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? 11 WI - , ; ? ' 'T - ? ; ? ? : "-T-* "" -' *??* f ^ \ , .? -4 "JO % ^ ^ 1*JT* *M ^ **' t /' y ^' iiV INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. * Y n A w U 5?CaOS - ... , - : ? *' ^ v? . : g??rv..CwfH L -?__._-- : - = - ? -*"1 r?7 YOL. II. m 39. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1872. ; f I * I . * "A ? ' *- - r> OUR NEW YORK LETTER. Indian Chiefs in the City?Their Appearance?Daring Attempt to Rob a Bank. ^ Capture of the Desperadoes. 1 LO THX POOR INPIAN. I was present at the reception given to the Indian Chiefs at Cooper Institute, and occupying a platform seat immediately in ^ the rear of the illustrious warriors, I had 1 an excellent opportunity of noting their ( appearance. A general report of the pro- 5 ceedings I need not give, as it will be in all the papers, but I merely propose to ( write up a short paragraph ot things I in- 1 dividually saw and heard, and first I will give the names of the different Indians:? Red Cloud, Red Dog, Blue Horse, Lone Wolf and wife nee Ear of Corn, Red Fox, Little Wolf, Thunder Hawk, High Bear, * Poor Elk. Stabber, Slow Bull, Hawk s 1 Eagle, Black Crow, Carry Crow on his Head, Little Wound, Big Foot and wife } WKWA TT? n-1- OAA/1 i,Or\i 1 /\ T-flnf ' /t&C 'I IIUC/ iJO" rv, v?\/vu JL> UliUlV, A?VV. Two Elk, Blue Shield. Daylight, Poor Moon, Hard Heart, Coyote, Feathered Eagle, and High Wolf. Tbey were quaintly and variously dressed in pantaloons, second hand dress-coats, and overcoat capes adorned with ornaments and beads, while the two wives, Ear of Corn and White Hawk,wore for their Dolly Vardens old calico dresses with accompanying Indian trinket ornaments, and all wore moccasins save Red Cloud, who had on a pair of gotta percha slippers. Peter Cooper opened the reception by a few remarks in which he said that his father could remember when a wall had to be thrown across Duane street to keep out the Indians. After remarks from Dr. Fisher and Mr. Tatnur, Red Cloud was introduced, and he threw the audience into a hearty laugh by pulling off his coat and making his speech in his shirt sleeves with his wristbands unbuttoned; and his speech like that of Red Dog, was characterized by tbe same monotonous tone of voice and continuous gesture of the hands in one direction, and one who has read of the eloanence of the renowned chiefs Philin. Logan, and Red Jacket, must have been j much disappointed at the sing- song schoolboy style of oratory of these noted warriors. While they spoke the others gave the approbational ''Ugh! Ugh!" and talked ' away among themselves, while Lone Wolf J turned and kissed his hand to the little . boy of the Superintendant of Indian Af 1 fairs, who sat behind liirn nodding in a ( chair, and the little fellow didn't seem to 1 have much opinion of receptions, but a profound regard for sleep, while 44 Ear of ' Corn," a care-worn looking squaw, would * turn with a maternal smile toward the ' drowsy child. These Indians though * chiefs are poor looking enough, they are ( sons of nature rude, and ignorant, the ad- 1 vancement of the world has done nothing for them, they stand to-day in the aborig- 1 ina1. condition of four thousand years ago, * c proud ot an old blanket, ragged clothes, j and tin trinkets, and while some of them arouse our vegence by their attrocities. they should all have our pity. At the close of the meeting the Indians all filed past, and I enjoyed the privilege of shaking hands and bidding them all | good-bye, and I assure you that it was more agreeable than to feel their hands ' twisted in one's hair in the scalping operation, which I hope never to experience. s ATTEMPT TO ROB A RANK. f Sometime since a man representing v himself as a sculptor in company with <J two others, rented rooms adjoining the 1' First National Bank building in Jersey i City, and afterwards on some plea rented i others in the same building on the floor n above. This, together with the fact of b their coming in and going out of their rooms at unseasonable hours of the night, a aroused the suspicions of the other occn f pants of the building, and one day during b the absence of the men a young man ef- J fected an entrance into their room through an upper window and found the floor lit- n tereil with the dust of brick and mortar, s and upon removing a cupboard he found a a large hole behind it in the wall leading <] to the vault of the bank, through which, f in another night the burglars would have Xl effected an entrance to the bank and the r vault. The brick and mortar taken out b had been carefully concealed in a large 1 chest in the room. The young man re- 1 placed everything as he found it, and in- r formation was given to the bank officers, t who called a meeting of the directors and " gave information to the police, who on n the next night surrounded the place, and c bursting open the doors at 1 o'clock in the c morning, they surprised the burglars at a their work, and, although they presented o revolvers, and made a determined resis- s tance, they were all three captuaed and t: committed to the county jail and their 1) chances for the penitentiary are as good a as any thieves' in Jersey. v s Novel Rehearsal.?A late fashionable c weddin < in St. Louis, which was desired ii to cotno ofl without any hitch and in t proper style and with proper attention y to the minutest detail, was on the previous day rehearsed iu full-dress. The n minister was present, the services gone p through, all the stage directions fully 6 given, and the various attitudes and j Sositions correctly learned. The next ay's " drama" was a decided hit. * The Franking Privilege.?Before the 1 last U. S. Congress adjourned, Mr. Farns- 1 woith introduced the bill abolishing the c fraLking privilege, which was defeated c early in the session. The vote stood 128 \ n favor, to 29 against. j A Huge Job for the Doctors. The, notable elephant Romeo, was T raveMng with a menagerie in the West. ci Jpon arriving at Ohicago, it wa9 lound ^ hat the animal suffered with sores so leverely, that he could go no further, and k Dr. Boyd, of the Chicago Medical College, tr >erforined an operation upon him. The 1 )peratio^is thus described: Romeo was t( standing quietly in a bed of hay, with his a estered lour feet in tubs of water, little n ireaming what was in store for him. The r< rounds were inspected, and it was not c< before the M. I).. discovered that they S1 iad, indeed, an elephant on their bauds. P Dne of the Forepaogh brothers, who has h :harge of the elephants, placed himself in u rout of Romeo with a pitchtork ; an as- w sistant keeper took charge of his trunk c< 5y attaching several hand-spikes to it; a Dr. Withers knelt before his victim, and o n another moment several pounds of ele- ei ihant steak were severed from the mass. r< Simultaneously a low rumbling, like dis- y ;ant thunder, vibrated through the tent, ft >ringing every animal in the menagerie p o the chorus, and for a minute or two it U seemed as if all the elements had broken tl oose in Pandemonium. The next thrust c< 5ronght only a quiver ever the huge car- u :ass, and after that, during three mortal fi lours of terrible pain, the animal dis- s] dayed only the noblest qualities of forti- h tide. The surroundings of the animal h >oon presented the appearance of an ill- ei jrdered slaughter-house. Again and B igain, under the directions of Professor w Boyd, Dr. Withers cut, gouged, tunneled d tnd chiseled into the poor beast, each t< ;ime cutting away or digging out a pound $ >r two of putrid flesh, and each time the si tnife or other tool was withdrawn the " slood flowed copiously after it. Like a a; jracticed miner, the doctor only pros>ected for a while, feeling his way to the b ;revices. Soon he laid bare a member, sj ind then entered upon a task that sickened b ;he stoutest saw-bones present. Having c< :xposed the seats of corruption, he began d ;o scoop them out, bringing handful after ? rnndful of putrification to the surface. b Tunneling his way along by means of e crapers and chisels, his arm would enter ? he animal's leg to the elbow, until the tl sound flesh was reached. After a full n jour spent in slashing, gouging and scrap- tl ng, during which the poor beast was rid ri >f fifteen or twenty pounds of putrified u i u-.i. _?.i _ _ i n nailer anu uesn, anu a puuuu ui mu w >one, the surgeons concluded that suffi- h dent for a day might be the evil thereof, ? tnd desisted from that part of the opera- n ion, to enter upon another more painful si ind harrowing. Both legs had been thor>ughly tunneled, and in many cases, where he openings were directly opposite, but slight integuments and fractions of bones >revented a meeting, men were busy at he furnace heating huge soldering irons, ^ teveral inches in diameter, to a white leat. These were now brought into re- " [uisition to remove the proud flesh. When ^( )r. Withers approached the animal with he first of these glowing irons a shiver tl an through his frame, and he was dis>osed to resent any further aggression, aj >ut being convinced by the pointed argunents of his keeper that it was all for his ^ ;ood, he issued auother low thunder, * rhich was echoed from every cage, and traighteued his trunk and braced himself W or further martyrdom. The red-hot iron ?( ras now run into tunnel No. 1 the length ^ if about a foot, and a hissing sound, folSll owed by dense volumes of fumes and an te tolerable stench, issuing from the openng. The poor brute shook like an aspen, nade a slight effort or two at resistance, me soon settled into quietness again. w Another red-hot iron was introduced, 61 gain there was a quiver of the whole rame. but this time he only drew up his >ack and changed his position a trifle. 'he blood now began to flow from the zc averns in copious supply, a sight that uade all the other animals of the cat , le pecies desperate, and lions, tigers, leop,rds, hyenas, panthers, wolves, and others ?f the innumerable horde whose cages ormed a circle about the martyr, joined n low growls, which were intensified to oars and shrieks as the fumes of the ^ turning flesh filled their nostrils. This ^ umuit caused a score or two of keepers ^ o rush for the dens of the pets in their ac espective charge; and as these added heir not over-gentle voices to the vol- ^ me, and the rage of the beasts tor the ct once was still further aggravated by ^ udgels and other persuasive things, cal- 01 ulated to stir uj> the animals, the hi <? d< nd cry was terrific, attracting hundreds 1* f people from the neighborhood, who ai urrouuded the tents, though in moinen- ar ary fear that a deluge ot uncaged wild easts would come upon them. But against *? ny such catastrophe the strong cages ^ fere proof. When the din and noise was at omewhat quieted, the operation was pro- 01 eeded with, and during the two follow- ln tig hours above fifty red-hot irons were ^ hrust into the poor brute's carcass. to Vhen the surgeons finally desisted it was ^ lot because they believed their task com leted, but because the caverns had as- ,s n uined such dimensions that the two-inch rons proved too small to be further effecive. Iiesides Romeo was evidently weak- ^ ning and getting a little." groggy " from oss of blood, Dr. Boyd estimating tin t he m iad lost about three pai'fuls during the it >peration. The openings were then ttior- yi ughly washed with lotions, and afteri IS vards oarefully bound op. The unfortnn-! ]a ite beast died a few days after. 1 fc - * | -e . ** i ~ N Execution of Communists. The bloody work still goes on in France, hree of the Communists were lately exeited, and the execution is thus described y a correspondent:? The priest, going up to each in turn, issed him on both cheeks, in what seemed ) me a hurried and perftnctory manner, hen, when the sentence- was being read > the prisoners in a quick, low, quite inedible tone, Boin made a long haranguel luch of which was lost in the perpetual oiling of those ghastly drums. But one onld distinguish snatches of sentences ich as ''Soldiers, you are children of the eople as we are, and we will show yoto ow children of the people can die. Nous lonrons innocents," and then opening 'ide his light coat?he wore no waistoat?he offered his white shirt-front for mark, and striking his heart with his ' pen palm, he exclaimed: " Portez armes , n joue! feu! tirez au cceur! " This he re- t jpeated several times, and while he was 1 et speaking, standing oot clear away ' om the poteau, and looking death at ten aces literally in the face, a sword flashed 5 the sun, and the three men leaped from' * je ground only to fall to it in horrible ] ontortions. The smoke and report wei?e t nheeded, for all the senses of the horri- s ed spectator were arrested by the awful j pectacle of writhing limbs and twisting ands. Boin seemed to be rewarded for is bravery by suffering less than the othrs, but Serizer literally rolled over, and ' loudin also moved. The surgeon then 4 ent up, examined Boudin first, and thtn ' irected one of the sergeants in reserve to > give the coup de grace in the ear. Then f erizer was examined and treated in the f line way; and lastly, after considerable iterval, Boin was dragged into position ] d dispatched. I cannot give you any 1 lea of the sickening impression produced y y this seemingly deliberate butchery. I , \y seemingly, for the men may have j een dead, but, in any casa, surely if the t iup de grace must be given, it shouid be 1 one at once. I did not time the pro eedings, but long as my description is, 1 elieve that not more than two minutes , lapsed troui the time that the ambulance i ragons came on the ground to the time 1 hat the volley was fired. Several more 1 nnutes, however, elapsed before the dull * lud of the last coup de grace delivered j ight into the poor wretch's ear struck i pon the ground. 1 have seen something i f ihe horrors of war at Sedan and Stras- j ourg; I have witnessed the degredation f f a public hanging in England, hut have ( ever seen anything so horrible as this f uppleuiental butchery of the coup dt grace. * Accepts the Nomination. President Grant in accepting the nom- y lation tendered him by the Philadelphia * ouvention, said: ( ' I accept the nomination, and return \ ly heaiifelt thanks to your constituents < >t this mark of their confidence ami sun- ^ s art. 11 elected in November and pro- f icted bv kind Piovidence in health and 3 rengMi to perform the duties of the high < list conferred, 1 promise the same zeal f id devotion to the good of the whole g ?ople for the tuture of my official life as s town in the past. Past experience may ride me in avoiding mistakes inevitable ith novices in all professions and in all icupations. v " When relieved from the responsibilities c ' my present trust, by the election of a f iccessor, whether it be at the end of this fl 'I'm or next, i nope to iea>e tu mm g xecutive a country at peace within its f, vn borders, at peace with outside nations, 7 ith a credit at home and abroad, and t ithout embarrassing questions to threat- h i its future prosperity. tl "With the expression of a desire to see v speedy healing of all bitterness of feeling ? 'tween sections, parties, or races of citi- n ns, and t!ie time when the title of citizen r rries with it all the protection and privi- c [res to the humblest that it does to the a ost exalted.'' e 7 Vaccination.?About two years ago a ft mall pox Hospital was established at tl ampstead, near London, on account of T le increasing prevalence of that disease. ^ he Superintendent lately publi>hed an fi count of his observations in that hospital ft 'the effects of vaccination in mitigating b le severity of the disease. Nothing b ?uld be more conclusive than the result. 1 hi. rw?rp..nt!>nrp nf rtpntlic nmnno tlmisp nrl. Tl itted without vaccination marks was tj >.43. Among those with one mark the tl 'rcentage of fa<tl cases sank to 17.39 ; ] st nong those with two marks it was 13.29; fi nong these with three marks only 10.58 c r cent, died ; only 8.38 of those with li ur marks, and only G.13 ol those with n re or more marks. Of cases of small-pox ti ter successful re-vaccination thore were o it three out of 6.221, but there were a any cases to prove the fallaciousness of tl le doctrine that persons not susceptible y i vaccination are proof against small-pox- s< ut the conclusion is that successful reiccination after the age of fifteen years a sure protection against the disease, b ases are rarer than those of second small- a ix, and are very mild when they do p cur. T c The Effects of Forests.?Whatever p ay be the climatic influences of forests, is certain that they are found to afford 1 lluable protection to crops. Iu Wismsin, on the prairies, the winter wire:.: seriously injured by the severity of st winter, while in the wooded districts ii te crop is quite uninjured. e The Heat of the Day. There must be those who bear the heat And burden : on with weary feet They toil along the noontide way, Nor rest when comes the fall of day. Through dewy morns, through tender eves, Love's labor keeps them binding sheaves ^Which no man cares for : One on high Will count their earnings by-and-by. 0 patient heart! heroic will! That bends to work such strength and skill! The angels sometimes Stoop to ask The meaning of thy daily task. God knows, beyond an angel's ken, The grandeur God bestows on men Whom sorrow, failure, pain, and loss But crown anew at every cross. Farmhouse Notes. Sugar Beets for Swine. ? A writer in ;he Practical Farmer says that he finds lie sngar beet very good to fatten his logs with. He begins with the beets ind finishes off on corn. As the result of lis experience, he found that his hogs attened earlier, with a material saving if corn. Potatoes ?I once limed some pota;oes, says a correspondent, and found hat they could not be boiled soft. [ couldn't eat them hard, and I did not hint it would be honest to sell them, 10 I threw them away. I would not apily lime as some do, even to dry the lieces when they are cut for seed. Sorrel.?I have seen, says Mr. Stewlrt in the farmer's club, old lime-kilns perfectly green with a growth of sorrel, rhe fact is that no tarmer who produces 10 or 50 burhels of corn per acre, or two ons of hav, ever complains of being ;roubled with sorrel. If the soil is well nanured the crops grow freely, and sorrel, as well as other weeds, become smothered and killed out. Cure for Whistling in Horses.? I lave tried the following, and cured a lorse that whistled badly. The recipe vas furnished me by a skilled horseman. Put from 10 to 20 drops of spovgia osta on the tongue of the animal in the norning ; and at night the same propor;ion of Fowler's Solution, in the same nanner. Repeat alternately from four o six weeks, giving more or less accordng to the severity of the case. To Prepare Rhubarb for Pies or 1'arts.?Cut the 3talks fiom the plant, idding them of their leaves. With a inife scrape off the outer skin, and cut ;ransverselv into little pieces, being sure 0 remove any fibres that adhere, just as ?ou do in striuging beans. To each lornd of this substitute for fruit allow lalf a pound of sugar if for immediate lse, one pound if designed to keep as ireserve. The addition of a little grated em on rind is esteemed by most persons 1 great improvement to the flavor. Spice >f any kind, however, may be added if 'ancied. This is the most common use :o which rhubarb is put. Mock Gooseberry-Fool.?Cut up and icrape as much rhubarb as will be enough ;o half fill a glass bowl of the size you vish to use. Stew in enough water to ;over it well. When tender, rub through i colander to a smooth pulp. To a quart )f the fruit, well sweetened and flavored vith lemon peel, add a quart of sweet ream, stirred smoothly in till well mixed, leap the bowl up high with whipped yllabub. If you have no cream, substiute a quart of custard, made with the oiks of six eggs. In place of the svllamb, use the whisked whites of the six 'ggs, sweetened with six tablespoonfuls >f fine white sugar, and brown the top lightly with a hot salamander or clean hovel. A Word to Fathers. We have read a story of a little boy, rho, when he wanted a new suit of lothes. begged his mother to ask his atlier if he might have it. The mother uggested that the boy might ask for himelf. "I would," said the boy, "but I don't eel well enough acquainted with him." 'here is a sharp reproof to the father in he reply of his son. Many a father keeps is children so at a distance from him hat they never feel confidently acquainted nth him. They feel that he is a sort of lonarch in the family. They feel no faliliarity with him. They fear him and espect hjnvand even love him some, for hildren cannht help- Joving somebody bont them ; but they seldom get near nough to him to teel intimate with him 'hey seldom go to him witli their wants nd trials. They approach him through he mother. They tell her everything, "hey have a highway to her heart on rhich they go in and out with perfect eedotn. In this keeping off plan fathers re to blame. Children should not be eld off. Let them come near. Let them e as intimate with the father as mother. ,et their little hearts be freely opened, t i9 wicked to freeze up the love fonnlins of little ones' hearts. Fathers do tiern an injury by living with them as :rangers. This drives many a child away rora home for the sympathy his heart raves, and often into improper society. I nurses discontent and mistrust, which lany a child does not outgrow in his lifeme. Open your hearts and your arms, h, fathers! be tree with your children: sk for their wants and trials; play with liein; be fathers to them truly, and they rill not need a mediator between themelves and you'. Poisoned by Wild Parsnip.?Three rothers were recently poisoned to death t Flint, Michigan, by partaking of wild arsnip, supposing it to be sweet-cicely, 'hey were found dead in the field. Two ompanions who had also eaten of the oisonous plant were saved by swallowing obacco, which was admimstered by their ither. Philologists say a cat is superior to man a one respect, as she can sound five vowIs at onoe in y-a-e u-i-1. Southwestern Stock-Raising.?Stockraising is carried on in the Southwest on a scale of grandeur which is almost inconceivable to persons living in the vicinity of the great cities of the North and East^ where land is worth ten thousand dollars an acre, the corner lots sometimes sell for a hundred thousand dollars apiece. For example, there is a farm, or ranche, in Texas, which contains one hundred and forty-two thousand and forty-eight acres. It is kDow as Rolideaux Ranche, and lies between the Neuces and Rio Grande rivers. It is a peninsula, running lar out into the Gulf of Mexico, and the head of it is guarded by thirty miles of plank fence, with herdsmen's residences at intervals of three miles along the whole distance. If a man had a farm in this region as large as the island of New York, it wonld be looked upon as a pretty good-sized piece of real estate; but this Texas rancbe is more than ten times as large as the island of New York. And it is stocked on a scale commensurate with its extent. Thirty thousand beef cattle, and tens o! thousands of horses, mules and sheep feed over its grassy stretches, and yield a vast revenue to their owner. There are othei ranches in Texas, comprising respectively over a hundred squire miles?sixty-four thousand acres?and stocked by thousands upon thousands of cattle, horses, mules and sheep. And so favorable to stockraising are the soil and climate of that State, that the increase of stock is said to average twenty-five per cent, per annum. A Lot of Suns.?Some astronomers have computed that there are no less than 75,000,000 suns in the universe. The fixed stars are all suns, and have, like our sun, numerous planets revolving around them The solar system, or that to which we belong, has about thirty planets, primary andsecondary, belonging to it. The circulai field of space which it occupuiesis in diameter 3,600,000,000 of miles, and thai which it controls is much greater. That sun which is nearest neighbor to ours is called Sinus, distant from our sun 22,000,000,000 of miles. Now, if the fixed stars are as distant from each other as Sirius is from our sun, and if the solar system be the average magnitude of the systems ol 75,000,000 of suns, what imagination can grasp the immensity of creation? Every sun of the 75,000.000 controls a field ol space of about 10,000,000 of miles in diameter. Who can survey a plantation containing 75,000,000 circular fields, each ol them 10,000,000 miles in diameter ? Such, however, is one of the plantations of Hint who has measured the water in the hollow of His hand, and meted our heaven with a *pan, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ; Him who, sitting upon the orbit of the earth, stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in! IlrsRANDs and Their Wives.?Some husbands never leave home in the morn ing without kissing their wives and bidding them "good-bye," in the tones of unwearied love, aud whether it be policy or fact, it has all the effect of fact, and those homes are genera ly pleasant ones, provided always that the wives are appreciative, and welcome the discipline in a kindly spirit. We know an old gentleman who lived with his wife over fifty years, and never left home without the kiss and the "good-bye." Some husbands will leave home without saying anything at all, but turn round at the last point of observation and wave an adieu. Some never say a word, rising from the breakfast table and going out with a heartless disregard of those left behind. Their wives seek sympathy elsewhere. Some husbands never leave home without some unkind word or look, thinking that such a course will keep things straight in their absence. Then, on returning, some husbands come home pleasant and happy, unsoured by the world; some sulky and surly with its disappointments. Some are called away every evening; some doze in speechless stupidity, until bed time. " Depend upon it," says Dr. Spooner, "that home is the happiest where kindness, and interest, and politeness, and attention are the rule on the part of husbands." Up in a Balloon.?The immense balloon which has been building for five months at Chelsea, to be used at the next Forth of duly celebration at Boston has been entirely destroyed by spontaneous combustion. The Boston Times says: Mr. King, the owner, intended to have invited about a dozen newspaper men to accompany him to the npper regions, and there is consequently some disappointment among the quill drivers on account of the news from Chelsea. A couple of press-men met, and this colloquy ensued : "Too bad about the balloon, isn't it?" said the younger to his elder and more practical brother. 44 Yep, rather severe." 44 But it's better to burn on the ground than up in the air with a dozen reporters in it," said the first speaker. 44 Yes, may be it is !?but," after a pause, 44 it don't make half so good an item !" The youthful scribe was horrified. A certain idiot, allowed to frequent the grounds of Eglinton Castle, was one day seen by the Earl taking a near cut and crossing a fence. The Earl called out, 44 Come back, sir 1 that's not the road." "Do you ken," said Will, 44 whaur I'm gaun r' No," replied his lordship. 44JWefi, boo do yr ken whether thi? be the road or no ?" L_ Hay Sixty Tears Qld. The farm is remarkable for its odd characters, leading isolated lives, taking no paper, and never venturing beyond the nearest market-town. We have heard of men who kept their bops and wool safely stored for twenty years, waiting for higher prices. And lately we have fallen upon a gentleman of the old school, who boasts of hay in his barn cut in the year 1812. He has an excellenl grazing-farm, and bay has always been one of its chief products. He inherited a propensity to keep over old 3tacki from his father, and the propensity hat grown with his years. At the close ol this season of foddering, when hay hae been quick of sale at forty dollars a ton he has at least a hundred tons on hand Stacks are numerous, from two to sii . years old, and some so old that the topi grow "an annual crop of weeds. -H< could have got thirty dollars a ton fo; i his hay a year ago. It has startled hin , that hay has risen twenty-five per cen in a year. It is easy by ciphering t< ' show that he has made a thousand dol lars by holding on, within a year. Hi l holds confidently for a rise, and expect; fifty dollars a ton next spring. The ha^ j crops on hand to-day are worth mori than the farm would sell for. He neve I ciphers on the waste of dead capital o: ; the reproductive power of money wel . invested. He has been so saving of ba^ that he has always been afraid of stock ing his farm up to its full capacity. Th< one thing needful in his life has beei more old hay. This is a good illustratioi of the persistent abuse of old proverbs It is well enough for a farmer to kee| over a few tons of hay to guard agains : the contingencies of a dry season, whicl may compel him to sell stock at a loss o to buy hay at extravagant prices. Bu a hundred tons of hay unsold, whe] worth 840 a ton, is another story.i Hearth and Home. Sewerage Waste. 1 The enormous loss to the country o ' fertilizing material through the waste o ' sewerage of our large cities shows a re ' markable lack of enterprise on the par . of our people. In Europe great progres has been made in the introduction o means for utilizing the sewerage ot cities ' and practical exi eriments indicate tha this is a work which can be carried 01 with gTeat profit to those who undertake it. At Crossness, near London, are tic works of a "native guauo company,1 1 which is now in successful operation > deriving its material from sewerage > At Crossness is the reservoir for tin I southern sewerage of the great metropo lis. At this point 50,000,000 gallons o 1 sewerage are daily discharged. Tin works of the guano company are buil f on one side of the Government pumpin< station, from which is drawn daily 500, 000 gallons of sewerage, which is ope rated on by the ABC process, so calle< because alum, blood, charcoal, and clay are the ingredients used for purifvinj the stuff, 5,000 gallons of the ABC mixture beiDg added to 50,000 gallons o sewerage. The whole is conveyed int< mixing pits, whence it is transferred int( tanks, where it remains from four to sij hours. During this period the precipi tated matter accumulates at the bottou as fine as mud, and the water which hai become clear, odorless, and chemically pure, is dra^n off. The residue is ther ! dried and packed in bags for the farmer'! use, meeting with a ready sale at 817 5( per ton. This leaves a profit to thf manufacturers of S10 a ton. It is esti mated that if the whole of the seuerag< of London could be tieated in this man ner, the result would be a clear profit ol ' over six millions of dollars annually ol the manufacture, while the lands ol Great Britian would gaiu in value mucl more than the cost of the guano fron: the return to them of so much fertilizing material. A Grammatical Dialogue.?The fol lowing conversation between a young lady who wrote for magazines and an old gentleman who believed he could epeal English, occurred somewhere in Massa , chusetts, and is quoted for the benefit o; grammarians: Old Gentleman?"Are there any houses building in your village ?" Young Lady?"No Sir. There is a new ; house being built for Mr. Smith, but it is the carpenters who are building." Gentleman?" True; I sit corrected, To be building is certainly a different thing from to be being built. And how long has Mr. Smith's house been being built?" Lady?(Looks puzzled a moment, and j then answers rather abruptly.) "Nearly ! a year." Gentleman?''flow much longer do you think it will be being built?" Lady?(explosively.) " Don't know." Gentleman?41I should think Mr. Smith would be annoyed by its being so long being built, for the house he now occupies being old, he must leave it, and the new being only being built, instead of being built as he expected he can not?" Here the gentleman perceived that the lady had disappeared. When the Dark Cometh ?A little girl sat, at twilight, in her sick mother^ room busily thinking. All (lay she had been full of fun anil noise, and had many times worried her poor, tired mother. "Ma," said the little girl, " what do you suppose mikes me get over my mischief and begin to act good just about this time every uight ?" " I do not know, dear. Can you tell me why ?" " Well, I guess it's because this is when the dark comes. You know I am a little afraid of that. And theD, ma, I begin to think of all the naughty things I've done to grieve you, and that perhaps you might die before morning, aud so I begin to act good." " Oh 1" thought I, "how many of us wait till the dark comes, in ihefbrm of sickness or sorrow, or trouble of some kind, before we 4 begin to act good !' How much better to be good while we are enjoying life's bright sunshine 1 and then, 4 when the dark comes'?as it will, in a measure, to all?we shall be ready to meet it without fear." . a- - ( >. ^ 9 S ?* . A-Chicago woman committed suicide because she thought her soul was lost . * _ 1 Brevities. The St. Petersburg Hob*says that the . personal expenses of the Grand Duke ! Alexis,, duriug his travels iu jhe United , States, amounted to upward 6f$20C>,000. , . ITJc All r*f7\j 1 7i Jv L Russian agriculture, is of a very primitive character,. They use.th^sarae old ' wooden plow that had served their an! cestors before civilization came to them. ! A Bachelors* Union has been formed i at Kalamazoo, Mich. We never heard [ of but one bachelors' union that was } successful, and that was called marriage, j No person can enter the Russian do[ minioos without an accurate description i being taken of his person. His age, ( employment and the object of his visit. ing the country are all reoerded. t Those best acquainted with the topos graphy of the Colorado desert are conflJ dent that a larger subterranean stream r runs nnder ft, tfnd that the dntire desert i may be reclaimed by artesian wells. ^ The California Republican is iflcorrup5 tible. A man sent the editor" ft basket of " strawberries and a leader. He ate the 5 berries and sent back the leader, which 3 shows that his morals are all right. [ 5 It is so pleasant to know that Agassiz p-has found a few species ?f-gasteropods, fourteen kinds of shinederus, including j an ouryeal, fifty specimens of ophiuraus, aud, to crown the whole, a large helias[ ter. ~ At a boarding house in Chicago, iom 1 mon fish oil is used in the lamps. The proprietor, who evidently has a sharp eye to business, says that " it is good as the " boarders go to bed quick 'cause he smell ?t so bad." 1 A band, which serenaded a young -~-l awVm-Ko,, j? lUttrricu uuupiU) m uuc vi oui. * * ??- * ^ towns the other evening, selected a peq culiarly happy and flattering piece _ known as "The Monkey Married the Baboon's Sister." A correspondent of the. Iowa Homestead describes a pear tree which was grafted on the hawthorn in 1808, and 1 which is now about fifty feet high, trunk f five feet liinef inches in circumference. It bears fifty bushels of pears annually, t A sportsman who, during the shooting a season, had gone to pass a week with a f friend in the country, on the strength if of a general invitation, soon found, by a t gentle hint, that he would have done 3 better to wait for a-special one. " I saw e some beautiful scenery," was the visitor's R first remark, " as I came to-day by the " upper road." " You will see kill finer," was the reply, u as you go back to-morj. row by the lower one." I e A lady correspondent asks us if a Dolly - Varden can be box plaited, whipped and f gathered in a yoke, or is it best to hsve 3 insertion and flounces with puffing. We t think that neither way is good. Two 5 rows of bobinette, hem stiched, and in serted with double gathered ruffles of - brocade tape, with a guyset and hem 1 stich or two at each end, and this quilt7 ed and made en rerers in the back, with ? bias cuttings, double puffed, of blue or1 gandie, running transverselv across the f whole, lined with point applique ticking, ) and fluted, would be for more stylish. ) . c Thfl FuhariM. j Samuel Collins, one of the charterers i and crew of the fishing schooner Fiola C., 7 of Gloucester, seized in Trinity Bay by | the cutter Stella Maria, for alleged illegal ) fishing, arrived at Gloucester recently, > and has sworn to an affidavit of the par ticulars of the seizure, before Collector J Babson, of that port, which has been forf warded to the proper authorities at Washi ington. The affidavit sets forth the folf lowing facts: ' That the Euola C. was at anchor, was r not fishing, and had not been fishing in &hore; that she was boarded by the Captain of the cutter Stella Maria, who engaged in friendly conversation; that Oapt. ' Cunningham asked the Captain of the ' cutter in regard to the treaty, as he would " not fish in shore until assured that he had a right to do so; that the Captain of ^ the cutter replied that the treaty had passed Parliament by a large majority, ' and that in his opinion there would be no trouble in fishing in shore; that the Captain of the cutter said his was not a rev5 enue vessel, but a light-house tender, and had nothing to do with the fisheries; that ' some of the crew, boarding the cutter, ' asked what a brass gun was for on board a light-house vessel, and were told that ' it was to be put on Bird Iiock as a signal I gun? that, acting on tnese assurances, the Euola C. proceeded to lish, and the next day the Captain of the cutter came down stream and laid in ambush, as he afterward informed them, from noon nntil 6 o'clock in the evening, waiting for the wind to die away, so that the schooner could not escape, when, with three Indians and seven white men, airarmed, be came alongside and boarded the schooner; /hat he then read hi9 commission and took charge ' of the vessel, ordering one of his men to the wheel; that, when charged with bis duplicity by Capt. Cunningham, he replied that he bad no right to give Americans information; that they mnst look ' out for themselves. The schooner was taken to Father Point; telegraphs were exchanged with the authorities at Ottawa, and the schooner was towed to Quebec Dy the steamer Druid. Another Queer Wat of Marrying.? v A pair were married at Plainview, Min- ( i neaota, in an unusual way lately. The | ceremony was performed in a dancing hall, the door of which was filled for dancing, except one set. Then the happy couple followed by three newly married couples, stepped forward and formed the lacking set, the minister stepped into the centre of the circle and performed the , ceremony, the mnsjc struck up, and the t dance wen? forward as if nothing bad , a -aT ztt 9" ; happened. f, ^ ^ f i Thb Second Session of the Fqrty-sec, ond Congress has ended, and both looses' stand adjourned till the first r Mtakhty itf ?ecefhber. ?be closing r scenes in t>ofch houses were exciting. l