Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1873 — Page 4

The Report of the Poland Committee.

Washtwotoh, February is. • imp Spectal Credit- MoMterCommlttM of UoHoom submitted its report to the House i. ' Alter quotlug the resolution under which ttey *m appointed end scted, the Commltof th ® com, ectlon of the n° bl 2 # l <J ?5 lp J? y Union Pa cue Bellraed, by the Hoxle end Ames contnetA The Committee then rehearsed the operMtous of Mr. Ames In placing some of &«oek §* Credlt-Moblller and the dlfflcuitles which arose between him, Durant and MeComb. Prior to the session of December, 1867, Ames had had no negotiations jrtth.Oongreesmen, eftept Mr. Schofield. The Committee say they cannot entertain any doubt as to the motive and purpose of Ames In contracting to let Congressmen have Credlt-Moblller stock at par when It was worth double that sum. He desired to enlist friends In Congress to, resist any encroachments upon the privileges already secured, and his purpose to create In them an Interest Identical with ® clearly ‘ To y ed in his letters to MeComb, especially in those in which he nd Pi*mng stock where it will do most good, and we want more friends In Congress Another letter gives the philosophy of his action where he* says- “f have mupd no difficulty In getting men to look after tbelr own property.” The committee tka ‘ Ames feared that tv.hen the grdp profits became known there would be danger of Congressional Investigation. Of Wlose with whom he dealt he did not fear any hostile legislation, and the committee believe Aases specially designed to secure efforts of tbe \Vashburnefl - P*^rlscpiiAiiLand Illinois to rejrulate trail*portations over the Pacific Road and other measure&aad they quote a reference of Ames to Washburns, in one of his letters, In support of this belief. The cadence in regard to members of the present House, the committee proceed to u-T.wHP o ®*, pai " fn ' 1 y conflicting. They Ana that Speaker Blaine did not take any stock, althongh he was recommended to by Ames. v,*L Daw ?? received no other benefit from his transaction with Ames than ten per eest. *!™. n .fc i 8 / non , e3r V* after »eHling with Ames had no further interest-in tbp-rtock. The evidence relative to Mr. Schofield is rehearsed, showing also that Schofield jrave up his Credlt-Moblller, but retained SI,OOO in l-nion Pacific. The precise terms of the settlement are unknown from lack of data, hut .ssa udaasssj"" "** h " l -» ■" g A a ”’ i I COnnect ' on with the matter was settled by Ames retaining' the thirtv ineto B mi^h^!^F-- m t r i to ' t!k “-<1 accountmg to Bingham for such dividend upon il as a ?K was treated as the real owner of the eto-k e i^ e^. f *h h ® a ? rf ‘ e “ ent . late in Des It th ® settlement in February, ?? d vlt he b f neflt of al! ‘he dividends t m f 6 , nor Bingham had *“ e h records of their dealings as to be able denda the preaiie atnoll nts of these diviThe Committee find that Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, had ten shares of Credit-Mo-taken upon the solicitation of Ames §Stg||g3«gff»* it for Kelley until the S lSfi?F d ] ° r it ’ and that on the 23d of Kelley received *329 from Ames Jf n a cb ?f k , oll ‘he Sergeant-at-Arms. Subseqnent dividends were paid in Union Pacific £“”**•• In -September, 1868, Kelley S SO fr °. m Ames ’ wh ‘ch was unaerin advance to be paid out of the dividends; but there has never been anv ad-fr-Mofth..*.. and there is an entire VMiMice in the testimony of both as to what tins transaction was. Subsequent conversanegotiations Committee do6s “ r t Gar fleld. the Committee ”“. dth „ e , ,ame facts as in Kelley’s case to the point of the reception of a check for *329. The Committee do not find that since the payment of the *329 there has been any coratbA o lk- on ( be *^ e ??. Ames and Garfield on l Eg* ect HE this investigation began. Some correspondence between Garfield and f,™ es ’ a ° d some conversation between them during the investigation will be found in the reported testimony. .The G ° mm ‘“ e . e »‘ate that it appears that Ames did not give any details of the rela.turns between the Credit-Mobilier and the Union Pacific Company, nor did anv of the parties know that dividends would be paid in stock or bonds of the latter. The Committee say that the Credit-Mobilier was a uE 110 ’ 1 not to Congressional legislation, and the fact that its profblildwe^fP^ ted TT t 0! be der *ved from the building of the Union Pacific Railway did not apparently create such an interest in rvSIJfSEK? B \ to d ‘squalify the holder of .oo w^? b .\ er stock from participating in on affecting the railway compan7;. An ? ea assured Congressmen when questioned on the subject, that-their ownerfh'P.ot stock would not Interfere with their legislative duties. The Committee, thsrefore, do not find that the Congressmen were a ware of Ames’ object, or that they had any other purpose thin profltable investment. It is apparent that those who advanced their money to pay for their stock present more of the appearance of ordmary investors than those who did not.. Bat the Committee do not feel at liberty to bn „ d a “5" corrupt purpo-e or knowledge founded upon the fact of non-payment alone. The Committee think that members, in taking stock, were not sufficiently careful ia ascertaining what they were getting. Ihe Committee find nothing in the conduct of the above named members calling for any recommendations. The Committee say the case of Mr. Brooks stands upon a different state of facts from the others. They rehearse at length the evidence, showing Mr. Brooks’ efforts in the press and in his official position in behalf of the road, and his operations with Durant, etc. After leferring at great length to the evidence relative to Brooks, the Committee say without farther comment upon the evi dence: “The Committee find that one hundred and fifty shares of stock appearing on the books 6f the Credit-Mobilier in the name of Neiison were really the stock of Brooks, and subject to his control, and that it was understood by both parties. Brooks had taken such an interest in the Credit-Mo-bilier Company and was so connected with Durant that he must be regarded as having full knowledge of the relations between that company apd the railway company, and of the contrails between them. He must' have known the Cause of the sudden increase of value of Credit-Mobilier stock, and how large the expected profits were to be made. We have already expressed our view of the propriety of members of Congress becoming owners of stock, possessing that knowledge; but Brooks was not onlv a member of Con-

greas, but be was a Government Director in the Union Pacific Company. As such it was his duty to guard and watch over the interests of the Government in the road, and see that they were protected and preserved. To Insure such faithfulness on ■ - the—part of Government Directors, Congress very wisely provided that they should notr&e stockholders in the road. Brooks readily saw that, though becoming a stockholder in the Credit-Mobilier was not forbidden by the letter of the law,-yet it was a violation of its spirit and essence, and therefore had the stock placed in the name of his son-in-law. The transfer of Oakes Ames’ contract to trustees for the building of the road already under contract,

from which the enormous dividends were all derlvedj was all during Brooks’ official life as Government Director, and must have been within his knowledge, and yet parsed without the slightest opposition from him. The Committee believe this could not have been done Without au entire disregard of his official obligations anddnty, and that while appointed to guard the public Interest in the road he Joined himself with the promoteis of a scheme whereby the Government was to be defrauded, and shared in the spoils. In the eon elusion of this fact upon the evidence the committee are entirely agreed.” The Committee discuss at great length the Jurisdiction of the House -over its members, concluding that the facts in the present cases amply justify the taking es jurisdiction. The Committee submit to the House and recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Wanau, Hr. Oakes Ames, a Representative in this H oose from the State of Massachusetts, has' been guilty of selling to members of Congress shirplof stock In Credit-Mobilier of America, for prices mach below the value of each stock, with intent thereby to influence the voles and decisions of sncb members in matters to be brought before Congress for action; therefore, >. ItonlMd, That Oakes Ames be and U hereby expelled from hi* seat as a member of this House. * Mf»t«. Hr. James Brook*, a Representative *» U 4« Uoutu t.f» the State of Now York, did pro-

curs tha Credlt-Moblller Company to lsna and deliver to Mr. Charles U. Xellson, for the nse and benefit of said Brooks, fifty shares of stock of said Company, at a price much below its real value, well knowing that 'the aaate was issued and delivered withiutentto influence the vote and decision"-of said Brooks as a member of the Bouse on matters to be brought before Congress for action, and alao to influence the action of said Brooks as a Government Director in the Union Pacific Haiiratti JBmMuiy-.theMfhfe ._ It untied, That Mr. James Brooks be end Is hereby expelled from his seat aa a member of this House.

CURRENT ITEMS.

California lias abolished the three days of grace. Postal cards have Jast been introduced Into Prance. A druggist at Afton, lowa, lias been sued for SIO,OOO damages by a married woman, for selling liquor to her husband. The young ladles of Vassar College have formed an “anti-falling in-love-be* fore you-are-ciut of-school" club. all Us crocodiles within t.wo years if* the viceroy of Egypt will come down with SIOO,OOO. Buzz saw item.—Henry Btonaicer, of Palestine, Tex. In his life he was lovely, andjn liis death he was divided. Seventy. five of the business men of Mendota, 111., have subscribed $25 each to pay the expenses of prospecting for coal in that vicinity. The right of a street car conductor to eject a small-pox patient from his car is to be contested in the Boston courts. A “homespun’’ association is-being organized at Dea Moines, lowa, the mem- - bers of which are pledged to wear no goods not made in that city. New Jersey expects to hang two men in April, one in May, and three in June, besides supplying the usual quantity of champagne. The Pennm/hamian, at Oil City, has suspended because the edttor and his wife couldn’t agree about bis employing female -compositors. - - , The Polk County, lowa, Agricultural Society this year offers a premium for the best preserved man and woman seventy years of age; also, for the largest living family. Vanderbilt says that the traffic between the cities of New York and Boston is so constantly Rowing that a new route is needed every ten yeqfs. A Carrollton (Ivy.) dentist sent a dollar to the editor of the Democrat, ashing that a false notice of his death be corrected. The correction was made.' The Board of Supervisors of Greene County, lowa, have allowed John Gray, an enterprising farmer, $1,600 deduction from the valuation of his property for taxes, for planting twelve acres of fruit trees, -'— : A large number of tax-payers of Jersey City, N. J., recently held a meeting and resolved not to pay any more taxes to the State UDtil the law exempting railroads from taxation is repealed. 0 The proprietors of the Legal Tender mine, at Clancy, Montana, have struck a vein twenty-seven inches wide, averaging $2,800 per ton. This is the greatest striko-ever make in the Territory. The ore is galena, with sulphate, ruby John Mishi er, of Harrison, Delaware County, Ind., 84 years old, claims to be the champion hunter of the State. lie say? he has killed in his time 410 deer; 52 bears and 25 wolves, lie has lived in Harrison for the last twenty-tive years. Commodore Vanderbilt has purchased the southwest corner of Third avenue and Forty-second street, New York, for SIOO,OOO, and intends to erect a large marble building, to be known as the Grand Central Bank. The most remarkable chime of bells in this country is on the chapel of Notre Dame University, near South Bend, Ind. It consists of twenty-four bells, the largest weighing 14,000 lbs., ranging through two octaves. It may be heard in its deep reverberations for twenty miles away. One of the foundries at Peekskill, N. Y., has a “salamander,” as it is termed—a furnace in which the molten iron has been permitted to grow cold, and as not even August weather will thaw it out, it has got to be removed by drilling, which will cost $50,000. . Fourteen deaths have occurred recently in the vicinity of Naples, Scott County, 111., by cerebro spinal meningitis., The disease was rapidly increasing, and the people of the neighborhood were becoming greatly alarmed at its disastrous spread. Millerism is reviving in Vermont. The world, it is there affirmed by some, is coming to an eud toward the close of the present year.—Others think that the catastrophe will occur during the present winter. There are a good many meetings, and there is a good deal of preaching and excitement. A proposition was seriously made in the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention the other day, that the punishment of fraud at elections be “banging by the -neck until dead, without the benefit of clergymen, of executive clemency or any other benefit whatever.” There is in New York a professional “face maker,” who sits as a-model for the artist who manufactures grotesque masks for carnival times. The flexibility of bis features is said to be so wonderful that, if necessary, be could elude the recognition of the smartest detectives. The new code of California establishes such complete equality in the marriage state, and so does away with the old notion that a man and bis wife are one flesh, that the two can contract with and sue each other the same as if they had never been married. The marriage of minors changes the status from minors to adults. Cars are being built for mail trains between New York and Chicago, to consi.-t of three cars and one locomotive. No stoppages are to be made except for coal and water, and the trains are expected to make the distance between the two cities in twenty-four hours, running about forty miles an bonr. - -

Mr. George Le Barre, of Pennsylvania, is held up by the New York Herald as the oldest man in America. His years number 115, he'was too old for the war of 1812, and he shook hands with Washington. In addition to this, he has habitually used whisky and tobacco for a century. ’’ General Dix is so pestered with applicants for office that he has this notice posted upon every window and door of the Executive Chamber and his dwelling: “If any office seeker presents himself here during the next four hours, ‘shoot him on the spot!’ ” In this manner, a little quiet is obtained, and an opportunity had to attend to State affairs.

Some genius has come to the relief of the poor bnt ambitious amateurs who want to kill somebody, and has Invented a pocket pistol which sells for $l5O. Of the six murders committed in New York, in one week, three were performed with that economical but effective weapon. Nothing like bringing luxuries within the reach of the Common people.-'’ An Athol (Mass.) man, lopg resident in California, is about to bring a courtship of twenty,-five years to a happy termination. Ten years ago he started homeward for the same laudable purpose, but was waylaid and robbed of his all. 1$ went back to the golden State, gained another fortune, and this time has readied home safely.

It 1b reported that a chest Containing SBO,OOO in specie has been dug up at Cape May, the same being the long-sought-after treasure captured by Capt. Kidd, as he sailed, and burned to protect it from his pursuers. The chest bears that ancient and rather frisky mariner’s name branded on it; but the story has no trademark to authenticate itself Withal. The highest rate for telegraphic dispatches from any two points in the United States, is how $2.50 for ten words, instead of $5, as formerly. This regulation mainly applies to dispatches between the Atlantic and Pacific cities. The rates be ; tween Western-Cities and California have been reduced, but not in the same proportion. The abolition of the franking privilege makes lively times for Public Printer Clapp. The whole force of his office is now working eleven hours daily, instead of eight as heretofore, to get out public documents, the printing of which has been ordered, so that they can be on which the franking privilege ceases to exist. As the eightchour law is in force in the office, the hands get for their additional work three-eighths extra pay. The Belfast (Me.) Age is responsible for the remarkable statement that Mr. L. M_ Poor, of Searsmont, on taking some eggs from a lien’s nest recently, observed a slight protuberance at the end of one, but thought' nothing of it till he heard the shell snap." Upon looking he saw a singular substance oozing out. which proved to be a fully developed serpent, seven inches long, which had apparently been coiled up in the end of the egg. It was nearly the color of the white of the egg, and exhibited some signs of life when it first came out. * Bill's^ are pending.in Several of the State Legislatures which are designed to put an end to the business of dead-head-ing on the railroads. Some of these go so far as to make it a criminal offense for a State officer or member, of yue Legislature to accept a free pass over any railroad. The legislators-of Maine,-however, look at the subject from another-point of view, and instead of punishing deadheads, propose to provide for their better protection, by making the companies more surely responsible in case of injury. The cheapest way of getting a thor : ough ablption and a new suit of ciothoiL of which we have heard, is that adopted San Irishman, in tne town of Peabody, iss. lie buried a man that had died of-small-pox, and then went prowling about among the drinking saloons of the town without so much as changiug his clothes. The authorities bad him hunted up, stripped of his raiment, bathed and fumigated and furnished with an eutireTiew suit. Tliis treatment suited him well enough. There are now in circulation two sets of counterfeit five dollar United States notes. The first of these bogus greenbacks is poorly engraved on tolerably good paper, and purports to be No. 9,813. The statue of .“America,” on the left hand side of the note, is faintly and badly executed, as is also the medallion portrait in the lower right hand corner. The line engraving on the back is indistinct, and the curved lines weak and wavering. The second counterfeit Is badly printed on wretched paper, is numbered 31,720, - and the engraving is exceedingly coarse and scratchy. . &=—

More Concerning Mr. Colfax's Vindication.

. l-'nnu tlie Baltimore American, February 13.] Vioe-Pkehident Colfax's private character is the property of the nation. Democrats as well as Republicans have always admitted that he was one of those pure Christian statesmen wtio added luster to the American character. As every Republican regards Cnarles Francis Adams to be a man of unblemished reputation, against whom the shafts of calumny might be hurled in vain, so all honest men of the Democratic party will hail with gratification Ihe proof that was furnished to the Credit-Mobilier Committee on Tuesday last, that Mr. Colfax has been the victim of personal malice and probably premeditated perjury. The main charge against the VicePresident was that be had received a checl*for $1,200 from Oakes Ames, and falsely swore that he had never received it or any .other sum of money from his accuser. The fact that lie had deposited one item of $1,200 about the time the uheek was-4ated w-as bailed by 'his enemies as.circumstantial testimony that his denial was a downright' falsehood. He has now not only satisfactorily proven this deposit came from another source; but Mr. Sidney Dillon, the paylng.clcrk, who cashed the check to “S. C.,’’ swears that he is strongly impressed with the belief that it was presented to him by Mr, Oak s Ames himself, and the money was paid in two $506 and two SIOO bills to the x r ery jnan who has had the hardihood, to assert and reassert that he had given it to Mr. Colfax and the money was drawn by him. Mr. Dillon, in further proof that his memory was correct, stated that “during the past thirty hours he had asked him (Mr, Ames) if he did not pay the check to him, and Mr. Ames said he thought it was very likely.” It should be remembered that Mr. Ames was present when Mr. Dillon thus testified, and did not dare to dispute his assertion or question him on the matter. This testimony alone, striking at the very root of the accusation, is sufficient to satisfy all unprejudiced men that Mr. Ames, in making a,deliberate attempt to prove Air. Colfax a perjurer, .has convicted himself of having committed the basest outrage that any man in pfißlie life was ever guilty of. His whole manner during the closing scene of the investigation was that of a sneak and a coward, who felt that he had done an infamous wrong to an innocent man. AVhile he had not the manliness to. acknowledge and make reparation, he did not dare to make any further attempt to sustain his accusation. The Gazette of yesterday morning, true to its malignant instincts against every one who differs with it in political sentiment, in reviewing Alr. Colfax’s defeuse, says:

“With singular fatuity, he involved himself in contradictions that only make his case Vvorse, if jiossible, than it was before.” We imagine; however, that the readers of the Gazette who are not similarly affected with political malice will rather consider that Mr. Colfax has proven himself as still worthy the good character given him by that leading Democratic journal, the St. Louis Republican, of a recent date: ’’ '■■•r%iXyT

“ He has always enjoyed heretofore animbTemiehed reputation and that genuine popularity which is the nest reward bestowed upon a public man. An ardent politician, and advocating his peculiar views with a zeal which sometimes savored of bigotry, he has never rendered himself obnoxious to his opponents by displaying that intolerance which ts as disgusting as it is ungenerous. He has fought bitterly, hut never carried his hostility outside of the bounds of strict courtesy, and those who have suffered most- from his assaults have been compelled to acknowledge him a gallant enemy, as chivalrous as he was resolute. Added lo these purely professional qualities was a natural kindness of heart and suavity of manner which gained for him the. respect and esteem of a]l with whom he whs thrown in c ontact. He never ceased to be a gentleman, neveriorgot that others had the , same right to express their convictions thathe had and this jnanly generosity brought its own Sppropriate recompense. —A man of lowa Falls, who has a limekiln, asserts that, with wood and com in about equal parts, the fire is better and scarcely more expensive, and that the lime is somehow vastly better. • r. "■ ... V-l , —One Signor Ferraro, a Milanese, has discovered a new fuel, which is said to b« abundant in Italy, cheaper' and more c&lorific than coal. » _ ,

FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

( —Cream for Coffee.—Beat well one egg with om spoonful of sugar i pour a pint of scalding hot milk over this, stirring it briskly. Make it the night previous. —The three reasons given by those not _ln favor of live posta are: It iß,difflcult to grow a row of trees hear enougE Tn line; the wind swaying the trees will break the nails; and lastly, the growth of the trees would surely push off the boards that old Boreas spared. . —lt is said that tlfe disagreeable clicking noise caused -by overreaching in horses will be prevented if the blacksmith in shoeing cuts, off the toe or crust of the shell of the hoofs on the fore feet instead ■of on the hind feet, as is the frequent practice. —There are diseases to which cows are subject which do not lessen th,e flow of milk for some time; yet this secretion is seriously affected in quality, and is dangerous to use, and cases are on record where the milk of a sick cow is absolutely. poisonous and has caused death to many children! —The economy of rapid and comfortable transit for beef cattle was recently shown at a meeting held in Manchester, Eng, The loss attending the driving of fatted stock on foot to market was eighty pounds per head per 100 miles; now a fat bullock is taken 530 miles by rail to London with a loss of forty pounds only. ..--For mixed pickles, prepare any vegetables you like by cutting them in pieces and let them lie in salt and water for two or three then make the pickle in the following manner: Boil the quantity of vinegar required with peppercorns, mustard seed, a small quantity of mace, a few cayenne pods and ginger, and half a pound of flour of mustard mixed smoothly in a basin, to be put in while boiling; put all together in a large stone jar. —A.suggestion which may be of use to everybody who keeps house and owns a garden, a grape-vine, or a pear-tree, is made herein: Out of two bushels of bones saved from time to time during the year, a bushel and a half of ashes, a peek of lime and three pails of water, boiled together and mixed with muck in equal quantity, the writer has made a barrel of phosphate equal to the best in the market, and at the cost of less than a dollar. He it to his grape-vines and dwarf pear-trees with magical effect. ... —Of ali our domestic animals there are none that require more systematic care .than the horse, A horse should be fed regularly, and in moderate quantities and worked judiciously. Ahorse kept in this way may be kept at a moderate cost, will be more healthy and perform more labor than if fed highly, or as many we know of are in the habit of feeding their horses. They will surely eat enough to injure them if they can get it. When hay is kept constantly before them, horses are apt to spend their time in throwing it around topsy-turvy in the rack; they soon become dissatisfied with their food, end lose their keen relish for it. The general practice should be to feed regularly three times a day.

Soup for Horses.

Joseph Harris relates the following in the Agriculturist: ; ' This summer my horses got badly run down. We fed them liberally but they did hot get well. They had ho appetite, no digestion, and no strength and spirit. They came home at noon and night fagged out, and their night’s rest did not refresh them. I sawed a barrel in two, and placed the ends on the platform of the pump. These are for watering the horses. Into one of them we put a pailCfirnmeal and mixed it with the water. The horses at first did not like it, and would only drink a little when very thirsty. After they drank what they would they were allowed pure water. In a tew days, however they drank this cornmeal soup with a rellish, and ip less than a week there was a decided change for the better in the appearance of the horses. We ck> not let them eat the meal, but merely let them drink the milky water. I have no doubt that it is as good for them as a plate of good soup is for a tired and hungry man before dinner. It seems to stimulate the appetite and aid digestion. . . It is a capital thing for cows its well as horses, blit is not so easy a matter to give it to the cows, as they soon learn to stick their heads into the water up to their horns to get the meal that settles at the bottom. It is necessary to have a large trough with a false bottom.

Selecting Corn for Seed.

Youn older readers will remember the cold summer of 1816, when but very little corn got. ripe in the New England States. A year or two afterward my. father obtained a very small kind of eightrowed corn that was recommended as sure to ripen. Ido not know what was its proper name,-but remember it was called in this vicinity “tucked corn.’’ According to the best of my recollection the ears would average about six inches in length. It ripened early. Heseleeted for seed the largest ears; and the result was, the ears continually increased in size and length, and from eight rows he got ten rows, then twelve, then fourteen, and at last there began to be a few ears with sixteen rows. But as it gained in size it was later in ripening, and in fifteen or twenty years we had another short summer and abundance of “pig corn.” . - , The next spring I was told that a tavern keeper at Haverhill, this State, raised the season before a small kind of Canada corn that got thoroughly ripe before the frost, and was advised to try it. I have planted this corn ever since; that is, some thirty-five or forty years. I have taken care, however, to avoid my father’s mistake, and have greatly increased the size of the ears without materially lengthening the period of growth. For the first few years I picked the earliest ears for seed, taking them before cutting the corn. But the growth, although larger than at first, was too small, and it ripened so early I concluded to profit by my father’s experience, and obtained a larger kind without making it much less. Any farmer, if he is a keen observer, will-have noticed that the large and late ears always have a large cob, which is indicated by a large stem when broken off at husking. For the purpose of increasing the size, I stopped picking my seed in the field, and selected the largest ears that had a-small stem. - If I found a large ear with a small stem, and especially if the stem was wilted and tough to break, whieh indicated early maturing, I saved it for seed. In this way I soon perceived an increase of size, and fearing that in escaping Scylla T should run on Charybdis, as my father did, 1 commenced picking my seed in the field. But noticing that my corn continued to ripen considerably earlier than my neighbors’, I ventured to try the experiment of making it still larger. Consequently, for a few years past’, I have selected seed at husking, and saved for seed handsome ears, having ten or twelve tows, with the indispensable small stems. At first I found but few ears of this kind, but they have become so numerous that this year I have saved only twelve-rowed ears, and probably shall not venture to go beyond this,-al-though I find now- and then an ear with fourteen, and, this year, with sixteen rows. . This shows, what can be dope by select; ing seed corn. I have no doubt but any other grain .pan be improved in the same way—

■ Mart person»*ay that they have tried almost every remedy that has been recommended for humors, and they are no better now than when they commenced them, and they have no confidence in anything tnat Is advertised to Cure Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, and all'Similar humors. We would say to these that there is now a remedv that as yet “has never failed of curing those diseases. It acts upon an entirely different principle from anything ever Offered to them; It throws hnmonrout of the blood through the skin, which is the only channel through which the system can be entirely freed from them. If you will try it, you will not say of this as .you have by the others, for it will cure you. We refer to Dr. Weaver’s Salt Rheum Syrup. For sale by all Druggists." Killed by a. Falsehood He is dead,” said a friend of ours the other day, in answer to an inquiry after the health of a mutual acquaintance. “Dead! you don’t say so. Of what did- he die?” “Of Credulity” was the reply, “he believed in a patent medicine of which the chief ingredient was forty-rod rum, and "it■proven the death of him.” This was true; the unfortunate man had taken for liver complaint, a compound of fiery alcohol and root juice, and it had killed him. Now, did that misguided invalid require a tonic? He did; but not a spirituous excitant. The writer of this brief statement is confident, from his own experience, that if the Martyr to Drugged Alcohol, had resorted to Dr. Walker’s Vinegar Bitters, instead of to the poison tenth a medical name'which proved fatal to him, he would.to day Jiein thei land of the living. The justly popular vegetable specific contains no destructive element. It is a tonic that does, not ex cite, a cathartic that does not. weaken, an antiseptic that neutralizes the seeds of disease in the blood and other fluids of the body, and a general Alterative which arrests diseased action in the secretive organs, and restores the functional regularity indispensable to health and vigor. We are no friend of indiscriminate praise, and believe that many patent medicines are merely poison, but the experience of thousands has proved the Vinegar Bitters to be all they claim 7

If Congress had employed as much scien title skill in the arrangement of Its “Reconstruction Policy” at the close, as the War Department did in the beginning of the war, in arranging for the manufacture of. what was called fiheridan'x Cavalry Condition Powder s for the use of the cavalry horses, no doubt the Union would have been restored long ago.— Exchange. - -Tnyi.i We noticed in one of our exchanges this week the statement of Dea. John Hodgkins, of South Jefferson, Me., whpse son was cured of incipient consumption by the use of Johnson’* Anodyne Liniment. We refer to this at this time as tending to corroborate the statement we made last week in relation to this Liniment as applied to consumption, -A —CARPENTER writes to the Anicrimv Builder as follows: “I struck out-for myself last year and cleared nearly $3,000, using the plans and details in your magazine, which were better than'afi architect/ Count me a subscriber forJifeJi Qgs,.subscribers can get the Builder on trial four months by enclosing $1 to Chas. D. Lakey, Publisher, 23 Murray street, New York. ('■RtsTATioTio'R Excelsior Hair Dye stands ■ unrivalled and- alone; ita merits have been so universally acknowledged that It would be a supererogation to descant on them any farther—nothing can beat It. : • - ~ g Flagg's Ikstaxt Relief has stood twenty years’ test. Is warranted to give immediate relief to all Rheumatic, Ncairalgic, Head, Ear, anil Back Aches, or money rtfutuUd. , For CrttiGHS and TiiroaT Disorders, use “Brown's Bronchial Troches,'' having proved their efficiency?)y a test of many years.

The Children’s Hour. —The number for March is very attractive, and the little ones will give it a hearty, joyourWelcomC* Its pictures are pretty and appropriate, and its Btories, sketches and poems are of a kind to interest and amuse the youthful readers, while making them better and wiser. The terms of The Children's Homjto: $1.25 a year.; five copies, $5; ten, and one extra, $10; extra Inducements are offered to getters-up of clubs. T. S. Arthur & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. THE WEEKLY SUN, Only'sl a Year, 8 Pages. The Best Family Paper.— The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar, _ The Best Agricultural Paper.—The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages, $! a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Political Paper.— The Weekly N. Y. Snn. Independent and Faithful. Against Public Plunder. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Newspaper.— The Weekly New York Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. Has All the News. —The Weekly New York Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. The Best Story Paper. -The Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. — r The Best Fashion Reports In the Weekly N. Y. Snn. 8 pages. $1 a year, Send yonr Dollar. The Best Market Reports in the Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send yonr Dollar. The Best Cattle Reports in the Weekly N. Y. Sun. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send yonr Dollar. The BteST Pater In Every Respect.— The Weekly N. Y. Snn. 8 pages. $1 a year. Send your Dollar. Address THE SUN, New Ydrft City.

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NEW YORK, February 19, 1878. BEEF CATTLE *8.50 0g15.50 HOGS—Live 5.50 0 6.00 SHEEP—Live 5.25 © 7.00 COTTON—Middling! ».-. «•= .20 0 .21 FLOUR—Good to Choice 7.75 0 8.25 WHEAT—No. 2 Spring 1.60 0 1.70 CORN—Western Mixed 64 0 .66 OATB—Western, New 53 0 .55 RYE—Western .90, 0 .93 PORK—Mess 14.37 V 14.62 W LARD.. .08 0 .0834 WOOL—Domestic F1eece.....60 0 .65 Tubbed .45 0 .60 Unwashed 30 0 .37 CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice.... *6.25 0*6.50 Good 5.25 0 5.75 Medium 4.50 0 5.00 Batchers’ Stock 3.50 0 4.25 HOGS—Live 4.10 0 4.60 SHEEP—Good to Choice 5.00 0 5.10 BUTTER—Choice 27 0 .30 EGGS—Fresh 20 0 .25 FLOUR—White Winter Extra... 8.00 ©10.50 Spring Extra.: 6.25 0 7.25 GRAlN—Wheat—Spring, No. 2.. 1.21 0 1.23 Com—No. 2............ .31X0 .3114 Oats 26X0 .S6X Rye—No. 2 ,66 0 .68 Barley—No. 2 68 0 .72 PORK—Mess 12 75 0 12.80 LARD .07 0 .0734 WOOL—Tub-washed .55 © .65 Fleece, washed 45 0 .55 “ unwashed 80 0 .38 Palled .48 0 .50 CINCINNATI. ' FLOUR—Family,New ~..*8.00 0 8.25 WHEAT—Red 1.70 0 1.75 CORN 40 0 .41 OATB .30 0 .36 ~ RYE 80 0 .81 PORK—Mess 13.00 0 13.25 Lard . .Of © (734 HOGS—Live.. ..’ 4.65 0 5.00 . 8T LOUIS. ( BEEF CATTLE—Choice '... *4.50 ©*6.00 Good to Prime SsOO 0 4.25 HOGS—Live 4.25 0 4.76 FLOUR—FaII XX 6.75~0 7.60 WHEAT—No. BRed Winter ... 1.80 © 1.90 CORN—No. 2 Mixed 80 0 .32 OATS—No. I-...- .26 0» .27 RYE—No. 2 PORK—Mess 18U30, © is m LARD 07 0 .0734 MILWAUKEE. ! .» FLOUR—Bpring XX *8.26 0 *6.87 WHEAT—Spring, No. 1 1.28 0 1.30 JT0r..T..... 1.33 0 1.24 CORN—No. 2... 31 0 .38 OATS—No. 2. 26 0 .27 RYE—No. 1... .-t ; .68 0 .69 Barley-No. clkvkland. WHEAT—No. 2 Bed... . *1.64 O *1.66 CORN... X. .45 0 .46 OATS-rNo. 1 0 .«.» —DETROIT. wheat-No. 1 .. ,r..... ..- “.:. *im. qe*ra Amber. * 168 0 1.72 CORN-No. 1... .41 0 .42 OATB 36 @ .40 TOLEDO., WHEAT—Amber Mich *1.70 © 1.7* No. 2 Red l.«ii a 168 muN-MUed..., .38 a .40 OAT*-NO. 1,... ...1....

An En.y Way to Health. The appetite to generally keener In winter than In summer, but the same low temperature which begets an Increased desire for food Is apt to decrease the abUlty of the stomach to digest It. The moat aggravated cases of acute dyspepsia occur at this season; and the fesatrfa fact the only, way to control andesfe tltfHl, If to stimulate and tone the stomach and Invigorate and regulate the secretive and discharging organs. To do this promptly, safely and thoroughly (without Involving any change In the ordinary habits of the Invalid), a course of Ilostetter’s Stomach Bitters will be necessary. In order to accomplish a radical cure of Indigestion, It la not enough to Influence the organa of digestion. The liver, the Intestines, the circulation, every organ and every secretion concerned in the work of assimilating the food and In carrying off the waste matter of the system, must be brought Into a natural condition. Upon all these portions of the living machinery the great vegetable medicine, which stands at the head of all modern restoratives, nets powerfully and beneficially. The feeble should take at least one dose dally at all seasons of the year; and It maybe taken with great benefit twice aday’by all who are predisposed to dyspepsia, biliousness, or nervous attacks. Ladles w c lll And It a very present help in the latter class of complaints, and indeed in all the ailments incident to the sex. Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine.—Among the many good things In the March numberare: "The Sacred River of India,, and the Cities of Its Valley," with several illustrations; •The Dearest Little Wife In the World”—story, by T. S. Arthur, with illustration; “Crooked Places”—continued; "The Deacon’s Household,” by Pipsissiway Potts; ‘‘Charles Dickens—First Time and Last”—by Virginia F. Townsend; and several other stories, poems and illustrations, Terms,s2.so a year, or $1.50 for six months, with a reduction for clubs. A copy of the beautiful steel engraving, “TheChrlstian Graces,” sent free to -each subscriber, whether for si x monthaor a year. Address T. S. Arthur & Bon, Philadelphia, Pa, * Rough, Wintry. Changeable Weather produces Catarrhs, Coughs, Lung Disorders, etc., which Dr. Jayne’s Expectorant as promptly ernes when faithfully administered. Ask yonr grocer for Prussing’s Celebrated Cider Vinegar. Warranted pure. Preserves Pickles.

WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please say you saw the advertisement In tnis paper. A CHALLENGE lg extended to the World 1 To place before the public a better Cough or Lung ssn— »n- Remedy than ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM. It is warranted to break up the moßt troublesome Cough in nn incredibly short time. There is no remedy that can show more evidence of real merit than this BALSAM for curing Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, etc. It Acte on the KldneysJ I* Aces oo lhe Liyeri— EST" Which makes it more than a Cough Remedy. LATEST EVIDENCE. What well known Druggists of Tennessee »sty about Allen’s Lung Balsam. u Springfield, Tenn., Sept. 13,1872. Gentlemen: Please shin ns six doz. Allen’s Lung - Balsam. W e hare not a pottle in the store. I t It hr more reputation than any Cough Medicine we have ever sold. Have been in the drug business 27 years. We mean Just what we say. VCr^rulv What the Doctors Say. Drs. Wilson & Ward. Ph ysicians and Druggists, write from Centreville, Tenn.: " We purchased Allen's Lung Balsam, and it rclls rapidly. ~We are practicing physicians, as well as druggists, and take pleasure in recommending a great -remedy, such as we .know this to he.” Physicians do not recommend a medicine which has no merit; what they say about ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM ran be taken as a fact. Let all afflicted test it nt once and be convinced of its real merits. It is harmless to the most delicate child? : ; j_. It Contain* no Opium In Any Former OAUTIOKr. Be not deceived. .Callfor ALLEN’S LUNG BALSAM, mid take no other. 53?"* Directions accompany each bottle. J. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, 0., PROPRIETORS. - |y Sold by all Medicine Dealers._ LARGEST ORGAN ESTABLISHMENT IN THE WORLD! 7 Extensive Factories. J. ESTEY ft COMPANY, Brattleboro, Vt., U. S. A. THE CELEBRATED Estey Cottage Organs. .The latest and best improvements. Everything that is new and noyel. The leading improvements In organs were introduced first in this establishment. • ESTABLISHED 1846. Send for Illustrated Catalogue. ITAYETTRVIUI.E NURXEUIE-.-l’enr, At>F pie and Cherry Trees and Seeds; Wilßon Strawberry and Clark Kaspbt rry Plants; Quince and Currant Cuttings at lower rates than have yet been offered.' Add Fess WILL & CL AUK, Fayetteville, Onondaga Co., N. Y. thea-jectar with tile G m; n*fla War ranted to suit all tastes. For sale everywhere. And for sale whole sale only by the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, 191 Fulton st, and 5506. Send Tor Thea-Nectar circular CASH PREMIUMS FREE! Twenty-One thousand Dollars Distributed next April, Free, among the *2.00 subscribers of the WEiEKXtY EXTQUrHJEn. -inclose *2.oofor a year’s subscription, or send for full particulars. Extra premiums for Agents. Address FARAX' & MoI.KAN', > Cincinnati, Oh'o.

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ill No Pcnon can take their Bitters according to direction!, and remain long unwell, provided their bones are not destroyed by mineral poison or other means, and the vital organs wasted beyond the poin, of repair. ' , , . DvaocDala or Indigestion. Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Diiziness, Sour Eructations of the Stomach, Bad Tast% in the Mouth, .Bilious Attacks, Palpitation of the Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs, Pam m the regions of the Kidneys, and a hundred other pimful symptoms, are the offsprings of it has no equal, and one bottle will prove a Letter guarantee of its merits than a lengthy advertisement. For Female Complaints* in young or old, married or single, at the dawn of womanhood, or the turn of life, these Tonic Bitters display - so decided an influence tnat a marked improvement is soon perceptible. —r ’ For Inflammatory and Chrome Rheumatism and Qout, Bilious, Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Diseases of the Blood, Liver, Kidneys and Bladder, these Bitters have no equal. Such Diseases are caused by Vitiated Blood, which is generally produced by derangement of the Digestive Organs. They are a Gentle Purgative as well as a. Tonfe* possessing aj.so the peculiar merit of acting as a powerful agent in reiieving Congestion or Inflammation of the Liver and Visceral Organs, and in Bilious Diseases. For Skill Diseases* Eruptions, Tetter, Salt RbeumTßTofches, Spots; Pimples, Pustules, Boils, Cat* bunefes, Ring-worms, Scald-Head, Sore Eyes, Erysipelas. It£h, Scurfs, Discolorations of the Skin, Humors and Diseases of the Skin, of whatever name or nature, are literally dug up and carried out of the system in a short time by the use of these Bitters. • Gnateful Thousands proclaim Vinegar Bitters the most wonderful Invigorant that ever sustained J WALKERfprop’r, R. H.-WcDONAXP AtO., Druggists and Gen. Agts.', San Francisco and New York. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS & DEALERS. MOTHERS!!! non’t fall to procure MRS. WINS. _ lows sooTiriNt; syrup for v/tfinDREN TEETHING. This valuable nrepnratlnn has been used with N’EV* SR.rAIMN'GSUCCESS IN THOUSANDSOFCasks. —.ll not only KlihYCB the eliiM from pain, hut lyvi® or!*'". •liestmnixli ami Übwe-ls,<K>rrectx acidity, omj given tone mid energy to Win Wliolo eyuteiu. It will also instantly relievo Griping in the Bowels and Wind Colic. We believe It the REST and SUREST REMK l> V 1 N "THE WORLD, til all case, of DYSENTERY AX 1> DIARRIKEA IN CHILDREN, whether arising 11oin toothing or any other cause. Depend upon it, mothers, it will give rest to yourselves, and Relief and Health to -Yonr Infants. Be sure mid call for h “MRS. WINSLOW’S SOOTHING SYRUP,* Having thd fac-siniUe of 4 *CUKTIS & PERKIN'S' on the. outside wrapper. I'g'-Sold by druggists 'hroughont the world. Si ffijji msm; The, Optr>K is published Quarterly. 25 cents pays for the j, ear, which is not half thecost. Those who afterwards send money to the amount of One Dollar or more for Seeds *may also*order 25 cents' worth extra—the price paid for the Guide. The First Number is beautiful, giving plans for making Rural Homes. Dinlng-Tubi© Docora* lions, Window Gardens, &c., and a mass o. information in valuable to the lover of flowers.- —3 30 pages, on fine tinted paper, some 500 Engravings, and a superb Colored Plate and OilromoCover, — The First Edition, of 400,000 just printed la English and German _ _ JAMES VICK, Rochester, New York. Established —YEARS. Jones Com'l and Telegraph College. FIFTH AND OLIVE STREETS, ST. LOUIS* Circulars (German and Knglixh, and Specimens of Penman•hip), mailed FREE. Write for one. NO VACATION. JONATHAN JONES, President. JOHN W. JOHNSON. Managing Principal. « n ° Buperi?r ,^° ne9 * u^i 10 FOREST AND EVERGREEN Trees and Seeds! The Largest Stock In America. Fifteen Millions Evergreen Tree*. Twelve Millions European Larch, &c., dfcc. All grown from seeds In our own nurseries. Alio Fruit and Forest ’Tree Seeds. Catalogues free. ROBERT DOUGLAS & HONB, Waukegan, 111. THE LATEST INVENTION. PARCHMENT COLLAR Twice the Strength of Cloth-LinedL „ PATENT APPLIED FOR. METROPOLITAN COLLAR CO., 346 A 348 Broadway, N. Y. Works—Jay, Washington and Greenwich Sts., N. Y. Capacity, 110,000,000 per aunnm. j nnn reward * I For any case of Blind, I Blooding, Itching or.C Ice- ■ rated Piles that Dk Bing’s ■ Pile Remedy fails to ■ cure. It is prepared ex- - Q pressly to cure the Piles, iifl m u Jr and nothing else. Sold by TT' '■ 7 all Druggirts. Price ■fl.ttt VALUABLE FARM BEEDH AND BOOKS v CiIVEIN AWAY.—Three specimen copies of the American Stock Journal, containing, over 100 pages of valuable reading matter, handsomelv Illustrated with Engravings of Farm Buildings, Blooded Stock, Poultry, Dogs, Birds, Ac., and a package of Chester County Mammoth Corn, Imported White Oats and Alsike or Lucern Clover, will be sent FREE to all who send two; stamps fofr postage. Address N. P. Boyer & Co., Parkesburg, Chester Co., Pa.

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