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HOYT & 00., Proprietors. ANDERSON C. H., S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1875. VOLUME X.?NO. 39. The Origin *?4 Phenomena of Cyclones, Admirad Rapheal Semmes, in his "Memoirs ?of Service Afloat," gives a graphic description of the origin and phenomena of a cyclone or typhoon, an extracvfrom which will prove in? teresting : In the East Indian and China Seas the cy? clone is called a typhoon. It prevails there with even more destructive effect than in the western hemisphere. It takes its origin during the change of the monsoons. Monsoons are periodical winds which blow one-half of the year from one direction?the northeast, for ex cm pie?and then change and blow the other half of the year from the opposite direction? the southwest. When these monsoons are changing there is great disturbance in the atmospheric equilibrium. A battle of the winds, as it were, takes place; the outgoing wind struggling for existence, and the incom? ing wind endeavoring to throttle it and take its place. Calms, whirlwinds, water-spouts and heavy and drenching rains set in; the black, wild looking clouds sometimes rent and torn, sweeping with their heavy burdens of vapor over the very surface of the sea. Now, the outgoing or dying monsoon will recede for ?days together, its enemy, the incoming mon? soon, gradually advancing to 0( cupy the space left vacant. The retreating wind will then rally,' regain its courage and drive back, at least for a part of the way, the pursuing wind. 2a this way the two will ^alternate for weeks, each watching the other as warily as if they were opposing armies. It is during these ?struggles, when the atmosphere is unhinged, as it were, that the typhoon makes its awful ap? pearance. Every reader is familiar with the .phenomenon of the miniature whirlwind, which he has so often seen sweep along a street ?or road, for a short distane and then disappear, j the want of local equilibrium in the atmos? phere, which gave rise to it, having been re? stored. These little whirlwinds generally oc? cur at street corners, or at cross roads, and are produced by the meeting of two winds. When these winds meet the stronger will bend the weaker and a whirl will ensue. The two winds still coming on the whirl will be increased, and thus a whirlwind is formed which immediately begins to travel?not at random, of course, but in the direction of least pressure. The meet? ing of two currents of water, which form a whirlpool, may be used as another illustration. It is just so that the typhoon is formed. It steps in as a great conservator of the peace to put an end to the atmospherical strife which has been going on, and to restore harmony to nature. It is a terrible scourge whilst it lasts ; the whole heavens seem to be in disorder, and that which was only a partial battle between outposts of the aerial armies has now become a general engagement. The great whirl sweeps over a thousand miles or more, and when it has ceased nature smiles again; the old monsoon has given up the ghost, and the sew monsoon has takes its place. All will be peace now ?until the next change?the storms that will occur in the interval being more or less local. We have monsoons in the western hemisphere, as well as in the eastern, though they aru much more partial, both in space and duration. The cyclones which sweep over the North Atlantic are generated, as has been remarked, to the | eastward of the West India Isles, somewhere between them and the coast of Brazil. They occur in August, September and October, some? times, indeed, as early as the latter part of July. In these months, the sun has drawn after him, into the northern hemisphere, the southeast trade winds of the South Atlantic. These trade winds are now struggling with the northeast trade winds, which prevail in these seas for three-fourths of the year, for the mas? tery. We have, thus, another monsoon strug? gle going on; and the consequence of this struggle is the cyclone. If the reader, being in the northern hemisphere, will turn his face towarde the sun at his rising, and watch his course for a short time, he will observe that his course is from left to right. As the course of the arrows iu the figure is from right to left, the reader observes that gyration of the wind, in the storm, is against the course of the sun. .This ig an invariable law in both hemispheres, but iu the southern hemisphere the reader will not fail to remark that the gyration of the wind is in the opposite direction from its gyration in the northern hemisphere for the reason that to an observer in the southern hemisphere the sun appears to be moving not from left to right, but from right to left. Whilst, therefore, the storm in the northern hemisphere gyrates from right to left, in the southern hemisphere it gyrates from left to right; both gyrations being 'against the course of the sun. This is a curious phenomenon, which has, thus far, puzzled all philosophers. It is a dou? ble puzzle; first, why the storm should gyrate always in the same direction ; and secondly, why this gyration should be different in the two hemispheres. The law seems to be so sub rtle.as utterly to elude investigation. There is a curious phenomenon in the vegetable world, which seems to obey this law of storms, and which I do not recollect ever to have seen al? luded to by any writer. It may be well known to horticulturists, for augh't that I Know, but it attracted my attention in my own garden, for the .first time, since the war. It is, that all creeping vines and tendrils, when they wind themselves around a pole, invariably wind themselves from right to left, or against the course of the sunl * * * *' What is the subtle influence which produces this wonderful result? May it not be the same law which rides on the whirlwind and directs tie storm. *. * It is the rain which adds j sueh fury to the wind. These storms come to ns, as has been said, from the tropics, and the winds by which they are engendered are highly charged with vapor. In the course of taking up this vapor from the sea, the winds take up along With it a large quantity of latent heat, or heat whose presence is not indicated by the thermometer. As the raging cyclone is moving onward in its path the winds begin to part with their burden?it begins to rain. The moment the vapor is condensed into rain, the latent heat, which was taken up with the vapor, is liberated, and the consequence is the formation of a furnace in the sky, as it were, overhanging the raging storm and traveling along with it. The more rain there falls, the more latent heat there escapes, the hotter the furnace becomes, and the hotter the furnace the more furiously the wind races around the circle, and rushes into the upper air to fill the vacuum and re? store the equilibrium. ? D. W. Adams, Master of the National . grange, says: "The history of the world and its present condition has established this fact? that all countries are poor which export crude, raw-material, and import the manufactured ar? ticle ; and the tendency of the people is all the time toward a condition of dependence. To this there have been exceptions, and we would do well to "heed the warning and escape the doom." Where the great industries?agricul tureand manufactures?are equally developed, the general prosperity is assured. ? A modern physiologist notes the extraor? dinary fact, that, at the dinner-table, every time a man crooks his elbow his mouth opens. On Fertilizers. A changed system of labor in the former slave-holding States has necessitated, or will necessitate, a change in the mode of farming. The old plantation system can never revive, and ultimately we will see the day of smaller farms. This, not as desirable in itself, nor as more profitable, but from the demands of the case. Until this change, however, which will occur slowly and gradually, does take place, the main reliance of our Southern agricultu? rists is upon fertilizers, and improved imple? ments and machinery especially adapted to the various cultures in practice among them. In addition to the numerous labor-saving machines of the North, some of which are entirely inap? plicable to our needs, and most of which re? quire more intelligence than that of the negro field-hand to manage them, we want special implements suited to our special needs, and this want is becoming so pressing that it can? not be long before the ingenuity of our me? chanical talent will supply it. Even before this we need a rational system of manuring, found? ed on principles of economy aud reason, and this system, in our view, to reach its highest efficiency and value, must comprise the use of domestic manures and composts, as well as the application of artificial fertilizers and the re- i sort to green manuring, all combined. Great as is the present demand for and use of com? mercial manures, we consider that, in reality, we are just entering an epoch in our agricultu? ral history when their consumption will be wellnigh universal. Their intelligent applica? tion in this country, as in England, where in some counties a man would almost as soon un? dertake to farm without his plow as without his annual supply of super-phosphate, will be demanded by the conditions of our farm prac? tice. We hope never again to see the feverish excitement which once prevailed, and the illu? sions which were formed as to the effects of far? fetched guanoes, but it is our expectation that we will reach a point where the steady but dis? criminating demand for reliable fertilizers will exceed anything that has yet been witnessed in this country. It is, however, far from our thoughts that this demand will lessen in any degree the attention paid to home-made ma? nures and composts. It would be derogatory to the intelligence of the readers of the Ameri? can Farmer to even utter a caution on this point. We have so often repeated our exhor? tation to utilize the mauurial products of the farm?by mixing and composting the manures of the stables and barn-yard, the muck aud marsh mud so often accessible, the guano-like dung of the poultry house, the scrapings of the pig-pens, the waste from the house, the night soil from the vaults, the sods aud trimmings from the yards and roadsides?that none of our readers will think of our suggesting the neglect of home resources can be supplied by manu? factured fertilizers. Our pages, too, have so often presented urgent appeals for the use of clover, buckwheat and the pea, as ameliorators of the land, that we cannot be suspected of over-looking their importance and worth. If any one, likewise, is fortunate enough to be situated so as to enrich his land by the feeding of cattle, then he will have little need to resort either to turning under green crops or to ap? plying mineral manures ; but such cases are comparatively few, though where the huge de? posits of rich manure from stall-fed cattle are found, there, indeed, abundance and fertility ought to prevail. Our agricultural faith, however, looks for? ward to the day when all the means within reach at home will be used to their fullest ef? fect, and supplemented by external helps fouud in the manures of commerce. These latter, we believe, are steadily appre? ciating in value, and are now prepared by the aid of scientific skill of a character which a few years ago was entirely unknown iii their manufacture. Where, formerly, the manipula? tion was crude and empirical, now the combi? nation is the result of the keenest chemical inquiry aud examination. This very tendency to improvement in meth? ods and to selections of the most promising materials in the making of manures, is one of the surest safeguards the consumer has in their use, the competition in this now immense and ever-extending branch of our commerce stimu? lating manufacturers to increased watchfulness in maintaining the character of their respec? tive brands. Nothing, perhaps, in agricultural science is now more clearly settled than that, for supply? ing the needs of all soils, which by long culture have become worn out by improvident crop? ping, two substances are absolutely needed, to be supplied artificially to restore such waste, namely, nitrogen and phospftoric acid, (though some deny as to the first,) and that on many, especially those of light, sandy character, pot am is also a desirable application. Of all the other elements entering the composition of cultivated plants, it is very rarely that any one is not present in soils under tillage sufiicient for the needs of the crops. Now, as the three elements named are pre? cisely the ones which are supplied, or should be, in every brand of commercial fertilizer, some might doubt the ecouomy of consuming time and labor in gathering and composting the materials named above as abounding on the farm. This might be true, too, but for this additional fact, which we have stated more than once before iu these pages, but which is one of such practical consequence that its repe? tition again and again cannot be untimely? which is, that the effect of these mineral ma? nures is very much increased by, is in direct proportion, indeed, to the presence of the or? ganic materials naturally contained in the soil, or placed there artificially, either by turning under green crops or by the addition of domes? tic manures and composts. More than this, it is demonstrated almost to a certainty, that the more humus existing in the soil, from the de? composition of vegetable matters, the less the need of adding nitrogen artificially. As this is the scarcest and consequently the most ex? pensive ingredient entering into the constitu? tion of bought manures, it is readily perceived what a saving is made by avoiding the necessi? ty for its purchase. We would say, then, that artificial manures, from the condition of our agriculture, are des? tined to greatly widened use ; that this use, to be profitable, must be only in combination with that of all the materials to be accumulated and mixed on and about the farm ; that where few cattle are kept the deficiency is to be supplied by gathering and composting such organic re? mains as may be available ; that on poor land, destitute of supplies of vegetable substances, a more highly nitrogenous manure is needed than on those which are rich in humus, and that in this consists the economy of saving barn-yard manures and composting organic matters ; and, lastly, that one very important effect of the application of highly concentrated and soluble manures is in the immediate start which it gives the plant to which it is applied, and thus promotes its early maturity.?American Farmer. ? An exchange says that "no Russian ever talks about the weather." Then, if they have no Beecher-Tilton scandal, and no Congress made up principally of ring-thieves and idiots, what the dickens do they talk about ? Daniel Webster and Jenny Lind. Jenny Lind gave a concert at Washington during the session of Congress, and, as a mark of respect aud with a view to the eclat, sent po? lite invitations to President Fillmore, the mem? bers of the cabinet, Clay and many other dis? tinguished members of both Houses of Congress. It happened that on that day several members of the cabinet and Senate were dining with Bodisco, the Russian minister. His good din? ner and choice wines had kept the party so late that the concert was nearly over when Webster, Clay, Crittenden and others came in, whether from the hurry in which they came, or from the heat of the room, their faces were a little flushed, and they all looked somewhat flurried. After the applause with which these gentle? men had been received had subsided, and si? lence was once more restored, the second part of the concert was opened by Jenny Lind with' "Hail Columbia." This took place during the height of debate and excitement of the slavery question, and the compromise resolutions of Clay, and this pa? triot air, as a part of the programme, was con? sidered peculiarly appropriate at a coucert where the head of the government and a large number of both branches of the legislative de? partment were present. At. the close of the first verse Webster's patriotism boiled over; he could stand it no longer, and raising like Olym? pian Jove, he added nis deep, sonorous voice to the chorus; and I venture to say that never in the whole course of her career did she ever re? ceive one-half of the applause as that with which her song and Webster's chorus were greeted. Mrs. Webster, who sat immediately behind him. kept tugging at his coat-tail to- make him sit down or stop singing, but it was of no earth? ly use?and at the close of each verse Mr. Webster joined in, and it was hard to say whether Jenny Lind, Webster, or the audience were the most delighted. I have seen Rubini, Lablache and the two Grisis on the stage at one time, but such a happy conjunction in the national air of "Hail Columbia" as Jenny Lind's soprano and Daniel Webster's bass we shall never see nor hear again. At the close of the air Webster rose with his hat in his hand and made her such a bow as Chesterfield would have deemed a fortune for his son, and which eclipsed D'Orsay's best. Jenny Lind, blushing at the distinguished hon? or, courtesied to the floor; the audience ap? plauded to the very echo ; Webster, determined not to be outdone in politeness, bowed again; Miss Lind re-courtesied; the house again re applauded ; and this was repeated nine times, or "I'm a villain else." Being something of a wag, and deeming this too good to be lost, the next day it was current? ly reported that Barnura had engaged Clay and Webster to accorapauy Miss Lind and himself as far as Richmond and assist her at her con? cert. For some days nothing but Miss Lind's concert and the report about Clay and Webster was talked of at the capital. A few days after this I was sitting in the Congressional postofiice, when a member came in, with whom I had always been on friendly terms, and to my usual very cordial "Good morning'' the gentleman with his lips com? pressed, pale as his shirt, and clipping his words very shortly, replied iu a sort of staccato style, "Good morning sir. Can I have a word with you in private ?" Heaven defend me from a challenge, thought I. Still never drenming how I could have incurred the gentleman's dis? pleasure, I replied very politely, "With pleas? ure." After leading me some distance through the crooked passages of the capitol, he stopped short, and looking me full in the face, and seeming as anxious for a fight as a bull terrier, he began: "I understand, sir, that a most insulting re? port has been very extensively circulated iu this city about two of the most distinguished men of my party, aud I have heard from more than one source that you were the author. My object, sir, is to know whether you hold yourself responsible." Being still in the dark, and ut? terly unable to comprehend the ("rift of his re? mark, I replied, "Sir, I do net know what you are talking about; you will be pleasf-d to speak somewhat more intelligibly." "Well, sir," said he, his cholor rising at my coolness, "I have learned from most unquestionable authority that yon have said that Barnum had engaged Clay and Webster to accompany and assist Jenny Lind at her concerts in Richmond." I never was so divided between an inclination to laugh outright and to get vexed ; and hesitating a moment whether I should abuse him for his stupidity or laugh in his face it occurred to me that if he could swallow so much, his credulity was capacious enough to digest much more. So, compressing my lips and trying to look as fierce as possible, I said iu the staccato tone of voice in which he had spoken, "Yes sir, I am responsible for that report, and I reckon I've seen the contract." My youug opponent's jaw fell, and, speaking in his usual natural drawl, bowed politely, and evidently with feelings of great disappointment at not being able to get up a fight; "I beg your pardon, sir, I was not aware that you had seen the contract." I do not know whether he ever told any one, or whether his friends let him into the secret of my disposition as a wag, but certain it was, for some time, whenever he saw me on one side of Pennsylvania avenue, he always had Boine business on the other. I told the joke to Webster at his own house, before the nomination of the Whig party was made, and ventured to suggest to him that when he was elected president he ought to con? fer some office on the man who was willing to fight for him and the honor of his party. He assured me that, if elected the claims of the gentleman should not be forgotten. Pauperism in the South.?The New Orleans Picayune is publishing a series of ar? ticles in the hope of doing something to lead the planting class out of what it calls the pres? ent slough of despond. During the past three years, the editor reminds them, the Southern States have produced large crops of cotton, and sold them at good prices. Putting the.incoming crop at only 3,650,000 bales, and the total production the last three seasons reached the enormous aggregate of 11,750,000 bales, worth about ?725,000,000.* The average crop for the I ten years preceding the war was 3,545,000 bales, worth $16*8,000,000. The average of the last three years is 3,016,000 bales, worth $234,900, 000. Yet, notwithstanding all this, the Pica? yune says the Cotton States are in a deplorable financial condition. They have scarcely any money, and their credit is almost gone. They have gone on producing cotton and purchasing | supplies, apparently doing a prosperous business, only to find that each year leaves them deeper I in debt. Now the merchants refuse to advance the means to put in large crops, the planter I begins to realize bow desperately poor he is. More than one remedy may be requisite for this condition of things, but one of the most effective of these would bo a greater diversi? fication of agricultural interests, to the end that the planters may live within their own resources more than heretofore. ? North Carolina imposes a tax of ?1,000 per day upon circuses and menageries. It is ' likely the circuses will not trouble them. David Dickson on Cotton Planting. The following is copied from a "Treatise on Agriculture," by David Dickson, Sparta, Ga., a work that should be in the hands of every farmer. The premium cottou crop, exhibited at the State Fair in Georgia, in 1869, of eigh? teen bales on six acres, was cultivated accord? ing to Mr. Dickson's plan : 1. Lay off cotton rows four feet apart with shovel plow, double furrow, and put in fertil? izers eight inches deep. 2. Ridge with long scooter, five inches wide. Make the beds with turn plow, subsoil the turn plow furrow; split out the middles with shovel. Plant with a cotton seed sower, and cover with a board or harrow. First plowing?run 22 inch sweep with right wing turned down, hoe out to two or three stalks to the hill every nine inches, teu days after plowing. Second plowing?use aame sweep, the right wing turned up a little more. Third plowing?in same way, run a third fur? row in middle to level. 3. Cotton standing thick in the drill will be much more forward in maturing. 4. Cotton only requires distance one way. 6. Be careful not to cut the roots of cotton. 6. Have a deep water furrow in the spring; work flat by hot weather. 7. On level land run the rows north and south. 8. A cotton plant, to stand two weeks drouth, must have four inches soil and six inches sub? soil; three weeks?six inches soil and same subsoil; four weeks?eight inches and the same subsoiling. 9. If you prepare your land and carry out this plan well, and manure liberally, you may expect from four hundred to one thousand pounds of lint cotton to the acre. 10. Fertilizers bring a crop of bolls on the cotton early. 11. To improve the cotton plant, select seed every year after the first picking, up to the middle of October, taking the best stalks and the best bolls on the stalks. 12. On all farms there are some acres that produce cotton better than others. Seed should always be selected from those spots. 13. Manure everywhere yon plow and plant. Your labor will be more certainly rewarded. It pays to use manure, and it pays best ou land that pays best without it. 14. From the 10th to the 20th of April is the best time to plant cotton. 15. Apply one-half of all labor and land to the making of full supplies of all kinds that are needed on the.farm, and enough to spare for those engaged in other pursuits, and you will have more money than if the whole was employed in making cotton. 16. Leave no grass to bunch and cause a fu? ture bad stand. 17. Plow cotton every three weeks, and let the hoes come ten days behind, clearing it per? fectly. 18. Continue plowing cotton till the 15th or 20th of August. Once or twice during the season shove out the middle with a furrow, to keep the land level. 19. The plowing of cotton requires one and a fourth days per acre. 20. Cotton plants commence when small to take on and mature bolls, and continue until they exhaust the soluble matter or exhaust the full capacity of the land. Two stalks will do that much sooner than one, and will so avoid the drouth, caterpillar, etc. 21. Cottou will grow after cotton a number of years in succession, with plenty of manure. 22. Make just the amount of cotton wanted, at paying prices. Keep out of debt, be the creditors, make your supplies at home; then and only then will you have power. 23. Rotation of crops, deep and deeper plow? ing every yen:, incorporation of vegetable mold, returning the proceeds of the cotton plant, except the lint, to the soil, making as much manure as possible, comprise my system of improving lands. 24. One object in cultivation is, to keep the surface broken, so as to let in light, heat and air. Never stop the plows for dry weather. 25. My policy has been to make the most money with '.he least labor and capital, even if it appeared to bo wasteful. 26. The cotton planter should make his whole supplies, everything necessary to run the farm. Measuring by the Eye. Years ago when we went to school in the little water-beaten school-house on the corner, we remember what exciting contests there used to be over the teacher's favorite exercise of hav? ing the scholars try to estimate with the eye the size and weight of different objects in the room. He would hold up his cane for instance, and have each one tell how long he thought it was, and it was a lucky child that could come within half a foot of the right length. He would take a boy's straw hat, and ask how much the crown would hold. He would meas? ure an urchin, and then have the scholars try to reproduce the measure on the wall. He would mark off an inch or a fo?t or a yard in some conspicuous place, and then see how near any body could come to chalking the same length upon the blackboard. And it was as? tonishing to see how wide astray one could go. The fact is, our eyes deceive us most ridicu? lously, even about the commonest things. At first thought, which should you say was the taller, a three-year-old child or a flour barrel ? Aud could anything but actual measurement convince you that the same child is half as high as a six-footer? There is an old saying that a child at two years old is half as tall as he ever will be, and after a few experiments in measuring, one can easily believe it; but not before. In Boston they have just been trying an ex? periment of this kind. The Oriental Tea Com? pany for several weeks past has requested every one who made a purchase of them, to guess how much the big tea-kettle, which hung as a sign over their door, would hold. Every guess was recorded, and if correct, was to win a pack ago of tea. About twelve thousand guesses were on file. People tried every arithmetical formula known for wine and beer measure;! they measured the kettle by triangulation, and even, it is said, slyly at night with a ladder and callipers. Competent engineers tried their hand at it; and the guesses varied all the way I from two quarts to three thousand gallons. The other day in presence of a large crowd, the ' city measurer filled the kettle with water,,and announced that it held two hundred and fcwen- i ly-sevcn gallons, two quarts, one pint, and three gills. Not one person hail guessed right, although eight came within three gills of it, . and seven more guessed two hundred and t wen? ty-seven gallons. Evidently, the Bostonians arc not good at guessing. I ? Tf you may trust the Milwaukee Sentinel ?which you had better not do to the amount of five dollars if you don't want to throw your money away?when you go to Vienna and hear somebody say Hochquellenwasserleitung srohrcufalalitatcn, you may know that "the j water, pipe has busted." . For our part, we should be apt to think that a whole reservoir had "busted." A Happy and Contented Editor. Dr. H: F. Andrews, the genial and accom? plished editor of the Washington (Ga.) Ga? zette, in referring to certain changes in the proprietary management of that newspaper, makes the following comments upon his career in the editorial fraternity. His remarks coin? cide with the experience of all well-regulated and correctly managed establishments, whose business is conducted upon sound principles: Through all these changes it has remained under the same editorial auspices. We think it probable that it will continue under the same editorial management for a long time, if I we are spared life. We are really fond of the newspaper business aud love our calling as an ' editor, though it has been taken up compara? tively late in life, and without auy previous training whatever. We had always had a great aversion to writing, though our only experi? ence was in the line of ordinary letter writing, which consisted in correspondence with frieuds and business letters. We were not aware that we had any taste or fondness for editing a pa? per, but after tryiug it, found that we were greatly pleased with the business, and would soon be distinguished aud wealthy if our readers were only one-half as fou'd of reading our productions as we are of scribbling them. We only hope that our exertions have not been altogether unappreciated, and that we may be enabled to flourish the pencil editorial for many years to come. We have not found our editorial duties to be the irksome drudgery which it is represented by a great many of the fraternity. We have not met with all the trials and hardships which seem to have fallen to the lot of others. We have fought no duels, nor even been challenged. We have not found men rude, rough and con? stantly taking offence at our editorials. We have had no huge monsters walk into our sanctum with bludgeons and pistols and bowie knives, looking like walking mouitor3 or mov? able fortifications, and ask for the editor, or for the man that wrote such an article. On the contrary, our life has been serene and quiet, placid and peaceful. We have never inten? tionally insulted any one, and when we have inadvertently wounded the feelings of anyone, as will sometimes happen with auy editor in his hurriedly written articles, we have been ready to make any honorable reparation in our power. And those who have felt aggrieved at anything we have written have not come with sticks and staves and guns and pistols to demand retraction, but have approached us generally like gentlemen, and have met with the treatment due to gentlemen. Nor have we found the great pecuniary want and hardship and embarrassments attendant upon our business. It is true we have not made a fortune. We did not expect that. But we have received a very fair return for the amount of capital invested in our business. This is not a great amount, and the amount cleared by our paper has not been a great deal, but well enough for the capital. We have not found men more unwilling to pay us for our paper or for the advertising done in it than they are to pay any other just debt. We have very few delinquent subscribers, and rarely ever lose anything through our advertising patrons. Those editors and publishers who complain so much of their hard life, and of the poor remuneration, should quit the busi? ness and try something else. They are very foolish to continue to follow an occupation which is so very disagreeable- and so very diffi? cult, and which does not remunerate them. They ought to give it up and try the life of a country doctor or that of a preacher. After following either calling for a short time, they would consider the editing a newspaper as pastime. They insult their patrons by their constant complaints of not being paid their dues. Few men will refuse to pay so small a debt as the subscription to a newspaper, pro? vided the paper is worth even the small price asked. For our part we have found our occupation very pleasant, and our work by no means se? vere, for we have done a heavy country prac? tice as a physician, and have looked upon our editorial work more as a pastime than as a la? bor. We find the remuneration for publishing a paper very fair, though we cannot and never expected to make a fortune at it. We are sat? isfied with the business, and only hope that we may be enabled and permitted to follow it for many years to come. A Resurrection from the Dead. We have an event to chronicle that would scarcely be believed were it not authoritatively vouched for by competent witnesses?parties whose testimony cannot well be disputed or set aside. A young man in the town of Vassal boro, in this county, was suffering in the last stages of consumption, the disease which had insiduously and stealthily brought him to the verge of the grave. For several weeks he had been entirely prostrate and unable to speak, even to articulate asyllable. He became so op? pressed for breath that his attendants were com? pelled to raise the windows in his room, put out the fire, and resort to every means to ob? tain fresh air. One day last week (Thursday, we understand,) the young man died. Friend? ly hands prepared the poor, emaciated body for the burial; but just as the attending friends were arranging the remains for the casket, there appeared unmistakable evidences of re? turning life, in what had seemed to them an inanimate mass of clay. The ear of an atten? dant was bent down to the side of the dead man, and it was discovered that the heart had begun again its slow and measured palpitations, the pulse throbbed, and the young man arose from the death shrouds, opened his mouth and spoke iu clear aud distinct words to those who stood appalled in the death chamber. There was no huskiness in his voice; he appeared lively and active ; said he felt not the slightest pain, but, to use his own lauguage: "I feel just as well as I ever did." At his request the neighbors were all called in, who crowded the house for hours, declaring j that the recovery of tne man was equal to any j miracle recorded in the scriptures. He told this startled assemblage of his friends and neighbors that, as he died, all things seemed dark, but only for an instant; his eyes sudden- j ly opened to a new world, the real heaven, j which had been so many times in his thoughts and given him so much comfort in his last weeks of pain and sorrow. Me stood upon an eminence which overlooked a vast and beauti- j ful plain ; the magnificent plain stretched fur- | ther than his enlarged vision could penetrate, | and he described it in language which, to his , mortal auditors, seemed extravagant in the ex- | treme. But the revivified life of the young; man was not to continue long. Before night he again resigned himself to death. The body was kept n reiisoiiiible length of time, and bu? ried on Sunday last, the funeral being largely attended. Wo have written out the particulars | of this remarkable event substantially as we i have heard them, allowing our intelligent read- j ers the privilege of drawing their own infer? ences.?Augusta [Me.) Journal. ?- When will the winter of'our discontent be made glorious summer by strawberries aud green peas ? A >cw Plan of Government. A joint resolution has been introduced into the Illinois Legislature by one of the members (Mr. Herron,) instructing the Senators and Representatives of that State in Congress to propose as an amendment to the Constitution that "the executive power shall be vested in a cabinet, the chief of which shall be styled an executive, and shall be chosen by the House of Representatives from among "the members thereof upon the nomination of the Speaker or some other person designated by law. He shall retire from office and give place to his successor on a vote of non-confidence by both Houses of Congress, provided that upon such vote of non confidence he shall have power, in his discre? tion, to declare a dissolution of the House. Thereupon a new election for Representatives will take place, but the Executive shall not dis? solve the House upon a declaration of non-con? currence affirmed by the country in the return of a new House. The House shall consist of members chosen by the people of the several States, to serve for the term of three years un? less the term be ended before the expiration of three years by a dissolution of the House by the Executive." This resolution was, after de? bate, referred to the committee of the whole by a large majority. A late writer in the North American Review suggested something of the character of the proposed amendment, and it was followed by a series of articles in a Chicago paper. The idea is the substitutiou of a system analogous to that which obtains in England, minus the heredita? ry monarch. The President or "the Execu? tive," as he is called here, is a member of the House of Representatives, chosen by the major? ity, and as soon as he ceases to represent the majority he has the privilege of appealing to the country by dissolving the House, and, if the people do not sustain, him by electing a new House in accordance with his views, he is to give way, and a successsor in harmony with the new body is to be chosen. It is needless to point out how unsuited is such a theory to our country, and perhaps it only deserves notice as indicating the recoil to an opposite extreme which the third term pro? ject has aroused in some minds. There are those, no doubt, who are beginning to fear that Mr. Jefferson's apprehensions in regard to the re-eligibility, in the Presidency may prove true. "Re-eligibility," he said, "makes the President an officer for life, and the disasters insepar? able from an elective monarchy render it pre? ferable if we cannot tread back that step that we should go forward and take refuge in an hereditary one. Of the correction of this arti? cle, however, I entertain no present hope, be? cause I find it has scarcely excited an objection in America. And if it does not take place ere long, it assuredly never will. The material progress of things is for liberty to yield aud government to gain ground." The light which experience has lately thrown on this truth, testified to by all history, is no doubt having the effect of suggesting tor men's minds experiments in an opposite direction, such as in-voked in an appeal as above de? scribed to thecountry. Such an appeal as now, in view of the defeat of the Republican party last fall by500,000 votes, and the majority of at least sixty which the Democrats will have in the next House of Representatives, will put a differ? ent face on public affairs from that which excites so much apprehension at present. A one term amendment to the Constitution would, how? ever, remedy most of the evils which seem to be inseparable frcm re-eligibility.?Baltimore Sun. The Connecticut flection* Connecticut has spoken, and the language is clear, emphatic and unmistakable. Such a victory as that achieved by the Democracy cannot be misunderstood. The administration at Washington gave its entire influence to the Radical candidates; the most determined ap? peals were made to the passions and prejudices of the people?even men like ex-Speaker Blaine joining in raising the cry of "loyalty" and "treason.-' Despite all the influences brought to bear agaiust them, the Democrats have re-elected their Governor by a probably increased majority, retained control of the Legislature, and made a gain of two Congress? men. When a man of the great personal pop? ularity of General Hawley is defeated, it be? comes evident that "a change in this adminis? tration" is inevitable. The result iu Connecticut settles the ques? tion of the next presidential election, unless, indeed, we throw away the present prospect by blunders for which there can be no excuse. From now until October next, there will not be any election of consequence. Maine aud Kentucky will elect officers, but no political significance attends either State, one being hopelessly Radical, and the other unchangea? bly Democratic. In October next, however, Ohio leads off; and we feel sanguine that the Democrats will carry the State by a large ma? jority. In November, New York, Pennsylva? nia and the great body of the States hold their elections, but the result there will not iuterest the public to any considerable extent, as it will have been foreshadowed by the October vote. It will be admitted, even by the Radicals themselves,, that the Connecticutelectiou shows the Democratic curreut to be stronger than ever. The "tidal wave" rushes on with resist? less power to the White House. No doubt the defeat of the Radicals in Connecticut will strengthen the opposition to Grant's renomina tion, but even if he is not renominated the Radicals have but little chance of success. To drop Grant now is to lose a powerful, influen? tial ally, and to n nominate him is to confront an overwhelmingly hostile element. Thus, in either case, tht prospect of our beating the Radicals is a cheerful one. Altogether, while the political situation will not warrant our folding our Lands and going to sleep, it is still of a character to warrant confidence that the day of Radical domination is passing, and passing forever.?Atlanta News. St. Paul as a Gentleman.?The Contem? porary Review says : "St. Paul was the idea of a gentleman. Witness his delicacy aud tact, seen pre-eminently in advice and reproof: "I praise you not"?this is his euphemism for "I blame you." "I partly believe it," when told of the divisions among his children. Mark his delicate tact with Feslus, Agrippa, Felix. Note the dignity and sweetness on receiving the gift from the PhiUippian church, the grace with which he rejoices that "you- care of me hath flourished again ;" then the anxious guar? ding against hurting their feelings; also the hopefulness for them ? "Wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity." Let any one curious in these points read from the tenth to the twenty-first verses of Phillippians iv. The passage is full of subtle touches of charac? ter. Professor Blunt, in the fir*t of his lectures on the 'Tarish Priest," admirably traces out this characteristic of St. Paul, though from another point of view than ours. And, once more, if any reader would have a perfect model of consummate tact and intense delicacy, let him study St. Paul's urging of a request that might have becu a claim, in the epistle to Philemon."