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i xxJo.'ii. i . scttisE The Beaufort mm Republican; . it# % i -4.V INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. = - ^ -- ?- =? ?- ' - . !?tW~ VOL. II. NO. 47. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1872. ISKMStfSSS - j? " 1 i The Old Home. * hi The roof tree stands as ever it stood, the jasa- "j mine stars the wall, f( The great western's purple blooms o'er dark n gray gables fall, The roses that our mother loved, blush 'neath g, her window sill, ]< And the c'ematis our father trained, droops, as a he taught it, still. n The August sunset lights the panes, where we were wont to watch, " Its rays of crimson and of gold on baby brows to catch, r? On the wall where your first nest we found, the grand old ivy waves, As when we chose a shoot to plant upon our sacred graves. e The thrushes that we paused to hear are dead long summers gone, H Yet the sweet rose thicket echoes now to the ^ self-same ringing tone, ' The flowers & filler glory show, and the trees a * deepened shade, * Naught else on Nature's face is changed, since * here of vore we played. ! tl Naught else on Nature's face. Oh! life, can 1< ever seasons pass And leave oar hearts renewed as fair and bright n as meadow grass! S Death's icy shadow rests for us, on the home tl that once was ours, Ci We see through tears the bairns that sport a among our childhood's flowers. o Tae stranger's shadow flits across our old ^ familiar floors, ^ The stranger's footstep as of right seeks our ^ old open doors. j( With a dim sense of loss and wrong, like one j. from death reiurned, We look on all for which for years our faithful e fondness yearned. a Better to keep the fancy sketch of all it use 1 to be. Better than blurring by the truth the hues of f* memoir! c Oh ! earth has no abiding place, but the mighty word is given, No cloud, or care, or change will vex the count- v less homes of Heaven!' j - St POLLY'S VICTOEY. An extemporized stage, a princess love- q ly as the light, a French count, brilliant E costames, and acting that is not to be si spoken of, made up the the tout ensemble * that delighted the good people of Pittston, for one night at least. The proceeds were q t A V./. /I t r\ rtkowito kl A rvr isr.AoA.t i H\r yv UV?VWU IW l/liniliauiu [/U! Thutnp went the canes and umbrellas, n and with every "coming on" of Kitty t( Bessom, the beauty o? Pittston, such a vigorous clapping of hands ensued that p one was fain to hold his ears, or he deafened with the applause. The National Hall was decorated with ft banners. Deacons and doctors and law- g vers had spent a week on its embellish- .n inents. The Pittston band had been practicing for months, and wound up by playing " Hail, Columbia," in their grandest r< style. ? Very reluctantly the people left the scy-ne of entertainment, all walked to- a gether. g The wide green in front was brightened n all over by the illuminated windows, save ft' where the posts and primitive chains made : long shadows in the grass. a " It beats all holler," said Deacon Simp- \\ son ; " but I feel sort o' guilty." si "Well, I dunno,"- responded Aunt tl Methuin; "it's got up for a charitable u purpos; but I reckon 'tain't a gret many ri removes from a theater arter all. What b an awful smart young man that French L count was! They say he's a clerk to the new store. And T declare for't if I didn't fr feel kinder bad for Bob Langton when he fa was a-makin' love to Kitty, all in gold and e< scarlet., with his bobbin, white feathers." h " Wasn't Kitty just x little witch?" in- h piired Libby, the deacon's daughter: "she p looked so sort o' real pleased. If I'd n biji Bob Langton, I'd ruther took ttie 1! count myself than the clod-hopper. What a country la'l lie was, to he sure! 1 nev- tl er could 'a believed that was Bob, never; s* and the count was so handsome. ci The crowd begin to thin. Sundry cs vehicles, heing filled with " wimniin folks." drove off at a jog trot pace. u Pretty little Polly Lee, who had taken the part of ? country lassie, stood at the si foot of the steps, revealing under her tc c arelessly arranged shawl a pair of snowy hi shoulders and the kftotsof crimson ribbon * tb it adorned her white dress. ci Polly's little heart was aching, despite si the red lips and the bright color of her h checks. For that one night, at least, Bob ?i Langton had been her lover. Had she K lived a century in those few ecstatic hours? How she gloated over the thought h that Boh had been at her very feet! had m talked all the romantic nmsence in which lc lovers generally indulge as if he meant If. little thinking what the light of Polly's ey?. i thy trembling of her hand and voice, all ; d indicated?lit'le dreaming, while he ! thought ii very good acting, and looked I jealously on at the hack of the stage at b tlie French count on his pink and silver n knees at the feet of his own betrothed, n that little Polly had loved him long before she exchanged her pinatores for the u maiden's dresses?had loved him with an it overwhelming passion that but few natures r< experience. ri " Well, it's all over," sighed Polly, ty- j b ing the strings of her chip hat under her i h dimpled chin, angry with herself that she I 1< said it?that she could not crush this un-; hidden passion that seemed in her sweet j h eyes nntnaidenlv. i v Suddenly the lights were extingu'sbed, | and Bob stepped out of the vestibule. ! a 44 Polly, have you seen Kitty ?'' he asked.! si 4' ^h'' promised to wait for me.'' '4 / saw her," said somebody under the <| lainp-p??t?probably one of Kitty's rejected snitors. 44 She was a-going home h along of that French connt." h I Bob's face grew white is ho stood there, s< L and he shut his teeth, once, witi. a click, b L 4* Polly, you've a good ways to go," he 11 ^^\said, in a voice as calm as "before, 44 and j no rnoon." a ' f'aleb promised to come," said Polly, I U B peeling out in the road. IB fldlfth W anrl t# irrr^ttnl rnannnoH tl ? ?'? ( *?! i,rl ^ V ViUI, 1 V^^VllliVVi I VI Bob; "so we'll play out the rOle a few a V moments longer. I go right by the gate yon know 'v j< W P(?: ? took Bob's right arm, quite frightL ece<l feei the heavy, rapij beating an- h |K der v c !i?teoed U) hfe pnrposeleea talk, nd was so grieved for hitn that she al- , i09t forgot her own great trouble; for le knew that Boh loved Kitty, and she >ared that Kitty was not true to Bob? ot, at least, as she would have been. " Good-night, and good-by, little Polly," lid Bob, as they reached the gate that >d to Widow Lee's cottage. "You've Iways been my steadfast friend; you lustn't forget me, Polly." " Forget you!" half sobbed the girl, :ho felt the meaning in his words. " Oh, ?never, never?" " No, I'm sure you never will," Bob esponded, with a new pang; for in one wift moment he divined that this sweet hild loved him. "Yon see, Polly," he went on in a lowr voice, "circumstances may compel me j leave Pittston. I've a fine offer from a iend of mine in the Melton factories, and kely I shall accept it. If I do, I shall ?ave in the six-o'clock train to-morrow tternoon. Gopd-night, little friend." md his voice sounded in Polly's ears just s it had in that memorable never-to-be irgotten moment when he had said, in lie parlance of the play, how fondly he )ved her. At all the Pittston breakfast-tables next lorning the little drama was discussed, ome half regretted that tney had lent leir countenance to a piay; omers realled the mimic scenes with real pleasure: nd still others, would-be critics, pointed ut defects and laughed at comical misikes. 441 say, Kitty," said boisterous Tom lessom, "I didn't blame the count for oing on a^ he did last night?for you did >ok confoundedly handsome. I'd kave issed you myself if I'd been in his place." 44 He didn't kiss me," said Kitty, oflendd on the instant. 44 He only seemed to, nd you know it." 44Now, Kitty ? honor bright!" said 'om, in such a 'comical manner that he it the whole table to laughing and ronght flaming roses into his sister's heeks. 4tAnd it Bob wasn't jealous! My! asn't he, though?" cried precocious oung William, a boy of ten. 441 seen im a-peekin' in at the back there. I ien his eye snap !" 4' Hold your tongue, sonny," said his lother, smartly. 44 The idea ot babies ke yon talking that way! I'm sure 'itrv only did what she had to^do. and tie made the prettiest princess ever ; aw." 44 IIow many may you liave seen in the ourse of your life, mammy dear:'' ueried Tom. 44 No matter," was the somewhat tart eplv. 441 rather think I have seen as lany a? you have. Kitty, do take some :?ast." 441 haven't any appetite, mother," relied Kitty, languidly; and the pretty eantv sauntered away from the breakfastible, and going into another room, bean to set back the somewhat disarranged lrniture. Then she took np her photoraph album, and turning to a meek but ather handsome face, she stood studying , for some moments. 44 He can't hold a candle to Bob!" This inelegant but forcible sentence she epeated. and then 9tarted at Will's rap n the window. 441 say, Sis, the store clerk's corning, ud so was Bob; but Bob he saw t'other nd stepped into the potecary's shop to it some sodv, ] guess, arid steddy his erves. 1 tell you Bob looked cross!" 44 Let him look cross," muttered Kitty, s she smoothed her hair, and cast a rapid lance in the mirror. 44 T never saw such tyrant. He'll scold me, T suppose, for alking home with Loyd. Well, he lould have come out sooner, not left me ie last thing to atteud to. You're Dot larried yet, Mr. Robert Langton;" and, uslied with resentment, looking more eautiful than ever, she responded to Mr. oyd's modest knock. That gentleman, with auburn locks e^bly curled, a spotless tie of the latest ishion, and kids that had not been cleftu1 too often, hoped Miss Kitty's exertion ad not been too much for her. He had eard on all sides the most charming com hinents etc., etc.; to which Mtty relied graciously, thinking all the time of :<>b, ami what he would say. " I thought I must call on my way to ie store," said Mr. Lovd, as, rising, he iw the album open at his picture. The rimson dew to Kitty's cheeks as she aught his glance. " What a tool 1 was!" she exclaimed, lentallv. "Do you know, I think it would be a veet idea to he pliotograped in characsr, yon and 1," he said, his eyes shining, ad ill-concealed triumph in his manner. 1 am sure you looked every whit a prinjss; I never saw better dressing on any :age. 1 think I will act upon that idea," econtinued, seeing that Kitty remained | lent; "and if you will allow me. Miss "itty?-" " I wouldn't he taken in that costume >r a kingdom!" blurted Kitty. "I'm ire 1 should feel foolish every time I j K>ked at the picture." Her vehemence silenced him, and after j few more commonplaces he left, wor^ j ering what had come over Miss Kitty. This had come over her: the rememrance of Bob in his smock-frock and topoots, his straw hat and whip in hand? tithing of all this had detracted from the: obili'y of his appearance. " And yet he sh'n't tyrannize," she iuttered, conscious that she was too willlg to exonerate her lover, and almost ?adv to apologize, but yet determined to tile her little kingdom still. She trem- , led when she heard his step, but drew er head up haughtily and pressed her >velv lips together. "(Joed morning, Kitty!" said Bob, and enpiick ear detected the constraint in his oice; so she steeled her heart. " I met Mr. Lovd at the gate," he said; nd now it was not constraint, but pasion, that changed the rich tones. " Yes, he has been here," Kitty said uietly. " Fl*'s a fool!" cried Bob. and threw; is hat violently on the table. The album J ad not been shut. lie had never liked eeing that simpering face in the same ook with his own; now he took the leaf i his hand and rudely tore it out. "There!" exclaimed Bob. reducing card nd page to atoms ; " that's what I'll do o him if he isn't careful." Bob looked magnificent, and Kitty bought so for all her anger; but she wo* Dgry. " I wouldn't act like a madman if I was alous," she said passionately. Bob calmed himself in a moment, and ; a mighty effort. "It was foolish," he said, with a strange smile: " not at all like me. Kitty, j I'm come to say good-by. You promised ! me on your honor that you would never let that tellow go home with yon again. What must he think of me? However, that's all over; T made up my mind this morning. The woman who deliberately breaks her promise is no wife for me. Good-by, Kitty; I'm off to-night. You won't see me in Pittston again ; and I wi3h you joy of > our new conquest." A word might have changed him, but Kitty could not speak. A frightful dizziness seized her, though she was conscious of holding out her hand mechanically; and when her mother came to look for her, she found her all huddled up on the sofa, utterly unconscious. At the depot that night Bob met little Polly. She had come down, with her brother, to send a letter by him, and she slipped a little bouquet of heart's-ease in his hand. " That's the girl I should have loved," he said to himself bitterly ; " but oh, my God! my heart is bound up in Kitty Bes som, and she has played me false. But I'll forget her, so help mp Heaven!" "If ever you want a friend, Polly, remember me," said Bob, and sprang on the train. fittston heard of him no more. There was a rumor that Kitty Bessom was engaged to Mr. I.oyd, but nobody really knew. Two years had passed, and !5ob saiu often to "himself that he had unlearned his lesson. One day, when he was in the overseer's room, a card was brought to him. He read the name; his whole face brightened. Hurrying down stairs, he entered the office. He saw a small, womanly figure, her head turned away from the light, and by her side sat a boy not half grown. " Why, Polly!"' he said, in the old rich voice that had once made snch sweet music in Pittston choir. " You don't know how really glad I am to sec you! Why, child, you look thin and sick !" "Yes, Mr. Langton, I have been quite ill, and so has litfle Harry; but we are both well now. You know yon said once if ever 1 wanted a friend. I must remember you. Well"?she made a little pause ?"mother ;s dead, and?and?Caleb would go to the poor-house. So here we are, you see." Her voice trembled, but she restrained her tears. " My dear little friend!" exclaimed Bob, ruefully, a world of sympathy in his honest eyes. " And I thought I might get a place in the mills." she added, unsteadily. "Yes, yes," said Bob, reflectively; - - ? - - ? " I have it: .lust the thing lor you?ngni, easy work. You shall hoard with Mrs. Crisp, over the way, and Harry shall go to school. How will that Riiit. ?" "Oh, Mr. Langton!" cried Polly, with a great sob, and hid hpr face in her hands. " Well, it's all settled," said Boh, who had turned away for a moment. " Let us try to look things bravely in the face, my little friend." So Polly found a home and easy work, and Boh found himself thinking of her. The old conviction forced itself upon him; it was she he should have loved; and seeing her gentle face, with its timid soft brown eyes, there grew in his heart the sweetest sympathy, so near akin to love that it deceived him. One day he asked Polly to marry him. He had taken her for a walk, and they had strolled together into the edge of the sweet-smelling woods, where^he checkerberry peeped up frpm the mosses at their feet. Poor little Polly had just been saying to herself, Why won't he speak of Kitty ?" " I think I could make yon bappv, lit- , tie Polly?I am sure 1 could. My circumstances are very easy. I have earned a home, and you will be to me the sweetest, constant companion that ever man could have," said Bob. Polly clasped her hands, and felt as if her heart would leap from her bosom. Oh, what a life spread out before her!? what love, what hopes, what rich fulfillments! Never had mightier temptation heset a human bosom. She paused a moment, then turned round, the light of victory shining in her eyes. - - i i Tf'n _1 . * wnv iron i you speaa or tvitty f sue risked. He starred. The tell-tale blood flew to his cheeks, his brow. She could see him tremble from head to foot. 44 Kitty is"?nothing to me, he tried to say, but could not?"is buried, or married, tor all I know," he answered, in a harsh voice. 14 No; Kitty Cessou is neither married nor buried," said brave Polly, steadily. 44 Misfortune lias overtaken her, a.> it did me. Her ^father lo?t, his farm, and it's killed him; her mother died soon after; her oldest brother went to sea; and Willy is in a store. Oh, Sir, perhaps I should not tell it, dut I know that ever since you left her senseless that morning she has been very true. I know she would come hero to the mills but for her pride; I know" ?dear little Polly! her voice trembled now?"she has refused some good offers of marriage, because?because her heart! was not her own too give. Oh, o?ght I to tell you this??have T a right to plead her cause ?" 4' You blessed little angle!" he murmured, brokenly. 4' And site is living out?sweet and beautiful as she is?a servant; and she will live so all her life, working hard for others, unless?unless?" Polly broke down. Bob had never been so moved in his life. The old sweet love had rushed back upon his mind. 4 But I have asked you to be my wife," he said, in a low almost indistinct voice. 44 And I say no! a thousand time no!" sobbed Polly. 44 Let me he your friend? vonrs and hers. Kitty is noble; noble enough even for you." Shefaltered, then added, in even tones: 44 Did yon knowit is getting very dark? I must go home, \f? T . 11 rv ?ti'ill Kn *UI. linil^lUU ^ 11UIJY n 111 l/v n VIIMV?IU0 about me." And m<>nth? after, when Kitty Langton knelt down to call blessings upon her husband, and Polly bowed the knee in her own lonely, humble home, there was a crowd upon each beautiful head, but Polly's was the brightest. The children in the U. S. under 5 are 5,513,343?2,707,887 male and 2,717,456 female; The male children from 5 to 9, inclusive, ure 2,437.442, and female 2,377,271; total, 4,814,718. The male inhabitants of all ages nnder 21 are 10,050,563; female, 9,976,807; total, 90,026,870. Boasting Copper. A visitor to the copper mines of Vermont, tells us bow ar,d why they roast f copper ore as follows: From the drcssinz- <j house the sorted ore is carried to the adjacent roast-beds, to be freed from the * sulphur, which enters largely into the } composition of the ore. The roast-beds c are formed by placing at the bottom a t layer of cord wood about fifty leet long f by thirty wide, on which the ore is piled t about five feet high. The wood is then f set on fire, and alter it is thoroughly ig- c nited, the bed is covered with fine ore t The wood is soon burned, but it takes t from two to four hours to consume the in- c flammable matter contained in the ore. e The process of burning is curious. First, f the ore proceeds from the bottom up, then j down, then up again, and then expires, i The sulphurous fumes from these roast- 1 beds pervade the whole valley, and assail f unpleasantly the nostrils and lungs of the i visitor, while they have a deadly effect on r vegetation. It i3 curious to note how f much more susceptible to this poison some 1 kinds of trees are than others; thus bal- 1 sam-firs and white birches are sere and c withered, while the sugar - maples near r them are still vigorous, and a forest of 1 pines, some miles down the valley, is j thought to be dying from the same cause, t Tin* ia tranannrtpd in cars from the ; i"<- ",v I ? roast-beds to the furnaces, in which the \ fuel used is anthracite coal. T.ie ore 1 when it comes from the mines contains f ten per cent, of copper, a much larger pro- <j portion than is found in the products of t English mines. From the first melting s comes the regulus or "mat," containing c thirty-five per cent, of copper. The regu- c lu?, now in the form of thin, irregular a slabs, is broken up and placed on sheets in e the roasting-kilns to expel the remaining sulphur. Each batch goes through the c kilns three times. Each roasting occupies 6 forty-eight hours. The material is thrn s placed in the copper furnace. From this p smelting metal is obtained, nmty-fivo per p cent, copper, and a regulus of sixty per j cent. This last is returned to the furnace j to be reunited. During the process of i smelting, the slag or dross is run off into c slag pots, and wheeled away. At stated ^ times, '-tapping off" occurs, when the i melted metal is drawu from the furnace f into the "basin." The regulus forms a t scum or crust on top, and is forked off, r and the pure metal is dipped into the < moulds, forming pigs of about two bun- t pounds weight. The ".slag" is broken up, t and such portions as show sufficient traces 1 of copper are remelted. The rest is thrown ] away. 1 ? United States Havy. ( There were in the United States Navy r on July 1, according to the" semi-yearly 1 Register,1,672 commissioned and warrant officers, of whose rank the following is a c synopsis. 1 Admiral, 1 Vice-Admiral, i 12 Rear-Admirals, 25 Commodores, 51 c Captains, 90 Commanders, 155 Lieutenant r Commanders, 210 Lieutenants, 100 Mas- * ters, 30 Ensigns, 185 Midshipmen, 15 1 Medical Directors, 15 Medical Inspectors, f 50 Surgeons and 75 Passed Assistant and c Assistant Surgeons, 145 Pay Officers, 62 a Chief Engineers, 177 First and Second f Assistant Engineers, 30 Chaplains and c Professors, 22 Naval Constructors, 191 v warrant officers of the rank of (runners, c lloatswains, Carpenters and Sailmakers, v _ J org \t .4... f an? ou .amies. These were on active duty. The nnm- r her of seamen and petty officers is about * 7,000, and there are at present at the Na- s val Acadefhy at Annapolis 199 midship t men of different classes. The navy, on ' Aug. 1, consisted of 177 vessels of all rates and classes, 98 being men of-war of various sizes, 51 iron clads, and 28 tugs, 1 hulks,&c.There are at present 55 vessels in 2 commission. The 51 iron clads are, with i but few exceptions, laid up in ordinary < in several navv yards, and are said to be t in an almost decayed condition. Four c are on the stocks unfinished. Most of t thera were built during the war, when a well seasoned wood was so scarce that ( white oak and other soft woods had to be v used in their construction. Of the men- c of-war 7 are yet on the stocks unfinished: \ 11 are-repairing at different yards, 23 are 1 laid up in ordinary, 4 are on duty as j c school ships at the Naval Academy, aid 7 v are used as receiving ships, at the various c navy yards. The others are used as i store 6hips and are on special service, for 1 which the Yantic is also fitting at Norfolk, j the Omaha and Richmond at Philadelphia 1 and the Hartford at Brooklyn. t If No Homk.?Many of those unfortunates who, during the late "heated term" in New York, were struck down in the streets, were found to have no home. In 1 i these cases, probably snnstroke was far from being the true cause of death. "No 1 home" conveys such a pitiful idea of des- J titution and misery that we do not wonder 1 that human beings forced to wander * through the streets, subject to rigors of 1 weather almost intolerable to those who f enjoy all the oomforts of a home, should ] droop and fail and die, being weakened and exhausted by all the various flls and 1 i deprivations incident to the misfortune of having no home. ; s ' Andrew Heatherton, the leader of the 1 Irish band, haa been arrested in Newark for debt contracted on fraudulent repre-' sentation8. He is accused of swindling c twenty-three members of the band out 1 of their wages for three weeks, and 8 nkltm'na fKfim {/tntv thpir nwn MrumiM 1 The New Diamond Fields. The Sin Francigcn Bulletin "lives the ollowing details concerning the recent liscovery of precious stones in Arizona : The existence of deposits of the precious 1 tones in Eastern Arizona and Western 'few-Mexico has been quite well authenticated for many years. The Azees, at the ime of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, lad large stores of rubies, emeralds, and urquoi?cs, which are not known to be ound in any part of the present teritory >f Mexico, and which they invariably told be conquerors came from the north. To his day diamonds, mostly of an inferior juality, rudely cut and clumsily set, are jxceedingly abundant in Mexico, and the act that they have a generally similar apjearance, and do not resemble the Brazilan, African, or Asiatic diamonds in color las led to the conclusion that they came rom fields somewhere on the North \merican continent. There are also many uins which were long mistaken for tem>les for religious worship, being geneially ocated on the summits of commanding tills, but which liter investigations have lemonstrated to have been intrenched I11JJIII? t'itlilp) UUllt ill aii iiic.uiv; o wuiitry. One of these, in a good state of reservation, may be seen on the bill on he western border of the city of Prescott, Arizona; and between Prescott and iVicksburgh, on the bridle trail which eads up the flassiyampi River, Is a very ine one, which we believe has never been lescribed in detail by any visitor. On a road flow of lava, extending many miles outhward from the now extinct volcano ?f Mount San Francisco, in the northeastrn Arizona, many miles from water, there ire in several places ruins of what were ividently mining camps. On the barren plain near the headluarters of the Colorado Chiquito, a pecies of large red ant has thrown to the urface large quantities of gravel, in which, ome years since, a party under Kit Caron found rubies of a deep color, varying n size from a grain of wheat to a small >c-a. Many of these were given to friends low residing in Arizona, and about a lozen of the rubies, with an emerald of rery pale color, were given to a gentleman low in this city by Fred. Henry, an old rontiersman. The emerald was brought jo this city, ground by a lapidary and prolounced genuine. The rubies, were, bow;ver, too small, and the emerald too pale :o be of much value. They are now in ;be cabinet of Wells Female College, Allium, New York. In I86fiamnn named [jamberson. owner of a small grist-mill at Walnut Grove, on the llassiynmpi River, i few miles south-west of Prescott, showed be writer a large handfull of rubies, some ?f which were of good size, which be said ie found in his mill-race in coarse gravel. The stones already received in this city omprise several hundred diamonds, varyn size from very minute particles to stones >f lOf) carats. There are also a large lumber of rubies, many sapphires?some rery large, a few black diamonds, and a uilf dozen emeralds; the latter of an inerior quality. The value of the entire ollection cannot be definitely stated, but l portion which was exhibited to a few icrsons in the cashier's room of the Bank ?t California to-day are estimated to be vortb fully $100,000. This does not allude a quart or more of small stones, not -et careluHv examined, nor does it include he large diamond before referred to. The egion is not far from the projected rail ray, and the discovery mud result in the pcedy settlement by Americans of a region leretoforc a wilderness or occupied only >y a race of murderous savages. The Religious Orders of Germany.? The statistics of the religious oiders of sorth Genuai v have just been published n the North German Gazette?Bismarck's ifficial organ. In Prussia, according to hese figures, there are ninety-seven orders >f men and congregations, numbering in he aggregate 1069 members. The Jesuits ind the Redemptorists are the strongest rders, the former having eleven convents vith 160 members, and the latter five onverts with sixty-nine members. Ba aria has seventy-one convents containing 045 members, while the Grand Duchy if Hesse-Darmstadt has four convents villi twenty-nine members. The female irders of Prnssia number 626, with 5586 nembers. This is an increase of about 800 since 1865. The Bavarian nunneries ire 188 in number, containing 2533 mern>er>. The superiors of the various male onvents are mainly Italians, though a ew are French. Too Mncn Whisky for the Snake.? They tell "hard" snake stories in Kenocky. This is the latest: A man in Buter Connty got very drnnk on a qnart of vhisky, and lay in the woods all night, rhe next morning a large dead rattlesnake vas found abont three feet from him, vhich had evidently bitten the drunken nan three several times during the night, is shown by the impression of the teeth n the flesh. The bites did no farther ninrv thon tv* ft slicht swelling and O o nflaratnation, which soon passed away, >nt the mean whisky in the man's system vas too ranch for the snake, and he is mpposed to have died immediately after nflicting the wonnd. Copper toed fans are sold for the ben'fifc of young ladies who have no one to. ove, and who chew the stuffing out of I my other kind in one evening wh^ a j Let Us Have The Steam Flow. It is no longer a question whether steam plowing is practicable or profitable. That has been abundantly shown b} the constant use for several years in England of these implements, and the proof that the heaviest lands may be plowed at a co*t thereof, ijj some cases, not over one dollar per acre. The question is with us; Can we apply this system of ploughing to our peculiar circumstances ? We need it. By no other means can our hesvy soil be properly prepared. It has been shown that clay soils wkich have been cultivated in the best manner by horse power, when cultivated by steam to a depth of three feet, gave immediately double the usual crops. Such cultivation is manifestly impossible without the aid of steam. With this power the heaviest soils can be loosened and mellowed, and made to admit air and heat?made, in fact, to breathe and live?as deeply as we may desire. The very impossibility of doing this in our present circumstances has given rise to a prejudice against it, and deep cultivation has come to be a bugbear with many. But if we were once able to nenetrate and loosen the soil (not invert it) to a depth of thirty inches, we should never hear the least objection to the practice. The result of course, as the conditions are equal, will be the same here as in England, and this is sufficiently profitable to lead us to make an attempt to secure it. Cooperation is the method in which it may be done. Congress has removed all import duty on foreign made steam plowing apparatus and engines, so that the objection of the enhanced cost is removed. Manifestly private enterprise, at least among ordinary farmers, is insufficient to undertake this task single-handed, but conjointly it may be done. The first attempt should be made in such States as Illinois or California, where level ground, heavy dry soil, farms of considerable size, and sufficient capital and public , spirit, are all to be met with. Joint st'ick steam plowing companies in England have made a profit of fifteen per cent, in addition te laying aside a fund for renewal of plant, and have done the work at half the cost and four times as well as with horse power. Then why should not the attempt sueJ V? ??/% 9 Tl?AP/i ia tliinrv tn nroiii LCl'U licit* : L UCIC 10 CIVIJ vuiup) vv and not much to lose by making it. Wjtat is Watkr.?What is water? I suppose some men are ready to make the Dogberry like reply, "water, sir, is water.1' That certainly reaches the point by a very short cut, but to the thinking, inquiring maa it is not satisfactory. Let us answer the question from the standpoint of the chemist. Water is mst, the red powder that falls from iron which has long been subjected to the action of mois ture, is ru^t of iron. It is the oxyde of a metal and so is water Water is the rust of hydrogeniam, a true metal. This wonderful element no human eyes have ever looked upon and probably never will as in its free state it exists only in the form of an invisible gas. Quite recently, science has demonstrated experimentally, what has long been suspected, that hydrogen gas is a metal, and capable of assuming a solid form in alloys. Oxygen, by uniting with this gaseous metal, rusts, oxydizes or burns it, and water is the rust or ashes. This strange metal, hydrogeniurn, and its oxide, play an important part in all the operations of nature. It is not alone confined to the little ball of earth upon which we live, but it exists in the stellar world above us, and in those misty points of light, the nebulae, which . 1 1-.1 A IlHVe so iOIlg |>U?Zieu HIIU pcrpiCACU tur astronomer and men versed in the physi cal sciences. The recent discoveries by means ot' the spectroscope have proved that this element enters largely into the unformed chaotic masses of matters, moving in space, of which the worlds are made. It is ready, when the formative act is fully accomplished, for taking its place in combination with oxygen, as water, to aid in sustenation of animal and vegetable life upon spheres so far distant that our imagination even cannot reach them.?Exchange. Too Strict.?The St. Petersburg!) daze tie tells a story which illustrates the stringency of Russian passport regulations. The village of Volotchik, on the (ialieian frontier, was a week or two ago surprised by a fire. Of course there was no engine in the place. Prompted by a feeling of neighborly char ty, the Austrian town of Brody dispatched its corps of firemen with all speed to the ai-sistance of the distressed village. They made for the frontier at a brisk gallop, but on arriving there, they were stopped by the I>ouane soldiers and gruffly reminded of their ommission to provide themselves with passports for the nocturnal trip. The could not therefore be permitted to cross the frontier, but had to return to Brody, their way home being lighted op by the flames which they had set .,;.t to quench. An eccentric farmer who lives near Dovlestown, Pa., for the last twenty years, stacked all the hay that he raised on his farm, selling none of it, and using very little. The result is that he has fifty large stacks of hay on his premises, making an aggregate of about 400 tons. Of course they are in various states of preservation, some being quite rotten. The man vouchsafes no explanation whatever of his singular freak,but keeps on, year after year, rrisiDg hay and a'a . kmg it up, refusing the most liberal How to Advertise. --rme "How to advertise" has worried many a man who desired to try his fortune in the newspapers. It is a matter in whioh it is not easy to give roles which would apply to all cases bat its features may be considered as they come to the snrfare, while now and then we are sure to f!u4- a style which may at least be marked down as one to be avoided. There are many ways in which to ad] vertise and certain styles of advertising are, doubtless, more effective than othert. Mnch depends upon the article itself and the class to whom it is to be offered. These considerations alone will often decide the style of an advertisement. Some firms, however, adopt and retain a certain manner of writing an advertisement no matter of what nature the article may be or the class for which it is intended. Perhaps of the two styles of wording?the "light" and the "dignified" ?the latter will hold its own for a longer time, while it will certainly appeal to a higher, though, perhaps, not so large a class of people In the long run, and for an article intended to be advertised for a length of time, it is not unlikely that dignity will tell to the best advantage. \ People are more likely to improve it on "the sober second thought." It is carions now and then, to watoh the progress of certain advertising ventures. "Don't yon think the Dolly Var den business has been a little overdone ?" said a large advertiser a day or two since, "everyone-seems tired of it, and modest people are almost afraid to wear articles called after it." But it did not seem to ns that it had been over advertsed. It would be hard to overdo anything in that way. But it I seemed not to have been rightly done. It was put out upon too low a scale, so that paragraphists and punsters found their game in it, and made it at least a. pieoe of such common property that no one wanted it. It seems on the whole, that there is no such thing as over advertising an arti cle \ ich should be advertised at all, while it is equally certain that in all cases the right tone and style must be chosen to prevent the matter from becoming either tiresome or so common and vulgar that it is instinctively avoided.?RorctlVs Reporter. Vrry Fast Living.?Much has been said and written about the recklessness ef young English heirs. The last story is of young Brooks, who recently obtained from the Vice-Chancellor an injunction forbidding a bill discounter n lined Morris to negotiate a promissory note which Brooks, before attaining his majority, had given to him under the following circumstances: Brooks desired to obtain ?1,100. He therefore resorted to the astute Morris, who gave him the money in exchange for a promissory note for ?1,625, bearing interest at the rate of one shilling per pound per month, or something more than fifty per cent. Had this note been due in one year from its date. Brooks would have owed Morris no less than ?2,600 making the ?1,100 which he borrowed cost him ?1,500. This, however, J was by no means the full extent to which I he was fleeced. He afterward borrowed other snms of Morris, doubtless on the same peculiar terms, and ultimately gave him in settlement his note for ?2,600, receiving in exchange his lormer notes, and ?335 in cash. For this transaction Morris charged ?390 for "interest and commission," besides exacting the usual interest of one shilling per pound per month J on the note of ?2,600. Brooks, finally I crew tired of borrowing money at the o rate of over one hundred per cent., and, as has been said appealed to the Court of Chancery to forbid Morris to negotiate his last note. This injunction was granted upon Brooks undertaking to pay to Morris the amount he had actually received, together with ?100. The usurer was thus defeated, and it is probable that Brooks will hereafter shun the bill of discounters. Strange Case.?We learn from a Southern paper, that there was a colored man living neai Panola, Miss., who treated religion with more levitv than solemnity, and who went fishing on Sunday. Being remonstrated with, some weeks ago, he replied irreverently that he would go the next Sunday morning "be/ore God gets up, and catch a nice string of fisb." Accordingly, on the following Sunday morning b? repaired to the bank- of the Tallahatcbe River very early and threw bis bated hook and line into tl<< river. Scarcely had be done so when there was a violent tugging at his hook, and a counter pull from tb* '.ore brought to the surface of the water a huge lally-cooler, which found voice to say: "You shall remain here fishing all the days of your life, till God gets nn.v and then disappeared. Since that T7 . . time all efforts to drag the unfortunate fisherman from the bank of the river have proved unavailing. It is evident that he labors under a strange hallucination, but he insist* it is the judgment of the Almighty, and that he must continue angling in tnat spot until he receives absolution from his oflended Maker. A lady in Lewiston, Me., has a drew which sue has worn every summer for twenty-five years. The dry-goods men look upon her with perfect scorn, while she is beloved by every married man in