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TBE BLESSE D HAUVEST —PROVOCA
TION TO GENERAL THANKSGIVING.
Our national history will not show an
other period of four years when harvests so
justified hope, and gave such abundant
cause for thanksgiving. And even now,
when the soil to a great extent lies untilled,
because of the exhaustive drain of war upon
our working population, we find that the
loss of breadth is more than made up in
the weight of the crops. Here we are in
the middle of August, and the earth blooms
and grows with all the vigor of June. A
harvest of hay absolutely immense has been
gathered; the yield of wheat has been
generous and even ample, so much so that
the annual croak about rust and weevil has
fallen upon unheeding ears; oats and other
early grains have fulfilled all reasonable ex
pectation ; and now corn, the golden
orowned King of the Continent, is striding
on in this hot weather with a vigor that
promises the most satisfactory results.
We have seen in this State of New York
a foot of snow fall in the second week ot
May. W e have seen almost forty days ot
pitiless drouth, beginning just after the
4th of July; we see almost every year, at
this period, more or less of suffering from
lack of rain. But this year it would seem
that a kind Providence had taken us under
especial protection. The earth brings forth
abundantly; the early and the latter rain
join hands to overwhelm us with fatness ;
the garden, the field, the vineyard, have
already yielded or now teem with promise
beyond the most sanguine expectation; the
day or two of scorching heat melts into the
grateful shower, and the , frequent voice of
solemn thunder reminds us that we are yet
within the watchful care of a Father and a
Friend—that we yet live in a world and a
land where “ all save the spirit of man is
divine.”
If ever a nation had especial provocation
to gratefulness, we are that nation. Pre
cipitated into a civil war of unequalled diffi
culties, suddenly forced upon circumstances
that might have tried and broken the power
of the oldest nation on earth, we have had
the kind and constant favor of Heaven to
an extent so remarkable that it would al
most seem like direct interposition in our
behalf Now that the great struggle is
over, and the cause of liberty and progress
has been justified and advanced by strong
arms and true hearts, and at last sits domi
nant over all the land, let us not forget our
great indebtedness to that kind Power
whose hand has led us through dark
ness and deep tribulation to victory and
peace.
Aud if we are unable, in the blindness ot
self-pride, to appreciate causes for thank
fulness, let us imagine the result had it
happened that the crops of 1862 or 1863
had failed. With a million and a half of
men in the army to feed, to say nothing of
the people at large, where would we have
been but for the inestimable blessing of a
liberal harvest ? The complete failure ot
a single harvest would have been the com
plete failure of a great nation; the post
ponement for a century of self-government;
the perpetuation for perhaps many oentnries
of the curse of slavery. But “He doeth
all things well;” the hand of the kind
Father was stretched forth to our aid; the
prime necessities of life never flourished tor
yielded so lavishly; the good Providence is
not yet withdrawn, but, as if to mark with
distinguished favor the course of our loyal
people, this year crowns the whole with in
creased abundanoe. The fat earth teems
with richness; the drouth and the mildew
are withheld; the genial shower abates the
fervor of the sun, and the fervor of the sun
kisses up the tears of the shower. There
is a remarkable absence of evil—a wonder
ful abundance of good; we bask in the
smile of approving Heaven, and through
the Red Sea of war march even to the rich
valleys of Canaan without the long proba
tion in the Desert.— N. Y. Times.
PROFITS OF STRAWBERRIES.
To tLi ■■ who are about planting straw
berries to. the New York market, we pre
sent the following facts : The crop of 1865
was a large one, and the proportion of large
berries unprecedented: among these the
Wilson predominated; indeed it is probable
that three-fourths of the large berries sold
in New York during the summer of 1865
were of the Wilson variety. Next in
order came Triomph de Gand, then Union,
Bartlett alias Boston Pine, and several
other sorts in very small proportion. But
few of the Bartletts were a large size,
though well liked by consumers. A good
many of the fancy sorts and berries of large
size were sold by amateur gardeners di
rectly to the Broadway restaurants, at fancy
figures. The earliest strawberries in mar
ket came from W. J. Bishop, Norfolk,
Virginia, April 11. May 6th a crate ot
54 quarts sent by him brought $1 25 per
quart. E. Anderson, Frederika, Kent
County, Delaware, sent as the picking of
one day —May 28—804 quarts, which
brought $465 86 —378 quarts selling at 70
cents, the balance being in bad order, and
bringing only 35 to 60 cents. S. R. Trem
bley, Bergen Point, New Jersey, sold 250
quarts of Union strawberries at 81 per
quart. From 30 to 40 berries of this sort
make a quart.
The estimated average price of the ordi
nary strawberry baskets,* mostly
Runners, averaged 6 cents throughout the
Beason. Much of the fruit came from Bur
lington, New Jersey. Bergen County was
also very prolific. The freight office of the
Erie Railway gives the following as the
number of strawberry baskets transported
from the following stations in Bergen
County: Patterson,2s,ooo; Goodwinsville,
440,000; Hohokus, 102,000; Aliendale,
634,000; Sufferns, 70,000; Ramsay’s, 1,-
019,000. Total, 2,290,000.
It is believed that nearly one-third as
many more were taken by other conveyan
ces from that couDty, besides 1,500,000
uDon the Northern Railway, which would
make up a grand total of 4,500,000. Esti
mating the baskets to average 5 cents, it
will make the receipts of Bergen County
8225,000 for the strawberry crop of 1865.
It is also stated that large quantities of
fruit were nngathered in consequence ot the
difficulty of procuring pickers.
* Very small, say half-a-pint.
J. B. Strawn writes from Salem, Colum
bia County, Ohio: “ I picked from two
rows of Wilson’s, of seventy-five feet in
length, set last season, two bushels and a
half of fine berries. I covered the rows
with boards when in blossom, to shield them
from a severe frost which visited us, and
thus saved almost the entire crop. I design
to plant about three or four times as many
this fall.”
A strawberry grower at Hammondton,
New Jersey, gives the following as the re
sult of the crop on one-third of an acre of
strawberries the past season c “ Berries sold
for §1 20; fruit canned, 40 quarts; jelly
made, 50 quarts; wine made, 60 gallons;
vinegar, 45 gallons.”— New York Tribune.
At the Farmers’ Club of the American
Institute, Mr. Carpenter stated that a friend
of his in Burlington County, New Jersey,
during the strawberry season, was having
1,500 quarts per day picked for the Phila
delphia market, which sold for 40 cents
per quart. A neighbor of his gathered
2500 quarts per day,thus receiving more than
$lOOO daily for stravAerries. In both
these cases the variety cultivated was the
French seedling, a large, early, and pro
ductive kind.— New York Observer.
BEEF MONOPOLY.
The high price of meats for the last few
months, as asserted by the newspapers of
our large cities, where consumers most do
congregate, is caused by speculators, and is
the result of extortion.
We not believe in anything of the kind.
The high prices have been caused by scar
city, or the inadequacy of supply to de
mand. This latter has been excessive, and,
owing to the war, has been accompanied by
the usual waste connected with feeding
large armies, and also by the waste
resulting from irregular and uncertain tran
sportation, added to losses from captures by
the rebels.
Another cause of present scarcity is, that
in the fall of 1863 an early frost destroyed
corn crops in large sections of the West,
and much young stock had to be killed off
from inability to winter it. For this reason,
and the demand' for Government uses,
much of the regular breeding stock of the
country has been butchered. Nothing but
time is wanted to restore this deficiency.
A combination among farmers, drovers and
butchers to keep up the price is simply im
possible. The probabilities of success in
combination to keep up the price of any
thing is in the inverse ratio to the number
of people engaged in it. Fifty men may
combine, for example, to put up the price
of gold. It would be more difficult for five
hundred men to do it, and still more for five
thousand. The laws of supply and demand
are inexorable, and, like water finding its
level, will come in, in defiance of combina
tion, and restore tlie balance.
Another difficulty in the supposed com
bination is, that it would have to extend
over three thousand miles of territory, and
that the supposed parties to it (the farmers)
are the most numerous class of our people.
To suppose that any ooncerted plan to keep
up prices is possible between some millions
of farmers, drovers, and butchers, is simply
absurd. Beef is high only because it is
scarce. Other meats are affected in their
values, because beef is the usual standard.
Till the live stock of the country increases,
it is thought “jerked beef” may be im
ported from South America with profit
This is much more rational than to form
clubs of anti-meat eaters, as is suggested.
It is probable, however, that Americans as
a people eat too much meat, aud that ab
stinence for a time and the substitution of
a vegetable diet would be useful. — Rural
Advertiser.
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SUBMARINE CABLES.
The largest of these, of course, is the
Malta and Alexandria, which is 1532 miles
in length. This cable is the first long one
which has proved successful, but it is
described by Mr. Giscorne as being too
slight, and it certainly has proved liable to
interruptions. It is the first cabje sent out
under water in tanks fitted in the cable
ships. The first iron-covered cable, now
universally used, was the Dover and Calais,
which is twenty-seven miles long, and has
been thirteen and a half years in operation.
The first application of pure india-rubber
to submarine cables—now very seldom
used—was with the short cable of three
miles between Keyhaven and Hurst Castle.
The first cable in which a strand was used
for the conductor is the Newfoundland and
Cape Breton. That between England and
the Isle Man was the first in which the
outer iron wires were protected against rust
by hemp and bitumen. The greatest depth
seems to be reached by the Corfu and
Otranto, the fathoms in this , case being
three hundred to one thousand. Between
Dover and Calais, the general depth is from
fifty to thirty fathoms. The first submarine
cable ever laid was only a gutta percha
covered wire, between Dover and Calais,
and which worked but for one day. Be
tween England and Holland, four separate
cables, laid at different times, have been so
frequently broken by anchors, that they have
been picked up, and are now being stranded
into one solid cable, which is to run between
Belfast and Scotland. The Holyhead and
Howth cable worked five years, and then
failed, in consequence of the iron wires
rusting so as to hinder repairs. A cable
between Spezzia and Corsica worked with
out a single interruption, and without cost
ing anything for repairs, for ten years, but
early last year it broke down. The cause
of failure in the case of several cables is
not known. Two or three were “ too light
for position;” one was laid.in a narrow
strait instead of in the open sea; another
was “ laid in a bad direction, continually
chafed through by rocks;” with a third,
the outer covering of hemp was eaten away
by shell-fish at even eight hundred fathoms
and upwards. In all, twenty-three cables,
which were successful for some time, are
not now working, excepting in the case of
some which have been relaid with other
cables. In nine instances cables failed
when being laid down. On the Sardinia
and Africa line, the cable ship went out of
her course, and the length of cable proved
insufficient. In another instance, bad
weather came on while the cable vessel
was being towed by a steamer, and the
cable was out to save the ship.— Times.
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 24. 1865
LAUNCH OF THE DUNDEBERG.
The great naval event of the age—the
launch of the Dunderberg —took place on
Saturday morning, at nine o’clock, in the
presence of at least twenty-five thousand
spectators. Nearly ten thousand persons
were on board when she was launched.
The Dunderberg entered the water in a
manner surprising to everybody conversant
with launches. She out the water like a
knife, and did not raise a swell of a foot in
height. This proves how beautiful are her
lines, and faultless her form. As the ves
sel reached the water she was closely fol
lowed by five large and powerful tugs, four
of which were soon checking her by means
of two large hawsers, hut before she was
“ brought too” she was quite close to the
Long Island shore. No accident of the
most trifling character occurred, and in
less than an hour from the time she started
from her cradle in New York, she had
crossed the East River twice and was at her
berth safe and sound as a nut. The Dunder
berg is a sea-going iron-clad frigate ram of
about 5090 tons register, 5000 horse power,
and is to carry an armament of four 15-inch
Rodman, and fourteen 11-inch Dahlgreii
guns. With these few facts before us we
will be able to comprehend, in some degree,
the magnitude of the vessel as well as the
enormous power of her heavy armament,
which numerically in calibre has no equal
in the history of naval architecture and
ordnance. Her principal dimensions and
features are as follows :—Extreme length,
380 feet; extreme beam, 72 feet 10 inches;
depth of hold, 22 feet 7 inches; height of
casement, 7 feet 7 inches; length of ram
bow, 50 feet; draft, when, ready for sea, 2,1
feet; displacement, 7000 tons; tonage, 5090
tons; weight of iron armor, 1000 tons.
It will be serveral months before the Dun
derberg will be ready for service, now that
we have no pressing need of her; but should
her services be required, it would not take
long to fit her out for actual duty. In her
we have truly a great ship, one that has
perhaps no equal in the world.— N. Y. Ex
change.
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whether petroleum can be used as fuel for
locomotives. Mr. Brydges Adams thinks
it can, the only question being its economy.
He describes an engine which could be
used, and by which the fire could be so
directed as to regulate at pleasure the con
centration on the boiler, by which there
would be no burning of the boiler, no cut
ting of the tubes by particles of fuel, no
sparks or smoke through the chimney, apd
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occasional coal on the rails —or, if coke be
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Some experiments have been made at
L’Orient, on board the Coligny, the object
of which is to utilize the electric light at
sea. By means of a submarine reflector,
the water was illuminated to a great depth,
so that it was possible to look down from
the deck and see the fish, attracted by the
light, swimming round the lamp as if in an
aquarium. A kind of diving-bell with a
large glass eye in one side, and arranged to
supply air to the diver, was also let down
to the depth of thirty-eight fathoms. By
means of this apparatus it will be easy to
inspect submarine constructions, to fish
coral, etc., and recover wrecked property.
Signals were likewise exchanged, by means
of the electric light; between the Coligny
and the semaphore of Belle Isle. These
different applications of the electric-light
were made, in the presence of a military
commission, by the inventor, M. Bazin,
civil engineer, of Angers, and were found
to give satisfactory results.
The new act for regulating locomotives
on turn pike and other roads in Great Bri
tain, will come into operation on the first of
September. Three persons are to work a
locomotive, and one is to precede it on'foot
with a red flag, as notice of its approach.
On a turnpike road or public highway a
locomotive is not to proceed at a greater
speed than four miles an hour, and in a
city, town, or village, at not more than two
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tion for all and every description of accident—travel
otherwise —under a General Accident Policy, at
the Ordinary Hate.
THIRTY DOLLARS PREMIUM
Secures a full Policy for $5OOO, or $25 per week com
pensation, as above, at the Special Rate.
Policies issued, for Foreign, West India, and Cali
lornia Travel. Rates can be learned by application
to the Office.
u, co ? rse ot completion by which
T:®w V n« 0r W V U be able !,?■ purchase, at any Railway
Ticket Office, Insurance Tickets for one or thirty days*
travel.. cents will buy a ticket for o- •• } a v , «?
travel, insuring $3OOO, or $l5 weekly comp< ion
Ticket Polices maybe had for 3,6, or 12 rn«. in
the same manner. "
. Hazardous Risks taken at Hazardous Rates. Policies
issued for 5 years for 4 years premium.
The rates of premium are less than tlfbse of any
other Company covering the same risk.
No medical examination is required, and thousands
of those who have been rejected by Life Companies,
in consequence of hereditary or other dise •{?'< can
effect insurance in the TRAVELLERS' at ti ’w5S
rates.
.Life Insurance Companies pay no partoi u.. prin-
BiPalsum unM the death of the assured. The TKA-
V JiijJjJiKb pay the loss or damage sustained by per
sonal injury whenever it occurs.
# The feeling of security which such uu b.r-ranee
gives to those dependent upon their own labor for
support isi worth more than money. Iso better op
more satisfactory use can he made of so small a sum.
unTVNnru- % BATTERSON, President.
RODNEY DENNIS, Secretary.
G. F. DAVIS. Viee President.
. .. . HENRY A. DYER, General Agent.
Applications received and Polios y,v
WItUAM W. AhU V.
Xo. 401 W.iiuut
LIFEIISIMEEIIIITIST [Bill
Walnut Street, S. E. cor. of Fourth,
LOSSES PAID DURING THE YEAR
Insurances made upon the Lmal Abstinence Hates;
the lowest m the world. Also upon JOINT STOCK
Rates whioh are over 20 per cent. lower than Mutual
MUTUAL RATES upon which a DIVI
DEND has been made of
FIFTY RER CENT,.
on Policies in force January Ist. IK I '*
THE TEN-YEAR NQX-I' PHTT’HF I'ju.iN.by
which a person insured cat. ail his payment
in ten years, and does not iorft i«. and can at any time
cease paying and obtain a paid up policy for twtoe
tnnee the amount paid to the company.
A ASSETS.
$lOO,OOO IT. S. 5.20 bonds, 1
40,000 City of Philadelphia 6s. new, {
30,000 U.S. Certificate of indebttness,
25.000 Allegheny County bonds,
15,000 U. S. Loan of 1881, ;
10.000 Wyoming Valley GanM honds. I
10,000 State of Tennessee bonus, ;
10,000 Philadelphia and Frit- Railroad 1
bonds,
10,000 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago bonds,
9,000 Heading Railroad Ist mortgage
bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other •
bonds,
1,000 shares Pennsylvania Railroad
stocks,
450 shares Corn Exchange National \
Hank,
22 shares Consolidation National
Hank,
107 shares Farmers* National Bank
of Heading,
142 shares Williamsport Water Com
pany,
192 shares American Life Insurance
and Trust Company,
Mortgages, Heal Estate, Ground Rents.
Ac 907 278 86
Loans on collateral ampl> jscuui . . • "'5 73
Premium notes secured by Policies.]]~ 9 62
Cashin hands of agents secured to ;* .jii 70
Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer. at‘d '
percent '
Cash on hand and in bank?
Accrued interest and rents due* Jan
- $lOO
■ X 25
- 1 50
THE AMERICAN IS A HOME COMPANY
Its TRUSTEES are troll • our
midst, entitling it to more consideration nose
whose managers reside in * /»•*♦,>?
•Aiexander WhiUdin, William J. llowa a,
J. ffidgai Thomson, Samuel T. Bodine,
George Nugent, John Aikman,
Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bennett,
Aibert C. Roberts, Hon. Joseph Allison,
P« B. Mingle, Isaac HazSeburgt,
Samuel Work.
ALES. WHILLBIK, Pi-...
SAMUEJL WOltll, Tiw-!>r;si..cm.
JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer.
THE UNION OIL
lOVES —A new and
nplete aparatus for
'king and Heating by
iOleuin and Coal Oil.
the work of a family
nysize, including the
ling and ironing can
)Dd at an immense
ig of expense in
and with far more
and comiort, than
.either wood or coal,
same furniture used
>rdinary stoves can
sed on these stoves.
) DIRT. ASHES.
IKE OR ODOR.
TNION STOVES
’.E, BOIL, ROAST.
SfRISG ffl SliS
Sufferers from Sick Headache.
Sufferers from Dyspepsia.
Sufferers from Nervous Headache,
Sufferers from Sour Stomach,
Sufferers from Bilious Headache,
Sufferers from Costiveness,
Sufferers from Heartburn,
Sufferers from Piles,
Sufferers from Sea Sickness,^
Sufferers from Liver Complaint,!
Sufferers from Indigestion,
WILL FIND iN.f
Tarrant’s Effervescent Seltzer Aperient,
A SURE, PLEASANT and PERMANENT CURE,
for the above and similar diseases.
MANUFACTURED ONLY BY
TARRANT & CO.,
378 GREENWICH STREET, NEW YORK.
FOE SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
PLUMBER,
STEAM AND GAS FITTER,
T. W. RICHARDSON,
Hydrants made and repaired. Baths and all other
Plumbing Work done at shortest notice Halls,
Churches. Stores, Dwellings, &c.. fittednp for Gas, and
waranted to give satisfaction. Country Work attend
ed to.
insurance
\G \TYPT
ACCIDENTS
EVEKY" DESCRIPTION,
HARTFORD, CONN,
DHIEADELPBIA.
GENERAL ACCIDENT POLICIES
FOREIGN RISKS.
SHORT TIME TICKETS,
INDUCEMENTS.
AMERICAN
INCOME FOR THE YEAR 1864,
$357,800.
AMOUNTING TO
$85,000
THE GREAT
TAEEAST’S
EFFERVESCENT
SELTZER
APERIENT.
No. 37 South Sixth street,
ABOVE CHESTNUT, PHILADELPHIA.
* 271
.8500,000
$394,136 50
50.000 00
50.331 67
I'd 71
in 0,461 79