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?--n TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. 1 ?????' ? ? ! l' ? ? _;_i-?- ? VOLUME 3. rtj^r.? ffn ^9? . in .?ffDlipCfTTl ? .11 dt uuiifI '?.!< , tl .>i.; -..{I jwii \ ." . 'fllKJ n[ .1 ! 'lu',iV ? . -_:a(i hi ) ? :....l-^tii ^ A ?.AC>?j.Vh? ? i n i i nan?ammm? .. ... , '? :?- ! ^ GrOD -AJSTD OTJH ^^TTTvrmT)^ '"'' -L ALWAY8 IN I i-VTl'n, i i .,-mV -r-rrw-J.WWW->r~rrtr FBfF SATURDAY MORN.^4 JULY 10, 1869. I .'H til ?+fl I_Im. Uli lUii. i'T/ i t>m? .? ??;{} *? |fj ? - - ? ? 1?!$ Uutttl n ij ?viirl i Un.it ill v f f-.xii (HUB ??(!: Ui.j'f ??' *?; BSt?-ft*-.^! r r. .TT? : ??? .! . V The cotton crop, grown over eo widely extended nn area of country, nnd passing in its process from seed to shipment through so many hands, has yet been reduced to figures so exact that few articles of commerce can be statistically considered with equal precision. The immense advantage of the tabular state ment in .respeetj of cotton lies, of course, in its enabling us to make conjectural estimates of the future growth of the plant likely to full not fur short of the trurtfr^Tfrtfrls cdtincttW/'tne*following facts from the New York iW will be found pertinent: The Aruorican cotton crop of last year has been ascertained as 2,430.803 bales.' The average of weight is 400 pounds to.j the bale, which gives > an aggregate of 072,367,200 pounds, Worth iu currency about 8?50,000,000. For practical pur poses the bale may be set down at the Value of 8100. ^ Three acres, as a rule, produce ono bajo of cotton. Tho crop of 18G8, upon this average, required the cultivation of 7,292,670 acres. The land devoted to cotton before the war was taken to re present a money value of $291.707.100; bat, by rensou uf tho disorganisation in cident to the war. this value has fallen to 872.02ti.700. The area of the States growing cut ton, exclusive of Keutiiekj Missouri and Virginia?in portions which the phut may bo succesnfully ct ttvatcd?is 426,365.410 acres. Th area may he fairly taken as the poasib cotton fluid of the future, setting off tl portions of the cotton-growing Stab ?proper which cannot be employed fi cotton production against the Keutuck Mis ouri nnd Virginia lauds which in:; he* an employed. '1 lie United Statt then h*vc a capacity ot c-dton produ tUa of 142.121 .813 bales, which :tt cxis Ins priec? in currency would he wort *l4,2i?.000.0i?0?? sum wltich -feuern the imagination. The crop ??f Ittat year occupied on about one fifty-ninth part of this vast area, end brought only about the same proportion uf the sum just mentioned. Practically, then, it may be said that there ia no limit to the quantity of" cot tun that may be raised by a combination of effort no the part of those immediately interested. The fall \n price of our staples since the war Its* greatly crippled the cotton planting interests of India mid Kgypt. The largest yield in India was that of 1866, when it reached l,S40.ti48 bales. This was brought! down in 18G8 to 1,420,576 bales. Egypt produced, iu 1865, 404.4 11 bales; in 1808, 108.035, 'or not enough to disturb a calculation of probable results hereafter. Both these countries paid tho penalty of a too ex {dative devotion of their lands to cotton, under the stimulus of our war, iu famine, which tarried off noarly a million of hu man beings. Id Smyrna, nnd other portions of the Levant, where, in 1864, the fig crop was sacrificed to the growth of cotton, the culture bus been almost entirely abandoned. M'u see, then, that the United States |a likely to remain tho chief cotton-grow er of the world j and We see, nl.-o. that its capacity for increased production de pends almost wholly upon the iner used supply of labor. The importance of en-1 couraging emigration becomes magnified So this view to the greatest extent. jpMioitATioN TO Liu Kui a?There seems to be an impression ubroud iu the community, that the American Colonisa tion Society had suspended operations. This, however, is not the fact; for we understand their ship, the Golcouda, is to sail again the first of November next, with a large number of emigrants. A special call is made for some intelligent, . "educated, and pious families, to go at that time to occupy a new and important 'opening for missionary work. Two or three preachers of the Gospel urc want ed ; also, several persons capable of teaching the native children Kantest self-reliant persons are wanted, sutb us are set spart to lab t fur the good of their race, at tho same time that they **? getting good themselves. To all *uch the society, we understand, will <gire it free passage and six mouths sup tpott in Liberia. Application whuuld be made at once to tho American Colonisa tion Society, W-ulrlitagton, i>. O. - imi?Sm? an? - A Virginian recently kiiiud a rattle - ?make aud u black snake by catching puviu \,j ?}?c Ibroat und spitting tobacco juice in tbeir muuthu. Home Thoughts. In aD article on "Homo Thought* for Working Women," in tho IiOndon People's Magazine, wc find tho annexed: - But what I would plead against most earnestly with you is tho invariable temp tation to use bard words und hitter abuse. My sisters, do it not, 1 beseech you; it only makes things so much Worse. I have actually had to take a drunken mnu back to bis owfi homo myself, m order to protect him from what??hi* wife's tongue) knowing that it would shut the door on the possibility of repentance. When a map comes home, tired nnd thirsty, for his tea, nud is told by his wife that be may "just wait ;" when ho comes back to nu untidy, dirty house, because bis wife has been gossiping half the afternoon with the very women he dislikes most; when bis children's faces arc so dirty that his parent il love must ntjed a strong appetite to relish kissing them ; when the ruonoy, which as it/lies | iu his hard palm, represents to him so much sweat from his honest brow, he finds is wasted by bad management; when the rtcnls arc badly cooked, because his wife won't take the trouble to learn to cook well, or find oat what ho likes best ; and when in addition to all this, if ho ventures on a single wordofcotn plaint, has his wife's tonguo ';bnnging mW io tho tap room is bright and sanded, aud '?jolly, and fiue company ;" is it a mnr vel that he prefers spending his evenings there rather than at homo? My sisters! as lung as these thiugs arc so. and you Lake no pains to make them otherwise, there aro two heavy scores being run up; one is the public house score? your husband will have to pay that; the other is a more terrible score which the record ing nugcl is keeping, and that at tho last day of -trict and solemn account, will be brought up against you. Tin; Cotton Cttor or 1809.?A cor respondent, writes to the Mncon (On.) Telegraph as follow.-*, concerning the growing cottou crop : I noticed an article iu your paper a Tew days ago upon the cotton crop, aud v;yyH C.'?ft?-st a"few niore ideas i.u the same subjeet.j If you will refer back to our authori ties, you will find that a cold spring has becu invariably followed by a large cot ton crop. Iu 1841, 1855, and 1859, three of our most productive cottou years, the springs were cold aud lato. There is no ud vantage iu planting cot tou before the fisrt week of May, und if planted before, it is an advantage to have it kept back by the frust, for it then gains strength und bears more fruitfully, instead of ruuuing up into weeds, as it will do if tho weather is warm at first. The account:; IVoin Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana aud Mississippi uro vary fine, and represent the crops as most nourish ing. TIiopo sections were injured by overflows of tho rivers, but the crops have sinco recovered, aud aro now as forward as thny usually arc at this time. We know that tho prospects iu the Southeastern States arc very promising. There can bo no doubt that fully one quarter nioro land has been planted in cotton than last year, that more fertili sers were used, and that the negroes arc working hotter and more of them arc at work. The opiuion which sonic entertain, that more cottou cau be raised than oati he picked, ia unreasonable, for no man will leave any in bis fields as long as it is worth over twenty eonts per pound. Wo can raise Jl,U()0,0UU bales, and oor tainly pick that quantity also, and if the present favorable weather continues, it will be done this year. X \.idy in Khodo Island subscribed for a Newport paper, tho other day, to be Mi i'? ?* uoighho; sho worried her by borrowing her own. What it Costs to Print a New** paper. hi' 'In* Persons who object to tho advertising rates in a largely circulated newspaper never stop to calculate what it coats tho printer to put their business into his columns and spread it before the public. If they did they would be covered with shame and confusion, and instead of de nouncing the publisher as exhorbitant in his charges, freely confess that, in some instances, they get far more than the worth of their money. We submit the following figures to show what one col umn costs us In our paper; basing our calculation on the prico of printing pa per, type-sotting, prdss-work and ink, leaving the wear and tear of our type and machinery ontirely out of the ques tion : We print in the first place 3000 copies weekly, which roquircs GJ reams of pa per. That paper weighs 50 lbs. to the roam, and is uow worth 14 cents a pound. Onr weekly expense for paper is there fore $48 75. There arc 18 columns on one side of our paper?all that we can. 1 under an)' circunistauccs, appropriate to advertising purposes, and if wo divide this into the total cost, it would make the yearly expense to us for printiug pa I per, for each column, $120 33. Allow us twenty per cent profit on the paper, for each column, and we have $25 26. Add the UHual rates churged by printers for type-setting und press-work, aud wo have! 6000 ems in a column at one dol lar per thousand, renewed quarterly. $24. Press-work, $3 per 1000, divided by 18 columns weekly, 50 cents. Press work at 50 cents por column weekly for 52 weeks. $26. Printing ink, $2, mak ing tho tetul ralnr of 1 column in our paper 1 year, $203 59. We hovo been advertising by the col umn, half column and quarter column at twtv0 ?mi3id-..mbljf~~H3>g rtran "Tncac^ anft the intelligent render will at once see that wo have been but poorly paid for our labor. When we further consider the expense wc are put to in keeping up repairs of all kinds in the office, and pur chasing new type when the old is worn out, wc have not the remunerative profit we should have in consideration of the j advantage those derive who advertise in Our columns. The fact is that newspapers, as a gen eral thing, do not pay. The subscrip tion money au 1 what is taken in for ad vertisements ycry often falls short of the actual expenses of the printing office. Iu such cases the parties aro obliged to fall back upon the job work to meet their current expenses; and as that business can be carried on just as profitably with out tho paper, the latter must be looked ttpon in the majority of instances, as an accommodation niciely?a surt of an in tellectual appendage which is thrown out of the office gratuitously, and for the specific beucht of the community at large. If grumblers and fault-finders bad their own way, the more papers a publisher would circulate from his office, weekly, the greater tho danger he would bo iu of impoverishing himself und bis family, while the reverse should be the fact in business point of view.? York (/'??) True Democrat. Ka It li yf llESPO n ?l ii ilit y.?n o w, c a r 1 y responsibility i - almost equivalent to early sobriety. If a stick of timber standing upright wavers, lay beam on it, and put a weight on that, and sec how .til! the stick becomes. And if u young man waver and vacillate, put responsibility on them and how it straightens them up. What power it gives them. How it holds what is bad iu them in restraint! How quickly it develops and puts for ward all that is good in them! Power of Conscience.?A follower of Pythagoras once bought a pair of shoes from a cobbler, for which ho prom ised to pay him on a future day. On that day ho took the money, but finding tho cobolor bod died iu the interim, re turned, sincerely rejoicing that he could retain tho money, and got a pair of shoos for nothing. '"His conscience," how ever, says Soneca, would not allow him to rest, till, taking up the money, said : "Go thy way, lor though bo is dead to all the world besides, yet he is alive to ludian hostilities on the plains cou tinuo to bo reported. Frequent collisions bctweeu the tioops and the savages occur, and thjng' promise to be lively iu that diroctiou all summer. Terrible kerosene jsxpioMou. The Wilmington (Pel.) ' Cfcmin***/ 1 records the following distreWng'faccl dent which occurod in that fUj^on Wed nesday night last: ? ! A young lady named I.a lira Cars well, a teucher in ono of our public schools, was retiring at about, hajjf-jn%ftr ten, and was nil ready to get iuU> {be^^ff hen,,, *}m turned to a coal oil lamp, jjjmppcfied, und attempted to extinguish Aho light by blowing down the chimney. , Xhjc flames was thus blowu dowu iuto the oil aud tho lamp exploded, throwing tho blazing oil all,over Miss Cur*well's night dress and'the clothing she had jbst taken off lylng^ near. Euvcloj>cd in flames, she I ran screaming into the -entry communi cating with her rooui, where ^Bor father immediately afteiwards found her. He and a brother of the youirjr lady's tore up a piece of step carpet and throw it over her head. This saved "her hend from burning, but het whole person, from her neck down, was 'horribly buru ed boforc the flames could b?extiuguish ed. By this time MUs Carswell's rodtn wa.i on fire, and it required the efforts of the family t;> save tb<*'^hoixse' 'From' des truction. Mr. Car.swcll, in his attempt to save his daughter, had his hftnds'bad ly burned, nil the linger nails' being so much injured that it will be u long time before he can use1, it. if indeed ho ever can. Medical uioTSrns immediately summoucd to dress the wounds and alle-, viate the sufferings nc the poor girl, but j the physicians pronounced her case a hopeless one from thesis rst. She linger-1 ed until about ten o'cihvk next morning, ! when death put an cud to her bufferings. Her body and hands w"cro most severely burned, aud her person, excupt her head and feet, whs one ma#?6f scorched flosh. She was a young lady but eighteon or nineteen years of age, in t he full bloom of early wuut.tuhood-iuttructivo in pct b'juni ?|mcarauoe'iLi"^B?F-i^-in" cuaYacTer" and leaves n large j circle of friends to mourn her sad aud sudden death. Tea GubTUBS in Te.nne.ssek.?The New York Tribune, in a Into editorial article, commented upon lliu fact, pub lished iu this j iuruui a lew weeks since, that tea,equal in flavor to Young Hyson, had been successfully cultivated near this j city. The editor of the Tribune demon- i btrated the vast influence which the suc cess ?f the tea culture in the South ' would have upon the development of our Southern internal resources, and urged that all the information connected with its culture should be 1. id before the pub lic. Thut the iutcrcst, which has suc ceeded the announcement of the success ful cultivation of ibis important article | of commerce, may be enhanced, and to tho end that some practical benefit to the industrial interests of the country may be derived from n more general discus sion of the subject, we visited the farm of Captain .lautet Campbell, some ten miles from Knoxville, whero the tea plant has been iu successful cultivation for ton years. Wo learned that the plants had been distributed through the Agricultural De partment in Washington, about the year 1858. Hon. Horace Maymird, member member of Congress for this district, re ceived a few of the plants, and mailed them to ('apt. Campbell. This gentle man has fully tested their adnptcducss to our genial climate, and has succeeded be yond bis diosI sanguine expectations. The plant is a deep evergreen shrub, and attains, at its full development, about five feet height. It is hardy and needs no protection from frosts. It bears an abundant clop, with beautiful, flagrant flowers in October. The following sea son it matures a seed, somewhat resemb ling the seed of our native hazel, and which grows ns readily. Capt. Campbell informs us that he litis cultivated merely a small number of tho plants, or, as he expressed it, ??just enough to keep the family in tea." At Iiis suggestion wo drank a cup of the tea, and confess our surprise at its fragrance. Iu our judgment, the tea raised by Capt. Campbell is fully equal to Young Hy son. The vigor aud hardiness of tho tea plant, und its adaptedtiess to the climate of Knjit Tennessee, have been fully test ed, with ti perfectly satisfactory result.? Knoxville I'rets itnil Ucrnhl. Brighsni Young says he never counted up his wives; ho supposes he may have a dozen or fifteen thut he takes care I of, and perhaps n few oMi n whom, be doesu't know. Fiv.i i I.M?TiLIiA UU^i-T-^VO lue I tlllation of fruit claims the attention of n large portion of our readers, we give be low a synopsis cf the revenue raws on* tbe subject, as condensed by W. C^ior riUV Collector of the Second Georgia Dtetricfcj Every person intending to distill brandy from apples, peaches and grapes, exclusively, before entering upon busi ness, must? 1< . .' 1 Register their stills wit* the assist - ant Assessor o<" the division in which they reside, as provided in Sectteu 5, Act of July 20, 18?8. Tho assistant ossessors are provided with tho necessnry blanks for this purpose, .which can be had on nppNdation. .1 2."Noticc mttst be given, in writing, to the assessor of the district, stating the name and place of reeidenoe of the per son or persons intending to engage in distilling, and the place whore said busi ness is to be carried on; also, the kind of still, aud the cubic contents thereof; the number and kind of boilers, mash 'and fermenting tubs, and a description of tho lot or tract of land on which the distillery is situated, the site of the building*, and of what material con structed. 8l A bond must bo filed, with at least two securities, to be approved by the as sessor, in the penal sum of at least 85, 000, conditioned that tho party, or par ties, will faithfully comply with all the requirements of law relating to distilla tion. ?? ' ??: ( , 4. A snrvey must be made of tho pre mises where the distillery is s:/<u\ted, by thu assessor, at the expense of the Coiled States. I 5- A sign, with tho words ''registered i distillery" upon it, must be placed on I the outside of tho building whore the dis tillery is situutcd. 0. A book, or books, must bo V;pt in t' ii-f jinfurrilnul by ihn ( ' ?isin> i**<i?oi?>? of Internal Revenue, for the"entry of ttic mush or wort used daily for distillation; also, the amount of proof spirits pro duced daily. 7. Hot urns must be made monthly, to the assistant assessor, of tho amount of spirits produced, aud the tax paid at the time of the return. 8. No spirits can be moved from the distillevy until tho same is inspected and ! gauged, nud the tax paid; stamps affixed to the casks or packages containing the .-pirits. by an officer desigunted for that purpose. St. A special tax of 850 is imposed on all distillers of fruit who distill 150 bar rels or less per annum, also, a tax of ?2 per day while in operation. ????????? Elections.?The regular elections occur on the following dates aud for the j officers designated : July 6.?Virginia.?State officers and Congressmen. August 2.?Kentucky.?State Treasu rer aud Legislature. August 2.?Alabama?Members of Congress. August 5?Tennessee.?State officers and Legislature. August 10.?Montana Territory.? Delegate to Congress. September 7.?Veitnont.?State offi i ccrs and Legislature. September 13.?Maine.?State officers and Legislature. October 5?Colorado.?Delegates to Congress. October 12.?Pennsylvania.?State officers and Legislature. October 12.?Ohio.?State officers and Legislature. October 12.?Towa?State officers and Legislature. October 20.? California.?.Judges of Supreme Court. November 2.?New York.?Secretary of Stato, Legislature, ?fcc. November 2.?Now Jersey.?Legisla ture. November 0.? Maryland ? Legisla ture. A.c. November 0.?Massachusetts.?State officers and Legislature. November 2.?Minnesota.?Stato offi cers and Legislature. November 2.?Wisconsin.?Stato offi cers and Legislature. A submarine diver who has bceu opera ting in the river at Norwich Oos?., Says there is a cavo undor tho banks of con siderable sizo, tho hidden beauties aud strange formation of which, could tho water bo drawn off so ns to mako it ac cessible, would for*", one of the workers of the world. . t:u?y ft White IJen Arouse! i ? .!i?.;v .jx-'?I-?.:v Liu. .f*. il -hin ji nouj#< ? ' ' ? ; ? ttoftoJod :89I One day last week no leas theo twelve thousand Chinese arrived in &atl Fran cisco. A few days after one vessel alone brought twelve hundred aqd fifty' No ' wonder the white nleu on the T'achic coast are becoming alarmed.; 77t?' J^eiaitc I emigration to this country now .exceed* the \ European emigration a* 'too t?'oW. j5>. a year or two it will be ten fj? one^an'd then if not now, 'the great industrial white population ' will see the necessity of immediate action. If Europe cen turiesago united to beat back 'the | Sarucen and the Turk, who, though . from Asia, were of the same Caucasian family, what should Ametica do now that she is threatened with a deluge Of Chinese of men of a different race, Pagans among whom infanticide is practiced as a right belonging to the parents, and who ace morally considered one of the most degraded and corrupt people On the face of the earth. L It is not, however, the Chinese alone with whom the white men of tho Pacific coast will bo confronted; but Malays, and Hindoos, and other Asiatics still lower in the scale of humanity. These will be imported by tens of thousands to subserve the insatiate greed of unprin cipled capitalists, and they will spread over the whole country^ North, South. East, and "West, whorcYer their labor can be employed with advantage to them. And where can it not be? \then; Chinese shoemakers ' and tailors' and cabinet makers can work for less than Ouo^fuuf tit the wages paid to white tradesmen,' avaricious employers will have them here in New York, andjh every aMftxx the country. T.ci not while tra?fsit\em *hnt their eges to the fart, hut take hnhl of and make it the ground for immediate action. "With Chiucsc, Malays, and Hindoos In competition with white labor, what will this country be worth to the induHtrinl ohsnuou. Detter, ten tines, la i the condition of Europe were the great Caucasian family exists in unadulterated purity, than the new World sunk iu such an abyss of Mongrelism aud de gradation. '" White men, arouse from your lethargy, if you would preserve this grand domain this New World to yourselves and your descendants, as an inheritance for ever. ?Mctroptditan Record. Emigrants Wanted to Liberia.? The Rev, Alex. Crutumell, a colored minister of the Episcopal Church, and n graduate of Cambridge, England, in a letter dated at Millsbcrry, Liberia, Nit vember, 1308, says : ''The auxiety of the natives for schooling cannot be exagge rated. All through the country they arc asking for schools. If we had the meaus we could establish a hundred schools among the natives within a mouth." In this connection an appeal is made to Christian colored families in the United State:, to go out under the auspices of the Atuericau Colouizatiou Sooiety aud give their force to the regeneration of the race on tho west coast of Africa. The Atuericau Colouizatiou Society, it is stated, is now mnking an effort to get fifteen or twenty families of intelligence and piety to sail in their ship, the "Gol conda," the 1st of November next, to occupy an important place on missionary ground. The call for such help, it is suid, is urgent. Tho Bociety will pay tho expenses of emigrants from their present homes to the place of sailing, will give them a free passage to Liberia aud six months support there, with tcti acres of land to each single man and 25 acres to each family. The officers of tho society may be consulted at the Coloni zation Rooms, Washington, D. C. Bully for Fanny.?-Fanny Fern thus disposes of that ornamental and useless objeot called a "handsome man," and sensible folks will concur. She says : But your conventional "handsomo man" of tho harbor's window, wax figure head pattern ; with pet lock in tho mid dle of bis forehead, an apple-sized head, and a ruHborry moustache with six hairs in it, paint put on his check, and a little dot of a "goatee" on his chin, with pret ty blinking little studs iu its shirt bo som : and a littio ueok-tie that looks as if he would faint wore it tumbled?I'd as lief look at a poodle. I always feel a desire to nip it up with a pair of sugar tongs, drop it gontly iuto a bowl of cream and strew pink rooo?leaves over the little roroaius, Xmandi dridg'/'ln'tf guln!?^?*^ jfcy?uow Amtfa lwiiAiiali^uf rtvT f?inc<? *ho ?;on froolpoor old fyrigtU . A hundred thousand dollars. >oii -oi ?jTr.il Mtin^n erfj Lj'a ?rjlva 'Y^eraWi^^lti^.Ja|it(lsf? *> And nowyer ?natUf a$*Wf*0 Dewnc with jfe* gte^tkav hs-laW frtttD A luvycr who no tumor's got, '''^IWJw^eisoSf^t^' smoi.-tblo ? i 11 if nri??j 11 mtm) JiJiM1?Til.>iI .. ^c^u^^hjsjd^^ the blondes. An "oiigir show" opens there iu ?ti Spurgeon's nose has become a of London'newSpeper- coaaaaerfL reverent fellow says; ifl Wh, IMfj if* his sermons. ; ,1, ? v>{ The Firs* rni^T^jD ^it.-^?*-1 berg was the inventor of the ;art.(if pan ting} and the reryflrsl ?Sf^.^Msfe .fr* diseovt^y,of printing TW$$iflt3iSA production ojf,the liable. Tliiswns ae? plished at >?eut.?. between the ye^bnf* aud 1455. This Bible Wsil? ?*?' vdftihies, wnicb ftate1 beta :j<t?tryf for their Tstr^gkhi and he^ti^ixl ? h Horrible!?erh?ngt1 l&l&'olsVo' ynrfng nien in Kas^fteVf,I^rf,,*b loved two sisters wer? CTW^Ugrll'e fuHcd. They-stvea mmmt In the bridge I crossing the river, bnd with viff ImA look to heaven, one farewell glase&jSst earth, one thought of their loved, they I together?were rescued By a^end, who opportunely appeared on the'scene, and invited them to t^ke a'?r^nk., ^ ^ Immense ImmiuraiTOK.?4?be New York' Herald %s3'"a taWe which shows I that the country is about to bo over-run I with immigrants from the old world. 1 There has been nothing like it in tho past. The total arrivals tor the first five months of.the year 18G9. and the first sixteen days of Juno, were as follews: From Ireland, 30,520;Germany,47,700 England. 20,314; Scotland, 4,408; ^Yule3> 30(1; France, 1,187; Spain, 105} Switzerland 1,734; Holland, 816 ; Nor way, 1,403 ; Sweden, 14,489 ; Denmark, 1,852; Italy, 502; American citizens, 20,145. Graud total, 144, 233. 1? ?-? II I - Tiik N kwspai'kr^?De Tocqueville, in his work on America, gives this forci ble sketch : "A newspaper can drop the same thought into a thouaaud minds at the same moment. A newspaper is an ad viser, who docs not require' to bo sought but comes to yon briefly every day of common weal, without distracting your private affairs. Newspapers, therefore, become more necessary in proportion as men become more equal individuals, and more to bo feared. To suppose that they only serve to protect freedom, would bo to diminish their importance; they maintain civilization^", ott.t/^Wf'lo ? ""' *-? *mm% ... .' 1 . Tho way to get along in the wpjrjd is to make every step one that is ahead, and each to follow its predecessor. JTull fitly per cent of the effort of the world is absolutely wasted in indirect, diffuse, indefinite labors. Young men start out iu lifo without purpose or point, casting a thought neither on their fitness nor un fituoss for a particular calling; now do ing this thing, then that, and nftor that nothing ; one day going 01^ another on the right (which is wroug) or loft," tho next backward, and than not goiujj at all, which is perhaps as the whole com bined. Tho right lino in lifo is the i?s which leads straight ahead. This almost always secures success. There is an ex-scavenger in Boston who drives his span on tho Brighton road after noons, gathers his dividends on State street forenoous, and lives in a swell front palaco at South Eud. Ho did not disdain au unsavory calling, pushed and mado it pay, aud remained ou the pine seat uutil ho could afford to lift himself ovor to hair and plush. Step early, step often, but above all, ttcp right ahead. At a New York ferry slip Thursday, a little girl fell overboard. A man at onco jumped into the water and rescued her, but refusing to give Ids tiam*, dis appeared in tho crowd. There are now two thousand two hun dred and seventcon assistant assessors in tho internal revenue service, or nearly one thousand less than In November of last year