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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." <
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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.
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