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©lie' JJloittgomerji Monitor. D. 0, SUTTON, Editor and Prop'r. DR. TALMAGES’ SERMON. '‘MONOPOLY AND COMMUNISM STRUGGLING FOR THE POS SESSION OF THIS COUNTRY. ’ Text: “Tho Lord delighteth in thee and tliy land shall be married.”—-Isaiah, lxii, 4. As the greater includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own repub lic. Bold, cxhilarant, unique, divine im agery of the text. So many are depressed by tne labor agitation and think everything in this country is going to pieces, I preach this morning a sermon of good cheer and anticipate the time when tho Prince of Pea o and tho Heir of Universal Dominion shall t ike possession of this nation and “thy land shall he married.” In discussing the final destiny of this na tion it makes all tho difference in the world whether we are on tho way to a funci al or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on nlatforms and in places of public concourse, I hear so many of th ? muifled drums of evil prophesy sounded, a- though we were on t lie way to national interment, and beside Thebes, and Babylon and Tyre in tho cemetery of dead nations our repub!i • was to be entombed, that I wish you to understand it is notto be obsequies,but nuptials; not n ausoleum, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but orauge blossoms; not re quiem, but wedding march, for “thy land snail be married.” I propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming tho haml of this republic. This laud is so fair, so beauti ful, so affluent, that it has many suitors, aud it will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall bo accepted or re jected. In the first place I remark: There is a greedy, all-?rasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of monopoly. His sceptre is made out of the iron of the rail tra k and tho wire of telegraphy. He dees everything for his own advantage mid for tho robbery of the people. Things have gone cn from bad to worse, until in tho three Legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, for the most part, monopoly decides everything. If monopoly favors a law it passes; if monopoly opposes a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot put ting into his pockets in one year two hundred mil lie ns of dollars in excess of all reasonable charges for service. Monopoly holds in this one hand the sto im p.nver of locomotion, and in the other the electricity of swift commu nication. Mon ply decides nominations a d election—-city elections, State elections, national elections. With bribe > he secures the votes of legislators; giving them free passes, giving appointments to needy reJa ti\ to lucrative positions, employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carrying their goods fifto m per cent, less if they are merchants, and if he finds a case very stub born, as well as very important, puts dow n before him tho hard cash of bribery. But monopoly is not so easily caught now os when,dm ing the term of Mr. Buchanan, the legislative Committee in one of our States exp’ored and exposed the manner in which a c trtain railway company procured a donation of public land. It was found out that thirteen of tho Senators from that State received $175,000 among them. Sixty mem bei*s of the) lower house of that State re ceived $5,0 >0 and SIO,OOO each. The Gov ernor of the State received $50,000, his clerk received $5.0 >O, the Lieutenant-Governor re ceive 1 SIO,OOO, all the clerks of the Legisla ture received $5,000 each, $50,000 were divided amid tho lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time goiDg on in some of the States of the Union, but it is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the overshadowing curse of the United States to-day is Monopoly. Ho puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sick of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the Uni ted States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in twenty-four States of the 1 uion already anti-monopoly leagues have been established. Clod speed them in the work of liberation. 1 wish that this rue Uion might bo the question of our rresid ntial elec!ions, and that we compel the political parties to recognizo it on their platforms. I have nothing to say arainst capitalists. A man has a right to all the money he can make honestly. There is not a laborer in the laud that would not be worth a million dol lars if he could. I have nothing to say agairst corporations as such; with mt the n, no great enterp ise would be possible. But what Ido say is that the same principles should be ap plied to cap tal.sts and to corporations that aiv applied to the poorest man and the plain est laborer. What is wrong for mo is wrong for great corporations. If I take from you your property without any adequate coin pen-a tion 1 am a thief, and if a railway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic thief. What is wrong on asn a'l scale is wrong on a larges*-ale. Monopoly in England has ground hundreds of thousands of her hot people into semi-starvation, ami in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness. Five hundred acres in this country make an immense farm. When you real that in Dakota Territory Mr. Cass has a farm of 15,000 a res and Mr. Grandon 25,000 acres and Mr.Jlarymple 40,000 acres, your eye i dilate, even though these farms are in great regions thinly inhabited. But what do you think of this which I take from the Dooms day Book, showing what monopoly is on the other side the *ea. I give it as a warning of what it would do on this side the sea if in EO.no lawful way the tendency is not re sisted. In Beotian IJ.G. M. Heddle owns 50,400 acres; Far! o s Weniy**, 52,003 aor s; Sir J. Riddell. 54,500 acres; Sir C. W. A. Tb«s, 55,00') acres; E. H. Scott, 59,700 a'res; Mr. J. Baird. GO, OOO acres: Sir J. Ramsvlrn, 00,000 acres: Earl of Dunmore, 00 030 acres: Duke of Hoxburgbe, Co,obo a*JG;: Farl of Moray, 61,700 acres; Countess of Home, 62,000 acres; Lord Mid dleton, 63,000 acres: Karl of Aberdeen, 63.- 503 acres; Mackenzie of Dundonnell, 63,000 acre-; Mr. J. J. H. Johnston, 63,000 acres; Eart of Airlie 65,00) acres; Sir J. Colquboun, 67,000 acres; C. Morris on, 67/100 acres: Duke of M< ntrose, 68,000 acres; Meyrick Bankcs, 70,0. acres: Grant of Glenmorriston, 74/ <K* acres: Marquis of Ail-a. 76.000 acres; Bar oness Willougby d'Kresby, 76.000 acres: Mr. J. Mai olm, *o.ui>o 80,0uu a res: Balfour of Whittinghamc. M,* 000 acres; Sir J. O. Orde, B!,(#*> a r -s: Mar quis of Bute, 93,0 0 acres The Chisholm, 94,500 acres: Mr. E. Ellice, 9.3,500 Sir G. M. Grant, 10:1.600 a res; Duko of Portland. 106.003 acr-js; Cameron of L chiel, 109.503 acres; Sir C. W. Ross, 110,4X1 acres; Earl of Fife, 113/00: The Ma kiutosh, 124/:o) wren: Lord Macdonald, 136.000 acies: Karl of Dalhousie. 136,000 a**res; MaJeod, of Sir E. Ma kenziV. of Gairlock, 164,- <ißo Duke of Argyle, 175/XX) acrea: Duke of Hamilton, 183,030 acres: Duke of AthoTo, 194,000 a'Te-?; Duke of Richmond, 255/X33 acres: Karl of Stair, 270,0j 0 Mr. Evan Baiiiie, 30\000 m*res; Earl« f Fea field, 306,000 acres: Duke of 183 acres: Earl of Brea/albane. 4:77/>.*♦. a'-r-s; Mr. A. Matheson, 220,433 acres*. and Sir J. Mathcson, 406,070 acres; Duchess of Bother- Mm). 1 aero.;, nnl Pu!:e of Sutberlau.l. ' 1,1.0 >V> acres Such monopolies imply an inlinitc acreage of wnt ho.'ii ' -s. Tluro is no povorti in tin* Unit <1 State* like tlrnt in England, Irelaud nud Scotli'mi for the simple reason that in those lamls monopoly liu* had longer and I la get* swr.y. l.ast sunnier ill Edinburg:*, Scotland, after i reaching in Synod Hull. I stool on a (lia r in front of tho hall an I ! proa bed to ni audience of 20,0;H) people, j standing in one of tho mo t prosperous par 1 f ! of the city, and r. aching out toward the cas tle as fine an array of strength an! h'alth an 11 eauty ns one ever sees. Tnreo hour after 1 i reached t * tho wretched inhab tatits of the Cowgate an 1 Ca'inongnt - the midion « ! exhibiting the squalor aud stckliness and de spair (hat remains in one's mind like ouo ol tho visions of Haute's Inferno. Groat monopolies in anv laud imply great privation. Tie time will come when our government will have to limit the amount I of Accumulation of property. Unoonstitu t.i.nal d > you say? Then constitutions will l have to 1 o changed until they allow such j limitnt on. Otherwise the work of absorption will t o on and the large lishes will oat up tho small fishes, anti .the shad will swallow tho minnows and the porpoises swallow the shad nrd the whales swallow the porpoises, an a thousand greedy men will own all the wo '4 and rOh of these will eat up the other 500 an one hundred cat up the oth-r -400, and llnnlli there will ho only 50 left, and then 40 an * then M 0 and then MO nud then 10 aud then two an d then one. But would a law of limitation of wealth bo unrighteous? If I dig so near my neighbor’s foundation, in order to build my house, that I endanger his, the law grabs mo. If I have a tannery or chemical factory the malodors of which injure residents in the neighbor hood, the law says: “Stop that.” If I drain off a river from its bed nnd divert it to turn my mill-wheel, leaving the bed of the river a breeding place for malaria, tho law says: “Quit that outrage!” And has not a government a right to say that a few men shall uot gorge themselves oa the comfort nnd health and life of generations? Your rights end where my rights begin. Monopoly—brazen-faced,iron-fingered, and vulture-hearted, monopoly—offers his hand to this Republic, He stretches it out over the lakes and up the Pennsylvania and tho Eric and tho Now York Central Railroads, and over tin* telegraph polos of the continent and says: “Here is my heart and hand; be mine forever.” I.et the millions of the peo ple, North, South, East and West forbid tho banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot box, forbid them on the platform, forbid them by great organizations, forbid them by the overwhelming sentiment of nn outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of Goil, forbid them by prayers to high heaven. That Herod shall not havo this Abigail. It shall not be to all devouring monopoly that this land i * to bo married. Another suitor claiming tho hand of this Republic is Nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for universal blood-letting nnd a nitio-glvcerino bomb for universal oxplo s on. Ho lo’ievcs in no God,no government, no heaven, nnd no hell except what ha can mnko on earth! He slew tho Czar of Russia, keens Emperor William, of Germany, prac tically imprisoned, kille-l Abraham Lincoln, would put to death every King and President on earth, and if he liad the power would climb up until he could drive the God of heaven from his throne and take it liimseif, tho universal butcher. In France it is called Communism; in the United States it is called Socialism; in Russia it is called Nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive term. It means complete and eternal smash up. It wou'd make the holding of property a crime and it would havo a dagger through your heart and a torch to your dwelling and turn over this whole land into the possession of tlrdt and lust and rapine and murder. Where does this monster live? In Bt. Louis, in Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New York, anil in all the cities and villages of this land. Tho devil of destruction is an old devil, and ho is to be seen at every great fire where there is anything to steal, and at every shipwreck where there is anything valuablo Heating ashore, and at every railroad accident where there are overcoats and watches to be pur loined. On a small scale I saw it in my col lege days, when, in our literary soci ety in New York University, wo had an exquisite and costly bust of (Shakespeare, and one morning we found a hole bored iiTto the lips of tho marble an 1 a cigar inserted. There has not for the last century bee i a fine picture in your art gallery or a graceful statue in your parks or a fine fresco on your wall or a richly bound album in your library but would have boon despoiled if the hand of ruffian sm could have got at it without peril of incarceration. Some times the evil spirit shows itself by throwing vitriol into a beautiful face, sometimes by wilfully scaring a horse with a velocipede, sometimes by crashing its < artwlieel against ; a carriage. Tho philosophy of the whole business is that there is a large number of people who, ] either through their laziness or their crime. own nothing, and nro mad at those who j through industry and wit of their own or of j their ancestors are in possessions of largo re sources. The honest laboring classes nevir i ha l anything to do with such murderous en : terprises. It is the villainous classes who j would not xvork if they had plentv of J work offered them at large wages. Many | of these suppose Ihat by the dornoli | tion of law " aud order they would bo advantaged and the parting of the ship of state would allow them as wreckers to carry off some of the cargo. It offers its hand to this fair republic. It proposes to tear to pieces tho ballot box. tho Legislative hall,the Congressional assembly. It would take this land and divide it up, or rather, divide it down. It would give as much to the idler as ; to the worker, to the bad as to the good. Ni | hi ism—-this panther—having prowled across other lands has set its paws on our soil, and it is only waiting for the time in which to | spiring upon its prey. It was Nihilism that massacred the heroic policemen of Chicago and St. Ixniis a few days ago nnd that burne 1 the railroad property at Pittsburg during the great riots; it was Nihilism that slew black people in our Northern cities dur ing the war; it was Nihilism that again and again in Han Francisco aud New York mauled to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism tint glares out of the windows of tho drunk . cries upon sober people as they go by. Ah! its power has never yet been urea. It would, if it had the power, have every church, chapel, cathedral, school hot s, college and home in ashes. Let me say it is the worst enemy of the laboring classes in any country. The honest cry for reform lifted by oppressed laboring men is drowned out by the vociferations for anarchy. The criminals and the vagabonds who range through our cities talking about their rights when their first right is the peni tentiary—if they could lie hushed up, and the downtrodden laboring men of this country could be heard, there would bo more bread for hungry children. In this land riot and bloodshed never gained any wages for the pieople, or gathered up any prosperity. In this lan 1 the best weapon is not the club, not the shillelah, not fire arms, but the ballot. Let not our oppressed labor ing men be beguiled into coming under the bloody banner of Nihilism. It will make your taxes heavier, your wages smaller, your table scantier, your children hun grier,your suffering greater. Yet this Nihil ism. v ir v feet red with slaughter, comes forth and off rsitshand for this repiublic. Bhall Lie banns be p roclaimed) If so, where shall the marriage altar be; And who will be the officiating priest? A-nd what will be the MT. VERNON. MONTGOMERY CO., GA.. THURSDAY, JULY 15, 188(1. music? That altar will Hive to be whlta with bleavhed skulls, the music must lie tho smothered groans of imiltitu linous victims, tho garlands must bo twisted of nightshade, the fruits must be apples of Sodom, the wine must be the blood of St*. Bartholomew 1 s nias sacre. No! R is not to Nihilism, the snn guinital monster, that this land is to be mar* no Another suitor for tho hand of this nation is infidelity. Mark you that all anarchist* arc infidels. Not one of them believe* in the Bible,anil very rarely any of them believe in aGo I. Their most conspicuous leader was Ihe other day pulled by tuo log from und r a bed :n a liou*o of infamy, cursing an 1 blas pheming. The police of Chicago, explor ng Hit* dens (*f the Anarchists, found dynamite nml vitriol and Tom Paine’s Age ot Reason ami obs eue pictures and complimentary biogi aphies of thugs anil assassins, but not one t 'stamout, not one of IV esley s hymn books, uot one Roman Catholic breviary. There are two wings to Infidelity. The one calls itself liberalism and appears in highly lit *rary magazines nnd is for the educated and retinol. The other wing is in the form of anarchy and is for the vulgar. But both wings belong to the same old filthy vulture. Infidelity! Elegant infidelity proposes tc conquer this land to itself by tho ixm. An arch" piropjses to conquer it by bludgeon and torch. , „ . .. When the midnight ruffians despoiled tin grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark’s church yard everybody was shocked But infidelity proposes something worse than that -the rob bing of all the graves of Christendom of tli< hone of a resurrection. It proposes to chise out from the tomb .tones o. your Christian dead the words “Asleep in.lpsus” and to sub stituto the words “Obliteration, annihil i tion.” Infidelity proposos to take the letter from the world’s Father inviting tho nations to virtue nnd happiness, nnd tear it uo into fragments so small that you cannot read a word of it. It proposes to take the consolation from the broken hearted and tho soothing pillow from tho dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in tho President of tho united Stales and the Supreme Court and the Governors of States and the witnesses in tho court room with their right lmntlon Paine’s “Age of Rea son” or Voltaire's “Philosophy of History.” It proposes to take away from this country tho book that makes (he difference between tho United States aud the Kingdom of Dahomey, between American civilization and Bnrnesian cannibalism. If Infidelity could destroy the Sci iptures it would in 200 years turn the civilized nations back to semi bar liar sin and then from semi barbarism into midnight savagery, until tho morals of a menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chim panzees would be bettor than tho morals of the shin wrecked human race. The only impulso in the right, direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. That book has been the mother of all reforms nnd all cliaritios—mother of English Magna Clmrta. anil American Declaration of Indendenee. Benjamin Franklin hold that holy book in his hand, stood before an intidel club at Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of lialiakkuk, anil the inside’s, not, knowing what book it, was, declared it was the be<t poetry they had ever heard. That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge, and led the dying Prince of Wales to ask some ono to sing “ Rock of Ages.” I toll you that tho worst attempted crime of the century is the attempt to destroy this book; yet infidelity, loathesome, stenchful, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster,stretches out its hand, ichorous with the second death, to take the hand of Ibis republic. it stretches it out through seductive magazinos and through lyceurn lectures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of tho continent already fully settle ! and the two-thirds not yet, occupied. It savs: “Give me all east of tho Mississippi, with tho keys of the church and the (‘hrixtian printing presses—then give mo Wyoming, give me Alaska, givo me Montana, give mi Colorado, give me all the States and Terri tories west of tlie MDsixsippi, and 1 will take those places and koop them by right of poses sion Ling before the Gcs >el can be fully en trenched.” And this suitor preses his case appallingly. Sba'l the banns of that marriage bo pro claimed? “No!” say the home missionaries of tho West, a mnrtyrbnndof whom tho worljl is not worthy, toiling amid fatigues and malaria nnd starvation, “no! not if wo can help it. By what, wo and our children have suffered, vi e forbid the lmnns of that mar riage!” “No!” sav all patriotic voices, “our institutions were bought at too dear a price and were defended at too great a sacrifice t,o be so cheaply surrendered.” “No,” says the God of Bunker Hill and Independence Hall and Gettysburg, “I did not start tbs nation for such a farce.” “No,” cry ton thousand voices, “to infidelity this land shall not lie married.” But there is anothersuitor f hat presents bis claim for the band of this republic. He is mentioned in the verse following my text, where it says: “As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee ” It is not, my figure, it is the figure of the Bible. Christ is s i desirous to have (bis world love him that ho stops at no humilia tion of simile. He compares Sis era/-e ti spittle on the eyes of the blind. He com pare) Himself to a bon gathering tho chick ens, and in my text Ho compares Himself to a suitor begging a band in marriage. Does th's Christ,, the King, deserve this land? Be hold Pilate’s Hall and the insulting expecto ration on the face of Christ. Behold the f 'al varean massacre ayd the awful hemorrhage of five wounds. Jacob served fourteen years for Rachel, but Christ, my Lord, the king, suffered in torture thirty three years to win tho love of this world. Often ffrincosses at their very birth are pledged in treaty of marriage to princes or kings of earth, so this nation at its biith was pledged to Christ for divine marriage. Before C jlurribn* and his 120 men embarked ori the Santa Maria, tho Pinta and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the last tiling they did? They sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Igircl Jesus Christ. After they caught, the first glimpse of this country and the gun of ono ship had announce I it to the other vessels that land had been discovered, what, was the song that went up from all the three decks ? “Gloria in exeelsis.” After Columbus and his 120 men hail stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, what, did they do ? They all knelt and consecrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots do aftz-r they landed in the Carolina* ? What did the Holland ref ugi es do after they bad lande 1 in New York ? What did the Pilgrim Fathers do after they landed in New England ? With bended knee and unfitted face and heaven besieging prayer they t/xik possession of ties continent for God. How was the first Amer ican Congress opened ? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see ko w good God has lieen to us! Just open the map of the continent aud m e how it is shaped for immeasurable prospei i- 1 ties: navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling on all sides into the sea, prophesying large man u faotures and easy commerce. Look at the great ranges of mountains timtiered with wealth on the top and sides, metalled w,th wealth underneath. One hundred and eighty thousand square mile* of coal, 180,000 square miles of iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days—extreme heat or cold. Climate for the most part bracing and favorable for “SUB DEO FAOIO FOKTTTER." brnwti ntul brain. All fruits, all min erals, nil harvest*, Scenery dis playing an autumnal pageantry that no land on earth protends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No London fogs. No Egypt ian plagues. No Germanic divisions. ’I ho people of the United States ate happier than any people on earth. It is tho testimony of every mail that has traveled abroad. For the poor, more sympathy; for tie* industrious, more opportunity. Oh, how g.s'd God was to our father and how good Hellas been tons and our cnildren. To Him—hies 0.l lie His mighty name!—to Him oflcross nnd triunq h. to ililit who still remembers the prayer of tie* Huguenots nnd Holland refugee* and the Pilgrim Fathers*—^to Him shall this land lie married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your contributions nml your prayers hasten on the fulfilment of the text. We havo during the past six or seven vent s turned a new leaf in our national his tory hv tho sudden addition of foreigners. At. Kansas City 1 was told by a gentleman who tin 1 opportunity for large investigation, that a great multitude hail gone through there, averaging in worldly o-tate jstr.i. 1 was tolil in tho city of Washington by an officer of the Government who had opportunity for authentic investigation that thou anils and thoustnds bad gone, averaging SI,OOO in possession of each. 1 was told by tha Commission of Emi gration that twenty families that had arrived at Castle Garden brought $85,000 with them. Mark you, families, nut tramps, Additions to tin national wealth, not suhtra tons therefrom. I saw some of thorn reading their Bibles and their hymn books, thanking Go 1 for his kindness in helping them (■loss the son. Some of them had Christ in the steerage ull acres * the waves and they will havo Christ in the rail trains which every afternoon start for the great West. They are being taken by tho Commission of Emigration in New A ork, taken from tho vessels, protected from tho Shyloeks and the sharpers, and in tho name of God aud humanity passed on to their des tination ; nnd there they will turn your Ter ritories into States and your wijdernoss intt gardens, if you will build for them rhurchos nml eit iblisii for them schools and send to them Christian misdonarios. Are you afraid this continent is going to be overcrowded with this imputation? Oh, that shows you havo not beon to California 1 Unit, allows >'oil i.avo no*, ixien to Oregon that shows that you have n it been to Texas, A fishing smack to-day, on Lake Ontariu might as well be afraid of lieing crowded by other shipping before night as for any ouo of the next ten generations ol American* to lie afraid of being overcrowded bv foreign population! in this country. The one State of Texas ii far larger than all the Austrian empire, ynl til l Austrian empire supports 85,000,0J0 peo pin. The one State of Texas Is larger than all France, and Franco support* 1111,000,001 p ?oplo. The one Slate of Texas far surpasses in size tho Germanic empire, yet tho Ger manic empire supports 41,000|000 people. I toll you t he great wantof the Territories anil of the We item States is more population. Whilo some muy stand at the gates of tho city, saying: “Stan l back!” to foreign pop ulations, I press out as far beyond those gatos us 1 can press out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, saying: “Come, come!” “But, say you, “I am so afraid that they will bring their prejudice! for foreign fovernmants and plantthem here.” Absurd! 'iiey are sick of the governments that have oppressed them nnd thoy want free America! Give them the great gospel of welcome. Throw around thorn all Christian hospitali ties. They will add tbofr industry and hard earned wages to this country, and then wo will dedicate all to Christ, “and thy land Shall bo married.” But whore shall the marriage altar bel Lot it bottie Rocky Mountains,when, through artificial and mighty irrigation,all their top shad be covered, as they will bo, with vine yards and orchards and grain fields. Then let the Bostons and the New York* and tin Charlestons of the Pacific coait, come to the marriage altar on one side, and then let the Bo items and the New Yorks aud the Charles tons of the Atlan'ic coast come to tho marriage altar on tho other side, and there between them let, this bride of nations kneel: and then if the organ of tho loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Nevada* on the ono side or moved tho foundations of the Alleghenies it the other side, should open full diapason ot wedding march, that organ of thunders could not drown tho voiceof Him who should take the hand of this bride of na tions, saying: “As a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, ho thy Cod rejoiceth over thee.” At that marriage banquet shall lie the plat tors of Nevada silver nud the chalices of Cali fornia gold arid tho fruits of Northern orchards nnd spices of Southern groves and tho tai>estry of American manufac ture und tho congratulations from all the free nations of earth and from all the tri umphant urmies of heaven. “Anil so thy land shall bo married.” (lobbied. 1 Cl h t f' ■ ! in. v I :L " “Ain’t it?”— Life. A Nice Gentleman. “I say, Molly, I met such a nice g< n tiemau in the park. He spoke to me and I’m to meet him again to-morrow.” “Iteally? Did he tell you his name, Kate?” “Yes; he said it was Mr. John Smith.” “Oh, pshaw! that's the name they all give. ” — iiiJ'tirt/ji. Pit kerb;, shooting has become a favorite sport at I-ake Whitney, near Now Haven. The sportsman with hi* rifle walks along the hank, and when a pickerel darts out irsn near the shore aud stops an instant near the surface he fires, and, if he is a good shot, kills the fish. THE “ALABAMA.” The Confederate Cruiser’s hast Engagement How Sho Was Sunk by tho “Koirsarge" Off tho Fronch Ooast. From nn account of “Life on tho Ala bama,” by one of her sailors, in tho Cen tury, wo quote tho following: “Wo got everything ship-ahapo nml loft Cherbourg for our last cruise on a bright Sunday morning, June 10th. Wo were escorted by a French armored vessel, nnd when wo got outside we could sec the Kcnrsargo awaiting us, about four miles away. Captain Semmes made us a short speeeli which was well received, though it scorned o<ld to mo that an American should ap peal to mi Englishman’s love of glory to animate him to light tho sjM'ukcr’s own countrymen. But we cheered, and the French ship leaving us, wo strained straight for tho Koarsargo. There is no doubt that Homines was flurried and com menced firing too soon. We were, I should say, nearly a mile away, and I do not think a single shot told. The enemy circled around us and did not return our lire until within seven or eight hundred yards nnd then sho let us have it. The first shot that struck us made tho ship reel iyul shake all over. 1 was serving on one of tho thirty-two pounders, and my sponger was an old mnn-o’-war’s man, who remarked, after a look out of tho port, ‘We might a* well flro hotter pad dons as these pop-guns: a few moro bills like that last nnd wo may turn turtle.’ 110 had scarcely spoken when n shell burst under our pivot-gun, tilting it out of range and killing live of the crow. ‘What is wrong with tho riflo-guu?’ was asked. ‘Wo don’t seem to be doing tho enemy any harm,’ while with slow preci sion came tho crash of the heavy shell of tho Yankee. One missile that seemed as big ns a haystack whizzed ovit our heads, taking a section of tho port bulwarks away, fortunately missing a man that was handling shot. He only remarked that ho believed tile Yankee was tiring ‘steam-b’ilers’ at us. Another shell struck us amidships, causing the ship to list to port so that our gun weighing three tons raced in, pinning ono poor fellow against the port-sill. He died be fore we could get him clear. This was the missile that sunk the Alabama. ‘Hlic’s going down!’ was the cry, uml ull was confusion. Another shell struck about tho water-1 1 uc,and the vessel reeled liko a drunken man. Tho dead and wounded were lying about the deck, which was red with blood. Our officers did their duty and the men at once be gan to get up tho wounded. The cutter and launch were in the water, und the officers were trying to keep the men back till the wounded were all in; but certain ly many of them were left, for I saw sev eral on the berth-deck when I went be low, and the boats were then full and pushing off. When it was certain tlint the ship was sinking, all order was at an end. I had £lO und a watch in u lock er between decks, and 1 ran below, but they wefe gone. “ ‘All hands on deck—ship’s going down I’ was called, and I had just got on the upper step of the forward compan ion-way when the water, entering the berth-deck ports, forced the air up and utmost carried mo off my legs. I east my eyes around for a moment. Old Gill, with bis head crushed under the carriage of the eight-inch gun, was lying there, his brawny bunds clinching the breast of his jumper. Just as the water came over the stern I went over the port bulwarks. J was a good swimmer, and had not been in the water five minutes when a French pilot-boat came running past, and a brawny fellow in petticoats and top-boots dragged me out of the water.” G’liorolnle. There is no reason why Monroe County should not afTor*l a large portion of the chocolate which is consumed in the Unit ed States. We have a climate and soil which is admirably adapted to its pro duction, and it will certainly pay a hand some profit upon any proper investment made in its cultivation. The name is de rived from the Aztec chocolati, and it is, os we know, a nutritious drink, and is prepared from the cocoa, which is the fruit of the theobroma cocoa. The tree is found in Central America, South Amer ica and Mexico, and in the West India Islands. It is a beautiful evergreen, growing to the height of from twelve to twenty feet; produce.** both fruit and flowers during the entire year, nnd is one of the handsomest plants known. The fruit is about live or six inches long, nnd about two and a half in diameter, and is shaped like a pod of okra. It turns yel low when ripe, and contains generally from twenty to thirty beans in the fruit. These are arranged iu rows in a rose col ored pulp, which is sometimes eaten. VOL. I. NO. 10. The fruit ripens in Juno and December at which time tho beans, which are abou tho size of shelled almonds, are separated from tho pulp and dried in tho sun, when they aro ready for the market. They aro then roasted like coffee, which causes tho shells to separato from the beaus. Theso shells aro sorted by winnowing, and form an inferior cocoa. Tho seeds thus pre pared aro sometimes used for food after .being boiled a long time, but if they aro to be made into chocolate they nre ground, mixed with starch, sugar and other sub stances, and mado into cakes. The best chocolate, however, is simply made from shelled beans, which aro parched and ground like coffee. Tho irregular pieces 1 into which the seeds separate after being shelled aro called nibbs, and are tho pur est form in which cocoa can bo bought. Collector Harris is now experimenting with sotno of tho seeds, with a view of starting n cocoa farm. It takes about threo years for the plants to como into bearing.— Key Went (Fla.) Democrat. Canned Hoods, In the testimony brought forward in tho recent Kolycr-Thurbcr ense, much light was thrown by export and other witnesses upon tho methods, in some in stances, of tho canning trade. Besides tho copper boiling and zinc soldering practices, other reprehensible modes of manufacture were testified to. One wit ness, who said that he had been in tho cnnniug business for thirty years, guve a simple means of distinguishing spoiled from wholesome fruit. It is understood thnt when air can get at the contents of tho can decomposition will ensue. Tho wholosomencss of tho goods, therefore, depends entirely upon the nir-tight con dition of tho can. Tho witness asserted that when a can is perfectly air tight there will be a hollow in tho heads- that is, they will cave in. If they are level, and spring back when pressed upon, they are known to the trade as “spring bot toms" that is, air has got in and the contents are in a state of fermentation. Tho cans have been badly soldered or sealed up. If the “spring bottoms” stand long enough thoy become what is known ns “swell-heads” -that is, the bottoms have become convex and swell out, a condition due to the generation of gases by the process of fermentation. In order to sell these goods unscrupulous dealers resort to what witnesses called “reprocessing.” That is, the dealers make a hole in the bead of the can, heat the fruit and solder it up again; or, as this trick is easily detected, shrewder manufacturers melt open tho original vent-hole, heat tho fruit and then resol dcr the cun at the old place. This leaves no murk, and therefore removes all evi dence that the can has been tampered with.—j New York, Commercial. Hair for Wigs. The hair for making wigs comes from all parts of the world. Tho natural blonde comes from Norway and Sweden. Dealers in the south of Franco supply great quantities of dark hair, and thou sands of pounds of black hair arc brought from Italy to New York every year. China sends us the cheapest hair, but it is rather course, and is used in manu facturing low-grade theatrical wigs and back-pieces, braids and bangs for ladies' street wear. By bleaching anil dyeing, Chinese hair can be given any color that is desired. But it assumes auburn shades best, and an enormous quantity of it has been used. Tho Hwcdish hair is rarely longer than twenty-two inches, and when received here it is always dirty and teeming with insects. French hair is generally clean, but the Italian hair, which comes to New York in 100-jiound bundles, is ex ceedingly filthy, and the workmen who clean it before it is purchased by the wig-makers sometimes contract diseases from handling it. Dyed hair is called “dead,” and becomes harsh after being worn a short time. Chemicals are used to give it a glossy appearance. Besides the tmman hair large quantities of yak and angora goat hair and jute fiber aro used. War Prices In llio Snutli. A few days ago a party of gentlemen were discussing high prices in the South during the latter part of Lite civil war. “I paid S3O a yard for a suit of gray cotton jeans,” said the first speaker, “and the suit of clothes cost me S3OO after be ing cut and made." “The biggest trade I made during the war,” said No. 3, “wass3o for a spool of cotton thread.” “And I,” said No, 3, “paid sf.» for a shave." “llow could a man carry enough change in his pocket to buy anything?” I ventured to ask. “They stuffed it in their hats, boots, pockets, or most anywhere it would stick, rt plied No. I.— Darn,grille, Co., Mail.