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?* the night the day, thom co,/W not then le Jote* to any mtm." Voli tu il krowrr courikk. Thoughts at the Close of Christmas. Another Chrlstmns-day has pass'd, and now !io setting sun, in many goldeu folds, k ^ . Wraps the fow clouds that iiook the western eky, -And casts his dying emilos around thoir forms, XJntll thoy seem like silver- mounted biers, j^" j- On whloh the angola boar tho passing hours 0 ? Eternity, where Timo's dead offspring, ( lu that charnel-house unboundod, ovor sloops. ^ Sadly alono I watob their beauties fade, And pure and holy feelings gently Hit /Along the gall'rlos of my bonrt ; whilo hands "VJmoon swoop o'er tho karpjtrlngs of my soul, & OJntll o*oh now-born thought with sllv'ry wings ??' Of melody eoenis fitted, nnd ascends m In notes of pr lisl, Unheard by mortal oar, ^ To Him who canto and died that I might livo. O saorod morn ! which usher'd in this day, "We know not If thy joyful dawn on man -Was weloon'd by tho white-robe 1 host of Hoav'n ; We know not, if they struck thoir harps nnow " ? m Unto tho thrilling song, ro loomlug love : \, Porohauoo-tho s ?in s swoot strain that floatod down $ Upon the midnight air o'er Jul .h's plain, < And ?ll'd with awe tho lUt'niug shophord's thoro, Was oohoM through its shining oo.trts so lou-l That nil thoir g ol Ion arche? frighted shook ; And e'on the vory soats of He.v'n tromblod lt /Nealli that shout of joy, " Glory bo" to God On high," pealing from tho onraptur'd lips I Of all that countless throng of saints who stand Woro tho throne of God, and servo Him day ' i| '? nd night ; while from tho hills ap I vales of earth ^e sweet refrain, ?'Peaco and goo l will to men," \r\ >U-oohood baok ; and all the rolling spheres, $ With voices liko the souad of thundor hear i, <>ng in thoir joyoiu oy?los, oach to eaob, '. '?alleluiai the Lord all-powerful roigns." ;V* cannot tell ;?but this wo know, that m*.n, I: '?6r whom tho ICing of glory left His throne, ..^nd, throwing off tho regal robos of -Heav'n, iondos loaded thus to veil His brightness, For a saison, in the cumbrous g-irmcnts . Of mortality, lost it should daazle * Q Poor, w ::\k human sight, nnd camoian I suffor'd All tho pangs of death that he ought ovor live. m 'That man, instoal of making this a day ; Of prayer and praise, profanos its sacred hours With tho sound of worldly mirth and pleasure. gfl> O great, eternal Father ; if thore is V Yet in the breast of man, religion's spark, * ' ? fan It with tho broor.es of Thy love. And kin lin thcro a holy flame, which, liko j. The Mystic One abore the Jewish ark, m| Bhalt over burn, and with a holy light s*l Shall brighten ov'ry rising thought, that whon r Another Christmas-morn shall guild our earth, if ?nosoitg of praise from ov'ry heart will mount j h To Him, who bore the sins of nil tho world ; .And with an earnest longing for the timo "When He shall come again, each soul exclaim, \ Come quickly, O Lord Jesus ! B. A. W. VARIETY. [From the Charleston News.] The Expected Legislation of Congres?, It is believed by a prominent member of Congress now here that very little legislation will be accomplished tho remainder of this' session. Reconstruction, Indian affairs nnd finances arc three loading questions mapped out for discussion. The first of "these will, in kolihood, bo disposed of; but it is in cv ny improbable that oithe. of tho other two can be settled beforo tho 4th of March. It will bo near tho end of January before the Senate Committee on Finance will report on the subject of an early resumption of specie payments, and thon an i tenni nable discussion is suro to result, running through a portion of February. There aro a great many bond holders' advocates among tho mombors of Congress, and it constitutes a vital intorcst with them to oppose ovcry mensuro looking to tn early resumption of spoeto payments.? Thus it appears wo may look for little rcliof duriug tho prosont session of Congress. GEORGIA IUI VW ENTATI VES OPPOSING vi'HK 08 RECONSTRUCTION CP THAT STATS. The Washington correspondent of tho Now" I y?.r?5 lidrald writes : 1 When the Reconstruction Committee meets t> sfter tho holidays it will bo likely to find tho - Georgia question in a somowhot different shape than whon Congress adjourned. When tho I resolution dirocting tho Reconstruction Com mittee to inquire into the condition of affairs Iin Georgia was offered in tho House its author supposed that thoro was but ono side to the on so, or rather, that only tho Radical side would ask to bo heard. Georgia, howover, unlike Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, has a full representation in tho Hotiso and is now knocking at tho doors of tho Sonnte. Tho members in tho Houso from Georgia aro dooi j dcdly opposed to having tho. prosont Stato government set asido and reconstruction un dor tho military commenced de nevo. It is said that Governor Buliook has not a dozen J followers among tho leading Republicans of the Stato in hie offorte to seouro a fresh ro ^^?ftstlru?tlon. It is ourrontly whispered, moreover, tbftt he tras disappointed at not be ing elected Unitod States senator, and that in ??! tho new deal whloh ho proposos ho hopes to * turn up the trump card. The roprescntatlres from Georgia arc improving tho recess by col P -, .r--~v. looting testimony from unprejudiced sources oonccrning tho real condition of affaire in tho j Stato. Thoy expect to obtain such evidence as will show that penco and order prevail throughout tho Stato ; that if any breaohes of 'tho peace havo taken placo thoy have been occasioned by disappointed politicians, inter ested in having tho prescht State govommcut set asido ; that tho pcoplo of Georgia arc dis posed to obey tho Reconstruction laws in good faith, and that there is no disposition to mal treat the negro or persecute Northern men settling in tho State. Whatever testimony and facts they may havo will be laid before tho Reconstruction Committee as an offset to ! what has been submitted to them by Gover nor Rulloek aud his friends. VIKWS Qf THE 1MIKSIOKNT ELECT. Washington telegram of Thursday, to tho Raltimoro Sun, says : * The reports of a conversation between Oon. Grant and several Congressmen yesterday rel ative to Paciffio Railroad subsidies, printed in the papers of yesterday and to day, aro claim ed hy nome to bo exaggerations, but upon in quiry, it appears that there was ground for o. portion of tho statement at least. In the conversation reference was medo to Genoral Grant's approval of tho at ruota re, &c, of tho Union Pacific Railroad after his recent travel over that route, and which was published iu the papere a few days ago. ?General Grant made a remark, in substance, that although he found the Union Paciffio in tho excellent condition represented, he had said nothing about granting subsidies to raildroads. Those who knew this, did not understand General Grant as opposing the existing grants and subsidies, but as (merely by implication) indi cating his disapproval of further subsides to projected roade, or tho granting of lande and bonds, exci.pt what have been contemplated aud provided for by tho existing laws. There are reasons for supposing that General Grant's views as to the granting further subsidies of any kind, and also upon the matters of re trenchment and economy, coincide with tho well understood opinions of Mr. Washburne, of Illinois. POSSIBILITY ?t A SPLIT AMONO THE RADI CALS IN t'ONGBE8S. It is believed that a possibility exists of a split among Congressmen upon tho question of bArdoning or unhanding Grant, waioh will . even show itself this session. In tho Senate such a split is already but half concealed ? The C?Ujo of difference'is upon tho bill trans ferring the Indian bureau to the War De partment. Wilson, as tho inouthpicco of Grant, prenses tho transfer, and Henderson, Morrill, Thaycr, all tho members of tho In dian Committee, oppose tho transfer, knowing that thoy are opposing tho wish of Graut, and insisting that the time has not como for him to begin to shape legislation ; and tho intro duction of his namo by Wilson, if authorized, bodes no good in tho futuro, and should bo repelled at onco. It is evident that General Grants intends to suggest to tho next Congress all that his indirect influonoo fails to scouro from this. It is eoncodod here that ho will accept no shackles, and that ho declares tho Civil Tenure bill, meant to hedge an untruet worthy executive, is in its very animus an in sult to himself if continued. It is bolioved that Goncral Grant's dosiro will Conklin's bill, and that tho Forty-first Congress will assemble under the present law; but such a result will only bo adoptod to avoid tho trouble of coin ing together a littlo lator by proclamation, and it settles none of tho questions,on which di floren 00 bet woe Grant and (he party is probable in tho immediato future The Georgia University. From the " Athens Southern Watchman," wo learn that the tnut co t of this Institution, at a reeont mooting, mado tho following addi tions to their wile corps of Professore : Hon. A. H. Stephen*?History and Poli ties;) Sotaneo. Dr. N. J. Snead,?Modora Languagos. Ohas. Morris,?A. M.?Rhetorlo and Or atory. Wo are aesurod that those aro bona ?dc olootions, and that tho abovod named gontlo men will tako charge of their respective chairs on tho 15th of January. It is wP.h ut.rmgnod plotsuro wo announoo this addition al ovidonco of tho continued prosperity of this timo houorod Institution. Tho namo of Stephens, always a tower, of strength in his own Stato, must, sinoe hie masterly defonoo and justification of the "lost I cause," inoreaeo tho popularity of tho Insti tution with our pooplo and draw to its halls largo numbers of the youth from ovory por tion of thfcSouthorn Stetes. Proofs ot 8anity.?A man was proved to havo returned a borrowed umbrella. This settled his statue as an insane man boforo a competent court. Commodore Meado de nounces his satrap'tan brother and a Now York Judge 4eoldee him tobe comp?t mentit, Perhaps the wrong, man got into the Lu mi tic Asylum. 3. * ? _ ? ,...?.:.'----*^">-;-rjpjv- - .- . .. fhe Proposed Division t? Oertain State* Tho "Now York Ti mee," intimato? that tho distompor of State recession eeoiue, euri, ouely onough, to have loft, in dying eut, a muoh milder, but yet quito marked "meuia" for Sute division. The proposed dividing up of Toxes into two or three States was the first symptom of this supervening condition. Thi? was ono of tho Mr. Stevens' pet pro jects; and it is just to say that it was prob nbly entertained by him moro is a political ?chomc, or as one involving a fundamental government doctrine, then froai any speoial regard to geographical necessities, to olimatio and agricultural differences, or iu a word, to tho alleged commoroial aud civic needs for the proposed separtaion. His plan was to effect the sevcrunoo of Texas into parts by a declaratory Act of Congress?indeed, ho in troduocd ono into the House, and gavo notice of his purpose to push it, as he probably would have dono had ho lircd. Doubtloss ono ob ject with him was in this way to fix a monu mental statute, as it wore, upon tho records of tho Government, showing that Congress had regarded tho Bcocdcd States as Territo ries, not only for military, but for legal pur. poses, and indeed for all purposes, oven tho most practical. But, with Mr Stevens'death died this Texan projcot, so far as concertiti the speoial form in which ho ont rtainod it It survived, however, in another proposition, divested of his animus and moral purpose, but yet driving at exactly the same end ; per haps, wo might add, just as Butler's Dutch Gap Canal accomplished nothing for tho mil itary uso whereto ho desired to put it, and yet as a picoo of possible engineering for com moroial purposes, attracted attention at onoo> when tho war- was over. Tho Texas ltocon" struetion Convention, which will meet at Austin, is certain to take up this important subject. If the Convention bo controlled by tho political deeiros of Congress, or if it be in harmony with 'iho majority of Congress, the legal and constitutional issue raised by Mr. Stevens will, of oouree, bo avoided, whether this harmony scouro division or not. Tho "Galvcston NowsJ" however, assures us that "there oan be but little doubt that a division of our Stato has been pro-determined upon." Turning from Texas, we find other States contemplating peaceable division. The peo ple of tho upper peni su U of Michigan are, as their petition to tho tho Legislature of that Stute alleges, "almost unanimous in dosiro" to separate from tho lower peninsula, and form "a new Territory o? Stato." They dis claim any "disrospoct or disloyalty to our Stato," and put tho proposed chango on tho ground of "the development of our mineral and agricultural resources." They desire, iu fino, "immediato action"?which would con sist, of course, in Michigan's ocding tho up per peninsula to Congress for the purpose de sired. Next, wo find Tennessee talking of "seceding" from tho rest of tho Stato, tho "Nashville Banner" saying, "Wayward sister, depart in peace," and the "Krtoxvillo Whig," over Drownlow's own signature, adding that, "East Tcnnessceane will all bo a unit for sop aratioft. Wo aro ready to go ompty-handed." A grave proposition has also been started for bi-sooting Pennsylvania, and a less serious ono for separating tho oity of Now iTork from thd Stato. Tho Wost Virginia division has al roady boen consummated ; but tho "Times" believes tho projoot to "leave Now England out in tho cold" has boon abandoned since tho last celebration of "Forefathers' Day." However, with* bi-sooting Michigan, and tri* fleeting Texas, and Brownlowing E*st Ten nessee, tjhoro is enough serious business in this dirootion to attraot attention, without tho tho oomio propositions. What will bo tho up shot of this new fever, is, of course, depon dont on tho partioular noeds of oaoh oase. A Western Estimate or the Future of South Carolina.?The Ctnoinati ? quiror, in a lato issue, remarks : Wo obsorvo that h lino of steamers has been established botwoen Charleston, South Carolina, and Livorpool. This and tho rail roads soon to bo eomplotod, placing tho oity in diroot communication with Charleston, are faote worthy tho attontion of tho business mon of this o'ty, with a view to establishing busi ness rotations in tho. State of South Carolina. Tho completion of the 11 ab un Gap Road and another road now oomplotod in Tennessee-, to tho North Carolina lino, and thonoo into South Carolina, will open to thL oity an outlet to tho Atlantic shorter than any other by about two hundred mllee. Thero is also now a fine opportunity for capitaliste to invest in roal estate in South Carolina. Lands oan now be purohaaod in that Stato at very low prioee, whioh will oor tainly inoroaeo grontly in value. No safer or more profitable investment oan well be made at this time than in the land? in tho Southern States. There aro sail) to bo moroTrish people in America than in Ireland. tuo loiiowuMc <lW jobi?B Mie* Job. Diplomacy in tho Uniteci States is now eslied "job." To illustrato: Russia bar. gained to soli Alaska lor ?7,200,000 in gold. Alaska * s uaeloss to Russia and equally use less to the United States. But it was a nioo job for tho loyal Russia received ?7,000,000. Tho loyal jobbers pooketgd~g200,000. For pushing this job, Robe rtggB&fc) kor bad e fee of $36,000. Stung by made ?pou him, he says thceo atUoTWWIiginato witt members and newspapers that failed to slice." If (ho South wants immediate jus! from Congress, shomust doflpji?^B*?royideuo? and fee the groat alist. A spooial disp^oT?^ BBIKfmoro Sun'1 gires tho following sj| ^KLpartioulars of this "i The beforo them, thi* n^nl chuso, in puravu??o of a tho'?ppropriatiJ^? pay the Ruaeir ment. Hon. flB Walkcflgfcti examined, and testified daft so far as honras advised, tho oui vnioucy paid to advooate the appropriation was^20,000 paid to himsolf, and that after ; tho monoy was J^oijrad by the Russian iniu istor, ho OValkerT^lrmod Rarou Stoeokol to pay Colonel Forney $3,000 in gold fbr his kindness in giving the ?so of the eolumajfcaf the ?Washington Chroniole" to Mriflf for discussion of the subj?^p^olo?KM Ear declined to roccivo the nSwBy on tho^^ffll that he wus an old officer of thskfieuate, and he therefore did not thti tbo profforecl funds, nevertheless, that tho "C must have tho coin aud, after eion by himself anu Baroi C. Fornoy, tho publie] er of Colonel Fornevj Mr. Walkor ?tftoj given of an iutcu| "Chronielo" untiti mado, and the publif^ gave tho use of the 05 tuitouily. Good Tho following okoolU tho ? Lr-oal " of tho and is coinraendcjL^jajtii " Courier" add all other ?o\ Don't Steal Me, for I am bought and paid for by a subscriber,' sustains tho press and wants to road mo. Dou't Rorrow mo, for my owner don't liko it, and, besides, the machine will turn you out a oopy just liko mo for threo cents and a half, and you ought to sustain tho pross. Co and subscribo, and keep your consoionoo easy. Tub Recknt DisAsxen in ConuuniA.? We copy tho following aocount of tho funeral of tho two young mon killed at tho recent fife in Columbia, from tho "Phoenix," of yeator day : Our city presented a solemn appearance yc.storday. Dull, loadoa olouds obscured the heavens, and about 1L o'clock a steady rain commenced to* fall, but tho gloomy weather suited the footings of the great mass of the pooplo who about 10 o'clock began to gather in tho vicinity of tho City Hall preparatory to forming a procession to accompany to thoir last resting place the romains of the ydung mon?Carrington and Squior-r-who lost their lives at tho firo on Monday night lost. Thoro was an almost ontiro cessation of ) business from 11 to 1 o'clock?many store? were closed ; machino shops were still j wag one oossod running, and operations wore sue petted at the Greenville and Charleston depot ?a.l feeling oatlod upon to do honor to the ill-fated boys. Flags wore displayed at half meat from tho two engino houses and revoral otnor buildings ; tho oity and church be He" | woro tolled. At 11 o'olook, the procession, consisting of 1 tho raombors of tho City Council, va detach ment of the police, tho mombors of the Inde pendent and Pal motto Fire Companies, and several hundred citizens, nnrohod to tho re*, idoneo of 0. V. Carrington, Esq., whoro tho body of his son Was taken ohargo of. After which, thoy passed down Richardson to Lady, through that street to Sumtor, thonoo to tho residence of Mr. Squier, to re?oive his son's romains. Thoy then took up thoir line of maroh through . Washington, and Mariou etrcots, to tho Prosbytoriao,, Churoh. Tho bodies wore oarried into the church, and an ablo address was dolivorod by tho pastor, Rev. Wm. E. Boggs. On tho conclusion of tho religious aorvioos, tho body of Frazor Squier was interred in tho Presbyterian burial ground. The procession thou reformod and prooooded to tho Episoopal Church with tho romains of young Carrington. Tho tmprosslvo burial service of that church woe performed by Roy. P. J. Shand, aud then all that was mortal of D tuny Carrington was consigned to the tomb ? man writing an anonymous note is liko a puppy inside of an enot'osuro harking at ^ou with his doso under tho gato. DettrnotUn of the Oitf of AUmot- thon?. nude of Liven Lout. The city of Alamos, situated in tho South era portion of Sonora, Mexico, has been swopt out of existence by * tisitation of nature? namely, a combined attack of two great furies, wind and w?toi\Tt?c torrible event ooeurred during ??| fefeiarm, lasting from tho , , Je "Now York U the dreadful was in at tho tal for almi lato in F contin?an could Hro within was swollen to a headlong course, carri Houses woro swept and wholo blooks of down like bo many trees. The wind was no lees terrible then the water. Houses wore unroofed and blown to shatters; tiles and liko inateri?U?teoro soattered through the air like ohaff, onTetrong troes wero uprooted, as if ?lks. Tho best part of About tho only aro tho 'tate Oollogo. this advan oui. largo. Sir up. Some ily, And could the bodies Uudoubt largely iu I have , but do most two iene 'that bo iighout ighly ape titoso of* ot'ner pop ulations. Thoro was a groat doal of wealth, refinement and luxury among the bottor olass es. It was a sort of sanotifiod Jerusalooa, whero tho proud Spanish blood and brain held ascendancy and would not be poisoned with contaot with Indian and negro mixturo. Alamos, as a oity, h ad? fame before the groat metropolis of Now York was known. It is old among tho many old towns of Mexico.? Surrounding it have been some of tho riebest mines in the world, and from whioh tho city has had its ohiof support. At the time of ite destruction it contained* a population of about 7,000 scoile, though geographical dictionaries placo the nuraner at 10,000, whioh is at least 3,000 too many. Unhappily for its people, the number is lessoned through ? terrible misfortuno, and tho "City of Poplar Groves " has falion to the duet (oven m man falls) in its strength. Co mi'Bi> rat Dkad in T n e .? Mr. It. A. Hafrisson, of Spart?, Qeorgta, late ly in Richmond, has recently visited the Con federato, Cemetery at Elmira, Now York, and Governor's Island, and raado arrangements at tho former place with J. II. Loavitt, and at tho latter with the superintendant, to give their oaro to the disintertnont and transmission by oxpreear of any body for whioh directions may bo givon by surviving frionds in tho South.? No ohargo will bo uiado but of actual ex penses. Not on Speak?no T?ums.?\t is roportod "through trust worthy sources" that Presi dont .fohnson and Gonoral Grant aro so hostilo that mum's tho word botweon them, us have peace/' (> Delaware whips her thioves. Massa chusetts whips h|r young women. Tho thieves ?re thrnshod at the pillory and tho young women at tho publio schools. Wo do not propose to intorfore with either, but note that while Massaohmotts howls at tho barba rism of Dolawaro, Dolawaro siloatly rogards tho ba*b?r'um of Massachusetts', A Significant Fact.?Tho "Now York Claxon," (formorly edited by the lamented General 1 Inlpino,) nays, that it is a fact wor. thy of noto, that at tho gathering of Union soldiers in Chicago, not ft negro soldier was present, nor any recognition of their eervioes lo tho proceedings. This, ftt ft meeting where tho radical President elect participated, and Was tho^oe^^flguro, is significant. i v**t ? i??.nv? 4?> Man and " - Ai t general ful*, whorofet ? meo pays rovoreooo to a woman?wherever ony meo. fools tke iafluonoo 0/ ?uy Wouiau, purifying, ohastooiog, abashing, strengthening h?ui against temptation, shiolding hiui from evil, miuietoriug to his eclf-rospeot, inodieinlng his woariness, peoploiog his solitude, wiuuiug kim from sordid prises, enlivening hie w&uo- 1 tonous days with mirth, or fanny, or wit, fleshing heaven upon his earth, *ud ladleeieg; it for ftli spiritual fertility,?-thor* U the ?le. meut of marrftige. Wherever womau paje Hjrerotteo to man?whorevet ?ny woine? ro Sioes iu Iko etiongth of auj man, foele it tq BrGod's agent upholding her weakucsa, oon flrmiog hor purpose, and crowning hor power, whorevov ho rovcals himself to hoi just, up Bfo, infloxiblo, yot tolerant, moroiful, benig B&^ttpt'unruffled porhaps, but ovcroome by EBgL^ tuvbvilou?o, and ruspOndtUg to ull ^eRleuess,(his feet on the earth, hiu head ':-'''V.j?ho atar?, holping her to hold her soul Ba[n r'ollt:> tJ staud firm against tho Bents of frivolty, vanity, impatienoo, g i 1 mX disoouragomcut, holping to pre fi' ' | P0^ nature, to develop her energy, BWfUato her thought, to utilizo her bc HWeuoo, to oxnlt and illumino her lifo,? there is tho ossoaoo of marriago. Its lovo is founded ou rcspcot, at the very moment of merging self in another. Its love is mutual, equally giving and receiving at cvory iustant of its notion. Thoro is neither dopondenoo dot independence, but interdependence Years cannot woakou its bonds, distance oanuot sun- y dor them. It is a lovo which vanquishes tho grave, and trausfigures death itsolf into Ufo, ? ??- -1 A ( ? un at Invention or Disco very? Houses Made Fire-proof.?Tho now thea tre Dolla Logge, a Florence, is now compe ted. All of tho timber and wood-work in, that th??tre was proparcd by the Borghi procesa ; all tho ooverings of tho scats aud all the soeuery wore thus made non-iuflamraablej and, that no doubt might linger as to the per fect safety of the building, two days beforo) it was opon to the publio, some inflammable material was carried on tho stage, aud an at tempt was made to set tho theatre on flro, which rgnotr?niously and totally failod. * Tho propriotor of tho theatre invited his friends to witness tho experiment; the stago wa? set with a drawing-room scene, tho wings and back being, of ordinary scenery, and to this fire was applied, and cvory ono left tho stago. Tho flames spread qu'ckly, consumed tho scenery which had not boon subject to Bor ghi'* process, and then stopped short and diod out, loaving tho prepared substances in perceptible oven to ti c most fastidious nos trils, although night after night tho thcatro has been crowded, and tho temperature has been high.?NcioYor/c World. Butter from Five Uowe.?Ephraim Pomose of Berks oounty, Pa., sold from fire sows 1,123 ? pounds of butter io one year, ?otumemeing May 1st, 1867, whoa thoy wero LI rut put to pasturo. Thoy w ore native oattle^ indicating no striking marks of any particular breed, but of medium size and woll built.-? Ono Week's trial gavo Ili, HI, 10}, and two 3 pounds Moh. Tho one giving II V had hor first oalf, and tho two giving 8 pouude had been milked about throe months boforo the trial. Tho family, always consisting of pix persons, and sometimes moro, used freely . of milk, oream and butter from tho samo cowe. Tho butter used, thoy think, was not loss than four pounds a week, making the yield from eaoh oow abbat 266 pounds. Their food consisting of moadow grass, dover and timothy, and thoy always had aoocss to run ning water. During tho winter thoy had no muoh clover and timothy hay as thoy would oat, and about 2J quarts of bran twice a day r They also' had pt?m'pkins tho early part of winter. The stable1 was warm, oloaDod daily, and woll littcrod with straw. Tho cows wero oardod, curried or brushed all tho year. Tho abovo' is not given bcoauso of tho ex traordinary yioldj but is proportion ably moro than is obtainod in largo dairies under mvroh stronger feeding, at loast in ooncontratod food. Tho oaro takon in olcanlinoss was doubtless of muoh bonofit. It is a common saying that with horses ourrying is half tho food ;?why then will not tho same oaro takon with oattlo bo equally borrefioial ???Practiced Farmer. .. .?4.,^ Cijeap io? House.?A oorrospondoa? of tho "llural Now Yorker," says : "We would,/ ohallongo a botter house for preserving ?qo I than tho following, which with us, now holde ioe threo yoars old :?Our house u above ground, doublo-boardod on tho sidos, with only a board roof. Tho ioe is packed in piceos two feet square, loaving about six inohee spaoo boiwoon the ico and siding. Wo theit oovor aidos and top of tho ico with saw dust. If anything oan boat this for kooptr^?oe?let us know, and very latgo doubts romov?. a Ineed of makio^Jha.iop air-tight; , * * $ open to the atmo??horV'