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PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
VOL. I.
Oalr tew tiu River.
There’s a beautiful land where the angels
dwell,
And onr loved ones are garnered forever,
Where songs of deliverance in fall anthems
swell,
Where sorrows ne’er come, their joys to dis
pel ;
It is only across the river.
There’s a heavenly rest, a home of delight,
Where sin and where death come never;
The Holy of Holies, where saints, clothed in
white,
Bejoise in the goodness of God, day and
night;
It is only across the river.
There are mansions prepared /or the holy and
pure,
When from earth, death their spirits shall
sever, >
When those who in Christ to the end, shall en
dure,
• Shall dwell in His presence forever secure ;
It is only across the river.
There's a rohp and a crown in that beantifnl
land,
Which Jesus, the glorious giver,
Shall bestow upon those who'are worthy to
stand,
When probation is past, at the Father’s right
hand,
It is only across the river.
Then we’ll fear net the gloom that hides the
bright shore,
For Christ shall be there to deliver,
And guide us in safety, though billowa may
roar,
By the light of His love, the dark waters
o’er;
It is only across the river.
OUACE ITAJttXY’I BECiaiOH.
“ I dare say, Gracie, yon have by this
time, made up your mind as to what you
propose doing ?” said Mrs. Manning, in a
half doubtiul manner, gliding into her
neice’s chamber and furtively casting her
eyes over its rich and delicate appoint
ments.
“Yes, auntie, f believe I have,” re
turned the young girl, looking up hastily
irom a just-finished note on her escritoire,
and rising to offer some courtesy to her
aunt.
“And pray what is iti” said Mrs.
Manning, peering searchingly into the
tender blue eyes of her neice, and evoking
from her a treacherous blush. “ You have,
at least, taken long enough to come to a
conclusion.”
Grace turned away to avoid the gaze of
Mrs. Manning, and a happy couplet recur
ring to her memory, she smiled pleasantly
under the deepening blush, and gaily sang: j
“ And of the choice who can doubt.
Of tents with love or thrones without.”
A frown usurped the questioning ex
pression on Mrs. Manning’s countenance,
and, reddening with anger, she said :
“ And so lam answered ?” “ You will
marry Osear Howard ?”
“That is my intention, aunt,” said
Grace, firmly.
“ And will throw away all chances for
an alliance with William Duncan ?”
“Without doubt, auntie.”
“ And per consequence ” said Mrs.
Manning, a cold, sarcastic sneer distorting
the symmetry of her beautiful lips.
But Grace would not allow her aunt to
finish her • sentence.
“Must arrange at once to seek other
shelter than my uncle’s roof. I feel—l
know this.”
For a moment a look of tenderness
sweyt over the face of the fashionable,
world-loving woman. A sudden rush of
recollection brought before her the deathr
bed of her only sister, and the words with
which she committed to her the charge of
her only child—a little cherub of two
years, that hid its flaxen ringlets on
auntie’s bosom, and wept herself sick
when they shut up pretty mamma in the
box.
All the winning gracefulness, all the
tender affection of this child’s childhood
and youth came up before her heart’s
vision, and she doubted whether her own
conscience would justify her, or whether
her own happiness would be materially
increased by proceeding harshly against
her neice. But the world came in with
its cruel cynicism; she had never loved,
herself; but she was rich and evied, and
to place her penniless niece in the
position, would, in her estimation, be ful
filling all the requirements of her adop
tion.
And then the voice of her dying sister
stole up like broken chords ot sweet
music, through her soul:
“If my little girl should live to be a
women, do not force her heart, Emily.
Do not let her be sacrificed in marriage to
any consideration, but the holy one, which
should rule in the bridal. I married a
poor man—ray family discarded me for it
—but I was happy; and now lam going
to meet the husband of my love, where
marriage is eternal.”
The brown, fringed lids closed over the
violet eyes, the pale lips murmured:
“ Lord, Jesus, receive—my—spirit.”
A seraphic brightness flashed over the
Kale face, and the spirit of Marian Stan*
>y had joined its love.
Mrs. Manning remembered all this, and,
closing her "eyes against her rebellious
niece fora few moments, sat holding com
munion with her own sonl. It was over.
She got up and, without a word, left the
room, returning almost immediately.
“if it must be,” she said, oooly,
‘'hasten your preparations,” laying before
her niece a well-filled porteuonnaie.
“Thank you, aunt,” said Grace, decid
edly; returning the pocket-book to her
aunt, “ I shall not need the contents of
this. In the station that I shall fill, as the
wife of a merchant's clerk, I shall not
need a costly wardrobe, aud it yon will
permit, what I have already will answer
all my purposes. Under the circum
stances, I cannot think of accepting a sin
gle dollar from yon.”
“ Grace Stanley,” said Mrs. Manning,
sharply, “what will the world say of met”
“ Nothing, aunt, but that your niece
w as ungrateful, disobedient and rebellious
—neither of which, thank God, she is—
and deserved expulsion from your roof,
with all the penalties that attach to self
will and waywardness.” .
La tba meantime she had domed her
doak and bonnet, and taking the note to
Panton, in which she had told him of her
intention to marry another, she bent over
and, kissing her aunt’s forehead, rushed
down stairs and was soon en route to the
store in which Oscar Howard was em
ployed.
On the street she met William Dan ton,
who drove up in a flashing phaeton, drawn
by a pair of sleek, dappled bays, that
seemed to scorn the earth upon which
their dainty feet rested. Beside him sat
a well-kept, liveried coachman, while all
the appointments of the equipage evinced
net only the wealth, bat good taste of the
owner.
But about him there was an air of reck
lessness and insouciance against which the
pure soul of Grace Stanley revolted.
Driving up to the pavement, he leaped
from his seat and stood beside her.
“ OL, dear, how lucky!” be exclaimed.
“I was just going up to take you out, but
.Ah! I see. You are not dressed
:for a drive,” casting his fastidious eyes
doWn upon her plain street dress, “and,
upon my soul, 1 couldn’t think of taking
you out without a chance of better dis
play than this,” laying his hand upon her
modest,” neutral-tinted cloak, and glancing
np at her equally negative hat. “But,.
Grace,” he took occasion to wisper, “I
did very much wish to see you this morn
ing. It is getting time that we should
come t 6 some sort of a decision in our
off,airc de cceur. The old governor says I
must get married; go to the Sandwich
Islands; do something—stop this lazy
dog’s life. lam spending to much of his
money,” etc.
He laughed, and, forgetting where he
was, caught up Grace’s baud, much to her
disgust. With an effort she withdrew it.
and as calmly aa possible.
“Thanks,” she said, “Mr. Danton.
Were I ever so appropriately dressed, I
could not drive out with you this after
noon ; and as to our affair de cceur , you
will have a note from me to-morrow that
will define my position. 1 have put one
in the post since coming out. I wish you
a pleasant drive. Good-bye!”
And releasing her hand, she threw a
thick veil over her faoe, and walked ra
pidly until she reached the store, When
she entered, she sent to Oscar Howard a
notice at once of her presence; but be
being busy, she sat beside one of the
counters until he could come to her.
During this time she was busy with
thought. He whole life had been sur
rounded with luxury, hut nevertheless it
was one of dependence. Would she be
less dependent by giving np the luxury to
which she had been accustomed to, be
cause the wife of a man wholly depen
dent upon his salary as a merchant’s clerk?
“Yes,” she answered to herself; “a
wife should be a help and not an incum
brance to her husband, and a helpmate I
am resolved to beand a look of smiling
resolve overspread her features, as Oscar
Howard approaching recalled her from
her abstraction.
“ What has brought you here this after
noon, Grace ?” he said tenderly, his quick
intution not failing to note something un
usual in her manner.
“ Are you ready, Oscar, to be married?”
she asked, in a wisper.
“ Not exactly, dearest,” lie wispered.
“ I have been trying to summon courage
to ask of Mr. Lacy an increase of salary
in prospect; I wish to make yon as com
fortable as possible.” •
“We must get married at once,” she
said, firmly, “without regard to your
salary,!^.
“ Wt®; 9 ’ he answered, in return, “ to
morrow, if need be,” feeling that she had
been impelled to her course by some un
questionable motive.
“Then to-morrow evening, at seven
o’clock, at Church, let it be, Bring
some of your friends as witnesses, and
with a single female friend, I shall meet
you. Do not fail.”
She extended her hand to him across
the counter,’ drew her veil over her face,
and with tears of mingled emotions brim
ming her eyes, she passed out of the store,
and hastened her steps to the honse of
her friend, to engage her services.
From this interview, Oscar Howard
retired to tbe private office of bis em
ployer. He was pale and agitated; and
thinking the excellent young man was
21, Mr. Lacy sprang up from his seat
at his desk to offer him a glass of iced
water. Declining the courtesy and
taking the seat indicated by Mr. Lacy,
Howard said: -
*• I have come to speak to you upon
some very important business. I am
about to be married, sir, and ”
* “Alt,” said his employer; “and ”
“I most make bold to ask a small in
crease of my wages.”
Mr. Lacy’s voice assunr and a tone of
calmness.
“Have you never saved anything from
your salary, Mr. Howard?”
“Not until tbe last six months, sir.
Up to that time I supported my invalid
mother. Sjnce her death, I have man*
aged to save one-half every month. ”
“Indeed! I did not know you had a
mother.”
“Yes, sir; and, could my individual
wiah have been conaidered only, I would
have kept her here for all time. But
she was a terrible sufferer, and her re
lease, though it left my life very deso
late, gave me a measure of comfort.”
“Ana who ore you to marry?”
“Miss Stanley.”
“Not the niece of Manning, the ban
ker?”
“The same, sir.”
“How is this, Howard?”
“I love her, and she lores me. That
is all, Mr. Lacy.”
“And will not Manning do something
for his nieee?”
“Nothing, sir, if she married me.”
“She oeuld not marry a more worthy
fellow.” •
Thanks, Mr. Lacy; but sbe might
marry a very much richer one.”
“And who is that?”
“William Danton.”
“Yes.l see; the son of Manning’s part
ner. He has money, position, good
looks—everything; this is passing
strange.”
“I am inclined to think so myself, Mr.
Lacy.”
“And you think your salary is not
sufficient to support a wife brought up
in the manner In which Miss Stanley was
reared? I fear, Howard, you have made
a mistake.”
“1 have no fear, sir,” said the young
man, confidently. “Grace Stanley is
made of the material of which every true
woman should be made; and, in her ac
ceptance of me, she is fully acquainted
with my situation and prospects in life.
Yet X should like to surprise her with a
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1872;
few more comforts than she has reason
to expect”
“You are invaluable to me, Howard,”
said Mr. Lacy, “and without this incen
tive I should have doubled your salary
in the Spring. Two months in advance
cannot break me. Consider that settled,
then,from this time,and God blete you.”
Mr. Lacy shook Howard’s hapd and
bowed him ont.
*******
In the dimly lighted church—while
almost all the city sat around their nuts
and wine at weil-fil’ed boards—Grace
Stanley’s was a solemn, and scarcely a
cheerful wedding. Yet there was no
trace of sadness upon the young bride’s
countenance—only the pure and holy
emotion which should fill a heart re
nounced to another; while in Oscar
Howard’s smile when the few friends
around offered their congratulations,
there was the triumph of happiness.
It was something like a nine day’s
wonder among the fashionable friends
when the announcement was made
through the city papers, and some re
fused positively to credit the rumor.
‘ Impossible!” said one and another—
maneuvering mammas, women of the
world, marriageable daughters, and as
tute fortune hunters. “Mrs. Manning
is far too sagacious for a thing of that
kind to happen within the range of her
power. As long as Mr. Manning knows
the value of money, and has any regard
for social position, such a marriage
could never take place from his house.”
“Perhaps they wished to get rid of
her ; she was only an orphan niece,’’
said a lady in whose bosom was a very
small share of human kindness.
“But an adopted child,” said a listen
er. “From Mr. Manning’s own lips I
have heard lie intended to make her his
heir.”
“And yonng Danton was said to be a
suitor.”
“Very incomprehensible—very!” said
an old society hanger-on around drawing
rooms of the rich.
And so went the gossip of Grace Stan
ley’s quondam friends, while she busied
herself in turning to advantage all the
simple appointments of her contrasted
and contracted apartments on the third
floor if a plain but genteel boarding
house.
At the displeasure of her adopted
parents she was deeply grieved: but
aside from this, little recked she what
the babbling world outside babbled
about. She was happy in Oscar How
ard’s love; she was contented with her
simple manner of living; and days passed
into weeks, and weeks into months, and
months into years, with no diminution
to her contentment, no diminution to
her happiness.
Bat not long was Oscar Howard’s a
very much “pent up Utica.” With his
doubled salary be found at the end of
the first six months after marriage, he
had no petty sum laid by in the savings
bank.
At tbe end of one year they were en
abled to exchange their single third
floor back room in tbeir boarding house
for a cosy suburban cottage. The next
exchange by virtue of the young “ olive
branches” that were springing up around
their board, was to a suburban cottage
more commodious.
A few judicious outside investments
had much increased young man’s
finances; and when physical and mental
affliction had rendered business burden
some to Mr. Lacy, he offered a partner
ship to his chief clerk, which in a short
time became an equal one, and the firm
of Lacy k Howard had the name of one
of the strongest in the city.
By this time a great financial crisis
was making gigantic strides toward the
very heart of the money market. Men
looked pale and anxious, shook their
heads doubtfully, and gloomily watched
the cloud that continued to spread and
blacken the financial firmament, until it
stood directly over the great money
mart, enveloping thousands in its sombre
pall.
“They say that the honse of Manning
& Danton, too, is likely to go down in
the vortex,” said one to another, care
lessly, as Grace Howard stood on the
curb stone before her door, awaiting the
coming of her carriage around the cor
ner. She had then a home in one of
the principal avenues of the city—her
husband's duties not allowing a resi
dence more remote.
“It cannot be,” said the other. “That
is one of the most reliable houses on the
street.”
“But has befen rained by the reckless
ness of the youngest partner. You will
remember tbe firm is now Manning,
Danton & Son. It has been only twelve
months since Danton, Jr. has been one
of the firm; but they tell me be has not
only squandered money most fearfully
in all specios of dissipation, but he has
made injudiciousjnvestments; and more,
is strongly suspected of fraud in more
than a single instance.”
“1 am sorry for tbe sake of Manning,
that this is so. He is an old man, and,
I believe, an honest man."
“Yet they say his house cannot sur
vive another day’s run upon it.”
“Terrible!” exclaimed the listener.
“Can’t they get help?”
“Not with William Dantpn’s fingers
in their money bags.”
“Terrible!” again exclaimed the sec
ond man, and shaking bands, one went
up and the other down the street, leav
ing Grace Howard to digest the unwel
come news of her uncle’s business condi
tion as best die might.
The oarrriage so long delayed, now
stood before her.
“Drive to Mr.Howard’a store at once.”
she nervously ordered the driver.
Grace was still nervous and agitated
when she entered her hnsband’s pres
ence.
“Tell me, Oscar,” she asked, with a
tremor in her voice, “how much money
l am now the possessor of, in my own
right?”
“Twenty-two thousand dollars.”
“Oan I have the use of it?”
“Assuredly, my dear; it belongs to
Sou; but what do you wish to do with
t?”
“I have heard that my uncle was in
serious financial danger.’’
“And so have I,” said her husband.
“1 must see him my few thousands
may be of some help to him,”
“Grace,” said her husband, sternly,
“be has utterly ignored your existence,
since your marriage, and will you now
expose yourself to injury and insult?”
“ My uncle is in trouble now, Oscar.
I cannot forget his more than fatherly
kindness in my childhood and youth.
OXJE. OOUNTBT’S WEAL.
In marrying you, I disappointed all the
expectations they had reared, for wealth,
fashion, and worldly position for me ;
and while I can never blame myself for
obeying tbe dictates of my own heart, I
dare not cherish a feeling of resentment
toward them. If my money —inconsider-
able as it is—will be of service to my
uncle, he must now have it.”
She held her lips up for her husband’s
kiss, and, being driven rapidly,, soon,
was landed at the door of her unele’s
office.
Among the eager crowd that t&ronged
the door-steps, each man with a certifi
cate of deposit nervously chttobhd be
tween his fingers, she madehar way
into his presence. His cyeq glassed oyer
with tears, as they fell upon her pale
face. Mr. Maning had groWpj|w, weak,
and childish, within a wU ;P|h£ he
would fain have laid his sMfung,
care-worn head upon the bosgsap his
adopted child, and craved forgiveness
for all his cruelty and neglect. The
iron had entered his soul, and he was a
better man—a softened man.
“ Can 1 see yon a moment, uncle ?”
said Grace, beating back, with a look,
the crowd that pressed forward, in silent
determination, to secure securities be
fore leaving the office. * 1 Can I see you ?
I must see you a moment privately.”
Leaving Danton, Sr., to battle with
their creditors, her uncle led the way
into his private office and bolted the
door.
“ now is it with you, uncle ?” she
suid. Tell me all ! Tell me the worst!
Tell me quickly !”
“ Another day, Grade,” said her
uncle, gloomily, will end the straggle,
and I shall be bankrupt. This would
not have been, even now, but William
Danton has been a defaulter for a large
amount, disappearing with the greater
portion of the assests of the firm, just
previous to the crisis. If I had but a
small amount, could last through one
more day, and satisfy my creditors, I
could easily re-establish myself in the
public confidence. But why should
I grieve you with this, my child ? You
cannot help me.”
“ I can help you some, perhaps, uncle.
Would twenty thousand dollars be of
any service to yon ?”
He started to his feet, and grasped
her hand like a vise. “ T wenty thousand
dollars would save me from ruin.”
“ You can have it, then, by one
o’clock,”'
Without another word she rushed from
the banker’s office, and giving an older,
in an hasty voice, to her coachman,
distanced every carriage in passing, and
ere long, in her husband's office, was
nervously counting over the soft, old,
yellow, greasy rags, that were laid as an
emollient upon the festering sensibflities
of her nncle’s creditors.
In another half hour, these old, yel
low, greasy rags were laid iu her uncle's
hands. T wo—three—o’clcaY ciime-bank
hours were over ; the sun was nearing
its setting ; financiers many of them
financiers no more for life—lingered
about Mammon’s quarter, as if loth to
discussing the events of the
day, probing into the probabilities of
the morrow.
“Poor Manning! How is it with
him?” said the surest man on the street.
“Still on his feet,” was the answer.
“How is that?” said another ou the
brink of bankruptcy, and upon the
principle that “misery likes company,”
was pleased rather than grieved when
he heard that a broker bad been carried
down in the general misfortune.
“Got help from some source—God
knows where!”
,‘They tell me,” said another, who
was listening moodily, that a woman
twice visited Manning’s office to-day.
Perhaps her visit had something to do
with his safety.”
“Describe her ”
“One of his creditors told me she was
a handsome, brown-haired, blue-eyed
woman, of twenty-five, perhaps.”
“Can it be—yes, it must be—Mrs.
Howard.' You remember she was the
adopted child of Manning, and incurred
ejection from his roof because of her
acceptance of Howard, over that scoun
drel, William Danton. Howard is now
one of the most prosperous merchants
in the city. She, it must have been;
and doubtless rendered her uncle assist
ance, for I am told she is abundantly
able.”
The morrow’s sun arose upon many
a closed firm in the street—closed for
all time. But not so the house of Man
ning & Danton. At the regular busi
ness ho tr their doors were opened.
There were few loungers around their
steps that day; other steps, where ruin,
gaunt and grim, grew into more definite
form as the hours advanced, where far
more attractive to the interested or the
curious. Ard so ou, from day to day,
stalked the panic, hand in hand with
poverty, until, content with their work,
they cast a triumphant smile upon the
wreck they had made, and retired.
By littles, Mr. Manning, though
shaken in health, began to restore his
shattered fortunes, and, re-established
in public confidence, his house soon re
gained its old popularity.
It is nedless to say, Grace Howard
was also re-established in the confidence
and the hearts of her adopted parents;
and a great concession it was for Mrs.
Manning when she admitted for the
first time to her husband, “Yes, Grade
was wiser than we.’’
In Mr. Manning’s iron safe there lies
a legally-attested will, and by this testa
ment, when death shall have claimed
the uuole and aunt, Grace Howard is
destined to be one of the wealthiest
women in the city.
She is not yet aware of it, but Oscar
sometimes says to his wife:
“I don’t think, dear, they dislike us
very much.”
Murder in New York.—A tragic ter
mination of an old veudelta occurred in
Johnson’s Pool-rooms, at the corner of
Broadway aud Twenty-eighth street,New
York, in the midst of the pool-selling.
John Bcannel, a jKjlitieian of prominence
in the Eighteenth Ward, shot and killed
Thomas Donohue, who, three years ago,
in the beat of political contest, was said
to have shot Florence Bcannel much in
the same way. The murderer was ar
rested and taken to the Twenty-niath
Precinct Btatiou-house.
A Memphis paper defines advertising to
e “ a blister which draws customers.”
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The Farmers and the Qovanunent.
Mr. M. F. Maury, the eminent scient
ist, delivered an interesting address at
the St. Louis Fair, in which he said : >
“ The question of which I am about
to treat is one of this sort: How shall thje
farmers of the country procure from the
General Government that, degree of con
sideration and. such legislative .encour
agement for agriculture as it requires
and deserves ? Its importance, when
contrasted with the other great interests
of the country, such as commerce and
navigation, railroading, mining and
manufacturing is, to say the least, quite
equal to theirs. Then why should itndt
receive as much consideration. from the
law-givers ? It is admitted by all* Ifc it,
is practically demonstrated, that. thle
railroad men, the merchants, the miner*,
and the manufacturers have far more in
fluence and power in Washington and
with the State legislatures than yotfr
honest farmers and industrious mechanics
have. How is this ? - Let ns ascertain,
and then I think yon will agree with me,
that if they have more influence, and
power with the Government than, .jab
have it is yourselves and not they that are
to blame, for if you choose to Iqt your
interests go by default while they pull
together and follow theirs up you have
no cause of complaint. Their associa
tions call men together and yours dis
perse them. They assemble in cities
villages, and congregate for work in
large numbers. They have daily and
hourly access to the post office, the tele
graph, and the newspaper press, and
hold constant communications by signs
and correspondence with their fellows
everywhere. You on the other hand are
scattered over the face of the country,
are all day at work in your owu fields,
and sometimes see whole weeks pass by
without a word of conversation with a
single soul save those of yonr own house
hold. This inclines so many farmers to
‘ old fogyism;’ makes you averse to pull
together and loth to hold meetings to
discuss the interests of agriculture, and
then to combine for tbe purpose of pro
caring the necessary legislation. They,
on the contrary, have their gnides, their
boards, their exchauges, societies, and
associations in which they meet daily
and in large cities nightly. One manu
facturer or miner may have in hie em
ployment 1,090 hards, and one ‘railroad
king’ 10,000 men. And so they combine
and bring pressure upon legislatures and
governors while you, like ‘true laborers’
are quietly at home happy to see * the
ewes graze and their lambs suck.’ Now
I want to persuade you—and by * you’ I
apostrophize all those who, taken to
gether, represents the rural interestsfof
the whole country—l want to persuade
you to be more alive to your common
welfare, to turn over anew leaf and see
that hereafter agriculture suffers no
wrong through lack of co-operation and
concert among farmers or through want
of advocates in high places. In persuad
ing I mean to convince. According to
official statements, statements not gen
erally very accurate, I admit, but suffi
ciently so in this instance, perhaps, to
give an idea of your wealth —your crops
last year amounted in round numbers to
2,500,000,000. That is the annual pro
duce of your labor, and it is increasing.
What, compared to this, is the produce
of the mines, the gains of commerce, or
the earnings of railroads ? According to
the last census there ore said to be 12,-
500,000 ‘bread earners’ in the United
States. These fill the mouths of the
39,000,000 million of people who inhabit
the country. Thus, every one who is
not a drone, has, ou the average, to earn
bread for three mouths. Following u
these statistics it appears that these sev
eral industries subsist respectively : The
agricultural and mechanical, 23,830,000
souls ; the commercial, 2,326,000 souls ;
the manufacturing, 1,117,000; the min
ing, 472,000; the railroad and express
men, 595,000. Foster the great National
Agricultural Congress that had its birth
in this city on the 28th day of May last.
It has already spoken with regard to one
of these great measures, and ere its
memorial could be enrolled and sent up
to Washington, the public press took up
tbe petition, and legislators catching its
spirit, passed—though they were upon
the very heels of the session—an act in
creasing the appropriation for the Sig
nal Office, and commanding it to address
its labors to the benefit of agriculture as
well as of commerce. Thus we have an
auspicious beginning and omen.
The Government in Washington acted
before it had received the official pro
ceedings of the Agricultural Congres.
These askod, not only that the labors of
the Signal Office should be turned in the
interest of agriculture, but that the na
tions should be invited to a general eon
ference, in which the details might be
arranged for a universal system of mete
orological observations and crop reports’
Your Congress has pledged itself to this
measure, and it is one of those great
moves you see, that goes beyond the
confines of any State society, and is too
big oven for any one nation to handle.
It requitas the influence of governments
to bring it into notice, and the united
co-operation of the world to carry it out.
This plan proposes that all the nations
of the eaith shall co operate in a com
mon system of meteorological observa
tions and research, and unite in a gen
eral crop plan of reports, to be agreed
upon in joint conference, sp that you
may be all kept posted, from seed time
to harvest, as to the promise and yield
of the staple crops in all parts of the
world, and learn truly to diseern the face
of the sky* For, with the system in
successful operation, every one of you
may expect to acquire foreknowledge of
the seasons such as yon cau utilize, and
to learn at least opce—perhaps twice—a
month' throughout the year, as to tbe
yield and promise in the various coun
tries. of the great staples with which
yon have to compete iu the markets of
the world. This information wBU
you to fix prices upon your staples in
stead of going to the merchants to set
the price .for you; it will be proclaimed
by-telegrams, .distributed through the.
mails, and repealed by the county and
village press throughout the land, until
every fariner will, in his own interest
and for self protection, be compelled to
take at least one newspaper; so here,
besides the general and patriotic, is a
direct pecuniary interest which the press
basin advocating this measure and in
helping us to ‘roll this ball along.’ I
tell you that since the application of
steam to mechanical purposes there is
nothing of so wide and general impor
tance to agriculture, nothing that is more
rich with promise, than this simple
scheme, which is grand and potential for
good, chiefly because of its simplicity.
The triumph of useful ideas is only a
question of time; and this is one oi
them.
A New Idea.— A Yankee has set his
wits to work again, and this time with
the intention of imposing upon the trust
ing nature of trees. The bare condition of
tbe trees during the bleak months of win
ter strikes him as being far from pleading
to the general eye, and ho proposes to
remedy it by a system of steam pipe
twining around the roots of shade trees,
and kept warm by steam from an ordinary
furnace boiler. He doubtless thinks that
he may thus cause the trees to imagine
themselves in the midst of summer, and to
suppose that tho bleak winds of December
are merely passing eccentricities not worth
noticing: and above all, not of sufficient
consequence to cause them to cast off their
summer attire. We do not believe that
the trees can be imposed upon to this ex
tent, but the intention of the ingenious in
ventor, who, by the way dwells in Con
necticut, is none the less commendable
If this gentleman would turn his mind to
some means of persuading flies and mos
quitoes that winter reigned all tbe year
round, he would confer a greater benefit
on his suffering species than by trying to
take advantage of the trees.
Ax Impobtant Law Suit Cojipkomised.
—An important lawsuit in Louisville
has. just, been bronght to an end by
a compromise. In 1851 Gustuvus Schu
man, a wealthy manufacturer of Aix
la Chapelle, Prussia, deserted his wife
and two children, and eloped to this
country with his servant maid, bring,
ing a great deal of ready money
with him and leaving a large amount be
hind him. An Indiana divorce was pro
cured and he married the servant maid, by
whom he had five children. He made
money rapidly and died in 1870. leaving
$1,000,000 worth of property in this city
and Indianapolis. By his will he left his
Prussian property to his divorced wife and
children and American property to his
wife and children here. The marriage
contract with his first wife entitled her to
one-eight of all his estate in fee simple
and a life estate of one-fonrth. Suit wa>
brought in the United States District
Court of Indiana and Chancery by the
deserted wife, and tbe suit was compro
mised recently by paying her 3100,000.
The Great Manufacturing City of New
Jersey.
We copy the following statistics of
manufacturing in Newark, New Jersey,
with the remark that near such a hive of
industry, farming aud gardening are o
course flourishing:—
“The great Newark exposition of
manufactured goods, the exclusive pro
duction of that city, proved a decided
success. In it there are more than 200
different branches of manufactures car
ried on; the establishments in which
they are conducted number about 1,000;
they employ over 30,000 hands (over oue
quarter of the population of 125,000
men* women and children,) to whom are
ppid annually wages to the amount of
about $15,000,000, (an average of SSOO to
each person,) and that capital to the
amount cf $30,000,000 is employed in
these manufactures, whose products
amount to $70,000,000 a year. Of this
$46,000,000 may bo classified as follows,
in general terns, but with sufficient ac
curacy as to amounts : Over $1,250,000
are iu drugs and chemicals, over $2,000,.
000 in boots and shoes, nearly $4,000,000
in beer and ale, uearly $1,000,000 in
oement, lime and plaster, nearly $1,250,-
000 in enamelled cloth, over $3,000,000
in clothing, over $1,250,000 in cotton and
silk threads, $2,500,000 in hardware, 82,-
500,000 in iron manufactures, $5,000,000
in jewelry, over §5,000,000 in leather,
nearly $2,000,000 in lumber, over $1,250,-
000 iu machinery, $2,500,000 in smelting
and refining, nearly $1,000,000 in saa
dlery and harness, $750,000 in sashes,
blinds and doors, aliout $1,500,000 in
tobaQco and segars, $1,000,000 in varnish,
over $505,000 in oxyde of sine, and SB,-
000,000 in tranks, traveling bags and
valises.
$2.00 JPER AJNJ-jNTTJM.
Brevities. .
Bing bolts—Divorces.
Domestic mails—Mimed men.
There is a hog epidemic in Tennessee.
Poultry arc having tbe cholera in lowa.
Corn is cheaper tnan wood for fuel in
lowa lime kilns.
Old settlers’ associations ore becoming an
institution in the West.
An editor who was going courting, said
“ he was going to press.”
England makes 83.500,000 worth of her
old rags into paper yearly.
Paper houses are beitlg made practica
ble, habitable and comfortable.
With the motto “ I *
Tlib Springfield Ibsfcrs *have taken to'
tkrowjng kerosene on ladies’ dresses.
An lowa lawyer has been indicted for
swindling a widow outot a war claim.
A lawsuit was settled the other day in
Michigan by pistols in the court room.
Macklin told Cooke that the first quali
fication of an actor was to iearn to stand
still.
If you court a young woman, and you
are won and die is won, you will both
be one.
A Connecticut orator emphasized liis
speech by smashing a 320 show case the
other day.
Hadibras calls matrimony a jierverse
fever beginning with heat and ending
with frost.
A barber is on trial in San Francisco for
killing a woman because she refused to
marry him.
Two dogs in a New York pit lought five
hours, before a brutal crowd, before one
killed the other.
A saloon keeper in New York was shot
because he declined to donate a prize to a
target company.
A Wisconsin tornado recently blew
down 200,000,000 feet of pine, and killed
40 yokes of oxen.
In Texas when a congregation wants a
new church, the inhmbers go to work and
build it themselves.
Terre Haute has a young man who cuts,
fit 6 and mattes all the dresses worn by his
mother and tout sisters.
The Registrar General oi the Colony of
South Australia estimates its population
at midsummer, 1872, at 190,509.
Columbine is the very pretty name of
a young Danbury girl—that is at home ;
at school they call her “ lium.”
'i here have been a good many marriages
of late. This will account for the fact
that nothing now-a-days is singular.
Half the papers in the South say that
the tobacco crop is unusually good, and
the other half say it is unusually poor.
The police of Jackson, Mich., are pro
hibited from sinoking, drinking, and sil
ting on dry goods boxes while on duty.
There are two things in the world that
are not safe to trifl; with—a woman’s
opinions and the business end of a wasp.
Young married people who have their
house built should have it built round,
so that discontent can find no corner in
it.
There is some talk of starting in London
a comprehensive Caurcb, which shall
admit worshippers of all sorts and condi
tions.
Life according to the Arabic proverb is
composed of two parts—that which is
past, a dream, and that which is to come,
a wish.
Who are the most exacting of all land
lords 7 Why. children; because they
never fail to make tbeir own fathers and
mothers pa-rents.
Denmark women are very polite. Won
der if they would give a seat in a street
car to another woman if there was plen
ty of room on both sides.
Major S. W. Herrick, (Zeb Crummet,
Serious Editor of the Washington Touch
stone,) is in the lecture field this season
with “New-fangled Notions.”
A mania for fancy work has suddenly
seized on young ladydom, and all tbe
pleasant young fellows are ovei wbelc
with tbe products of their toil.
The dry goods clerks in Cincinnati
threaten *to strike, and the Enquirer
wishes that they would, ad clear out,
leaving their places and wages to women.
An exchange says that the correct an
swer to the gentleman who wrote the
song, “Why did I Marry?” would be,
“Because you met a woman who was a
first class fool.”
Paris Newspapers, as newspapers, ate
behind the journalism of any other part of
rhe world. Tbe Germans arc far iu ad
vance of tbe French in this respect, as they
are in many others.
Two men. who had just got through a
hard examination, were overheard talking
rhe other day, in one of tbe dead lan
guages. Their accent, reminded the bearer
of the voices of the past.
An exchange says: “ This is the filth
trout caught this year from the same
•hole,’ the total weight of which is six
pounds.” “ Good,” sa\s the Ottawa Ct/i
--ze n, “now we know what a hole weighs. - '
A Macon, Ga., man has invented a
machine for the manufacture of ice
which is destined to place retail consu
mers upon a fair footing. The whole
machine can be placed on the inside of
a water bucket.
The battle fields of France present now
and then unpleasant reminders of the
scenes enacted on them. At Roeny and
Ermont, recently, (aimers have boon killed
by the explosion of snclls in the ground
they were digging.
A young woman has poisoned herself in
Vienna. In a note, which she had left
upon a table near the bed on which she
lay she had written: “My last cigar
draws very badly, therefore I am tired of
life. Good night.”
Miss Florence L. Johnson, a lovely
young lady of Morristown, Ind., has
brought a breach of promise suit against
Alonzo Tyner, a wealthy gentleman of
Indianapolis. Damages are kid at $lO.-
000. Both parties are of the highest re
spectability.
A young married lady in New York
wears a peculiar breast pin, which has
excited admiration. It is apparently a
beautiful carving in some dark, glossy
stone, of a lion’s head heavily set in red
gold. Iu reality it is the front of a favor
ite meercbauin belonging tu her husband.
He was an inveterate smoker, but to
please her, gave up the habit, aud she
wears this peculiar ornament as a trqphy
of her victory.
NO. 40.