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THE DAILY FREE JPgggg AND TIMES SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1879. Jfro)rfssCimts, fHilltiifru anti JFanro 5cofcs. Adver littnttnls inicrtcd in rti column for Ten Cents a line each rta j-, cash in advance. fuhy, and to this mechanical device called "improvement in water supply regulators" his claims are confined. No inventor ever yet succeeded in getting a verdict or judgment for any thing not covered by" the patent, though they are sometimes permitted to go back to the Patent Oflice, to be allowed something of merit which they have mentioned, but not claimed or exactly specified.

"3Ir. Holly has rone back three times," and it is probable the Courts will hold him to what he finally got. The quotations made, the specifications and claims, the tlrawingsof "the contrivance" all fix just hat lie finally succeeded in bringing out, covered by patent aim iie- can nana noiinng more-. I will close this article by (parting frenn an English patent, A. 1).

fsi2. The points epiotetl ill be sufficients to show any one that Birdsill Holly's reissued patent 5.132 1 and his claims for ail pumping into street mains are invalid. From this general utsd collective main I branch atl my smaller riimilleation.s for the individual supply for every purpose I may adopt, and by the introduction of a number of capacious air vessels or loaded pistons acting up and down in cylinders, both 111 the vicinity of my engines, ami the nciifhlM.r-hood ol any other se ol action. I cause a Heavy pressure upon the water in mv said mains and pipes be eoiistaiitly kept up equal, if 1 mid it necessary (for my purpose) for the press- a pn-iu iniiiaiuy oi auuosptieres. and which pressure I i ovulate bv safety valves, placed either in i III.

MM- ul, i viuuicis wmi loaned pislous themselves, or in any oilier proper parts of the collective main and japes above described. This my said collective main so eouipiH-d will tlieil CmisOttitJ .1. aineof hydrostatic force, surticient to become the i primiiui mobile to any machinery, or for any other hydrostatic operation I may adoiit and ii I I can draw off and retail out tor any purMse of machinery the same as 1 do water for domestic and other uses. I cause my water to be always on, and mv mains and pipes constantly and universally capable of both influx and retlux at all iMiiuts. subject the control of stopcocks, for the purpose of suspending the waters run lien necessary for repairs, etc.

Instead of continuing the use of the nine sets of mains and pipes above mentioned, and laving them side by side, and crossing and piling to an unfathomable extent, both in length and a wide capacity of bore, I mean to lake the whole of them away, and rid the streets of a nuisance both so injurious to the public and so degrading to those who have placed them there, and in lieu of all these 1 shall introduce one single principal main onlv down the middle of every stri ct, forming transverse and other junctions universally with each other, just like the thoroughfare streets themselves, throughout the whole circuit or extent of service, be that what it inav. so to form no mora tively, than one universal cavity or channel for the i in uiaiKiu 111 an uiieciioas, wneitier direct or retrograde, and which collective main I can then both charge and discharge universally all points, or perform Uth indiscriminately either bv a single outlet and inlet or by an endless plurality "of them. by this principle and this capacity I am enabled! to inject water into this main for the whole service, either by a single set of pumps or bv an indelinite number stationed here I and how I please, and iiciuei i auopi iiie lornier or tne latter every individual point of service will participateof the genera influx lor domestic or other puriiose's comprehended in this patent. An universal and constant supply of water at all points and to a high and commanding altitude will give a creat vaiiety of domestic and other conveniences never before possessed through the medium of public waterworks. In the introduction of this interesting reformation into this conspicuous branch of domestic dependence, I shall not add to the existing costs and the future accruing contingent expenses, either by additional pipes or by augmenting their present extraordinary dimensions, nor bv adding those cons-stant new excavations which have already caused the platform of every street to be little better than a continued quick sand.

Forcing their water into one collective main and rami Heat ion of pipes that would cause an universal i K-IfveTnilu11 1HJ'UU 0f OODS, all marked down to "4 CENTS- i miirinir Magnus steeple, before v.hlc'.i time r.o such thing was known in England as this rising of water." The pumps were worked by a mill and this was the first direct pumping from the Thames to supply the whole city with Thames water. The works had undershot water wheels, twenty feet in diameter, having twenty-six floats 14 feet long, by eighteen inches broad. Each wheel gave motion by means of toothed wheels ami levers, to iMecn pumps in such a manner, that for every revolution the plungers made 2 1-5 strokes, 2 feet 0 inches 1. "he plungers'' were seven inciii in diameter. and the water wheels made with the flow of the tide about six revolutions per minute, (See Record of Philosophical Transactions from 1480 to17ol I-iondon.

British Museum, and other places), and pumped about two and one half million gallons per day. Frederick Gembclii oilered to Lord. Burleigh an "invention for water works to supply London from the Thames, thai would enable ditches to be swept of garbage, houses supplied to. the highest rooms, and fires and conflagrations suppressed," as en as 1591, and his met hods are now to be seen in the Philosophical Transactions recorded up to 1731 in London, British Museum. In 1594 a large horse engine was erected it short distance from Black Friars Bridge, by Bevis Bellman.

Tne engines worked six pumps. The pipes weic of lead, of large size. All these schemes were moiv or 1 ss successful financially, but s.kii gave way to new and improved inventions, and pumping continual. In 1641 a Fordo and Sir Waller Roberts invented and patented a "water suppiy system for direct pumping," but for want of funds of large amount their system was never used, though t'lalHratcly advertised. In 1G91 works were incorporated for raising water from the Thames and directly into the city iritioit jv.vre-" with "increased pressure for the sur.pression of fires." In 1762, "Soames Water HW.V had.

by using "immense iron and double acting plunger pumps, succeeded in pumping 4,000,000 of gallons per day, which was forced directly into street mains, and supplied London for all purposes of domes; it-use and the suppression of fires. Mention should also be made of the works of Hugh Myddkton, a goldsmith and citizen of London, who, at his own expense brought water from Chadwell and Aimvcll, In 1009, "Double acting plunger pumps, and Huge Water Wheels" were used in his works and pleasant stories are recorded in print of how the water came rushing along a huge conduit, and forced itself, with a roar, into the distributing pipt by means of another monster pump, tilling pipes, street and "ye fountains ol ye citie." In lblJ a reservoir was completed at larken-well, and was called Xnc Jtiv 'had. This Neic Hirer Company was incorporated under James I. 1619, Sir Hugh Myddclton being the first Governor. (See History of Islington, London Museum.) The length of the conduit was 40 miles.

The distance from London direct is only 20 miles. The fall of the channel is on an average four inches to the mile and he average depth 18 feet. The River Lea was added to this source of supplj- in 1737. This grand conduit flowed into various filter-beds of sand and charcoal, and thence was pumped directly into street mains, into the housts. and in nearly all parts of the city, the hydrants being used with hose attached, to water and wash the streets, and for suppression of fires.

The street mains were of wood. Trunks of elm trees were cut at required lengths, and small lead pipes used from thence to the houses. The mains were from ten to twelve inches bore. There wre 40 miles of these wooden mains, and 20 miles of renewals each year. Matthews 533-3 ia his that sometimes as many as nine of these pipes run along one street.

In 1820 all wooden pipes were replaced with iron. The present distributing machinery consists of gigantic double acting plunger pumps and steam engines combined at Hornscy, Hornsey Lane, Howgate, Stoke, Newington and New River Head, of 1450 horse power in the aggregate, covered service at Claremout Square, Maiden Lane, and Hampstead. A capacity of 20,000,000 gallons per day in all. In 17S0 the amount distributed was per day. Estimated population 830,000, but the capacity is per day.

"The Chelsea Water Works," on the north of the Thames, take sil their water from the Thames. Incorporated 1724. In 1829 a filter bed was constructed in the Thames and the water for domestic use pumped from the filter bed through an main of 30 inches in diameter, while the street hydrants were supplied by an iron main of 15 inches diameter. These mains are carried across the Thames on an'iron aqueduct of 9 spans engines are l.COO horsepower collectively. Daily supply of ai( gallons, supplying houses, and 200,000 inhabitants by direct pumping from the source of supply.

Capital of the company $70,000 Arthur Simpson, engineer, son of the eminent Janus Simpson, ngi-neer, London, Then come the I.aminth 115. and "JJelpidere Jload Waterloo Bridge, Hungeriord Market, abandoned in 1851 all direct pumping. Mr. John Taylor, engineer, London is authority for the history of the Lambeth Water Works Company, and he shows regulating devices. The Royal Commissioner of water supply makes the estimate that 200,000.000 gallons per day must be provided for, and hut the River Thames can supply the greater part of this.

The consumption of water in ancient Rome was 300 gallons to an individual. The baths and fountains took the greater share. At this time 30 gallons would be considered wasteful in most places. This is bttt a brief extract from memoranda made, by myself h'tlc in London looking up the history of direct pumping, and evidence of its use and "dexcrijition in printed publications." Ewbank in his "Hydraulics" gives very interesting evielence of the use of direct flow qf water into streets, fountains, and chambers, among the Greeks, Romans and Jews. The storing of large bodies of water seems to have first been done by Egyptians.

But I have already gone far enough in showing that what is claimed by Birdsill Holly as a new xyntem," intent by himself, is nearly three centuries old, I could also mention instances like the town of Ross on the river Rye, England, where the water from a "filter bed" in the river Wye has been pumped into all the streets of that high hillside town, without staudpipe or reservoir, for a hundred or more years, and the pressure is regulated, increased or decreased at pleasure and its use anticipates the Holly claim in this country. THE HOLLY CLAIMS. But Mr. Holly's demands and claims which he makes to the public are not such as his patent gives him a right to. You shall be the judge.

"Improvement in water supply regulators for waterworks." That is his claim. Not the system of pumping directly into street mains without standpipe or reservoir, but an "improved regulator," to govern the supply. He had changed and re-issued his patent three times More he knew just what he did want and then sim- ply got a patent for a -supply regulator which he minutely describes, and if used by anyone the user would be liable to 1 sued for infringement. He goes on to speak of his "pump" of which, however, he makes no special claim, but says an "ccuivalent" will elo he savs: "These pumps force the water directly into the mains, contrivances having lirst been provided, by which the pressure in these mains may be increased, or diminished, or kept uniform, at any degree that may be needed, in order to effect the purpose dc- sired." There is clearness for von: "Contriv ances who ever heard a "skilled hydraulic engineer calling a specific piece of mechanism and a particularly described device "contrivances This," however, is the peg on which they hope to hang their legal hat, and upon which they make claim to any devise whatever for "regulating the flow of water in the street mains. Again he says: "The pump I prefer, for this purpose, is that patented by me February 0.

1855, to be driven by suitable steam er water power; but I do not limit myself to this contrivance as various other pumps may be used for tit: purpose." As the patent of February G. ls.T. has he is not particular about his own 'contrivance." any other inventor's pump will do. Here we have a connived'' regulator and "a cent rived" or any other man's pump, and a contrived plan to use this indetiniteness to lay claim to every "contrivance" that may be used by puie.p makers whether like or unlike what be describes. As to his broad claim of being the inventor of "pumping directly into street mains," he savs do not claim to be the tir.sl to conceive the idea furuisiiiiii; water in limited quantities for ordinary uses by means of toreinsr pumps nor do I deny tli.ej pumps instead of movable ones b.ive been employed in throwing water for the liri-s.

my invention iii elieeling these I wo objects by one single and then lieveitipttifr that 'apparatus' aa eilcctive siMem lor the attainment ol these An inventor, presenting clear claims mid drawings, and a hkhIi-1 of his invention for regulating the supply and the flow of water in street mains, cannot come into court and say: "1 said 'contrivances' and 1 said I could use my 'pump or its and hence you must stop John I'. Flanders, and others, from pumping because whatever way they manage to get a difference of pressure tit different times and on different occasions, my 'contrivance' anil my 'Pump' or its 'equivalent' is infringed." Out among the towns of the West, where patent law is mostly learned from Patent lightning real men, or wandering vendors of Yankee mouse traps or patent cider mills, the Holly claims, stated so persistently and so adroitly by able and competent men, who have posted themselves so that they can give an opinion, or pay for one in some local gazette, have had full swing and there are hardly any pumps sold except by the Holly Company, because cf threats of suit for infringements. This Holly company has already accumulated, by a species of intimidation, nearly three millions of surplus capital, ami yet the general verdict is, that it is an interior pump. 1 defy that company to dispute the history of water supply pumped directly into street mains as 1 have described it, in ancient days, and I defy them to show wherein the pumping of the present day differs from what it did two hundred years ago, so far as the principle goes, or in the methods or "contrivances" used to regulate the same. This Holly has an intricate regulator, which easiby gets out of order.

If any one uses that specific device, it may be an infringement. We are quite willing he should have all he invented. But when he has added to, and withdrawn from. Patent No. 87,413, March 2, 18G9, and obtained reissued patent No.

4,085, and then almost annihilated that patent, and changed it from what he found he had not got, to what he supposed he wanted, and secured reissued patent No. 5,132, he got just exactly what he lias shown in his drawings and specifications, The patent itself is so clumsily ilrawn, so tmskillfully and displays stub ignorance of the proper terms to be used in hydraulic mechamcism, and shows such an utter lack of any clear of what he himself wanted, and the patent itself is so deficient in all substantial specifications and claims, and has so far trespassed upon the requirements of an equity court, that I am of opinion it must fall of its own clumsiness and inaccuracy. In any event it cannot go beyond the sphere of its limited inveution, beyond the drawings and re presentations of what it is he calls his I need not here go into the law of the case. The history of water works all over the world show very clear! that Mr. Holly has invented nothing.

Some years ago he found himself with his patent ol' expired. Here was a question of profound financial importance. He itti iiiestiidiabiy loeked up some ef the long forgotten 'contrivances" of the ancient lb'itoiis. or of the no less ingenious French, and rcated a new "water supply regulatctr for works." expired pump patent was nothing to tiiis. iili any pump attacheil biar.y system oi we' -r works, "any contrivance," lie says, and have his latent.

His pictured and moth k-d device is oniy erne chicken out of a brood of a docn. Tiiey all belong to him. Hiaio', Cameron, Knowles, Clapp, Jones, Deans. Flanders, Lang and all the rest are of bis brood, though as unlike as a buzzarel and an eagle. All over tin- country you hear of the ibdly patent pump" and "waterworks system." And yet there is no Holly patent pump and no Holly system of water works.

The pump patent expired long ago. There near yet was a "system'' antl tho useless little "dash pot" elovetailetl into some other man's patent pump, ami which ihcy d-ib with the high sounding ti'li- ef "a system of new and improved water works for supplying cities and towns with water''Js recordeel ve tv modestly in the patent office as an "improvement in water supply regulators for wider works," No pinny, no system of water works, but a cumbersome and useless mechanical contrivance to regulate the supply of water, whenever the Holly Company er any one else is paid to construct water works, with the cunning of inflated and grasping inventors this empiric in hydraulics and mechanical science, uses the worel "contrivances" so that he could say, whenever he saw pumping into the street 'mains, "Ah I they have my contrivance." The scheme works well in the hands of wealthy speculators, forjthey impress the public with the idea that the' have patents for pumps, water works, street mains, and, under the seal of the United States patent oflice, can place a tax upon all water pumped directly into street mains unless a stand pipe or reservoir is used, Tljc only lucid idea in this parteif his specification and claims, is that he admits elirect pumping in a small way, for washing hands and faces, and wont deny that fires have been suppressed by putting hose on hydrants, but what he has done is to pump for domestic use and to put out fires by one simple "apparatus or contrivance." his olel expired pump patent, or some other man's pump, and then develops that "apparatus" into "an effective system for the attainment of these ends," Mr. Holly must goon the stand as a witness and explain the mystery of this jargon of his. He goes on to clinch the "whole thing for which a patent was granted him in this way 'Tiiis is aecomptishe-il by pumping the water directly into the nniins of the water works, having made provisions by which the degree of pressure therein may be entirely under the control of the so that it may be preserved uniform or in-creaseJ or diminished many degree at his pleasure." Then he tells how owing to the great in-compressibiiity of water he can change the pressure almost instantly throughout, by means of his "contrivance" and then says, this is the subject matter of 'my invention." He has not confined himself to any particular "contrivance" nor confine; himself to any particular pump, but gives us a specific drawing of his regulator, and must confine himself to that. Y'et he goes on and e'rscribes the "contrivance" or "device" for wh'u he obtained a patent, in the most minute manner.

Under the laws, and under all thede-cisions of the courts, an inventor has just what "he describe and claims," and nothing more. It seems Birdsill Holly tried three times, by sin render and re-issue, lie fore he got what he supposed l.e wanted. This he has described Water Works Systems, Ancient and Modern. birdsill holly's claims to a new system reviewed axd exposed no 1tmp, no system axd ax old regulator. Bct.eau of Review, 35 Broadwav, New York, 1, 1879.

To the Editor of the Free Press and Times. In order to afford you and your readers data for an opinion upon a subject of vital importance to some of our most prominent industries, and of interest to thousands of tax -payers in the United States, and at the request of many persons, I submit the following report The claim of Birdsill Holly in his re-issued patent No. 5,132 is stated as follows IMPROVEMENT IX WATEli Stl'PLY KEOfl.ATOES FOi: WATER WORKS. The object of my invention is not only to supply eitios with water for ordinary purposes at any desired elevation without the use ol reservoir or stand pipes or any other which relic fur it eficieiu vpmt the principle of Hie hyilioxtatic equilibrium, but also by tli same instrumentalities, to furnish the means of extiiiguisliinir tires, at any one point, or at several points at the same time, if neeessary, and all this without the use of any movable engine for that Here we have exactly what Joseph Ini-mah, of Uimlico, Englandprocured a patent for in 1S12. So similar in wording are the claims, as to make it almost certain that Birdsill Holly took his alleged invention from the patent of that scholarly and good old English gentleman who died half a century ago.

Joseph Bramah tells the King that he has, "a system" of "hydrostatic mechanism, and an arrangement of hydrostatic forces upon the principle of hydrostatic equilibrium" and describes his "System" with great minuteness, covering all Mr. Holly claims. He says "I can, by my system supply the city of London with water for domestic use, with one pressure, and arrangement of forces, so that the supply pipes may be kept full in the highest houses in London, and another pressure for the suppression of tires, so that by putting hose upon the hydrants in all parts of the city or in one part, I can throw water with such force and volume as to carry it'over the highest building in London." The King granted his patent and he afterwards advertised his "System" in the London Times got up a company, as Mr. Holly did afterwards, and procured a "concession from the King to erect his engines and pumps and water-wheel'' under the "second pier of London bridge" from whence the water was carried as far as Graces' Church, for many years, and tho tax-payers records are conspicuous in the British Museum. WATERWORKS IN LOXDOX.

In 1439 Robert Large, the Lord Mayor of London, for "his own use and that of the citizens" had granted him by the Abbot of Westminster in consideration of two peppercorns paid to the Abbot at the annual feast of St. Peter, all the springs in the manor of Paddington and a body of water containing twenty-six perches in length, and one in breadth, from which to pump water directly into streets and houses for domestic use and the suppression of fires, by use of a double acting plunger pump, and a water wheel. The history of this may be found in Stow and the "application" and "concession" may be seen in the British Museum over the signature of Henry VI. At London AVall in 1500 at Bishops Gate in 1513 at Coldgate in 1828, the water supply was received by direct pumping into the mains of sufficient force for fire purposes, and the Common Council, in 1535, (see Matthews Hydraulica and London Ilecord and "Cilie Gazette" British Museum,) granted a sum of money for the purpose of "conveying water by conduit from Hackney to Aldersgate." In 1544, Parliament passed an act to convey water from Hampstead Heath, Maryle-bone, Hackney and Maswell Hill. The work was not completed for over fifty years, though pushed forward every few 3-ears.

This gave rise to hundreds of schemes printed in the papers of that date, showing that the good old people of the almost forgotten past were not a whit behind the Americans in devices of usefulness. One genius proposed machinery for raising and forcing water "with my double-action pump, two valve pistons with independent rods are worked in the same barrel, the upper piston sliding over the rod of the lower piston. "Motion is transmitted to the pistons by vibrati ng segment racks and thus the pistons are caused to recede from and approach such other and alternately lift a column of fluid "which is discharged from ye pump in a continuous and copious stream. Take therefore my pumps and put them jnto ye springs upon ye highest hills and ye water will tlow directly into ye street pipes, to fill ye kitchen and be ready for ye breaking out of tires. If ye force is increased, ye volume of water, by keeping ye hidrants closed below, will till ye chambers also." This system of water supply waa direct and so far as it was carried under the act of 1544, it had no reservoir, but used the direct flow for domestic use, as well as for the suppression of fires, speed being increased by direc pumping at a high pressure.

In 1G92 it became incorporated as the Hampstead Water Works. (See Matthew's Hydraulica.) In 1508 Stone relates how water was pumped from the Thames at Dowgate, but gives no particulars. In the papers of that date is an advertisement of a means of "supplying water by pumping directly into street pipes from the filter lcd at Second pier of Dowgate, Thames, and the supply of houses along the lanes and passages leading to tlie river." In 1580, a man by the name of Russell proposed a plan to supply the city of London with water pumped directly from Isle-worth, taking the water from the river Ux-bridge direct to using huge double acting plunger pumps. In 1582, Peter Maurice arranged to pump water through lead pipes into the houses in the eastern part of London "from a most artificial forcer''' standing near London Bridge. Peter Maurice paid ten shillings per year to the Chamber of London for this right.

This was also direct pumping into street main and then using lead pipes to distribute, and the old records and "tax-bills" and Reports on this Concession show it was used for fire purposes also. May there is recorded a lease to this Maurice for 500 years, by which he was authorized to erect an engine within the first arch of London bridge, and to arrange his patented filter bed of coal and sand, and supply the city with water for domestic use and to suppress fires by means of force pumps. In 1583, the churches of St. Mary Magdalene, St. Nicholas, and Cole Abbey, near to Fish street Tlill, were thus supplied, and also the surrounding houses.

In 1610 the system was extended to Aiders-gate, all supplied from water putnped from the Thames, and no reservoir used. The papers of that day record how the Lord Mayor celebrated the completion of the system on the 18th day of September, 1582, "with divers of the Master Wardens, of the Twelve Companies." They arc recorded as having "hunted the hare, and killed her," and thence to dinner "at the head of the Waterworks and Pumping Machinery." The water works erected by Peter Maurice in 1582 were very successful, and in 1583 anothor grant vraa given him to erect pumps and water works and run mains from the second pier of London bridge for 500 years more. The papers of that day, now to be seen in the British Museum, London, England, thus spoke of it "The experiment was wit, nessed by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and they saw him throw the water over St. EVENING EDITION. Ill KI.InTO', SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1879.

Eesults cf Eepublican Sule. The spcecli of Senator Wiudom, delivered recentlj- in the U. S. Senate and printed in the Congressional Record of June 2Gtb, is worthy to accompany that of Senator Morrill, as a source of information for voters and students of our political history. Mr.

Windom first portrays the condition of things during the last few months of Democratic rule in 1SC0 01 the secession of seven States, the organization of a hostile government within our borders, the seizure by the rebels of the national mints, custom houses, arsenals and forts in the South, the dispersion of our navy, anil the impotency of the Democratic administration to do more than proclaim the helplessness of the country before its internal foes. From these perilous depths of treason, imbecility and dishonor has the country lieen gradually lifted by the Republican party through IS year3 of inces sant struggle with the disorganizing and demoralizing efforts of its rival. Summarizing the results of Democratic financiering, Mr. Windom shows that the Treasury notes issued under the act of De-eem1er 17, 18C0, redeemable at the end of one year from date, were placed at rates of interest varying from to 12 per cent. Only $10,000,000 were disposed of, as the propositions for additional loans ranged from 13 to CG per cent interest, and these usurious offers were rejected.

The act of February 8, 1SG1, authorized a loan of at per cent interest, with 20 years to run, but of these bonds less than 8 18,500,000 were disposed of, and those at an average rate of $39.10 per $100. The national credit had sunk so low that in January, 1SG1, the Secretary of the Treasury suggested that the several States should be asked to lend their credit to the government. Now the nation which in 18G0 could not borrow enough money for it9 current expenditures at 12 per cent interest, is selling its 4 per cent bonds at 103. In 1860, the Republic was begging for an indorser for its dishonored credit in 1879, the financial world is begging for a chance to buy its 4 per cent bonds. "If, in 18G1," said Mr.

Windom, "a 6 per cent one-hundred-dollar bond, having 20 years to run, sold for $39.10, on the same basis of investment a one-hundred-dollar 23-year 4 per cent bond 9hould now sell for only 43.81, instead of $103, the present market price. The verdict of the financial world, therefore, is that the credit of this nation has advanced over 100 per cent under Republican rule. This statement, however, falls very far short of the whole truth, for in 1860, upon a proposed loan of $25,000,000, only $13,415,000 could be sold, while in 1879 offers have been received amounting to over $150,000,000 in a single day." If it is said that this contrast is unfair because a great war was impending in 1S60, the answer Is obvious that both the war and the bankruptcy were the fruits of Democratic rule. Furthermore, from 1857 to 1861, in a time of peace, Democracy trebled the National debt to meet current expenditures, while in the last eighteen years Republicanism has paid at least three thousand millions of the cost of saving the Union. Mr.

AVindom proceeded to give a re view of the astonishing material and industrial progress under Republican rule. It appears that during the past 18 years the increase in the exports of bread and bread-stuffs has been 614 per cent of wheat and wheat flour, 4o0 per cent of corn and corn meal, 1.952 per cent of provisions, 843 per cent in production of pig iron, 180 per cent, and of railroads bars, 3o0 per cent in post-oflioe revenues, 213 per cent in internal commerce 690 per cent, while the popu lation in that time has increased only about 50 per cent. What a story do these statistics tell of faithful administration in the interest of people In an atttempt to reply to Mr. Windom Mr. Saulsbury of Daleware unwisely referred to "the corruptions'' of the Republican party, whereupon Mr.

Windom said to him "Three years ago I had the honor to ask the Senator from Delaware to name a single Republican official, whom the thirty-three investigating committees had proven to have stolen one dollar from this government. He failed to do so at that time he has had three years to think it over I repeat the question." Mr. Sauls-bury declining to name even a single instance, Mr. Windom repeated the challenge for the benefit of the Democratic Senators in general, inviting them to give the name of a single officer whom the Democrats, with their thirty-three investigating committees, at a cost of more than a quarter of a million dollars, had detected in dishonesty. Not a name was given him.

He then carried his unkindness to the verge of cruelty by putting in a list of Democratic defaulters in amounts exceeding in connection with the various departments of Government from 1830 to 1861, aggregating the immense amount of $10,092,. 921.72. He closed with a statement showing a statement that the losses to the Government under Jackson's administration were $10.55 per $1,000 under Van Buren's administration, $21.15 per $1,000 under Harrison's administration, $10.37 per $1,000 under administration, $8.34 per $1,000 under Taylor's and Fillmore's administration, $7.64 per $1,000 under Pierce, $5.86 under Buchanan, $6.98 under Lincoln, $1. 41 under Johnson, 48 cents under Grant'9 first administration, 40 cents under Grant's second administration 26 cents. These figures are not new, but they are always interesting.

The whole speech makes a significant commentary on the character of the party which is now striving to grasp the reins of government on the plea of superior honesty, wisdom and statemanship. Frank Lyman, employed in Gaysville, but having a family in South Royalton, was arrested the other day, and fined twenty dollars and costs, amounting to twenty-eight dollars and twenty-four cents, for brutal treatment of a twelve-year-old daughter. He chained her to a railroad spike driven into the floor of her room, locked the chain with a padlock, and kept her there from Saturday night until Thursday. Host A Sl'M of moner in an envelope marked E. At-CX water 4 St.

Nicholas Montreal. A reward for leaving it at this office. July By a wet nurse, a chil to nurse aud care for. For reference inquire of Dr. 11.

U. LangJon. comer Bant M. and Wiuooski Avenue. July 1.

U3d Xottrrs. I PIANOS Mr. Harwood will be in Burlington July 4th. and later, to tune Pianos, order at Huntington 4 ul to lrnt. It KtK SALE.

My house on V. iltar.l street. Possession unci! immediately- J. faly I. dif JFor Sale VT this oitlce A Kailroad Ticket to Boston, at a reduction.

June Iki.dif IK HI work horse -hen i i iSrcfrrifS ano iJrobtstons. McWILLlAMK BllOTHEKS Kespectully ngg. st that you can buy choice Fresh Confectionery, WAUKANTED IT RE. AT 17 CENTS PEll POUND. BEST SARDINES, I'EIS BOX, TEXTS.

PINK APPLES. c. i ir, f.j it We have boxed up credit and sent it to the Zulus. GOODS ON -5 ENT COUNTERS- KEDUCFO TO -4 CENTS." Finest Cheese in Vermont. BABBITTS' BEST SOAP 5 Cts.

We take as collateral for poo.ls, Gol I. SUvc-Greeubacks aud United States Bonds. McWlLLIAMS Wholesale and Retail Grocers, Bacon 3 Block, Church, Street, Burlington, Vt. July 7, dtf GRAND 4TH Of JULY CELEBRATION AT CHAUVIN'S. Watermelons, Fresh Peanuts.

Lemons, Bananas, Strawberries, Furs, AT WHOLESALE AND ItnTAII New Cabbage, Squash, Tomatoes, Cncnmxrs, Beets, Turnips, Radishes, Sky Rockets half and everything else, A No. 1, cheaper than the cheapest. New Teas, at 50 ct. New Cheese and June Butter. Strawberries at 8 cts and 15 cts.

Babbitt's Best Soap at 5 cts. Fine Flour at fC.W $6.50 and fT.fD for Cream of Wheat. Kerosene Oil at 10 cts a jfaiioa. THE GREAT NORTHERN BLUEBERRY MARKET will in: oi'i; rns, Wnen Ginirer Bread and Soda Water will be plenty. Clumvin beats the world ou Tobacco and Ciirars.

Curars, 5 for Hi cts. Havanas for cts. Imported Cigars, all styles, at 10 cts. li cts, for 25 cts, 25 cts, 5 or i 1 5u ct 4 for 1 AT CHAUVIN'S, EXCHANGE BLOCK, CHURCH ST. Burliugtou July 4, dtf.

fHtsrfllancous. 3IOWIXG MACHINES, KNIVES AXD SECTION'S, SCYTHES. FORKS, RAKES AND SNATHS. For by GEORGE I. IIAOAR'S.

July 4 dtf BTJRNHAM'S Photographic Parlors, Cjruer Church and Bank Streets, Burlington, Vt FINE FINISHED AVOltK OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Prices as low as tho lowest, quality of work considered. PICTURE FRAMING A SPECIALTY. DEALERS IN Velvet Frames, Albums, Chromos, Statuary I'hotos, etc. July 4, dtf 1AILY STACJK Will commence Tuesday, July 1st, lr79, to and from Burlintrton to Grand Isie, stopping at the Iodine Springs House winch is now open for Summer Boarders also Staire connects ith Steamer Williams at Gordon's landing for Iodine Springs.

House. Stage leaves Van Ness House, this city, every morning, sundavs excepted. W. CORIUN, July 1, diw XX ot, price ii.v. Make a -ilect ited no iuiL tresses or pillows required tetter than a hammock, as It (Its the Uxlv as uleasantltr.

and lavs ttraiaht. Folded or opened instantly, self fastening. Just the thing for hotels, otllces, cottages, camp-meetings, sportsmen, CkkkI for the lawn, piazza, or "the coolest place in the house." Splendid for Invalids, I make the largest and best variety of Spring-Beds. and Cots In the world. Send for circulars.

Sent on. receipt of price, or C. D. HEKMoS W. I.

ADD, 10 Fulton Boston 7 Canal New Nrk 1G5 No. 'id. Philadelphia. July 5, deotiim c- ViUchiji in. kaas, cua tr.

it To be given away! FA XS FA XS Any person or pe sons making a purchase at my ni oi THE 4TH OF JULY, Will receive a FAN FREE OF CHARGE quality according to the amount purchased. Great Bargains in Every Department Ia MILLINERY SUITS, CORSETS, KID GLOVES, HOSIERY, RCC'IIIXGS, FANCY GOODS, NOTIONS, PARASOLS, CHROMOS, OIL PAINTINGS, AND BE READY; You can easily keep cool by making a purchase and receiving a Fan, At A. BOUTIN'S, Biggest Bonnet in the World, Nelson's and Payn's Blocks, Church Burlington, Vt. July 4 dif A LYMAN ALLEN'S SlAY STOIC Gossamer Waterproofs lood ('nods al loner prices than ver. of si.es.

Full assort- Another Invoice received to-day. Some very handsome styles in LADIES' LAWN SACQUES At low pi ices. New lot of Xitflit Dresses, Skirts, etc. A Bargain in FINK TICAIL, HKIItTS, And rnar.y other goods worthy of notice in this New lot of Lawns ami Cambrics. IiUCIIIXGS, FANS, TIES, BUTTONS, KNIT GLOVES, Etc.

AT LYMAN: ALLEN'S. July 4. diwtf i i i 1 Secondly, tne total prev entlon of accumulated lires and the consequences occasioned by thtm, and to render tire insurance wholly unnecessary. To save a great portion of the present expenses that attend the cost of these works, and by a more judicious principle and permanence of wo.rkm.an-ship cause both the repana aud the cost and inconvenience of them to be very unfrequent and comparatively trifling to what is at present felt. I think it proper here to add, before I conclude this part of my specification, an observation or two respecting one of the main objects I have in vicw this part of my observation, namely the total hrPrltlinil nf fl.n., 1.1.,..- 11 i 1,1 mose lament able and destructive consequences that so frequently occur for want of an instantaneous supply of water This important object wili indisputably be much within my power to obtain by the heavy force of water I shall be able to cause to issue instantane- i ously at any part of that collective aud general mam I have described, as it must be obvious that when I have prepared such a constant universal supply of water, and rdwavs under a hcavv pressure that will issue with a violent b-t an tin.VJ all point3 in an instant nrpari ilia flVfinmiieh ingmaybeat all puns adopted for this purno8e either in any puns of buildings in the street or elsewhere, so whim ui inii in it, nix pens water can be immediately V'iHiuiiUid- tinguish it, to ex" rcrv Vilflof niUSt apmV 011 moHt occasions a i m.f would piev eiit much mischief, there can be but little doubt oi Ultimate success, and sanguine hopes inav be entertained that by the l' effects of me" means above proposed the public safety will be restored to lierfect cerium rv 1 1,..

i one i ne eni ii in- oiis expense now attending (lie iiisuraiic" will be' partly, if not felij, a circumstance not 1 only individual, but likewise of national; consideration. In speaking of mechanical devises lie shall' use and the contrivances" he speaks with creat I coniKietice, and shows much of its mechanism but lysines uie puiiiic lliey may rely on the invariable construction ot any machinery, instrument, matter mid thing he may time to time adopt and apply lor the production and accomplishment of these results. Frnni tlio space in tlie useful field e.f lncelmtiie-s oectij.icd bv a little "dash pot patent" about as useful as a Chinese lire cracker on a wet day and from this indefinite potent "contrivance" described as a modest "regulator" to lit. almost any pump, to the present claim of Hollv to cover the centuries past, and all the fields of present hydraulic is an awful spread. Nothing like it litis ever been recorded, save, perhaps, -where tin ancient poe-t says There Titan, long and large in fetters hound, O'er spreads nine acres of infernal ground.

Whether Holly ever gets thus tropically situ-ateel ln the hereafter, or net, no erne can tell, but if he continues thus extensively spread out over the field ef industry here, we shall certainly make it tropical for him. J. T. Drew, Of Counsel for Defendants. Ciunv Jackson's Best Sweet Navv Tobacco.

Dec. 31, lsis-'d-wly PRESUMPTION' FREE For the speedy cure of Seminal Weakness, Loss of Manhood, and all disorders brought on by indiscretion or excess. Anv druggist has the ingredients. Address DAVIDSON A Nassau York. June Van Wort.

In New York cit June 1ST9, Mrs. Charlotte Claracie Van Wort, in the year her age, daughter of Clark M. Joslvn, of Independence, and niece of Mrs.W.J. Slorton, of Essex, Vt. 8he was buried in Greenwood.

IZmirstons. S. HIN'TIVGTOX 4 ISULLETIX NEW HOOKS. July 5, THE ADIRONDACK edition. 6ti cents.

ILLUSTRATED. New DAVID FLEMING'S FORGIVENESS. Hour Series. MCDONALD NIECE. No Name Series.

THE COLONEL'S OI'ERA CLOAK. Corner Church and College Sts. Burliugtou, July 5, 13dAwlt MRS. CAMPBELL'S ICE CREAM PARLORS, Are now open for the season. The besd of Ice Cream always on hand at the lowest prices, and delivered if desired.

Special low prices for Festivals, Parties and Picnics. Choice Confectionery nnl JTelliew Al-' Stcotitl Door Wlasl of Mloirard ttprrn House, Itaiik St. FIRE WORKS, FUGS, LANTERNS, PISTOLS, EE- YOLVERS AND PAPER CAPS At MRS. CAMPBELL'S. I June 3 dtf.