has cmcr-
| grd as from fire of ten fold heat. but she
has fallen into the hands of Conservatism and
not Of R,dicalisun, and no Radical, not oven
| Ben. Butler, dares wag lis foul tongue or
point his fronous finger at her [Chcers.
And this l. said to him too. on the floor Of
the House. N;reinin, the very head and
front Of the struggle OH the part Of the South
! she in whose bosom lies more buried vaor
than in any other cqn,l space of ground tie
sun shines upon 'rplausc where heroes
surp ssng those that Homer sung Of met
| aud ca-hrd their swords aud bed and died.
she on whose fate the whole South hung who
never faItcrcd, and when her great leaders
laid down their swords, all others were laid
| down"
THE RECORD "A fine set of thieves these
fellows (says the New York Korl0) are who
are forever plunginy the cnuntrs into !,o. ,ya
ter with their tales Of Ku Klux outragcs-
tn the old slave States occur ninety four out
of the two hundred and ninety one revenue
dcfalcations confessed by Secretary Boutwell,,
and of the twenty m llions admitted by Him
as stolen. SG,7S9. 72l 05 arc to be nut down
to the score Of these same prrSccutrh pntrlots
"A fine picture it makes of Southern nut,aucs.
these dry figures, telling how government
functicnarlcs steal With both hands, bnwlng
meanwhile at the top Of their lungs "ku.
klux %
NEW YoRK, August 16.-Thc C!esa
pcako nnd Ohio Road is completed aud in
running or1cr for 227 miles, and ninety miles
more will he finished in thirty days. This
leaves only 1916 miles to build in order to
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