Plymouth Democrat, Volume 15, Number 15, Plymouth, Marshall County, 16 December 1869 — Page 4

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF

THE TKEASUKY. Secretary Boutwell, in his report, com- I pliments the officers in charge of the vari- J ou bureaus and divisions of the Treasury I department by stating that they have I faithfully performed their duties, and he commends their several reports to the consideration of Congress. The decrease in the cost of collecting revenue has not been attended by any loss of efficiency in the service. On the other hand it is believed that the means for the detection of ?iiiiiLrurlin; are better than ever before, an l th:it the eustom-house service is also constantly improving. Under the pllnlhlf laws certain revenue officers and other persons .inpearing as informers are entitled to shares in fine, pr lttrr, aad toMliiun. The (touvtaif'i experience has convinced him that the evils attending UiM BJSten are greater than the benefits derived tnm it In March last there were employed in the Treasury department at Washington, 2,4S clerks, messengers, and laborers, at ii'monthly cost of 3Ö,9SL5t At present the whole number at employees is 2.441, and their monthly pay amounts to $238, 380.81, showing a decrease of expenses at the rate of $57,168.04 per annum. It was found necessary, however, during the periods mentioned, to increase the force in the Interna Revenue ottfc, and in the office of the First Comptroller. This increase, in the aggregate, is at the rate of $88,449 per tanna This statement does not relate to the force in the bureau of engraving and printing. In March last there were 83 special agents in the service oi the department, receiving, in the aggregate, for their services the sum of 9871.19 per day. The number now cmjilnvcd is 54, and their daily pay $M&8& The pay of the agents has "been increased generally, in the hope that more efficient service might be obtained. Arrangements have been made for the manufacture of paper tat the currency and other obligation.-, of the United States, tor the nrintinc of the same, which will increase the security of the government against unlawful issues from genuine dates. The revenue marine system is an important and expensive hranch of the customs revenue service. There are 30 vessels helongiug to the department, of which 12 ;ire sailing vessels, and 24 are steamers. They vary in size from 40 to 4M tons. One hundred and seventy-three officers and 2,40 0 men are required to man tin- --els, and their running expenses amount to about $965,000 a year. From one half to three fourths of the vessels now in the service are not adapted to the business. The attention of Congress is called to the inadequacy of the salaries paid to officers in the Treasury department, who ext reise discretion and whose acts bind the government or affect directly its expenditures or revenues, and an increase of their pay is earnestly recommended. The Secretary also states that this increase of pay should be extended to the revenue officers in the customs service, such as collectors, surveyors, naval officers, and especially to appraisers and examiners in the appraiser's department. 44 Including interests earned and not paid, and deducting the cash on hand, the debt of the United States on the 1st ot March last was $235,463,260.01, and subject to the same condition it was $2,4ö ;,öö9,7 i .2:J on the 1st of the present month, showing a decrease of $71,903,VJl Ts. This apparent decrease of the public debt is less than the actual decrease. Considerable sums have been paid on war and other old claims not previously ascertained, and therefore not included in anv debt statement. The account of March 1, from the the case, included only the er ii itj of interest ac crued and not then payable ; but as a matter of fact there were outstanding and over due interest coupons and several millions have since leen paid out of the ordinary revenue. Previous to March 1, no interest account had ever been kept with the several loan3. Such measures as were found practicable 'iave since been taken to ascertain the exact condition of these accounts. The Inrads issued by the L'nited States in aid of railways, amounting to $62,2V20, being in the nature of a loan, are not included in the foregoing statement. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 109, there was an excess of receipts over eienditures, including the interest on public debt, of $49,453,149.4. Of this excess, $l'2,0i2,37O.03, as nearly as can now be ascertained , arose previous to Marek 1, and the remainder, $:;,400,779 .43, between that time and the first day of Jnly. This excess was applied from time to time to the purchase of 5-20 bonds, and the excess of receipts since July 1 has been used in the same manner. The purchases amonnt'd in the aggregate, on the 30th day of November, to $75,476,800. " As a large part of the excess of receipts was realized in coin, sales of gold have been made from time to time, and the proceeds applied to the purchase of bonds. With the exception of the sale of moderate amounts of coin in Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and Baltimore, for the payment of duties, the sale of gold, and the purchase of bonds have been made uniformly through the agency of the United States Tr. a-uivr in New York, and without any expense to the government except the com oar.it ivelv small amount paid for advertising the proposals. The average premium on gold sohl since M an h 1 1 MM been 32 8 10 per cent., and the average premium paid for bonds has Im en lr 98-100 per cent. Upon this oasis of the des of gold, and the purchase of lxmds, the average prices paid for bonds in coin has been 88 55-100 per cent. "The act Of February 2.-,, 1888, provided that the coin received for duties on imported goods should be annually set apart as a sinking fund to the extent of one per erat, of the entire indebtedness of the I'niied States. In conformity with this re.juiremi nt, I have purchased bonds to the amount of $ 20,04 1,800, and designated them as belonging to the siukbMJ fund. These purchases are a substantial compliance with the statine from the 4th of March last. I have not felt myself authorized or required to make any provision for the time that elapsed after the passage of the aet and previous to the commencement of the administration. With the excess of means at my command, I have purchase! fcaadl in addition to those purchased .or the rinkiag fandtothearaoaiil of $55,432,000. These are h;-ld as a special fund, subject to the action ot Congress, and I ctfullv recommend that th be added a . l i e . . to tne sinking iimd. and that anv furthr-r purrhases that may be made be so added . , . - . . m r - until ti. -amount shall constitute a fund equal to that which would have been reted if there had been uu delay in the execution of the law. " The depreciation of currencv is dnp tn two causes i Fir-t, an excessive issue and secondly to the want of faith in the' government; and the extent of the influence of the first named cause cannot be ascertained until the troond ia removed suh stantially. Whenever our credit shall be rw m lea improved at home and abroad that holders of our bonds are disposed to retain them ; when the public mind is excited upon financial subjects, we shall be able to judge more accurately the ex-t-nt of the over-issue of paper money. It is also true that the quantity of currency necesnary for the transaction .f the business of the country cannot be fixed accurately. Since the close of the war, the wants of the States of the South have increased, and, consequently, a large amount of currency has been withdrawn from other sections to supply the demand there created. The amount necessary for purpes of the houth will steadily increase for the next tw o years. "The construction of the Pacific Railroad is likely to resnlt in the substitution of paper for coin by the people on the Pacifie coast. It is probable that the demand for paper for that purpose will not be leas than $10,000,000. As a consequence a very large quantity of coin will be increased upon the Atlantic coast, hnd the paper circulation in the States east of the Rocky mountains will be materially reduced. These changes will tend to diminish the difference between paper and coin. One of the most efficient means ot strengthening the country in its commercial relations with other countries is the development of our commercial marine.

The returns show that a very large amount

of foreicrn trade ia in English hands. We are not only thus dependent upon a rival country for the performance of the business which should be in the hands of our own people, but our ability to maintain specie payments is materially diminished. If the entire foreign trade of the country, both of exports and imports, were carried on in American ships, the earnings would not be less than $75,000,000. Were the trade exclusively in American hands, a large part of this difference of $47,000,000 would be due to itizens of the United States, and payable in other countries. This amount would oe thus added to our ability to pay for goods imported from those countries. I deem it essential to our prosperity that the shipping interests or the country be fostered, not only as a nursery for seamen, but also as an essential agency in enabling the Government to institute and maintain specie payments. It is an interest, also, which, in its development, is as important to the States, arm to tne people remote from the sea coast, as it is to the maritime sections. Every addition to our facilities for the export of the products of the interior is as advantageous to the producers as to the merchants and ship-builders of the coast. While I do not anticipate that it will be necessary to delay resumption until our proper commercial position is regained, I am satisfied that the development of the navigation and shipbuilding interests will improve the credit, and rapidly augment the wealth of the country." Concerning the resumption of specie payment, the Secretary says: 44 The suggestions that I have made indicate my opinion that it will not be wise to resume specie payment while so large I part of the interest bearing debt of the country is represented by five twenty knmls, anil held by European merchants, bankers, and manufacturers. Questions lhat have been raised in regard to the nature of the obligation assumed by the government in the issue of these bonds, h ive undoubtedly deterred many persons from purchasing them as a permanent investment, and consequently thev are largely held in this country and Europe for speculative purposes, by persons who design to put them upon the market whenever an advance shall furnish a sufficient inducement, or when political or financial disturbances may create a demand for money for other purposes. It is probable that from seven to nine millions of these bonds are now held in Europe, and, to a considerable extent, bv persons who will not dispose of them under the influence to which I have referred. Such a panic as existed in Europe in 18, at the opening of the Austrian and Prussian, war, would be likely to induce the retaro of a sufficient amount to . I country for sale to embarrass busiand, m case ol resumption, to cause t tic suspension of the banks. It is there fore, ;n my judgment, essential that the largest part of the " 20 bonds be with drawn, and that other bonds be substituted in th;r place, issued upon terms and con ditions which admit of no doubt. In fine, the practical tpuestion is not merely the resumption ot spec:-j payments. As a measure by itself, it is not diflicult, but the problem is to resume under such cir cumstances that the position can be main tained, not ouiy in times of tranquility but also in peril. Our course, it seems to me, is plain. Every measure of the government bearing upon the subject should tend to appreciate the value of our paper currencv. It is probable that some de crease in the volume of paper will ultimately .be necessary, and I therefore re spectfully suggest that the Secretary of the treasury be clothed with authority to reduce the circulation of United Slates notes in amount not exceeding $2,000,000 in any one month. Thus will the country be brought gradually, it may be, and yet without disaster, into a condition when the resumption of specie payments wfiD be easy, if not unavoidable. " When the credit of the country shall be fully established in Europe, and there shall be no doubt either of our ability or disposition to meet all of our obligations, bonds, heretofore, and now, to a large exient, held by merchants and bankers, will he transferred to capitalists for permanent investment. When this change shall have taken place the probability of our securities being sent home under the influence of political or financial disturbances in England will be very light, and when, as a concurring fact, our exports, exclusive of public securities, shall be equal to our imports, specie payments may be resumed without even a temporary embarrassment to the business of the country." Mr. Boutwell cites attention to two evils in the present banking system, the same as noticed in the report of the Comptrol ler oi tne Currency the first that of the banks allowing interest on deposits, and the KCond. the nractice of makin? call loans for speculative purposes. It does not seem to him to be wise to authorize the funding of the v. hole -amount of 5-20 bonds,which as is r. w anticipated, WÜ1ÜM outstanding on the 1st of July next; but that $250,000,000 at least should be sulferetl, to remain, either for purchase or redemption previous to 1874. Should the sum of $250,000,000 be left for that purpose, the entire public debt would be in a condition to be easily redeemed between 174 and 1881. The 10-40 bonds could bep.iid.md provision alo be maue for the redei ration of the bonds which will become due in the year 1881. It may be ariH to reduce the proposed loan to $1,000,000,000, Which would then leave for payment, previous to 1881, the sum of about $r,70,000,000 ; or hardly more than $00,000,000 a year. Assuming that t lieloan will be for an amount not exceeding $1200,000,000, he recommends that it be offered in three classes, of $ 100,000,000 eaeh. The first class to be payable in 18 years, and to be paid in 20" years; the m and dam of $ ik),ooo,ooo to be payable in 20 years, and tobe paid in 25 years ; and the third lass of $400,000,000 to be payable in r, years, and to be paid in 30 years. in oilersng the new loan, citizens and subjects of other governments should receive the strongest assurance that the interest and principal are to be paid in coin, according to the terms of the bonds lamed, without any deduction or abatement whatever. When the 5-20 bonds shall have been funded to the amount of $1,000,000,000 or $1,200,000,000, the revenues can be reduced materially, and yet sufficient sums be raised to meet the ordinary expenses of the government, to pay the interest on tne public debt, ana also to pay from 825. 1 100'''0 to $30,000,000 of the principal anI t nail if Should the success in negotiating the loan be equal to the Secretary's expectations, based upon the fact that the ability and disposition of the people of the United States to pay the public debt are I sufficient to justify us in assuming that tne ',ODcl8 tne Lnited Htates will command tbe highest rates in the markets of worl(1 we shall then Imj in a condition V enter uPon lhe work of reducing taxation at th. commencement of the nexi w;88lon 01 congress On the 1st of December, 1809. the prin cipal of the public debt of the United States, not deducting bonds and cash on hand, amounted to $2,00o,286.?8!).H2. Of this amount the sum of $85(1,11886,00 is represented by the note bearing interest. The larger part of this is needed for circulation, bat the amount can be reduced from the ordinary revenue of the country, if Congress shall consider it expedient to make provision for such reduction. The fractional currency in circulation was 888,. xsö,54.00, and there is no occasion for any legislation in reference to this item of the public debt There were outstanding also certificates for gold depoited in the Treasury to the a nount of $.'fß,8fl2,940. These certificates are redeemable on presentation. Thete three items amount, in the aggregate, ta 481,861,788.18, and in making provision for the public debt they arc not necessary to be considered. Of the loan of January 1, 1861, the sum of $7,022,000 ia outstanding and payable on the 1st of January, 1871. The loan of lWift, of $20,000,000, is payable in 1873. The bonds known as 10 40 bonds, amounting to $19 1,567,300, are not payable until 1874. The 6 per cent, bonds, payable in 1881, amount to $283,877,000. As the bonds known as 81s and 10-40s, amounting in the aggregate to $478,244,900, are not due and cannot be paid previous to 1874 and 1881, it is unnecessary to consid-

er them in making provisions for a new loan. The 5-30 bonds, amounting in the ag-

gretrate to $1,602,671,100, are either due or will soon become due, and it is to this class of the public aebt, and to this class alone, that attention should be directed. Of this amount the sum of $55,477,800 has been purchased since March last, and the bonds are now held by the Government. Before any measure for funding the 5-20 bonds can be consummated, the Government will be able to purchase at least $75,000,000 more. There will then remain on the 1st of July next about f 1,450,000,000 of th j 5-20 bonds in the hands of pub lic creditors. Of the entire indebtedness of the United States, only the unimportant sum of $27,000,000 will be due and payable previous to 1872. On the 30tn of June, 1868, the amount of outstanding 3 per cent, certificates and compound-interest notes convertible into per cent, certificates was $ 71,004,590. On the 30th of June, 1869, the amount outstanding was $54,991,410 showing a reduction of $16,613,480 in that form of indebtedness. Oh the 1st of December, 1869, the amount outstanding was still further reduced to $49, , 16,150 showing a total reduction in 17 months of $22,888,740. The 3 per cent, certificates are a substitute to a considerable extent for United States 5-20's, being largely held by the banks as a por tion of their reserve, and thus indirectly, though not to their full nominal value, they swell the volume of currency. It is recommended that provision be made for the redemption of the 3 per cent, certificates within a reasonable time, and as a compensating measure for the reduction in the amount of currency which would thus be caused, that authority be given to grant charters for banks in th Htates where the banking capital is less than the share to which they would be entitled, to an amount not exceeding $35,000,000 in the aggregate. The receipts for the fiscal year ending June :J0, 1S69, were f.770.M3.717.Sl Expenditures 321,410,597.75 Receipts over Expenditures $ 49,453,14ft 46 Receipts for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1860 $108.831 ,62-2.02 Expenditures 85.4H0,S14.59 Beeslfrts over Expenditures $ 83,351,107.13 E.-timnted receipts for the three re maining quarters oi tne nscai year ending June 30, 1S7Ü ... $286.000,000.00 Kxpendituree Excees of estimated receipts Estimated receipts baeed upon ex MHIes. laws for the fiscal year end Ing June 30,1871 Expenditures . 200,250,000.00 $ 76,750,000.00 .303,000,00o.00 . 891,000,000.00 Excefs of estimated receipts $102,000,000.00 The foregoing estimates of receipts are made upon the assumption that the laws now in force relating to customs and internal revenue will not be so changed as to materially affect the revenue, and the estimate of expenditures are based upon the expectation that no extraordinary appropriations will be made. Geo. S. Boutwell, Secretary of the Treasury. Inventive Genius National. So Mrcn has the idea of the inventive faculty become identified with New England, that it is almost impossible to think of any new notion without the name Yankee being connected with it. Yet, in no one thing does the American nation show its cosmopolitan character more clearly than the wide distribution among its peoples ot the inventive talent. The proportion of inventions coming from various sections of the country, on which, in its past history, the patent office has issued papers, is about two-thirds to the Eastern States, and the one-third balance nearly equally elivieled between the West and South. This relative proportion is gradually changing in favor of the North-West ; and no section of the Union shows a greater ratio of inventive talent and productions than the city of Chicago and its vicinity. For thirty years we have watched with Sreat interest the many new and valuable evelopmcnt8 of genius from the American mind. The early struggles of Bigelow, Goodyear, Howe, and others, whose names are now immortal, were well known to us as matters identified with our personal history. These and others lived to see their labors crowned with success ; while more we could neme, sick with hope deferred, lack of appreciation, and poverty, sank into a welcome grave before they received reward. R rdinarily, the inventor is little versed in the knowledge requisite to make his discoveries valuable to himself or available to the public ; and the more worthy the achievement, the more has ho to enencounter in the effort to secure the result of his labors. And, even when his " parchment " is in his hands, his enterprise is in constant danger of death by suits at law, commenced by a class of pro fessional harpies, on the lookout for every birth of inventive genius. Unfortunately, also, it often is the case that, when the inventor has obtained the advice and aid of a competent party to protect his claims, he will find his agent has given counsel to others in the same line of effort, who, selfish to secure his fees from all, thus renders valueless the production of the entire party. These difficulties that beset the steps of the inventor are well known to the capitalist to whom he applios for aid ; and so, want ot capital denied him on the one hand, and the want of honesty on the other, lie loses heart and hope. Just here comes into view the value of compe tent, honest counsel to the inventor. The proper wording and presentation of an application for a patent, so at to make secure his claim, is as important to the party making it as the invention itself. Our laws for the protection, and office for the examination of patents, arc the best in the world; yet "both show human im perfection. It is often as needful that the party making application should be informed as to what he might have granted him, did he request it, that he has not claimed, as to secure to him what he doc ask for ; therefore the necessity of a care fully-worded patent upon an invention, drawn up from examination by a competent party. And this verdict the applicant should secure before he goes or sends to Washington. Uhisago Burma. How Hie Radicals Carried Mississippi. Our citizens were unutterably astounded at tne unblushing corruption, Intimidation and fraud exercised at the polls yesterday. Every avenue to the ballot box was completely covered by a crowd of colored men, in utter disregard of the election order of Gen. Ames. That order distinctly declares that no voter, except in the act of depositing his vote, shall stand within thirtyi feet of the noils. This regulation was wholly ignored yesterday. But this is a mere feather in the weight of atrocity perpetrated by the Radical leaders and their tools. At the court-house, one of the principal voting places in the city, the entrances to the building itself, (not the voting room) were guarded by colored policemen, and while the white radical politicians were permitted to circulate freely within the building and distribute Radical tickets among the voters, the National Republicans were refuted admittance by Sheriff Furlong and his subordinate caitiirs. On the Sheriff is enjoined the duty of enforcing the election order of Gen. Ames, but at no voting place did we find a single while deputy or policeman. We have had occasion to commend heretofore the gonl conduct of some of our colored officers of the law in certain places and at proper times, but that they should have been placed in exclusive "charge of the peace and food order at the polls at atimc like the present in an election where both whites and blacks vote, is too flagitious a piece of conduct on the part of those whose duty it was to act otherwise to be easily passed over. At another place, one of the most important polls in the city corner of Washington and Crawford streets the Rev. Hchool Fund Htringer stood unmolested icithin ir fett of the Hoard of Cornmistioner themtdvf, taking and examining the Iwllot of every colored voter, and chancing the same, when Ids sanctimonious highness thought fit. Within the very door of the polling room, touching the cry elbow of one of the Commissioners, stood another dusky leader of the Radicals, who a second time examined the ballots of the colored voters, before they could reach the ballot box. YieMmrg 2ymet Ike. 1.

Congress and the Court. The weary and tragic wandering of the Radical party amongst the accusing sepulchres of its murdered victims, to watch and guard these sepulchres lest the victims rise from their shrowds and call it to judgment this is the inexorable, everrecuring drama enacted at Washington with every meeting of Congress. The party has made itself the Wandering Jew of politics. Impelled by an innate sense of guilt which it will not confess and cannot quiet, it seeks refuge in a new wrong at each succeeding session, to find that eyery new wrong, instead of bringing the coveted peace, only gives a fresh remorse and a sharper terror. At times, like the fabled traveler, it imagines it has escaped the avenger, and sits down to rest; but rest brings reflection; and the avenger rises in its own bosom, and with scorpion lash drives it forward again through the dismal labyrinth of original, amendatory, and supplementary reconstruction rata combs which it built for the sepulture of its victims. When the first session of the Forty first Congress adjourned, there was not a haunt

ing apparition visible, and the high priests and necromancers of the party imagined they had finished their weary task at last. But they return to their halls in the Capitol to findja raw head on each desk, and an audacious skeleton in eachcumle chair. The spectacle is annoying, and forthwith the necromancers begin again their incantations. The session Is but five days old, and there are already three new nails brought forward to secure the lid of the Reconstruction coffin. A saying has gone forth lhat the Supreme Court will open the coffin and steal away the corpse by night ; it is therefore proposed in the Senate to kill the Supreme Court, and bury it in the same grave with the liberty it has sworn to protect. Heretofore this shabby work was left to such awkward journeymen as Mr. Drake, while the lawyers of the Senate stood aloof from the despicable work which iheir consciences and legal convictions would not permit them to participate in. But the journeymen have failed to do the business, and the case has become so desperate that irumoun, oi Illinois, eonscnts to throw aside his conscience and his scruples, and come forward to the rescue, with a bill which forbids to the Supreme Court all jurisdiction of " political cases f ' As the word " political," in this country, has a wide and undefinable signification, and as nearly every law in the land, affecting personal rights and duties, may have its origin in a political policy, an insuperable difficulty meets the learned Judiciary Committee of the Senate on the threshold, in iL I Z a 1 --, . me snape oi me question : nat is a po litical case? The only way that Mr Trumbull can devise for getting around this troublesome query is to answer it in detail by appending to each act of Con gress which Congress may wish to keep out of the courts hands the words: uIü is a political law ; hands off." Of course as the bill makes Congress the interpreter and expounder o! its own acts, with power to decide what ones are political and what ones are not ; and as Congress, in passing any law, thereby approves and confirms it it may declare all its acts political, and tnereny reset! e tnem irom the reviewing inquiry oi tne courts. Monstrous as is this theory, and inexor ably as it hurries Congress on to the proc lamation and assumption of its absolute and unchallenged omnipotence, it has left itself no alternative. It has not the patriotism to confess its errors and go back to the safe starting point ; and it cannot stand still. It is compelled by the very law and logic of wrong to go forward in wrong, and this it will continue to do until it linds the people across its path. Mis souri Republican, Der. UJl. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. m The Coming Man" A waiter. People who let the grass grow under their feet aeronauts. TnE Washington Life is governed bv the laws of New York. Why is a man searching for the philoso pher's stone like Neptune ? Bccanse he is a seeking (a sea kincr) what never ex isted. WnERE there ia no Christian Sabbath there is no christian morality ; and without this free institutions cannot long be sustained. Mr. Justice McLean. A Dekinition ok Pkide. " What is pride, my dear?" "Walking with a cane, when you ain't lame," said the little lour year-old to whom the pounded. query was proA ctnuoui typographical error recently appeared in a daily paper. In giving as account of an inquest it was stated, " The deceased bore an accidental character and the jury returned a vcrdiet of excellent death. A New York pugilist who does not take much interest in the newspapers, hearing some talk about the Cardiff Giant, roared out that they mitrht fetch him on, and he'o fight him for $1,000. A Spaniard in the first pages of his Englisii grammar, desiring one evening at table to be helped to sonie boiled tongue, said : "I will thank you, Miss, to pass nie the language." The I'tica Herald sold a large number of readers by chronicling the arrest of a mysterious prisoner who refused to speak. Visitors to the stMlion house discovered a tobacconist's Indian under a blanket in his cell. A IjATK visitor to Chicago writes to his home newspaper : " I went to hear Dr. Hatfield preach and pray yesterday afternoon. He prayed that the Lord would remove from Chicago all intemperance, Sabbath breaking, licentiousness, fraud, profanity, cheating, and every form of vice, and then I did not hear the next few sentences, because I was thinking wht would be left iu Chicago." Thk other afternoon, in Buffi o, an excited individual with a well known carpet bag in one hand, an umbrella in the other, and a shawl hanging over his arm, accosted one of the street gamins at the corner of Main and Kxchange with the question : "Say, bub! winch's the quickest way for meto get to the Krie railroad depot?" " ltun ! ' was the laconic response. An English paper announces the death of the Yiee-Presidentof the Equitable Life Insurance Company of London, Mr. Ralph Price, himself a remarkable in stance of the benefits of Life Assurance. His own policy, originally effected fori'-V 000 ($25,000), at his death amounted to 2.r),000, (say $125,000.) Similar results nre being attained by the Washington Life. Good Enouoii kor TnE Price. There was one occasion when Mr. Forrest received from one of the supcrnumeriesof a theatre an answer which seemed to satisfy him. It was the man's duty to say simply "The enemy is uion us," which he uttered at rehersal in a poor, whining way. "Can't you say it better than that '" said Forrest. " Repeat it as I do !" and he gave the words with all the force and richness of his magnificent voice. "If I could say it like that," replied the man, u I wouldn't be working for three dollars & week." M Is that all you get?" "Yea" "Well, then, say it as you please." On the Defensive. Some time since, Harriet Beecher Stow c publish. 'I a story in reference to the married relations of Lord Byron. Afterward, when the voice of the whole country was raised agninst her, she nqoeated " a suspension of puhllc opinion." Her brother, Henry Ward BecelHT, ha lately been tak ing a conspicuous part in the married relations of one Ah by Bagi M Farland-Kich-artlson, ami now we find him on the defensive, publishing a card in the newspapers anil trying to explain his recent con duct. It seems from our dispatches that Record- r Hackctt, of New ork, plainly uinlAal tne indictment ot ihv Kcvoronc! nry Ward for aiding and abetting bigamy. Missouri Republican, litis, Mr. Henry Ward Beecher has made another explanation, emhravoring to find excuses for his recent conduct in 'giving benedictions to bigamy." The second explanation is no better than the first, and is indeed merely a repetition of what Mr. Beecher said in his 'card" to the public, with this exception : II' now says that he regards his duty in relation to the marriage rite as a magisterial one, which he is bound to perform whenever parties vi proper age, present themselves ami ask to

be married I If, therefore, Mr. Horace Greeley, who ia of proper age, and Madam Livcnnore, who is also of most undoubted proper age, should present themselves before Mr. Beecher and request him to marry them, he would consider that he was bound to do it! It would be no part of

I his magisterial duty to inquire whether Ll 1 11 r i.ue panics were legauy capaoie oi contracting marriage ; and whether it would or would not be his duty as an ecclesiastic is oat of the question, because he don't marry people as a minister, but as a magistrate ! Very well ; then Mr. Beecher can have no ground of complaint if the courts should proceed to try and convict him for aiding and abetting the crime of bigamy as a magistrate, and not as a minister. Let the grand jury indict Henry Ward Beecher, Esquire, instead of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Chicago lime, 2ih. USEFUL RECIPES, ETC A top-dressing of fino stable manure in winter is of great benefit to lawns and grass plats. A correspondent of the Maine Farm er has for two years used wooden boxes lined with slate in which to pack butter, and is hiamly pleased with them. He finds them clean, cool and free from risk b)r breakage. A correspondent of the Western Stork Journal says if the hoofs and fetlocks of a horse are well cleaned and then rubbed with soft-soap previous to taking him out in snowy weather, it will prevent balls of snow collecting on the feet. Tue Rural New Yorker savs there is a method sometimes adopted with good suc cess to make cheese which is drv and hard, from over salting, mellow and pal atable. 1 his method is to wash the cheese several times in soft watar and then lay it in a cloth moistened with wine or vinegar. A correspondent of the London Field answers an inquiry whether it is a safe practice to wash sweated horses in cold water. He says he has adopted it with nenenciai results, both in summer and winter. After washing, the animal should be rubbed dry, as far as practicable, the legs especially. Curing Hams. A writer in the Ameri can Agricidtiirist has long practiced the following method ot curing, with excel lent results: As soon as the animal heat il well out, rub the pieces on every part with salt and lay them on a shelf or in a box or barrel, as convenient, for one week. Then rub with finely pulverized saltpetre (1 oz. to a 20 lb ham), and immediately follow with another dressing of salt as at first. Repeat at the end of 2d, 3d and 4th week the rubbing with salt alone. At the end of 5 weeks, wash in warm water, hang to dry for 34 hours, and smoke. Somebody tells in the Agrkulturist of buying a hard run farm and finding forty loads of manure in the barn-yards. As soon as the yards were cleaned he carted in swamp-muck, decayed leaves, head lands and sea weed, adding every week a few loads, and plowing occasionally to mix the droppings of the cattle with the contents of the yard. All the manure from the horses, cows, oxen and pigs was thrown into the yard. By September he had two hundred and fifty loads of compost of much better quality than was carted out in the spring. Buna and Scalds. A correspondent to the Rural Alar Yorker oners his remedy for these accidents: "The most efiicacious remedy I ever tried was to apply common starch just moistened with cold water, and spread on a cloth to effectually cover the wounded part. A little girl who was bad ly scalded was instantly freed from pain by the above remedy. Keep the starch moistened, and in a few hours the inflammation will be crone, lcavimr the scalded part perfectly white. After the inflammation is out, apply a linen cloth dipped in sweet oil. It is a speedy cure A great discovery is said to have been recently made by a surgeon ot the Isritish army in China, in the way of an effectual remedy for small-pcx. The mode of treatment is as follows : When the preceding fever is at its height, and just before the eruption appears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil and tartaric ointment. This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and com plete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from attackiug the internal organs. This is now the established mode of treat ment in the English army in China, and is regarded as a perfect cure. Don't Sell Tonr Farm by the Bushel. Many a farmer who works steadily and zeahmsly to keep every acre of his farm as an inheritance for his children, is unwittingly selling it away by lriblets, when, by a more judicious course of management, he might make as much money and keep adding to the value of the place. Having a barrel of good wine, he draws off the contents, little by little, and keeps the barrel without the wine. The value of the farm lies in its fertility, ami, except in rare cases, only in its fertility. It depends on his management whether he leaves it like an emptied barrel to hischildrcn,r full of the good wine, that constitutes its great value. Indeed, the example is not strong enough, for the fertility of the land is not an idle wealth, like the wine in the barrel. It may be drawn out and lived upon, and yet be kept constantly increasing. It all depends on management whether the father shall thrive, and, at the same time, increase his sns' inheritance, or the rev rse. It is not the crop which gr:ws that exhausts the land ; it is the disposition we make of it after it is grown. Every bushel of grain contains matters supplied by the soil. If it is sold, there is an end of it, so far as th farm is concerned. If it is fed out on the place, nearly the whole of the part taken from the soil goes into the dung heap, and there goes with it matter which the growing plant took, directly or indirectly, from the atmosphere, and which helps to develop more of the mineral plant-food of the soil, and to make more than a bushel the next year. Therefore, look well to the crops. Sell, of course, all that cannot profitably be fed out on the place, and. with a part of the price, buy manure to bring home. But, in counting Um profit and loss of feeding at home, consider always the value of the manure. It is safe to say that, one year with another, Oora thoroughly soaked and cooked, (never mind the grinding if you cook thoroughly) and fed to well-housed swine of a 44 growthy " breed, will bring more money than if sold in the market, to say nothing of the manure ; indeed, it will more often tfiaa not pay to buy corn to make into pork coking it first. Orow clover to be fed to your own stock, the sod to be plowed in the spring of the second year; plant corn on the land ; feed the corn to your own pigs, and use the manure of the sty to top-dress in March the clover you intend to plow for corn in May. If this Elan be followed, a crop of wheat or of arley, every third year, will not prevent the laml from growing richer and richer ; but if the farmer sells his corn and wheat, and buys no manure, the impoverishment of the tarin, and emigration of his sons, are sure. American Agi'icvlturUt. m m -... . How Shall Vie Keep Our Fowls? This is a question which concerns thousands at this season. A supply of fresh eggs is a great addition to our kitchen economy, and a mst agreeable one to our table. Fresh eggs for breakfast all the year round is decidedly Utopian. In the first plain we must provide light and air. Windows are absolutely necessary on the south side of the hennery, so that the winter's sun can be male available lor warmth. All the scraps and soap grease of the kitchen can be returned to us in th- shape of fresh eggs, and will greatly lessen the expense of feeding the hens. Thev must have animal food. When the ground is open, and worms abundant, they are as well supplied as though they dined on roast beef and mutton ; but in winter t must be given to them. All the bones left from tho table, the bits of fat, the scrapings of the plates, etc, should be tr.asured fr their use. Keep an old kettle on the back of the stove, turn all slops into it, even coffee grounds, and w Ii n well heated, feed it. At noon-time, it can be given smoking hot, and quite watery the warm lrink helps to supply the carbon they need. Where beef s-liver can be cheaply obtained, it makes excel-

lent food : chop it fine, and they will eat

it greedily. Keep a box filled with gravel, ashes, old plaster, slacked lime or oystershells even hard-coal ashes will not come amiss for hens must have food needful to form egg shells, else thev will drop them shell-less. For grain, we think a mixture is the most profitable. Sweepings from the grist-mill do very well oats, corn and rye ground together coarsely, make good looa. liens desire variety will not lay eggs on one kind of nutriment. W here oil-cake and scrap-cakes can be mrchased, they are the most desirable bod. They come in a solid mass and are not wasted. Bone-manure is excellent to go with scraps. To this diet add coarse corn-hominy, and you will never com plain that hens are not worth their feed. Cleanliness is all-important the henhouse should be whitewashed with hot lime, spring and fall, and the poles on which they roost should be covered with kerosene-oil every month or two. These precautions are needful to destroy the insects which will breed in such places. Pure warm water in iron basins, with a bit of brimstone in the basin, should be given every morning, but not allowed to freeze. If tbe chickens are sick, give them soap-pills made of yellow bar-soap ; this acts like a cathaitic. If chilled, give pepper-corns two of them if the chickens are large or hot milk and pepper can be tnmed down the neck with a teaspoon. A hen increases in the amount of eggs she lays until four years old ; then she is only fit for chicken-broth. We would not enter into a discussion upon the merits of different breeds, nor would we pay twelve dollars a pair for " novelties." The white Leghorns are our favorites ; their eggs are large, their chickens grow rapidly, and their flesh is tender and of delicious flavor. The Brahma Pootras (or Bram Prim, as a good farmer in our neighborhood will call them) are good-sized fowls, and produce fine coffee-colored eggs ; but we confess to a greater delight in the purely white eggs, and think that what the chicken gains in size, it loses in delicacy t t mi i mm m . m oi navor. iney nave mixed with our Leghorns, and formed a mongrel breed which seems to promise well. We have forty five chickens ready for dripping-pan or pie, wnicn nave sprung irom the iit a.1 n i r- i -w . iereni oreeus, ana are oi gooo size, it is more profitable to keep a dozen hens than one pig the outlay is much less, the in come much greater, and the pleasure you take in tlie tormcr is inexhaustible. What pride we take in sending a dozen fresh eggs to our kind neighbors in the depth of winter ! What a relish they give to every meal ! Try it, friend, and see how cheaply pleasure -can be purchased. He irth and llome. A Personal Argument. Counselor R , one of the foremost advocates of the Bar of Central New York, Wal himself a collesrian, and was naturally anxious that his oldest son should reap the honors of his own alma nutter. The counselor had been quite wild in his early years, and Master Will manifestly inherited a superabundance of what the philosophers of the Josh Billings school would call 44 pur cussedness." During his first year at college, Will was sus pended for some flagrant breach of discipline, and arriving at hme he proceeded to report the occurrence to his father. " Suspended, hey f the old law yer remarked, laying down the volume of neports that he was perusing, and looking renrovincrlv at ill over his snectacles. 44 A pretty beginning you've made of it, I declare !" The culprit put his hands in his pantaloon pockets and said not a word 44 Well, sir !" crmtinued the parent, becoming angry at Will's perfect nonchalance. 44 what have you to say about it? 41 Nothing, sir. 44 Nothing, indeed ! 44 What did the President tell you when he suspended you ?" 44 He said I was the . an worst voting man the college had ever held with one exception." " Ah ! dk he say who that was?" 44 Yes, sir 14 Ah ! (A slight pause.) And who was it?" 44 My father, sir." As may be sup posed the last reply was a perfect non 9$jui tur. Lippincott s Magazin?. The Church of England maintains 1,200 schools for secular instruction, at an annual cost of 1,000,000, and reiuiring the services ot 18,701 teachers. I hey have a million and a half of scholars on their registers,, with an average attend ance of 1,081,000. The quality of the in struction, it is said, is very poor. Four fifths of the scholars above ten years o age do not pass the most elemetary ex amination iu reading, writing aud ciphering. m S The first provision for a free school, in the colony of New York was made in 1732, and placet! under the care of Alexander Malcolm, a Scotchman. A Christmas or New Year's Present. A monthly or 1 weekly publication for young people ekes one of the mM acceptable pre seats test can 1.' L'ivn (hirifi,' the holidays-aud for this purpose the Youth's Companion, of Boston, i sdaairaMj adapted. It will make its appearance now and freeh with each succeeding week, i always prit:htIfi entertaining: and practical. Soni' of the most brilliant Witten iu the country coutribute to its columns. Preparatory Medication. The human system, the most delicate and Fcneitlve of all created things, should lie duly prepared to meet the shock occasioned by a sudden change in the temperature of the air. Even the solid metals contract aud expand nuder cold and heat so that if man wore composed of iron, instead of frail tissues and fibres, circulating fluids and brittle osscons matter, his frame would not be proof against the vicissitudes of climate. As it is, it behoove every one, especially tbe feeble, to fortify the frail tenement of mortality against the inclemency of the present season. A wholesome, strength-supplying vegetable tonic and alterative is the preparatory medicine required, and among medicinal agentsof this character, UOSTETTKR'S STOMACn UITTElts stand supreme. In a successful career of nearly a quarter of a century, the preparation has never been equalled or approached, and its sales are now larger than those of any half dozen articles, purporting to belong to the same class, that have ever been advertised in this country. As a remedy and preventive of DYSPsrsiA, and all its complications, it may be said to have lived doivn comittiwii and to be the standard specific of the Western Hemisphere. A course of.this genial restorative at the commencement of Winter is the surest safeguard against all the complaints which are caused or aggravated by exposure to cold. m Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy is used and recommended by educated and eminent physicians. Read the following : Corky, Pa., Nov. 6th, 1867. Dh. Saoe & Co., Buf&lo, N. Y., Gentlemen I have uped your Catarrh Remedy in several very obstinate and severe cases of Catarrh that I have successfully treated. I find it gives universal satisfaction, and I can highly recommend it to the afflicted. I want some of it for my own practice. What are your terms per doz. ? Answer and oblige. Very Respectfully, J. Ethan Allen, M. D. The above Remedy is sent by mail on receipt of sixty cents. Address the prof rietor, Dh. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. t ia for sale by most Druggists everyw here. When we consider the number of human beings that die with Consumption every year, the importance of a medicine that will cure all pulmonary affections that tend to this complaint, and even to arrest the destroyer after it has indicated its Bft ence in the system, must be admitted to be beyond all estimate. This wonderful power is claimed to lie possessed by Allan's Luno Balsam. All afflicted with a cough should try it. nk Ihr Ladlm' lld. snd they will toll you lhat riiLox'i Vitaiia o Salvation for Yhe II or Is the favorite article for revivlut tho natural tinpc of Manchrd or fading ringlet Clear as fluid jtlas. wholeome t the Bkln as water, uurtlscolornWc by t! licht, without nny mineral odor and ylohllnc no W" most, it defies eoMpSttttoa and courts comparison, i m m Asthma. This disease causes great diffltclty of bres'.hing, and tightness across the chest, and sometimes attended with a great deal of suffocation. The paroxysm generally comes on at nurnt . while lying down ; sometimes it is attended with great violence. Au.bn's LOM Balsam will always give immediate relief, end in many cases if persevered in, it will cure the disease altogether. For sale by all druggists. Ths parest ssd sweetest Ood-Uver Oil tn the world is Haeard A Caswell's, made on the asa shor. from Iroah, elected 11 vers, by CAB WELL, HAZARD CO., Hew York. It Is absolutely pure end . Patients who have once takes It prsfrr It to all otHors. Physicians have decided It superior to say of the other oils Iu market,

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It' v.-ry llht. on-- pou.id will lt - nz Ae two to three pounds of ordinary tobaccos I Orders for ELEWANT MEisBSCHAUM nrrs Axe being packed dally in the various Sized Bags In which It is sold. Bi:V IT, Try It, and viui-e ourell CVuThat It has 11 the advantages we claim for it. If your d'-alcr dx"s not ke'-p It, ask him to g.-t it. LORILLÄBL'S Eureka Smoking Tobacco. A GOOD SMOKING TOBACCO IS A PKIU'ETCAL COMKOBT. The "Eureka" Tobacco Is likewise an eso-Ilcnt artlcld of choice VL-glnls Tobaccs of a heavier body than the former, an l hnce mach cheaper In price ; nevertheless it makes as xceUout smoke. Order for .Hcerathauut Pipe are tro packed daily In this brand. Loriilard's Snuffs SOU retain the EXCELLENT QUALITY for which they have become iamous wherever used. e" Lire -liars sent on sppllcatlon. I. LOR 1 1 I Alt, New Vorfc. ! iOLni K'M PATKT, called " THE UK D V JACKET," Is the HEST AX MADE ! Try It. LIPPINCOTT & BAKKWKI.L, Sole Makers. Pittsburgh, Pa. None genuine unless taiiirx d Llpplueon a- o. A. New DiscqyERY ! i PHALorys 44 OK, SalrWion for the Hair. For Restering ti Hair its Original Cola Phalon's "VitVa diffcri utterly from aWtiie 4 dyes," colorers.'tCid 44 restorers " (?) in yLse. It acts on a totally ciVFercnt principle. It is limpidkfragvant, and perfectly innocl5MiS, precipitates no muddy or liailcnt matter, requires no shaVing up. and communicates noltam to skin or the linerl. No the paper curtain is necessary to conceal its turjappearance. for the simple reason that it u It is, to all intents and purposes, a new discovert in Toiijt Chemistry. Pff VlTALlA" IS warranted to enct a chance in the color of the ir within ) o days after the first pplication, the direction being caretully obscrv IT IS AS CU?ÄP. AS WATER ! AND JaS NO PEDIMENT. Price, One Dollar per Box, COM 'NINO TWO BOTTLES. bOLD BY UGGISTS. If your Druggi has not write, enwe will " V italia' on han closing $ l .CO, fid forward it Phal tmedi iately. & Son, 5 7 Broadway, AT. T. MKKICAN PATTiO. l or Introducing and V w" ' ' " '' '- i hlf l'aifui. lfticc lMXSBtcSt, Cliitatto, fW Sesl for Circular, etc rassvsLX. s. a. i i or. d. j. ro rm. in. VINEGAR. BOW MAD I KKOM CIDEK. WINK M. I.A8SKS OB SOKOHl'M 111 10 hours, without asinc (truss. For circular, addreas P. I Si VOK. Vtneasr Maker. Crom weil. Coim. COMMON SENSE!!! U IXTRD AOEXT. rw month t.. m i : thr only t.t SC INK IMI'KOVEO COMMON SENSE IAM1I.T viw'M, MACHINE. Price snl Cree in I -ceraen U U Aeetit. This I the loo4 inlsr Hew-in-Madabat f the day make the famou Etsi- I k Sitt-ti -'ld-i siit kind (T, that ran be dose on ai Machine 100.0OU 1.1 anl the demand cimsUntl' c-vn-;nir. Vr I. the lime totakr an Aprncy. 8r4 fr ir- ' " . ... - ..... l'lilsr. A CO., II -i n. rj IU.WOM s mr s'""""- . M .. nrtsDurfa, rv,"r ru si . .. OMEN of New York; or, th. 1 ndrrowerld ef the Grrsu CltY vT?te nferrry rUias of sneiety etl..ed. Arr I tht R-ntntrnd to nrsa. ftijrnal t dancer are uf- Mom Mot ia it rual.ivs A.) I NTS THAU AST OIB BOI. Takes three presses all the tin i.. print coojr. One Avt ITS orders in 1 0 itnw. "n patres, illnetratiooi. Price. .'i... Akrrnla Wnnted. Address N Y. BOOK PH.. 14 N--au trr t, N. Y. r. r:ii- WiiRKlNi; (' 1 S -Wr arc now p-cnaiol to ftimih all rlaea wih eonrtant employment at home.tha vhole of the time or for the spare mouacnt. Ruainraancw. liirhtsn.l rrorltnMc. IV- -n of either a eaailv earn fifa SV-. to ;er eveidne.and a pi -portions I rum by d. I th. ir whole time totne hu4nc. Bat sand girl car a nearly a mnrhasincn. Thatallwhiace thi n.4ce m -ndhir add ess, and test the business sjre aiskc this unparalleled , It. . : TasncS sr- not wellaeSed.nill send S I r7 .r the trouble of w rint .c. Fnll particular. s si n Id se r -pl. huh mil do to c.nmrnee work on. snd s copy cf T People LUrr-.r. tWja nr . f 1'ef "f -t honilr tHnsn r .unlihrd- all sent free Yy msil. Reader, If' vest want srnsisml, proStalA aork. I . C. At 1 I N A V. Ac.m i . M "5? Y AN1TP o-:. t. VI hi cn Kim Knitting Mi Srsjstr alAi'tltNt 1 1 ; M A CII 1 N . th . only frtlcal Tawlly I RSI ch.n .everinvented. ! K " . irdnuw i AM FKK KMTTtttt in. rtiSia Mae., or l.'.ai. Mo. BAG MONEY ! YV OTEM to ASM orders ior M of the last'! "-inn article in the worm. I required. Addr. STAN I OKI tX I 40 Drwrixini St.. ( atcaro. 1 AI UL HI. trhsTtl K Wrote " A corrui'ti-'n M nn.tnnatton of the Sabbath. usually fnw ( O

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