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i 1 " The Beaufort mm Republican. i.Y INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. VOL. III. NO. 7. BEAUFORT. S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1872. IfiStfB/TC2: Only Across the River. There's a beautiful land where the angels dwell, ? And our loved ones are gamered forever, Where songs of deliverance in full anthems swell, Whore sorrows ne'er conic, their joys to disIt is only across the river. There's a heavenly rest, a home of delight, Where ain and where death come never ; The Holy of Holies, where saints, elothed in white, Rejoiac in the goodness of God, day and night; . It is only across the river. There are mansions prepared for the holy and pure, When from earth, death their spirits shall sever, When those who in Christ to the end, shall endure, Shall dwell in His presence forever secure ; It is only across the river. There's a robe and a crown in that beautiful land. Which Jesus, the glorious giver, Shall bestow upon those vrho are worthy to stand, When probation is past, at the Father's right hand, It is only across the river. Then we'll fear net the gloom that hides the brie lit shore, For Christ Bball be there to deliver, And guide us in safety, though billows may roar, By the light of His love, the dark waters o'er; It is only across the river. GBACE STANLEY'S DECISION. l% I dare say, Gracie, you have by this time, made up your mind as to what you propose doing ?" said Mrs. Manning, in a half doubtlul manner, gliding into Ler neice's chamber and furtively casting her eyes over its rich and delicate appointments. "Yes, auntie, f believe 1 have,*' returned the young girl, looking up hastily trom a just-finished note on her escritoire, and rising to offer some courtesy to her aunt. m "And pray what is it':" said Mrs. Manning, peering searchingly into the tender blue eyes of her neice, and evoking from her a treacherous blush. " You have, at least, taken long enough to coine to a conclusion." Grace turned away to avoid the gaze of Mrs. Manning, and a happy couplet recurring to her memory, she smiled pleasantly under the deepening blush, and gaily sang: 44 And of the choice who can doubt, Of tents with love or thrones without." A frown usurped the questioning expression on Mrs. Manning's countenance, and, reddening with anger, she said : 44 And so I am auswered 2" 44 Yon will marry Oscar Howard ?" "That is iny intention, aunt," said Grace, firmly. " And will throw away all chances for an alliance with William Duncan?" " Without doubt, auntie." "And per consequence " said Mrs. Manning, a cold, sarcastic sneer distorting the symmetry of her beautiful lip?. Hut Grace would not allow her aunt to finish her sentence. I" Must arrange at once to seek other shelter than my uncle's roof. I feel?I 1 know this." For a moment a look of tenderness aweyt over the face of the fashionable, world-loving woman. A sudden rush of recollection brought before her the deathbed of her only sister, and the words with which she committed to htr the chargo of her only child?a little cherub of two years, that hid its flaxen ringlets on auntie's bosom, and wept herself sick when they shut up pretty mamma in the box. All the winning gracefulness, all the tender alfectiou of this child's childhood arid youth came up before her heart's vision, and she doubted whether her own conscience would justify her, or whether her own happiness would be materially increased by proceeding harshly against ^ her neice. But the world came in with its cruel cynicism; she had never loved, herself; but she was rich and ?vied, and to place her penniless niece in the same position, would, in her estimation, be fultilling all the requirements of her adoption. And then the voice of her dying sister stole up like broken chords ot sweet music through her soul : 44 If my little girl should live to be a women, do not force her heart, Emily. T>o not let her be sacrificed in marriage to aDy consideration, but the holy one, which ^ should rule in the bridal. I married a poor man?my family discarded me for it ?but I was happy ; and now I am going to meet the husband of my love, where marriage is eternal." The brown, fringed lids elosed over the violet eyes, the pale lips murmured: 4' Lord, Je-us, receive?my?spirit." A seraphic brightness flashed over the pale face, and the spirit of Marian Stanley had joined its love. Mrs. Manning remembered all this, and, closing her eyes against her rebellious _ _ i* r . _ ..ii i niece iora iew moments, sacnomiug communion with her own soul. It was over. She got up and, without a word, left the room, returning almost immediately. ' If it must be," she said, cooly, " hasten your preparations," laying before her niece a well-tilled portemouuaie. 'Thank you, aunt," said Grace, decidedly ; returning the pocket-book to her auut, 141 shall not need the contents of this. In the station that I shall fill, as the wife of a merchant's clerk, 1 shall not need a costly wardrobe, and it you will permit, what I have already will answer all my purposes. Under the circumstances, I cannot think of accepting a single dollar from you." 44 Grace Stauley," said Mrs. Manning, sharply, "what will the world say of me?" ^ " Nothing, aunt, but thai your niece was ungrateful, disobedient and rebellious ?neither of which, thank G?xl, she is? and deserved expulsion from your roof, with all the penalties that attach to selfwill and waywardness." In the meantime she had donned her cloak and bonnet, and taking the note to Danton, in which she had told him of her k intention to marry another, she bent over and, kissing hor aunt's forehead, rushed down .stairs and was soon en toute to the store in which Oscar Howard was employed. On the street she met William Danton, j who drove up in a flashing phaeton, drawn by a pair of sleek, dappled bays, that seemed to scorn the earth upon which their dainty feet rested. Beside him sat a well-bpt, liveried coachman, while all the appointments of the equipage evinced not only the wealth, but good taste of the owner. But about him there was an air of recklessness and insouciance against which the pure soul of Grace Stanley revolted. Driving up to the pavement, he leaped from his seat and stood beside her. 11 Oh, dear, how lucky!" he exclaimed. "I was just going up to take you out, but Ah! I see. You are not dressed for a drive," casting his fastidious eyes down upon her plain street dress, "and, upon my soul, I couldn't think of taking you out without a chance of better display than this," laying his hand upon her modest, neutral tinted cloak, and glancing np at her equally negative hat. " But, Grace," he took occasion to wisper, "I did very much wish to see yon this morning. It is getting time that we should come to some sort of a decision in our (ffaire de cceur. The old governor 6ays I most get married; go to the Saudwich Is'ands; do something?stop this lazy dog's life. I cm spending to much of his money," etc. He laughed, and, forgetting where he was, caught up Grace's hand, much to her disgust. With an etFort she withdrew it. and as calmly as possible. "Thanks," she said, "Mr. Danton. Were I ever so appropriately dressed, I could not drive out with you this afternoon ; and as to our affair ck co>ur, you will have a note from me to-morrow that will define my position. I have put one in the post since coming out. I wish you a pleasant drive. Good-bye!" And releasing her hand, she threw a thick veil over her face, and walked rapidly until she reached the store. When she entered, she sent to Oscar Howard a notice at once of her presence; but he being busy, she sat beside one of the counters until he could come to her. During this time she was busy with thought. He whole life had been surrounded with luxury, but nevertheless it was oue of dependence. Would she be less dependent by givii>g up the luxury to which she had been accustomed to, because the wife of a inan wholly dependent upon his salary as a merchant's clerk? "Yes," she answered to herself; "a wife should be a help and not an incumbrance to her husband, and a helpmate I am resolved to be and a look of smiling resolve overspread her features, as Oscar Howard approaching recalled her from her abstraction. 44 "What has brought you here this afternoon, Grace ?" lie said tenderly, his quick intution not failing to note something unusual in her manner. u Are you ready, Oscar, to be married?" she asked, in a wisper. " Not exactly, clearest," he wispered. 411 have been trying to summon courage to ask of Mr. Lacy an increase of salary in prospect; I wish to make you as comfortable as possible." "We must get mariied at once," she said, firmly, 41 without regard to your salary." "Well." he answered, iu return, 44tomorrow, if need be," feeling that she had been impelled to her course by some unquestionable motive. 44 Then to-morrow evening, at seven o'clock, at Church, let it be, Hring some of your friends as witnesses, and with a single female friend, I shall meet you. I)o not fail." She extended her hand to him across the counter, drew her veil over her face, aad with tears of mingled emotions brim raing her eyes, she passed out of the store, and hastened her steps to the house ot her friend, to engage her services. From this interview, Oscar Howard retired to the private oftice of his em ployer. lie was pale and agitated; and thinking the excellent young man was ill, Mr. Lacy sprang up from his seat at his desk to offer him a glass of iced water. Declining the courtesy and taking the seat iudicnted by Mr. I.aey, Howard said: " I have come to speak to you upon some very important business. I am about to be married, sir, and " "Ah,"said his employer; "ami " "I must make bold to ask a small in crease 01 my wu^es. Mr. 1 /lev's voice nssuiii'd :i tone oi calmness. "Have you never saved anything from your salary, Mr. Howard?'' "Not until the last six months, sir. Up to that time I supported my invalid mother. Since her death, I have managed to save cue-half every month." "Indeed! I did not know you had n mother." "Yes, sir; and, could my individual wish have been considered only,I would have kept her here for all time. But she was a terrible sufferer, aud her release, though it left my life very desolate, gave me a measure of comfort." "And who are you to marry?" "Miss Stanley." "Not the niece of Manning, the banker?" "The same, sir." "IIow is this, Howard?" "I love her, and she loves me. That is all, Mr. Lacy." "Aud will not Manning do something for his niece?" "Nothing, sir, if she married me." ' "bhe ceuId not marry a more worthy fellow." Thanks, Mr. Lacy; but she might marry a very much richer one." "And who is that?'' "Willi un Dantoii." "Yes,I see; the son of Manning's partner. He has money, position, good looks?everything; this is passing | strange." "I am inclined to thiuk so myself, Mr. Lacy." "And you think your salary is nol sufficient to support a wife brought up in the manner in which Miss Stanley was reared? I fear, Howard, you have made a mistake." '1 have no fear, sir," said the young man, confidently. "Grace Stanley is j made of the material of which every true woman should be made ; and, in her acceptance of me, she is fully acquainted with my situation and prospects in life. Yet 1 should like to surprise her with o . \ few more comforts tlian she has reason 1 to expect." s "You are iuvaluable to me, Howard," said Mr. Lacy, "and without this incentive I should have doubled yonr salary in the Spring. Two months in advance J cannot break me. Consider that settled, then,from this time,and God bless you." Mr. Lacy shook Howard's hand and bowed him out. * * * * o * * In the dimly lighted church?while , almost all the city sat around their nuts and wine at well-filed boards?Grace Stanley's was a solemn, and scarcely a cheerful wedding. Yet there was no trace of sadness upon the young bride's countenauce?only the pure and holy emotion which should fill a heart renounced to another; while in Oscar Howard's smile when the few frieuds around offered their congratulations, there was the triumph of happiness. It was sometbiug like a niue day's wooder among the fashionable frieuds when the announcement was made through the city papers, aud some refused positively to credit the rumor. ' Impossible!" baid o?e and another? maneuvering mammas, women of the world, marriageable daughters, and astute fortune hunters. "Mrs. Manning is far too sagacious for a thing of that kind to happen within the range of her power. As long as Mr. Manning knows the value of money, and has any regard for social position, such a marriage /?nnl,l iinuur tolrp -iilnf.p frnni liis house.' "Perhaps they wished to get rid of her ; she was only an orphan niece, *' said a lady in whose bosom was a ver, small stiarc of human kindness. ' But an adopted child," said a listener. "From Mr. Manning's own hps I have heard he intended to make her his heir." "And young Dantou was said to be a suitor." "Very incomprehensible?very!" said an old society haBger-on around drawing rotuis of the rich. And so went the gossip of Grace Stanley's quondam friends, while she busied hersell in turning to advantage all the simple appointments of her contrasted and contracted apartments on the third floor *.f a plain but genteel boarding house. At the displeasure of her adopted paients she was deeply grieved: but aside from this, little reeked she what the babbling world outside babbled about. She was happy 111 O-car Howard's love; she was contented with her simple manner of living; and days passed into weeks, and weeks into months, and months into years, with no diminution to her contentment, no diminution to her happiness. Tint nnf Irmrr OsCJif Howard's S very much "pent up Utiea." With his doubled salary he found at the end of the flr3t six months after marriage, he had 110 petty sum laid by in the savings bank. At the end of one year tliey were enabled to exchange their single thirdfloor back room in their boarding house for a cosy subnrbau cottage. The next exchange by virtue of the young 4t olive branches" that werespriugingup around their board, was to a suburban cottage more commodious. A few judicious outside investments had much increased the young man's finances; and when physical and mental affliction had rendered business burdensome to Mr. Lacy, he offered a partnership to his chief clerk, which in a s^ort time became an equal one, and the firm of Lacy k Howard had the name of one of the strongest in the city. By tin's time a great financial crisis was making gigantic strides toward the very heart of the mouey market. Men looked pale and anxious, shook their i heads doubtfully, and gloomily watched the cloud th it continued to spread and blacken the financial firmament, tmtil it stood directly over the great money mart,enveloping thousands in its sombre pall. "They say tbat the house of Manning & Dantou, too, is likehr to go down in the vortex," said one to another, carelessly, as Grace Howard stood on the curb stone before her door, awaiting the coimDg of her carriage around the corner. She had then a home in one of the principal avenuc3 of the city?her husband's duties not allowing a residence more remote. "It cannot be," said the other. "That is one of the most reliable houses on the street." "But has been ruined by the recklessness of the youngest partner. You will remember the firm is now Manning, Dantou Son. It has been only twelve months since Dantou, Jr. has been one of the firm; but they tell me he has not only squandered money most fearfully in all species of dissipation, but lie has made injudicious'iuvestments; and more, is strongly suspected of fraud in more L than a single instance." "I am sorry for the sake of Manning, that this is so. He is an old man, ami, I believe, an honest man." "Yet they say his house cannot sur' vive another day's run upon it." "Terrible!" exclaim*d the listener. i "Can t they get help.'1 "Not wUli William Danton's lingers i in their monev bags." "Terrible!" again exclaimed ti e sec' ond man, and shakiug hands, one went up and the other down the street, leaving Grace Howard to digest the unwelcome news of her uncle's business condi' tion as best she might. The carrriage so long delayed, now stood before her. "Drive to Mr.Howard's store at once." she nervously ordered the driver. Grace was still nervous and agitated when she entered her husband's pres; ence. "Tell me, Oscar," she asked, with a tremor in her voice, "how innck money I am now the possessor of, in my own ; right?" "Twenty-two thousand dollars. ' ' "Can I have the use of it?" "Assuredly, my dear; it belongs to you; but what do you wish to do with it?" ; "I have heard that my. uncle was in serious fiuancial danger." i "And so have I," said her husband. "I must see him my few thousands may be of some help to him." ; "Grace," said her husband, sternly, ; "he has utterly iguored your existence, ! since your marriage, and will you now expose yourself to injury and insult?" " My uncle is in trouble now, Oscar. I cannot forget his mord than fatherly i kindness in my childhood and youth. v In marrjiDgyou, I disappointed all the expectations tliey had reared, for wealth, fashion, aud worldly position for me ; . and while I can never blame myself for 1 obeying the dictates of my own heart, I * dare not cherish a feeliug of resentment , toward them. If my money?inconsider- ^ able as it is?will be of service to my . uncle, he must now have it." She held her lips up for her husband's ^ kiss, and, being driven rapidly, soon s was landed at the door of her uncle's a office. Among the eager crowd that thronged a the door-steps, each man with a ceitifi- c cate of deposit nervously clutched be- o t^een his fingers, she made her way n iuto his presence. His eyes glassed over with tears, as they fell upon her pale 11 face. Mr. Maning had grown old, weak, and childish, within a week ; and he r would fain have laid liis silvered, aching, |, nnrfl-nr/M-n ilood nimn tl)A hoSiim nf bis V/H4 O'r? \JL u IIV U\A U|/\/u ? v - -WW ? w. ? adopted child, and craved forgiveness 11 for all liis cruelty and neglect. The r iron had entered his sonl, and he was a a better man?a softened man. g " Can 1 seo you a moment, uncle ?" said Gr.ice, beating back, with a look, * the crowd that pressed forward, in silent h determination, to secure securities be- b fore leaving the office. " Can I see you? a I must see you a moment privately." Leaving Danton, Sr., to battle with their creditors, her uncle led the way F into his private office and bolted the L door. j " IIow is it with you, uncle ?" she suid. Tell me all ! Tell me the worst ! Tell me quickly !" * " Another day, Graeie," said her n uncle, gloomily, will end the struggle, t and I shall be bankrupt. This would not have been, even now, but William ! Danton has been a defaultei for a large v amount, disappearing with the greater I; portion of the assests of the firm, just h previous to the crisis. If I had but a small amount, could last through one j* more day, and satisfy my creditors, I could easily re-establish myself in the a public confidence. Bat why should e I grieve you with this, my child ? You g cannot help me." u I can help you some, perhaps, uncle. a Would twenty thousand dollars be of a any service to you ?" v Ho started to his feet, aud grasped her hand like a vise. "Twenty thousand dollars would save mc from ruin." u You cau have it, then, by one ' o'clock," i Without another word she rushed from the banker's office, and giving an otder, in an hasty voice, to her coachman, * distanced every carriage in passing, and c ere long, in her husband's office, was 0 nervously counting over the soft, old, ^ yellow, greasy rags, that were laid as an 7nir?n f 11m iY>?fpn"nor st-nmhi 1 i I 3 of her uncle's creditors. a 111 another half hour, these old, yel- f low, greasy rags were laid in her uncle's hands. Two?three?o'clock came bank J hours were over ; the sun was neariug * its setting ; financiers ? many of thein a financiers no more for life?lingered ,, about Mammon's quarter, as if loth to ^ leave, discussing the events of the day, probing into the probabilities of e the morrow. I "Poor Manning! How is it with him?" said the surest man on the street, "Still on his feet," was the answer. "How is that?" said another 011 the * blink of bankruptcy, and upon the 3 principle that "misery likes company," v was pleased rather than grieved when ^ he heard that a broker had been carried down in the general misfortune. x "Got help from some source?God e knows where!" c ,'They tell me," said another, who j was listening moodily, that a woman twice visited Manning's office to-day. c Perhaps her visit had something to do e with his safety." c "Describe her " ? ''One of his creditors told me she was , ? ? 1 1 11 1 1; a lianusome, nrown-uairea, Diue-evea woman, ot twenty-five, perhaps." 2 "Can it be?yes, it must be?Mrs. 11 Howard. You remember she was the ^ adopted child of Manning, and incurred ejection from his roof because of her c acceptance of Howard, over that scoun f drel, William Dan ton. Howard is now t one of the most prosperous merchants 5 iu the city. She, it must have been; c and doubtless rendered her uncle assist k ance, for I am told she is abundantly 2 able." * t The morrow's sun arose upon many t a closed firm iu the street?closed for ^ all time. But not so the house of Man uing <Sr Danton. At tho regular bust- ^ ness ho ir their doors were opened, e There were few loungers around their 3 steps that day; other steps, where ruin, gauut and grim, grew into more definite 8 form as the hours advanced, where far t more attractive to the interested or the i i curious. And so on, Irom day to dav, t stalked the panic, hand iu hand with , 1 poverty, until, content with their work, tliev r:ist ii trimnnhaiit smile noon the 1 wreck they hail made, and retired. I By littles, Mr. Manning, though c shaken in health, began to restore his shattered fortunes, and, re-established m public confidence, his house soon re- * gained its old popularity. t It is neille?H to say, Giace Howard g i was also re-established in the confidence ^ and the hearts of her adopted parents; and a great concession it was for Mrs. c ; Manning when she admitted for the i first time to her linshand, ' Yes, Graeie i was wiser than we.*' lu Mr. Manning's iron safe there lies a legally-attested will, and by this testa ? meut, when death shall have claimed r. the uncle and aunt, Grace Howard is i destined to he one of the wealthiest women in the city. \ She is not yet aware of it, but Ose.ir sometimes says to his wife: t "I don't think, dear, they dislike us i very muclu " * MunDF.r. in New York.?A tragic tcr ' rj miuation of an old vcnde ta occurred in Johnson's Pool-looms, at the corner of [ i Broadway and Twenty-eighth street,New York, in the midst of the pool-selling. John Scannel, a politician of prominence ' iu the E'ghteenth Ward, shot and killed J Thomas Douohue, who, three years ago, ' i in the heat of political contest, was said to have shot Florence Soannel much in * the same way. The murderer was ar- J rested and taken to the Twenty-math ' Precinct Statiou-honsf. i A Memphis paper defines advertising to 1 e " a blister which draws easterners." < A The Farmers and the Government. Mr. M. F. Maury, the eminent scientst, delivered an interesting address at he St. Louis Fair, in which he said : " The question of which I am about o treat is one of this sort: How shall the armers of the country procure from the xeneral Government that degree of conideration and such legislative encour gement for agriculture as it requires ml deserves ? Its importance, when ontrasted with the other great interests >f the country, such as commerce and mvigation, railroading, mining and aanufacturing is, to Shy the least, quite qual to theirs. Then why should it not eceive as much consideratiou from the iw-givers ? It is admitted by all, for it s practically demonstrated, that the ailroad men, the merchants, the miners, nd the manufacturers have far more inlueuce and ])ower in Washington and nth the State legislatures than your toncst farmers aud industrious mechanics iav<\ IIow is this ? Let us ascertain, nd then I think you will agree with me, hat if they have more influence and lower with the Government than you Kinfl Jo trr>nrc:olvf>R nnd Kflt. tllPV tliat QPe 1UTU lb AO J VU4UVI vw M..%. o blame, for if you clioose to let your uteresls go by default while they pull ogether and follow theirs up you have to cause of complaint. Their associaious call men together and yours disterse them. They assemble in cities illages, and congregate for work in irgc numbers. They have daily and tourly access to the post office, the telerupli, and the newspaper press, and told constant communications by signs nd correspondence with their fellows very where. You on the other hand are cattered over the f3ce of the country, ro all day at work in your own fields, ud sometimes see whole weeks pass by rithout a word of conversation with a iugle soul save those of your own housetold. This inclines so many farmers to old fogyism;' makes you averse to pull ogether and loth to hold meetings to iiscuss the interests of agriculture, and hen to combine for the purpose of prouring the necessary legislation. They, in the contrary, have their guides, their toards, their exchanges, societies, and ssociations in which they meet daily nd in large cities nightly. One mauuacturer or miner may have in his cmiloymeut 1,090 hands, and one 'railroad ;iug' 10,000 men. And so they combine ud bring pressure upon legislatures and governors while you, like 'true laborersre quietly at home happy to see 4 the wes graze and their lambs suck.' Now want to persuade you?and by ' you' I postrophize all those who, taken together, represents the rural interestalof he whole country? I want to persuade -oil to be more alive to your common relfare, to turn over a new leaf und see hat hereafter agriculture suffers no eroug through lack of co operation and onoert among farmers or through want >f advocates in high places. In persuudng I moan to convince. According to fficial statements, statements not genrally very accurate, I admit, but suffiiently so in this instance, perhaps, to live an idea of your wealth?your crops ast year amounted in round numbers to !,500,01)0,000. That is the annual proluce of your labor, and it is increasing. Yhat. compared to this, is the produce >f the miucs, the giius of commerce, or he earnings of railroads ? According to he last ceusus there are said to be 12, 00,000 'bread earners' in the United Hates. These till the mouths of the 19,000,000 million of people wlyj inhabit he country. Thus, every one who is lot a drone, has, ou the average, to earn iread for three mouths. Following u hese statistics it appears that these several industries subsist respectively : The igricultural and mechanical, 23,830,000 ouls ; the commercial, 2,325,000 souls ; he manufacturing, 1,117,000; the minng, -472,000; the railroad and express nen. 095,000. Foster the great National Agricultural Congress that had its birth u this city on the 28th daj of May last. !t Las already spoken with regard to one >f these great measures, aud eiC itneniorial could be enrolled and sent up o Washington, the public press took up he petition, and legislators catching its ipirit, passed?though they were upon he very heels of the session?an act in reasing the appropriation for the Siglal Office, and commanding it to address ts labors to the benefit of agriculture us veil us of commerce. Thus we have an itispicious beginning aud a^good omeu. ["lie Government in Washington acted icfore it had received the official pro:eedings of the Agricultural Congres. rhese asked, not only that the labors of he Sigual Office should be turned in the nterest of agriculture, but that the naions should be invited to a general con erence, in which the details might be irranged for a universal system of inete)r (logical observations and crop reports' tour Congress lias pledged itsell to this ilea sure, and it is one of those great noves you see, that goes beyond the lontines of any State society, and is too lig even for any oue nation to handle. Lt requites the influence of governments : bring it into notice, and the nnited jo-operation of the world to carry it out. rbis plan proposes that all the nations jf the caith shall co operate in a common system of meteorological observaions and research, and unite in a geniral crop plan of reports, to be agreed upon in joiut conference, so that yc may be all kept posted, from seed tin to harvest, as to the promise and yiel of the staple crops in all parts of tl world, and learn truly to discern the fa< of the sky. For, with the system i successful operation, every one of yc may expect to acquire foreknowledge* the seasons such as you can utilize, ar to learn at least once?perhaps twicemonth throughout the year, as to tl yield and promise in the various coin tries, of the great staples with whic you have to compete in the markets < the world. This information witt enab you to fix prices upon your staples i: stead of going to the merchants to s the price for you; it will be proclaimt by telegrams, distributed through tl mails, and repealed by the county ai village press throughout the land, unl every farmer will, in his own iut< re and for self protection, be compelled 1 take at least one newspaper; so her besides the general and patriotic, is direct pecuniary interest which the pre has in advocating this measure and j helping us to 'roll this ball along.' tell you that since the application i steam to mechanical purposes there nothing of so wide and general impo tance to agriculture, nothing that is mo rich with promise, than this simp scheme, which is grand and potential f good, chiefly because of its ^implicit The triumph of useful ideas is only question of time ; and this is one them. A New Idea.?A Yankee has set h wits to work again, and this time wii the intention of lmposmg upon the trua im* nature of trees. The bare condition the trees during the bleak months of wi ter strikes him as being far from pleasii to the general eye, and he proposes remedy it by a system of stcain pip twining around the roots of shade tret and kept waim by steam from an ordma furnace boiler. He doubtless thinks tb he may thus cause the trees to imagi: themselves in the midst of summer, and suppose that the bleak winds of Docemb are merely passing eccentricities not wor noticing: and above all, not of sufficie consequence to cause them to cast off tin summer attire. We do not believe th f the trees can be imposed upon to this e tent, but the intention of the ingenious i ventor, who, by the way dwells in 'Jo necticut, is none the less commoudat If this gentleman would turn his mind somcnuansof persuading flics and m: quitoes that winter reigned all the ye round, he would confer a greater bene] on his suffering species than by trying take advantage of the trees. Ax Important Law Shit Compromise ?An important lawsuit in Louisvil has just been brought to an end 1 a compromise. In 1851 Gust'ivus Sell man, a wealthy manufacturer of A la Chapelle, Prussia, deserted his wi and two children, and eleped to tl country with his servant maid, brin ing a great deal of ready mom with him and leaving a large amount b hind him. An Indiana divorce was pr cured and he married the servant maid, 1 whom he had five children. Ho ma< money rapidly and died in 1870. leavii ?1.000,000 worth of property in this oi and Indianapolis. By his will he left 1 Prussian property to his divorced wife ai children and American property to 1 wife and children here. The marrin contract with his first wife entitled her one-eight of all his estate in fee eimr and a life estate of one-fourth. Su;t w brought in the United States Distr Court of Indiana and Chancery by t deserted wife, and the suit was compr mised recently by paying ber $100,000. The Great Manufacturing (it) of Xc Jersey. We copy the following statistics manufacturing in Newark, Now Jerse with the remark that mar such a hive iudustrv, farmiug and gardening are course flourishing:? "The great Newark exposition p i 1 il . 1 ? manufactured goons, tup exclusive pr duction of that city, proved a dccid* success. In it there arc more than 2 diff-rent branches of manufactures cu ried on; the establishments in \\lii< they are conducted number about ljOtl they employ over 30,000 bauds (over oi quarter of the population of 125,0 men, womeu and ebildreu,) to whom a paid annually wages to the amount about 815,000,000, (an average of 8500 each person,) and that capital to t! amount of 830,000,000 is employed these manufactures, whose prodU( amount to 870,000,000 a year. Of tl S4G,000.000 ma/ be classified as follow in general terms, but with sufficient a curacy as to amounts : Over 81.250,0 are in drugR and chemicals, over$2,00< 000 in boots and shoes, nearly 84,000,0 in beer and ale, nearly 81,000,000 cement, lime and plaster, nearlv 8l,25( 000 in enamelled cloth, over $3,000,0 in clothing, over 31,250,000 in cotton ai silk threads, $2,500,000 in hardware, $! 500,000 in iron manufactures, $5,000,0 in jewelry, over $5,000,000 in leathe nearly $2,000,000 in lumber, over $1,25< 000 in machinery, $2,500,000 in smeltii and refining, nearly $1,000,000 in sa dlery and harness, $750,000 in sashe blinds and doors, about $1.500,000 tobacco and segars, 81,000,000 in vnrnis over $505,000 in oxyde of zinc, and & 000,000 in trunks, traveling bags ai valises. anM?i?? >u Brevities. )e Ring bolts?Divorces. [j Domestic mails?Married ineu. ie Tliere is s hog epidemic in Tennessee. je Poultry are having the cholera in Iowa. in Corn is cheaper tnan wood for lucl in )U Iowa lime kilns. of Old settlers1 associations are becoming an institution in the West. 1 An editor who was going courting, said a ?jj0 WJLS going to press." ie England makes S3 500,000 worth of her n- old rags into paper yearly, ili Paper houses arc being made practica0f ble, habitable and comfortable. le Athens, Ga., has a paper named the Cat} with the motto u I can scratch." Q. The Springfield loafers have taken to throwing kerosene on ladies' dresses. An Iowa lawyer has been indicted for ,e swindling a w'dow out of a war claim, 'd A lawsu't wa9 settled the other day in tf! Michigan by pistols in the court room, s* Macklin told Cooke that the fir?, quali tG fication ot an actor was to learn c? siauu f still. If you court a youDg woman, and you 0 ire won and she is won, you will both SJt oe one. id A Connecticut orator emphasized his 1 speech by smashing a $20 show case the 0f other day. js Hudibraa calls matrimony a jierverse ever lieginuing with heat and ending r' with frost. rr A barb rison trial in San Francisco for 1? killing a woman because she refused to or marry him. y. Two dogs in a New York pit fought five a hours, before a brutal crowd, before one silled the other. A saloon keeper in New York was shot because he declined to donate a prize to a target company. t|j A Wisconsin tornado recently blew down 200,000,000 feet of pine, and killed 40 yokes of oxen. ol In Texas when a congregation wants a p- new church, the members go to work and ag build it themselves, to Torre Haute has a young man who cuts, fits and makes all the dresses worn by bis mother and lout sisters. ?s The Hegistrar General of the Co'iuy of South Australia estimates its population at at midsummer, 1872, at 190,500. Columbine is the very pretty name of to a young Dan bury girl?that is at hoipe ; cr at school they call her " Lum." jj. \ here have been a good many marriages of late. This will account for the fact 11' that nothing now-a-days is singular. Mr Half the papers in tho South say that at the tobacco crop is unusually good, and x- the other half say it is unusually poor. n- The police of Jackson, Mich., are pron. hibited from smoking, drinking, and siiting on dry goods boxes while on duty. 11 There are two things in the world that are not safe to trifle with?a woman's 'C? * - -?-- ^ AI- ? !? <?!. a?\ zl /\f a urn cm upiuiona uuu lue uusiu..-x> cuu ui <? nw^, flr Young married people who have their fit house built should have it built round, to <o that discontent can find no corner in it. Tliere is some talk of starting in London a comprehensive C lurch, which shall D- admit, worshippers of all sorts and condille tions. dj Life according to the Arabic proverb is u. composed of two parts?that which is past, a dream, and that which is to come, 11 a wish. c l' Who arc the most exacting of all landll" lords? Why. children; because they g. never fail to make the.r own lathers and mothers pa-rents e. Denmark women are very polite. Wonder if they would give a seat in a street ?* *dr to another woman if there was plenty of room on both sides. de M;ijor S. W. Derrick, (Zcb Crummet, rip Serious Editor of the Washington Touchtv stone,) is in the lecture field this season witli 'New-fangled Notions." . A mama for lancy work ha* suddenly seized on young ladydom, and all the >is oleasant young fellows are over whelc with the products of their toil, to The dry goods clerks in Cincinnati threaten to strike, and the Enquirer wishes that they would, aid clear out, leaving their places and wages to women. An exohauge says that the correct unl'e swer to the gentlemau who wrote the o- song, "Why did I Marry?" would l>e, Because you met a womau who was a first class tooL" Paris Newspapers, as newspaper?, are behind the journalism of any other part of rhe world. The Germans arc fir in adof vance ol the French in this respvet, as toey v jie in manv others. J 9 " of Two men. who bad just got through a 0 hard examination, weie overheard talking rhe other day, in one of tin* dean language-. Th??ir accent reminded the hearer <>' of the voices of the past. <> An exchange says: " Til's is the filth e<l trout caught tbis year from the same q(<) hole,' tho total weight of which is six rounds." "Good," i;a>s the Ottawa Ctlill" zeii, "now we know what a hole weighs.-' A Macon, Ga., man has invented u 'O; machine for the manufactnre of ice De which is destined to place retail consult mers upon a fair footing. The whole machine can be placed on the inside of re a water bucket. The battle fields of France present now A- - ^ -i -f io and tlicn unpleasant ri-mmuero. ui iui[te scenes enacted on them. At Rozny ?nd ij, Ermont, recently, faimcrs btve been killed by the explosion of shells in the ground _ they were digging. us A young womtn has poisoned herself in rs, Vienna. In a note, which she bad left ic- upon a table near the bed on which she qq lay she had written: "My last cigur ^ draws very badly, therefore I am tired of '* life. Good night." Miss Florence L. .Johnson, a lovely 1,1 young lady of Morristown, Ind., has hroufht a breach of promise suit t gainst 00 Alonzo Tyner, a wealthy gentleniun of j Indianapolis. Damages are laid at $10,000. Both parties are of the highest re ?* spectability. 00 A young married lady in New York >r, wears a peculiar breast pin, which has ),- excited admiration. It is apparently a beautiful carving in some dark, glossy d- stope, of a lion's bead heavily set in red gold. In reality it is the front of a favor* in itomeerchaum belonging to her husband, h, He was an inveterate smoker, but to 1,- please her, gave up the habit, and the id wears this peculiar ornament as a trophy of her victory. k.