" any man attempts to haul iloicn the 1merican Flag, shoot him on the spot.
VOL. 1.
PLATTJSMOUTII, N KB It ASK A, TiiruDAY, DECEMBER i4, I(8.
iNO. as.
THE HERALD
Is. F I'LL I rill I'D
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EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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WILLITT POTTENGEn.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PL.ATTSMOUTII - - NEBRASKA.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Solicitor ia Chancery.
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WATC jTjIAKES and JEWELER, !
Miin Street, .
t, vT'-ril V rl1: s!U .
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- , .. s..4..r;ini-nt i.f VI as :!. .! - tol 1 IV ns
I.Wf.ry. s.w-r Wir, Kin- ... Ti 1 us ana Vi
...iu Tn.m-i.-i-- .ua-h'., ,.n ti.-ii. A.; wo: toui
moo 1 1" -I- crc will be wr;d -tc !.
Piattsmouth SWSills.
C. HEISKL, Proprietor.
H.it- r. r.-nttv h-vn r-i ir--a iel r! in tiir--,iiiuiDi;
Oraer. C'lstim work !. iks oc sti.rt
100,000 Kii1ic1m of Wheat
U'jl'cI nuiiii-.l a'eiy, f.jr whi h.tiie iioirkc
t-ri.- wi'l e .aui. ;n.(z-- :f
J. N. WISE,
General Lif A'-i i', Fire, avd
''rails it
INSURANCE AGENT
Will t.iVn ri.'ksat rtf-ino'iihlf rt"s in the in j-t r'li.tM
co .itnip la tti 1'iiit- 1 staf .
e 9-. lie a t the tj.i )k btore, I'la Mr i.uth, SVI.ran
" " nmy-2Mtl
lillinery A: Irt!itll:kiIli,:,
IT JIM A. M. DK-PAI M H-. R. P. K fcN ."IDT
Opposite the City It t rij,
' E r-uM r.-.-e.-t f 'il !y antumnct? t.i to La u.
if l: ir--on -mtti nn-1 v if ir.ity . ttiat 'it !: .v,-j isi
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Iril llU.na. AC.. C. V K will s.-i, i lie v i.i i'." p.
-.o:iuibici'y. Wecan rc.mmutc aii our
o i , mtoin -r m l niiiiy i.c iitic- a :.l 'avur '.3
wit h a , -all. All kiarls of work in our liu- .! ne t
OrJ-r. Pi-.Vcfataflcticn ?;veii or michirgei-.
nvs'.f
HEALTH, G0.MF0R r, AND
ECONOMY
3 RVASO.XS FOR UOXRDl.XG
with
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r-.-.iu ar.- well venti la and h!
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Wliol- sale aa.l Ketail Lcal?rs in
Wines and Liquors,
A.--) a v -ry rL.iVe SuU-rtion "f
Tobacco and Cigars,
K.n r.f-t. .v.,ti,1 .1 .,r -ait of Seymour HVuse
Arsju-t r-iivini h now stock -f Genuine Did
k yt Gmnitt old
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.OTi:S OX MIUlA-liA.''
j We make ihe following extract from
an article written, under the above ti
! tie, by Maj. II. T. Brooks, of the Ru-
rul JVtw Yorker, and published in his
! paper of Nov. iiSib, lb6fc. Major
Brooks visited Nebraska and delivered
' an address before the State Fair lust
! fall. Being a resident of another
State, and being a man well kno wn to
i the farmers of the United State, his
statements and opinions are entitled to
great consideration. Hert ia what he
I says:
The soil of Central and E-istrn Ne
. Iraaka is unsurpassed and unsurpasa
bie. Clay, sand, vegetable mold, and
all essential elements, are so harmoni
ously blended as to produce a soil
light, friable, free from lumps and
stories, d:irk colored, aily woiked,
' anJ emineiitly productive. The finera
garden mold in the State cf New York
i is not a whit better thui the average
of Nebraska soil. I advise my friends,
MlIwangT it Uirry, of the Mt Hope
Lurerif?, io mijiort a dir load of it to
i jrmv tbeir mot delicate p!nni in.
; Take iiu precau'.iocs send your order
'to any i'Jllilas!e, and t-1 ! him
J to diy ttie (irst din be com" to and
s.erid it aionsj. 1 wi!l guarantee the
.jurtiity. I'robabiy any Congressman
v.i i.ld frank it'I'tibiic Documents" if
i yu wili si-ti l Lis w ocoai'onally a
b tijot-i of your line fl av. rs.
Some of tho r:ve-r tot:oms have a
; andy and purou sul voil, generally
i the f-tibsoil is ilay, but not too retentive
; uc. mi'isture. ilurd rains do not sob- j
i-'Ll Nebraska farm rs to vexatious de-
'ay-; they can
J.t-hfiir their i
soon s out wi'boot
t)v'S I
mud, and start
i 1 1 -i r ; lowing without ihe furrows lil
ing w rti wati-'r, itf'-. r
ba r(J j an'
s in other '. tii. ii ot Hie west, i
'
'!:-) el s -Verai
N-.-w Vui kers i:i
wee Us tfie
start
l.iT th. I
sjn:g
i crop a v, tv matert'it . ant-ig" whre
lift a:; ! th- seasons are short at the
u;:.---t.
'Ihe thief product of NeV-ra-kn is
; r ; :r,e rajj, one ut and uncared f . i !
Ii. lions of acre
ton to three tor,
pf-r acr
ar.i! thai if
alt utai C'.'jil ili N W Y l k meadow
wi.i do. are givmg back u the wiods,
; ar,n Us-!
i w : ' ' a 1 1
ou iiie but.'juti t.vat iiobooy ,
I'1 . ;
N, ar ihe -vliouri nw-r com of .tie
southern variety lea. is the cultivated ,
crc-s, averaging f -riy to htty bu.hels ;
acre, and
ro. It.g elg.-il or tetl leet j
biob. The (lrst crop, t i.in ej iii sod,
i- treuutn:iy fight
The iirst Lrtaking ,
1- u.u'.t t.iteo Kicl.es u-ep. J( out uhen hp j? C()fj SPnslLle a,,(
Wheat, tao great ( r-p of human l:te, I v.al.u,ce l. if suggestion were fol
the m-iai s.ib.-t.tn.e mat men are n.aJe j ,ow.j nine,y per cent, of the trash
r- "'y :ii-rensabie thing, is jjst ;
i wn.i .leuiasKa vas i.vru auu suivw ,
e l lor nro'iucing. its e.iuiaie, ire i
ip.njtiy too ury tur oui-r crops, oruigs
whvat to great pe i Itction. A mi'ier
of large experience assures me that
the liner varieties deienoate in ma ny
' 'he States. Culm ibrasKa preserve
t'ltir vecvliar excellences. By a judi
c-mus, use of farubzers and by plowing
in g, as, , r some green crop, 1 think
Nebraska may maintain us present
position nsthe head of all wheal grow
I ' ..."
insr sections. Jts amaze uicld is great
er per acre than any other State oj this
f'ul0n. '
Nebia-i.a is scarce cf rain water, a
bad thii.i. for grass. p -.i-oes and am.
...
I but as :i w.- a go..d crop of wheat,
ai d excellent we.ulier lor tarin wcik,
the incoiiveniei ce is endurable.
ExceptTrg a bolder along tier water
courses. Nebraska is treeless: .-he
, . . , 11,1., i.o, 1 1 officer 'n thn Fenian army, now in
,-eds Umber. Good luck to her she: . . . T ...
i- .. f , 1 i command ot the L n'tel States troops
.11 grow it. Cuttings of cot.onwood, . . '
F . c 1 1 1 'at Augusta, Ua., is very nopu ar with
eds ot soft maple planed in June,: , r. ' , , 1 ' r
lit
can
.!,.-!, os rlr,1 .Kree or fr!,h? C.l.Zens of that VICinMy
1 . . - L .-1 .l Wik..r in I Im foil rrr Alt' ivriffi cur.
, i- 0 . t .
prisinif rapidity. V ery many farmers
ery many
hive planted sm.ili groves near their
dwellings, but they don't begin to real
ize the vast importance o! the limber
question. One fourth oj all JVebraska
should forthwith It planted to forest
trees. There is some mistake m the
making up of any coun;ry without trees
it nsieds mending ; 1 ut I am not sure
but it is easier to supply forests where
you want them than to remove them from
where you don I want them. 1 taw on
- I TI , . t,
John J . Pacyter s farm, near Platts
mauih. fifty, thousand black walnuts, a
year old, growing rine'y ; he exr-ec ed
to plant ns many me re this tall. 1 ire
, wtr a
' York markets ! No crop will pay her
i as well. By plowing two-thirds of her
surface, and planting the other third to
trees, she wi.I grow more gram and
grass than by cultivati.-ig ihe whole.
frees are eanh's great regulators ;
breaking the tcrce of ausure winds,
! m ikir.g the dry air salubrious, distill
. . . L---
ing ent;e s.iowers, keeping me rivu
Jets aiive throughout summer's beat,
transforniing the parched deserts into
.. ...:.. ... in 1 1. H1C U.lLLtlCU utJtii.- iii.w
, frm.tul ,ree-
I fifiOii vvnfpr ia mmonllt' nLiiinerl
digging a lair depth and stock are
watered w ithout, much ditlicuity at ihe
streams and tloos.
What mo-it concerns my readers to
know, A'ebraska has yrt millions of
acres of excellent land subject to entry
vn(ltr (g h.'nustead ,' or by pre emidion
I ti.,, 1
'I doubt whether any other State or
Territory has as much good .and tbai
can be so cheaply obtained. 1 have
never seen anywhere a population
more orderly and intelligent. The
State is settling very fast, and land is
rising. Improved farms, in good lo
cations, i:au be bought for from ten dob
lrrs to twenty-five dollars per acre.
Netraska is a new State. Thirty
towns have sprung up on her Missoun
border; Fremont and other places of
large expectation growing to the I'a
cifio railroad ; Lincoln, her extempore
capiial with eight hu.idred inhabitants,
is selling city lots on the wide prairie;
Eastern Nebraska has many cultivated
farms, and a few adventurous settlers
are scattered through the interior; but
in the roam the Sttate is one vast uq
mown meadow. It has very hitlc Wiistc
laud, no marshes too wet and Jew hills
too sleep to plow. Bordering most of
her si reams are rugged blulis.or banks,
rising thirty, fifty or one hundred feet
high ; and taking all ihe shapes matter
is capable of assuming. From these,
siretiLing away in the distance, are
the gras-cnvered prairies, gently un
dulating like the swell of a mighty
oceau, ,nd presenting in their varied
outlines landscapes cf surpassing beau
ty and niagndiceuce. This is Ne
braska, ii t. a.
A correspondent of the Chronicle,
writing from Lincoln, says:
Speaking of D-mocrais, though pol
itics are "played out" for the present,
reminds me of a li tle ticry, which I
m:it tell or perish miserably. Within
the limits tf Lincoln resides an indi
vidual who keeps a saloon, and who
last Spring wa-. i onm.au d cn the
Democratic ticket, for a ci'y cilice.
Now .many took beer at his place, who
v. ere not enrolled iti the ranks of De-
i muiracy. Just tetore ihe noiinz.ation,
J ih:s ;ridiiidu:;l met a man whom be had
I - r. c. in I. i3 r.i - , , . .. I . ...... I
' ,
f rill llill.t f i ma I I I,. . .
iz oi tj f io i:ave a fiu'triiiiir ud tu;rb.
We (ioti tell every hudy, hut ccme up.
We n.iiil ffive Vm h . Wre grim
t "el op a ticket ihu'il beat Ym ail' '
"B it." said the i.ian atco-ted, "I don't
at'cnd t It a t kind of a can. n.-." (jo to
h 1 you d R-tdical! You was in
IliV jlsfrt H r: ii-iulT and I tlijuln )iii
was a Democrat.'
y0;!r,,T xvri;ers S1re w,.nt to take
exc.!(.R:erit fr inspiration. A a a tig-
exci'emetit
merited eirculanc-n ot the blo:id dovsn'i I
,cel,ly incrt.ase lhc ,,uah.y or i
.er of ,llt. hr.,,n Th- worst things
lha, wf,f ev,.r commi'ted to paper I
,vopj ,Jlo n,r.r,r,r rr.ir.i.m fvnln.
i li..n The rfi witv for n ii:in who I
i , i.,. i0,i ,c , ,r,. .,,i
which the world is uriforunateiy ca!
u ,Q e,l(jljre w0lJI,l be unknown.
T i , .,,o,i
j The Sedaha (Mo) Times gives an
i account of a terrible murder in Henry
i county. J. G' Clark and John W.
, Fat'erson were traveling together in
a wagou. hne the tormer was
asleep Patterson klihd him with a
hatchet and robbed him of over biOO
in money and valuables. He was ar
rested and confessed his rruilt.
I f I I l " I
A uosion narter nas a razor wnicn
! was purchased at West Point when
j Benedict Arnold was in cc.mmand of
'hat post two silver dollars bei g the
; amount paiJ lor if It ha now t.e n
j m constant u-e nearly 1UU years, and
! still has a keen edge
fJeneral T. V. Sweeney, lately an
In evi-
1 Purina . f . , I . I . ! 1 n faiv r. I fT K 1 fT f lllUt'
v.. ........ .. ..... 9 "O" J
! gave his command a complimentary
'
supper.
A Cha:tanooga paper states that a
French gentlemen, named Bryan', has
purchased land on Miisiojary Ridge,
with the intention of establishing there
a colony of French wine growers.
The site is said to be admirably a-'ap
ted to the purpose.
The New York Franco-American
says that the Emperor being sick and
arathetn in these days the real ruler
j 0f France is M P.nard, who is more
tyranical than Louis, himself, would
ever expect to be.
The Polk county (Wis.) Press states
that Jeremiah Mudget. ot Farmington
recently killed a hog which weighed,
dresed, nine hundred pounds. The
head severed from the body, weighed
ninety lbs.
An English court has seperated a
boy ,f fifieen fiom his wife, and sent
..:l.. '. .L. ... . I 1
, ni:n into tne country to learn a trace
before he can be allowed to live with
lipr ffi h:i.l iTinrriAiil ' r.nr.-.i
t.. v ..... ...... i... ...- it.......
The Bosto'i Latin School is the old-
! est iistitati mi for learning in the
United States It establishment was
almost coeval with the settlement of
Boston.
, - i
The Louisville Courier say drunk- j
enness among women seems to be in-
'
creasing in that ci'y.
K.oiii tiju Tul ilu B.u'lc.
XASIJY
Vr. Yasly Suggests a Haven of Rest
for ihe Distressed Souls who are in
Danger of losing Ihdr places.
Washington. Nov. IS, 1SGS.
We hed a ineetin in Washington
last nite, to consider things. Ther are
many things lo cons der jist now, and it
wuz deemed proper to consider em. It
waz a ledge uv sorrow. Ther wuz
faint gin. inns uv hope onto the counte
nances uv a few uv those present, tut
nuthin uv certinty nutbiu uv ashoo
rance. Sekretary Randall remarkt
that so far ez he wjs concerned, he
hed made up his mind. He shood not
lake otlis under the incumin Adminis
trashun. He mite yeeld in uther mat
ters, (for he was uv a yeeldin riBchur.)
but on this he wus inflexible McCluloch
and Browning wus also determined,
hut Seward hed uther ljees He
chirped in that the oldest mau cood.'A
tell wat sixty days wood bring forth.
'Wat shell we do" askl a Postmas
ter from Ohio.
T sejest to President Johnson," sed
Rar.dall, that he apply for the Span
ish throne. He wood be acceptible to
the Spanish people, fer he hes all his
life biu puttiu the Burbon down!'
Randall hes uo longer any fear uv
the President.
' CJeiitlemen,'" remarkt I, "I heva
ijee, with, ef acted onto, will pull us
otil uv our sea uv trublles.'
Speek!" exclaimed they all with
one breth; spetk!"
" My ijee is Cuba. Cub?-, the gem
uv the Antilles the brite.-t jewel in
the crown uv Spain. Let Sekretary
Seward, who lies a talent for reel es
tate, buy it now, before the new Ciov
eminent hes its internal revenoo s stem
establish!, und while it is hard up for
money. Let Cuba be tbe Bo uny Bay
uv this country. Lei it be bot by Se
ward, and then lot ihe President go to
work' to wunsi a (ill.u uliice lur its i.ov-er-
ment. while he still hes tho power
uv appintment. lie n.ut nt wait to
hev em hold eleckshun., for we anuz
succeed better in gmiu l;i by j-ppm'.-ment
than by eleclo! uns. Vat a Hv-
Pn I coo -j ... L. i..r" u.-! 1 '"" v 1,1,1
reedm Ci ba up; and 1 tind that the
i-!.nd pays the Ik. me (oveiiiment
S2 OOO.OUU per annum. Ef ihe Span
ih Government kin eu t J5,UuO 0l0
out uv em. we kin dul l ie it with our
expi ri-nce. Thcr's ent-il' fer all uv
u. (Jive Rand: 11 a place r.irrespon
din with that he now holds; make Ben
WYod SoopennlenJent i; v the Havana
Lotteries; make Frat-.k P suiiim else,
wa! it doa't matter, es he'ii take t-nny
thing; make good places for Ross, Ful
ler, Binkley.Mrs Cobb. Yallandyguin
Brite. Mrs. Perry, John Quincy Ad
am. Jr., Frank 1'eerce; Ciinral For-
I rest, Jim Steedman, Rosso, Dooliitle
' LI I . . ... II" Ii
Cowan, Dixon, Sekretary Welles, and j
all uv tl at unnumbered throng uv
hungry soles, who hev lived on pap so
long that enny uther diet sours on iher j
tumicks. And then
"Bat spo-in Congress wen it inei-t-,
refoozes to ratify the purchis bv makin ;
a approprisliun?'' askt o (hmter
"Refooze to mak the appropriashun!
Refoose! Ha! Put afore Gmrai Grant !
the prospect uv never agin seein the
Biare family put afore Congress and
the Ainerikm people ihe hope uv never
sef in agin the faces uv any uv the
men I hev menshund, with the thou
sandsuv uthers uv similar tastes, habits,
and nesessities, and wat wood twenty
or thirty millions, more or less, be to
em? Nuthin! Congress wood vole it
instintaneously, and the people wood
all say "amen! Lor. how quick the
bill wood go throo, and ho.v quickGrant
wood sine it!
"But sposin Congre.-s shood refooze,
wai then? Jist es well. The Blares
wood hev ther posishuns; and the Cu
ban ofhshels, ef they are versed in
Amerikin poliiikle histry, know, ef
they know ennything, that when the
Blares git into place, nothin but deth
loosens em We wood hist the banner
of Independence we wood paint onto
the banner the inskripshen: "Offises
for Aul, in a Country wher Likker is
not Taxed!"' and in a week's time a
Army uv Dimokrats. big enuff to cap
cher Spain herself, wood be on them
shores! And who cood stand afore
em? Whisper 'Tost Offis' in ther ears
and they'd wade knee deep in blood.
Lord, how the Spanish soljerj wood
g-o down afore em! Haw Frank
Blare wood go for Lersundi! How all
the trained cohorts uv Dimocrisy. wich
hev bin ubstainin from offis for sonia
ny years, wood risk iher all for a taste
U7 ihe sweels uv posishen!
"Oh! the delishusness uv ihe pros
peck! Think uv a island with enurf
niggers orto it to do our laber, and
enulf white Cul ans who can't reed to
vo'e for us! Why, ii wood recall reck
elections uv th"m happy days afore
the war, when the Dimocrisy wus thus
rnn-titooted. I hunger and thim for
rich-
" 'Rote nwif ly rrn-rt ye wh"el or time,
AnJ brinir tlie l.a i.y day.'
VThen Ginral Graut cood hev peece!
Then he wood only hev the Ablish-
i iiist on his hands! Then the niegers
uv the Uni'ed States mite hev suffrage,
for it wood make no difference to us.
We wood hev offises to live onto, and
pure niggers to look down upon, and
wat more coed wc want? The only
diller-'iice wood tie, we wood hev to
accustom our siomitks to Santa Cruz
rum in place uv whisky, but thai we
cood do. The elFect upon the bowels
is the same it differs only in taste,
and I am told that when both are new,
ther ain't much difference in that.'
The segestiou wus favorably receiv
ed, and I hev no dout it will be acted
upon. Ef it is - but why this "ef?"
It must be dun it shell be.
Petroleum V. Nasby, p m.
( Wich is Postmaster )
kkki-TolT: hois
Parents, a woid to you. Do you
fully realize the evil effects of allowing
your boys 10 roam the streets at night?
Do you not fear the consequences of
allowing thtui to frequent beer and
billiard saloons and associate wi h boys
and men who have ulreadv fairly
started upon ihe downward road. We
have noticed with regret that many
boys in our city -son of Christian pa
rents, whose hearts wouid quiver with
anguish should they see them in such
a place are frequently to be seen at
nioht playing billiards, "pigeonhole,''
and even cards, for the -'driuks."
Boys who have scarcely seen a dozen
summers, and old offenders steeled in
crime and whisky, together stagger oui
from some low hell hole where liquid
damnutioii is dealt 01 t to all at five to
fifteen cents a glass, and make night
hideous with their drunken yells How
do you like the picture. Those swag
gerii g bullies who stand on the street
corners arid indulge in obscene re
marks and horrid oaths, began their
career in the same way running the
streets at night when they were boys.
This can also be said of the criminals
who fill our penitentiaries. Keep
your hoys oif ihe street furnish ihem
some ueful employment or amusement
at hom and, cur word for it, you will
never regret it.
It is said that Congress will address
itself at an early day to the considera
tion of the enormous naturalization
frauds by wh'ch the State of New York
was stolen from the Republican party,
and John A. Ciriswold swindled out o
the Governor's chair. The time has
c me for Congress, to take definite
action on this surject I lie Constitu
tion guaran es to ttse States n repub
lican form of government New York
is now controlled by a despotism worse
than that which reigns over France.
Judge Robertson of the WVstcbester
di met has matured a plan for trans
ferring naturalization to the Federal
Court, and surrounding the act with
proper safeguards for the purity of the
ballot. Gen Schenck has also sketch
ed out an act for the same end. Trib
line.
Gen. Bitler
is preparing an elabo
wh'ch he wi';' present
financial questions. It
rate speed
in
his view upon
wiil tie delivered in the H. use at an
early day. The General proposes 10
explain ihe various features of his plan
winch he contends will, after due re
flection, meet the wishes of ihe think
ine men of the country. A ereat deal
of interest is felt upon the subject.
A proposition has been broached to
tax every one of the five hundred ihous
and applicants for office under Grant'
administration, ten dollars, to be set
apart for the erection of a home for
the widows and orphans made by the
late war, und that each applicant be re
quired to file his fee and application
together. The only difficulty would be
in raising the money, that ninety nine
out of every hundred would keep their
greenbacks, and the new treasury would
be nearly empty It don't cost even
postage to bore th President elect.
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A cartman's house on a hill in Cleve
land is subjecied to an inexplicable
shower ot brickbats. All the windows
have been smashed in by missiles, the
projectors of which cannot be discover
ed, though two policemen have been
detailed to protect ihe hou-e. The
brickbats fly by day as well as night.
Superstitious Clevelanders are gazing
on the ' haunted mansion" from a dis
tant coign of vantages.
One day last week four rulfians.di?
guised as negroes, entered the dwell
ing of Bnj. R. Sercy, near Griffin,
Georgia, shot him dead, and searched
the house for plunder. They obtain
ed iwo gold watches, and then choked
the housekeeper to make her tell where
their valuables were kept. From
some alarm, they released her and de
camped. The Mobile. Register says Southern
planters are better off to-day than they
were before the war. They are free
from debt and receiving more for their
cotton than ever before. Formerly
they were always one crop in debt, and
belonged to their factors. Nuw they
have learned economy, and are iheir
own masters.
At a meeting of graduates of Har
vard Collegp, in Boston, it was re
solved to raise among the alumni of
the several clasps, a fund or $500,000,
1 ihe interest of which is to be placed at
lhft dis-pr sal of the College Corpora
ti,,n Harvard though rich in funds
, fr special objects, is greatly in need
of money for general college purposes
TIM Lit It CUL.TUI11I
In an essay entitled "l imber Cul
lure a Necessity," read at a meeting of
the Northern Illinois Horticultural So
ciety by E. C Schofield, of Elgin, 111.,
he said:
Summon all the land holders of the
country, and demonstrate to them the
profits of timber culture; produce facts,
and not theory; tell them that from
one acre planted with Tyrolese Larch
they may reap a harvest, at the end of
six years, of hoop-poles, grape stakes
and trellis materials, worth more than
two hundred dollars, and at the close
of another six years they may reap a
harvest of fence-posts which will be
comparatively imperishable, and worth
more than nine hundred dollars. In
testimony, I adduce my forest in Elgin,
ivhich 'ten years ago, was a smooth
prairie, and afterwards planted with
plants, which then stood in the nurse
ries of Scotland Let them measure
both of pine and larch of more than
iwo feet in circumference, and more
thi n twenty feet in height; count the
number on ihe acre, and estimate the
number of fence-posts that each tree
will make; tell them at the end often
years they may reap a third harvest
by rutting one half of the residue, or
six hundred and five trees, more than
one and a half feet in diameter and
forty feet in height. This timber may
be used for ship-spars and fence-posts,
building timber and railroad lies, worth
fifteen hundred dollars. At the end of
another ten years they may enter he
forest again and gather a fourth crop,
by removing three hundred and two
trees, leaving an equal number grow
ing Now, the trees have an average
diameter of two feet and more, and are
sixty feet iu height, each of which is
worth at least ten dollars, or a total
value of three thousand dollars. The
amount of the proceeds already real
ized in thirty years is five thousand six
hundred dollars, or an average of more
than one hundred and eighty six dol
lars annually per acre
The death of Thaddeus Stevens
leaves the cha'rmanship of the Com
mmeee on A pproprianons vacant. Mr.
Washburn of Illinois, the next member
on the Committee, will become chair
man, and the Speaker will add another
member to tbe Committee Mr. Wash
burn will resign the chairwansbip of
the Commerce Committee, and Mr.
Eliot of Massachusetts will succeed
him.
It appear from 'fficial daia that
ihere ha been received at the Treas
ury, from November, 1?G.'. to July.
1SG7, 47 600. and in the fiscal year
dosing with June, 1S6S, SIO. 00U.
The receipts are from different un
known persons, in various sums, from
one cent and upwards. These amounts
re all credited to the conscience
fund. Hugh Craig, who attempted to kill
his mother, in Philadelphia, on Wednes
day, is deranged. He was a compos
itor on the Daily jXews. and has lately
been studying phonography closely,
sitting up very late at nights, and this
is believed to have unsettled his rea
son. He said to his mother: '-Mother
I am commanded by God to kill
you."
Ii appears that the British aduvrers
and administrators of Anemus Ward
have made a regular joke of the 15,
000 or S20.C0O he left. They have
got through wnh their fun, and there
is a balance of about &-6.000 for his
widowed mother. Poor Artemus! that
his friends should hav danced on his
coffin and made hnn pay the fiddler!
A cargo of coolies is reported to
have airived recently at Calveston
Texas. These unfortunate Chinese
laborers, it is stated, were consigned
as merchandise, with the ordinary bill
of lading and were to be sold at auction
io pay freight and charge. Two-thirds
of the coolies were females.
Some students at Harvard College a
few nights ago alarmed ihe town by
exploding a quantity of powder in an
old reservoir in the college grounds.
The report was heard all over to'vn
and led to tbe impression that a serious
disaster had occurred.
One of the Judges of the Superior
Court of Quebec informed the Bar last
week, that no member of the legal pro
fession would be allowed to adress the
Bench unless he was babitted accord
ing to the custom and usages of West
minister Hall.
Brick Pomerov's New York Demo
crat is proving a bad investment and is
rapidly going down h"II. It has to be
fed with La Crosse pap The latter
institution, too since election isgrowing
lean. Brick and his blackguard pa
pers will find their level yet.
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A prodigal son, in Toronto, ran
away with S15.000 worth of jewelry.
His father, instead of killing the fat
ted calf, had him caught and put in
jail.
The letter writers in Pans are hav
ing Napoleon in bsd health Mgain. He
has been about to die for the last fif
teen years.
UCLA1IO. OF UHOIWIA TO
Tilt: l.MO.
In the Senate on the Tthinst., a dis
cussion arose over the application for
the Georgia Senators, Senator Thayer,
of Nebraska, objecting io the admis
sion. Speeches were made by Sena
tors Sherman, Drake and Wilson, and
a communication from the Governor of
Geoigia and a memorial of the colored
people of the State had been read,
when Gen. Thayer made the following
terse remarks iu support of his position,
after which, the whole matter was laid
aside for a future day.
He said:
Neither the Senator from Ohio cor
the Report of General Meade touches
the real question at issue. It is not
that ihe members of that Legislature
look the oath prescribed by the State
constitution. The point which I made
in my former remarks was this: that
everything was provisional until the
fiual act of completion of ihe work of
reconstruction. The election cf that
Legislature was provisional: its meet
ing and its organization were provis
ional; and they were required to take
ihe oath prescnbed by tbe reconstruc
tion laws; They had nothing to do
with any oath provided for in the State
constitution; because the Slate consti
tution had not been submitted to Con
gress, had not been approved, and the
act declaring Georgia restored to ihe
Union had not been passed. I called
for ihe reading of the communication
frcm the Governor in order to bring
out this point in support of the objection
which 1 have made; and it is in these
words, as set forth by the Governor of
Georgia:
"The fact, however, is that all the
candidates for the General Assembly
who had received the highest number
of votes were, without regard to their
eligibility under the law"
There is the poii t
"permitted to take seats in the provis
ional legislative body, rnd to partici
pate in the organization and the legis
lation thereof, having first been simply
invited to take the oath prescribed in
the new constitution, which constitu
tion hud not at that time become, and
under the law could not then be. of
force"
The objection is that that Legislature
was composed in part of men who had
beon expressly disqualified and dis
franchised, and who could not become
members of the Legislature; and yet.
notwithstanding that clear provision of
the law, they were permitted to lake
ihe.r seats in the Legislature, and to
become legislators and help to elect
these Senators. I propose now io in
quire whether that act was legal;
whether the reconstruction acts have
been fully complied with.
The honorable Senator from Ohio
says ihat the Senators elect from Geor
gia will be kept in suspense. Human
life is in suspense in Georgia; civil
order is in suspense in Georgia; loyalty
is in suspense in Georgia; human lib
erty is in suspense in Georgia. I pro
pose, for one, now to inquire whether
ibis state of things is to continue or
not; whether there are governments
there which can afford protection to
human life or not; and if not, why not?
There is no necessity for pressing this
question now.
A young mother heard foul words
from the hps of her little son. At once
she proceeded gravely to rinse out his
mouth with soap. This remedy cured
him for a while, but the unhappy little
wight relapsed, and his mother applied
camphor water in the same way.
Chicago is moving in the matter of
establishing a direct line of trade be
tween that city and the West Indies
via Mobile. The only gap in R. R.
communication between Chicago and
Mobile, is between Cairo, 111., and Co
lumbus, Ky.
Books, like friends, should be few
and well chosen. Like friends, too,
we should return to them again and
again for, like true friends, they will
never fail us, never cease to instruct
us.
Thurlow Weed, according to infor
mation from New York, is in a deplor
able physical condition, his physicians
do net allow him to read newspapers
or to converse on political subjects.
His disease is softening of the brain.
Prof. Newton, of Yale, says that a
comet which travels at the rate of 2,
000.000 miles per day, has just whisk
ed its tail in our faces and made us see
stars
Caleb Cusbing has been sent on a
mission to Europe to purchase Cuba it
is said. Seward wishes to finish up
his real estate transactions with a big
thing.
A story is afloat in Paris and Lon
don that Victoria means to abdicate
af'er the confirmation of the new Cab
inet. The Chicago Republican says it is
reported quite a large ring ha been,
formed to control the appointments to
the Federal offices in that city.
Figs are grown in Chilicothe, O.,
without difficulty, and are equal to any
of the imported.
