Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 October 1853 — Page 2

THE JOUMAL.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Thursday morning, Oct. 13, 1853.

OCr'WM. P. RAMEY, 13 an authorized Agent for the

JOURNAL.

MONTGOMERY

He will take subscriptions,

receive money, and give receipts.

OCT3 Business of a pressing nature prevented us this week from giving the usual amount of editorial matter.

The Temperance Dogger j. We are informed by gentlemen doing business on the west side of the square, that an individual, under the pretence of selling beer and cakes, is constantly retailing drinks of BO stimulating a character as to produce drunkenness in those who partake.— It is believed that alcoholic liquors are retailed in disguise. It is well known that drunken men are almost constantly in and about the door. The circumstancial evidence all tends to prove that the law is constantly violated, and that too in open day.— If such be the fact, (of which there is but little doubt,) why.are not tho penalties of the law brought to bear upon the offender? Will the good citizens of this town and county stand listlessly by and witness the constant and gross violation of law without putting forth efiorts to sustain that law. Those who thus put at defiance tho laws of the land, who thus outrage public opinion, who seem bent! on trampling down the most sacred rights of men, whose lust for gain would induce them to degrade and brutalize their fellow men, cannot be regarded as good citizens, they are a curse to the community in which they live, and the severest penalties of the law should at once be visited upon them. Let the voice of public indignation be thundered in his ears until he is compelled tosis dest from his nefarious traffic and engage in some legal business.

A NEW PAPER AT INDIANAPOLIS.—WE have received the prospectus of an independent paper to be published at Indianapolis, under the care of Geo. H. Chapman and Horatio S. Garner. It will doubtless be "an independent paper but we should not, in the least, be surprised if it caused the Hon. Wm. J. Brown to give another most awful shake of the head.

It is to be called Chapman Chanticleer," and proposes to be "guided by the great principles of Justice, Honesty and Charity."

Price .to mail subscribers, $1,25.

CRAWFORD & MULLUUN are now receiving a large and splendid stock of fall and winter goods, ready made clothing &c., &c., which have been selected with great care, and are now offered on the most reasonable terms. Jno. Crawford always buys excellent and beautiful goods. Advertisement

next week.

WM. W. GALEY has received his supply of ready made clothing, selected by himself. His long experi­

ence

in the tayloring business gives him superior advantages in purchasing clothing of the best quality.--

Give him a call.

jXJM. P. Campbell has received hls Goods, and is opening and distributing them to the good people ofold Montgomery. His stock is large and complete. Advertisement next week.

THE GERMAN STOKE.—Ourold friend David Wertheim, is now receiving and opening his fall and winter block of

Dry-Goods,

&.c.

He

ples.

has a longtime been enga­

ged in the Clothing business, and doubtless has this fall, as on formei oc-ca-sions, made such selections as would come as near as possible suiting the wants of this people. Advertisement will appear next week, enumerating some of the many articles that compose his stock.

'•OCT3We have again been presented with five apples by another of our subscribers, Mr. J. B. McCollough, weigh, ing 5 lbs. and 15 ozs. They were large and flue, friend Mc., but you must try again before you carr-carry off the palm, in the way of large ap­

WAR PROSPECTS.—A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune, writing from Lavaca county, Texas, says that an omen of war is now visible in Western Texas, which the old inhabitants of that region say has never jailed of its result since the time of the Republic of Texas. This is the fact that a large number of Mexicans

living

in Texas in the neighborhood

of the Rio Grande arc departing-for Mexico*.

PRIZE ESSAY,

On

the Best Method of Improving Soils, by R. T. Browo, M.

D.

To apply a specific and uniform course of treatment to every variety of soils, would be as arrant quackery as to propose to cure all the maladies of humanity by the same remedy.— A practical knowledge of Agricultural Chemistry is the basis of scientific farming. A perfect soil—that is a soil best adapted to the production of the greatest variety of economical vegetables, is composed of organic and inorganic substances combined in certain fixed proportions. Now when any one or more of these^are deficient, or redundant at the expense of others it is evident that this soil will manifest this departure from the standard of a perfect soil by its diminished productiveness.

Of these substances composing soils, there are two distinct classes, to wit: 1st. Those substances whose mere presence seem to stimulate vegetable life without contributing any of the materials which go to form the vegetable organism. 2d. Those substances which are taken up by the growing plant and by assimilation become a part of it. There is indeed a third class of substances which effect the productiveness of soils by operating on the second class, and bringing the elements of vegetable sustenance into such a condition that the plant can use and appropriate it in its growth. For it must be remembered that vegetable food must always be in the fluid or the gaseous form. Hence all solid substances intended to furnish material for tue growth of plants must be capable of being dissolved in water that it may be taken up by the roots of the plants and thus subjected to the action of assimilation by the inherent power of the living vegetable. Many soils are rich in all the elements of vegetable food, but those elements exist in a form or combination which render them insolvable in water and places them at once beyond the reach of absorption by the roots of the growing crop.

It is not only the Humus or organic matter that is thus liable to exist in an insoluble form in soils, but several mineral substances which are essential to growth of the cereal grains especially. Of those the most important is Flint and Lime: (silex and calcium.)

The smooth Varnished appearance presented by the straw of almost all kinds of grain, the stalks of corn &c., is owing to a coating of silicious matter—real flint. In addition to this almost all vegetables contain lime, iron and potash all of which must exist in the soil in such a form that the growing vegetable can absorb them and thus appropriate them to its own use. For what is not in the soil beneath them, nor in the air around them, cannot be found in any vegetable. The first lesson in scientific agriculture is to learn that vegetables create nothing—every thing composing them whether found in the stalk, leaf, fruit, or grain, existed in some other combination in the earth or air surrounding and supporting them.

To improve a soil implies a prior knowledge of what its deficiencies are —to ascertain these defects does not n7f.essarily require a chemical analy-

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Ready Made Clothing

soil to be "improved" tho'

in most cs.«es would be not only the shortest but Eosl certain method of arriving: at the kno\viOdge rivcessary. If the soil fails to produce a of a vigorous growth we may infer, if the land be founded on a clay subsoil, that it is dificient in humus,or the humus exists in an insoluble form. But if the plant grow vigorously at first, but about "pointing time" its growth seems to be suddenly arrested and the stalk matures soft and feeble and liable io fall, producing finally an imperfectly filled grain then we may safely conclude that there is a deficiency of "soluable silex in the soil to form the external glazing for the straw, or stalk. An attentive farmer by watching the progress and growth of his crop can generally infer pretty correctly what his soil needs to improve it.

The qualities of soil in this part of the Wabash Valley may be arranged in about four classes to wit:

1st. Prairie—2d. Hazle barrens— 3d. Rolling sandy loam lards heavily timbered with sugar maple, wal^ nut, poplar &c.,--4th. Summit, clay lands, timbered with a dense growth of oak, hickory, beech, elm, &c.

The principle defect in the prairie soil is a lack of mineral substances, or what is the same a redundance of organic: matter. Indeed, tfw surface

soil in many places, especially in the wet prairies, seems to be composed almost entirely of the ruins of successive crops which annually have flourished and decayed for centuries The eastern farmer, who has been taught to believe that a rich supply of humus or vegetable mould was all that was necessary to fertility in a soil, will be misled most certainly by the appearance of the wet prairies of the west.

To improve this soil, three things are necessary, to wit. 1st. A perfect drainage. This can best be secured by attending to the surface and spring waters that descend from the higher lands adjacent collecting them into proper channels and conveying them to the most convenient streams, and by a system of covered ditches traversing the land to be drained in such directions as will carry off any redundance of surface water. 2d. The addition to the surface soil of a larger proportion of clay and sand. This can best be effected by

subsoil plowing. An addition of 25 or 50 per centum to the crops of the prairie land of this county can be effected by a thorough subsoiling every year. 3d. The black prairie mould of this country will be essentially improved by the spreading of 8 or 10 bushels of lime to the acre- The lime is not only required to supply a defect in the amount of that very necessary element in a perfect soil, but it is needed to act as an alkali to render the vegetable matter of the soil more soluble.

The prairie soils of this vicinity, treated in this manner and cultivated judiciously will improve for years, before they will require to be replenished by vegetable manures.

The hazel barren, is a quality of soil differing very much from the prairie, both in its general appearance and actual composition tho' they are commonly found in the vicinity of each other. Most of the soils of this class that I have had an opportunity of examining contain the mineral elements in nearly the proportions for a perfect soil but the per cent, of organic matter is generally too low. For prescut production it will, in a majority of cases, excel ihe prairie, whose appearance promises so much more. This is owing to the soluable condition in which the vegetable matter is held by presence of its mineral elements. This fact should admonish the farmer to carefully husband the organic matter in this soil, by a judicious rotation of crops, and by carefully returning to each field the straw, &c., of each years production. The more clayey of this class of soils are somewhat disposed to brake after heavy rains, or if stirred when too wet. This defect may, in a great measure, be remedied by the application of lime or ashes.

The third class of soils is found in this portion of the country, most generally in the vicinity of water courses, embracing not only the alluvial, or "bottom" lands but often extending several miles from the stream.— It is an excellent quality of soil, adapted in its character to a very wide range of agricultural products. It is rather an object of preservation than improvement. Yet with all its treasures of fertility, even the rich loam lands of Indiana will not long endure the careless and exhausting mode of farming, too often adopted in this country. A careful replacing of all the organic substances taken by' each snccssive crop together •\l -"aqirt'ial rest in clover" is with an oiA.aai°.i tr» npi ^etuate the all that is requircu

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fertility of this class of

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nitely. The action, or more properly, the agency of clover in restoring soils exhausted by successive cereal crops is not generally understood by the practical farmers with whom I have conversed.

Soils thus exhausted, almost invariably feel that exhaustion first in a deficiency of soluble silex to act as a "bone earth" in giving a strong glazing to the straw or stalk. Now timothy, blue grass, and indeed almost all our grasses take up more or less of this material in? forming their straw, but clover has an unglazed stem, and consequently its growth suffers this important ingredient to accumulate in the soil exposed to the sunshine and the showers and all the genial influences of the elements. It is therfefore not merely as a green dressing that clover acts as a fertilizer but mainly by its non-use of the soluble silex or bone earth of the grains it suffers that essential ingredient to accumulate in the soil. Perhaps this would be the proper place

to say (that this process of rendering the silicious portion of the soil soluble, may be greatly ficihtated by the use of lime, or any other convenient alkali. This is a matter of the first importance in a country like this, where farming confines itself almost entirely to the production of successive crops of wheat, corn, and the other cereal grains. Every farmer knows that if he fails to produce a strong and vigorous stalk he need not expect a heavy yield of grain and a vigorous stalk cannot be produced without a supply of silicious substance soluble in water it matters not how rich a soil may be in other elements.

The "summit lands" comprising our 4th class is a soil that has been generally rejected by the farmer seeking a fertile home among us. We must confess that in its natural state this quality of soil is exceedingly unpromising. A heavy growth of large trees interlocking their branches above and a dense undergrowth of smaller shrubs beneath completely shut out every ray of sunshine and greatly impede the free circulation of air. These circumstances covering a soil lying very level, and having a subsoil of heavy tenacious clay, cannot fail to produce much of what will be condemned as "swamp lands," in there natural state. Nothing is more common than an expression of astonishment from persons when they obeerve the change which comes over these wet lands when the shade is removed and the surface exposed to the evaporating influance^of sunshine and air.

Yet there is nothing marvelous in this change when we remember that nineteen twentyeths of all the water that falls on the face of the earth is carried back into the air by evaporation. We must then regard evaporation as the great drying process of all soils, but more especially of a soil like the summit lands that is based on a clay wholly impervious to water. The inclination, though small, is sufficient to secure surface drainage, if the channels are unobstructed. But a slight obstruction is sufficient to inundate acres during the winter and spring rains, and the dense shade of summer preventing evaporation, converts much of the summit lands into what are deemed swamps while "in the woods."

The first step towards improving this quality of soil will be to strip it of its shade and remove the fallen timber and other obstructions to the surface drainage. This in a majority of cases, is all that will be required to render these lands dry enough for the plow. But where this is not sufficient, resort must be had to covered ditches. This will if judicious1}' performed, in every instance render these lands sufficiently dry for ordinary agricultural purposes.

In their composition these soils exhibit a very general deficiency of sand and lrm«.- Analysis demonstrates that they contain a larger amount of organic substance than their clayey appearance would lead a person to believe. A great portion of this exists, however, in the form of insoluble humua. Such lands will be much improved by the free use of lime. It is not only necessary to supply the deficiency of that mineral', but it will act as solvent of the humus and by its alkaline property render the clay less stiff' and tenacious, and consequently the soil mellower. Straw, barn-yard litter, stable manure and compost of every description will pay well on this quality of soil, and should be unsparingly used. It is no minor advantage in these summit lands, that whatever you put on them they retain the subsoil being ^pe«yiou3, and the surface drainage rapid to carry off never sutic.wl"v

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even that portion oi soluable. .At some future cia

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land becomes more valuable, the addition of sand to these Boils will pay a good per cent, in their increased productiveness. But at the present price of land unless sand can be procured very near at hand, it will not

pay. In conclusion I wish to make aremark on mineral manures in general, and- common salt as a manure in particular. The soil of this portion of the Mississippi Valley is not to be judged by- writers ih Europe, or even in the Atlantic States: Phey speak of soils formed always by the decomposition of the underlying rock and hence if the 6oil rests on and is derived from5 the granite, it will always show a deficiency of lime and other minerals not found in that formation. But if it rests on limestone then it will be deficient in silex, potash, &c. To make these soils perfect

these mineral deficiencies must always be supplied. But ouf* soil is not derived from the flock beneath rial. It is furnished by the decomposition of a promiscuous drift composed of clay, sand and pebbles of almost every variety of rocks composing the crust of our globe. This is the best possible arrangement for securing a fertile soil.

The mineral manures applied generally to our soils will disappoint very often the expectations raised by eastern writers.

The use of common salt (chloride of soda) in light soils has been introduced within a few years past with very marked results, and I have no doubt but its use in much of our light prairie lands would be decidedly advantageous. It greatly increases the absorbent power of the soil and this in time of drouth is a desideratum not to be overlooked. It has been used in various'quanties from a'peck to two bushels to the acre. Foraroot crops such as potatoes, turnips &c., it will be highly applicable.

Crawfordsville Sept. 28,1853.

Telegraphed for the Indiana Journal. Foreign News. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE— THREATNING ASPECT OF TURKISH AFFAIRS. Sultan called on to Declare War or Abdicate—Attempt of the Powers to induce Turkey to accept the Vienna

Note—Austria Backing out—Depression of the Money Market—Spanish Ministry Resigned—Georgia Election—Foreign and Domestic Markets, fyc., §c. NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—The Arabia has arrived with Liverpool dates to the 24th.

The Turkish affairs are more warlike. Sales of cotton at Liverpool for the week, 25,000 bales. Orleans fair 9f. The demand is moderate and the lower qualities have declined most. Speculators took 2,000 and exporters 3,000 bales.

LIVERPOOL, 24.—Cotton is very dull, •Jd decline, generally the exception being good stapled Orleans 6fa6^per lb ordinary sells slowly at a reduction.

The demand for money is tighter, but there is no change in the rate of bank discounts. Consols are very much depressed.

The provision market is quiet. Breadstuffs.—The market is active and buoyant. Week's advance on (lour lsGd, on wheat" 5d, and Indian corn 4d. Western canal flour 32s 6cl and 33s Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Ohio 34^ white wheat 9s 5da9tr 8d red and mixed 8s 9a 4d. Indian corn —yellow and white 39s a 40s.

Tallow has advanced to 56s ashes are unchanged rosin is in good demand, 7s a lis lor common to fine spirits turpentine 58s lard is active at 52s on the spot, andSSaaGOs to arrive in the spring cloverseed 47s, linseed cake is active.

The aspect of the Turkish difficulties is more threatning than ever.— The Turks are roused. A dispatch from the lanatics even called on the Sultan to declare war or abdicate tho throne. In the meantime the great powers are endeavoring to induce the Sultan to accept the original Vi enna note, but Austria shows symptoms of backing out from the alliance with France and England, to side with Russia.

This news has seriously depressed the money market. There is nothing else new except that the Spanish Ministry have resigned.

FURTHER FOREIGN NEWS The Arabia brings 130 passengers. She passed the Atlantic on the -2Gth of September, and exchanged signals at midnight on the 28th with a steamer supposed to be the Asia.

She passed the Arctic on the 4th, at 5 o'clock in tile morning. The cholera is ravaging many towns and cities in England, Ireland, and the north of Europe, averaging one hundred deaths per day. One hundred and thirty deaths occurred at Stockholm on the 13th of September, and at Barcelonia there had been 932 deaths out of a population of 12,000.

McHenry's Circular quotes provisions with no new feature. The Government contracts lor beef is £6 6s to £7. Pork is firm. Tallow is cxcitfd• Corn sells at 40s.

Uou\'::—^ower nualities are 1-8 lower and miduiing dec^r-d the same.

At Constantinople incendiary placards continued to be pasted upon the walls, and there is a bitter feeling against England and caricatures of that government are freely circulated.

The general feeling at Constantinople was that the Sultan would make no further coneessions to Russia or the powers, and it was also rumored that the disputes between the English and French Ministers had been revived. The French Minister insisting' that the fleets should come up to Constantinople and Lord Radcliffe objecting.

Dispatches from Vienna to the 20th confirm the report that Austria had backed out, having refused to sanction the guarantee against any further interference on the part of Russia between the Porte and his subjects.

Another dispatch from the s&me

place states, that instructions have beeil sent to the Bhglish and French Ministers at Constantinople, urging ..the Porte to accept the first note.

The Bey of Tunis has informed the Porte that his contingent force was ready to take the field.

From Rid jaiieiro.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.—Com. Coe, late of the Buenos Ayrean Navy, arrived here to-day from jftio Janeiro.

The U. S. ship Jamestown was at Rio Janeiro August 6, last fr.om Montevideo.

A correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer writing from Rio Janeiro, August 5 states that the U. S. steamer Water Witch had arrived there from Buenos Ayres with a confirmation of the report of the defeat of Urquza. He was at Entrerios, and still calls himself Provincial Director of the Argentine Confederation,

Arch Bishop Hughes has brought an action for slander against the proprietors of the Episcopal Record of Philadelphia.

The Herald says a letter has been received in his city from a gentleman in Vienna, stating that tho Austrian Government had given its consent to the liberation of Koszta, with the understanding th.it he shall proceed directly 10 the United States.

From Mil wau kie.

MILWAUKIE, Oct. 8.—The Whig State Convention nominated L. J. Farwell for Governor, E. D. Halson for Lieut. Governor, J. A.IIeadly for Secretary of State, and J. S. Baker for Comptroller, Gov. Farwell accepted as asmarine candidate exclusively.

Varieties,

—It is announced that Senator Shields is recovering from his late attack of illness.

—The Grand Jury of New York have indicted over one thousand persons for illegalty^selling liquor.

—A collosal iron statue of Henery Clay is in course of erection at Pottsville, Pa.

A fresh batch of tho. counterfeit New Haven "tens" have been put afloat. Look out for them.

The military expenses of the United States amount to over §2,000,000 a year.

The woman who was "buried in griel" is now alive and doing well It was a case of premature interment.

The man who 'couldn't contain himself,' was found, upon inquiry, to contain about a quart of the fluid of corn!

—The Mobile Advertiser says that the number of deaths by yellow fever in that city, is invaribly understated hy thft tf»lf*.grPfipk oammnnipatinnj.

Did we always do our duty by acting in accordance with the admonitions of the divine teacher within ire, we should have few regrets.

--Rev. Wm. H. Beacher, was installed last week as pastor of the Bethesda Church, Reading Mass.— The sermon was preached by his brother, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

It was remarked by an intelligent old farmer, "I would rather be taxed for the education of the boy than the ignorance of the man for one or the other I am compelled to be."

How very seldom it happens, said ono friend to another, that we find editors who are bred to'the business. Very, replied the other, and have you not remarked how seldom the business is bread to the editors.

LARGE COLT.—Mr. M. T. Jolly. Calloway county, Mo., has a colt sixteen months old, which is 15 hands 3£ inches high, measures two feet around the girth, and weighes 1,040 pounds.

THE pimples oh a toper's face are and old-fashion sort of "spiritual manifestation." The cannot be said to come exactly from beyond the grave but they show clearly that the "medium" is hurrying himself toward the grave.

—Some of the wealty members of the congregation of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, N. Y. have generously presented him with $15,000 for the purchase of a country seat, and he has accord'lgnly bought a farm in the beautiful town of Lenox, Mass.

As the sun in all its splendor was peeping over the Eastern hills, a newly married man exclaimed—"The gloof the world is rising!" His wife who happened to be getting up at that moment, taking the compliment to herself, simpered—" W7hat wouid you say if I had my new dresa on?"

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—A writer in the Intelligencer communicates a curious incident. A little girl was standing at a window, before which was a young maple tree. After a brilliant flash of lightning a complete image of the tree was found- imprinted on her body. This is not the first instance ofthe kind.—Newark Adv.

'Elder will you have a drink of cider?' inquired a farmer of an old temperance man who was spending the evening at his house. 'No, thank ye,' said'the old man, 'I never drink liquor of any kind—'specially cider—but if you call it apple juice, I don't.care if do take a-lee-tle.'

DCT^ "A married couple," say a. the Gazette des Tribunaux, "after living together on bad terms for some time, resolved, a few days ago to seperate. They sold all their furniture but finding the sum it realized not very important, they prosed to commit suicide, and they went to the Canal St. Martin to execute the design. The husband leaped in first, but after awhile being a capital swimmer, he raised his head above water and.preceived his wife standing quietly on the bank watching him. He began abusing her, and said that, according to their conventions, she ought to drown herself. Instead, however, of complying, she accused him of intending to let her drown, whilst ho saved himself by swimming. Ho called on her to plunge in at once, without any more talk but she refused. Thereupon he got out of the water and gave her a tremendous thrashing. Some persons who came up went to seek the guard, and the loving pair were arrested. On being questioned they made

known.

OCT3

(.the

fact»

Capt. May, 'The'Subscriber,'

as he calls himself, of Cincinnati, has strayed oft' to Philadelphia, and thus, in his characteristic style seeks employment of almost any kind:

WANTED—Immediately—By one who is constitutionaly opposed to stealing, and too much of an American to beg—either of the following situations: Editor, Reporter, Steamboat Captain, Conductor, 'Pica Setter,' Clerkship, Salesman, or Traveling Agency—rather than bo idle, would have no conscientious scruples in taking charge of a small congregation, upon American principles.— Apply to

Capt. F. D. MAY, Evening Argus Office. Frank, is a true specimen of the devil-may care rollicking, intelligent Jour. Printer.—Slate Jour.

How TO PUT UP SHIRT BOSOMS.—We have heard ladies expressing a desire to know by what process the fine gloss observable on new linens, shirt bosoms. &c., is produced, and in order to gratify them, we subjoin tho following recipe for making Gum Arabic starch.

Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic powder—put it into a pitcher, and pour on it a pint or more of boiling water (according to the degree of strength you desire,) and then having covered it, let it set all night. In the morning, pour it carefully from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it, and keep it for use. A table spoonful of gum water poured into a pint of starch made in the usual manner, will give to lawns, (either white or printed) a look of newness, when nothing else can restore them after washing. It is also good (much dilutfrl\ fnr thin mnalin «»«-/l KrKi. net.

[CT A little girl, some twelve years of age, was found in company with an unmitigated scoundrel of fifty more, on Friday, who had attempted to obtain license to marry her. Tho rascal was run off, the child taken to' Kirchner's Hotel, and on Saturday she was sent back to her parents, who' live near Cincinnati. It is said the man, who called himself Webster,?! has a wife, and has been prosecuted in' Kentucky for an outrage perpetrated on the person of a female in that State.—Madison Banner.

•—Rev. Dr. Murray, of Elizabethtown, N. J. (better known as Kirwan)* recently preached his 20th anniversary sermon. When he became pastor of the church, there were 550 members, of whomiess than two hundred5 remain. The additions have been' 753. The present number of communicants is over 100 larger than' when the Doctor began his pastorate.' He has preached6252*

sermons, made

385Q pastoral1 visits, solemnized 28Q" marriages, and baptised nearly 500'' children.

CCP At a German mass meeting recently held at Toledo, the followingresolution was adopted:'

Resolved, That at the ensuing election for State and county officers, we will oppose any candidate who is in favor of a temperance law since we consider such an act unconstitutional,: and not only subversive ,of human rights and social freedom, but also an attempt to introduce tyranny in ita worst form in the country where hu-: man freedom should be exercised tot its fullest extent.

Now AND THEN.—A writer in the" Trumbull (O.) Democrat says: "Thirty-five years ago we came to Ohio and in doing so passed through what was called the'four mile woods' this side of Buffalo. It then took a' whole day to pass through this four mile mud hole. In the excursion last pyeek we passed over the same ground in five minutes. Thirty-five yearsago it took us forty-days to travel six hundred miles and now the journey ia made in less than that- manyhours."

Flying Artilery.—Six guns have been shipped from Jefferson Barracks on board the Grand Turk", and are destined for the frontier, in view oftho Mesilla Valley question and the recent disturbance along the frontiers.

PANTALOONDOM AT A DISCOUNT.

The

Boston Chronicle speaks of the ordination of the Ilov. Antoinette L. Brown, as pastor of a church at South Butler, New York which took place last week, as an evidence that men arc going out of fashion!'