vi IN KANSAS we learn that since the passage of tile bill opening op i knitig this territory for settlement some three thousand claims have been off to be occupied by virtue of the bill we are also informed that miny many difficulties and furious quarrels are arising aris ilig among tile the claimants an individual whose name we did not learn who has been in the territory brought the intelligence to our city a day or two since that in one of these brawls a few days ago a person wm killed by having inflicted oti on him wounds and chops which presented him in a horribly shocking and nd mutilated condition fla independence dependence messenger 6 theire last night raged with fury the f greater r reater part of if the night and was not got under until the national gat ional theatre the chinese museum and thirty stores and dwelling houses were destroyed I 1 tile the girad rouse was on fire several times during duling dul ing the narrowly escaped destruction loss a about bout atmospheric telegraph for I 1 ing 1 the special committee of tha thea ate to whom was referred d the M ithiel S Ris Rise chardson bardson askin aein g for foi I 1 P privation pria r tion to test the fessia feasibility I 1 ty of od ed atmospheric erie telegraph have j F ed to compliance M bence with the request st Y I 1 I 1 ted a bal bill authorizing the 0 consic ns I 1 tube under iander the supervision s of i ter general on a direct line bet be inton ington and baltimore this wi od p pursued ey u e d to ascertain age ertain het he I 1 et i telegraph invented by could be availed avitine d of for the va v 6 cies of business and social 1 n 1 1 peroba derpo I 1 widely i te it A bended that the force 0 of t the A rent would be espeli spent t or that ta t a W stables would prevent ats it kraii t I 1 11 yond a very Hilli limited ted distance di i 1 pertinent peri ment h had ad resolved the dol and A pira similar ilar success is I 1 committee in the present caw cat 61 I 1 the fears fearson of those who JW operation through a long low k i ewt I 1 I 1 q 1 I 1 1 I 1 that which is exhibited exhibit od in the model shown at the capital which they declaim works ad seems to have overcome al au difficulties and some which have been supposed I 1 i insuperable in the practicable operation ill of the atmospheric telegraph this modal I 1 is described in the report as follows I 1 ft consists of a horizontal tube of one I 1 1 inch clear diameter one half of which is straight while the other half balf contains curves designed to represent the of the tube passing over uneven ground one small air pump placed misplaced ie is near its centre and communicates with either end of it exhausts it at pleasure frum from left to right I 1 or from right to left I 1 A piston or plunger three inches long I 1 and fitting the tube loosely but followed by I 1 several detached disks or washers of loather leather I 1 which accurately fit it is inserted in one end of the tubo tube separated sepe rated by a cutoff cut off gad and a few strokes of the pump produce in the tube tabe a partial vacuum the cutoff cut out off is then reversed and the plunger set free on the side aide of the vacuum relieved from the resistance of the air in the tube and propelled along by the pressure dessure of tie the atmosphere passes through through in a time wholly r able by ordinary means I 1 A mr richardson richards on refers to a still more I 1 practical test of the working and capacity t of his telegraph ns ina in a tube a mile lop long I 1 of 4 three inches clear in diameter an and d f following flow the elevations and depressions of an or I 1 binary field and the certificates he produces show that the mile was traversed 1 by the piston or plunger to which was attached I a weight of several pounds pound sin in much 1 less then a minute I 1 I 1 if the tube be completely exhausted the atmospheric pressure being about fourteen I 1 and three varter quarter pounds to the square inch she haf piston abo should ld pass through the ex exhausted 1 tube cube at the speed equal to about a kundred hundred and thirty five miles mile s pe per r ho hour ar modified by its weight 4 and n f friction ri tion but a perfect vacuum is not taht 6 li at attained in an arao I 1 I 1 I 1 tice it is i asserted however by the committee commit tei that such a d degree 0 ree of exhaustion I 1 is la easily at tain ble as W will secure a speed and power amiles equivalent lent to the propulsion of fifty aty tone ions two lund per e hour 1 the mails wap which I 1 h now new consume welve twelve houts hours in passing between new york and aad washington I 1 may in the opinion of the committed be carried between those cities in two hours by the proposed atmospheric raphy raph and at a cost so dimisher dimi shed that the department might send six seta of mails i where chere it now sends one without indrea increasing s diug I 1 its ts expenses journal Jo journal arnal of commerce bommer 9 e