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* ;" mmmmmmmam wmammm 11 ? i mmh i wmmp^bmpbmwwbw^ mi. ,i?wmmmmmmmmammmammmm ?m Tv<? > ' ?i. ---*.?? ? -... '? 1. - - .'.? . ?i ? ' ' " " 1 ; ' 'T '* . " . > .Ml , I i ' . , ? . U I I , I 1 ' =S BY W. A. LEE AND HUGH WILSON. ' ' ABBEVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY. APRIL 2, 1869. VOLUME XVl-NO. 49 ~ w , : the hot of the period. fie is a sort of. asteroid in the social system. He and his kind move in the widely elliptic orbits of large inclination, catting socioty at certain nodal points like those hundred. and odd vagrant lumps of cosmic matter that if put together would hardly make up the mass of a respectable planet. Perhaps, equally like them, he may serve to demonstrate some yet-to-be-discovered Bodean law ru ling the little universe of whioh he forms so numerous yet so trivial a .part Perhaps he may have a use, as all thinga have; but then the designs of heaven are inscrutable and not to be found out by searching. He is a boy of the period, but not tJu boy of the period, for, unlike tho periodic girl, whose generic and specific types have been somowhat ungenerously determined in the monograph of the Saturday Review, the boy is protean uuu uuwngs 10 a ctoss ratuor man a specics. The girl can hardly be looked upon as a mere makeweight, liko a printer's leads that serve to space out the leading article more prominently, that high distinction being reserved for the society boy and unhesitatingly accepted by him. The society makeweight is not always such by virtue of brains, wealth or family, a weak and inane gentility of dress and manner being about all that is wanted to separate him from the herd that lies huddled together one grado lowor. He is manifestly a step above the urbane shop-keeper, and, as things go with us, equally removed, contrarywise, from tho fast young man who inherits a well crammed deed-box. He i4 most frequently professional and of professional ancestry. His collego course, by mixing him with young men of money, gives him that first insight into that complex and unsocial scheme misnamed society, although insignificant, in any orbital lacuna that may be open to him. Ho dances, and tbis enables him to fill up a "German;" in fl&ct, dancing well is about half his social capital. He can talk, if not brilliantly, at least intelligibly, and this brings him into demand to help fill fi parlor and perhaps save from walUflo warship some poor thing around whom the cold blasts that hurtle in .the ?oue the wrong sido of thirty h?vo blown roughly. He is l>ot always fortunate onough to loll in tho tropical luxuriance of socicty in its teens; for he is generally understood not to be a marrying man~-his means being limited. 'Ibis keeps the social makeweight oat of tbo two extremes of model domesticity and model viciouBness in a fashionable way. With him a cherry wife aud a fast * . nag, a costly club aud ehnbby curly pate to fondle on bis knee, are equally remote ^objects of ambition^ Ho would bo dissipated if he could?but how ? Wanting, the wherewithal to do so, he makes a virtue of his fate, limits himself to the biliards and ci? gars, and Ueks up the orumbs that fall from the social table with ancommen-, HaWp 1 nfir nf?tn tioa n hnmhla wnivl spank. And so he-drifts along, gradually developing a cynical torn toward the girl of the period and is notably eloquent on her extravaganoe and unfitness for wifehood, meaning, of course,unfitness to be the mate of anch aa himself Yet be sees the girl of the period At her beat, and she charms him in direct ratio to her 'extravagance and wifely unfitness- Her partors are open to him, hor dress and jewelry as Coqdettishly worn for him as fop nobler qoarry, hermsmma tolerates him more perhaps than if he were young Tan Polish or Foosleoyle the whiflkeyist, and her papa believes |n lifs entire innoeoons&ess, extends the pudgy grasp of friendship, and at odd than* patronises hi of fey .buying his freshly daohed canvas* or sending * * A . .ti ii? wia?uvj^M?OTJtui?tur wuecuun.. 410 0ndw**?tt this witfurafe wincing, for ffee fc)reft& ft ?ociety bu become Ti* Ul I* fefr jpatrife. He k *om*wh?t refined, ores $ little'lff ft Sybarite; so wtutt wosdurtlutt ^ kindly to women who speak lam*ad4&fP with <w* eye to harmony of color; who oUtaroaUy aaft their eaae wftb $im, heeSMM thai* iononeoeeeity oJ peeping him itvUAMMgtb. H< ott? of an evening*?nofrin ? fcmft ^ ifryi *M7 attain, and aofUipad iigbW mod ?Woty *?*, *pd*&*H# rtWr li laments oC coap^#*I**t**lu flHMVQVttt - fikw ' Aid lato wid rniM win gWj?^w mntatto* w?w?iM?giBi( from his loved avonuo ? Ho sleeps therein and dreBsec therein?it is chilly and firelegs at times?and gets out of it as soon he can. His waking hours fluctuate between the studio or office desk and socioty; but in the rarer eventof his being in a small way a peri son of leisure his time is wholly given to tl^e one ambition of his life. On Sundays you may see l>im before somo stylish church, blandly facing the outcoming congregation, with natty gloves and faultless luppcls, and a figure just gently hinting and underlying corsage, himself pleasing himself, until his smile meets a kindred : mile and two : radiant beings drift along with the cur , rent ot society, saluting and saluted, each cons iousat heart?if they would but take the trouble to think it out? that there is nothing in it, that their intercouse is a sham, a burlesque on the true relation of life. The same couple are not seen together again? this phase of tho society man being eminently impartial in his attention to the sex. Ho cannot lead in any one set, so he must needs move over a limited area in several circles. In this connection another aspect of tho social makeweight's character loom s nip; ho is vain of the largeness of his social acquaintance?his New Year's list is far in the hundreds, with denizens of tho talismanic avenue numerously represented, his ovenings are pre-engaged for weeks < ancau, ana oy ins own showing no man is harder worked than ho or more relioved by the coming of tho Lenten season. He has many acquaintances, : though few friends, and his confidanccs are apt to be with tho other < sox. In fine, as one would describe a ; gem by its facets must at last call it by i its name, so tho specification of an j average second-rate society man must : be reduced to this?that ho is nothing more nor less than what ho is?a Society Makeweight. But one of the saddest thoughts growing out of this examination in the question that must inevitably rise in every thinking mind, what becomes of all the makeweights ? It is analogous to the old query about the pins, and equally incapable of answer. Does ho ever grow old ? Docs he ever marry, and, if so, in what sphere ? Does he ever accomplish any useful purpose in life besides being a gentleman, or something very like it, by virtue of his gentility ? Who ever heard of him as other than a society man ? He and his congeners are numbered among us by thousands; their faces grow familiar to us night after night ill the " German." tliev inm tho Anndft. ' V O my at tho Charity Ball, they fling ocI easional bouquets to the blonde sirens of the stage, and after a decade or so of this sort of thing they are not! They bang on to socioty's skirts for a time, partaking of its dizzy whirl without aiding it, till at length the tired hands relax their bold and the society makeweight drops off into obscurity, perchance that of a careless old-bacherlorhood. of drudgery, perchance that of a growing family and slatternly househould in some suburb with its attendant railway agonicB, perchance a directorship in a life-assuranoe scheme, perch an co into politics. The consolation is that he is never missed. That society for which, in a trnlv tonchintr and nnimftrin?r rlavnt.inn I MoooM o? ami, n*j gnw bin '. plorkwu Hi .?? Hlwiit Mrlj ,i? f (o t wsH In otmi of tbowt i*la| { [ lyteg b?l?w Use tarti of ib? fivor Npv? ?t L flmMiyff lihift' nmmt. L '>?*?* <H* .! ft k^il4 1AM LUft ' WxKwyi |)!t r *' * ; '&.' *'' ' ' ' ' f%ViuiLilXjii 4-V/^V.' i ^llfi I fll ifUff---'^^ : r O r" O **) he has given Tip all, sweeps on its way and sees him no more. Wokdbbtul?The Virginia City Safeguard ia responsible fur the following: 44 We understand that the employee* inthe Bullion incline have about t-oncluded that they are extremely liable to bring up at any moment in a Chinese tea fluid. Heretofore, and all along until within this last day or two, the rock l?? the bottom ol the ifaeliee hat been dry and hot almoin beyond endurance, but now water i? ** , udhig th rough tmatl crevices at the bottom, and moot wonderful of all, a current of air eteapes-at tfce aatne point, with ?rfflci?nt force to lilo# ottt the workmen*!* eaidle il ?* A -? - - -? btlowed 10 come to eootaot with it. The miner* otter ibiok' of going down the too* without being provided *kh alt ibe laie*t mips of Cbin^ m that V they should tirHco through and brtng ap fiiibe i interior of ' tbo Celestial 3&hg46m ib*jr 1 trill WiWt to flod their Wbj baofcto the r seacowt." F -r:- : - : '"*? > ^BiMUiiitt jEbvai^eui ol the <aoat able aod popular iaI tbeJeadera of ?b# Pufob \ national jbovenaoi of 1861-3. disappeared 1- a km paalb* after tbe Iomn ; reotioo broke oaU ^ He be* jn*t found 2 mean* to ooromaaieato viib bn friends*, > ?bo??ft*r fnekh>ge*er>*??t tofindont lit a. e _ 'a *- - ' * The Cotton Crop. ITS PAST, rilESENT, AND FTJTtfRE. The crop of cotton to be raised in tho United States cannot, for at least several years, exceed two and a half j million bales, and for the present year tho indication point to a much smaller | figure. It is an alarming fact that throughout Middle Alabama the planters aro from two to three weoks behind with their work, and tho season is too far advanced for them to remedy this evil. On quite a large number of the plantations no hands have boon employed, and of course no work has been done, while on a majority of them tho number of hands omployed is wholly inadequate to the cultivation of tho lnnrl The freedmen to a very damaging oxtent have thus far refused to contract, and excessive rains have rendered farm work wholly impracticable. Under all circumstances, it would be almost a miracle to see a crop of two million bales this year. In view of the future prospect of cotton as glanced at abovo, it becomes a mattor of serious interost both to the producer and customer to study carefully the question of supplj7 and uemana. xno entire visiblo supply of cotton in the world on the 5th of February, 1869, was 1,300,000 bales. In 1868, it. was 1,500,000, and in 1867 it was 1,700,000. It would seem apparent from the above that while the world has been producing as much cotton as we can hope to produce for at least several years to come, the consumption has been continually gaining upou production, and, as shown above, caused a reduction of stocks to the extent of 400,000 bales in two years. The American crop of 1867, was, say 2,400,000. Admitting that the crop of 1SG8 shows as many bales, (which we hold is an error of 200,000,) the difference in the weight of bales this year and last will rcduce the estimate about 100,00D bales. In 1807 the planter had evory inducement to make heavy bales. In 18G8 the case was reversed, and the crop of 18G8 will sliow a diminished weight of at least thirty pounds per bale. The spinnere at Manchester hold today 120,000 hales less than one year ago. This reduction of their stock has been caused by their persistent refusal to filter the markets for supply, hoping by this means to force down prices; but thus fur they have only succeeded in reducing the price about three-eights of a penny from the highest point. The receipts at the United States ports for the month of February show a falling off, as compared with last year, of, s^y 110,000, and this disparity will continue. *So we naturally conclude the entire stocks now held in American ports, added to receipts yet to como in, will not give an aggregate supply of American cotton of 900,000 bales for the remainder of the year. "We exported last year, Bay 1,650,090 bales. Thus far, this year, we have exported, say 850,000. If wo furnish to Europo this year as much as last, we will have left for American ? 1.^ At ^AA AAA L -1 - opiuuwrn i?bs iuna iuu,uuu oaies. . From the most reliable statistics, we think the consumption by American mills this year will reach at least 1,100,000 bale of which not jnore than 600,000 bales have been taken by them. iwwifi?wK? v* uiv (union ecuro 9Mi li tbmis true, end the American spinners take 600,000 needed by them, wo will have but about 350,000 bales for export, (having 60,000 bales for stock,) thus leaving us short in our export this year as compared with last, about 450,000 bales. This, too, in the face of the fact that while we exported last year, say 460,000 bales more than we possibly can this year, the stock In Liverpool was reduced last year about 100,000 bates), showing that our exports of 1,660,000 bales tasty ear word, to that fexteht, insufficient to theet the demand,? Jt is not elalmvd by any one I that the receipts this yevr from India,, ] Braeil, ttgypt,df elsewhere, will be fxa excees of last yea*; vrhfla from AaerIda the Satopttktt r?cdpU wttl {tertein* Iy be leas by 400,000 bales. Jo making tW ?Wr? Audi' nggMtionjv w.0 wwitaWp as* t&?*< of otxr c*tcu!atloM the . Jxjpalat Ida* sras ally reoelvea a* authority, , Uflf owb sellora. The present material falling off in receipts at that port indicates unmistably an exhaustion of supply. ' Tho receipts up to date, including overland shipments direct to manufacturers, amount to, say 1,900,000 bales. In 1867 tho receipts after this date t were about about 300,000 bales. The , receipts for tho past throe weeks have j fallon off about 20,000 bales, as com* ] pared with the corresponding period of 1867. We take the year 1867 as a criterion, for the reason that we are 1 this year at least three weoks ahead i of laBt year in receipts and hence a i comparison will not hold. The continued wet weather has faciliuted the shipments of cotton, while it has retarded labor npon the plantations. All things considered, we are fully convinced that the estimates of the crop of 1868 are greatly above the mprk, and that 2,200,000 will cover tho crops. One other idea, and wo will leave practical men to draw their own conclusions. At present prices there will hp npor 900 OOO Kalno ImW > tho planters, against, say 42,000 last year, thus reducing the snpply to that extent.?Stlma Times. ^ m GRANT IN A CORNER. ' Don Piatt," the graphic correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial, in his letter of the 4th, draws the following pen portrait of President Grant: While depositing my ticket, yesterday, in the :ngeniously arranged box of the P street ears, I* was actually startled, on looking down, to see quietly seated in the corner our President elect. The car was comfortably full, and yet no more notice was taken - /? aL - ? - - /%*? ? - ui inu man wno now mis onr tnougnis 1 than if ho were a Bi*evot Brigadier General, a common Congressman or the proprietor of a hotel. Here's genuine democracy thought I to myself, as I settled on the opposite seat and indulged in a healthy stare at the knobbj', square heard, and solemn face before me. I was having an interview and one about as satisfactory as anybody can have with this man, who Bmokcs and says nothing. Certainly General Grant, without intending it, has managed to make himself the centre of more thought, anxiety and curioBity than any man since the day when Weston walked from Portland to Chicago. no is a little man, so far as statnro goes and his face is so marked?I may sav so fixed?in its exnrftRnmn. that. . the widely spread photographs and engravings make it familiar to every ( one. I looked at his straight cat, ( firm Bot mouth, made tip of bloodless , lips, with no spare adipose, and his t email dull eyes, that make one think ^ of a smoldering fire and thought, I ( read the attributes that had marked ( his private life, and made his public 1 career famous. They were those of a j man who could endure poverty with ^ dogged firmness, even if it drove hira j to selling cord wood,' by the wagon 1 load, or pickling hides, with his own ( hands, in a cellar; and could enable kirn -J 1- - Wf.. uiui kv uuc uumuvvu, turuugll A >V IIdera088 that writhed with mangled j humanity, in an atmosphere poisoned by the an buried doad. I have heard lions roar in my time, . as it has been my good fortune to be i near enough to some of tho greatest intellects of the day to study their j outer seeming, and make out for myself the sort of frame work nature and 1 thought fashion for the master mind. ( I found myself driven to the conclas- { ion that I had a man before me that could do (rreat things without baintt! great himself, and work to a swift! conclusion the event# he made a part: of. Stanton saw the taming point in the fbrtunoe of the Confederacy, and crowded on men uqtll it &U through j* exhaustion. Grant's indonutahlewill ami cold courage crowded them to the cannon's mouth, and rode him into popular ftvojr in the victory. ~ Bot i Stan ton,was ftlt and recognised at all' timev and under all circumstances. Without Stanton, and' without war, : Grant would be the uuknown taaxrer in Illinois. ,v>Whllel #as thaa speculating, a gentlemsn-*"y<mn^'aadanthssiMrtip "-taw MWMVMJ. VMMM IMMip" I 'fK^oUdifc ttd ffflimdiitilT M M(??d ;# { Ul'??||ft?-,8l jMMttftf, bitoMlf fcy tW President elfeot, end i opened an eernett oonveiWtgii ui thnt l - i; *k*nHim4k tried to ttrten. He WU m o?l.n,?i J cowfrifc^qflUMBfchlt mpofefr tng>mfce*&t dtyjTVpond, in moooaylUJbtfe ;K?&Wt4*i*?ted? the yonng.j divine oontinuecL- 1 mv the brow W\ tjie ?M MUte rftuer in hU^ee. i^iiy^ ijiJiHliir fwriiit in nnlUilT I 0?. bdv w4. ^WIWS'JbrS? GOOD LMN& It is a maxim in Paris, that ono who invents a now dink deserves a title. It comes from tlio idea that both health I and pleasure aro consulted in minis- 1 toring to the taste. Whoro is the use of the palate if it were not intended in the economy of nature, that it should be utilized in a rational enjoyment of what is delicious, rather than what nuo uuiiuiuiuuiuu u_) uuu UI OIU US "common and unclean ?" ThoDivine command, however, is authority against the speciality in folly of vege- , tariance, &c. It is sometimes flaid in disparagement of good livers, that they " live to eat;" while men who make famous ( mark day by day in professional or business life, " eat to live" The phrases are more nearly convertible than they would first seem. Good, rich, and nourishing food is now recognized as tho best of restoratives for persons who are exhausted by labor?intellectual merely, 01 physical Dr both combined?or by care or ill health. Scientific theory has it, that tho " bread, beef, and beer" of John Bull has given him that average of 1 9u|;unvi punctual puwor uver pcopie af other nations that is nn established fact under a multitude of tests. Wellington always counted upon it in reipect not ouly to required service in an sntire campaign, but in hand to hand encounters. At the battle of Waterloo he spoke admiringly of the handling of the bayonet by the British for n short moment at a certain point of tho great fight. The day is gone past when men cdh felicitate themselves with the idea that it is a merit to pack their stomachs in baste, as they would a trunk, " with almost anything." A low habit of living, without healthful stimulative tooa or armK, as Deer, light wines, tea, md coffee, accompanied by protracted and intense labor of mind and body, theoDeorthe other, or both, is the congenial state of preparation for dis* eases in the form of malignant humors, of low and putrid fevers, of roughs and colds, of premature rheumatic affections, Ac. On the other hand, the man of labor who lives gonijrously, besides having the temporary snjoyment of good eating, has length Df days and comparative excellent health. The habitual fox hunting gentlemen 1 5f England, who are so often all the lay in the saddle, are distinguished for great longevity. Those of mere leisure, who in the end suffer fVom gout, live long to have it. A physi- < uian of this city recently congratulat- i ed a friend on the shady side of life, who had his first attack of gout, say ing i tttat it was a sign of lODg life. A did- i tinguished modical authority of Loo- I ion was mentioned, who had written i & treatise in which he asserted that the increasing mortality was caused i by a low habit of life, an.^ that the* < forefathers of the present generation i arrived at great age from high living, i though in the end gout might have onsued. j The golden mean is the true rule, i [f a man dejprives himself all through < Life of what taste covets to a rational extent, it is a life of penance. Hun- i ger is the best sauce, as* appetite is I what tests the quantity that is needed < for the nourishment of the system. i Intense brain labor calls for much I food to strengthen the vital fhnctions. i It is said, upon highest authority,that i three or four hours of such work moro i exhausts the system of what chetnically 1b part and parcel of it, and of nerve-poyrer, than more than doable that number of hoars of routine bandwork, which makes little ccills upon mental faculties. ' If it be said that laborers are obliged to Hrtf on plalnfbodj'Wbicbthey of oearse eat with relish'; accompanying it invaribTy in* Barbpe with light wines, or* beer, drank as oar laborintr classes drlnktea aftd coffee, which' are deoidedstimtahttits, (tea in strong form of prefmraftohtotag ro to a large' exifitxt, as WeB as fety nourishing,) ntfll it eannot iaid thai ?tush elasseaare ' loftg-ttvad/*:'F*1 yrA *'A~ >:i - ' That "difceatlontflay wait on appetite," there mttst be Tt?t after eating. Henee tfce %j>le^?tftrlral11y among WfeorWf ?Ownd?y%tOl**e an hoar at dfeitfcv Hews, akevoopTl vial lata W?p? d^otat^a tes^aKsfflss easaathat is the organ whlchls perahown in the case* #wm*& fraatacttefr not qnIta,, atopa - V/' ' ' .'si1' ,4s; ,.,Jii'vfciie' : rA- j,'ifcjtAiiii AVii: iitl rich, in tho multitudinous forms that aro in themselves a wonder and a study to the thoughtful, give employment and support to artisans and laborors without numbor, some of whom, by superior skill and more persistent application, outstrip the rest, and coino to consideration in tho higher ranks of society. How Superphosphate is Made. Hon. Simon Brown, in bin lecture before the Agriiritltutal Convention a: Manol'eslvr on, " Artificial Fertilizer*," aaid superplm*. phate of lima waa made iu the following manner: Bone* are collected from every possible souiVe?hoy8 and girUga'her them iu the utreet of cities; butchers and provision deal i-ra 8uvo thftn , men. traverse the country with homes and wngima picking up from house to home every pound they uan get, while vehBels bring them in largo quantities from wherever tbey can he found. These hones a>o in a raw condition, uot having b? en used by Roap boilers, or in any olh?r wny to lessen their value. VVben collected and thrown into heaps under the cover, each examined, and all such are suitable to be used in the arts are laid a*ida lor turners cutters, &o., to be used for knobs, handles nt knives, canes and unbrellas, ?nd the mailer pieces to be tnn'le into buuunit Such as are not fit to be used in the arts are thrown into iron restnrts, eHch holding two b-irrela. The covers ot these retort-j are fnted so exactly that they are nearly or aoilA air licrlit. Wh?n ilm? i --- a ? ihev are let down into n furniture where the whole mans soon acquires a white heat; but ttu nir being ailmiuei, no flame lakes pla,cf in the bone*. In this intense beat all the animal mat I era, the gelatin**, .oils, ammonia, &i-., are driven off, and io the form >f ileum pa*s*lhroQgh a pipe to a resertior prepared for it in a remote part of the build ii:g. The pipe through which they pass IA iinmeiir'd ill Colrl ?m?r ?n thai th? oil and gelatine leave it in a thickened 8>ru4, and most highly charged -rith the pungent acnraoui*. Careful experiment h?vir.g tnuglit the workmen how long to allow the retorts to remain in the furnace, when that time ha* expired, th.-y are taken out set upon an iron wheelbarrow and trundled - ?... ?i_j cc qvrajr IU UD UUUiCU >^U? The bones are now re-lured to wli?t i.i called bonubbick, or animal chaicoal. Thi* is extensively uned in refining sugar. They ore of a shining bia k color, brittle and can be ea>?ily anil remlilj; ground, not iato flour, but into quite small particles. Two bairela ol this ground l>one are then epre&d on the bottom of a wooden vat. Four gallons of the liquid that ran out of the retort are then thrown upno it, and the whole thoroughly stirred. When lite roam ia guffiuiently mixed, frntu fifty to MXty pounds o? sulphuii? acid are added Boa n?ngiej. a powerful ebullition, or boiling, takes place which continues sev?ral minute*, during which time the workmen keep the wli*>lu roa-s in motion. When it mbsides the article ha* Income what is culled superphosphate of lime. Ii is ihen dried, packed and ready for ma?kef. By this process nothing that the bone original ly contained i? lix?t, although it ha* under gone important chemical chang?3. Such ia the manoer in wbi -h superphosphate ia obtained. ' Let u* apply it to the cmp?. It ia oot equally adapted to all pkmta. On Bll the Brascica family, including the eab bage, 8wedish turnip, ommnon Ant turuip, uauliflwwer, broccoli, i'a influence is usually striking and profitable. Tbe leaves 01 toe plant* grow larger arid thicker and ns-ume a dnrker green than I aver teen them under the influence of any olhe feniliser. It is also Ottefol to U-etc, omhgoldf, pea* and beans, and all other *>f the field and gttrdro crop-. lamm 8hocld rkad niwbpapebc.? It it a great ic female educatiuo i?? keep a young lady's time and attention devoted to only finbiouabje literature of the day. If you'Would qualify ber for oonverutioo, you rpoit give ber eomeihing to talk abouU-give ber education witb tbe aelua! world, wilb tbe outer world, tod <t? tra expiring event*. Urge .her. to read eweDaDet* and become Amlliar witb tbe present character and impruvetta*at,of our raeHL Htftory is o? mom? imp>ruaee* but ojar tfaoogbi* and cur oouc?fo? aboula be mainly (of tb* preheat uw??lo know what U b and improve the condition of U., I*t bar batre ,ap intelligent opinion, and be able, ,J$ ^oalafo inttitygeat co<ir Croatian concerning the mental, moral and rejiglotn impro??TOyt'la of ourtfuoe. ,Iuji ibe gilded atttuwUaod poem* on, the centra table he Ni* CO*?W> witb ^bljr ** j ittrtt-t "irj cdi v* 5iiioo'*v a .* tliMt lull mmmdXm it i iM ' th?> i #1^ ;tUi# afflhtMi ' ilk <aotiiii?uu4): :p?*l id i ^ifcif It tMlifniiihrtii1i tuR?#u *Ug?g$ ^ oily f?fcd ^ UK'fce r^il 4MMRtaMil9'^)Hkl^'{ilMAtfr*? finirlol - initltt . ,-friy'iirif^ "iTiV.^iiitfkr: . Prospects for the Farmer. While the rescaches of the miner In th?? "strong box ' on our' Western coast ( romiite* nmrveU of wealth to th?<'0Un, try, and fortune* to the enterprising miuwr ; w? feel cotifl'lvni tint, the outlook for t>ac 0-*? to llir> farmer was never bo fluttering an it is 8t present. The market g?iod an it is now. is ?leMin??l to te bolter in ilie future for all kind* of produce that come, directly, front the lartu. The general principle on which we base this opinion it the fact ' thai the mcrnfl&e of production of the tieCfrt8tirK;8 ot lift) u not iu the sauie ratio aa the iticre ise of consumers in this country. ' The demand is nU 'the time rui ning far- ' titer and furl tier abend ??f the supply. By next year with average suci-ees in ng> icttltura nil round, il will l?e itupo.-oihle to ' glut the market with any clans of produce. This will be mure emphatica! y true if the South makes a fair cotton crop Bui she * I will make a good crop. ContingencieH are ' gone by on that que tto", except those of a remiuktble character, ?>urh as extreme drouth, insect* caterpillars, or something ot that sort. But ?nt-rgellc labor and ju du-ioiii* culture of cotton are not going to be disappointed any more than tbe name mean* will niterly fail o( reward in raising corn in Illinois. These measures are being adopted to to an extent u?*Ter before known. The ptimvpnl adverii<emeiitu in Southern papers tins Spring art-of phosphate*, guano and other fertilizer*, showing that a revolution it* tukiDg place in the met bods of cqI* ton culture. Success will result. The efft-ct ot this will be h powerful stimulus of the corn and pork markets insuring good prices whatever tbe crop may b*. It H w? II known that the products of the . dairy are becoming continually tuoro scarce and higher in price. The price of butter appreciates from year to year and reliable ataiiai i<v? kntlinrt? ih? VMV |/iQl?IWHUIi Ul UUV ter fatuiDo in thi* count rv to the extern of vxcleding it from the table of the pour on account of its oust. .On the other hand, the custom of eating otieeae in rapidly incruabing at home, while the foreign de mand ha?never been supplied and is not likely to be. Thus notwithstanding the late multiplication ot cheese lactone* and i couatqueut increase of production, the < npply does not inciome as fast as the de- j tuand. I Meats are becoming an inaccesxible lnx- > ury in our cities in ilie E.i.^t, iiud no man ' can show leauu why ihey should not be 1 dearer next than they are this, except through the effect ol fiml changes wbicli i are only noaiina! aud not real as tei-pecta i ihe value ??1 market products. Mutton i had l>eeu uncommonly nbu idriQt tlih' win ; ter. But it h*a been ^ season of exiei- ] luinaling slaughter of sheep wbicli ?ill be I repealed u*xt year, we will guarantee. < Sheep are said to be worth now four | limes what thev sold for in Ohio !*?? Full So we might. *puak of tbo fruit nia'-fre*, 1 which i? never hufdeurd with good truit ' We do not believe it possible, iheretoo, | for ibe iDMrk?i for the farm products to be < depreued by iru-au* ol an overproduction ] lor 8ouie year* to .^ouie; certninly Dot l until increased pr? fits shall h?v? drrfwu m I new and lar?je ol?*s into farming. Tliut J cannot be suddenly effected, a* in trad* I Hence we are confident that the nm five I years will be tb? beat year* ever yet Men 1 for tanuera, unless ifaey noffer failure- * arising from natural causes.?Lafayette \ (Ind.) Journal. ] u -tv. ( TT / tii ' 3 Use o* Lkmoh* ?When pcrnon* nre t ?e??ri*h and thinly bfjoad w?ut w aat- J ural, iudicnted iq *t>me ca?a? bv a m?i?U j ho tRBte io ilia moaib, especially ufur f dtiukinir wti?r. a? Kv 1 whmi.li - anea of lh<) greater part of tbe turkee oI ] tbe tongue, ou? ?f the uoooler?" i? to takw \ * teuton, cat off the top, ?priokte over it- * tome k?gt eagar, working H down ioio j the Iruiop trjtu * ?po*>n, and tben tucking j U slowljr, *qu*?vug Uie lemou ?mi. j mora aiig*rt mi tbo aridity. juereaae fr?a) | being Qroaght pp iwfc? ?.i to**, point* ( Invalid* with fevemteniMi nsjr t?k# iv? l| or three leirwm* aday to tbu fMlaf wttli. . the inaal marked by a . >en^bl ooolii^N,cu4Q<brt ?nd ftmgoraiiob. . A ltunoa or t?o Uitw ukmJ at Mlea time" U au ftpurfaoba^atofrf lbe ?f0roar* al* 4 pec giro ap??Dt* 4 for bntklwfcto T^lf. , ?bo MU4iM?tbilr ?Vof t4?4r:?*w?r :< : of'irei?8b/'-ftikd cak?, ?tid !> rticft. wwi P?M$JM, ami thaton*~?U& * - J*Mmat W . iiiflfi ip V*1 '?-?" * t'*w**'*] f' I?7>J j vq'mi <-'v3 . *?* j ; $* :&*** i l^k'flO|M(|i#|l|^r.|^4M I ( Tbw | ?It$iS^SLfc s trottbU. t g . , >; >; ; t'/'i:*) 1 ' \ " * ? ???y ECCLESIASTICAL STATISTICS. - , The following statement of the. , numbers of the different churches in the Unitod States has been gathered from the American JScrletiavdcul and Educational Altnanuc for 1869, by Professor Alexander J. Schom. It ap pears to have been prepared with care, and perhaps, as nearly accarate as a report of their numerical strength, as tan be made from their records. "We copy from the New York Methodist : The Unitod States contain apopula* tion of 34,560,000, of whom 27,000,000 are Protestants, 5,000,000 Roman Catholics and 10,000 (iu Alaska) of the Greek Church. Of Prn4ootnnf /"M* W . * . vvvmVMH I* VilllOU?UD| tuu upincopnliuns have 43 dioceses, 47 bishops, 2,736 ministers, 2,472 parishes and 194,692 communicants. The Presbyterians of the United States are divided into ten bodies. The Old School Presbyterians have 142 presbyteries, 2,737 churches, 2,330 ministers, 223 licentiates and 262,&5G> communicants. The New School Presbyterians hove 111 presbyteries, .1,590 churches, 1,800 ministers, 121 licentiates, 290 candidates for the mjpistry, 168,932 communicants. The United Presbyterians have 64 presbyteries, 401 pastors and 65,612 members. The Presbyterian Church (South) has 48 presbyteries, 7&> ministers, 61 licentiates, 93 candidates, 7,299 churches and 70,949 communicant*. The Cumberland Presbyterians bavft99 preBbyterieB, 1,500 ministers aodk 130,000 communicants. The Reformed Presbyterian Churctk (Old School) has 77 pastors and 8,487 comn.unicantS. * a The Associate -Synod of Nortlj America consists of 4 presbyteries, 13 ministers, 40 congregation* and 1,091 members. r .. The Associate Reformed Synod of New York consists of46 ministers and 1,631 members. v ?. "The Associate Reformed Presbyte man Pln.~>V. /On-?I.\ 1 or> ?- ' * vuiuvu ^uuuiiuJ una wo uiu 181619 ^members not given,) and, the B#* rormed Presbyterian Synod has 63. ministers and 6,821 members?making in aggregate of 7,053 ministers and r04,778 members of the Presbyterian, churches. v '' There are ten Methodist bodies ih the United States. The Methodifct Episcopal Chnrch has 8,481 tra*SHtJg preachers of whom 491 are sopeniD merary, 860 are snporannaa'/ed) 9,899 local preachers and 1,255,115, members, of whom 194.860 are probationary. The Methodi?t EpisoopalCbsyrch [South) . contains'. 2,581 traveling preachers, 8,952 local preachers and S35,040 members and probationer*. The Methodist Prntnlitftnt f!knw?V. Tiiia ibout 72,000 members. The Hethoiist Church has 624 traveling fod 444 oc'al preachers, with about 50^000 nembers. The Weslejluf Coatuttfon baa abOQt 15,000 members. The Bvangelinai Association hasfcOfljttineriat preachers,-sad 64,814 members rod probationers. .' The African , Hethodist -Epi^oopal.CharsJ* 3Pa*i*ta rf 600 traveling preachers ftn<t?0fl,000 ncmbere. That AftrfoUK, Mt*hotii?t Episcopal Zkm Chnrcbchaa 6ft4pr*$$hjrs and 164,000 members Xhe#5eo aetnoaiat vmarooet prftaoiwrs uid about?,000 DMOftbe*.- JHw JNfrative Methodists h**e ?bout^0>ravjelng prottCbwrs aad S^OOO msiabsafc? ooting upfbrali 4Wiffeasi4&H$t^oItem, bari>?rt>gMM*d, 13,694 traveling mtoifettisaad ^,3^3,W8BL&aiHn. ' u* H+? kitjm&i %^r>j The Begnfl*B*ptlK*!atl*i United hton>-6jk*minmt*mi*i m*. 206 members. The Ifoe-Wtt&gitits lave 1/161 ai ilainsd prcachers and ieooBabiatiooa gintotcra and 1WM* weiftbM8?g-^nfe ioaw8>l><ht|<>a v?^wsswKe^ The Sernaa E*flj?p?#43Bw^ eonben. twfcu r?hfcP^fcdi-iii mm ii^iii ? . '#' ' Midmsi*Qi &fcv Vt'ii'-i^ "Ii f"W'Vft YiV f Ti i' V&yhVr" - ^ ?>i^ < .^^^^.i-'.v'/ .r.V.i