Marshall County Republican, Volume 16, Number 29, Plymouth, Marshall County, 6 June 1872 — Page 3

The Philadelphia Candidate. From Harper'i Weekly. A short timo since there was no question that the President would be nominated by the Philadelphia ConventionIt was assumed by the chief Democratic papers as a foregone conclusion, because, as they alleged, he was the strongest candidate. That was unquestionably the feeling among the Republicans. It was the conviction which produced the Missouri call for a meeting at Cincinnati to influence the Convention. It was the same feeling which caused the Tribune to say that the two Conventions were wholly distinct, and that those who were welcome at the one would not be welcome at the other. We presume, however, that the editor of the Tribune wculd not now be displeased if the Philadelphia Convention should welcome the Cincinnati candidate. Undjubtedly, it was the general conviction when the year opened that the President would be renominated ; and in that expectation the Democratic party was visibly crumbling, and it was felt that the re-election of - the President would bo the dissolution of that party, and the elimination of the most baneful organized element from our politics. And why was the renomination of the President believed to be assured ? and why was the Democratic party crumbling ? Because of the general success of the Administration. The people of the country saw in the President an honest, simple, patriotic man, patiently doing his duty. There was a foolish cry of military despotism, and they saw in the White House one of the plainest and least ostentatious of American citizens ; the military hero of the late war indeed ; but whoever gravely declared a tendency to military methods in Gen. Grant's discharge of his duties, showed himself profoundly ignorant of the facts. If Congress thinks tit to protect innocent citizens from Ku-Klux assassins by laws which by some persons are considered to be unconstitutional, it certainly does not follow that General Grant inclines to be a military dictator. Passing from the President, these people saw also that national condition which has become a proverb. Confidence restored ; industry active and secure ; prosperity very where increasing; taxation reduced ; the debt diminishing ; every citizen conscious that the Government would defend his liberty ; the name of th3 nation respected beyond precedent; a country in which the scars of the fiercest war were disappearing more rapidly than ever before in history.

The chief of a civil Administration of which these things could be truly said a chief who as leader of the armies had preserved the government and saved civilization upon this continent, and who had sheathed his sword as modestly as Washington, was the spontaneous choice for the re-election of the mass of the party which hai first elected him. Troubles, meanwhile, and dissatisfaction had arisen. In a government by party they are inevitable. They have always existed in our politics never more positively than in the time of Washington. But the trouble would not have taken serious form except for the fact of the evident dissolution of the Democratic party, which was the crowning proof of the success of the Administration. Under such circumstances there was a possibility of an alliance between a few Republicans and the mass of the Democrats, which might overthrow the Republican party and take posession of the government. And this is the enterprise which has begun at Cincinnati. This being the situation, the question is, whether the feeling in regard to the renomination was false and groundless. On the contrary, there is no serious doubt that the President is to-day the positive preference of Republicans for re-election. There are those who say that he is the only Republican who cannot be elected ; but those who say so merely express their own bitter feelings, and can name no man who could be wisely substituted for him. If the Philadelphia Convention should pass him by, whom would it name 1 It is easy to mention honored Republicans and able men. But we must consider the situation. If it were gravely proposed to set aside the President, it would be because it was believed that the Cincinnati movement has shown itself to be menacingly strong, and because it was lelt that it must be propitiated. xet 11 mis were me reason, ana no other could be suggested, the argument tor adopting jir. irreeley would be irresistible, and his nomination would make the Philadelphia Convention as ridi culous as it has made that at Cincinnati. Plainly, if Gen. Grant is to be set aside to reclaim the Cincinnati Republicans, the way to secure the result is to accept the man whom the Cincinnati Republicans declare to be their preference. If Philadelphia proposes to sur render its candidate because of the strength of Cincinnati, Cincinnati will certainly not agree to begin again. It will insist that its man is in the field. that he is a recognized Republican, and tnat ne is proved to nave a stronger in dividual support than any chance Re publican who might be named. But it is useless to speculate ; unless we are wholly deceived, the .National Republi can Convention is as likely to nominate ijren. mair as Mr. Cireeley. If, then, Gen. Grant should be abandoned, and some other Republican than Mr. Gree ley be nominated, would he withdraw ? He has said that if there are two Republican tickets and a Democratic ticket, he will support that which promises to do what Cincinnati pro poses. jBut as tnere will be, in any event, two Republican nominations, it is very evident which Mr. Greeley will support. He is not likely to believe the ticket wSich he heads to be the weakest. The duty of the Philadelphia Con vention is plain. It is to nominate the cand date whom the great majority of KepuDiioans prefer. In 1864 there were some Republicans, and Mr. Greeley and ni3 iriena ju.r. John Cochrane were among them, who thought that Abra ham Lincoln ought to be set aside, and Mr. Cochrane was nominated for Vice President at Cleveland. But the Repubbcan party said : " Ne : Abraham Lincoln has served his country well We have tried him, and he is true. We'll try him again." It is a lesson for the day. Jo iah Heath, of Chester, N. H, hanged nimseii on monaay. lie was eighty-two years of age.

Farm and Garden. Corn Sown for Fodder. We have given frequently detailed directions for raising corn fodder always sewing it in drills orfurrows.the latter being thebest, allowing more breadth for the rows. An enquirer asks what time it should be sown? We answer, any time in the Northern States between the middle of May and the middle of July. Those who use it for early soiling may sow it as early as the weather and soil will allow, and if small early corn is sown quite thickly, say three bushels to the acre, it will give a heavy crop of fine fodder on good ground by the time of common wheat harvest. But if intended only for autumn soiling or for fodder, it need not be sown earlier than the middle of June, and a larger variety of corn will do better. But never sw less thau two or two and a half bushels of seed to the acre. If the ground is poor, the crop will be greatly increased by manuring. Coarse manure may be used to good advantage on corn fodder. Plow two-horse furrows about three feet apart, fill them halt full of manure by throwing with a fork from the cart or wagon, then strew the corn along from a half bushel basket on the left arm, at the rate of about three bushels per acre, and then harrow the whole lengthwise with the furrows. The harrow will break up the manure and mix it with the soil, and the seed will be mixed with both it may be scattered some, but more fodder will grow on a wide than on a narrow furrow, and if a few grains are left uncovered, there will still be enough for a good crop. If the owner happens to have a smoothing harrow, he may harrow the whole surface before the corn is up, and two or three times afterwards ; and this operation, together with the shading of the crop, will leave the surface as clean and

smooth as a floor after the crop is harvested. It should not be overlooked by those not familiar with this mode of raising fodder, that two or three times as much dry fodder may thus be obtained from land as from good meadow ; that cattle will eat the whole, stalks and all ; and that the stalk will be sure to heat and spoil with the novice the first year therefore begin moderately. Country Gentleman. Noxious Insects in the Garden. Young cabbage plants, after being transplanted, are frequently cut off at the stem by a black grub, which lodges in the ground. Whenever that is observed, search around the root of the plants, cut off. and you will find the grub a quarter of an inch under the surface, and kill it. If it is not there, it will be on the plant next to it, and near by there will be another. They are always in pairs, and near to each other. There is a small black flea, in vast numbers, which eats off the leaves of young cabbages, both when they have just come up from seeds and after being transplanted. If the plants are lightly dusted over with fresh slacked lime fer two mornings, while they are wet with dew, the lime will kill or drive off the fleas, and the plants will thrive. There is a greenish, mealy louse that attacks cabbages when half or nearly full grown, frequently covering the whole plant. A dusting of fresh lime for two mornings, over the plants, while wet with dew, will kill all the intruders. A large, green grub, with black bands around its body, which devours the leaves of carrots, celery, parsnips and parsley. It is slow in motion, and can be gathered with the hands and killed. All kinds of fruit trees should have their stems washed now with a strong solution of carbolic soap and water. It keeps on borers and cut-worms, and if the heads of the trees are syringed with a weaker solution of the carbolic soap and water, insects will not be apt to attack them. Another syringing of the heads of the trees, after the fruits are set, may keep off the " curculio" from plum and peach trees, the cause of failures in keeping off insects is that remedies are not persevered in a sufficiently long time. A man standing on a pair of steps ten feet high can syringe over trees twenty feet high. Journal of of the farm. I he Health of Jroultry. I he essen tials to the health and well-being of poultry so lar as accomodation is con cerned are very lew and very simple ; but it is essential to see that they really are provided, in proper proportion to the size and number of the birds. Pure air, and shelter from wind and weather, are all that is required, whether the es tablishment covers acres or is confined to a few square feet. Pure air, of course, implies both proper cleanliness and proper ventilation, and good shelter im plies a retreat dry under foot as well as above, which must also be open to the light, or the towls will not resort to it. But unless the whole establishment be on a considerable scale, large and ex pensive houses are neither necessary nor desirable : and any amateur at all ac customed to the use of tools may do as we and many others have done the whole ot the work of his fowlhousewith his own hands. Indeed, we strongly advise this where possible ; for it will not only benefit both the health and the pocket of the proprietor, but will give him a deep and lasting interest in the undertaking, which will of itself go a long way to command success. Illus trated Book of Poultry. Figs and their Culture. Gen. James P. Worthington, of Chillicothe, Ohio, who has been experimenting in the culti vation of figs for over thirty years writes as toilows : Two of the best varieties, tbe large yellow and small purple figs, may be profitably grown, in any soil and climate where tomatoes will thrive and ripen. The care and labor required to pro duce 100 pounds ol the good varieties of grapes, will produce over 200 pounds ot ripe tigs, and the crop is more uni form. Small yearling fig trees are best to transplant, but fig cuttings also grow very well. The yearling trees have ripe figs in two years and the cuttings in three years after transplanting. Older trees do not usually bear transplanting so well especially if some days out of the ground. October, May, April and June, in the order named, are the best months for transplanting fig trees, but when only a lew hours out ol the ground they will bear transplanting at all sea sons when warm enough. The tree will not bear frost, but both young roots and cuttings are more likely to grow after

being weeks out of the ground in warm weather than any other fruit tree I

know. The yellow fig ripens in lat. 39 deg. N., from mid-July to mid-August, and the purple fig from August 1st to Octo ber 15th, with a succession of crops uring these months. tor further information, inquirers are referred to Mr. Worthington. The Crops. Caterpillars are stripping the fruit trees throughout Harrison county, Indiana. The prospect for a splendid crop of peaches in the South Haven, Mich., region, was never better that now. Farmers give favorable reports of the condition of crops in Clark county, Wisconsin. Winter wheat is doing nely. More than the usual breadth of corn is being planted in Jasper county, Iniana. A majority of the farmers are through planting. AcoRRESPONrsNT at Woodland, Mich., says wheat is improving, anl looks a good deal better than it promised a few weeks ago. So mb of the fields in Jersev countv. Illinois, will be headed out by the end of the present week. In Morgan couny the growing wheat is a week later han in Jersey. Chinch bugs have appeared in great numbers in the wheat fields in portions of Bear Creek and other townships in the southern part of Hancock county, Illinois. The Holt Countv (Mo.l Ser.iinel savs that at no time since the settlement of the county has the prospect for an abundant fruit crop been as promising as at present. The West Bend Wis., Democrat says : The crops in this section of the coun try never looked better at this time of the season than now. and farmers pre dict a bountiful year. Everything is promising in Rock county, Wisconsin, and late rains have pat the ground in better condition for an abundant harvest than the farmers in that region have seen for two years. The Brandon, Wis., Times says : "The recent rains have brought up the wheat ana other spring grains beautifully, and if the season only continues as favorable as it has been so far, we shall have a good crop." A correspondent of the Dubuque Times, writing from Volga City, savs that the large amount of rain this spring has put the farmers very much behind with corn planting, but that the wheat and oats look well. A correspondent at Dundee, Ills., re ports that wheat in that region is good in many fields, and in others considerably winter-killed. Oats look well. Corn is being planted largely, and some is already above ground. From the Waukesha, Wis., Democrat " Hop growers in this county look for ward to a very heavy cron this seaso JN otwithstanding the backward season. grats ana gram never looKea more promisms at Luis nine oi me year. The Waushara, Wis., Araus savs the rams for the past two weeks have done much to forward the growth of crops, and should the balance of the season prove favorable, as large a yield of wheat as that of 1860 may be looked for. m "TT" T 1 t . . . in JveoKUK, lowa, Krate uuv is in formed by a gentleman who resides in Green Bay township that the prospects for a good crop was never better in that part ot the county at this season of the year than it is at the present time, with the exception ot corn, which is rather backward. The Carthage, 111., Republican says " Rain has fallen almost continuously in this county trom luesday morning un til Wednesday morning. From reports. we judge that about half the corn crop has been put in. lhe prospect tor a corn crop is not cheerful. Fall wheat is looking well in most parts of the county. A gentleman who has recently return ed from a trip over the St. Louis and Southern railroad, as far west as Mount Vernon, 111., reports the prospects for the crops ot wheat, oats, corn and fruit, as very good indeed. A great deal of the wheat is heading out, and promises an early harvest. A correspondent at Memphis, Scot land county, Mo., says : " The constant drenching rains have been very unfavor able for business generally, and some of our farmers have no hone of raising a large crop. If the season continues as it opens it will be excellent for Hun garian grass, and there is a lively de mand for baled hay at living prices." Graham Bread. There is but one way only to make Graham bread, viz: Obtain first-class flour and make it precisely in the same manner as wheaten bre d, with baker's yeast. It is the most natural and whole some of all breads, some people fancy that with the addition of soda, molasses, steaming, etc., it becomes more palat able, mis is all bosh ; lor the manner in which it is generally made renders it by no means healthy or digestable, while au contraire, the simpler it is prepared the better, like all other food. I have used it made according to the above plan for twenty years, only varying from the same when traveling, and then have been compelled, at hotels, to worry down trash, yclept Graham bread, made Dut of villainous compounds and pre pared, no doubt, according to some of the " precious" recipie3 occasionally ap pearing in various newspapers. If. 1. Vineland, New Jersey. Unhappy Mexico 1 What effect the chronic sfate of revolution in which that republic exists has had upon its prosperity, may be judged from the fact that the entire revenue of the country is $18,210,708, upon commerce which averages but $51,000,000 annually, and which is constantly declining. In 1864 she exported to Great Britain nearly $25.000000 in value, while in 1870 it had fallen to 16.000,000. The total foreign trade of $32,000,000 is now forced to yield a revenue oi 13,000,000. Ol her entire indebtedness ot $395,-

000,000, she $35,000,000. eluded from the world.

pays interest upon but This causes her to be exall the etock markets of The Fire in Yeddo. The conflagration that recently visited Yeddo, Japan, was, in reepect to area of district burned over, even greater than the memorable Chicago fire, though the actual value of the property destroyed will fall far short of that of the latter catastrophe. In many respect it was not dissimilar to the Chicago calamity, as will appear from the following brief extract from the Japan Herald's account of the affair : " lhe greatest conflagration that Yeddo a city of fires has ever been subject to, broke out on the afternoon of April 3, at about 2 o'clock, in a house occupied by Izu Higno, situated about one and a half ri f rom Asaksa. The fire is popularly attributed to be the act ot an incendiary, but its origin. like that of most other fires, is still enveloped in mystery. Most unfortunate ly, a furious gale ot wind was blowing at the time, having almost the intensi ty of a cyclone, which caused the fire to spread with alarming rapidity, resist ing and overcoming all attempts to ex tinguish it, or to limit its progress. Block after block of houses caught fire the conflagration sped with the ut most celerity Irom street to street, leaping the canals, and at length seized on whole districts, which at first, from their remoteness from the place where the fire began, had been deemed safe from the all-devouring visitation. From the first all efforts seemed futilf. The ! fire fanned into fury by the wind, swept witn tne exception oi tne nre-prool godowns all before it, until it reached the sea. All the afternoon and night the fire burnt ; the forked tongues of flame shot high into the air, the smoke was blinding the heat intense. The district over which the fare passed is said to measure about four miles long by three broad, and to have involved the destruction of from 7,000 to 10,000 houses. Fortunately, as far as is at present known, the loss of life is comparatively small, but the destruction of property is, as a matter of course, great. The Yeddo and French hotels fell a prey to the fire, but the greater portion of foreigners' houses on the Concession have been saved. The alarm, knxiety and excitement hava been so great that it is impossible to get, as yet, full and authentic particulars ot this great disaster, which, in point of magnitude, makes some approximation to that of Chicago. Meetings hava been held in Yokohama and elsewhere by the foreigners to subscribe funds to aid in the relief of sufferers." The Lehigh Valley Coal Mines. Few people are aware of the immense productions and resources ot these won derful coal mines. The wealth of the property is almost incalculable. These companies, with the Lehigh Valley Rail road and the leased roads, represent a capital of not less than $ 300,000,000 in landed and railroad interests, while the production has increased from the niod- . I , , - i 1 . J 1 T est 60K) Dusneis urst nrougi, irom tne .Liehigh mines to 5,000,000 tons a year. V. . r. , 1 1 ' 11 Jrbr tens oi mnes me wnoie vauey is literally ablaze with the light ot hres from their iron furnaces. Standing at the little village of the Upper Lehigh, some one thousand nine hundred feet above high-waterilevel, and surrounded by the lofty hills, it is astounding to know that 350 feet beneath are men hard at work raising 200,000 tons of coal per year from veins nlteen feet thick, iSy t he aid oi an ingenious maenme to break coal one of the largest of the kind in existence the valuable mineral is raised from these deep slopes of 350 feet, and, with extraordinary ease, crushed into all requisite sizes, from the large lumps required by steamers to the little pieces usea in our cooking stoves, all cleaned and made ready lor market, All day the powerful engines are kept at work raising the coal, and all night pumping the water from the mines. Apart irom tne instruction to oe odtained from a visit to this spot, there are few scenes in the world of more grandeur than that from Mount Pisgah or Mauch Chunk, where the rocks descend in huge perpendicular walls to the edge of the Lehigh. At Mount Tisgah is a steep inclined plane, where, in a length of 2,322 feet, a perpendicular altitude is gained of over 064 feet. '1 he ascent and descent of this plane in a " safety car," rapidly propelled by iron bands passing over a drum of twentyseven feet in diameter, and worked by two engines of 120 horse-power each, is one of the most pleasing and exciting parts of the visit. Many a tourist who is at a loss to decide were to go tnis summer in search of novelty, recreation, and amusement, would find their time well employed in takingaglinlpse at the mineral treasures and scenery ot the Upper Lehigh. The Fastest Stallion in the World. Mr. Bonner's coit btartie, hve years old, trotted, Friday, May 10, during strong gale, and carrying the proper weight, a lull mile in 2:24 6-i minutes. This did not satisty Jar. uonner, whomsisted on the colt trotting again, which he did, making the mile in 2:19 3-4 min utes, doing the first quarter in 34 1-2 seconds : the half mile in 1:09 : the three-quarters in 1-43 1-2, and the mile in 2:19 3 4. Commodore Dodge, Robert Fletcher, and Sim Hoagland acted as judge?. Startle was driven by Geo. Hop kins. Startle was sired by old hambletonian ; his dam was a Star mare, the blood of which has crossed best with Hambletonian. He is gentle in dispo sition, and honest and square in his trotting. He is probably the most valuable trotting stallion in the world. Egg Plants, or Yegetable Eggs, Are used in their green state that is, while the seeds are soft and white. They but economy suggests that they be full size before pulling. Pare on the outside rind, cut around in slices onequarter of an inch in thickness. Have on a dish equal portions of salt and pep per, which must be rubbed with the fincers on to each side of the slices : then roll in flour and fry on a puttered griddle. When brewn on both sides they will be soft and ready to eat while hot. They make a nice breakfast dish, and are a substitute for meat. Mrs. C. Blair.

Woman Tery Much Displeased. There is reason to fear that woman is very much displeased with the result of the debate the other evening in the House of Commons respecting her suffrage question, and that she intends to vent her displeasure on man. Forewarned is forearmed, and some hints which woman let drop at the conference called on Thursday by the Central Committee of the National Society for Promoting Woman's Suffrage plainly show that man not only stands in a most perilous position, but that it will require the utmost tact on his part to escape from it. His wisest plan evidently is to say very little, and appearto be fond of poetry. After several ladies had inveighed against the conduct of the majority who had thrown out the Woman's Disabilities Removal bill, Miss Bell " urged all women householders to refuse to pay taxes unless they had a vte. Last year she refused to pay taxes, and allowed the authorities to come and take away her furniture. This year another lady was going to do the same thing. She found that tables and chairs had more effect with some persons (evidently alluding to man) than principles. After all, the pocket argument was very effective. It was not, of course, pleasant for single women and widows to have a man in their house, as she had for nine days" here there was langhter, as though some ladies present were rather doubtful as to the speaker's estimation of the feelings of women as a rule on this point " but," continued Miss Bell, " she was bound to say the man put in possession of her house behaved admirably ; he was very fond of reading, especially Shakespeare." Here there was loud laughter, as though women plainly saw through the cunning of the vile and inferior animal who thus feigned innocence, but was inclined, on the whole, to take an indulgent view of hi3 shallow artifice. Pall Mall Gazette.

Underdraining and Subsoiling. Mr. S. G. Foster, of North Wilton, Maine, in an essay delivered on January 30 last, before the local Farmers' Club, said : We must underdrain and subsoil our land if we would get rid of the trouble with wet or dry seasons ; by the term subsoil I do not wish to be understood as advancing the throwing up on top of the land a portion ot the subsoil, but simply stirring it up and leaving it where it now is. The advantages of underdraining and subsoiling are, that if thoroughly done they will nearly free us from any inconvenience Irom an un usually wet season by absorbing and conveying from the land all surplus water, while in an unusually dry season, the ground being light and porous to a greater depth than we usually have it, will hold more moisture, and as the top of the ground dries this moisture is drawn upward and prevents the roots of crops from being dried up. A piece ot ground trodden hard will not absorb water to any amount. If we would keep the dirt stirred often among crops in dry seasons it would draw more of the moisture from the air than it al lowed to get dry and hard. In fact, I believe we may by some study and ex connected with a judicious stirring ot the ground around growing crops, be come independent of any inconvenience or injury resulting from a wet or dry season. Heart Disease. Those ladieo who suffer from the dis tracting grievance and disability of being treated too much as drawing-room peta, and shielded too carefully from the rougher blows of the battle of life, may possibly learn resignation, it they cannot derive complete consolation, from some dry but significant researches which Dr. Quain has made, and in which he stated the result in his first Lumleian lecture on disease of the heart, at the College of Physicians. En largement of the heart, one of the most distressing and fatal diseases, is more than twice as frequent in males as in fe males, the precise proportion being eight to three. . This remarkable liabil ity to the enlargement ot men s hearts, as compared with those ol women, is, he thinks, unquestionably due to the greater amount of work and anxiety which, in the present dispensation, falls upon men. .Ladies may take this fact to heart, and reflect whether, in claiming the rights of women, they may not at the same time incur the risks of men, and with them a new and unexpected form of debility. They might do wisely to rest content for their sex, with hearts suffering, it may be, from those tender affections which often pain, but never kill. British Medical Journal. Hostile Indians. Gen. Sheridan advises the War Depart ment that there are about 2,500 hostile Indians collected near Fort Berthold, who have declared their intention to oppose the progress of the work on the railroad this summer, ihey have torn up the stakes planted by the surveying party in the Powder river countiy, When the railroad company shall have pushea tneir work to the west eiae oi the Missouri, these Indians contemplate concentration ot their lorces lor a gen eral hostile movement in mass against the companies. They number among their leaders the following well-known hostile Indian chiefs: Setting Bull, Black Moon, Iron Dog, Iron Horn, Four Horns, and Long Dog. These In dians are all well armed and equipped. Steamed Food for Hogs. A farmer at Quasqueton, Iowa., fattens his hogs on ground corn, steam cooked, saves from one-third to one-half the feed thereby, and has better pork and heavier hogs than he can get by feeding corn raw. He cooks his feed by burning cobs: thirty-four pounds of cobs will cook two and oae-half bushels of corn The Jacksonville Journal says : " Farmers living west of Virden are many of them plcwing up their winter wheat, ana getting the ground ready tor corn, ine wneat promising less than halt a crop, the farmers cannot afford to let tneir ground lie idle lor the meagre compensation tbey would derive. On the other hand, wheat in the vicinity of Girard, a few miles south, looks well, hearty, and promises an abundant yield,

DR. HOUARD. A Brief History of hia Sufferings-ITU Imprison neni a Conspiracy, and bis Trial a. Farce. A New York Herald correspondent reports an interesting interview with Dr. Houard in his prison in Cadiz. The correspondent says Dr. Houard was so pale and haggard that he seemed like a map just arisen from a bed of sickness. His demeanor was refined, and marked with that cautious, polite reserve so frequent among gentlemen of his pro fession. He was attired in deep black. He is 57 years old. He speaks English with the fluency of a native who has never resided in a foreign land, and his accent is purely American. The correspondent continues : " Doctor," I said, " I trust that your

misfortune will soon be over." Dr. Hourd I hope I shall soon get out of this horrible place. I could not live three months longer if I remained here. I am confined in a dirty, filthy room, 150 feet long, with not a soul to talk to. The room is full ei vermin. It is not fit for the habitation of a human being. Correspondent now are you treat ed? Dr. Houard As well as could be ex pected. AVhen I first arrived I was chained to the wall, but latterly my irons have been removed, and thanks to Gen. Durfie'8 good offices, my condition has been ameliorated in every respect, but I cannot live if I stay here much longer. I am an old man, completely broken down by the harshness with which I have been treated, and I hardly thinx I can live long anyway. While imprisoned in Havana I swept the streets of the city, at least en two occasions, with the rest of the chain-gang. During the voyage to this place, which lasted 17 days, I was kept in irons : I was ill with dysentery all the way. Correspondent Have you at any time renounced your allegiance to the United States? Dr. Houard Never. I was educated at Philadelphia, and was graduated a phy sician at Jefferson College. After that I returned to Cieniuegos, and practiced my profession there up to the time of my arrest. As a lurther proot that tne Spanish authorities were perfectly certain that 1 was an American, the certi ficate of license granted me at Havana to enable me to practice medicine de clares me to have been born in Phila delphia. This fact is on record at Havana. Correspondent What were the cir cumstances that led to your arrest? Dr. Houard I am the victim ot a conspiracy on the part of my enemies. My story is briefly told. r our yetrs Defore the breaking out of the insurrec tion, I sold a box ot medicines to a young man. The box bore my name. In the latter part ot 1870 the bpaniards surprised a party of Cuban insurgents, along with the things captured was the box ot medicines, which still bore my name. Now, does it not appear preposterous to any rational being, if I was supplying the insurgents with medicines, that I should have been foolish enough to stamp my name on the packages of drugs I sent them? Well, three of my personal enemies lorthwith miormea the government that I had been aiding the Cubau insurgents, and furnishing them with money. Ihey also swore that the box of medicines above alluded to had been Bent by me quite recently. I was arrested on the 13th of December, 1870, at 11 o'clock at night, and was incarcerated in a dungeon for eight months before I was brought to trial. When arraigned before the court mar tial, I was not even asked the usual question whether I objected to any member of the court. Two wellknown personal enemies ot mine acted as my judges. I was not present at the trial, and only appeared again beiore the court martial to hear my sentence read. The witnesses, I was informed, were examined privately by the official who called upon them and wrote down whatever he pleased. This is the whole case. A Difficult Question. A court in Massachusetts is called on to decide rather a difficult question. At the city of Worcester, there is a copperas factory in the immediate vicinity of a cemetery. The gaseous ema nations ot the lactory have a strong chemical affinity tor the tombstones, and the consequence is that the latter lose their whiteness after a brief period of exposure. Of course this renders it less pleasant to be buried in that particular graveyard than it would otherwise be, and discourages death to such an extent that the proprietors are suf fering from a serious falling off in their business. Hence they are proceeding to have the factory abated as a nuisance, and the court will be obliged to deter mine which is the more important ; that copperas should be manufactured, or that deceased citizens should be vouch safed the undisturbed enjoyment of white tombstones. Had He a Sound Mind! There is a case in progress before the Surrogate's Court of New York, on the question of admitting to probate the will ot the late Mr. Uonard. jjtir. sonard left almost the whole of his large estate to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the heirs contest its validity on the ground that he was insane, lhe particular tact upon which they predicate the claim of his unsound mental condition is his belief in the doctrine of metempsychosis ; that is, that the souls of men after death enter into the inferior animals ; and it was shown that Mr. Bonard was once heard to remonstrate agaist killing a kitten, as it contained a human soul. The court will therefore be called upon to decide whether such a creed is compatible with a "sound and disposing mind." A singular accident occurred at a Jersey City foundry on Thursday. The piston ol a small engine was placed in a forge to enable the rod to be removed from the casting, when it exploded with terrible lorce, battering the lorgeana knocking down the attendant, named Wm. roster. It was found that nis face was terribly mangled, both eyes being destroyed, and it was believed that his injuries would prove fatal. An Illinois farmer got $70 from the County Clerk for seven baby wolve3 which he found under a stump.