Farm, Garden and Household. X fik lMtta|. Aftore's Ultra! A Tern ) "brier says an earnest controversy has beeu going ou for some tune among butter-makers as to whether the most butter can bo made by deep or by shallow setting of the milk. We have the result of several experiments, and tome of them so loose ly made as to be nearly worthless a* evidence in favor of either system. We suppose that all butter-makers must be glad to get light on this question, and we therefore print the following state ni 'nt made by Hon. F. 1). Douglass, of Whiting, iu a recent address before the Vermont Board of Agriculture. From Mr. Douglass's reputation as a butter maker and a careful experimenter, his statements arc of more tliau ordiuary interest. He says: Ton will doubtless ask whether as much butter can lie obtained from deep as from shallow setting ? 1 answer emphatically—Yes, where tho right temperature ia maintained. What ever doubt may arise in the minds of any upon this subject, with regard to result.* when the weather is cool and m wt favorable for the success of shal low setting, there eitn be no doubt with regard hi this point for the entire sea son, aud most eeataiuly not during warm weather. I have experimented upon this subject, net so much to satisfy the public with regard to it as myself, and consequently some of my experiment* have uot been conducted with that nice accuracy of detail, and the results so carefully recorded, as they would have been had they been designed for the public eye. i" will, however, give you the details of one of these experiment* which was the most carefully conducted, that you may understand upon what grouuds I base my conclusions in this matter, and if von discover defects in any of the conditions upon which this experiment waa conducted, I trust yon will freely point them out On the lilh dsy of June, 1871. I di vided the day'a milk of my entire dairy, then consisting of twenty-two cowa,iuto two #qual part*. The amount given by each cow was weighed and accurately divided by weight immediately after being drawn from the oow. One-half waa strsiued into comtnou pans, which were filled about two-thirds full, ami placed upon shelves in the milk room The other half was placed in pails to tin depth of about eleven and one-half inches. These were set in vats of water in the same room, and the temperature reduced to 60 degree*, which was the same as the air in the room at that time. They were allowed to stand until tin milk in each had become thoroughly loppered, and it was evident that no more cream would rise. The milk in the pans reached that point and wa* skimmed in forty-eight hours ; that in the pails stood, twelve hours longer The range of the thermometer in the room waa from as to put an end to this war ? Cespedos—No arrangements oau to entered iuto with Uie Hpauiard* so long as they pretend to rule tin* island. In dependence or death is the ultimatum of tho Cubans. Correspondent —But at least some un derstanding might lie arrived at for the ' purp.MW of softening the rigors of ear aud conducting it on a footing more in consistency with the usage* of modern warfare, Ooapedrta- I regret that the Spaniard*, by com milling outrage* on women and children and uouooiubataut*, have raised the black flag, and created the present atrocious condition of a war without quarter. The Cubans have frequently mode overture* for the purpose of eou dueUug the war on a more humane foot ing, but the Spaniard*, saving that we are only so many banditti,have refused to entertain any "proposition* from us. Correspondent—Have you any idea, Mr. President, that the *or wilt soon come to s close ? Do you still believe that the Cuban* will triumph? Ce*pedes —We are now going on to five years engaged in this struggle, and it can termiuute only with Cuban inde pendence or Cuban annihilation. Wheu the end will be it is impossible to say. The Spaniards believe that if I were dead the war would cease, and they have sent no less than six different parties from Havana to assassinate me. Some v >f these parties have uever beeu heard of since sent out, other* have died, and oue was discovered by Quesada in Camsguey, and put to death after con fessing the whole plan. The Spaniards are mistaken; the continuance of the war does uot depend ou mv existence. Were I dead to-morrow the struggle would go ou all the same. Some one would be elected to fill my place. The idea we contend foreau never die. One Cuban never asked another, *' Shall we win ?" They never doubt that. But the question was frequently asked by officers aud men, " How long will the war last—what tune must elapse before we triumph ?" Correspondent Could uot some diplomatic arrangement be entered into oy which the Cubans would agree to pav au indemuity to the Spaniards pro viding the latter would evacuate the \ island ? Ce*pedes—Overtures of that nature were made. Gen. Sickles iutimated iu Madrid that $100,060,000, payable in twenty years, would probably be given ay the Cubans if the Spaniards, with ut further blood, couseuied to recog nize the independence of the island and ' eave the public buildings, fortresses, irseuals, Jkc., in the oondition in which hey might be found at the time of the treaty. It was also intimated that, if necessary, the United State* would guarantee the payment of the iudetn uty. But nothing had come of this >roposition. Since then a good while ias elapsed, the phase of the war has •utirely changed, and while I have no lonbt the Cubans would still allow a landsome indemnity to Spain if ahe , would consent to put aa end to a war hat in the end must prove disastrous JO her ; yet not so large a anm could IOW be g\veu aa that formerly offered. The island is now in a far worse condi ion than then; property continues to >e destroyed, aud the material wealth jf the country is passing away. This \ .esseus the resources of the Cubans, lakes it more difficult to pay a large hack to the earlier year* of mv life, when in ISHti 1 begun my pulilie life a* IH!II>*. uuder tho indnrma and example of that vorv valuabloand very nobleman, Charles Hammond of the (Vnoiiumfi tAueffc. It vra* while I was in tho The ological Seminary that it waa necessary that aomo one should take the place on tho Cincinnati (lantte of the alitor, who had gone to the llcneral Assembly in Philadelphia, uot tho General Assem bly elsewhere, and I took the place with no very great pride and uo very great Vanity, but with aueh peculiar expecta tion* that 1 rorueiuber i launched out and bought a gold watch and a super lative overcoat (Laughter.) For sir moutlia all thing* went well, at leant tu the office, however it may have fared witli the readers, wheu the publishers broke, the paiier waa bought by a law yer, and iu tue course of four or five weeks he informed me he thought he could run it himaelf. My aalary atop ped, my watch weut back. The coat they would not take, aud I waa left to |>ay for that aa beat 1 might 1 have al ways felt a peculiar sympathy for poor editors from that time to tuis—(applause and laughter)—aud if as years go ou 1 feel myself called less and less to the platform axnl mote and more to the pen aud the Editorial Convention, 1 should nut lie ashamed to wiud up my life as 1 began it, for 1 think that among the proieasion* there is uoue that ranks iugher than that—which is yet to be a profession—that of journalism. Journalism, us yet is a pursuit rather than a profession. It has no definite bounds; it baa no common lavf or cus toms ; it has principles, and yet they are held rather individually than bv comtnou consent. It is not shaped aud drawn out luto any form with acknowl edged foundations and superstructure. That it is to lm a profession, and, like all other professions, to have its laws and its precepts, its maxims and its methods, there can scarcely be any doubt. It never will le a profession in i*ais name sense in which law is. it has in it so much of uecessitv that it is vol untary, that cannot be fixed, while the law spreads itself around about the dif ferent forms of civil society ; it has a machinery fixed and bounded for it which professional journalism never can hare. There are between 7,000 ami 8,000 j various journals published ui the United ; States aud Canada*, and for all moral ami literary purpose* the two great English speaking nations are one. Of daily journals there art? about 700 in Cauad* ami the United States, and j ultout 6,000 weeklies and 7tW monthlies. t Now in so large a number as these, ' surely there is material enough to begin coalescing, taking counsel to make the j outlines and frnmework of the future' profession of journalism. At present the ouly bond that connect papers with j papers are very feehlc, operating at long distances, and for short periods of time. The great secular press is held tggetlier in bonds by chiefly political influences, but party "feeling" runs high for brief periods. Nor has it been found able to ' uold together even in the same side, j journals in sach away as that thc> | should be fraternal or brotherly, for so soon as such journals come iuto such j relatious with each other then their proflU are n fleeted, the one b I. the other, the powtr of party is not at roup ' enough to hold them in affinity, ami they go into auUgouism. In religions journals sectarian feeling is in the main *Jn great bond that holds I them together, but the same dirersive influences ojierate there. Our religions journals have been known to be quarrel some, and have been known to be envi ous and jealous, and even among sects | there are diversions of opinion, and sects don't love each other as Christians should. And the journals of religion for the most part have exemplified the centrifugal forces of Christianity, and the time is yet to come, if it ever does come, when the centripetal force* will begin to act, and religious journals will) be brought nearer and nearer together. But I think both secular ami religions journals, if there be any distinction, ars coming to the common ground of amity and of civilization, and of intel lectual and moral elevation much higher than they have had before. ■ - A Philadelphia Horror. Two Mule Girls lbs Victim* af* Tcrrl- ' ble Outrage—One I'oor Child Dead. Two children, Annie Began and Mag gie Mulray, aged five years, who had been missing for ten flays, were found locked up in a cioset in an empty house in the Twenty-fifth ward. One of the children was beyond human aid and . the other revived after being removed. 1 The police are investivating the affair, bnt it is believed that a terriblo riim liaa been committed upon the persons of the infants. The excitement attending the finding of the children, who were missing in the closet of an unoccupied house, still increases. At the post-mortem exam ination it was clearly shown that the child hail not been outraged. She died of suffocation, the stomach revealing the fact also that she bad not eaten for forty-eight hours. This goes to strengthen the opinion of some that the little ones had strayed into the house and oceidentally locked themselves up in the closet. But the testimony of Officer Dinger and others is to the effect that they made search of the house and the children were not there at that time. The Coroner's pbvsician says the bruises on the knees, hips and elbows of Annie Reagan are easilv ac counted for. They might have been caused by the child's own effort to get out of the closet, or inflicted by Maggie Mulray, who, when found, wua siitiilft 1 on the dead body of her companion. Maggie when taken from the place of confinement made the remark, "Wo £an took me to country for gum d<>l[ iby, and when I got bkek a mau put me in the closet." At this time the child was laboring under great mental excitement and the statement was not credited. An examination of the per son of the living child, also, did not reveal any evidences of being outraged. The theory now is that some o ic, out of pnre hatred of tho Mulray and Ra gan families, hid the children to an noy the parents, or that some boys or idiotic person were the cause of "their imprisonment in the closet, and now fear to confess it. Several persons liv ing in the neighborhood are under ar rest. Instinct of Ants. An observer of the habits and instinct of ants relates that a vase on the man tel-shelf in his sitting room, which was usually filled with fresh violets, was hannted by very small red ants. The insects issued from a hole in the wall above, and gradually increased in num ber until they formed an almost un broken procession. 110 brushed fliera to the floor for several days, but, as they were not killed, the result was that they formed a colony in the wall at the base of the mantel, and, ascending tbenee to the shelf, the vase was soon attacked from above and below. "One day," aays the writer, " I observed a number of ants, perhaps thirty or forty, on the shelf at the foot of the vase. Thinking to kill them, I struck them lightly with the end of my finger, killing some and disabling the rest. The effect of this was immediate and unexpected. As soon as the living arrived near where their fellows lay dead fu_d suffering, they turned and fled with all possible haste. In half an hour t,ne wall above the mantel-shelf was cleared." POINTED WAlSTS.— .pointed waists are in vogue abroad for . high corsages, and many newly impo rt€ d dresses have a deep point in fro? jt, .with round straight back. This Btyl e is very handsome for dinner dresses 'jf ailk and other heavy fabrics made v i jigll Medici f raißeß . The chatelar bodice, rounding over the hips, is - gradually coming into use. foo a Isew ) fashion journal tells us. A LOXU SPLICE. Tlio MklHwaalil Adoular* f aa Ota Sailor, "That buy'a name ws. JliHy Tooley," j it wan the old nurtnner wlu> *m talking, "and if ever there wa an itup of wis thief it was that boy. There wtuu't < anything in tl.c way of k vim king but what he was up to, and it didu't matter a pin t hiui who ha played liii trick* on, whether officersor uieu. bometimea j he'd catch a chap caulking on deck of a night, and put put the draw bucket full of water aoiue*here overhead, ou the 1 rail or upon the house, and make fuat one and of a rope yarn to the bucket and the other to the chap asleep, no tint when lie jumped up sodden he'd pull over the bucket onto himself or onto . acme of the other cltapa , sometimes he would make a chap's leg fast, and when an order was giveu to braeethe yards or to make or to take in sail, iheehap wuttld start sudden and tl.ui himself down u the deek in no time. Frequently, the whole watch, on turning out, would find their iKMits stuffed full of oakum, or the sleeves of their jackets turned iuaide j out, or sotue games of that sort, and it was always that whelp that did the job. Licked he was, of course, but it only made him worse, and* the fellow that whipped him was sure to come off sec ond-best in the long run. He was a great favorite, too, was Hilly, with all bauds, notwithstanding all his trick*, 'cause he was such a willui' lad when auy work was to lie done, and I've seen the tears stand iu the eves of that boy when a man has got ahead of him to loose a royal or to'gatlan' sail, lie had good book larnin', too, had Hdly, and could read and write wonderful, and it's vloug of that same writing of his that 1 got iuto thisaeraoel'm going to tell you alsiut, Uillv was always fond of me, and so was t of him ; you aee we was shipmates in two or three ships togeth er, and of a night nothing suited him better than to get down alongside of rue, aud get me to apiu him a yarn 1 was always go.nl at varum', hut then the twisters I used to reel off to him was different from the stories I spin you, 'cause these is all true ; hut 1 used to lie by the fathom to him, and I do hclirve the bigger 1 lied the better he liked it " 1 8|rin us a yarn now, Tom,' he'd say, 'and let it lie a rcg'Dr twister, as long aa tbe mam to'bowltn',' and so I'd g ahead, and tell him of all sorts uf things I'd seen on deep water voyages round the rapes, and among the natives ou the islands in the Pacific, and about whalm'and all that; and he'd take it all in, as innocent as if 'twas mother's milk. 'Dial boy was sharp to learn, and afore he'd been six months to sea there ararnt a knot, from a * Tom-fools' to a ' Matthew Walker,' but what he was up to; and afore him and I parted com pauy for good he could just put two ends of a rope together as neat aa most anyone. 1 "' 1 was iu one of the ' Double L' hue | whore *•> w** rlrb shipmates, Ibllv ami I, but 'two* iu a Black Bailer—the York , *Uir*~wbeu the thing happeued that 1 ! aru to tell TOU about. '• I wu up at a public home that I used generally to fetch up at of au eve uitig, where the ten penny ale would make you cry hke a cbilJ—for mure, ami you didn't ueed to lake much more either, afore you'd begin to talk of your rich rclatiaoa. Well, I waa up their, a* I telt you, ouo night when the barmaid sava to me : "" "Tom, do you know a chap called Jem Williams?" 1" * Of oourae I do,' aaya I ; * he's oec ond mate of a bark that went to Glas gow.' • Epfeetir ao," aaya she, 'and he* }n*t the softest ahap I erer knew. He was here the vovagbefore this last one. 1 ami he u*ad to be up here coutinually j I didn't take much notice of lnin,' BIT* she, ''cause there's a many that come* up here regular ; but see what a letter the soft foul baa been a sending me.' " Along of my going to hia house for ; a couple of years or so, off and on, Pol ly, the barmaid, and I hub got to be fa pretty intimate-hke, and I didn't like to let her see that I couldn't read writing, whicli was the fact; ao I aaya, * Polly, dear, just fill up my mug and bring m some more 'baccy, and I'll juat clap this letter in my beckct and overhaul it when i I get* leisure.' •' • I'm sure t don't care what you do with it,' suy Polly; ' the softy, to ante such a thing to me. " " Well, 1 takes the letter down aboard the ship, aud the next day I asks Ililly —thia boy that I told you about—if be thought he could read it. •' *Of course I can,' saya ha ; ' let's j have it' I "So I pulls the letter ont of my pock j et, and that there boy read it right oft the reel the first time he tried, without ] missing a word. " ' I say. Tom," aaid Billy, after read ing the letter, * the chap that writ that is an awful flat' " ' Of course he is," says I, ' and that's just what Polly said.' " ' The young woman ho'a sweet on,' savs Billy." " 'Of course,' says I, ' what other !' " ' She won't answer it!' says Billy. " ' Not she,' said L " Then that loy's genius for mischief oome in straight, and says he : " * Tom, wouldn't it be a jolly lark to answer thst letter ?' " 4 As now," says I; 'we ain't Folly,' for I couldn't sec what the deuce ho was drivin' st. " ' No,' RftYfi he, * hut I e#n write letter nut! nign her name, anil pnt it in the ahip'a hag, and we'll go to New York about the aarae time thA he will, and we'll see how he'll biko ou when he get* the letter; it will be a great neH,' and the young varmint actually dauced for joy at the idea. '' *Go ahead, my bo' bbvb I, for I didn't see no great harm in it at the time; and Billy he gets pen and paper and Urea away. " Well, Jim'a letter was soft, anre enongli, a tellin' Polly how much he loved her, ami how he'd never atop* ped a thiukiu' on her einee la*t he elajijied his eyefl on her, and n promiein', if she was williu', to ootne right on straight and splice hr out of luind, ami HO on, it waa soft pud uo mistake ; but it nv-rn't nothing to the one which this hoy writ in reply. He read it off to me, when ne'd got it all done, and it was i gusher, I can tell you. He didn't stick st nothing, didn't that boy, but tolled Jim as how Polly was on the very verge of the tomb for love of hna, and if lie wanted to see her alive he'd better make all sail in her direction and earn* en hard. It was writ regulnr small, like a woman's writing, unci that hiy claps Polly Jones at the bottom of it and stows it nWftv snug fti n cover ntid di rects it to Jim to his boarding-house in Frankliu square, N"W Yorli and the boy's Wind wiis at ease. "Of course, I didn't tell Polly any thing snont tin's, and in good tune om sailin' day come, and away we went and arrived here at the foot of Bcekman street in due course, " The bnrtc what Jim Williams wn* second mate of, got in two dsya after ns, ami Jim came up to the house where Billy ami I was bonrdiu' ami he got the letter, and was iost n pleased as a dog with two tails. Billy ami I was kcepin our weather eyes ojien all the while, and we was tickled a'most to death to see the Way that chap went on. About every fifteen minutes he'd get away by himself ami pull out the letter and read it all through, and then he'd come up to me or to some of the other clutps in the house and insist on standing treat, se that by bedtime what with fresbenin' the nip so often Jim was more'n half sea's over. "As soon as he was paid off Jim leaves his bark and ships afore the mast in the John R. Hkiddy, and away he goee to Liverpool to get spliced, as he thought; and Billy anil I, having swayed on all taut ropes till our money was gone, we ships in the New York, and away we goes, too ; and it so hap pened that all three of us got to Liver pool together. Jim got there, as it might be a Monday, and we got in two days after, and the' first night ashore 1, of course, calls in to see Polly and have a mug of ale. Well, Polly, orter sayin' ' how de do' and so on, goes on to tell me as how she really believed that Jim was adrift in his top-hamper. ' He's crazy, sure,' says she ; ' he will have it that I writ him a latter and told him to >mo tin, mul Hint I would mtrry him ■ whereaa, yen kuow Tom, I tmw did anything of ti> kiiiil.' Bha said li really took OB awful *liu the told ltitu ahe never wrote to him, mid aba wa# quit* aure ha waa craiy. "Wall, when 1 told Hilly *ll thli 1 thought thul boy would ge into eonvul itoii* with laughter. 'Tom,' mud he, 'I ain't quite done with him yet,' and he write* him another letter, signing l*olly'i name, of ouurse, mid Uioke* an sppoiut lumit to meet him hy the Nelson monu ment, tu the Ktelumge, the urxt night at seven o'clock. Hilly and 1 weut through there about eight, aud he was a walking hack and forward a* industri oua it if lie had been atandin' witeh at sea, nml 1 don't believe he left that blexaed square ufore midnight, "Well, the next night rtr thia he goes up to Holly, ami they had a reg'lar ra*. Ho produces the lettera, and aaka Holly If she will deny her own hand wriUu*. She got a* mad aa biaxc#, mid wouldn't look at the lettera at flrat, but after a while he orerhaula tlieia, and then alie aee that aomelaxly had been a hoaxing of Jiiu, and ahe told him ar, and then they made up, mid parted good frieuda. Hhe made hini under stand that he luuat aheer off ; that alio couldn't keep com puny with hun fur the long voyage, ami he took ao many uiuga of the tciqieuny on the strength of it that he lost hla war going down to the docks, aud found himself in the lockup in the morning and WM fined 10a aud roeta for being drunk and disorder ly " "1 am steered, sir, you find this rather tedious, but 1 hud to tell you all this to get in the fair way for the yarn I sol I out to spin you st the first, which was to tell you how I come to get spliced. "When we got back to New York ! after that trip, Billy hail got the idea into his head that nothing hut a tall water voyage would ever make a sailor of him. 'lt was uo use,' he said, 'goiug these coasting voyages, I want to go . arottud the cape ;' and all 1 could say weru't uo use, go lie would, and two days arter we arrived he shipped aboard the Sea Witch, with 'Bully Waterman,' for the East Indies, aud a* I heard after words he came mighty near losing the number of his mesa in a gale of wind, juat afore they got up with the cape. "If you don't mind my going off, on a 'short board,' after him. I'll tell you how it was, and then I'll resume the yarn I've been a apimn'. "As I was told, the ship was pretty well up with the cape, when one uight it breezed on rapid from a whole sail breexe, till it blew great guns, and from i having three royals onto her—for you see they hail had fine weather up to tins, aud hadn't stripped ship for the high latitudes—they wore brought down to a dose-reefed watntopsail and foretop utaat staysail, with scarce a pause in the shortening saiL The sea got up very rapid, and by morning it was as ugly a lime as a man would wish to see. The ship began to roll beavv and labor a good deal, and st daylight tha word was passed forward to ' sand tha royal and to'gnllan' yards down.' I " Well,"Hilly, as 1 told vou, was al ways ready when there was work to do, and he and another boy jumps aloft to send down the fore royal yard. He takes the end of a topmast"stunsail tack, and goes up and stops his halliard to the Itackslav abaft, eaata off the end from the yard and lets it unreave, slunna up ami "reaves his yard rope through the sheave at the masthead, slides dowu agios, gels his bunt gust clear aud his sail secured, bends on his yard rope and j puts on his quarter stop, and the other boy having got the tripping-line on and the clew.lines and sheets east off, Billy cuts the pwrral lashing and sings out 'Bway away the fore-royal raid' as proud us a peacock, for neither of the other masts was ready yrt, and he waa tickled at lieating 'em. " Well, he gets off his lift and brace ' and slugs oat, ' Lower sway,' still ahead of the other masts ; got nit other lift ! and brace off, and waa a putting on hit 'yard-arm stop,' when the chap that was a tending the yard rope on deck j surged it suddenly, and the shin giving • heavy lurch just then, Billy lost his ■linee and avny he weut. Well, the ship lurching so sent him well out to leewnrd, and the wind caught him and whirled him round like a feather and blew him far to leeward, and the chap • that told me this said he fell onto the S cnrl of a sea abon. a ship's length to \ b% ward as softly and easily as if he had had a parachute over him all the way down. The ship, of course, under that short canvas, was laying right dead in tite water aud making a clean drift to 1 leeward, aud so she soon drifted right stop of Billy, who was a striking out like a Sandwich Islander. When tha chaps ou board seen she was sguin' to j fetch him, a half doxen of 'em was over the side in bowlines ready for to grab him as soon as they got near enough, and one of 'em got Billy by the scruff of the ueckandbo WM pulled aboard agin, j He weren't a bit daunted, weren't that I boy ; for a* they was pnllin' of him up, he'sitigs out to the rest of the chaps that was over the side to look out for I his hat, which had blowed off his head and was s floatin' some distance to lee ! ward. " That was a tight squeak, though, 'wasn't it! Taint everybody that can tumble from a ship's to'gallan' masthead I and get off with only a wetting ; but, j you see, 'twas the wind as done it, and he weru't much heavier than a good si sod chaw of terbacker. " Certainly, I was glad to hear that Billy was safe, but tf ho bad been drowned it would only have served him right, for the trick he played on me be fore leaving New York, which was to write a letter to Folly and sign my name ito it—" Thomas Fetors " —a tolliu" Polly ; ■* how I intended to vueak to her afore lc viu* Liverpool, and was willin' to j tplice her if so be as how she was of j that mind, and a lot more of trash of : the same sort. Well, of course, I know'd nothing of all this, and I ships in the Hnttinger with old Captain Bttraely and away I goes to Liverpool again. We docked in the Waterloo dock of a Sunday forenoon, and that evening I riggs myself tip and goes np us usual to see Polly and get my beer. There wasn't nobody in the snug when | I weut in, and as soon as ever Folly , came in and clapped her eyes on me she come and put her arms around my neck I aud gin me a buss in true ship shape ' fashion. Well, I was n good deal took 1 ; ha<,k bv tins, cause l'olly hadn't never ] been so familiar tte'ur.but an such I things are always acceptable after A Sea voyage, I jurat returned tha broadside 'to tin* best of my ability. After awhile, Polly heaves to along aide of me and ' beg ill H to tell mc how glad she was when ! she got my letter, and how she never | had any idee that I thought so much of ! her, and all that, lint il 1 was completely \ befogged, for I couldn't mska out what she was a-driving at at all. So I say# i ' Poly, my lass, juat belay them jay ftfitflcs and "gum-sheets of yourn for a hit, and let's know what all this is alnmt, for Em blowed if I can make It all out rightly, anyhow.' Says she : ' Don't yon know tin letter yon sent mo ?' "' Mr,' says I; 'I didn't scud you no letter.' " • You did,' snvs Folly, 'and here tf | ia,' and she dove down into her pocket anil latched it up. I ! * Jtend it,' savs I, and she dons so; aiul-I seen how the land lay at once, and shopSa my course accord in', I know d it was Billy's work at once, but I see I that I was in for it. " ' Polly,' Bays I, *pnt me down on a ship's deck any day, and put a marlin spike in my flat, and I'll turn out a job of work equal to any man ; put mo on a ship's topsail yarii in a gale ef wind, and I'm equnl to the situation ; but aa for readin and writin", Polly, that I never learned in my youth, and it hasn't come to me in age, and consequently that letter I never did write ; but it's got my name to tlie bottom of it, and I never went back on my own name yet ; an nenr as I can make out, it's jist aich a letter as I should have writ if I'd been able to and had had any idea of writin' sich a letter, and BO what's writ is writ, and can't be unwrit nohow ; therefore, if BO be as how after understandiu' the subject in all its beariugs you still con tinue of the same mind, we'll go this very next Snndayafter a parson, and tie a not with our tongues that we can't never untie with aur teeth. " Well, Polly said as how she was con venient ; and so, sure enough, that very next Runday we was spliced in an old | church out at Evertou, and I got Imr a ! passage home here in the same ship I was aboard of, and have never repented , of the same. 'ls she still living[ ' Why, of course she is. and a waiun' for me st houie this ulcsswl minute. While I was goin' to sea she lived in s house ou cherry street, and when I got < tliis here job of' nightwstohmati on the dock we moved up iu fcbxtii avruus, j where 1 lives ut the present wrtlw'." j What a Sewkpaprr Should He. , iWer of the pe;er before him as a car penter lays ouUbe framework of a bam, or a cook plana a dinner. By seising, I hap bsxarJ, the first article which catches the eye ia an exchange, by thrusting in a communication without perusal, iy stealing a column of items, and by stringing together as editorials a mass of disjointed, empty thoughts, j journalistic duty is not hail performed. A newspaper can no more be made by j such a process than a pair of trousers , can he made by sewing together a iloxen odd pieces of cloth collected st random from a tailor's remnants. When the 1 editor has formed the habit of carefully projecting the plan of his next issue, whether it is a daily or weekly, the fruits of the svatem luscome speedily apparent. He finds that his work is done better, and dons mare easily. A , higher end ia also reached. The effect of adopting a system in hi# daily labor ' is*manifested m the whole character of I his paper. It no longer appears pur ' pon-iesa aud drifting towards vacancy A motive becomes evident in all which he writes, or causes to be written, or prepared for print. The habit adopted as a convenience for the regulation of . labor, in the end begets conscience and principle, which dictate or inspire svgry professional act A ftMAirr BOT.— Here is a boy who is precocious to some purpose. He re ; aide# in Tea as (Breuhsm countyj, and being teu years "Id oaly, he docs ot shine as a calculating boy or as a musi cal boy ; but st tins tender age he proudlv enters the ranks of sgrieul luristsi and, this veer, is cultivating four acres of cotton and one acre of millet We fully agree with the solemn words of The JJmU>n TtUgrapb, which, without fear of contradiction, boldly says; " This loj will no doubt make* a man who Will reflect credit on his family." Tmi Smrncat Cosvcrciuy.—F.feiy mlvsnco in Medicine, every new remedv hoe encouuterctl an opposition, which is the test of truth. ("tlen aud Jeoner only ware believad when they had proved their diacoerriea ngaiaat oppoattt'tß. But men are observing, and iNiuwht* always make believers. Xo inrredulity can stand the silent Argument of good results. When Dr. Walker jarocVumed that he had produced from the modi olus] herb* of California an Elixir thai would regenerate the sinking system and cure disease# no* organic, the in credulous sheok their heads. Yet his YINXOAR BRUM la now the Standard lUutorutive of the Western World. The truth coutd not be resisted. Under the operation of the new remedy, Dyspep ties regained their health, appetite ami I strength, the Bilious tid Constipated were relieved of every distressing symp tom ; the Consumptive and lUienmatte rapidly recovered ; Intermittent and Hemittont Fevers were broken np : tbc toiut of Scrofula waa eradicated ! Who could gainsay facts like theap ! Not even the Faculty. Skeptieiam was muted. AU doubts as to the claims oi the Bitters to the first place in the firm rank of modern medicines were silenced, aud tkis wonderful preparation is to-day the moat popular Tonic, Alterative, aud Blood Depnrent ever advertised in America. In common with other jour nalists, we are free to add our testimony to this remedv. It is a domestic medi cine, and uo household should be with out it.—CVim. Tlie Pennsylvania Constitutional Oon v mtion has refused, 22 to 67, to strike the word "male" from the Coustitutiou, defeatr-d several propositions to allow women to vote on school ami liquot questions, and only permits them to be eligible for sohool offices. PAIN! TAIN!! PAIN II! W HERS IS TUT RXI-IXVESL S*SD*r. ROV wtU SO* la Mt f.trurtte Uoai* ■MM* jr. PZHRT PA I'/.f PATX KII.LKR. II b** b*n *l** I" *T* Trltr of climU* ml by aim. ft *ijr nation hnawa It I* lb* *lai"*t ■OBCSIO vmiMatoa *n* loMtla • EI. frlr.nl of th. Bllilor,ry •nit Stflt,fli ... and Uad .ttd anon* •#• uU tr*Mt *a WR Imkl , rian ml*l f. IT* tenarr. tit Da.earateßß. If you mtm •n.ru. fr. a> IS rbMSXL PXIS TVnij fo Thirty PWa* n r.ltl# H .Iff tll a* m*t in.iantly rur* Jim. Tkmrn u mtAktrng WMJ to il. u ■ f.a ro'.m.nl. it cur CWir, (Vast*.. StKiea*. HmrtJn w-a, Oiarekmm, bymntrry. Pl**, M'tw* • f* Btmittm, Sour St .mark, bjtjfptw. fcl Hradarhm, Cor.. cnol.KX*. .KM all oth.r Bi-m.ill*. Fait. if PHI itMfnal Rtiw/Jrvm Tfrth. In TMOONF of tb* poaairy mbrnrt rs.es *B Aara pr.yaUt, t*Mo i. sv t.myey h.M la fioatei "rvn" Fits *on Aoca.-T.lt* tbj.t übleipoan fU nf tb* f.ia *it/.rlo .# wt hlf a ftl ofV>< teallr. w.ll tw.atana* W nuttH" • lb* Wa I* anmlaa en. B tbln* f-.-ly tb* rb. it. b.rb an teiw.l. a It# tb. Pmu K'Hrr mt t*. .. tia*. AO n.at tb. *n.* it. tw.nt* tntnn*.. tf tb St.l dt> t>ot imp tba.bill Sh""ld ilprn*anayitettilop (aa* It nrnbahly will, tf t* *t"teab la rf b olKXak* Itttl. r.„U'Km*r la mM .w..t.n* -lib ■uaar afi.r *b .p..rn, r#r*rao<- la tb* abo.t IraoWidn* blitn rV* teany ttv.ro aad ob.tlaat* eattt i f Ibl. dia.att. oiAT " cnoi PAtSKILIktI. II It an Kmttrntl •!> |.>ri*ttawuWß antr Ccutplttni or uur lhr Sum of x.Hu#.a i„ cMI uu r ••"ultt. I It un klfunk' arrlala mrl, and hat wlthcttl SoubL bttit aoort am c*ttful It rOMittf ihc vuriSut of CHOI.It* A than uny oaht.lam.tni r tmtd* • r ibt iiwwi rtillfbl fikytirUjt.. In India. Afrtea and Cblm, whtrt (hit' Ttaofnl dlt rat' it mor* or kn Watalanl, aba Pm-hM*r It eontldarad by lb" talit. t at *JSt"A r rtti lanlt In Ifcnta ellmaiat. A fflll MBRDTI and whlla H It a awl totnt ramady for put*., H It a narfaolly tafa ma-ll.lnaln lha m"tt untklllfnl handt. It hat an#- na a houttboM msady. froi iha fkrt that |t l*"t inimadlatt and parmannnt ra- Uaf It it t pntaly ayatblt prcp-irttlon, in ad a from lha t>ntt tM p'tl niaitrlalt, tafa tokaar and nta In ayary fkmlly. H U rainnnniandad bt phyticiant and paraona of allrlaataa. and 10-da aftar a public trial of Ibirly yaart tha a*ara#a llfa of man—lt ttandt n.irl*alld •* tuwkmUtd ipr<)i'ig Iti UHfttlnMl ov*r ti* wlaa .d B1 .ddar, ca . ba on'ad by Iba uaa of Hmr't sinter. Thoutanda that b-rt bam nlaen up by their Fhtelcta' a to m< E-l Boat and ttlrlatt Family Mrrttcla.->b eird'a L'%*r J*vpfmift>r- purely fir and TVuic-for Hatptpafa.Conltlpatton, liability Blck Haadacha, Blllona Attackt and all drranaa mantt of titer, Btomarb and Bowelk. Aak yonr Druaifttt for It. JBttraran/tntildftont. WHS* mi Ltvat It out of Orttr uaa Dr. Jayna'k Sanative PiUt. and yon will briny bark thie oran to a healthy condition, and tat rid of mauy 4lt- Irrttlnf tymptoma. ___ Riant in yaart haaa attablitbed tba ftct mtc of A tut. or Chill' an' Rarer can wltkltund khaUaakti'ttr't PUlt, if ttkta at dlrtalad. Valuable. Pit* insurance ia regarded everr where sa among tfas neoesasriee of "la, A property-Wilder ia reckless without It Life luatirsuee ia now otiuiftifled with dm insurance in thia particular, Tbe National Li (a Insurance Ootupsny of the United Hi it to* of America, with liranoh Oflk-a at l'hibutoiphta (will, wtiicli eorreepotwleimo sboiud ho Lad.) with the largott aaab ciuntal uf My Ufa msnrsuee company in the world, offers insurance in all sections of the country at three-fourths tha eustomsi-T rsto*. and deal res an ageut in ovary locality. i combines aliaulute strength with unuaua) cheapness, ia managed by aoiue of the beat men of tha country, and la well worthy tlie patronage of all peraoua seeking insurance, and the attention of all paraona aeekiag employment—-Own. Jonas* fir Sanaa, the famous composer of Waitxea, who came over to the Boston Jubilee last year, has written s nuts to tii# MASON A HAWUN Organ Co., in which he says that their instruments richly dessrve their great reputation ; and that be knows no other instruments of the class in this country or Europe, at ail comparable to them.—Own. A Troy paper compliments upon bar good memory a woman who tudeutifird on the street a dress stolen from her four months ago. Considering the fre quent changes in the styles, it was rather singular that aha could ksep it m nund. Fnaoa's INSTANT Ihtumr has stood tscuiv ysar*' test Is warranted to gtvs tow rrtirf to aM Khauxsaxic. Neuralgic, liead. bar and lUok aslisa. or Bmnev refunded. ChisTADOso'a Elocution Hem DT* ta Our ut'wl aura and complete preparation tsa loud ia tba world j tia affeeu era leagteat, its ebsnct m hanolexa. its (una natural, taa gstS uaa andonup.—Com For loss of Appetite, Dyspepsia, In JigtMtion, Itopro.tus el Stoma and (iwneraJ pnUUlv. in tbetr varum* forma, Ksaao-l'Hos rsosATcn t una us Ceustvt mada by Caawxix, Htxaas A Co., Maw lurk, aud auU to aU lag tog | tba aara ara wi>*taaS <1 wbila Ufe >idt aa* ar> aawrtn fxassaOr *n Utura ib* niiot. a*i. al'.bs. asatbra* am.nl* t to*I- !3;4e4. as OuuT.lt sasnieta*, mimlaata la toasaiiy. tba at* tf tba timma* ta U vbs brats ss* oitou rfrtaw.ao* wnttnl twmU. t tt ta narcaaar* b ***ifsl taste sa* slimaUw*. ■ faftk will attract an# teas tSuaaarsaaa wttbtwt it.fla*:to.g tba btalo. TWa ia tba •<•' a bat lb* asCartt Us* bat tar |t tfctto aioua. Batuuat'a Sweatb Smart baa ptwaaa t• W * .Uj, nt c~. ., • •u-i£ta SirSi : i!>rn-p. .a* M K 01 > Ootteo-MaUiMw J 0 -*> ; floor—tun Waaler* Bid B BUU. 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Cieed for Ksssi. -Frsfe Woends, Cells. t*ii S>U. fiuriu-., Rnei, ImLd Hell.Msi •MM, HAL amm. tus. •.. * i .sd. s res.deeai was Wl, start. • ferrag ti-ii.dl ,o tatM sod Ie •naed M'TS. by ILMSUTDMM. rearty id' (sA tag doss sod csit] tng off the lnt.awsttaa and eorensre ststic*. sod rsetartsg lbs pens w mil MM sod Mann ra a fv- Lours without pale m wLnits It In not A keating Mnlaseni. bre ecu by lu lemtUm epscrik or chsmlmil esiltws lelusOlrttig end acetuvtng tb soowsss sod to- OsnnatMie er the fafetrec pan. If a fess ap uucauuo. (bared sooe btwoMM eeta. sd.t sad Miarol.aed Ie renored te MOtnu kaeltb witboet suppurstiue or dssweettae. Aa • Meltosat Ibr Hens rifsk,hr (fee core 4 Dtnnnc • WEL JJ.XO, COIT, GOJTRE, IWOKCUJTJE, yJLEVOUS lIELTJ 1 rr, JSCJPIEX 7 COJCSVUPTTCy, sod alldia eases srinrg Ih m an unriirs coed itj< nef tie Ueed. Bend lor our K ceax>*us A l a* ac, In * hick you * ill £xd certificates tit mit liabler.d trnatweriby Tbysickna, }i misters ct tbs Orspel rd ethers. Br. B. Aflrtu fair, * raWaoaea, nuHIN. tefala < i d oO.tr &muh*w w.fh *x*h urnltfr "Sr. T.C. PnE%. e* ra-tVreoo, iw * d. it i7Xpmma iMe w*b riood, Mjnrc It w wpotior to ItMntMiMStrlMOtrini jHv. rakssy BalL ttt rvrtsw** W7l kwiK ij Sa boo ib see tx a r t. jbt It CfespfoP? W loollbu gjtasisscuisse "lEKaaouu Trt ii'tti twwWi" ahou saiM !><:. talsiaa fauioA. XKX BfcaAl-AUS Pt OPyXECTTOS frTTg OCX 11 I#ll JB Hel will ear* Ctllis a*d twit.ltwr Cosi*ttoi,Ty popola. lf. Tk trvt'trif HalkAty porter • •U ettaur UPma Pertiera. aoea tor *artp**o Cinataast iiautt eucwxrrt a co., S A Coumorte St.. ZVHaiaw, it*. lUamkn to ut year Dnctnl fot touwut _ AJAPr Wook IV fIM to ti /l 11 terr.th" m fart~oa US • **•*•• l'*M wTCU * spclter a to.. etarhtio. int. HePterce'i 6sW* Medical Diacsvsfy. Will ttira#p time n treasury IWeurv It witu eef oilier auedl(cine.llk/,*a,•b*£ •v " •/. to rr**.. i * ji be ijai to ampul any toSfi.taa ■* soar before been oflfcrtl to tbo p. WhJe ■ 1 Cwiei tie seretrst Coutht. tt ureAt .ru the y too oJ marlflra tbo MW. r grtot Wool -eg ptjamea <*• •" Humors U IV Sim kcrefute a oatr.r.o aSlntch i*/fuflA M t tr la >.( U*m aro warf*4 to (not Salt Rhtun c/I'MWrisdtio soni tiad of Plmpltimit hn,Bo " n * cleal*orei,Kt|"al|eloo*nd Bi.oicltes aoaoa tho but. VL'-.t tototolwi botttaa art war. rut 4 w on Kfnultic of tba Ksml ornu or Knnului t feer*. tscrofolA and iho worst , a4 Tet^ flueyfllaeaeea. br-iofciWntac-a. atcjufortoroa at the VTitrld'a i.|wuarTtN L Kltba4 it Wou Seneca So, Ih. rrsiA N. Nt OK t n mm ir aa* > ao. to waatod t ail ctooo ■ W w ofsrorklßa eooytoorotthorara.ywwoa w ola, mate oon aoaty at wort tor a ta Umi ] amto moment or all Itr time tbasi al au*tttn etoo partuolars from tatroaa e. iTlliaail t Ott. Itorr. jar a. U. TO ' BlAblt TBA aJmßHra with the Oraoo Taa Flaeot. The CTrriat r.rwawnKF heat too .Importod. For talt \ e*|WW ovviywherr tad tor salr AfTOAJX ebVrsale 0lT by tbo Ore.. Mr 88™ Si Atlantic ana paetflcTeaCo., No. wdBOW IMFaltrm at., aa td * Ctwret at. Mow Tort. P. O. Boa, ■* tea" f. r Thro-Kortor rirmlai i l Vr-jwt rrdby e IfryWor f*hy* **£*■£* V lUwxißfTTiu ere Aperient, Carminative, N striatals, I**save. PfeHfee. (Sedative, CotrnMr-lnHeai. fimlarils. Altau •h end Aab-Bfeee* UMUCHO * proclaim I IK fed*X BITTSKS the mote wonderful In vigurmnt feel ever ttuutead fee staking * 7> KoPartem uke tfcteK Bitters According to diiwtfoos. and rrraat* long unwell, providedtheir bone® are not dc* euoved by uineral poison or other means, and viui organ* wasted beyond repair. Bilious Remittent and Inter mittent FeTer*, "bleb are eo |er. lent in the valleys of our great Hears throughout the United States.**!** those of the Mississippi. Ohte, Misaoun. . Illinois, Tennessee. L'tuabertand, Aritaa em. Bed, Cokradu, Brazos, IB© Grande, Pearl, Alabama. Mobile, harsnnab, Bo anoke, James, and many ©there, wills their vast tributaries threw ghoul our entire country during the Summer and Autumn. and remarkably eo during sea mone of unusual beat and dryness, ars invariably accompanied by extensive de rangements of toe stomach and liver, and other abdominal riseer*. la their treat meat, a puigativa, exerting a pow erftil infiuence upon these various #r gans, essentially neeessary. There is no cathartic for the purpose equal to Da J. Wiiiu't Tamos* Btrntas, as the? will speedily remove the darit coiorcd viscid matter with which the bowels are loaded, at the same time stimulating the secretions of the Uw, and generally restoring the healthy functions of the digestive organ* Fortify the body against dtaaM by purifying all its fluids with VJ**OA* BITTXBS NO epidemic can tabs bold of s si stem thus lore-armed. Dyspepsia or indigestion, Head ache, Pain in the Shoulders, Coughs, Tightness of the Chest, Ditxioeaa, Sour Eructations of tbe Stomach. Bad Taste in the Mouth. Bilious Attacks. Palptta tauon of tbe Heart, Inflammation of the Lungs. Pain in the region of the Kid neys, and a hundred other painful symp toms. are the offsprings of Dyspepsia. One bottle will prove a better guarantee of tte merits than a lengthy advertise ment. Scrofula, or King's Evil, White Swelling* Ulcers, Bryiupds* Swvifed Neck, Goitre, ficriifakms laflamwefew, liwMeat Inflammation* Mercurial Afleetfow, Old Sore* Eruptions of fee Bkin, Sort Bye*, etc. la feeee, a* is all other cwaeutnuonel Dis eeaas, Wsuutt's TUHII BITTSSS have shown feeir pest enrmtire powers la fee mot obetiaste and intractable COMM. For Inflammatory aid Chronic Rhcaiii.ntism, Gout, Bilkma. Kemit usnt and intermitfent Fevers, Dtseasssof fee Blood. Liver, Kidners sod Bladder, feeee Bitters have so ennal. fienh Dtasasss ere censed by Vitiated Blood. Mechanical Disfasoa.— Persons en gaged in Paints and Minerals, such aa Humbert, TypeHwttere, QeM Miners, es th*v advance in life, see snbjees to parslyais ef fee Bowels. Te . sfsinst this, take s does of WslAKS's f "• BOSK Birrxas twceiuoitsllr. For Skin Disease*, Eruptions, Tat ter, rjsit-Rheam. Blotches, Spot* Pimples, Pnatnlte. Boils, Csrbuaelea, Etng wonns, Scald heed. Sots Byes. Erysipelas, Itch, Scurfs. Diacoforetkms of fee Skin, Bnmors and Diseases of fee Skin of whatever name or nature, are literally dag ep and earried .nit of fee system in a abort time by the use of Use* Bitten. Fin, Tape, and other Worms, '.inking in fee srstemofeo many feoueends. sre etfecinslly destuoyed end removed. No 4vnteu> uf modkioe. Be rertuifogee, no ea liwlmiaittes will (fee fee sjstoas hum wenna like three Bitters. i . For Female Complaints, in young ! tr old. married or single, at fee dewn of wo menbood, or fee tore of life, tbeee Tonie Bitter* display so decided en influence feat improvement is toon perceptible. Cleanse the Vitiated Blood when ever vouuud Its impurities bnrsbng (trough j fee skin in Fimpfes, KrapUotw, r Sore#; eleease it when you find it obstructed and I sluggish in fee veins; cleanse it when it is foal; yonr feelings will tell yon when. Keep fee Wood pure, end fee health ef fee system will follow. K. H. KDORILD A CO., Drornrtsti aad Ore. Sea Vreeeiseo, Csltftirele, sad or at Wsstunct.H) sad CkaiSUwi B(s_ N. Mold by .11 tlrmll so* IWelers. NTNU-NQ W ATEILV (DM I HTO P- BLOB OKGAXS .us. ere e*s bx.ret IHSBOIBI u iHjrl# ■>•' (MaflUeC * too* w.us. Amy fore wrBLK.REi:n o*A!fa.fltpo d;fl*®* • • HO, E-WTO. |lM.rrerdi. Jl.Ll .MMATIJ CATALOGUES MAILED M"* """f * MEMORY K? ST^I ■trnnstlMd; tbs bods msde to*h *n;l TWWWS. Vslo sbU bo#k. W ct, Msdsd hr A. Looms, JstswOUr. R*. RNEA.-I* SOKKTS wsoted IN • sed srein- A tr, to sell TS*. or *• I ui-dnk ordtrs for tbe Isrevst Tss < enpsu, in Amsrirs: inpertei s' prises mud inonct mnnir to seciits. Ssos for rircolat. Address, KOhEKT WXLLS. IS Vesey Street. Sew Tsk- Motos2osSafgsarg TifltTfl O rest OSST ! Mcrerssi rrssrejl *ew HI *N "•"<>• s.-d U >*■• Csteluaas S rtA * DU 1 U Jsv UOCLP. B