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.JACKSON HERALD. ROBERT S. HOWARD,/ Editor and Publisher. \ VOLUME I. £cpf JUperiiaemenk Notice to Contractors. WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the Court House door in Jefferson, on Satur day, the 2(1 day of July, 1881, the contract for building a lattice bridge across Middle Oconee river at Tallasee Bridge site, under the following specifications : One span of lattice bridge spanning the river one hundred and twenty feet, and fifty feet of tres tling on each side of the river, each fifty feet of trestle work to be in spans of twenty-five feet each. Said trestle work to descend from the bridge to within two feet of the ground, resting upon a trestle placed three feet in the ground and filled in with rock. This approach to be continued, with the same descent, by a stone wall on each side, the space filled in with rock and dirt. Each space of land-bridge to have five sleepers, equally divided on trestle ; outside sleepers to be placed directly over outside posts in trestle. All outside sleepers to splice on caps, making a straight line for hand-rail. All sleepers to be six by twelve, twenty-five feet long. llanjkrail,. Hand-rail posts eight feet apart, notched out to fit over sleepers, and securely spiked to the same. Posts to be 4 by G, 3 feet high. Hailing to be 4by G, notched down on top of posts and securely spiked. Hill of lumber for lattice to be as follows : Cords. —Cords, both bottom and top, to be by 12, 2S feet long ; itermediate to be 2£ by 10, 28 feet long. Lattice.—Lattice to be 2\ by 10. 13 feet long. All to be framed and well pinned together with two-inch white oak pins. Beams. —Floor beams to be 4 by 14 inches, 19 feet long, notched to fit over cords as shown upon plans ; ends of beams to extend two feet beyond outside of cords. All beams to be placed seven feet apart from center to center. Lattice braces to lock across the top of each beam, so as to tie all snugly together. Each beam to be well braced by substantial latteral bracing, as shown upon plans. All latteral bracing to be 3} by G inches, securely fastened to lloor-beams by four forty penny spikes at each end. Every other beam to have a brace on outside of lattice, extending from end of beam to bottom edge of top cord, brace to be framed so as to tit under cord and against side of lattice braces, the same to be securely fastened to Jloor-bcam at the bottom, and at the top to both brace and cords. Braces to be made of 4by G scantling. Sleepers.—Floor sleepers to be 4 by G, 28 feet long. There must be five lines, equally divided, under lloor, running entire length of lattice. Flooring. —Flooring to be 2by 12,13 feet long, securely fastened down by spiking to sleepers, and a strip at each end spiked to intermediate cords. PlNS. —All pins for lattice to be made of best white oak, two inches in diameter, holding their sides the entire length. Piers. —This bridge to rest upon two wooden piers, the same to be framed as shown upon plans. Sizes of pier posts, 10 by 12, 14 feet long; eight posts to each pier. Two caps 8 by 12, 15 feet long; two mud sills, 8 by 12, 19 feet long ; four braces, Gby 10, 10 feet long. Each pier to rest upon a crib, framed of timber, 10 by 12, 23 feet long. This crib to be notched together and se curely pinned at the ends. This crib to be framed to a sufficient heighth to suit depth of water. Size of crib in the clear to be 7by 20. Crib to be filled with rock to surface of water. Lattice to be wcatherboarded on both sides and capped. All timbers to be good heart. Bond, with two good securities, in a sum double the amount of the bid, conditioned for a faithful compliance with the con tract, required immediately after the letting. The work to be paid for when completed in accordance with the specifications, and to be completed in sixty da)\s from the time of letting. Full and complete specifications can be seen at this office. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. Postponed Sheriff’s Sale. VU ILL be sold, before the Court House door in V the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., at public out-cry. to the highest bidder, on the lirst Tuesday in July next, within the legal hours of sale, the following described property, to-wit: One tract of land, containing twenty-live acres, more or less, lying in said county, on the waters of Turkey creek, about one mile below Jackson’s mill, and adjoining lands of McDonald. Davis and others, and known as the place where It. C. Wil hite lived. About fifteen acres in cultivation. There is a good mill house and dam on the place ; also, a good framed dwelling and out-buildings and good orchard. Levied on as the property of It. C. Wilhite to satisfy a ti. fa. issued from Jack son Superior Court in favor of C. W. Hood. Prop erty pointed out by plaintiff, and notice given to J. F ostcr Daniel, tenant in possession, as the haw directs. T. A. McELIIANNON, Sh’ff J. C. ELECTION NOTICE. Jackson Comity. It is hereby ordered that an election be held at the various precincts in said county, in manner and form as elections arc hpld for members of the General Assembly, on the first Monday in July, 1881, in which the question shall be submitted to the lawful voters of said county of fence or no fence. Those voting at said election who arc in favor of fences, shall have written or printed on their ballots the word “Fence,” and those who favor no fences shall have written or printed on their ballots the words “No Fence.” Managers of said election will keep, or cause to be kept, three lists of voters and tally sheets, which, to gether with the tickets and consolidated returns, must be forwarded to this office immediately after the election. 11. W. HELL, Ord'y. | Jackson County. Whereas, C. W. Ilood. Executor of Z. S. Hood, deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition duly filed, that he has fully and completely ad ministered said deceased's estate, and is entitled to a discharge from said administration— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in September, 1881, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap plicant from said trust. (iiven under my official signature, this May 30, 1881. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. JackNon Comity. Whereas, Nancy Lyle and J. W. Lyle applies to me for Letters of Administration on the estate of James H. Lyle, late of said county, dcc’d— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in July, 1881, why said letters should not be granted the applicants. Given under my official signature, this May 30, 1881. H. W. HELL, Ord'y. wncrE. IS hereby given that application will be made to the Legislature of Georgia, at its July session, for the passage of a Bill, to be entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern Railroad Company, approved August 23d, 1872, so as to authorize said Company to increase its number of Directors, to issue bonds, and to secure them by a mortgage on the franchises and property of said railroad company, and to locate the legal resi dence of said corporation. A. D. CANDLER, C. C. SAUNDERS, • June 10 R. E. GREEN. mm\ m E Vf V ECE TA [amcdicinc not a drink . llolliers Wives, IkuighfersSoasl'n* tlicrs, ministers, Triicliers, llusinrss men, Farmers, A 1.1, should be warned against using and introducing into their IIO.FItX Nostrums and Alcoholic Remedies. Have no such prejudice against, or fear of, “ lVar> tier’s >Saf 'JFoiiic Hitters.” They arc what they arc claimed to be—harmless as milk, and contain only medicinal virtues. Extract of Choice Vegetables only. They do not belong to that class known as ‘‘ Cure-Alls,” but only profess to reach cases where the disease originates in debilitated frames and impure blood. A perfect Spring and Siiiimirr Medicine. A TboroiOlooil Purifier. A Tonic Appetizer. Pleasant to the taste, invigorating to the body. The most eminent physicians recommend them for their Curative Properties. Once used , always preferred. Trial Size, 50c. Full Size (largest in market) #l. THEM. For the Kiilnrys, I.ivrr and Urinary Organ*, use nothing but “WARDER’S SAFE KIDMA AM> I.IVER CURE.” It stands UNRIVALLED. Thousands owe their health and happiness to it. offer “ War ner’s Safe Tonic Bitters” with equal confidence. H. H. WARNER & CO., Rochester, N. Y. MANHOOD HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED! Just published, anew edition of DR. CULVER WELL’S Celebrated Essay on the radical cure of Spermatorrhoea or Seminal Weakness Invol untary Seminal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical Incapacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty suc cessful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse may be radically cured ; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be, may cure him self cheaply, privately, and radically. fiSs“This Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to anjr"ad dress, post-paid , on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers, lIIE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO , 41 Ann St., New York, N. Y. ; P. O. Box, 458 C. MORE YET! Notwithstanding the heavy inroads up on our stock, wo still keep enough of S\AV\v\.C uv\A Dry Goods on hand to supply our customers, and shall con tinue to add to the same as the requirements of the trade demand. WE ARE STILL OFFERING BARGAINS —iisr— Staple Dry Goods and GROCERIES. Call and price. We will take pleasure in show ing our stock. A. 11. BROCK & CO. Jefferson, Ga., April 29th, ISSI. “THE TRADE! — t # A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OK BLANK BOOKS AND x Stationery, LEDGERS , JOURNALS, LETTER BOOKS, WRITING PAPER. ENVELOPES, INK , MUCILAGE . INK STANDS, • PENCILS, Etc. Churches and Ministers supplied with Books at publishers prices, by BURKE & ANDERSON, Feb. 25 Athens, Ga. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 17, 1881. Liquor Our Shame and Curse. BY DR. J. S. KEY, OF MACON, GEORGIA. My reasons for using this pulpit and this Sabbath night service in the interest of tem perance are found in the magnitude of the issues pending and the urgency of their de mand on us. We stand to-day, my countrymen, con fronting face to face a most appalling evil. Drunkenness, beastly and revolting, has over spread our land and walks uncovered through our streets, and has come up into our homes ; and hand in hand with this horror come also debauchery and crime, and poverty and sor-' row, and shame and death. Not to see it is willful blindness ; to see it and not be stirred to feeling and action is simply monstrous. It is the crime and curse of this day, uni versal in its sweep, inconceivable for magni tude and indescribable as to its reality. Neither plague nor famine, nor war arc com parable with it for waste of life, and wreck of fortune, and blight of hope. Judged by any test and measured by every standard of human judgment, strong drink is doing more than they all combined. They are local in their sphere, this is world wide. They are temporary, this continues. Day and night the livelong year the dreadful work goes on. No territory is untouched, no home unvisited, not a moment is lost. The sum of this evil is absolutely immea surable. Lord Bacon has said, with feeling and with power, “All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human family, nor alienate so much property as drinking.” To this gigantic curse we do each and all stand directly related. But few families, throughout all their branches and connec tions, have escaped the fang of this serpent's tooth. Thus arc we by blood related to it. No Church in this land can show an unspot ted record and say, “ my membership is guilt less of the manufacture and sale and use of intoxicating drinks.” Thus are we by grace related to it. Moreover, wc arc bound together in society and government. Wc are the body politic. Each person is an integral part, and thus re lated to every other member. “The eye can not say unto the hand I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you—and whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored all the members rejoice with it.” I repeat with emphasis we do individually bear a family, and church and society rela tionship to the drunkenness prevalent amongst us that links us to it as with hooks of steel. Now, then, this relationship creates responsibility. Upon whom does it rest ? Some blame the drunkard and hold him alone responsible for his individual sin. I pity him. In most cases he is an unfortunate victim. lie may have inherited his depraved thirst. A father’s evil example may have ensnared him ; the generous impulses of his noble nature possibly misled him; a thou sand evil agencies surround and assail him. Alas 1 for the poor drunkard. Let us walk backward to him like the sons of Noah and drop the mantle of charity over his fall. Some blame the bar-keeper who deals out the impoisoned drink. lam not his apolo gist. Heaven knoivs I have no excuse to offer for saloons or their inmates. It is an infamous business, and no man who thus wrings tears, and treasure and shame and blood from his fellows, deserves or can ex pect a decent respect. But bad as he is, j’our bar-keeper has a license and so far is protec ted and made respectable bj r the very people he seeks to ruin. What he does is done by authority and consent of all parties concern ed. He pays his money for his devilish li cense, and seciety consents for a paltry fee to allow him freedom in his master’s work. Here, then, we have reached the end of our search and can locate the guilty authors of this mischief. Soc ; ety is responsible. . Pub lic opinion does it. Every tnan in every com munity who does not clear himself by special and exhaustive effort is in his measure re sponsible for all the consequences of licensed drinking. In the light of this conclusion how docs every conscientious citizen read his duty ? First and clearly set forth a pure example. Drinking, whether in public or in private, should be abandoned. Wine should be ban ished from the table and not have place in any public hospitality. Physicians should prescribe it only as a last resort. Merchants should employ only sober clerks and make strict temperance the test of credit. Around the fireside and on tho hustings, from the forum, in the pulpit and the press, and school room, the leaders of public opinion should at all times and by every means and in every possible way protest, and warn, and teach, and train, and guard, and guide. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. All this ne cessitates another step— Close up the bar rooms. The State or city that granted the license must take it away, and prohibit the sale. Private sentiments creates public opin ion, and public opinion must rule and guide in popular governments. If society be re sponsible for social drunkenness and disorder, FOR THE PEOFLE. then society must meet her responsibilities or take the consequences. Now let us argue this question of prohibi tion by the Stote. Two propositions will ex haust the discussion. 1. lias the .State the right to prohibit by law the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic beverages ? If not, our case fails and the argument ends, and with it our efforts cease and our hope goes out. Let us see. 2. Civil government is a divine institution. “Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God ; the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever, therefore, resisteth the power re sisteth the ordinance of God. They that re sist shall receive to themselves damnation.” An institution thus divinely established and girded about with such solemn guarantees is not set adrift like an unmoored vessel, and left to the chances of wind and wave. The State is not left helpless, with no power of self-protection. Its very existence and pur pose demonstrates this truth. God who gave the State clothed it with the right to protect and defend itself against every foe that threatens to destroy it. 2. Civil government presupposes disorder and wrong doing. Designed for fallen men, it must necessarily be a government of control and restraint. Hence, said St. Paul: “Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil.” In this Scripture revelation, we find the original uncorrupted function of government; that which obtained before craft and ambition and lust gained ascendency. The State then was simply an intermediate to keep the peace and secure equality of rights and protection to all. Here, then, in this first conception of our fathers, we find the chartered right of the State guaranteed to correct wrong, to restrain evil doers, abate nuisances and protect the helpless. 3. This right the Stato has claimed and exercised at will in other things, and no man is found to object. The publication ofobsccne books and their circulation through the mail is forbidden and made punishable by fine and imprisonment. This is right and proper, we all agree. The sale of lottery tickets and all manner of gambling is prohibited by special legislation, and all judges are required to ex pound and execute it. Docs any man den} r the right or doubt the expediency ? Bigamy, seduction, Sabbath-breaking arc ajl named, condemned and punished. All these arc abridgments of personal rights for the general good, and all arc approved and most heartily supported. We agree cordially unjjl wc reach the traffic and use of ardent spirits. Even here we all agree that it is the monster evil of the times, and that it is fast becoming an overshadowing monopoly backed by millions of money, and threatening legislatures and courts. No sane man can contemplate this feature without alarm, and yet many hesitate and doubt and shrink from joining in the attack. 4. Why this hesitation when the State has almost legislated, not only against these evils* but to embarrass and repress the liquor traffic itself? The taxes put upon the trade are repressive, and rightly understood are more of the nature of fines than otherwise. They are the expression of the public fear ; they amount to a condemnation of the evil, and are designed to discourage and hinder. No other industry is treated thus. Now then doing this much carries with it the right to do more and to do all, even to the final and utter prohibition by law of the very existence of the evil. The right to discriminate in volves the right to prohibit. 5. Cut all this reasoning is simpl}' designed, by showing the philosophy and propriety of the law, to prepare your minds for the an* nouncement that the right of the State to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors has been affirmed again and again by the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Grier, of that court, remarks, in giving his opinion in a certain case before him, that, “ it is not necessary to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism, and crime, which have their origin in the use and abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the State, is competent to the correction of these great evils, and all mearure9 of restraint and prohibition necessary to effect that purpose arc within the scope of that authority.” Judge Catron says, “If the State has the power of restraint by license to any extent, she may go to the length of prohibiting sales altogether.” Now, then, we reach our first conclusion. The State has the right to prohibit. It inheres in its very organic law ; for this very purpose was the State ordained ; this very thing has she always done, and the right to do she affirms by her highest judicatory. 11. This brings us then to the final issue. Having the right to prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating drinks, ought the State to exercise that right ? To this question I answer with all the emphasis of my judgment and conscience—it should be done and done immediately and irrevocabty. 1. Because it is a monstrous evil. Strong drink costs $1,000,000,000 a year in money ; it makes filty per cent, of our insane ; it makes sixty-five oercent.of our paupers ; itcauses di rectly seventy-five per cent, of our murders; it makes eighty per cent, of our criminals; it sends forth ninety-five per cent., of our vicious youths, composing an army of drunkards 600,- 000 strong, and it sends one every six minutes into a drunkard’s grave, or about 100,000 a year. The sum total of the waste of the country’s material resources equals the over, whelming sum of $2,000,000,000 annually. These figures are absolutely beyond com prehension, and so the facts with which we deal are beyond the power of computation. Hear the trumpet tones of a distinguished American orator: “The truth is, dear Christian friends, we have no realizing sense of the magnitude of this evil. We profess to believe that the drunkard cannot inherit eternal life, but, and3 T ing as such, must he lost eternally ;do we act as if we believed that drunkenness was carrying one hundred thousand souls annually to the grave and to eternal ruin ?” “ Think you, we would stand by and see one hundred thousand die annually of yellow fever, when we knew wc had the power to prevent it ? How long would a law remain on our statute books which permitted people to sell the germs of that dread disease? [continued next we el.] The Coffee we Drink. We all drink coffee, says ar. English society paper, and yet probably few of us know, or are curious to learn, how and when this popular beverage came into use. But, as in the case of other things in general demand for the table, it is worth while to have some acquaintance witli their introduction and historj r . As regards coffee, it seems ever to have found a place in England during the reigns of Elizabeth and the first James— reigns so prolific in discovery, and so marked by additions to what wc cat and drink. It had been heard of, for Lord Bacon, in a passage which Dr. Johnson quoted in his dic tionary, says: “ They have in Turkey a drink called coffee, made of a berry of the same name, as black as soot and of a strong scent, but not aroraatical, which they take beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can drink it. This drink comforteth the brain and heart and helpeth digestion.” The earliest account of its actual use in this country fs said to be that given by Anthony A. Wood, who tells us that “ one Nathaniel Canopius, a native of Creta, and resident in Ballcgc, Oxford, which he quitted in 1648, was in the habit of using a beverage called ‘ caffey,’ which he prepared for himself, being the first of that kind, as the ancients of the house declared, that was ever drank in Oxon.” We learn from the same author that “ in 1650, Jacob, a Jew, opened a cofi’ey house at the Angel, in the parish of St. Pcter-in-the East, Oxon, and there it was, by some who delighted in novelties, drank. In 1624 Cirques Jobson, a Jew and a Jacobite, bom near Mount Libanus, sold coffcy in Oxon, and in 1655 Arthur Tillyard, apothecary, sold coffey publicly in his house against All Soules College. The coffcy house continued till llis Majestic’s returne and after, and then became more freqent and had an excise put upon coffey.” An English work, based upon Beckmann's “ History of Inventions,” men tions some of the preceding details, and adds from “ A New View of London,” published in 1708, the record that “one James Farr, a barber, who kept the coffee house which is now The Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate, one of the oldest in England, was, in the year 1657, presented by the inquest of St. Dunstan’s-in-Llie-West ‘ for making and selling a sort of liquor coffee, to the great nuisance and prejudice of the neighborhood.” Who could then have thought London would ever have had near three thousand such nuisances, and that coflee would have been, as now. so much drank by the best of quality and physician ? It is further stated that the first mentioned coffee in our statute books occurs in the year of the restoration of King Charles 11., 1660; but this proves how rapid and great had been the increase in its con sumption. There is ample evidence of its having been in common use very soon after the date just mentioned. A Strange Preacher. There was once a minister of the gospel who never built a church. Who never preached in one. Who never proposed a church fair to buy the church anew carpet. Who never founded anew sect. Who never belonged to any sect. Who frequented public houses and drank wine with sinners. Who never received a salary. Who never asked for one. Who never wore a black suit or a white neck-tie. Who never used a prayer book. Or hymn book. Or wrote a sermon. Who never hired a cornet soloist to draw souls to hear the “Word.” Who never advertised his sermons. Who never even took a text for his sermon. Who never went through a course of theo logical study. Who never was ordained. Who was never even “converted.” Who never went to Conference. Who was he ? Christ. $ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. I SI.OO for Six Months. Class Eyes. A reporter of the Chicago Inter-Ocean has been investigating the trade in glass cj’es. From the leading dealer in the West, a firm which has sold glass eyes for many years, he learned that there were as many as 1,000 wearers of them in that city, and that from 600 to 800 eyes are sold there every j’ear. The best eyes are made at Uri, in Germany, the manufacture centering at that place on account of the occurrence there of fine sill* cates and other minerals needed in the busi ness. The German eyes withstand corrosive action of tears and other secretions better than those made in France. At Uri are made also vast quantities of eyes used bj’ taxidermists in mounting birds, animals, and other natural history specimens, besides a superior quality of glass marbles, known to boys as agates. The artificial e}'e is a delicate shell or case, very light and thin, and concave so as to fit over what is left of the eye ball. The shell is cut from a hollow ball or bubble of glass, the iris is blown in, and then the whole is delicately recoated. The trade in Chicago has undergone a curi ous change. Twenty years ago there were sold very man}’ more dark ejes than light, but from that period on the sale of dark eyes has been perceptibly dying out. Now nearly all arc light ej'cs. say twenty light to ono dark. In Boston the percentage is even, larger, about thirty-five blue or light eyes to one brown ; while, on the other hand, in New Orleans fifty brown or dark eyes are sold to one light. Regarding the change of color in Chicago, of course fashion has nothing to do with it. No one has }’et decreed that parti colored optics shall be the rage. The chango simply shows that the influx of population, has been from the East principally and from, Northern Europe. Surgical operations are performed much, more skillfully than formerly. Time was when it was deemed necessary to take outtho eye entirely. . Then the artificial eye became a fixed, glassy, staring object. Now amputa tion of portions of the e}'e can be performed in very many instances, and the glass cyo fitted on the stump, which moves quito natu rally. Sometimes those who have lost an eye will; keep two or three artificial substitutes. They will use one for the daylight with a small pupil, and another for night time with a lai;gQ pupil to offset the dilatation. Impromptu Ingenuity. A striking instance of ingenuity in taking advantage of the resources of nature in an, emergency is found in Sir Samuel Baker’s account of his travels in Ab3'ssinia. His stock of soap had become exhausted ; and as, lie possessed abundance of various kinds of. fat, including that of elephants, hippopotami, lions and rhinoceros, he determined to con vert a quantity of the grease into soap. For this purpose he required both potash and lime; and how were these to be obtained ? The negleck tree, be found, was exceptionally rich in potash; he therefore burned a large quantity, and made a strong lye with the ashes, which he concentrated by boiling. There was no limestone; but the river pro duced a plentiful supply of oyster shells, which, if burned, produce excellent lime' What was next wanted was a kiln in which to burn the shells, and this he constructed out of one of those great ant hills, which rise to ten feet higlr, common to hose valleys, and which possess a very hard external crust. Two natives hollowed out one of those hills; a proper draught hole was made below from the outside; it was loaded with wood, and filled with some six bushels of oyster shells, which were again covered with fuel; and after burning twenty-four hours a supply of excellent lime was obtained. Then com menced his soap boiling, which was effected, in a large copper pot of Egyptian manufac ture. The ingredients of potash, lime and fat were then carefully mixed; and after boiling ten hours, and having been constant ly stirred, he obtained excellent soap, of which he had in all about forty pounds weight. The New York Commercial Bulletin sent out its reporter among the emigration societies and among the immigrants themselves to ascertain, if possible, why Scandinavian Europe is emptying its population into tho United States. The reporter returned laden with doleful tales from Germany, Austria and other countries, but also with speculations among the immigrants themselves as to the cause. Some, it seems, fled from poverty and oppression of stringent laws; some from ap prehension of desolating wars in the near future ; some merely to join their friends in a freer, greater country ; some to seek fortune where money was easier made ; some because tho purchasing value of money had greatly diminished in their own country ; some be cause others were going, and tens of thousands from as good countries as America seem seized with a mania for emigration to the New World. It appears that whole districts have been almost denuded of their populotion, and if the thing goes on this way ten years th§ cry will be, “ Young man, go East." NUMBER 17.