final famaratj. [COMMUNICATED.] THE LAST OF JUNE. Oh, where ia that laughing maiden fair, Willi lustrous eyes and shining hair, That leaned o’er Summer's gate awhile, Gladdening the earth with her sunny smile! With songs, that in her own sweet way, She warbled all the live-long day ? The gate stands open—June has sped Over the earth with airy tread, . Scattering the rose leaves on her way, Tiling the lilies with the hay; And e’en the pinks I loved the best She has borne away upon her breast ; And from the honey-suckle's cup lias sipped the nectar almost tip, While I miss, to-day, the perfect tune . Of the joyous Songs of “ imperial June.” But list, the humming-bird and bee I'licir secret now are telling me: “ Her fragrant,robe has led their way To haunts where best she loved to stray: By waving grain, in silvan nook— , In leafy glen beside the brook — ‘ That, in those shady, quiet spots She’s left her blue forget me-nots; That still her spirit lingers there, Bor many treasures clustering fair, She has left in sweet array ' To grace her sister's natal day; There quiver, too, in low, sad tune, Strains of the days' of departed June.” Alice. M.Luoislet. HINTS TO INVENTORS ON THE DESTRUO TION OF THE POTATO BUG-, Mkssrs. Editors :—Last year the potato tops were eaten up by a great-number of bugs, aud the crop was very-small. Some people would shake the steins a little, and the bugs would fall off, but the next morn ing they had climbed up again. I know a man whose family picked, more tha,n a quart a day, but. he did not raise as many potatoes as Jus family needed. In digging up the gardens this : spring the grubs are'found irom six to nine indhes deep, just the same as last year, making their way to the sur face iu time to eat tue coining crop. They are not found on any otheyplauts,,and very tow are goiug : to plant potatoes about this neighbornood this season. 1 remember some years ago that the turnip tops were eaten- the same way in England, by a fly,or bug, that diminished the crop so much as to atfeet the price of mutton, the large turnips being the main food for sheep, and farmers sowed very small patches. I remember well the laugn ter aud derision that took place when it be came known that a certain farmer, who had been hoarding a poor Jack-of-al 1-trades that hud been making what they ironically term ed a perpetual motion, had sovved-nearly all his Tarm to turnips, for they believed he would not get fifty good ones from it. The farmer aud inventor told them that they had a machine that would save the crop; but nothing short of seeing the crop, whiofi was an excellent one, of large, smooth, and almost spherical turnips, could convince them, aud the result was, the farmer who found the means and the inventor who con structed the machine made each a fortune by supplying the machines for destroying tne bugs or flies. It was very simple and resembled a sulky plow, having two wheels to drive a fan wtiiqn sucked up the insects and dashed them ‘against a board which killed them. Now, perhaps some experimentalist Who has the mouus will take a hint from this, and enable larmers to destroy these loath some and, disgusting insects, so that siuce the oid disease or rot has ueariy disappear ed, we may have plenty of potatoes. Scientijic American.'] THE TEETH OF A HORSE, At five years of age a horse has 40 teeth —24 molar or jaw teeth, 12 incisor or front teetii, and 4 tusks or canine teeth, between the molars or incisors, but usually wanting in the mare. At-birth paly two nippers or middle incisors appear. At a year old, the incisors are all visible on the first or milk set. Before three years the permanent nippers have come through. At four years old, the permanent dividers next to the nippers are out. 1 At five the mouth is perfect, the second set of teeth having been completed. At six, the hollow under the nippers call ed the mark, has disappeared Irom, the nip pers, and diminished iu the dividers. At seven the mark has disappeared from the dividers, and the next teetu, or corners, are level, though showing the mark. At eight, the mark has gone from the corners, and the horse is said to be aged. After this time, iudeed good authorities say after live years, the age of a horse can only bo conjectured. But the teeth gradually change their form, the incisors becoming round, oval and then triangular. Dealers sometimes bishop the teeth of that is, scoop them out to imitate the maru; but this can be known by the absence of the white oilge of enamel which always sur rounds the real mark, by the shape of the teeth and other marks of age about the ani mal.—Rural Gentlemen. A SENSIBLE SOUTHERNER. The Houston (Texas) Telegraph tells of a North Carolina planter, rich and happy be fore the war, who was despoiled during the war ofsilvcr and gold, and bonds, and negroes and asses, and mules, and much cattle. All he had left was land without laborers, and some ready money. YYhatdid he do? The Telegraph, says—He walked not the porti coes of his stately mansion, cursing the Yankees and sighing over milk that was spilt. This good old North Carolina gentle man went to work; he employed surveyors with log and chain, and carpenters With hammers. He divided up his estate into farms of one hundred acres and less, and built snug little cottages upon every farm. THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1867. He then went to the North and hunted up good, industrious families, mostly foreign ers, and upon every farm he settled one of these families. Unto some he sold, but unto most he rented for a share of the crop. He also started a store on the premises, and one of his handsome sons is counter-hopper. By this means, ho writes us, his income has beert raised to a figure higher than ever it attained before the war, and his lands have suddenly been increased 500 per cent, in value. He communicated.these facts to the editor of the Telegraph, and adds: “I am glad the negroes are free, and recognize the truth, that their freedom is a blessing to the whites." ' . , fciniiilk. STRONG DRINK AND THE CHOLERA. The .inland,city of Heading, with a large population of, German extraction, lias jfor, forty years been famous for its malt liquors. Lauer’s Brewery is an establishment whose, lame has gone abroad among all the beer drinkers of the North.;: At the. Beer Brew,-, er’s Congress in Chicago, June sth,, Frede rick Lauer, Esq., of Heading, }vas unani mously chosen Honorary President, either on account of the fame of his beer, or in .ac knowledgment of the very high, not.to say radical and audacious grounds he takes, as to the sanitary qualities of the article which he manufactures. We are glad to find in the columns of the Berks and Schuylkill Ga zette, published at Heading, a communication re-stating, \yith. clearness and force,.thje well established and startling facts of the con nection between.intemperance and epidemic disease, and which shows the gross and open falsity of the statements made by the “ Hon orary President ” of the Congress of Beer Brewers ofthe United States. The follow ing is the communication : Messrs. Editors I noticed in yo.pr issue of June Isth,. the 'following: ‘‘At the Con gress of the Beer Brewers fn : Chicago,’ Mr: Hauer, of this city, maintained tna.tr beer was a preventive of cuolera, Ac.; &e.”: This doc trine-might have been -believei}., a hundred years ago, before organic chemistry anil Kindred sciences had arrived at their present state of perfection. To say that beer, or any other hialt liquor; is a- preventive ol cholpra, or any other -epidemic,as simply,ab surd, and shows a lacu of knovvletlge of the nature of the drinks iiud the human system. All kinds of intoxicating drinks, Whether fermented or distilled, oi whatever name; be it b.eer, brandy or whiskey,-are injurious to any and every person in a state of health, and so depress the vital powers that instead of enabling the system tu resist the morbific influence of diseases, predispose tbe system to them. Whatever depresses the system invites disease. One eoihinon cause of de pression is the accumulation of waste-mat ter in the system, which is of itself a cause of disease. All kinds of intoxicating drinks tend to prevent the elimination of morbid matter out of the system. After death, re sulting fro in Cholera or drunkenness, the blood in bdtn cases exhibits a deficiency of oxygen, and a super-abundance of ciiruon. Notwithstanding tbe assertion that beef is a preventive of cholera, it is a wen attested fact, that in-whatever village,'town, or city, the cholera makes its appearance, its first victims are those who use intoxicating drinks. The distinction between beer oi other malt liquors and ardent spirits, is only one of degree. The essential intoxicating principle in all of them, aud for wnioh they are used, ia alcohol—an acrid narcotic pois on, for an over-dose of which there is no an tidote; its action upon the heart and nerve centres is so over-powering that death en sues almost immediately, in. the:manufac ture of malt liquors, to give them strength,, briskness, color, &0., many poisonous drugs are used —such as cocculus iudicus, grains oi paradise, and tobacco, ido not know that any of the brewers of Heading use these drugs; but there are few men that can resist the temptation of making money and com peting with others iu thesame business; and drugs are cheaper than good malt and hops. We contend that all intoxicating drinks— not even excepting Lauer’s beer —-are more entitled to tne name of cholera conductors, than cholera preventives. Monsieur Huber says-of 2,ibu whom he saw die in twenty one days iu one town in -Russia it is a most remarkiihle circumstance-that persons given to drinking have been swept away like flies. In Tifiis,containing2d,bUd inhabitants,every drunkard has luileu—all are dead— not one remains. Nearly all ofthe 3U,UUU who died iu Haris, of cholera, were in the habit : of using strong drink.—nine-tenths of all who perisued in Boland, were of the same class. Ofthe cholera victims in 1532, in England, Ireland and Scotland, not one of them was a member of a Temperance Society, while iu one or two villages in Scotland every drunkard had fallen.” l)r. A. M. Adams, Hrot. of Medicine in Glasgow, says: “ I have found the use of alcoholic drinks to be the most powerful predisposing cause of malig nant cholera with which I am acquainted.” Dr. Bronson, of Albany says: pWhen 1200 persons had died in Montreal, a paper in that city said, not a drunkard- who had been attacked, has recovered of the disease, and almost all the victims have been at least moderate drinkers.” Out of 1,000 persons who died, only 2 were teetotallers. In Al bany, in 1832, the cases over 16 years of age were as follows: Intemperate 140; free drinkers 55; moderate drinkers 131; strictly temperate 5; members of temperance socie ties 2; idiots 1; unknown 2; total 336; pop ulation 26,000; members of temperanco so cieties 5,000. In Albany, of members fif temperance societies, only 1 in 2,500 died, while one in 60 died of the other population. In New York, of the 5,000 members of tem perance societies, only 2 died; of the Hiber nian Temperance Society, numbering 123 members, and of the African Temperance Society, numbering 193, not one of either society died of the cholera, showing that neither the laboring classes nor the colored people are any more liable to cholera than any other class or race, providing they do not invite the disease by using intoxicating drinks.” The opinion of the Boston Board of health, August 10th, 1832, is :,‘AThat all kinds of ardent spirits, and other strong stimulants, are not useful in preventing cholera; but they dispose to ks attack." In conclusion, I will say the only true preven tive against cholera is, toueh not, taste not any kind of,strong drink, for tlie wise man said, “ that at last it bite.th like a serpent and' stingeth lijkq an adder." . Yours, for temperance, truth and humanity. : AWARDS TO AMERICANS AT THE ■ ■ PARIS EXPOSITION. :■> The following'is from the official list of the to Americans, given, at-the (fraud Exposition on Monday, July ,Ist.. The names.are given,in the order in which the report was made out.- Grand Prizes. —Mr.ChapiW, of Lawrence, Mass., for well conducted .factory. Prof. Hughes, of,Ky., for. printing.tejegraph. Gy rus tY. Field, of Ne w York, promoter of the system of obban telegraph. Dr. T. W. Evans, of-Paris, sanitary-collection. ’ -Gold & Sons, New York city, pianos. Chickering ,&,Sons, of New York gnd Ifcoston, pianos. S. G. White, of Philadelphia,.artificial teeth, &c. H. D- Walbrißege, of New York, minerals' froiii Idaho. J. P. Whitney, of Boston, minerals froth Colorado. Lewis Yeager, of .Concor dia parish, Louisiana, cotton. Victor, Meyer, of Concordia parish, Louisiana, cotton. C ; H. McCormick, of Chicago, Illinois, mowing machines! Corliss Steam Engine Company, of Providence, Bhode Island, steam engine: Wm. Sellers’& Co., of Philadelphia, machine tools. .Wheeler & Wilson, of New York city, sevying machines, Elias Howe, of New York city, inventor of sewing machines'. C. B. Kogers & Co., of Norwich;" Connecticut, wood-working machinery, Patrick Welch, of New York .city, type-dressing machine. Grant Locomotive Works, of Paterson, Now Jersey, locomotive steam engine. Silver'MEDALS !! were awarded to a large number: Park Bros. edge tools; -Berhent & Dougherty,:Philadelphia, machine tools ; American- Button-hole Com pany, Philadelphia, buttpu’-hole machine; Isaac Gregg, Phila., brick {machine; Fred. E. Church of New York, oil painting; ’Ma son & Hamlin of Now York, organs; J. I£. Barnes, Surgeon-General, Military surgical apparatus; Mrs. Richard E. Bond of Bos ton, Mass., astronomical instruments aud chronometers; R. B. Toilet of Canastota, N. Y-.,* microscope and telesikpe glasses, and telescope; New York Mills, fine muslins; Clark Thread Company of Newark, N. J., threads; Fournier of,New (Orleans, La., re gulating tell-tale clocks, etc’; B. O. Burt ,oT' New York, machine and sewed boots and shoes; Colt’s Patent Arms Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn.,' Colt’s fire arms ; E-. Remington & Sous ot Ili.on, N.-'V., military and sporting fire-arms; Spendir Rifle Company of Boston, Mass., Spenqtr rifles; Douglas Ax Company of Bbstt i, Mass., axes, etc; J. B. Taft of Chester, “Mas ~ emery stone; State of Illinois, cereals; I. B. Pique and Professor W. P. Blake of Si i- francisco, Cal., collection of California mil rals;, Park Brothers & Co., of Pittsbu Penn., edge tools ; G. J. Wardwell of Pou - ney, Vt., stone channeling and quarryii j machine; Collins & Co., of New York, pi on ; Cool, Sherman & Co., of Glen Falls, Ni York, barrel machine; J. W. Lamb of lv Chester,. ,N. Y<, knitting machine; Weed Florence Sewing Machine Co. of New Yor sewing machines; Wood Brothers of Ne York, phffiton ; Yale & Winn of Sbel'burn Falls, Mass., locks; Chapin & Wells -of-Gh cago, 111., swing bridge ; .Board of Publ Works of Chicago, 111':, plan pf the Cllicajj Tunnel; J. A. Robinson of New York, D; boll fog-trumpet; Culbertson & Co., Chicagi out meats; Glen Cove Starch; Co., Ne' York; starch and maizena; C. Buffield, Ch nago, American Westphailia hams ; Dr. S.Gji Howe, Boston, Mass., books for the blind. Bronze Medals. —D; Appleton & Co., Nev York, books; Houghton & Co , Riverside Cambridge, Mass., books; G. C. Merriam l Co., Springfield, Mass., Webster’s dictionary American Lead Pencil Company, New York lead pencils; A. G. Day, Seymour, Conn, indellible lead pencils; Secombo Manufaetu ring Company, New York, ribbon hand Stamp ; I;. W. Fairchild & Co., New York gold pens; E, D. Hudson, New York, artili cial limbs j Cummings & Son, , hospita car; Milton Barlow, Ky., planetarium ; W H. Townsend, New York, oil-cloth; Tittan) & Co., New York, silver-ware; the Hadley Company, Holyoke, Mass., spool cotton | Slater & Sons, Webster, Massachusetts* cotton goods. H. Steinburg & Co., of New York, beaver cloths. Missick Woollen Mills, of San Francisco, blankets, flannels. &e. F. Sachse & Sons, of Philadelphia, fine shirts. H. Haupt, of Philadelphia, tor steam drill tunnelling machine. Deere. ytorlan ChurcA, Gonanagne, Cal., of Fever and Ague. Rev. Ed. H, [ay, Twenty-first New York, of Rheaumatism and Piles of 25 years landing. Rev. Samuel Bowles, Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) lepublican, was cured of terrible Costiveness. Uon. Ed. Webber, f Rumney, N. H-, of Liver Complaint, etc., etc., etc. A box of Moffatt’s Life Pills, with full circulars, Ac., will be sent jatis to any Physician or Clergyman, on the receipt of two or three i *nt postage stamps. Moffat’s Life Pills are 25 cents per box. Moffat’s Phoenix Bitters, 1 per bottle. They aro sold by all respectable dealers throught * he continents and the p-’ands of the Ocean. WHITE A HOWLAND, Proprietors, uccessors to Dr. John Moffat, and Dr. Wm. B. Moffat, liLLiberty Street, New York. ptectomrati. Climax. Moffat's Lifo Fills and Phceaix Bitters. HOME Life Insurance Comp’y, 258 Broadway. New York. Assets, $1,500,000 9000 Policies in Foroe. Its Principles, Stability, Mutuality, Fidelity. ADVANTAGES. An organisation strictly first.class. Assets proportioned to actual liabilities, as large as any company, old or now. All the net profits go to the assured. Dividends are declared and paid annually. All its policies are non*forfeiting in the sense that Its members, under any circumstances, get ail the assurances that they have paid for. One third the annual premiums loaned permanently on its poli cies. Its members are not limited as to residence or travel. No extra premium is charged therefor or permits required. All the forms of Life and Annuity Policies issued. £9* The HOME has declared and paid dividends annually, to fie assured members since its organization. Last dividend 40 per cent, applied immediately, which is more than 50 per cent, four years hence. Officers and Directors. WALTER S. GRIFFITH, President. I. H. FROTHINGHAM, Treasurer. GEO. 0. RIPLEY, Secretary. W. J. COFFIN, Actuary. A. A. LOW, A. A. Lew A Bros., 31 Burling Slip, N. Y. I. H FfiOmINGHAM, I'rest. Onion Trust Co.. N. Y. j,s. t. stranahan: Prest Atlantic Dock Co* THOS. MESSENGER. Prest. Brooklyn Bank. SAMUEL SMITH* Ex-Mayor city of Brooklyn. HENRY E, PIERREPOftT, I Picrrepont Place, Brooklyn. A. B. BAYLIS* Broker, New York. PETER 0. CORNELL* Merchant, 80 Wall street, N. Y. WALTER 8. GRIFFITH, President. Brooklyn. JNUTD. OOOEB* Prest. Atlantic Ins; Co. Ht B. CLAFLIN, H- Clnfliu ACo , 140 Church street, N. Y. S. B. CHITTENDEN. S. B. Cbittend-n A To., N. Y. J. 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WHILLDIN, President. GEO. NUGENT, Vice-President. JOHN - C. SIMS, Actuary. JOHN S. WILSON, Secretary and Treasurer. CHARLES. G. ROBESON, Assistant Secrotary GIRARD FIBB IBIM.VIE COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, CASH ASSETS, Office, 639 S. E, Cor, Chestnut and Seventh Streets. DIBKCTORS. Thos, Craven, Silas Yerkos, .Tr., Furman Sheppard, Alfred S. Gillett, Thos. Mac Kellar, N. S. Lawrence, Jno. Supple.-, Chas. 3. Dupont, Jno. W. Clngliom, . Henry F. Kenney, Joseph Klapp, M. 1). Incoiuefor the year 1866, Losses paid and accrued, THOMAS CRAVEN, President. ALFRED S. GILLETT, Vice-President. JAS. B. ALVOKD, Secretary. STEICT ECONOMY IN MANAGEMENT. PROVIDENT LIFfiiND TRUST CO., OF riZXLADJVLI'irZA. OFFICE No. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET Commenced business 7th mo. 24,1865. Organized to extend the benefits of Life Insurance &mongmc;nbct4 of the Society of Friends. All good risks, of whatever denomination. ROWLAND PARRY, Actuary. WILLIAM 0. LONGST3ETH, Vice-President. THOMAS WISTAR, M.D., Medical Examiner. 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