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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.” b 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.