Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1869 — Page 1

t cv% I CAY * I Published Every Thursday by ■ 10n.44 1' ~ ami } Froprlct's. Joshua healey,S tfric* nr sktleh's building opposite , THE CO9BT HOUSE. Babacriptlou tia Vcar, l»i Advance, ’ HATES OF APVERTieiNO. I Sqnare, (8 Hue* or lew.) one Insertion $1 00 Erai'y aabsequunt Insertion ... - 60 AdvertUenenta not under contract must be marlitd tlie length of time desired, or they will be aoutinued and charged until ordered •ut. Yearly advertisers will be charg'd extra* for Diuolution and other notices not con■ecteil with their regular basiness. All foreign advertisomeuts must be paid quarterly,.in advance, Profonsional Cards, of fivj! ||[)«9 of lew, one year • ; » *6.00 lm. 3m. ®m- lyJ Bqww 1 Squares 6.00 7.00 12.00 IG.CO. i Column 10.00 12.00 10.00 20.00 I Column - " 12. 0 16.00 22.00 30.00 1 Columfl 16.00 30 00 18.00 60.00 JOB WO 1| K. Eight alioet bills, 50 or lest • • ♦ *2.00 Quarter do do . . • 5.50 Half do do ... 3.25 Fall do do • - • 150 Wears fully prepared to do all kinds of job prlntiag with neatness and dispatch, having the unitsd job material of two offices. Orders respectfully solicited and satisfaction guaranteed.

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. »T>Wlf r. H/VIfOKtX. VKuBIS. J. SriTLtR HAMMOND & SPITLEII, « ATTORNEYS AT I* AW, I Rensselaer, Indiana. -Llr. n. a. nwiaoiKk *• r • fiioitrsos. DWIGGINS & THOMPSON ATTORNEYS AT LAW, XJ' OTAII,,R3 PUBLIC,. Real Estate and -L-N Insurance Agents, Renssii.aib Imp. tidies lu McCoy'* Usuk Building, up-atalrs. 1-1, ly. Wm, L.McOOOTELL, ATTORHBY at law -ANDNOTAHY PUBLIC, BXHSSELAER, INDIANA Oflee In Urne’s Stone Buljding, opwtolrs. • • •• r ---M,-ly v GEORGE W. H\ SC ALT., REAL ESTATE AGENT and Romlnffton Indian j. All business to TWQtppflyBlank Deeds and Mortgages nlwnys ott hand. 1-17-ts.

JOHN BALDUf*. Real Estate Agent, Front St. Rensselaer, Indiana. J* ' V. ' Will bay ami sell land, and rent Louses and farms. Those wishing to purchase can nee mu jCgod farms or Wiwn pMiperfy on reusonablelerma by •ftliiiiKPli him, or by letter, — AddreSS, John Baldus, Rensselaer, Indiana. • t#n«D r«oa «i.»nED Tiioursoit ncCOV i TWOMPSOS, 13 X y JC K R H. S RENSSELAER. rNDIANA, ■it ind I*ll Crln «nd Bomwltc Kichn«e nak» <4fll*c.tlon» on all available poinla. pay fitarcit on ipociflcd tiitio depoaltca, and tranaact ail buainei. In tliolr liH« icitA.jtntj!ale4.10*omco boura, from ft a. m. lo 4 p. in '»o 54 li. . dr. a. Lmoss. —Front room, up atalri. first sou, aifuingbut Building, Rensselaer, Ind. 1-I,ljr. DE. J. H. LOUGHRIDGE. Rensselaer, '* - - Indiana. .#e*ofrtas on Waiblugtoa street l-1,-ly. M. O. MHA», WATCH & CLOCK MAKER. REMSSELAKR, INDIANA. »er3poctacles, Jewelry, and Clocks .♦oustantly on hand. Also—Notions of various kinds. Office 1 door south o Thompson’s Drug Store. 1-1-1 du v a lTl^s BLACKSMITH SHOP Is in operation, next door nbove the Express Office RENSSELAER, IND. All kinds of blacksmithing done to order 97-ts

DAILY HACK. LUTE AND. ... LIYEBY STABLE. Ilackirun dally (Sundays excepted) b«1 ween Kensuelasrand Dradford.ou tlie CAL R R. and between Rensselaer and Reuilnffto 1 .) on the T L & B, R R. ' tioraea ami Carriage! to let at reesonabld AW?- . » W.&S.Q. Duvall. AUSTIN IsOTßl' John M. Austin, leased lately occupied by G. W. Henklo, and fitted It tip In good style as a Hotel, would respectfully inform the ; ’' TK AV ELLINQ I’UitLß', that he Is prepared to aecoiumodav* all who may call on him. OOOD NTAIII.KS j^. •kept in connection with the bouse, Nrlw* the stbek of travelers will be properly attended to by good sndcars- j yuljQC'itlers. 1-lTrtr -I

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Vol. 1.

BLACKSMITH AND WAGOJN SHOP! NORMAN WARNER WOULD respectfully announce to ' the citizens of Jasper and surrounding counties, that lie is still carrying' on the business of BlaekSini tiling and Wagonntaking in all their branches, at his old stand on Front street, Rensselaer, lud. • He is now prepared to put up the best of Wagons, Buggies* Plows, AnUof the best material. Ho will also furnish you with a WHEEI.-BARROW at very low figures, if you want to do your own hauling. He also keeps on hand, or will to order, ono of tho best single o* DOUIiLU Shovel Plows to bo had anywhere, and at a* moderate prices. '*Repairing of all kinds done ip good style, and on short notico. BL ACK§9f lTllli\G I WARNF.R is prepared to do all kinds of blaeksmithing, on short notice. If you want a horse shod, it will be done op scientific principles at his shop. All kinds of repairing in iron or steel done in a durable manner He keeps none but the iiekt workmen and uses nothing but the best o material, and can warrant ail he sells. -Give Norm. a call at the old stand and examine his stock and team his prices. Terms cash. May S. ISG.S. 1-21.

iy It i(3*noc»«. .-,r ,' & h TTifit IKIIB r£nsselaeb furnishing J^jSTJD HARDWARE STORE. YATE leg Icaro to Intlt* the attention o _jV the people of Jasper and Newton cumitlen, sr.d the ret! of mankind, to our ful add complate itork of NAII.S, GLASS, ~ " WASH, DOORS, FUTTVZ loci*, " * BUTT*, BTRAT HINGES, . _ • •* TABUS and BUCKET CUTUSBY, WIRT* LEAD, !»i*J BEED AND COAL OIL. and Iverythlug *Lo usually k*pt la a well regulated hardware atom. ' ALSO, nOOKING AND II FATING v_> STOVES o; the luteit Myles and In endlai variety. r r|<VVARK of wll .kinds; and overyT tiling else usually kept in a well ordered Bioveqtorp. *

1 r'*, - ALSO ■* CHAIRS, TABLES, BABES CRIBS, . • ■ - • « • •■ * „ tA ' ' . WASH-STAHDS* BUREAUS, and everything *lae neuatlyiept yn aproperl • uonduoted Furniture itore. ' j *' V.’o keep constantly employed tbe very beat of tinners and liaMnct makeri, and are therefore prepared to do repairing.or job work, in cither departnjept. at all tiaSei. jjotis.s, tt tlie lowest possible ratss. c*: ,»' **,■ - ' • i ' —_ \y K make U our business to (pmish y-y everyth mg needed .to jjg WILD OR FURNISH a houaa. Call tad aae aa before purchasing elsewhere, ' r' • '. * •Till ETACKHOC3EABRO ~ a

RENSSELAER, JASPER CQWTY, TOUN4,

EARLY REMINISCENCE OF JASPER COUNTY.

DY HORACE E. JAMES.

chapter jv. Wc find it stated in Mr. Hcnkle’s narative, that Mr. William Mallatt earne to this plaee while yet there were no persons living here but MrrYeoman’s ifamtly: HcTnade a claim on the south west side of the river, and broke ten acres of ground where Mr, Alfred Thompson, Mr. Ludd Hopkins, and Dr. Martin now own, but his claim was “floated” by Mr. W. M. Kenton, and ho then settled on Blue Grass, where he died in 1859. Mr. Yeoman made a farm where Bensselaer now stands. His cornfield extended over the ground between the Weston Grove, on the north, and Angelica street, on the south. The eastern and western boundaries, we do not know. The first marriage that took place was in the Kenoyer settlement.— The happy, ventursome pair were Mr. Erastus Smith and Miss-Alary Mallatt. The. marriage license was procured at Williamsport, some fifty miles distant. The ceremony was performed by a Mr. Jones, a Jtislice of the Peace, living pn Mud Pine Creek, about thirty miles away.

The first child born in this territory. was.probably. Margaret Mailatt, who afterwards married John Ilaney, and moved to Missouri. The first death tyas Mrs. Herbert Owens, The first preaching remembered, was by a Methodist pioneer named Walker, at the bouse of a Widow Thomas. An early settlement was made in Barkley township, wbiedt took the name of “Forks settlement,” from its situation between the Iroquois river and its principal tributary, the Pinkamink. In September, 1834, Mr. Thomas Handle and Mr. George Culp, then recently from Virginia, set out to explore the north-western portion of Indiana, in contemplation of finding a location for a future home.— At Gray’s, a famous stopping place on tiie Tippecanoe river, they met Austin W. Morris, Esq., who bad just' oompletcdThe surveys of this whole country. Mr. Morris called tlicir attention to this location.— lie said to thorn. —-“Von will follow the Allen trace, which will take you to William Donahoo’s, (if we arc not mistaken, the place is now owned by Mr. Jones, living in Gillum township, near FrancesvTHt\) ' When you come first into live*open, prairie, look directly west and you will see a grove where the trees seem to hang over, allround.” TTtey followed his directions—came ‘to the (which they named Hahging Grove, a name it still bears, and has given to the township in wluch it is situated.) —came to fhc “Forks” locality—visited “the Falls of the Rockwist," as they were then called, where Bensselaer now stands, two years before Mr. Yeoman settled here—found no settlement west of Donahoo’s, but resolved to make one in the Forks, which they did jn the following May, —lS3s.

in the smninor of 1886, Mr. Royal Hazleton joined them. Soon afterwards oatpe John (I. Parkison and lieury Barkley, with their families. Shortly following, were the Shannahann, th.e Reeds, the Prices, the Casads, the Burgets,' the Guthridges, the Reeses, and others. Mr. Parkison was the son-in-law of that renowned pioneer of the West, General Simon Renton. Hts wife is supposed to have been the first white .child born on.tfre sitb of Cincinnati. The widow Kenton came with her son-in-law to Barkley township, and was a memberof his family until her death, which occurred some twenty ydars since. A sketch of Mrs. Kenton’s life, prepared by Mr*Benjamin Ilinkle, was published by Mrs. E. F. Ellet, of New York, some years since, in a booh: entitled ‘“Pioneer Women of the West.” e' believe, is to be found in our township library. The only survivor of the first five settlers of Barkley townshijp is Mr. Randle, who lives about eigl\t milea north-east of Rensselaer, on the Mcdaryville road. The first death in the settlement, was a little son of Mr. Randle’s. The first marriage was consumated by Air. J. M. l uff and a daughter of Mr. Parkison’s. .The first preaching was heltl at the houAo of Mr. George Cujp. - [to BE CONTINtrBD. J

OUR COUNTRY AND OUR UNION.

From Packard’* Monthly

What Makes a Woman Truly a Helpmeet to her Husband.

BY OLIVE LOGAN.

I. In tho first place, love. Without love as tho first plank in tho platform there is no use Whatever in discussing the question. The platform won’t hold together without that plapk, whatever other timber tfiero he'l'n it But love is not enough. It is very sad, but it is true —and as trite as true —that “love won’t boil the potand what is worse, it won’t put that into the pot which makes it Worth the boiling. A boiled pot wouldn’t be very nice eating without “fixin’s.” The beggar who made a delicious soup, just by boiling a stone in his pot, liarj to put in "a little salt to season it, aud a biff of beef to give it a flavor, and a few vegetables to tone it up. So, if even love would “boil the* pot,” love would not be sufficient, unless it would fill the pot, too. Love is the prime requisite to successful endeavor on the woman’s part to be her husband’s true helpmeet, but love alone is very far from being all that is required. There are countte3B thousands of women wholovetheirhusbands truly, and who are no more helpmeets to them than if they were wooden women, whittled our with a jack-knife.

The first and greatest misfortune women to encounter is that, in marrying, most men don’t ask themselves whether the object oj their choice is fitted to be a helpmeet, A man generally marries because he wants somebody to love him and caress him. He also wants his wifo to look pretty, and be bright and cheerful, that other men may envy him lila possession. But that sort of thing won’t last through fhq of a lifetime. When years roll on, and misfortunes coine, and tbe silly little loving wile has become firmly rooted in her dawdling habits, he savagely turns on her and reproaches her lor not being a helpmeet. There is nothing but misery for her, poor creature, after that. Therefore, the other plank in our platform is this: To be a true helpmeet to her husband the woman must have the ability to earn her living independently ot him. Xo woman can earn her own living by baby-tending. I mean,'of course, by tending her own babies. If she adopt tho profession of a nurse, the case may be different. WhefFyou talk witlr intelligent men on the subject of skilled labor, you find that they have but one opinion as to tbe best way of getting work 4pue thoroughly. They tell you that the man who is J aek'-of-all-trades- is master of noire: They tell you that the man who makes a great success in life is the man who masters one field of labor completely—who educates himself up to the highest point of skilllulness ill that field alone. The Best editors in this country are men w£o have been bred to their work in that college of editors —the printing office. The worst editors are those men who have taken up editorship after having givfen trial to mercantile life, or farming, or medicine, and who will most probably drop editorship by-and-by for the law, or perhaps the stage —and do as ill in these again, being thorough in none. It stands to reason that the best baby-tender must be tho woman who educates herself specially lor that pursuit. How many women who become mothers do this '( And of those women who hive bent all their energies to perfect themselves in tho art of baby-tending, how many can qarn their living by it? ‘7 .. 11. v *" I onco lived in a house with a young couple who bad a baby of about ten months old—a great, fine, strapping fellow, an heavy in one’s arms as a load of iron, and yet uuable to walk. The father was * book-keeper ii» a store on llroadway, at a salary pf thirty dollars a week. They paid twenty-two dollars a week for their board, which, the husband said, was as reasonable as he could find for a room as comfortable as the one they occupied—thohgh I considered it far from comfortable. It was asmall back room, dull and cheerjess ( qn the third floor. 1 Three times a day this delicate young girl (the baby’s mother) was obliged to carry that strapping child up and down four pairs of stairs to meals—for tho dining room was in the basement. She never could? get a meal in peace, for she had to hold the baby on her knees while sho was eating, and it would whin* and cry,' and naif the time she had to leave tho tjimng-ropm altogether while her great, Bearty husband wonld sit still, »nd cdtnplaccntly b$U his meal with the greatest cotuposuro, never jlnnkjiig of Iter. The baby \yas teething; and at breakfast she often told ns (that she

had been up and down all nightlong walking the floor to soothe it. Sho was as pale as a ghost, and had black rings around her eyes that were enough to startle one. But they were so newly married, and evidently loved each other so dearly, this couple, that I thought she was as happy a woman as there was to be found in New York. And she was a woman occupying what is facetiously denominated the “true woman’s sphere;” receiving every morsel of food irom her husband, every stitch of clothing, never having a penny she could call her own, and in’‘return nursing her baby every minute lrom tho day it was born, through tbe successive stageß of limpbaokeduqgs uptil now*, when it seenid —except that it could not walk—stronger than its mother. “■4h>” thought I, joyfully, llhere is a refutation of all my arguments. Hore is a woman perlectly happy, and who is living in servitude and baby-tending 1” One day, after I hnid done a bard day’s work at writing, I sat dowii at_ the dinner table opposite'the couple, and said, “Oh, Mrs. X., how fortunate you are to have a good husband, who provides for you, and pays everything lor you, relieving yon of this horrid toil of workiug for breadmoney.” “That’s what I tell her,” said the husband, hastily, and with an unpleasantly triumphant tone—“if she had to go out aud work for her living she’d find out what it is.” “I earn my living now,” said the wife, with quiet dignity, “I do a servant’s work, aud get no pay —only my board. A servaut gets board

The next day sho spoko to me again, with tears in her eyes—“l envy you,” she said to me, who considered myself so hard worked as to be in a very unenviable condition, “I envy your being able to go out into the air, and work like an intelligent being for a livelihood, instead Of being shut up, day alter day, night after'night, nursing a baby. And look how foolish if is tbo,” continued she, unwittingly using my own a'rgtintents, “I am a fine dressmaker, and earned my livjfjig easily by that work before I was married. And so I could now, if my husband wojihj only let me work at my trade." “Why don’t he?” ‘ In the first place, he is too proud; in the second, he says if I were to work I’d have to hire a girl to purse the baby, and that would be an expense.” “How mucli would a girl’s wages be?” “About two dollars a week. I used to earn eighteen at dressmaking in tny native town in Massachusetts. I could earn more in New Y ork. I am a beautiful fitter.” Aud yet this couple grubbed on in mutual satisfaction, at the very outset of their married life, when all should have been brightness —loving contented—she reproaching him for making a servant of her, and he upbraiding her for not being a helpmeet to him. "v 111. If it be necessary, in order that a woman may be a helpmeet to her husband, that she should be able to earn her own living, then she has but one thing to do to qualify herself for that office—namely, to educate herself just as men do in the habits of labor. Skill in mechanism, finances, art, literature, fjr any industrial is nothing more nor less than habits of Übor. When men will consent to do Bridget’s work then I will. Till then, don’t talk to me about housekeeping and baby-tending as woman’s proper employment. It is tbe proper employment of women‘who are iucapablo ot higher work. No fashionable Jady—no wile of a wealthy citizen—a Belmont, a Hoosvelt, a §tcwart —devotes her time to the care of her babies. Site has an experienced servant to doit; just as her husband has an experienced schoolmaster to teach them their lessons.

Why should not women in the humbler walks of life be granted the same immunity, so that they may be left to do better, more remunerative work ? Some of the religious papers have been horrified, I hear, by my views on thiS subject. /« They are horrified, becausp ijiey distort my /jaeaniiig.'* ■ If any one says to mo that it is uecessary to neglect the culture of your children’*,.bo'ads and hearts, in order that you may he a helpmeet to your husband, I reply that *udh an assertion as that is rubbish. Give me your ear, you editor, who earn the bread of your family whife your’ wife .sits at home doing scrvant’b work—do you neglect yopr boy’s mind and heart because you have work to do out in the world? „I don’t, believe you.do. 1 don’tTielicvp, either, that it is necessary' your wife should neglect the real duties of a mother toward lifer children in order to earn Her share of the' yearly income which pay s their auries, their servants And baby-tenders. J ‘ your wist beoomes truly

helpmeet when she can carry on your household alone, were you to be taken sick or die, as well as you could were she to be taken sick or die.

Lovell H. Rousseau.

Major General Lovell II.” Rousseau died in New Orleans onThursday evening, January 7th, 1860, in the fifty-first year of his age. He was torn near Stanford, Lincoln county, Kenttioky,’ August 4, 1818. His parents were Virginians of Frcnch-llugenot descent, and his father was a cousin of President Harrison. He educated himself chiefly, never having gone to school after he was ten years old. When he was thirteen his father died, leaving a large and dependent family. Young Lovell obtained employment in macadamizing a'ro'afl,’ devoting his leisure moments to the study pf Frcijdi. He afterward removed to' Xotfisvifj'e, where he studied lay, completing his preliminary course at Bloomington, Indiana. He was admitted to the Indiana bar in 1841, and in 1844-5 was In 1840 be went to Mexico as a Captain in the Second regiment of Indiana volunteers, and on his return was elected to the Indiana Senate. In 1841) he removed to Louisville and qpntipued the practice of law. irilSOb he was elected by both parties to the Kentucky Senate. In 1861 lie resigned his seat and raised two regiments of troops, but Kentucky’s “neutrality” compelled him to encamp them for the time being on the Indiana side of the Ohio river. lie was commissioned a Brigadier General of volunteers, and. displayed signal valor at Shiloh and Perry ville. For hiS bravery at the latter place he was promoted to a Major Gerferalship.. He fought Weil at Stbfie Iliver, and in many minor engagements. In 1864 he conducted an important raid into Alabama, and defended Fort Roseerans during the siege ofNashville. In 1865 he was elected to Congress from Kentucky, where he dimmed the lustre of his well-earned fame in the field by the adoption of a “conservatism” which Would liave better befitted one of the men against whoifi he had fought. ' In 1866 he assaulted Mr. Gnnnell, a member of the Hojise, for words spokfc'n in debate, and'was reprimanded. lie thereupon resigned hlg J aeati but was reeleeted to the same Congress'. The desire of official honors at the hands of the rebel sympathizing rulers of his native State seems to have led him to stultify all his former record. If. 1867 he was appointed a Brigadier General in the regular army, and sent to' Alaska, lie was recalled, and placed' in command of the sth Military District, dying while still in discharge of his duties. His policy in Louisiana has not been so decided as to fully meet the wishes either of the unconditionally loyal or the strongly rebel elements. It was peither vigorous in the suppretsioir offqfeorders, nor so openly hostile to loyal men as to present many salient points for criticism. Its defects were rather negative than positive. He utterly failed to prevent and suppress the disloyal that occurred from time to time, though_Jie attempted to justify his want of sue cess on the ground that his force was not sufficiency strong. It would have been better for General Rousseau’s fame had he died at the close of the war, yet a nation, grateful for his military services, will judge leniently of the errors of his latter days.

John Minor Botts.

John Minor Botts, a distinguished Virginia politician, died on the Btjt inst, at his residence in Culpepper, Virginia, aged sixty-six. Botts was a Virginian by birth, and his parents were among the victims of the terrible RichmondThe'4.trs couj}agr2l}oli in 18J1. jobn’jlirior was qualified as a lawyer so early as his eighteenth year; ho commenced practice soon after, but soon retired to a farm, and has since lived the life of a Southern gen tie mail of leisure. lie went into polities, identifying himSelfwith the Whig party as soon as it was organized. Prom ISB3 tb TWO, he represented Ueurico county in tne Legislature, when he was returned to the 28th Congress from the 11th Virginia District, having as associates Hehrv A. Wise, Ralph M. T. IhihfcV find others. Though A. lortg-tried personal friend of ioiiii' Tyler, Mr. Botts declined to support him in his sectes’sioiV from the Whig party. Oil the death bjf 1 Mr. Clay, and the dissolution of the Whig, party, he joined the Amprican party. IJe opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and sympathized’with the Southern Congressmen who opposed the passage oftheLecompton bill in' 1859.. ..Diming the late war.he wa£ True to the IJnion, and suffered for his loyalty in a South* era prison. "After the declaration of peace, however, he was found too conservative for the radicals who* came into power in Virginia, AiVd the Ilunnicut faction triumphed Over the wing represented by Botts in the Organizing Convention,- The writer remembers, while in tpe Army of the Potooiac,’ Rationed with" a sraall detnehih'ent ’a* thft

Botts’ place, discover mg OR the op postal bank of the mer a Citizen waving a flag of truce in the &h»j>o , strrngcr, being escorted acsoss, Kg! to be Jphu Minor Bolts, jwho'syft'jln that condition then so fashionable lliVougliout the confederacy. He wa> in qoest' of a couplo of his “boys” qrho bud run away and got within opr lines. They wCre very intelligent fellows, Y'erY much of Mr. Botts’ complexion/ and, on whole, indisposed to return Vd ibeir master's service, They didn’t return. Replies to a Life Insurance Cirf. cular. Tlje following" reVhQ| were received by a Life Agent, to his pir-. cular, requesting information as to the health and habits of an applF cant for a life policy: 1. How long have you known—?. Since two years after I was born. 2. What arc hirf'general habits? In Winter, red flannel ami Blii* beaver; in Summer, a straw hat canted to one side, and nankeen trousers, very loo§e*jn the legs. 2. What is his profession? C'ongregationalist. 4. Do you know, or have yrtq heard, that he has ever been afflict ed with Gout, Asthma, C’onsttmntioii, Spitting ofßfo'o'd, or any other disorder to shorten life? No: but he can have it, if by tha company. ■5. lias he ever had virtigo, hr singing in his head ? Y'esi he ihidres nightly, and daily hears the music of a gening machine. „ 6. Has he ever been afflicted witl) fits or rupture? Never had a fft iu his life—his tailor being very unItpecessful—but once had a ruptureWith his land-lady. 7. Has fie ever had fever and netoe?’ Had a fever last Summer, When the thermometer wasatmne J ty-fiyol 8. What State was he in when you saw him last? Michigan. 0. Has his application ever been rejected? Y'es, once—promptly—by a lady. 10. Do you think this life safely insurable? Not at his own valuation. Bought at his own estimate, and sold at that of other people, he would break auy bank in the- country? ‘ * v ' ” . ''■ r 11. Do you call his lurries sound? No, I call them inflated air tubes, 12. What age do ytm ‘ ‘Consjdei;hiin? Old enough to know more than he does. 13. Does lie smoke or chew? Ho smokes when he chooses. ■ r . 14. Is he of steady habits? Yes, he is agent for ’s Hay Scales. 15. What is his height? Thaf depends upon the thickness of bis boots, ’ 16. Has he children ? Yei, tWo, nephews. 7 17. Is Jre ordinarily sober? - I and that was at his own joke. ’

No. V?.

Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

In this important Report, it will be seen that in tile fiscal year ending June 30, 1808, the sum of one hunch red and ninety-one million dollars was collected from internal revenue, the expenses of collectiug which was five per cent. The heavy items in this account arc the taxes paid oil the indulgence of popular appetite. The amount received, for instance, from the tax on chewing and smoking tobacco was, in round numbers, fif-teen-million dollars. Add to tbifr the’cost ot production and dealers’ profits, which is estimated to bii five times more than the revenue tar, amounting to seventy-five million dollars. All the railroads, paid to- ' gether lestf than seven millions, the insurance 'companies less than two millions, and the telegraph aft’d express companies not »■ million between them, so that oliewing and smoking tobacco—our small vices, as they are called—arc really “bigger things” m the Commissioner’s report than ali the railroads, telegraphs’or express and insurance companies in the United plates taken together. The number ot cigars’taxed was six hundred millions. It ii> as many more are used through smuggling, making a grand»total yearly expenditure in the United States of one hundred and fifty million dollars for tobacco alone. Will not some Philanthropist discover some remedy for this enormous and useless waste of money ? Only think of it, one hundred and fifty million dollars annuaby threnen aitay! This would soon liquidate our national debt. The question recurs, where will au Antidote be found for this greatest of evils?—Atw York Herald.

The Truth about the Velocipede.

’O, A. Dana, who is the “best velocipediit'm‘N;ew York,” and ought to know, ahsWefs a correspondent thus : v “A correspondent atCafroL City, lowa, wishes us to inform him about the velocipede. We answer that it is a very amusing and 1 yfcry exercising machine for toebgbosioti. It consists, of two wheels, oile'before the other, connected by a steel or iron reach. . It is drivoh by pedals uttaelmd to the fore wheel, and keeping tne ruler’s legs very busy. On a perfectly smooth track, itiefr as‘ a board floor, a oh on of asphaltum pavement;'’ok har>,i earth road m the court try,!* cd&im driven at the ratq oPfifisefl or twenty ,piilcs an hoyr, without very great effort! Ml on‘ a roifr'b ready it* proprtteidfi irf lAb«£ in operation every, '.Ati riding* feehuol of . the Messrs. Pear-Bull.i-onifr amlTwvn-