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The History of nm Ip,portant Invention.

In the early days Of the late civil war
our soldiers suffered much in their south
ern quarters from the want Of pure water
Wells were not abundant and when found
they We're too often chokcd up by design
or it was supposed the water had been poi
soned. Impressed vi h tho need OF some
new method for sinking wells with de-
spatch when III the heart OF the enemy's
country, Col. NELSON ,GBrEN of the
Seventy-sixth New YORK Volunteers in
vented the driven web, which has since
Come into such general demand that il is
estimated that over one hundred and fifty
thousand are now in use in this Stale
al ne.
\ hen Col. GREEN first tested his great
ln= ntlon he was stationed with his regi-
meet at his home in Cortland, New York,
and The first experiments were made near
his own house. The new process, which
was d. stined so greatly to revolutionjze
the art Of well making, was that of con-
structihs wells by driving or forcing an
instrument into the ground untll it is pro-
iected INFO the water, thou1 removing
the earth Upward, as IT is in boring" The
tube which Is thus driven into the earth
aas sharpJ. Oint of solid steel, and o pump
Is al tached s. its upper end, by the work
Ing OF which = vacuum is created in the
tubs and the vater-bearlng soil around it,
soon after the successful issue OF the first
experiments, Gel. GREEN. who, from a
West Point education, would seem to have
imbibed its rigid notions of discipline
shot one Capt. McSETr OF his regiment for
INSTRUMENTATION. The wound was serious,
aud the occurrence caused much bitter
ness of feeling; and although Col. GREEN
was acquitted bya court martial 1 A lbany,
yet after his regiment reached Wash
ington he was relieved from command and
from the army. For some Ave
years afterward all his time and money
were devoted TO endeavors TO procure his
7 Reinstatement in the service. His feelings |
were go wrought upon by the injustice he |
had suffered that he became nearly mad, |
aud ms whole fortune was consumed. In |
1896 he was tried for shooting McNErr
under an Indictment whioh had been
hanging over hun for years, but the jury
ana not agree. IL was not TIL Novem-
her, 1865, when he noticed by newspaper
advertisement that driven wells were
being sunk, that no Mt length fled his an
plicatlon for the patent, which was
granted in the following January.
All these interesting facts were brought
out IN case decided not long since in the
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern
District of New York, in which an attempt
was made 10 invalidate Col. GREEN'S right
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If Judge TAFT, who took good name
for independence and integrity to WASH
ington, submits passively to the gross in
digmues which have been put upon him
by the President, he cannot expect much
sympathy OF respect from the public. He
was hardly seated comfortably In the War
Departments before he wns turned out neck
ana heels without word of consultation,
to make room for Dos CAMERON. the wor-
thy son of the old winucbsgo Chief
True, he was turned into the Attorney
Generals place, but 1t was rs II clerk
should be transferred from one Office to
another with out asking his leave or caring
to know what his wishes might be. The
first information OF the change came to
the Judge from the newspapers. An upper
servant could not have been treated with
greater disrespect or more sregard of the
commonest prophecies of official life.
As Attorney-General no has been sub
jected To the utmost contempt and neglect,
and orders have been issued from the
White House directly Affecting the admin
istratlon of his Office, OF which he was al
lowed TO have no knowledge whatever un-
I'll the acts were cousummated and pub
lshed 10 the world. Mr.. OVERS successor
as District Attorney at st. Louis was nom
mated to the Senate days before Judge
TAFT was aware OF the change; and the
indictments against ex-District Attorney
WARD OF Chicago, the same who made the
minority Arkansas report in the interest
OF the carpet baggers to please the Presi-
dent, ex-Collector of Internal Revenue
WADSwoRTL and ex-Deputy Collector
HoNr for completely in the whiskey frauds.
We're all dismissed without Mr.. TAFr's
knowledge OF. consent.
GRANT has taken the reins in his own
hands exclusI, ely, and intends 10 drive
the concern for the next eight months IN
his own way. n matter what the country
may think or say. The whiskey thieves
and all the Rugs are again in the highest
favor AT the " hite House. Tho resigna-
tion of Mr. DRIsrow was the signal for
their return torower. MCDONALD, JOYCE,
and the rest of them" are now regarded
rs the victims Of n cruel persecution, and
In short time they Will be rehabllitated,
aud be recognized in their old capacity
as Republican leaders for HAYES and
WHEELER
Judge TAFT is mot a resigning man. He
prefers humiliation to independ cnce, and
like his colleagues, is willing to be a clerk
TO GRANT, rather than "a free citizen who
can look i'll the glass and not feel asham cd
of himself
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A Republican Convert.

Mr.. II. w. SToUGHToN, IL seems, pre-
sided Mt fhe Republican ratification meet
ing last-night. This was giving high place
to n fresh convert.
Mr.. SrouoHToN was generally supposed
to be little copper colored during the
war. In those days we never heard of his
putting in an appearance at a Republican
meeting. not even among the audience,
to say nothing of his occupying a place on
the platform, where. of course, SO dis
tinguished man Us NJ would sit. Nor do
we remember his being named as a sup
porter of Mr. LINCOLN or Gen. GRANT when
his name would have been noised abroad
as Republican II he had been one.
His nrst appearance on the stage OF Re-
publican politics was when Grantism was
in its fullest flower. That corrupt politi-
cal system seems to have fascinated the
venerable attorney and drawn hun forth
from his old copperhead haunts like q
SIRENS voice.
His conversion occurred when SHERIDAN
drove out the Louisiana Legislature at the
point of the bnyonet, proclaimed the white
citizens OF that Stale bau1tti, and an
nounced his purpose TO treat them rs such,
'hoN TO- 10 OutuWos btN Ouu tue liWo VI WIT,
To be hunted like Sioux, aud DESTROYED as
natural enemies Of civilized society. Then
IL was that Mr.. SroUoHToN, muaculously
converted, wrote long opinion sustaining
GRANT and SHERIDAN IN thor outrages
against State. lie argued IN their behalf
as IL they lad retained him as counsel ut "A
round fee; and so no won the deep regard
of GRANT
Thereafter the Republicans took bin
into the fold, asking no questions rs to his
past for they wore too joyful over his con-
fession OF Grantism 10 explore his previous
record. He is now member OF tho party
III tull standing, having leaped to its fore
front at a single bound; ana HAYES must
do something handsome for nm in case OF
hs election.
Mr. SrouGHToN is a nne-looking man, OF
varied social and professional experience,
and he Will look very We'll in the front line
OF the Republican column, but he Will wish
he had never been politically converted
when TILDEN becomes President, aud
thoroughly reforms the Government. SUI,
the Republicans are glad To get him, and
we do not believe Reform suffers any loss
by reason of his funny somersault.
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One Of the men who are not permitted to
forget that PETER COOPER Is a Presidential can
ddate IL PETER COOPER himself. The political
strikers are In hot pursuit of him all the time,
determined to get money out Of him, TO enable
them to "work" for his election. There has
lately been danger that he would be over-
wheimed ~ these strikers. He himself saws
they come from everywhere. Some OF them
want money to org nize his campaign; some OF
them want It To enable them to stump for him,
or to pull wires In hts behalf, or 10 st TT papers
In his interest. The weather Is hot, but these
mercenary strikers are burning for the chance
TO work" Tor him. All thew need Is money.
II PETER COOPER scceded to their demands,
aud gave them the chance TO plumber his money
vaults, he would mud them ready 10 sell him out
when his vaults were empty.
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Let the American People UNDER
stand II.

When JEFFERSON DAVIS undertook to
overthrow the Government of tile United
States by physical force, ana to that end
organized the Confederate Government,
there was no such thing as misapprehend-
Ing his purpose. Aud the intention of
RUTHERFORD ID. HAYES to effect by peace
ful measures a substantial change in
our Government from what IL has hith-
erto been, Is equally patent and unmistak-
tble.
II Is with the most entire oandor that
Mr.. HAYES avows his design to alter the
general tenure of office, and make it per-
manent. II is by legislation" he pro-
poses to make " the officer secure in his
tenure rs long IA his personal character re-
mains untarnished, and the performance
of his duties satisfactory" And Mr..
HAYES is going for this change in the Gov
eminent with u will. "If elected" he
says, IL shall conduct the adm inistTution
Of the Government on these principles, and
all constitutional pOirers ueStcd IN the Ia
ecutiUe Wiu DC employed to establish this re-
form"
That Is what Mr.. HAYES calls it-"a re-
form" 1t certainly is very great change,
but whether II is reform or not is another
question. We do not think it l.; we do not
believe the American people will think il
IL; and our only anxiety on the subject is
to have Mr.. HAyEss plan thoroughly and
universally understood. lie would make
the tenure of Office continuous during good
behavior, which. practically. is just about
the same Us for life. We should then have
q fixed aristocracv for life. The PROPOSE
ton is as Iiain and simple As it seems to us
startling. Gov. HAYES has made himself
very perspicuous. He has placed himself
before the country rs a candidate for Presi-
dent on the explicit declaration that he is
In favor Of making ofiiceholding perma-
nent.
If the American people wish to establish
nm a. istocracy of ofliceholdeis; il those
now living wish to place over themselves
officers whom they cannot change during
the term of their natural lie, then they
will vote for Mr.. HAYES. Otherwise they
will vote against him.
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! Observation-Disclosures.

Never in the history Of all the nvestiga.
hons at Washington has any gentleman
sworn himself INTO such an unhappy pre-
dlcament as Col Tom SCOTT did IN the
BLAINE affair. Mr.. PENDLEToN was sup
posed to have finished himself with neat
hess and despatch unsurpassed and un>ur-
passable; but Col. SCoTr has laid him IN
the shade. As q witness against himself
the Colonel is without n peer. His per
Torrance in BLAINEs behalf was the hand
soonest case of har-kari ever witnessed
outside OF Japan.
BLAINE had received through Scorr
$4,000 from the Union Pacific for seventy
.hve Little Rock aud Fort smith bonds.
This fact is clearly established by mis- own
letters TO FISHER, TO say nothing of the
confessions of bis friends in the directory
TO HARRISON, aud the vigorous and sue.
cessiul effort he made to prey ent the in
PRODUCTION before the committee OF CALD-
WELL 8 declarations to third PARTIES, and
other most significant and pertinent testi-
mony That Mr. Blaine got that money
Is now the settled conviction OF tho public
mind. His dramatic performances in the
House are over; the Cincinnati C0nven-
ton is past and gone. Snd his friends have
practically given up the Tight Col kcorr
mas had al his pains for nothing. He
swore with wonderful iltrepidity, It is
true, but the case was past saving byihe
most heroic testimony; aud Col. SCor-,
rushing into the deadly breae b to rescue his
Prudential candidate from destruction
succeeded only IN iujuring hIs own charac-
ter.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
was clandestinely robbed OF the difference
between SG4.OOO cash and the Value of
seventy Ave Little Rock and Fort Smith
bonds. Who got the distracted funds2
The evidence pointed conclusively 10
BLAINE. But to save BLAINE, Col. SCOTT
stood up and swore that he hi nself rifed
the company's treasury with his own
hands, aud converted the money TO his
own use.
Mr.. PENDLEroN Is confessedly dishonor-
cd and politically dead and buried. But
let us see how SCorT's case cOmpares with
his. They were both railroad Presidents.
bound to serve their respective companies
Tor liked sum. and Were Official trustees
Tor all persons Interested in the property
under their control. PENDLEruN collected
\ large claim, of which he took about one
half for his trouble. SCOTT performed no
specific extra service, for the sum which
he, according to his own statement lifted
directly from the treasury of his company.
PENDLEroN had clear contract with the
directors OF his company and with all the
parties concerned, by which his compensa-
lion was previously determined. Scorr's
operation was secret ana surreptti0us.
and he testifies himself that the sham pur-
chase OF the bonds was resorted to, solely |
In order to conceal the lawless appropria- |
uon OF the money from the stockholders,
ana TO cover the transaction from all in
curry. PENDLEToN's constituency. wards,
slQekholders DIRECTORS and ALL were not |
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Custer.

Az the columns head, In the mi st OF his foes.
hraving the battle, breasting o.. fame.
soldier on duty has found repo,e,
And glory encircles Cnster's name.
WIN nigh aifront at offioial n me.
For speaking the truth rs an honest man,
MS soul suiiused with a noble shame,
He took his numoler most In the van,
Anu doing the best that soldier can,
lie has kept the faith OF his noole fame.
fet' thieves IN place, or savage crew,
No long enduring JOY may snow.
ger honor slain or truth o'ercomei
For ayenging Justice shall stll pursue,
Though swords are broken and lbs are dumb.
In the wreck OF war he lay; on his faco
happy smiles as though. In HE fate,
comforting angel had lett the trace,
hocklng the nends anu their cruel hate.
Az the head OF the column IN the midst OF his foes
Drawing the battle, breasting the fame,
dulifu soldier has found repose.
He has kept the faith OF his noole fame.
Ana Elorv eaeiTeies his shining name.
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Fashionable Intelligence.


The retirement OF Miss Jean cite Bennett
sister oil James Gordon IfnnrIt, W the Convent
OF the "a Ied Heart, remlnJs Us that six We ara
ago she was one II a Glass OF young iadles in
tnat institution. who were: Miss Jesuette ien-
melt, Miss Nellie Murphy, dauguter OF the az
Collector OF the pOrl Of Ne~ YORK; Miss Kn1.
Hastings, daughter OF the edifor Of the ON
OF the no Ell keeper, Mr.. CnaIles SueileI the
Misses H"lldda', aauvht.rs o, ben. Huli d v:
qua hlss Anne Browne. now Ars. cen VINO
has Just mace her dfbid before the fnotigots
Miss huTpny, Year ago, married Senor de
iavss' W. althy Cuban; Miss Polly Holiaday
wedued tue Cunt do PouTtales: sliss SneI,ey
m-rrled an Italian. aud went with hInI to Aexi,
co.. Miss Hastings Is still fancy free"
The Home Journal Is mistaken In regard To
Miss Poly Holiday. She married the Baron de
Bussiere her sister, Jenny Holiday, married
the Count de Pourtaes, and since her death he
has married the celebrated fast beauty, Ms.
Beecher.
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cor CHdMBERLAIN, G4ME
How he Expects TO Regain his Influence win
the Radicals.

WASHINGTON. July IA private letter
rom prominent South Carolina Reouolicsn
says that Gov. Cnsm berlain will, at on early
das' make constitutional demand upon the
President for troops In South Carolina to SUD-
press such emoryo riots as the Hamburg and
Edgeueid disturbances. Ifhe makes such a call.
VIII DE with the view to regain the inf ence
mat ne s lost over the Radical masses, whose
suppoI' ne VIII thus endeavpr to secure. Cham
anu the poor south Carolini ms need not ne sur
priseu u ne Is nomnated ami elected by the
haulo Ia and al erward sent to the United States
senate tne colored LisuteDsnt-G oyern0r sIic-
f ice ~ I'm As Governor Of he pros rate state
~ ~, - ~, sh'uH almost daiy appeais to Patterson
'oiorget tue past ana support MN for reflection.
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HOW the Indian. &c, Arm. and A ammunition,


An army officer in the Big Horn expedi-
t'"h wrote Ittter 10 Trend IN TINS CITY A fe W
uSs pIl"1 10 the slaughter of Cistef's com
Ihhnd' from which we are permitted TO copy AZ
follows: w wy as
think this will be a YER, long and very tire-
some calnpalsn. | doubt II We see our nosGs
ae"lh before i.l II then. he scAIuity ~ water
ADDS ihuch 10 our difficulties. and / think ina
country GENERALLY much worse than ARR IN the
Only Rrowth for miles beng the irrepresstbis
cactus. ne Indians are very strong in num
bers aud spendidly armed, ana tney host IN,
,ney n ana will clean out anything the
oniteu states can send against them. Suotted
az ptetends to be friendly, and on the strength
W II We goes TO CHEYENNE, buys R,00O rounds OF
hnihlnunitlon' ana returns to the agency with IT,
out iullv equipped. Of the wisdom of alIo,vins
lhls proceeding say nothing. He was In Cbev
ehne Wheh we were there on our march up ua
p,chs w al the Information ne can get CON
seIhlhg our movements. ana forwards IL to ms
friends III TINS sort OF thing continues Won en-
Judge now suco ssfIl we shall be-" ' W."
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Including all who are in the pay OF the
national Government, the number is about
100000. III il easy for these men TO con-
tribute 80 each on the average to n Presi-
dental election fund. Tins would amount
TO s2'UV,VO. But this is u small estimate.
The contributions from this source, pro-
vided GRANT and ZACH CHANDLER anl
Dos CAMERON tell them to shell out, are
more likely to reach $},OO00o0. This would
be only an average of 80 per head.
For the sake of getting the support aud
money OF these men, does any body imagine
that HAYES is not going to yield 10 any
terms which GRANT, SHEPHERD, and the
rest may dictator
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GRANT has been ugly, bitter. and malig-
nant ever since the Republicans dropped him
Tor third term; and he ia now dstermincd at
all events there shall be a third term OF Grant
ISM or the Republicans shall not prevail In the
elections. IL Is to TINS feeling that BRIsrow,
JEWELL aud PRATT owe their downfall GRANr
disc ,rds them to Tighten HAYES aud let HIN
understand at the very outset OF the ca npalgn
that II he avs any need To the reform elements
In the Republican party he must expect no
active support from the President and his hun.
drei thousand oficehoiders and the t2,ODO.OOO
they can easily contribute To the election fund,
nor any aid from Gen. SHERIDAN In carrying
Louisiana and two or three other carpet bag
States by tue oayonst-tbe last hope of HAYES.
or course soft, amiIole, pliable man like
HAYES VIII yield to robust, acrid, tenacious
man like GRANT
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ALBANY. July ll-State Engineer Van Buren,
Ni 20 TO buhIo on Friday to take testimony iu the
mater ~ one OF the eItrayaxant contract. IN
tue canal-that OF Henry j. Mowry for deepenino the
Enc rom Bun 10 to Back Rock. The appropriation.
Tor 1t have amounted to s3o5v77 upon which payments
have been made by the Auditor o the amount az k,oo
w, ana the last estimate IL $4,000 The cant,.a,
ue pei9rs ne Canal Board N June last Tor csnce
esr'nn VIC stte Engineer was n n directed to lake
estllony IN reAon 10 IT, but could not nnd nm ~
TINS purpuse on account OF tne necessity OF
aJPort upon tue pending contracts. which was pr.
,en,ea 70 "a. Canal Board last wcek On Ills return
nona, KIN, Ing ,ssumon! NJ Van Bur wan personally
iengt, In carriage for the purpose. IL viii occupy
him about two weeks ~ Va" 'NVuPi
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GRANTS wax ON HoYEsrr.
Secretary Morrill, Ordered TO Dismiss Four
Of Bristow's Treasury Oneiais.

WASHINGTON. July 12.-The war upon
the honest men Of Or int's Administration still
continues. To-day the President sent e. secre-
try Morrill, the names OF four Of Dristow's
officials In the Treasury Department, whom he
desires to have peremptorIly dismissed. These
men are supposed to be Messrs. Jewell. chief Of
.ne bursau oI PRINTING and Engraving: Potter,
supervising irchitect; Adams. chief OF cllsto ts
special agents; and Martin, "A customs special
agen'. rms Information comes from a friend
m 'rning. 20 saws Grant has decided TO he
President nrst, and think of HAYES and Wheeler
! terwaid. Attorney General Taft Is doing ms
hest % show That everything ts pleasant he
tween him and the President. He has even be-
gun 10 mink that Avery must be pardnned. lie
said TO-DAY that he thought " must he done
although IL would cost one nundred thousand
votes.
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TnE sUS NEWSPAPER

Imprinted and published every day In the year. At iea
les aud 40 Nassau street. Nav YORK ci,s Is regua
sdon on secular days nowAvcragcs an, at 40. OOO,
usweesiy edtos over ~. 600 and,Is sunua, issgc
about tie same II thus prlpts and seHs million copp
week. which are rear all over We United staps
Ihhi ciTcul,ton Unprecedented "a American ,0ur-
eaistn. and Is constantly GU the sarrcase.
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IL was ostensibly SELDEN Common, Gov
ernor OF Maine, VIII, appoin ed BLAINE TO Nor
RILL's seat in the Senate. In tue Republican
~ tie Organic ton CONNoB bears aoout the
same relation to BLAINE thai the leurehead of
a snip bears to the Captain. blaine put him
where he Is. BLAINE dictated, In SO many
words his denomination by the Bangor Conyen-
ton The anixing OF CoNNOR's name to the
paper which sends TO the Senate man whose
corrupt conduct In the House Ia now under ia.
vestgaton and Of VIII Sc personal dishonesty
there are no doubts, was the merest Of forms. IL
was BLALAi; himself who appointed HLAINE
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In 1868 there startel, after prodigious
houiish OF numDcts, a a1ovelty for London
In the shape Of haf penny paper - the
Echo. The proprietors Rere Messrs. CAS-
SELL PETER GALPIs; the editor was Mr.. Ar.
thur ARNOLD, a man OF oohsader. Bile ability.
The paper got a large circulate N, but wneth-
er II proves renuneratige Is doubtful.
About year ago IL was sold 10 D. iron GRANT,
the JAY GOULD Of London, and MI ARNOLD
sgned. Now IL has become the pro perty OF
respectable radical. There IS no Lond, IN even
Ing paDer OF any account in the interes : OF tho
Liberal party. The Globe and Eucnfn0 Sta 'ndard
arc DRY, nj the Pau MAJ GdSette Is Inu. epen-
dent. The latter is said to he worth about a 1000
a year, net and nls an extensive circulation III
the form OF the Pal Mdu Hidget-in india An d
the British colonies IL was the nrst London
paper TO give short editorial paragraphs under
the title OF Occasional Notes." AMI this lnnoya
ton proved highly popular. The chief owner
Is Mr. GFoRGEJ. SMITH, Of the publishing q rm OF
hhITH ELDER, who Issued THACKERAY's and
Miss BhoNTEs works, ana the COrnhtu Magazine.
which at hr4t had an issue OF 81 900 COPIES now
d"indled down tn about 1000 Daily papers
which survive eighteen months are rarely started
IN London, the amount Of capital requisite TO !
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keep them going before they begin TO make
return being so large. Mr.. BEREsFoRD HOPE
lost tbD,OO0 on the extinct Morning Chronicle
before he started the Saturday Revteto, which
has been a rem srksbie financial success. But
once well started, London paper Is not easily
knpckad dnwu
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DArtY AND SUNDAY. 40 cents a line ordinary adver.
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