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CALDlWEl:I OF SPRINGFIELD.
NEW Jans.ay (1780.)
*loro's the spot. Look around you.
Above on tle height
Lay the ltCssians encamped. By that
church on (lie right
Stood the gaunt Jersey farmers. And here
ran a wall
You mty dig anywhere and you t vrn up a
ball.
'Noliing more. Grasses spring, waters run,
- flowers blow
Pretty much as they did ninety-three
years ago.
Nothing more, didl I say I Stay one mo
Ient ; you've herid
Of Cald well, th parson, who once preaoh
ed t he worel
Down tt. Springfield ? What, No ? Come
( hat's bad, why he had
Af lho Jerseys allame ! And they gave
him the imme
Of the "rebel high priest." lie stejok in
th ei' oro,
Vor he loved the Lord God-and lie hated
King George ?
lie had causeyou might say ! When the
Ilessians that. day
Marcied up with hnyphausen they stop
. ped on their way
At the "Faris," where his wire, with a
child in her armns,
But alone i.. the house. How it happened
none knew
'lut Gld--aud that one of the hireling
crewv
Who fired the shot ! Enough-there she
lay,
'And Caldwell, the chaplain, her husband,
away !
Did lie preach-did lie pray ? Think of
him, as you stand
y'lie old church to-day. Think of him
and that band
Of militant l~loughboys ! See the smoke
aiild tle hCat
Of that reckless advaneo -of that strag
gling retreat !
%eep .he ghost of (hat wife, foully slain in
your view
And what could you-what should you
what would you (10 ?
Why, just what lie did. They were foft i'a
iho lurch
7?orthe want of more wadding. lIe ran
to the church,
Brohe the door, stripped f'e 'peivs, and
dashed out in the road
With his arms full of hynn.bouli:, and
. 'hrew down his load
At their feet ! Then, above all the shout
ing and shots,
Rairg his vjice-YPut Watts into 'em
Boys, give 'em1 WattS!"
And they d'd. That is all. Grassses
spring flowers blow
Pretty much as (hey did ninety-thre'c
years ago.
You may dig anywhere and you'll (urn u
a hall
)it not, always a liero'lilte this-and that
all. ..tT11RT
Tile] F rilltf 51Ovellieil anid Prices.
The order of the Patrons of Hus
baudry, besides giving the politicians
a world of trouble, is hurting tSe
business of another class of people,
who have heretofore made comforta
blo livinta from the farmers. In this
.taat r'egardl, the order baa accom
plished its only great practical good
so far ; but this itsrilf gives reasoni
enough for the eisteneo of sonie
auch association, Naturally etiough
with the institution of granges,
agents would offer them whiolesalo
r ates for goods taken in bulk, and the
farnmers were not slow to appreciate
the value of co operation in business,
and now practice it, to the great
ditmage of the business of the mid..
demten. The large sumis paid to
tigeuts and drummers were, ot oourse
adlded to the coat of the articles, and
were paid by the farmors wifo bought
them. By the co-operative method
all this esponso is dono away wlIh,
and the farmer gets lisa goods by sa
i nch the cheaper. The large manu
fdttries of agricultural implonmonte
Bpent large sums of nmney t o sdp.
port agencies which are nmow sup
plante dby the grangos, which vir
tually get the money formerly paid
to the agencies. Each grange in some
of the Western St ates has its corn
mercial agent, who buys whatever the
Granges need at wholosale rates,
directly from the manufacturers oi
wholesale dealers. Of the savinf
i pffected,some idea may be obtained
from the fact that the agencies of omt
firm alone cost them $60,000O pm
annum, whbich amount is now saved1 ii
the oest of the goodls. Th'e annual t as
formerly paid by the farmuing popula
Lion of Inidiania, Illinois, Iowa, WVie
conslin, MIinniosota, N obraska, Kansa
and Missouri, because of the larrg,
number of niiddle-mion, is estimate<
to have bee~n not less than $5,O00
000.
Tihe Raving to thie farmors by tht
present system of 'co-operate purchr
sea, says theA merican, is illust rate
by the price lists which are now for
wvarded to the agents ot secretarics c
the ranes.A sewing maclina
6umflpatny proposes to sell at wholoesal
for $:1, a machi no which is sold a
fotail for $50, making a naving (
$20 to the wholesale purchaser. An
other sowing machine qrm offers
equally advantageous discounts. An
organ manufactory ofrers to sell to
the graugers at wholesale, instruments
at $138 which arc retailed at t175.
A manufacturing company, largely
, engaged in making agrie.ultural in).
plemernts, oefors to furnish their ma
chineas and utt nsils at a discount from
regular retail store piices of twenty
five per cent off.
A firm in St. riouis has offered to
sell to the Iowa Grange agents, mow.
ers and reapers at $.85, for. whi6ih
1110 *is deihanlled for single ma
chines in ttore. In everything else
there is a like saving. Dry goods
men and grocers likewise offer favor
able terms. Thus the purchaserssavo
the money which they had berore
paid to the agent or local dealer.
It is estimated that by the instrumon
tality of the granges, the farmers of
lowa and illinois have sav'ed over
$2,000,000 during the present year.
Not only is the co-operativo principle
introduced into such purchases, but
co-operative stores have been estab
lished and mills and factories bilf.
If there were no other good to be
expected from the farmoers' movement
this alone would indicato its exis.
The Blick Prophet.
IOn111 AIOUT TIlE ''F.TRAOI1 DINA nY RE
L.JGIOUS DF.LUS]ON AMON G TIlE SPA It
TANJIURG NEGROES-A IAIIKY I'll.
GnIDIAG1 ACROSs TIll MOUNTAINS.
SeLAI-rANBUao, August 8.--For the
last, two years a negro preacher, by
the name of Bobo, has been the spir.
itual hld and adviser of one of the
largest congregations in this country.
His couch is situated about twenty
uiles of this place, in a densa negrp
settlencut, and s6 great was his fame
as a'binister of the Gospel, that his
members were found on all neighbor
ing, and some dibtant plantations.
3obo is described as a negro of gross
ignorance, bt blessed with that pro
fusion of'spe'ch so often fo'und in his
race. Ile is said to be a good work
man, but.of very loose xr.orals in every
thing but the strict keeping of the
Lord's Day, and an almost austere ob.
seivance of the forms of religion.
110 thus possessed all those qualities
necessary for a Jeader of his people,
We will see how lie used his peciliar
talent. During the last month a kind
of revival has been in r.rogress in
Bobo's church', and.a few da-ys ago it
culminated in one of the 'greatest reli
gious demonstrations ever aeon in thi
country. Bobo, from preaching
Chriat, went to preashing himself.as
"the new prophet high in favor." His
doctrine was that the Lord bad corn
man'del him to call together the
children of Zion ; and lead them to
the promised land, distant but one
hundred and bixty miles, pod where
they could have wings and fy. After
much exhortation and many midnight
orgies, he said that the command to
mareh fiad ieb'en received, that his
disciples must sell all they had, and
without scrip or sw(rd follow him.
Ile thus persuaded sone fifty or six
ty to obey hini. The poor, deludcd
creatures sold 'crops, stock, and every
thing they had, at a great sacrifice.
On(e man sold his crop, said to he
worth six hundred dollars, for one
hundred and fifty dollars ; another
sold a cow and a calf for one dollar
and fifty centn. 2tothuing couldi dis
suado them from their purpose.
iThey said it wvas the command of the
Lord, and they must obey. Just be
fore they started the prophet said
there was yet one more thing to be
dpne. It was n'oe'ry to the0 success
Iof the journcy that thme oldest peroion
among thme faithful munst be sacrificedl,
because lie being the oldest can tell
the Lord most, about any of ns.
On examination the oldest person was
found tabo a~ woman. She was takeni
andl conufined in an old outhouse until
a stick of a peculiar growth could be
found wvith whieh she must be killed.
Shem did not seem to mind her danger,
but rather to rejoice. Slie certainily
would lhave been a martyr' had it not
l)Ceen for the neighboring whites, wio
had to use some show of violence to
release her. TVhis was a damper on
the prophet and his followers, but
did note divert tiem frin'm their pur
pose. Plaicing their smalleet chiildrcn
and a few provisions in a two'-horso
wagon they set out on their 16aroh.
On the maerah several attempts were
made to dissuade themi from thoir
folly, but without turning to the right
or left, with eyes upturned they went
on withoutnmahing any answer. The
lather of themi thesy were crossing
thme mountains in the direction of
Tlennessoe. Tlhi- may seem) like fic
-tion, but it is true ; the witnesses e;ro
a here, aind I have written no more~
a than what to-day can be heard in any
1 crowd of in. an~y family circle of this
. country. The exodus is the granid
theme of conversation and the wondor
o of the people.--News and Courlei-.
IStatistics show that during the past
-six months 60,000 people have arriv.
f ed in Texas from F~urope andl the
e Northern States. They come down
e by the Missounri, Kansas and Texas
t 'IRailroad, and nearly all bring con
fidorable wealth with them.
I'lleporters iRe illiseenro.
At the annual dinner of the Law
Sten grapher's Asioci iion of thi.
ciiy, Mr. Henry 51 P.rkhurst, in
resp)nd iing to a toast, said : Looking
back over a profesmional career nov.
exueediniig a (Iiarter of a century,
ualny pleasing incidents crowd upoj
my memory. I renciber the Fourtl
of July excursion to 3larshlilhi, to
listen to Daniel Webster. Seated
with him in the rear car, when the'
coupling broke, and the locomotivel
with the rest of the train dashed on
without ,us, L remember consoling
,iryself with -he rel etion that where.
ver, the rest of the atuience night
be, whatever Daniel \Vebster might'
say I should be there to hear and re
'port. There is a curious circum
stance connectcd with that very
Marshifield speech. It was reported
independently by Dr. Stone and
myself, and either of us could at that'
time have written nearly or quite
150 words per minute. While the
reports agreed almost literally in
every other reslecet, thero was an
apostophe to Lord Ashbirton, occupy.
ii-g t o or khree printed lines, which
Wo gave in entirely different lan
guage. The reason was this : Web
stor broke out so suddenly and so
rapidly in that apostrophe, that I
altnobt dropped miy pencil in astouish.
ment, andldst the commencement of
if, while Dr. Sone, dashcd on until
he bioko down, taking the first part
of it. in the meantime I recovered
lily equanimity, and lost the last part.
So that although the ondinary rate
of Webster's speaking was less than
100 woids, there were occasions when
he far exceeded 150 words tier min.
ilte. I r-'eut- r the malnuscript
handed mae by Rtufus Choate, fioma
wihich lie had read a brilliant politi.
cal speech, which I had been called
uponmi to report because no printer
could read such nanuscript ; and be
ing compelled to throw it aside after
vainly attempting, for half an hour,
with the aid of miy notes', to decovr
from which end of that manuscript
lie had begun to read. I remember
in the Senate of the United, the
dying 'peech of John C. Ca'houn ;
the compromise speell of Menfey
Clay ; the boast of John P. Hale, the
Free Soil Party had doubled in nui
bers, because at the previous session
thece was but one, and now there
were two ; and I reniember seeing the
new South Ca-olina Senator, larnwell
Rhelt, perhaps not on the same ocea
sion, burrying himself in a newspaper
lest he should appear to be listening,
but soon, overcome by t!e eloquence
of Mr. linle, first laying down his
new.paper, and hnally remodng his
s:at for a more convenient location.
1. rnaiember the grave announeement
of Daiicl Webster to the Senate,
wheni President Taylor lay at the
point of dcath, that digiestion of the
brain h ad comncnced. 1 remember
thetscene when Scnu tor Foote ttood
near the President's chair with a
dra wn pistol in his hand, waiting the
attack of Senator 1eniton', %ho, drawn
behind a de.s and held there by four
stout Western men, two oil either
hand, thirust then all asi'e by one
viigorous tuotioni, and called upon the
aisassin to fire ; nid I reieiber
,Jefferson Davis, a little after mid
night, on the nmorninig of the 4th of
Mlarch, atdvancing to the ).resident's
desk and dlomand ing to be sworn into
thoe new Conigress, upon thc grounid
that the teriat of the sitting Congress
had e?:pired, kiicking a spittoon out,
of his way with the same impetuosity
nith which lie afterward kicked .the
const it ution itself oyt of his way when
h odesired to be sworn out."-.New
'ork Tims.
A ltindrrd't Tlonis of (aold,
TwIaNE S 1'noNG luoNf en-E ~i' o f LYT
rf'NE AaIlrED MEN FniOM SAN FnAN
The wildest and mest visionary of
~t Thue A rgonaiuts of '49"i nee dre-uin
ced of the go lden possibilities hfidden
in trie rocks and earth of the Pacific
coast. Capt Sutter, when hie.,droai-i
ly worked his little wooden inthl ea
t be A ierican Fork of the Sacrameon
to iver, in the winter of 1848, could
not, by the wildest stretch of imagi.
nation, have had a conception aurif.
erous deposits in the 'fertile slopgs
and valleoys about him. Little did he
dream tat his insignificant mill race
led to t ho wealhhl that would d warf
thiat of even the fabled land of Ophiir
ini its ifnfluence on the world,
On Mlondav afternoon there arriv
edathe suib-treanry in the New
York City, $2',000,000 in gold coin.
1t was forwar .led by A fanmy inpressi
('omnpany from the sub-treasury in
San Francisco. The weight of this
coin was about four tonq. it was
packed in twelve strong iron pheste,
each about two foet and a lhalf in
lengith by sixteen inches io breadth
and depth.
A nUcNDnED BAGs OF DOUnLE EAGLS.
The gold consisted entirely of
dlouble eagles, encoeosed in one hun.
dred stout canvnss bags each contain
ing $20,000. Every bag bore the
r~eal of the assistant-treasurer in
San Francisco, and each of the cst
had three combination locks. Th<
explanation of the combinationns wa
I Woman's Write.
Some editor has been victimized
writes as follows : ,"We shall
never engage anoth ler wonman to report
gentlemen's fa8hions for this paper.
We might have known she would
ignominiously fail ; but she Raid gen,
tiemen reported ]adies' fashions, and
sho couldn't see %why a woman
shouldn't write up the masulbie
modes. We couldi't Poo, either, .o
we gave her a carte-bliucho to go
ahead. And such a fashion article !
Ilero Is 'a specimen tf the ridiculous
stuff : A reclierehe spring overcoat
for promenade has liretty ribbed
stripes, with three rufliecs oi the tails,
festooned with tasieli, single-brenst
od collar, and ,rotling 'flaps on the
panie-r. A lovely dress coat has
three buttons and pockets in the roar,
box-plaited on the hips, three-ply
guipure lace on the narrative, gored
in a bunch and bouffant. Vests but
ton up in front sano as laet yeaf, and
have pockets with imperial polonaise
up the back, and oxidised buttons in
double rows on the collar, with tab
fronts. The shirt is out tight at the
knee, and open in front or behind,
as may be preferred, with peroale
bosom, trimied passementerie ; four
rows of Mageriti braid around the
vkirt, with hool at back, bound with
galloon to match. Much depends on
the pant aloons. . A gentlemian's dress
is very inicompl to without trousers.
These are of some subdued color, as
London smoke, and Ihould have
muoniso with the-the--iwck fichu.
are cut bias in both legs, with frills to
fail over the iustep ; the waist is gar
nished with a bustle of batiste, with
aecru facings, and buttons to match ;
the-. But that is enough. Any
>ne but a Sandwich Islander will se
at a g'ance that these fashions are
frightfully mi'xed. Who ever heard
)f trousers being cut bias in the legs,
ICep friils falling over the instep,
witlh a broad band of batiste-what.
ver that may be-and ceru facings
iud things ? , Rather than wear 'pan
tnloonsi built in that way, we would
7o without, and encase our limbs in
4wo sections of stove, pipe.
Changed 1cr Mlind.
Amo.ng the passongers upon the
;ta.gt whicb was robb-ed last tbundity
light, says the Nevada (Ualifornia)
Pranscript, was one lady. She had
passed about tywenty two summers,
ind wai a residYint of Gilroy. For
Iome lit'tle time she had been corres.
ponding with a resident of trass Val
ley, a miner, and a most excellent
man. The result was an ongagement
f narriage, though the artiea iad
lever yet ict. After the robbery
and on the nrrival of the stago at
Grass Valley, tie prospct ive bride
and groom muet and the wedding took
place. Buth were happy and so con
tinued until next iorning, when the
bride clamed that she was ciazy and
knew nothing whatever of the mar
riage ; that all was oblivion to her
if ter the robbery, except that she had
:1 reamed in the night that she was
carried off by the robbers. 11er mn..
mer was excited one minuto she wai
in tears atid an~lhier in smilcs,
Preacber and neighbors were called
in and all though she must be crazy;
but in her more lucid mnoments she
intimatedl that the miner was "not so
tvell 1iecd a she exp eted to find
him." All agreed that under the
aircumstances it would be well if the
narriage could be annulled, but how
odo this was thme question. Pend ing
hte disicussion, thme young lady packed
ip her Saratoga and left Grass Valley
oer her home. Thoi important qucs
ion is yet unsolved,
"It is well established by the Federal
eeords that the losses of Grant be.
wenn his first collision with Lee's
irmy and the defeat which he sustain
d at Cold Hlarbpr, amounted to 125,
300 men. Swintonm and other e5refdil
historians so state it. The Edinblurghm
reviewer places the total losses of the
irmy of the Potomac at a much lowerm
Figure. While lie sttates the numbers
f the army of Northern Virginia at
70,000 effectiVos, we know that Glen.
Lee did not have 50,000 men og~ any
ano battle-field during the Simbalgn.
"Again, ' he army of Grant at the
A ppomamttox is stated .if the Rteview
at 150,L000-that. of Leo at 40,000.
1"Whoreas Geni. Leo himself assured
the writer of this that on the 2d of
April, 1865, his whole foroe of 611
arms amounted to only 32,000 men,
while Grant stated to General LeeC
that on the same (late his effective
forhe of nrms numbcred to less than
220,00i0 meon.
"Gen. Liee further sta ted to mre
that when lie surrendered att A ppo
w:attox on the 9hh of A prill, after icy
on days of hard mairrching, fiiuing
and~ starvation, lhe had only about 8,
000 effectives left to bear Ltho battle.
flags for the last time of the grandest
Armiy whtich over yet has upheld a
righteotis cause; and illuettated the
manhood of a noble race."
An English woman named Count
away lias become the mother of seven
teen children in nine years. W ho
said there was nothing in a name ?
Governor Davis of Texas is renom
inated by thn renublicans.
The Chicago Tribune says one of
the pi incipal grievances which 11af \
brought on the struggle between the C
farmers and the railror ds "is the glut \
ef firm produ(ts and consequient low 0i
prices and til prolita'bic faruminlg.'' n1
Did not the high rates of tranporta. )
tion havo :olmcthinlg to do with it. 1I
A Western paper thinks that the N
grand quadruble tracks on the New -.
York Central lailroad are not only t
intended to facilitato transportation
for the West, but also to switch the
owner of the road into the Presi
deuntial chair.
a St. 1ouis Democrat (ropnbli.
can), referring to the farmeis' move
mient, expenses the firm licf "'that
te manifestations of public indig- ti
m..'a and detem-aina iou for reform th
will powerfully aid the better cli
ment within the republican party to
purge it of all unworthy leaders and
representatives, and to render it in t
tbe best and highest sense worthy of P1
public confidence." If it does this it C
will accomplish a great good for the "
:outry, I n
The Rochester Demon rat (republi- -Il
an) very kindiy says cf the vener
iblo eandidate for Governor of Ohio :
*-" We road too 111h10 about the 'Ol
Bill Allen.' It ist aktogethnr too ir.
'everent and uidiguilied. Mr. Allon q
a extremely old, and his great age
loserves 1)o such treatment. Possi
>ly he is a bad Bill, as well as an
>ld one ; but we u.t insist that ho
io treated respectfully .litil he is
vithdrawn from ci-culation.'' b
Siupel](dous EngitaUsh Btig
Upon the Derby of 1867 Lord .as.1- U
ings lost by far the hcavc-.t sum that.
vas ever lo.;1 on t race. It seeims" but tL
,he other day that the air was vocal
vith enthusiastic cheer, that greeted
ais appearance on the conrse at As.
ot, after paying away through his
m011) mii.ssioners abIout xI00,000 on the
)erLy settling. i millny litne VRacs in
ti Newm: ir.t, Lord liasting.-i backed
iis bor.so to n in X10,000. It made I
1o differenceo to him to whether his Il
>ookmakers askel him to stake 22,
)00 or X5,000 against their X10,000.
WV hatevor they offered in the w.ay of a
It., so lung 11s the SIlUn was laige a
mcU111, ie wvect i; book ; and
luring hi . t. &it tr oij tihe turf the
>dda laid wee shorter and the gains
von by the booliakers larger than
luring any three years of the present ur
:entury. lie often paid away (10,. he
100 or .-50,000 Upou a settlem:elit af- TI
or a Iloughiton or second OJtober
1cetCing ; and sitico Lord Iastiig 't
ime high bets I ave been the rulb at he
l'itorsall s anl the Biug, tc
ir. J. B. Morris, thue hlc unker, d
m1:. been kouwn to La ? I0.0.) to .
1t . 1aiit eaCh L- 01 v oe Of Sir Jo- I
:epi llawley's horif, ,pinit eb ofE,
ix of tihe Duke of Newcasti'shorses, C
a i gainist a hi orso of ir. Chenlill'.
Agailn, 1,0LI to 10 hms biceen laidt
hat a certain horse wonl,1 win the
Liverpool cup, and .,:1,000 tu .-10 ie
Ihat Sir Frcderick Johnstone would
-ide the winncer ; and Mr.Chaplin has
'een known to wiu X140,000 upon the D
iorby, and Captain Mitchell his con
Wederate, -160,000. A yt 4,r or two
igo. M r. Chaplin wou a leviathan iet
f ?50,000 that The Uerinait would
becat TJhe P'almeor the first they met, P
ad ?10,000 that the liermit beat W
Ma da.i. You may meet men by e
the dozen at Ta'tt'ern'W who, if they C
'thoose to toll you their secrets would wV
t ell youi thalt their v~ its are worth p'
3210,000 to ?20,000O a ycar to them. ei
liAeduced to a system, rnothling is safer i
han "blusim11ss on thle tu rf." Lord &
G eorge Bent inch for yeara kept uip his IE
miagni ficent .st nal lay hi- book and 'i
MIr. lIIarry lIill, hiis chief rina com-. g
mi:Sionerl, could, I f.'ney, tell us some1 p
patuan stories if lie wer-e to tur~n to a
his notebooks. It is said that in a '
mlingle year Lord George net ted . near,
ly' .' 30,000 uponu a p14e of horseo
a l an.--en km'fens&, Mfaiggwic 0
Twe'clty Th'eot~itl LcItm Opeuli a
The corruption thuat pervades eve.ry L
branch of thie eivil sorti io is becom
iing mionotonous. We would like a
chango if only for variety's sake.
A mong the recent developments are o
the systemiatie and long conltinued I
etr'benterrents of liryeo McLellan, e
until recently chief pos'tal c le: k he- I
tween New York aind WVashingtou. h
Col. F'orney's Philadelhphia press- e
one of the most loyal kind-tmtes e
that his thefts amount to $d0, 000,
lio stole this consideraibio 51 u, says i
the .Press, in sums of not over 82or t
$3 each, from letters sent by South, fi
era subaci-ibers to .Northern puliish- e
ers. Somio 15,000 or 20,000 usubscri a
bers for Northern papiers anld magn-.i
zines are, thereforo, notifiedl to rem it
again if they find that they connot t
get along without such irtellectual g
food. -
We are in receipt of many letters
asking whether thle I erald initendst
curtailing its exchange list since the s
new law afl'eetitng postnge went into
effect. To all theso arid to all pubi.
.hlshers interested we desire to sav
that we not only wish to retsin all
our present exchanges, lint to increase
the list to thmo extent of at least fi.:e
haund red aditional neCwap iers.-N.
V. 1/aiad.
sent to A ssistant Treasurer Ilillhouse
tn two in.talwents. ono by mail id
mne by express. This was to prcvent
its possible use in. tlie .evenit of its
falling into unworthy hiilds. The
mr containing the treasure wasgurd.
el by nine:armed men. As an addi
tional security t1o e;jprss ca mpany
was held responsible to the govein.
ment for the safety of the gold. On
its arrival here it was carried in ex.
press wagons to the pine street cu.
t.anco of the tro:ury, where the
cheits, which weighe-d between six
atnd seven hundred poundid calh, werf)
phicod on tructcs and rolied into the
coin division. The bags were emptied
and the contents counted by weighing.
Ily this mode the absence of a sinle
piece would be instarntly detooted, as
tihe exact weight $20.QQ0 ins.gold is
regiAored. About $"1,006,000 of the
treasure is fresh from the mint, and
this it,.yas ,gossary merely to weigh.
The remainder, having been in circu
lation, is to be e:kanuned . piece by
piece to see that every one is genu
ine. The experts began this labor
yesterday and will be occupied in it
tor a week.
ENORMOUS PILES OF GoLD.
The New York Sui siys: Mr.
Ashley, the chief of the coin division,
says that so largo n amount f gold
is rarely received in the sub treasury
at one titue. It was, ac.tt hero by
the treasury departmieut becausc Now
York is the only city where the gov.
erumient needs to keep large quanti. 1
ties of gold for mnercantilo purposes.
At the closo of busiuess yeste iday
there was .a balance of gold coin in
the sub-treasury of $48,522,6W8 79.
0t about .*uo ., hund red. tons of gold.
This is an unusually heavy strpply.
One reason for it is the light shipping
demand, only $11,000 having been
delivered for shipnient since January
1. That is less than half the auiouut
in the corresponding period Liat
year.
,TWENT TORSOF GO..D N DAI3.
In addition to this the sub-treasury
contains about $10,000,000 in gold
bars, $400,000 in silver, and about I
$32,000,000 in .urrency- There are
two treasure chamltn1rs op dilferent
sides of the main f'oor i- the .Subj
treasury. Each has walls of massive
stote eight feet thick, built in two
liarallel sections. The intermediate
space is filled with boxes of chilled
iren pazcked witl, balls Qf th' sAme
inateriil about.nan inch in diaincter. I(
These will turn the most powerfl 'i
di ill ever employed by burglars. The
floor is covered with iron plates, anl
rests on.solid masonry', w7hich extends i
thirty feet below the surface of the
sidewalks. The live iron door are
s-!cured by several heavy loelm.
These doors weigh about two and .a
half tous each. The1. camrs are
divided into iron compartinetits. In
the west side chamber the gold i; do
posited, each conmpartnieIt containi:g
$500,000 when li.Led. The gold is
lceld in smnall can vas . Lag.. The
chamber oi kike east -id; contains the
currency, silvcr coin and gold in bars.
'he currency is in pa.: igo.; cf $1,
000 notes. These packages weigh
scarcely a poand each,.'ynt they are
stamped $1,000,000 'I'lio geld bars
are generally worth $5,000 each,
after having beeni melted in the assay
effieo,.,, prep:ratory to being coined
into money in the P'hilrdelphii tuint.
Politicil Nutes.
Senator.Morton opensw the cainpaign
in Ohio by a speech in Cleveland to
The WVashing' on Republican avqrs.
that Reuben E. Fetnton,.the "emninenit
liberal republican ,re former)'' is en
deavoring tc get back into the repub
lian party.
The Cincinnati Commercial re
gards the removal of tho statue of
d Wehrson fromt its position at (ha rear
of the White House as the most sus
picious evidence it his yet seen of
G rant's purpose to establish C'xariam
in the United states.
The. depagecratie candidato f r
Cotin1pt i-oller .i1) 1hry~and1. having do
clared tbat "of all the great interes
of the State that of ogrioulture is
most paralyzed and prostrated,'' (lie
Washington Rtepubl ican, thinks th is
is the natural result of htaving old
fogy democrats for State rulers.
In V'ew of Senator Fenton's re.
ported aspirations for a second term
the Washington Star affirms that
tShakespeare's opirtipn on tbo subiject
becomes interesting. This ia what
he says:
Why, how new I what dot.s Master Fecienc
. hecro c
You wrong moe, sir, thtus satli to haunt myj
hionse.
Thec Cincinnati. Timc' thinkcs the
mastodon vas one of WVilliam Allen's
conitemporaries of cathy days. lie
might have been, for lie is stilt six
feet two in his btookings, with necither
--Crook in htis back
Nor a melancholy crack in his voice.
The Sprinfield (Ill.) Journal says
after Jeff Davis' epeach before tho
Southern llistorical Society, it is
never realized what an act of miag
nanimnity the govcrnnment committed
in not "hanging Jeff' Davis a to sour
a 'apple treen"
A great change of the climate out
Vost, froi the Rocky I'Iountaitis to
alifornia, is evidently - in progress.
Vc learn from Salt Lake City that
icy have had in that basin this
ionth more heavy $howers th'in ever
Lfore in August, and this increase in
ic summer rainfall from Wyoming to
eva.4a Izis, we Pre told,,beei steadi.
going on since the completion of
10 Union and Cenntral Pacifle iron
tery .a II's the (notinent. It is
ought !hat these lines of igoA taibs
ve u nah to lo with this remirkable
tango in the aitifall of the Far
lest. It may be so ; but.if so, the
iildiiig of two or three more Pacilic
ilwayis will be worth a thousand
ines over the country all the cost of
cir c.ustruction.,-NY7. Y. Alcra'ld.
A Ncw Rule of th Blinks.
Five of our city banks give patiep
at, hereafter all, checks.presented in
y tent of notes and drafts must be
rtified. This is an important in,
vation upon local business ottetone,
At seemed demanded by tho grow.
g volume of our banking opcration',
order to secure the banks against
sA1ibl losses. It will oconsion a
tle extra trouble to those .having
uk obligatioas to meet; but they
11 soon get used to it, and the
ango will be better for all partic.
itlal about the .Future Duichess of
EdlInhurg.
The oieial annonicoment of tho
troita of the grand duchess Mlaria
exandrovna, only daughter of tho
ar of Russia, to the Duke of Edin.
rg, socond son of' Qucen Victoria,
a brought out another e'psode. in
life of the g.-and duchess, which
now the chief subject of gossip inl
Petrsburg. It appears that about
o years 9g.> the Czar concuived the
a of marri ing.his daughter to the
the of Edinhurg, and, as a prelm-l.
try step, sent,for a young English
ofssor in the University of St.
tursburg, iamed Swayne, to teach
r English. The duchess imme
ately fell in love with her teaohe'r,
d informed him of it. or several
)nths lie taught her Eoglish.. and
0 taught him love, but one day tho
ar #old her lie should shortly tako
r to a German watering-placo to
ike the acquaintance of her sinten
d. She informed him that would ho
niecessary, as she had already given
r heart and hand to Mr. Swaync.
ircupon she wa's sent to her apart
nits, and Prof. Swayno was sum
>ned and inl'ormed by the Czir that
h..d better leave Russia inmedia.
y, which he did. The young
che - was inconsolablo for a long
-, an d swore to her p arents that
3 would never marry the Duke of
linburg. When she was taken to
irnany she refused to uicot her in
ided, and during her recent sojourn
ti her mother in Italy she heaped
Itinual slights upon his head. Her
P[ugnancee, however, , was, fixally
ercome, and niow, instead, of becomr
g plain Mrs. Swayne, she will be
choees of E]irburgh.
hiuporlait Rule.
We learn that the rule of the Sa.
reme Court, which prescribes ithe
anner ini which briefs must be print
,has bcen revoked by the Supremo
out, and a new rule substituted,
bich prescribes that briefs sudit
>ints and authorities shall be prinly
i on letter paper, uniform in siz)
id stylo with thie current. series of
late reports. T1his is quito an. im,
rovemeint oni the Qld rule, as d. o ro
LiIreients of the court in this ro,
u d are easy to be understood. Ono
>int io be gained is that the points
a authorities and arguinents of
uns' may, if it be desired, be fouiid
the .aume volume with the report,
d we understand it is the .purpose
thc court to require of counsel nn
stra numanhr of copies, so as in~this
annier to preservo them in bound.
alumnes in the Supreme library.
rniion. flerald.
I lccnse ,Cs;s decs.o
tisunderstood that in thedeiso
the case of the Stato against
[aynec the Srupremei Court has aflirm,
Al the constitutionality of thme late
cease Jaw, or to be more precise, ib
as been decided that the State may
niforee a tax by way of license. The
>ur't does not, pass upon01 the q1uestion
to wvhethmo- ther lato license law is
i violation of the constitution or niot
ne case t urning upon a technin~t d&e.
>t in the indictment. The infer.,
nec is that the State mn'ay enforce
license tax, but as to the mode
what maniner that tax shall be imn
osed, the court is sihant. Ilowever;
lie opinion has not yet been promnul
ated .- Un ion- Iferald.
A brother, in a Tlhmursday nigh
rayer meeting at LaCrosse, adde
o his prayer, "And that fellow wiro.
tale my horse, hit .l inm viith a thun..
luirbolt before ho gets irito Iowa."
The California rnines are queeoo
doces. A Golden Stato reporteg
ward the "growl of a boar, the how
>fa wolf, the voice of prayer, the'
ry of a child, and the clash of bo'w(6
anifea" from cno guleh.