Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1877 — Page 4

TIIE IXDXAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING APRIL 11. 1S77.

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

Bubserlbers whose time has eipired will please remit at once, or we shaU be compelled to drop their names from our subscription list. INDIANAPOLIS 8ENTINF.L OO. TERMS: One Subscriber one year....- -J I 50 ubs 4 subscribers, one year, to one P. O. 5 00 10 13 00 "20 mu 20 Where ten or more namnt are sen I In, an exIra copy 1 given to the get ur-up of the cluh Agents sending over four name and II St fo weh name will be allowed a com minion of wenty per cent, on the gross amount of their abcrlntlnna WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. The Donn Piatt case has been r.U?d. Kr.tr Yoei is agitating swill milt once more Tweed baa got to talk, as well ymj, or remain in the Tombs. Grant will finally make Galena his headquarters. The smell of the old tan-j'ard Las not lost its attractions. People who write to the Sentinel or for the Sentinel should give their real names, or save themselves the trouble. The Louisiana commission has held a sessien in New Orleans, which was chiefly devoted to the manufacture of conundrums. The Mexican weathercock is turning. Late advices to the Rio Grande Indicate that the country is on the brink of another revolution. Tue investigation into the L John's Guild scandal in New York reveals lax methods of book-keeping that would cast grave suspicion on any merely secular enterprise. The colored brother fs learning rapidly. He has just been detected in a swindle worthy of his white brother: telling ticket in New York to a concert that was not to be. Awful! He was arretted, of course. It would not do to allow a small fraud loose very long. It is demoralizing. The big fellow?, that steal presidencies, run loose. The mystery continues in the New York explosion case. That it was the result of design is now scarcely doubtful, but as to the events that led op to the tragedy there is little evidence. . The suggestion of the coroner that 'Dean, the surviving partner, knows more than he will tell, is probably well fortified. General Rock. A. Pavoit will address the Brooklyn grand army of the republic on May 30, Decoration day. The Methodist conference now in session at Boston, which has been calling Hayes to account lately, must denounce this idea of having & "red 'handed rebel" talking to the grand army. Everything se- ras to be going to ruin. Bad. BrstEM was mspended in New Orleans again on Friday for the purpose of holding a meeting by its leading business men to strengthen the hands of the Nicholls government. We hope they can stand such frequent interruptions. Nut a northern city would submit quietly to so many and frequent interruptions in her business, yet New Or'eans has been leading for years a business life in which serious and frequent interruptions have been the general rule. The city and the people' receive very little sympathy. Radical organs and Mr. Hayes says the southern people have stood, trouble and bad government for 10 years, and they can certainly stand them awhile loager. Ware Hamptoji somehow or other did not heed the radical press in the large amount i good advice it tendered him. He is as naughty as ever. On his return trip he made a little speech at Charlotte, North Carolina, and it mounded as ' bad and indis'creet" and "reielliou3" as ever. He paid that ''he was glad to tell the people who 'crowded about him that Mr. Hayes had 'respect enough for his country, the constitution, South Carolina and himself and mySelf not to even speak of compromises, but 'in a manly, independent way, ordered the 'troops awsy. I pledged myself in the cani'paiga that the people of South Carolina 'should en joy equal rights bo fore the law, regardless of race, party or class, and by the 'eternal God these pledges shall be re'deemed." The Metltodist conference at Boston should now take him in hand. IsnTKAD of reform ithin the radical party the probabilities favtfr a 'fight. The first thing in order, sas a Washington "special to the Cincinnati Commercial,''!, it is rejorted Ho stiffen uu Chamberlain and bring on a -'fight, or prolong theontteat in South Carolina. It is raid that heu Chamberlain was 'in New York last week he received not 'only encouragement to resist Hampton, but wa3 persistently urged to do so by me of the prominent lender of the extreme wing 'of the republican p trty; and that whereas h Icik V'li!;Ut. .villi IIa ui'.wi .julis

'made up to submit to the supremacy of the 'Hampton government, he came back per'suaded that he ought to show fight, and 'that he has gone home filled with that 'determination. His friends claim that by shrewdly usiDg the laws as forms for de'lays, he can remain in the state house at 'least eighteen months." Ben Butler and Blaine will be associated in the business of making it hot for Hayes.

Rhode Ilam does not seem to be so thoroughly enamored with radicalism as in days of yore. The democratic candidate for governor was defeated only by a few hundred votes at the election held there last week. The state has been an out and out radical state for years so much s that its constitution prescribes a property qualification for all foreigners. Our German and Irish friends should make a note of all such instances of radical proscription. Such features are not found in the constitutions of democratic states. They are the legitimate fruits of radicalism. THE II AI1I TH OF THE PRCSIDC.V TIAL FRAUD. The United States never enjoyed, until Hayes took possession of the white house, the luxury of a presidential fraud. Up to the hour when Hayes privately took the oath of office, perjury, though it had often robbed men and women of life, character and property, had never made a president of the United States. Perjury had peopled Lell and duDgeons, but had never risen to the sublime dignity of giving forty millions of free people a ruler. This crowning achievement of the devil's most trusted weapon was reserved for the United States of America, and the distinguished honors fell to the lot of R. B. Hayes, first in fraud, first in perjury and first in the affections of a party whose record is the foulest blot upon civilizatior. The habits of such a distinguished miscreant ought to be known and studied. The tastes of a usurper whose credentials are black with perjury and fraud ought to be known to the people over whom he exercises authority. They are said to be very simple and unostentatious. It is barely possible that this presidential ootgrowth of the Louisiana returning board, this official creation of Wells, Anderson and two negroes, this political foundling taken in and cared for by Judas Bradley and baptized in a nation's scorn, does not care to exhibit himself at Long Branch on account of the limited church privileges at that fashionable watering place, but prefers to remain nearer the sanctuary where he can hold communion with such saints as converted him, by a miraculous process, from a weak imbecile governor to a fraudulent president. Among those who are willing to parade the presidential tramp before the country as a model of simplicity, the Chicago Tribune is winning' the notoriety of a bottle holder in a prize ring. The Tribune is of the opinion that Hayes is "steering clear of temptations." lie was tempted by Wells and his confederate black-and tan thieves, and accepted their proffered infamy. What other temptation he has had since that time the Tribune does not state. Current report, however, is that his pimps and trainers have brought several temptations to the surface. He has been tempted to use his office to purchase support, and to silence the anathemas of the people. And later he has been tempted to violate the constitution by the appointment of a commission to visit Louisiana for the purpose of doing what in no sense pertains to the office of president. This fellow Hayes, who is in office by the potentiality of fraud, is u-uiping powers that do not belong to the office provided he bad obtained it in a constitutional way. An exchange puts the case forcibly by saying that "all the power he 'haa is to act as commander-in-chief of the 'army and navy, with power to grant reprieves and pardons, except in cases of im'peachment; make treaties with the coo'sent of the senate appoint ambassadors, 'by ministers and consuls and other officers 'whose appointments are provided for law, convene the two nouses on extraordinary 'occasions, and adjourn them in case of dis'agreement, and to see that the laws be faith'fully executed and commission all officers 'appointed according to law. 'Here end3 the power of the federal exec- ' u five, who has no more right to send a com'mission to Louisiana than he has to create 'any other office. For the eight to seven 'commission there was an act of congress. 'For the proposed Louisiana commission 'there is no power whatever. If he can ap'point he can clothe with power, provide 'payment for services, impose oaths for servue, etc., etc." These transactions indicate very conclusively that the presidential fraud is still the victim of temptation, and that he does not hesitate to yield to them, provided the result strengthens his hold upon office or in anywise serves to obscure the frauds by which it wa secured. It would be interesting for the Tribune to state just where its model returning board president obtuns the power to organize the Louisiana commission or to Interfere in any way with the government of a state, as also where he obtains his grant of power to dispose of state governments. Evidently Hayes has got fact, fiction, fraud and false Lood so mixed up in his policy that be is be wilde red, though there are no indications that his conscience is disturbed by the crimes that placed him in office. It is bad enough for the good name of the country to tolerate flayer as president, but to add to the national humiliation by pointing to him as a p'tttern of virtne is a specimen of brazen ef. fronterv sctrcely more objectionable than to make Juris and Jesus ctange places in history. It should be understood that Hayes is a presidential fraud, and that by no process of reasoning can the foul stains that attach to LU iiuc be u'jliteritL-i cr obscured.

DIVORCES. The authority for the statement that there is a steady increase in the number of divorces asked for and granted in the country is unquestioned. The statistics demonstrate the correctness of the declaration, and place it beyond cavil. The subject is very properly attracting attention, and remedies are proposed, criticisms are caustic and deplorable consequences predicted. So far as our reading familiarizes us with the subject, no adequate remedy is proposed. We do not remember to have seen the suggestion that, with more than Herodian cruelty, all mothers-in-law are to be quietly put out of the way as a means of promoting married felicity and domestic tranquillity. Admitting that the proposition is open to grave objections, it should be remembered that desperate cases require desperate remedies. Occasionally the remark is made that love has something to do with match-making and wedded life, but the idea is somewhat antiquated and does not to any very great extent enter nowadays into hymenial affairs. We are quite willing to admit that there are exceptions, but writing from a divorce standpoint it is safe to say, like angel visits, they are few and too far between by half. There are those who have come down to the present time with whitened locks and faltering steps whose hearts have been kept tender and lives pure by by the remembrance and realization of the fruition of "love's young dream," who said in the bright dawn of their manhood and womanhood "Go where we will, this hand in thtne, TßOf eyes before me smiling thus. Through good and Ul, through storm and shine, This world's a world of love to us,n and launching their barks upon life's troubled sea, have found each year bringing more abundant harvests of bliss to their homes. But as the years advance, the world is getting away from the poetical idea of marriage. True, there is no objection to a small amount of love; courting is not entirely abandoned; moonlight walks and whispered vows are still indulged in, bu( the business department, it is understood, must not be overlooked; if it is the mistake is likely to prove fatal. That is to say, a great deal of love will not atone for a vcy little money, but a princely income will make up for any deficiency of love. In fact, it does not matter particularly whether there be any love at all in the bargain, provided the shekels are secure. It must not be forgotten that whatever else marriage is, it is a civil contract by which two persons agree to live together as man and wife, or husband and wife a matter over which the church and religion have no control whatever. The law, which imposes all the conditions and obligations of the contract, does not provide that it shall be everlastingly binding, for since marriage is a civil contract in the eye of the law, 1 he lawmakers very wisely provide a remedy for mistakes and for their adjustment. Manifestly the law regulating marriage is imperfect, like other laws, atid men and women take advantage of their defect?, jest as they do in all other la w matters. If divorces are more numerous than formerly it would indicate that the civil contract has been made more hurriedly and injudiciously than in the olden time, when love, instead of lucre, dictated the terms. The New York Graphic relates a case of divorce where "a man, who had lived 'comfortably with his wife for ten years, left 'her and their two boys a few months ago to 'seek more remunerative business in Chica'go. He did not return, and she did not 'hear from him, but at last she did hear from 'Judge Cox of Utah, from whom she received 'a decree of divorce. No notice of the ap'plication had been served on her, and she 'knew nothing whatever of her husband's 'intentions till the decree of the court was 'received." This case the Graphic declares is only one of hundreds presenting similar hardships, and expresses the opinion that ''no wife is safe, no husband 'secure while the Utah law remains in 'force," and adds that "anybody can get di'vorced in thirty days without cause and at 'little expense, and without letting the other 'party know anything about the matter till 'the decree is obtained." We hold that divorces are never granted without cause, and it matters precious little what the cause may be if the parties to the marriage contract regard it of sufficient magnitude to separate rather than live lives of eternal turmoil. We have no desire to catalogue the causes recognized by the law as sufficient to warrant divorce. They 'may be too numerous and too frequently frivolous, but if they are of a character to make domestic happiness impossible then mercy and justice, a well as religion and the best interests of society, demand that the' contract should be annulled. If marriage contracts be inconsiderately entered into, as is the fashion in these latter days; if youth in its bloom and beauty is sacrificed upon the altar of ambition, pride or mammon, why demand that the fetters shall never be broken or the victim set free from an imprisonment worse than death? It is quite possible tbat the divorce laws of the country are defective, . but the real trouble lies deeper. Society must get back to the idea that marriage is a God-ordained celestial union; that to make it what it was designed to be, it must rise in dignity above

the real estate business .or gambling in 6tocks. In the United 8 ates it has come to this at last, that marriage is valid with or without any form or ceremony whatever a justice of the peace or a priest may tie the knot, God may or may not be recognised in the transaction, just as it hapens or suits the taste of the patics. And since marriage Is recognized as a civil c ntract simply, by the courts, we fail to see any valid reason why appljoM'ons for divorce should be treated by them as specially a serious matter. The great wrong is done wLaa persons who ought never to

have been married enter into that rtlation' and the laws should be so framed that when the mistake is found out the separation may take place with the least possible delay. The divorce laws do not stand so much in need of revision as the statutes regulating marriage. If God, the teachings of the Bible and religion are to have no voice in consummating the marriage contract, it is supreme folly to appeal to such considerations when divorces are demanded. RATS. Missouri is an empire state, of large area and vast resources. Her mineral wealth is exhaustless, her iron is piled up in mountains, her rivers are the largest, and her forests and fields are the most extensive and inviting of the sisterhood. Among her cities she numbers the "Future Great." Her people are enterprising and farseeing, and eminently capable of appreciating the boundless wealth which lies within their reach and invites them to put forth their largest energies. The lawmakers of Missouri have been in legislature assembled for several weeks, and under their new constitution and governor have doubtless considered well the wants of the commonwealth. Debt and taxation have not escaped attention. Crime and criminals have been discussed. Grasshopper raids have been subjected to standing and special committee investigation. New departures have been mapped out, and new theories advanced, but we venture the assertion that the Rat law, from a financial point of view, will be regarded as the most important statute of the Missouri code. The legislature has made a dead rat worth five cents to the person who kills it. We are not aware of any reliable statistics in regard to the rat crop of Mis ouri. The state includes an area of 05,350 square miles, and with a soil and climate favorable for the production and growth of rats the presumption is that the rodents are numerous throughout the entire state. Taking into consideration the cities, towns and villages of Missouri we conclude that it is safe to estimate an average of 1,000,000 rats to the square mile, which would give 60,350,000,000 as the present rat population of the state. This crop, at five cents a head, would amount to the neat little sum of $3,265,500,000. This sum total looks large, and the estimate may be excessive and therefore may be reduced seventy-five per cent, and then we have as the value of the present rat crop of Missouri, at five cents a head, $816.875,000. There may be those who understand the subjet better who will place the crop at still lower figures, since it is hardly to be supposed that Missouri has determined to exhaust her resources for the purpose of killing her rats. But admitting there are 1,000 instead of 1,000,000 rats to the square mile, the outlay, if the rats can be killed, would amount to $3.207,000, and few will doubt the proposition tbat if not more than onehalf are killed during any one year the stock on hand will never be reduced below 32,675.000 rats.' Here, then, is an opening for an entirely new branch of industry. We conclude from what we know of the law, that a young rat is as valuable to the slayer as an old one, and hence growing rats for market might be made more profitable than a moonshine distillery. The importation of rats to Missouri is likely to be profitable in future. Illinois, Iowa. Arkansas. Kansas and the Indian Territory could annu-Uly smuggle in a few millions, draw their pay and skip out without detection, unless the authorities have some method of determining the question of nationali ty. If other states find that Missouri increases her wealth by the expenditure of a few millions annually for the destruction of rats, and conclude to adopt her policy, the business will assume a magnitude vastly in excess of anything that commands the attention of the bureau ' of statistic", and the rat crop will be a matter of quite as much solicitude as the cattle, hog or cotton crop. Inventors will devise new methods for catching the old rata, and there will be more solicitude in regard to the supply. If Missouri can pay five cents a head for dead rats, we see no reason why other states may not do the same, and the effect upon financial affairs is eminently worthy of the consideration of George Francis Train.

HAYES INDICTED. We are informed that criminal proceedings have been commenced in Greene county, this etate, against R. B. Hayes, the fraudulent president of the United States. List week, while the grand jury of Greene county were in session, a conscientious citizen was summoned before that august body and asked if he knew of any violations of law. After some hesitation the fearless citizen replied affirmatively. Being required to state w hat he knew of such violations, the witness stated that one Rutherford B. Hayes had committed grand larceny by stealing the office of president. The testimony was of a character to demand the 6erious consideration of the charge, and after mature deliberation a bill of indictment was found and presented to the court. When the papers will be seryed is not stated. But if Hayes can be found within the jurisdiction of the court be will be compelled to answer. The trial will be one of the most exciting in the annals of crime, and Bloomfield 'will be brought into historical prominence. That Hayes is guilty there is not a shadow of doubt, and it pressed, he may, like Boss Tweed and Oakey Hall, seek for repose In a foreign land. Tuk state house at Columbia, South Carolina, is said to be one vast mess of filth and Termin. Hampton prorxws to bejsin his administration by taking the convicts from the penitentiary and a steam fire engine and giving it A good clcamug out. .

HENDRICKS IN THE WEST.

San Francisco Compliments Him With a Serenade. He Make One of III Is ml Happy Npeecbes In Reponfte. ISan Francisco Paper. The Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, candidate oi me aemocracy lor the vice presidency of the United States, was serenaded last evening at the Commercial hotel, corner of ivearny street, Montgomery avenue and I'acific street. A bare announcement of the intended compliment was m-de in only one or me evening journals, and the rallying time was too short for an immense throne oi worsniptui aanerents or the party. Had there been the forethought to announce the reception in the morning papers the assemblage would have blocked the streets, but as things were, from one to two thousand rendezvoused in front of the hotel, and when a band, limited in pieces, had performed a few patriotic and sentimental airs, Governor Hendricks presented himself in the handsome parlors of the hotel, accompanied by a coterie of friends, acquaintances and sympathizers. The company included the Hon. W. C. Hendricks, cou-in of the governor, state senator from Butte county; D. W. Ap Jones, Micadoe, commissioner from Japan; Mayor Bryant, Supervisor J. II. Wise, W. T. Coleman, Judge Provines, Judge J. B. Lamar. G. I'earce, Petaltima; T. J. Shackleford, Major Booke, T. A. Talbert, L. Quint, Lieutenant Governor Johnson, the Hon. T. Fowler, Tulare: A. C. Lawrence, of Kern; Judge A.C.Bradford Pioneer society; Judge C. W. Langdoa, Santa Rosa; Major General Vernon and Mr. Charles Gildea, Appearing on the balcony over the entrance, Lieutenant Governor Johnson, with Governor Hendricks by his side, said: "It a fiords me great pleasure to introduce our worthy standard bearer, Governor Hendricks, of Indiana." The introduction was welcomed with loud resounding cheers. Governor Hendricks spoke as follows: Fellow Citizens of California The fatigue which was brought about by official labors and other engagements during the past year made it necessary for me to take some rest and recreation. For that purpose, and also tor the purpose of visiting friends and looking after some matters of business, I decided to visit your beautiful and attractive country. From the day that I crossed the state line of California my journey has been ore of great pleasure to me great pleasure because of the beautiful scenery, great pleasure because of the cordial welcome J have received from the people ol this state. Cheers. I congratulate you upon the evidences which I see of improvement and development in your state. Mix years ago I visited California, and now, upon my return, I observe great improvement. 1 oiserve more land brought into cultivation. I observe improvement in your mining operations. I observe an increase in your gnat commerce. I congratulate you u Don this, and look orwa d, as you do, to a period when California will be yet 1 1 'her than she is to-day. I congratulate you, f llow citizens of this wonderul city, upon its increased growth and development. I need not say to you that this city is to be one of the might j' cities of the Lnlted Htates. This harbor, which is the inlet to the commerce of the en-st, and the outlet to the great productions of your lands, gives assu-ance that San Francisco will be pre-eminently a mighty city of the country. Cheer. My fellow clt zens, I accept with great pleasure and gratitude this expression of your retard. I receive It In prt tut an expression personal to mysflf, but in the muin as an expression on your part of the confidence and support that you give to the principles and policies of government of which, to some extent, 1 was made a representative during the grcMt contest of our centennial year. Cheers. The achievement of I hose prluclples by the.r being cirri ed into ttie aftairn of government lias been defeated bv a policy and a cour.v of procedure which history will condemn. Cheers. I do uot choose to-night in addressing you to speak uion this question at any length. They have placed Mr. Hayes iu the presidential chair. I do tot think that the Judgment of the American people is that he was elected cheers, bnt without election he has been place! In the presidential chair. He Is, for the purpose of the oftlce, the president of the United btates, and you and I will give to his administration, for the good of our country, that suppoit which is due to any o nicer de ftttto.- liut this wrong that you and the great body of the Amerie-tn people believe has been perpetrated mnst not pass into precedent to be followed In the future. Ills a crime rather to be detested a voice, "That is o") and the wo k of the future, In part, Is to correct this, and to prevent it becoming a precedent- Hereafter the man who is elected mnst be president of the United states. Cheers. And four years from this time it will be the business of the people of the United States to express a Judgment upon th in question, not to be misunderstood. Cheers.! My fellow citizens, I thank you again for this expression of yur regard. I did not Intend wlitn I came Into your state to make a single specli, and you will not regard this, 1 hope, as any sp ecu, but simply as an expression of my thanks for the compliment that yon extended to nte. Cheers. The governor then retired to the parlors of the hotel, where a number of prominent democrats were introduced to him. and to whom he talked freely on political and other subjects. Put Diwanter ! the Preeai Oatlook. Albany (N. Y.) Argus. The London Telegraph reviews the con dition and prosects of business in the United States. "In 1S0," it says, "ihiriy American railways, covering 3 milts-in length and- representing $217,848.000 of invested capital, were sold under foreclosure of mortgages; receivers in bankruptcy were appointed or foreclosures determined, upon in the rase ot 4b oilier lines, extending over 7 576 miles and involving a total etpenditure in construcion and maintenance of $'3GC0I000; 10 railway companies figure in the list of defaulters for the fame year whose aggregite lines measure 2,751 miles and show $150.001,000 to have been, invested in them, making a total oi 80 railways, consisting of 14 17tf mileage and exhibiting a loss to the shareholders of $91'609.000. The list, theiefore, as far as it has been made up, discloses the painfnl fact that during the past year one-filth of the entire railway mileage of the Uuited States, representing a similar proportion oi the total railway capital of the country, was brought from various causes into a state of insolvency." Fussing to the mercantile classes, it says that "out of 030.009 caeu in the Union reported to be engnged in business iu IS70, no fewer than 9 092 became bankrupt, and the gross amount of th-ir liabilities reached the sum of $191,117.78 The irx-rease in the number ot failures compared with 1875 was 1.350, while the lauer year showed the number to be 2,000 more than in 1874. The total indebtediwsa of insolvents in 1876, however, notwithstanding the augmented number of faili res, was less than in 1875, by nearly $10,000,000; but the description of firms which -Uap-ed last year, com bined witU the reduced average liabilities c'argeable utxm thu prtvion yesr, plainly tndu-a: that the wave ot ntiancial fcAibarrassimoit is not yet enr, and that after enguiting the mammoth houses it has betn gradually swallowing up the smaller traders. Ills, moreover, significant of the manner in which business hau ucu conducted m

the several divisions of the Union that the failures in the middle states are one in every 5. trading firms, and in the western states one in every seventy-two. In the eastern states, not with landing their reputation for wealth and stability, one in every fifty-nine firms has succumbed ; while in the southern states, which have been depopulated and exhausted by the civil war n,1Jtt.i;e?ti11 laboring under heavy political disabilities, the percentage of failures is only one in every sixty-four." The cause of these failures should be intelligently considered. Many of them are believed to be owing la "a departure from the principles of legit;tute trading. During a period of prosperity not a few merchants invested their surplus earnings in speculative operations. Thor I.

. "--wiii, JOIIU Ui 1. " came interested in mi ninff and railway nnyii taking, n i luout lorecasDng i ne possibility of commercial nrwi- n v. .n l crisis came and strained their resources, thev fmmrt iKa a.l.4;;nl : . i .1 j . ... ouuiuuiiai i-uju 1&1 mev re uired to meet urgent obligations locked up 11 1 r PAdl ... am 4a ... L!.L .1 . ... ... .lo.mcuui wuua iney were unaoie to realize. DisCUSMn? the nutlnnlr 1 T1..nl. savs tbat ' it is to h nrptntrtAi that Va A ter experience they have undergone in the tnaat riiar m 1 i umnjsc n cnecK upon recKiess tendencies in the future. Airuin In YTST that trade is returning to a normal state, production has of late been more strictly limited than before to the requirements of regusi luiiauiuyuuu, mm a universal disposition picans i me community to economize e I rvenrl i i n re to tha nimm.1 lT.nK;i. t t ...... w.--. iiai jiii, iuu, the potential riches lying in the soil of the viiicmauiuuniirni are practically boundless, and everv ver nmfii r-vui f v, cultivation of cotton, grain, sugar and tobacco steadily increase. Gold, silver and petroleum also will continue for an indefinite period to be prolit to the United States." A definite policy on the part of the government, stubbornly adhered to, is of great consequence to the revival of business. It is time such a policy was inaugurated. codfish. II-- They Ar Frepnrtd for Market. A correspondent of the Montreal Gazette gives the history of a codfish from the mo ment when, on the hook of the fisherman, it isdraRKed from its native element till it disappears down the human throat on the banks of the Amazon, the Parana, the Taeua or the To. After a few expiring wriggles (and it is a comfort to be in formed by naturalists that fish are almost insensible to pain) the cod is hung from the fisherman's boat upon the rough stage, where it is received by the "cutthroat." who, with a sharp knife, lays open the fish across the throat and down the belly, and passes it to the header. This operator proceeds to extract, the liver, which is dropped into a vessel by his side, to be con verted into coa liver oil. lie then extracts the entrals and wrtnehes off the head. and throws these into another receptace, to be preserved for the farmer, to mix with bog and earth, thus forming a most fertilizing compoit for his fields. The tongues, however, are taken out. and also the sounds, and these, fresh or ickled, are an excellent article of food, he fish is then passed to the splitter, who, by a dexterous movement, cuts out the backbone neaVly to the tail, and thus lays the nh entirely open, and capable of being laid Hat on its back. 'J bis is the nicest partof the operation, and the splitter alwavs commands higher waiies than the rest of the operators. The salter next takes the fish and washes it well from all partie'es of blood, salts it. and places it in piles to drain. After laying the proper length of ti me i t is washed and t pread to dry on the "flake," which is formed of spruce boughs, supported by a framework resting on upright poles. Here the cod are spread out individually to bleach by exposure to sun and air, and during this process require constant attention. At night, or on the ap proach of rain, they are made up into little round heaps,with the skin outward, in which state they look very much like small haycocks. Whfn the "bloom," or whitish apiearance, which for a time they assume. conies out on the dried hsh, the process is finished, and they are quite ready for stor ing. tn being conveyed to the premises ot the exporting merchant, they are hrst "culled," or assorted, into four different kinds, known as Merchantable," "Madeira," "West India," and -Dun," or broken hsh. The hrst is the best quality, the second a grade lower, the third is intended for the stomachs ot negroes, and the fourth, which is incapable of keeping, is used at home. The cod sent to hot countries are packed by screw power into small casks called drums: ' thoe which go to the Mediterra nean are usual! v exported in bulk. Laree quantities of dried codfish are shipped to Brazil, and there is hardly an inhabited corner of that vast empire where the Newfoundland cod is not to be found, being carried on the backs of mules from the seacoast into the most distant provinces of the interior. The negroes of the West Indies welcome it as a grateful addition to their vegetable diet. To all parts of th Mediterranean it finds its way, Italians, Greeks and bioillians equally relishing the produce of theses harvest. The Spaniards and Portugese are our best cus tomers, and all over the southern peninsula the abacalao" is a standing dish. In the warmer regions of the earth tlie jeople seem to have a special liking for the dried and salted cod, and to them it it an almost indispensable article of food. No woman should allow herself to become a mere household drudge. Even if perfect neatness from cellar to garret lloors clean. enough for dining tables, te , can be maintained by the devotion ot all her time and ' strength to the work, th sacrifice is far too great. We all have a variety of duties, and if their number be too great for our powers of accomplishment, we must lay them all out before us and decide reasonably which are most important, iiul then cross off from the list th! which are least essential, uitu we bring the numkf within ourability. It is as wicked to waste Labor as to waste any thing else; and it i mly reasonable and righteoi to erfonu.our iiecessary mechanical tasks with the least possible expenditure ot time and strength required to do them well to call tit tue aid of chemistry and n-itural philosophy, whenever we can. to vive time for reading and stady, and social enjoyment and detn of charity. Pwt master-General Key has discovered & ring for the furnishing of new postal c&iJs aej refuses tfeopen the bids. 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