Year: 1870

Special Correspondence BOLIVAR BULLETIN.


WASHINGTON Cry, April I6, 10.


The caucus of Radical Senators which
met yesterday to consider the difficulty be-
tween Senator Cole and Secretary Gorham,
referred the matter back to the Committee
having the matter in charge, with request
to arrange the matter amicably, in other
words, they desire that Senators and Secre-
taries having foul linen to whash, to take it
Mr. Bancroft, wishes to come home from
Berlin, and that Mr. Grinnell, Collector of
New York, will be offered the Prussian
Mission. The bill establishing depart
ment of justice will be reported favorably


upon by the Committee on retrenchment.
Mr. Jenckes the author Of the bill is pre-
pairing a statement to be presented with the
bill, in which he claims a considerable re-
duction of costs in the legal expenses of the
Government. The bill provides for a de-
partment of Justice of which the Attorney
General shall be the head, with assistants,
clerks and officers of various kinds. The
conduct Of all judicial proceedings in every
department of the Government and the
Attorneys of the United States to be under
the control of the Attorney General He is
also to have charge of the prosecutions of
all kinds in the different departments. This
is simply part of the plan to centralize all
power in the Federal Government and with
this immense power in the hands of the law
officer of the Government, he will be of es-
sential use in assisting to carry out to its
elimination the idea of Hamilton-a strong
governmeut-whic is now the design of
New England Mrs. Lincoln has written a
letter to President Grant in which she states
that she is in good health but very much in
need of assistance. The President will
probably send the letter to the Committee
on pensions who have already agreed to
report a bill giving her liberal pension,
She is certainly trying to make the most out
of her husbands martyrdom. The question
now asked here is will Petroleum take the
place of coal and wood7 The Bingham
amendment is not creating half as much in
terest here just now, as the operation of
Whipple and Dickerson's liquid fuel ma
chine, for running stationery engines, loco
motives, smelling ores and for heating iron.
This machine has been in practical opera
ton at Duvalps foundry, Georgetown, run
ming 80 horse power engine, for the last
four months, using no fuel but crude petro-
lsum or shale oil. The machine is simple
and the power immense. Is consists of
two wrought iron climbers, one within the
other, with dome submounting the outer
one. The inside cylinder is generator for
conversion of the oil into gaseous vapsr by
the application of super-heated steam, which
eirculates freely through 600 So inch copper
tubes, one fourth of an inch apart, connect.
ing steam spaces at each end of she cylinder
thereby exposing the oil to the greatest
practicable amount of heating surface and
almost instantly converting it into gas or
vapor, which passes through general tubes
into the outer cylinder or gas holder.
From thence it passes by its own pressure
into the dome, which is filled with elastic
sponges placed there fer the purpose oi
ensuring uniform flow Of gas Within
these sponges is introduced another pipe By
which super-heated steam is brought in and
there mixed, and thence conducted to the
fire box under the boiler, where it supplies
twety-four gas burners. The gas is here
lighted by the application of fame the
same as any other burners, producing
Prof Henry says, the most perfect sombus


ton These burners are one-eighth Of an
Inch In diameter and produces degree oi
heat nueh more intense than either wood
or coal and sufficient to run 100 horse
power engine The supply of gas is under
the most perfect control of the engineer By
means of stOp-cocks, so that the utmost


economy can be obtained i4 the use of thC