Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1869 — Page 1

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Poetry The Old Peusylvaoia Farmer. BT BAYIHD TATLOB. L Well—well l thlf it a comfort, bow—the air la mild aa Key, And yet ’tie March the twentieth, or twenty-first, today: And Reuben ploughs the hill for corn; I thought It would be tough, But nowtoee the furrowa turned, I guess It’a dry 11. I don’t half live, penned up In doors; a store’s not like the sun. When I can’t see how things go on, I fear they're badly done: I might hare farmed till now, I think—one’s family Is so queer— As If a man can't oversee who’s In his eightieth year! hi. Father, 1 mind, was eighty-five before he gave up his, But he was dim o'sight, and crippled with the rheumatlx. I followed In the old, steady way, so he was satisfied ; But Reuoen likes new-fhngled things and ways I can’t abide. IT, I’m glad I built this southern porch; my chair seeml easier here: 1 haven't seen as line a aprtng this five and twenty year I And how the time goes round so.quick I—a week, I would have sworn, Since they were busking on the Hat, and now they plough for corn I v. When I was young, time had for me a lazy oz’s pace. But now It's like a blooded horse, that means to win the race. And yet I can’t HU out my days, I tire myself with naught* ——— rr-rt _ 7 I’d rather nse my legs and hands than plague my head with thought. VI. There's Marshall, too, I see from here: be and his boys begin. Why don’t they take the lower Held f that one Is poor and thin. A coat of lime it ought to have, but they're a doTbey think swamp-mud’s as good, but we shall see what corn they get I vn. Across the level. Brown's new place begins to make a show; I thought he’d have to wait for trees, but, bless me, how they grow I Thqy say It’s fine—two acres filled with evergreens and things; Bui so much land 1 It worries me, for not a cent it brings. mi He has the right, I don’t deny, to please himself that way, But ’Us a bad example set, and leads young folks astray: Book-learning gets the upper-hand and work gets slow and slack. And they that come long after us will find things gone to wrack. ix. Now Reuben’s on the hither side, his team comes back again; I know how deep he sets the share, I aee the horses strain; I had that field so clean of stones, but he must plough so deep. He’ll have It like a turnpike soon, and scarcely fit for sheep. x. If fkthei lived, I'd like to know what he would I say to these ■— New notions of the younger men, who farm by chemistries; There’s different stock and ether grass; there’s patent plough and cart— * Five hundred dollars for a bull I It would have broke his heart. jmt -<*'• ■ The maples must be putting out; I see a something red Down yonder where the clearing laps across the meadow's head. Swamp-cabbage grows beside the run; the green Is good to see. But wheat’s the color, after all, that cheers and 'll rename. xit They think I have up easy time, no need to worry now— Sit in the porch all day and watch them mow, and sow, and plough; Sleep In the aummer In the shade, in winter in the sun— I'd rather do the thing myself, and know lust how It’s done 1 Well—l suppose I’m old, ■ and yet 11s not so long ago . ’ When Hen bon spread the swarth to dry, and Jesse learned to mow, And William raked, and larael hoed, and Joseph pitched with me; Bnt such a man as I was then my boys will never be I —, - : * Xnr.’ 1 don’t mind William's hankering for lectnrea and for books; Be never had a farming knack-you’d see It In hia looks; But handsome Is that handsome does, and he is well to do; Twouid ease my mind if I could say the same of Jesse, too. xv. There's one blade sheep In every flock, so there must be In mine, Bnt I was wrong that second time his bond to undersign; It's leas than what hia share will be—bnt there’s the interest 1 In ten years more I might have had two thousand to invest. xvi. There’s no use thinking of it now, and yet it makes me sore; The way I’ve slaved and aavad, I ought to count a little more. I never lost a foot of land, and that's a comfort, •ure. And if they do not call me rich, they cannot call me poor. XVII. Well, well! ten thousand times I’ve thought the things I’m thinking now; I've thought them In the harvest-field and In the clover-mow; And sometimes I get tired or them, and with I'd something new— Butthleisalil'veseen and known; aowhat'ta man to dos I xun. Tla like my time Is noarly out, or that I’m not ' afraid; 1 never cheated any fnan, and all my debt* are _ paid. They can it rest that we shall have, but work ’ would do no harm; There can’t be rivers there, and fields, without songt sort o’ farm l-Z/sortt ond Home

Selected miscellany.

MB. /OHM STOTT’S DIFFICULTY. forty years ago, In a certain west conntrir torin of England, lived Mr. John Stott,/head of the constabulary, so astute ; a thief-catcher that his friends it a pity he should throw his wits »w»y !v° n . vagabonds, and not give thftn broad mm noble scope as a Bow Street <rtmn«r. His enemies, the local scoundrels, -thought the same; bat com tented themselves %lth observing darkly that “he wasSe sharp that he would one day probably cut himself' or that “he was too clever to Hve.", In spite of these intellectual advantages, or in consequence of them, Mr. Stott was as vain as a peacock, and made the not uncommon mistake of imagining himself even a cleverer fellow than he,, really wan Be kept the little towh (for it was a little one then) so clean pf evil-doers* and fotso complimented

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thereupon by the bench of magistrates, that he oould not conceive that any misdemeanor could be committed which his sagaeity should be unable to ferret out, or should foil to bring it home to the true culprit. “ I don’t pretend for to say,” was one of his remarks, “as I was never puzzled in my profession, but this I will say, as no man ever took me in furies”; and then he would resume his pipe with the sir of a man who has modestly confessed to a weakness, which no other person would have dreamed of attributing to him. Even his wife believed in Mr, John Stott, and so doubtless would his yalet d» chambre, if he had happened to have kept one. “ Burglary at Bir Robert Air’s last night.” Baid he, sententiously, as he sat smoking after supper in his snug little par lor, one summer evening, while his wife mixed his gin-punch after his own particular receipt. “ You have got the wretches, of course,” observed Mrs. Stott, paring the lemon-peel so that you could see through it, “or else it would not be my John." “ Well, no,” returned the great man, rightly appropriating the last observation as a compliment rather than an expression of doubt as to his personal identity. “The fact is, it’s very queer; but I have not got the wretches. I shall have them to-mor-row, but at present they are absolutely at laTge.” “ Lor, John! I can scarcely believe you when you tell me. Why, how on earth could they have got away from you? They could not have been ordinary burglars. •“ You are right, ma’anit” returned the chief constable, with a gratified look; ” you have hit the nail exactly on the head. They were not ordinary men; they were acrobats.” “ Acrobats! ” answered Mrs.'Btott, softly ; “ dear me! ” She had no very accurate idea what “acrobats” were; they might be a religious Beet, or they might be a savage tribe, or, possibly, even both. But she had long passed for a woman of sense and sagacity, through maintaining a discreet silence except when her husband’s talents seemed to demand her eulogies, and she was not going to risk that reputation now. She had a full share of the curiosity of her sex, but she had more than their ordinary patience. She waited to be informed upon the subject in question, without haz arding the remark which occurred to her, that acrobats had white hair and pink eyes, and, therefore, could be easily recog nized by the constabulary; and she had not to wait long. “ Yes, it must have been them Tumblers,” mused Mr. Stott, sipping his punch out of a teaspoon; “ and less than three and the boy could never have done it It was her Ladyship’s dressingroom window, as looks out on the back, as they broke in at, and no ladder could have been put there because of the flowerstand. It must have been that little devil in the tights and spangles at top of the three others. I have measured the height from tjie grourd, and it just tallies. Tint’s what comes of allowing them itinerants to be in the place at all. The.idea of the mayor letting them have the Townhall to show their tricks in I I’d put a stop to everything of that sort, if I had my way; and I will do it, too, in future.” “ But you will not interfere with Mr. Shaw, John, I do hope, since he has been so pleasant and civil." “No ma’am, no. Mr. Shaw is a man of science, in his line, and what is more, a man of substauce. Mr. Shaw’s exhibition is itinerant, it is true, but that is from the necessity of the case. His collection of wild animals is interesting in a high degree, as the rector was observing to me only yesterday. But them acrobats is quite another matter. However, lissom as they are, they must run a little faster, and climb a little higher, I can promise them, before they can get out of the reach of John Stott." “ They stood upon one another’s shoul-deifii...andthe.hQy.clamheredup-theßft > -I suppose ?” “Yes, ma’am that was their ingenious method; and if they had to do with a common mind—thongh I say it who should not say it—the manner in which the thing was done would have remained a mystery. If a ladder had been used, it must needs have made some mark upon the migno-nette-box My men were all a?ape when I stated that circumstance, and began looking up in the air, as though some bird had done it But, of course, when I said ' Them Tumblers!’ they saw everything clear enough. Sir Robert, who assisted our investigations in person, was so good as to say that I reminded him of Christopher Columbus and his egg.” “ You don’t say so! ’’ said Mrs. Stott, admiringly, and wondering within herself what that story was, and whether Mr. Christopher Columbus could possibly have been an oviparous animal. “And did her Ladyship lose much ? ” “ Some rings and pins, and three or four pounds in gold. Curiously enough, there was a bundle of bank notes upon the dressing table which entirely escaped the Sonng rogue’s attention, or her loss would ave been much more serious.”

“Andyet he was such a frank-fheed honest-looking little fellow, that I never should have thought harm of him,” said good-natured Mrs. Stott; “ but of course you’re right.” “ Well, most probably," observed her lord and master with a short, dry chuckle. “By ten o’clock to-morrow morning, when the justices meet, we shall have this hon . est-Tonklng young gentleman and his friends in the Town-ball, taking part in a public performance of another kind than that with which they Jkvored the town last week. And then we shall see what we shall see.” 1 Mr. Stott arose, took his official hat down from its peg, and prepared to go his rounds, a nightly precaution he seldom omitted, notwithstanding the absence of all native criminals from his strictly preserved territory; as for the acrobats, they had fled with tbe first dawn of morning, and were not likely to return till they were brought back; but he had dispatched two of his small “force’' in pursuit of them, and hence there waa the more peed for his personal vigilance. , - \ “ I shall be back at two, as usual, my dear, if not before," said Mr. John Stott About two a. m., from long habit, the wife of the chief constable was aoenstom ed to awake and presently Jo hear her husband's heavy footfall coming up the stairs; but upon the present occasion there was no rack 'Welcome sound. She sat un in bed with her night cap tucked behind her ears, and listened attentively, but in vain, for him. Notwithstanding his precarious calling, Mr Stott was a model of punctuality, and as Time (which in her opinion was almost the only thing that conld do it) want on without him, she began to be seriously alarmed lest this admirable man,

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whom human ingenuity had never yet baffled, had been overwhelmed by envious Fate. There had been thunder in the air that night, and a bolt might have struck him. But at daylight she heard the front-door open, and a slow tread come up the stairs. The wife of a chief-consta-ble should be above the suspicion of trepidation, but it was so unlike his ordinary step, that it made her heart go pitapat. However, it was her husband, wnose noble spirit something had evidently cast down. Instead of kicking his boots across the room, as usual, he drew them off, and then sat in his stockings, thinking. “ John” said she, in much confusion and alarm, “what is the matter, my dearT Have you not caught them albatrosses?— I mean albinos.” '. “ Yes, ma’am, they're Safe enough, but the deuco of it is that—in their absence—there has been another burglary. Mrs. Colonel Peewit's house has been broken into just in the same way—through the second floor back window. It’s nothing less than magic, for that had a migno-nette-box, and there is no mark, of a ladder to be found there neither. Fve had my bull’s eye oyer every square inch of it.” “ Lor, John!’’ “ There was nobody in the room,” went on the chief-constable, musing, “ and the window was open, so that the thing might have been done easy enough, when he had once got there. But how he ever did get there,—that’s the question,—unless the devil had wings.” “ But the Devil has wings!” was Mrs. Btott’s involuntary exclamation; the good lady was so flustered by her late anxiety, that for once she spoke in a hurry. “ You will presently cause me to imagine that I have made a second mistake in my life, ma’am, —in the having married a fool,” was her husband’s stern rejoinder. Then he went on soliloquizing. “The thief, who ever he was, took the same things,—rings and pins, and such-like, — but he also took a plated inkstand. That looks as if he did not know his trade. And yet, to have effected an entrance just where nobody would have thought such a thing practicable, he must have been most uncommon cunning. Cunning? No, for then I should see the thing as plain as the church tower. It’s downright unaccountable. How is it humanly possible that things can be stole out of a second floor window without a ladder, or anything to climb up by, unless it’s a water-spout,— that’s what I want to know. And what’s more, even if he got up, how did he ever get down again?” Hearing these remarks put aloud, and in an interrogative form, Mra Stott thought it incumbent upon her to speak, and ths more so, aa she had ingeniously elabor ated a theory of her own to account ior the whole mystery. “ If nobody could have got in from the outside, John, people as was inside co lid have done it easy enough It was one of them trapesing servant girls, who dresses so fine, and is always wanting money to buy gewgaws, you may take my word for it.”

“ I don’t suppose, ma’am,” returned the chief constable, with supreme contempt, “ that the Bench of Justices would ‘ take your word for it,’ even if I was weak enough to do so,—whichl amnot. The servants are all above suspicion, both at Sir Robert’s and Mrs. Peewit’s,—that was the first thing as we looked to, of course. But even if it were otherwise, do you suppose that thieving is an epidemic, that it should break out in one household to-day, and in another to morrow, as this has done ? You had better go to sleep, ma’am, and leave me to think the matter oat alone.” Which, accordingly, this great man, having drawn his night cap on, the better to consider in, proceeded to do. Two burglaries on two following nights, in a town under his personal superintendence, and nobody yet in custody 1 He had never imagined that such a plot could befall his’scutcheon I It was not impossible, in a town so slenderly guarded, tluri a Ladder mightbav»beefr employedwrthcmt detection, but, most certainly in neither of these cases had such ah instrument been used. The flower boxes had, in both instances, projected beyond tbe sill, so that the top of any ladder must have rested on them, and left its mark. There was also no trace of the foot of it in the soil below, —or sign of an attempt to remove such trace, although, in the case of Sir Robert’s house, there was a flower-bed immediately beneath the window.” Mr. Stott, in short, brought all his intelligence to bear upon thiß prob’em in vain, and nothing came of it but headache. Next day, the whole town was in a state of intense alarm. The previous robbery had created much excitement among the inhabitants, but not so much on account of the crime as of the sagacious manner in which their chief-constable had discovered the mode of depredation; but now, not only had a sec ond outrage been committed, but the fact of its occurrence while the acrobats were away had proved their.innocence of this particular offense (thongh tbe magistrates, not knowing how else to account for their seizure, committed them for a month, as rogues and vagabonds), and negatived Mr. John Stott’s solution of the riddle altogether. The chairman of the Bench, who had been accustomed to suck that official’s brains before addressing his audience in the Town-ball, had nothing to say upon the subject except to recommend people to shut their second-floor windows, which, since it was very warm weather, and most of them cultivated flower-boxes, did not give general satisfaction. , The next night, the mayor’s own house ’was robbed in similar manner. ItiWas on a Friday, and the local papers, which came oat ’the next day, published second a nd third editions, to describe the details. Besides the burglary, a sort of sacrilege had been committed. The thief had actually possessed himself of the Municipal Mace. This beautifkl object, although not intrinsically valuable, had apparently excited his greed, for be had dragged it out of its case as far as the window, and thence let it fell with a report that bad alarmed the house, anddentod the ground below. When the door waa opened, however (which the servants declined to dor, until the “ proper authorities ” arrived), the marauder Thad vanished, and with him thi« Emblem of Authority, as well as a pair of bis Lordship’s boot-hooks. There happened to-be nothing kept in that room bat the mayor’s boots and the town mike. But the incident was, of course, ss distressing to Mr. John Stott as though the regalia nad been plundered He felt that his great reputation was giving way under these repeated shocks; while the re t of the constabulary were of course overwhelmed with disgrace; and the Tory newspapers openly advocated “ stringent measures ” and the calling ont of the Yeomanry. “ I suppose,” sighed hie wife upon this

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Saturday afternoon, “ there is no chance of your going with me to-night to the show? And yet it seems such a pity, after that civil Mr. Shaw has sent ns these tickets; and you know I never enjoy anything—let it be wild beastesses, or what not—without you, John. -How fine they look, with this picture of the lion and the unicorn,—though the bill says as the unicorn is dead,—with Shaw's Show,' patronized by all the crowned heads of Europe,’ and ‘ admit the bearer,’ with his autograph in the corner, in red ink I Why, the mayor’s own invitati ms are not more splendid.” “ Don’t talk of the mayor, woman, for that makes me think of the mace,” replied her husband, with a shiver. “ I don’t wish to see any show but one, and that’s the man that stole that mace, with a pair of handcuffs on him, or, what wonld be better still, a-standing underneath a bit of wood, with a rope round his neck, and a parson by Ais side. Bat there, it’s no good wishing. Upon my life, I sometimes wonder if the Devil himself is not a-doing on it all to vex me.” “ Lor, John, you make me creep I*’ “Well, I can’t make you fly, I reckon,” replied Mr. Stott, surlily; “ and yet that’s what this fellow can ao, confoand him! He’s like a bird of the air,—a bird of prey." “Well, John, do you know I can’t help sometimes thinking—only I would not hate mentioned it unless you had—that, perhaps, after all, it is a bird! You know a magpie is a thief by nature.” “ And so yon suppose a magpie could have stolen the town mace, do you? Why, you are a greater fool than the newspapers.” “I forgot the mace, John,” observed Mrs. Stott, humbly. “ I wish I could forget ft," growled the chief-constable. “You had better put on your bonnet, and take my ticket round the oomer to Mrs Jones, who will be glad enough to go with you ; only take care Shaw don’t keep you both, and put you in a cage for a pair of owls. There I’m sorry to be so rude, Mrs. Stott; but the fact is I feel as I shall go out of my mind unless I tackle this mystery; and I must be left alone to think it out.” So Mrs. Stott, obedient wife as she was, attired herself in gorgeous apparel, and, accompanied by her friend and neighbor, the Parish doctor’s wife, honored Mr. Shaw’s menagerie with her presence. It was a sort of fete which that practical student of Natural history (which included some knowledge of mankind) had given to the inhabitants of the town, and everything was on a very splendid scale. The show was lit up by rows of chandeliers, made of circlets of wood and candles, from the latter of which, as they of necessity hung very low, the tallow dripped upon the heads of the company; bnt that was not found ont till the next morning. The floor and cages had been thoroughly swept and garnished, and some attempt had even been made, by means of unguents and spices (or, in other words, chlorate of lime), to mitigate the odor that hangs about all establishments devoted to the reception of wild beasts. But it must be confessed that this last refinement was a failure—it was like the jar of ottetr, which, “do what you will, the scent of the roses would cling to it still;” only in this case the perfume was the reanlt of a combination; the hyena and the muskrat, the royal Bengal tiger and the marmoset, each contributed their soupeon. In place of the usual showman, Mr. Shaw himself with an elegant white wand, pointed out the various objects of interest, explained their habits, and narrated anecdotes of their extraordinary sagacity. The monkey-cages, as usual, were the chief attraction; their innocent gambols, and the remarkable penchant they exhibited for biting each other’s tails, were the admiration of the beholders. Mrs. Stott, while regarding these parodies upon mankind with a contemplative air, was very nearly—indeed, literally within half an inch or so—paying a great penally flutter philosophic abstraction. A ribbed face baboon of gigantic sire, looking not unlike one of Mr. Cooper’s Indian heroes in his war paint, made a snatch at her fingers, which, loaded with rings, happened to be ungloved, for she had just been tak* ing-refreshments.

“ Your charms even vanquish the brute creation, Mrs. Stott," observed the clerk to the magistrates gallantly; “ the enamored animal seeks your hand.” “ Yes; but, like the rest of the male sex, Wr what is in it, or on it,” replied Mrs. Jones, whe had been an heiress in a small way, till her husband removed from her that invidious distinction by spending all her money. The ribbed-face baboon screamed with disappointment, and swnng by his rope head foremost, and with his eyes shut, for the rest of the evening. It was la. m, and the chief constable’s wife had been in bed since midnight, but she had not fallen asleep. She was awaiting the arrival of Mr. Stott, in hopes that he might have some good news to tell her, or to comfort him with her sympathy in case he hadn’t It was a beautiful night and she had left the window open, through which the soft fresh air came gratefully enough after the atmosphere of the menagerie. Bhe would be able to catch the majestic footfall of her lord while it was yet a great way ofi,-and she was listening for it Presently, through the deep summer stillness, sounded a human step, which, albeit not that she was expecting, seemed familiar to her. It was a step which, although it moved with quickness, had a slight limp such as she had noticed in the gait of Mr. Shaw. Yet he had himself assured her that very evening that he was a man of early habits, and always shot up his house on wheels before twelve o’clock. It was most unlikely that on the night of his fete, eJall nights, he should have made an exception to this salutary practice; and yet she knew no other step than his like that step. It stopped beneath the window, and then there was a aliding,scrambllng noise, as thongh something were straggling np tbe water-pipe that ran down the side of the house, and she felt at onoe that the mystery of these nightly thefts was about to be solved. She was frightened, of bourse; bat the did not shut her eyes and pnt her head under the bed clothes, as most ladies would have done under such circumstances; on the contrary, she stared so hard at the window, that the sides seemed to meet, and leave no window at all. Or was it that the (pace had become obscured by the presence of the marauder ? Yes, that was it; and what a marauder I The face of the intrader she could not catch; bot slip saw that he was quite black, very inadequately attired, and provided with a long taiL That late imprudent reply of here to her husband, “ But the Devil fuu wings,” earns into her mind with terrible emphasis. No wonder that

est, even the chief-constable’s vigilance had failed to— Ah, that faoe! There was no mistaking those very strikingly marked features! It!was, without doubt, her late admirer, the ribbed face baboon; and, whether from motives of delicacy or fear, Mrs. Stott did dive under the bedclothes then, with only her nose left out to breathe through, like the elephant wien under water, as Mr. Shaw had instructively informed her not three hours ago. She could hear a little, however, as well as breathe; and she distinctly caught the quiet chuckle of her visitor, and the chink of her rings as he swept them off the dressing-table with his hairy paws. Pres ently, there was a shrill whistle from below, and the chuckling ceased; and then came the sliding, scrambling noise again. The ribbed face baboon had put the rings in his mouth—having no pocket—and slid down the water spout to hia master with the spoil “John,” cried Mrs. Stott, when the chief constable put in his long-wished for appearance, and aa soon as he had got inside the door, “ I’ve found it all out.” “ Pshaw I" said her husband contemptuously. “ Lor,” cried she, “ well, you are a wondett How ever aid you find ont it was Mr. Bhaw and his ribbed face baboon ?” “ Never you mind ma’am,” rejoined Mr. Stott, with hia old confident air; I have found it out. And now let me hear how far your testimony goes in corroboration of my views.” The next day, “ from information received,” as he darkly hinted, the chief-con-stable apprehended the keeper of the menagerie, and searched bis house on wheels with such effect that all the stolen property was recovered. Mr. Shaw, it appeared, had trained the ribbed-faced baboon to climb up water-spouts and sweep from dressing tables all articles that glittered, which accounted for his taking the plated inkstand and the municipal mace. If his education had been suffered to progress, he would doubtless in time have been taught to carry off bank-notes and railway dividends. Bnt, thanks to Mrs. Stott, his occupation was henoeforth gone. The chief constable, however, got all the credit for the discovery, and was held by everybody, including his wife, in higher estimation for Bagacity than ever. It was true that he had been at fault at first, and in more than one instance; but then, as he himself observed: “I may still say as no man ever took me in twiee, —for this was not a Man, but a Hape.” The above curious incident happened at Shrewsbury in 1834, and was without doubt the circumstance on which Edgar Poe founded his famous story of “ The Murder in the Rue Morgue.”— Chambers' Journal.

The Administration.

It will be recollected- that just prior to the inauguration of General Grant as President, the Democratic press rif the North attempted the role of the prophet, in predicting an early and radical disagreement between the President and Congress, and the speedy downfall of the Republican party. It was even suggested that the President would have to' look to the Democratic party for support in carrying out his policy. And Mr. Pruyn, representing the minority on the committee ap pointed to notify the new President of his election, gave voice to Democratic expectations, and patronizingly assured Gen. Grant that he could confidently look to the Democrats for support of his (hopedfor conservative) policy. It is true this gushing frankness provoked a laugh, in which Tt was said the President-elect goodhumoredly joined. But this did not quench the zeal of the Democratic press. Nor did the enunciation of a strong Republican policy in the Inaugural Address convince them of their mistake: As politicians the editors were wise in their own conceit, and they yet hoped for a disagreement between the Executive and Legislative branches of the Government. How does the case stand now? The President has steadily pursued the policy enunciated in the Inaugural, and his Administration is recognized as strongly and wisely Republican. There is perfect accord between him and Congress, and our opponents are not gratified with even a semblance of a quarrel The reconstruction message offered a good opportunity for a breach, but both the House and the Senate showed alacrity in carrying out the suggestions of the Executive. The President was entrusted with the duty of providing for elections in the three States not yet reconstructed, and there is general satisfaction with the situation—a feeling of confidence that the work will be promptly and fitly attended to. Our Democratic opponents, however, disappointed in their hopes, and with their desire for revenge unsatisfied by a remarkable indulgence in outrageous personal abuse of the Executive and his friends, are now engaged in firing the Southern heart, that the new Constitutions in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas may be voted down, thus protracting indefinitely that military rule which they affect so much to deplore, and rendering it possible to break down the Administration before the people. Thus the same policy which was pursued toward Congress, which prevented the reconstruction of the three States above named, and which, through murder, intimidation and monstrous wrong, earned the States of Georgia ahd Louisiana for Seymour and Blair, is being used now to defeat the Administration, and keep alive a little longer the expiring flame of Democracy. Grant is for fin im mediate reconstruction on the basis of justice towards all classes. The Democratic party is in favor of a continuance of disorganization and anarchy in order that its existence may be continued. We do not look for an acquiescence by the Southern people in the policy of the Democratic politicians of the North. They held off for a time, hoping for great favors through a Democratic triumph last fall, bat they cannot afford to stand out longer for any temporary advantage it may be to their heretofore political allies. They will lose all by voting to be deprived indefi nitely of participation in the Government Through reconstruction will come the privileges, improvement and security they seek. As for the people of the North, we are satisfied that in future elections they will endorse the administration of President Grant, as they have heretofore.the principles which underlie his policy. We have had occasion heretofore to •peak in terms of commendation of the course of the President in regard to the Alabama treaty and the Cuban revolution; and we might justly speak as explicitly and favorably of the manner in which he is carrying out the work of reform in the Revenue Department There has been a pretty clean sweep, and we have the assurance that further change* will be made, if downed necessary to secure an honest

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collection of the revenue. Good men have been selected tor officers, and we may confidently expect the work of reform thoroughly accomplished The President has never been known to do anything by halves. There has been some complaint in the ranks of the party at the distribution of the offices, but this inevitably falls to the lot of any Administration. Disappointed office seekers have talked freely, and correspondents for the press have generously aired their grievances. This is best—the press acts as a safety-valve. Our own correspondents have done their share of this work, and doubtless some people have been made happy in consequence. We do not suppose anybody misunderstood the character of their services. Upon the whole, therefore, there is every reason for Republicans to be thankful that at last they have an administration which truly represents the liberal ideas of the age, and which is unselfishly seeking to administer the laws in the interest or the people.—Cincinnati Chronid*. April 38 th.

The Railroads of the World at the End of the Year 1868.

The Commercial and Financial Ohronide gives the following table of the miles of railroad in the several countries of the world, their cost per mile, the number of square miles and number of inhabitants to each mile of railroad: hr* -s? fc-gji-j-y Sutes. !miles, mile. mile. North T ~ America. “ —— r America 49,947 $44,955 71.04 878,15 Dom. of Canada. Ontario 1,407 78,814 104 08 1.804.51 Quebec 575 74 811 866.00 0.854.00 N. Brunswick. 000 30,771 119 88 1.411.61 Nova Scotia... 145 47 909 198.79 0,687.00 Mexico 209 54,900 0,805.14 40,886.58 West India Islands. Cuba.., 481 50.108 109.69 8,389.89 Jamacla 14 07,941 446.43 8,151.85 South Akskica. „„ Colombia 48 188,087 10,878.38 58,080.68 Venczoela 80 86,210 18.884.66 89,580.79 British Guayana. 60 90,819 1.605.00 0.688.77 Brazil 510 901,167 5,8»7.49 19,019.14 Paraguay 40 80.790 1,874.08 01,789.18 Peru 101 60.410 4,987.05 04.890.1 S Ctatu 394 61,809 684.01 4,897.93 Argentine Republic >Bl 53,918 486. as 5,481.75 Bubofi U. K. of tit. Britain and Ireland 14.247 176.960 860 9,066.10 French Empire.. 0 934 158.714 91.96 8.768 06 Spain 3,409 107.156 58 09 4.675 00 Portugal 500 101,817 69 89 7.689.50 Swiss Republic.. 897 87.139 17 00 0,814.00 Italy 4,109 93,106 94.60 6,05409 Roman State*... 916 86,3 7 91.06 3,906 51 Prussia 5,926 106,171 28.54 8,981.70 N.German States (other) 1.811 89,317 18.57 4,81568 S German States 0,68 t 87,659 16 58 8.179 50 Austrian Empire 4 409 73.915 54.24 7.854 89 Belgium 1,703 106 987 609 9.9^1.88 Holland 881 97.201 15.46 4.940.07 Sweden 1,194 60.888 140.80 8.445.60 Norway 44 90,174 9,800 68 98,669 96 Denmark 401 57,114 86.52 4,010.91 Russia (In Europe 4,817 160,990 466.84 15,966.78 Turkey (in Europe 819 46.799 699.50 49.995.89 Greece 100 60,000 901.66 18,958.40 Asia. Turkey in Asia.. 148 48.701 4,708.40112,987.76 Persia 100 60.000 5.900.00100.000.00 British India.... 4,000 05,769 840.67 43.86412 Java 100 75,000 609.80186 441.17 Ceylon 87 61,686 667.57 48,406.18 Africa. _ ■ ; Egypt....—™. 488 96,504 880.84 5,841.88 Algeria.. 08 66,908 7,867.81861,408.56 Cape Colony. .. 86 90.108 1.411.78 8.599.86 Natal 2 59,71110,000 00| 75,000.06 Australia. Victoria.. 400 118,819 212.99 1.404.98 New 8. Wales... 174, 80.P08I 1,888 09 9,177.79 Queensland 100: 99.600 6,647.06 685 41 South Australia., 87, 50,108 4,405.75 1,613 97 New Zealand ...| 17| 87,709 6,964.70! 10,815.12 RECAPITULATION. North America.. 44,8021 45,6561 98.041 1,100.96 West India la- f lands 445 50.318; 190.991 4,948.88 South America.. 1.424! 116.880 4,128.831 14.775.98 Europe 58,660 180,878 64 00 6,018.11 Asia 4,474 90,708; 666.67 49 450 89 Africa 683194.9881 919.5* 10,83911 Australia 789| 98 0881 9,000.001 1,684.09 Ag’te. In W0r1d.i109.177l 99.1941 8.35X86

Incidents of the “White Pine” Fever.

Wa have heard of several instances lately of the first use made of the rood fortune which has attended some of the White Pine adventurers that show the better side of human nature. One man, who had lost his 'grip,’ and had become worthless by drink was accosted, one day, by a friend, and told that he could do nothing here; he had no credit and no influence, and few friends; he had better go to White Pine. Hto adviser offered to furnish money enough out of hto own moderate earnings to take him there, and would look after hto family in the meantime. The man went,onder a promise not to spend a dime of the money so furnished for drink. After a while he got hold of some claims, began to make small remittances to his friend, enough in all to liquidate the indebtedness for hto outfit At a still later day he returned to the city, paid all arrearages for family expenses, met his old friend, and told him that from the hour he had been taken by the band he had never spent a cent for liquor. If he had not done much he had beoome a sober man. The friends parted at the steamboat landing; the White Pine man returning. In the hurry of the moment; he recollected that he bad a small package for hto wife’s friend, which he had nearly forgotten. The package contained a -deed for the house and lot occupied by Ms benefactor. The property was worth about eight thousand dollars. Another “ dead broke ” man recently returned from White Pink, and, meeting one of his creditors, began to talk about the old indebtedness. The creditor said that the account was long ago outlawed, and he had quite forgotten the particulars. White Pine said that made no difference. He had to come down with $15,000 in hand to pay hto debts. Hto first business was to hunt np every creditor, paying him principal and interest, declaring that he had no right to count a dollar as hto own until he had paid all hto debts. We have heard of many other instances quite aa notable. Now, if White Pine U going not only to develop mil lions of treasure, but to really going to help develop what to best In human nature, there will be no estimating the value of there new discoveries. It may yet fall to the lot of some ingenious moralist to consider of White Pine as a “means of grape.”— Son Frandtco Bulletin. * _ - ■ ■ —The report of the New York Commissioners of Immigration for 1666 shows that 213,686 aliens arrived at that port during the year. This was a decrease of 29,041 from the year 1667. Of the whole number, 101,989 were from Germany, 47.671 from Ireland, 29,696 from England, and 84,431 from other countries. The number of immigrants from Sweden was nearly 10,000 greater than In 1867,

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FACTO AND FIGURES.

Foubtuk incomes in Hartford, Conn., exceed SBOO,OOO each. Ex-Sbmator Dixon, of Connecticut, returns an income SIOO,OOO. The area of Minnesota is largsr than the six New England States. The English railroads earn on an average £57 17s per mile per week. Hans Christian Andebsbh speaks four languages fluently, and reads four more. Thb highest store rent paid la New York is $60,000; the highest la Chicago SB2OOO. * Thebe are 107 esses of divorce pending in the Supreme Judicial Court for Middlesex, Maas. Thb number of persons who died from drunkenness in Russia, last year, was B,74B—seven s day. Smoking pipes to the aggregate value of fifty-two million franca were maau/kotured in France last year. All the sons of the Harpers brothers have bean admitted to the firm since the death of James Harper. A OREAT aquarium ia being constructed at Berlin, for which 8,000 living varieties of marine life have been collected. Moan than $330,000 has been spent since 1866 in decorating the Capitol at Washington with works oi art. ▲ big blast was recently made ia California. Twelve hundred kegs of powder wi re used and a mountain was blown up. I n Vienna last year seventy-one Roman Ca< holies were admitted to the Lathams churches, and eleven Lutherans turned Roman Catholics. Mas. Rachel Vbhtbocs died ia New Haven, Conn., a few days ngS, aged $6 yean—leaving 34 grandchildren, 49 greatgrandchildren, and 3 great-great grandchildren. Thb Tuckers, of Monson, Mass, are a long-lived family. Two died lately aged 96 and 100; ana there are fourstill living, of whom the oldest is 89 and the youngest 79. In California, four locust trees Isas then twenty years old were lately cut, and twenty-nine wagon hubs having been made from them the remainder mam more than four cords of firewood. Thb Houses of Parliament ia London cost $16,000,000 in gold, and it to now said that people of taste have a moat noble monument, and people of business a moat inconvenient house. Toads are sold in Paris at the ntte of fifty cents a dozen. The animal to used for the protection of vineyards and gardens from the ravages of insects that escape the pursuit of the birds. Taa average winnings of the gambling tobies at Erne, Baden, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Manheim have, for the last ten years, amounted to an annual grand total of three and a half million doQara. No lbm than fourteen railway locosaotivee have exploded within tbs past seven months in the United States, killing twenty-nine persons outright, sad severely wounding a much, larger number. Mb. A. T. Stewart's property on Broadway aloae to worth about $5,000,000. Mr. W. B. Astoria real estate on Broadway to worth about $8,000,000. The Lorillard estate has $8,000,000 Invested la that thorough fore. A labgb sperm whale was recently harpooned on the coast of Madagascar. From it was obtained 286 pounds of ambergris, worth about $26,600. Sailors say that ambergris to produced by dtopepsia in the wham. A Boston merchant is the possimor of a business ledger 190 yean old. It was . formerly the property of Lieut Gov. Usher, of New Hampshire, and contains accounts dating back to 1678 which are aa legible as when written. saloons on a recent Sunday, and on tin following Monday lodged information against the dealers for selling liquor on the Sabbath, and received SIOO as the Informer's fee.

Colossi. Robbs* Jomraos, who has recently died, vu the second, hot eldest surviving, eon of the ex President He serred during the greeter portion of the late war, ana, when hie Esther became President he aasnmed the position of hie Private Secretary. Thb canary bird has been an object of traffic for flee centuries. Five handled years ago there was bat (me kind of ear nary bird, bat the original stock has been so mixed and adulterated that the varieties now number at least 50. Nbxt year is the centenary of American UniversaUam, and is to be duly celebrated by the payment of all debts and obligations resting on the various organisations of the denomination. A memorial monument at Washington, to oast SIOO,000, Is talked of Ik California, there is made, on an avertgv, from 550 to 550 gallons of wine to the acre. The four most productive of the winegrowing districts of Europe are: Italy, giving to the sere 441 W gallons; Austria auditor provinces, MS 5 5 gallons; France, 175 5-7 gallons; Nassau, M 7J4 gallons. Thb two Astor Library buildings cost $200,000, and the 187,000 volumes they contain cost $825,000. The revenue of the library from invested funds is $16,885 s year. This pays its expenses and leaves little or nothing for new books. Beast it is very poor in current literature., Path. d» Camaghac, n Parisian editor, has been branded a* a liar more than flve hundred times; has been spit upon in the street seven times, end suffered four t weeks of the nose and four public horsewhippings. He has fought nearly s hundred dub, for which offence he has been several times imprisoned, end now has sixteen challenges outstanding. Dumms last year tbq* %e?e tu.the United Kingdom of Grsrfßrttnlr«,6tt--000 acres under cultivation, of which 11,: 550,000 were devoted to cereals; 4,866,000 to vegetables; 5,500,000 to clover and roUticn rrasees; and 88,154,000 to permanent pasturage. England atone possessed 3,179,M0 cattle and 21.980,000 sheep. In •very 100 scree in England, 48 are urntnet la Wales, 56; in Scotland, 23; and in Ireland, 04. Ouru Dm, in Packard?tMeniHf tat K-fj^ss^ara ssst young man in Gotham—underwear ouly being enumerated: 1 pair of wvMtas smemUsw » awteEgal ItreSOsc pems*hea4heteMsf...», ~,^dS Tetal wsMtaf eaierweer W