LI .611 t Eitishrgli Gaitttf. 01110 L: lIIITTI DOILDIN, 84 AID Si FIFTI IV OFFICIAL OAPEJI Of Fittsbux.FlL. AA*" gh.sy CieviatT, TVE.411)A1f,.3A14. 4. 1870. - TSB WEN CITT GOVESNMENT, The City Councils for 1870 assembled yesterday In their respective chamber and effectal en orginization. In the Select branch data' McAtn.rr, Esq., was apt* 'enured with the Presidency by an unanimous vote. W. A. TOMLIN sow, Esq., of the Common branch, was with equal . unanimity honored with re -12.,. idectiOn. Both these gentlemen ha ' - prOicd 4, faithful and 1 pain s- ng presiding officers, and the compl eat of again elevating them to the responsible posilloni holm evidence that their ser vices have been fully appreciated. E. S. Kowtow and Boon Idekturress, ' Esqe., were complimented by a re elec tion as Clerks of the respective branches. Thera are both excellent and experienced ogicers. . Carr. Coosa, our venerable and apPreclated old friend, wu re. elected Sergeant steams. 'The Introduction of- a resolution look ing towardi economy in the detertment of Ohne printing foreshadows that the Councils of 1870 will enforce rigid re trenchment la all directions, a course which cannot fail to prove; gratifying to the tiu-payers at large. TUB VINANCFS. In consequence of the diminished re. oeipts from Internal sources atthis period of the year, the last month's reduction of the public debt wu less than in any preoeeding month of this Administration. The eruct figures for the debt cancelled are s4,sts,ooo. Notwithstanding his large sales dazing the month, the Treas urer retains sa much free gold as at the close of Noretnber,w ith an bierease of over MEW muttons la the amount held on 'bestial:tate. While Mr. Bcorrwur, will pursue, during January, his established pokey: of bond•purchases and gold• sales ' • it is 'manifestly his purpose to avoid, as heretofore, such an exercise of his dB -chit I'li:dillies as would too rapidly depress the value of the metal. As the situation stands the Sec retary wields a practically resist less power cyst the mule, Bat we 'must be candid enoughlney that he sues that power most discreetly. When we see that if he would he could depreci ate gold to the extent of half its present pretalum,ln a week, but at the expense, . probably; of a serious commuctal and Snaicial aisle, and when we also ob. serve that he prefers a more gradual and gentle movement—letting the market • dcrenreasily instesdrif pfecipiudiag eye. Tiatii by the run to the bottom—it Is due to the Beentarjr to confess that his-steady caution In this regard is amply vindicated by,the current results. • Uhl iPeciffe Intentions - for the current week wen to have transpired yesterday, but at this suiting we have no advice of them. We however, that the • sales of the week will be limited to bids of, not, less than 119 or #O, riot less than the first nor more. than the but figure. . Indeed it may be requisite for him to sustain. the market against the too decisive efect of Its supply this week. from public _and private sowers, of warty 435-,000,. • 000 of coin.. Ha wilt maintain, as fir u es he can,. his policy of a carefully • graduated progress to cash values. 'ANOTHER GREAT ENTERPRISE, . , . More than a thousand miles northwest of Panamaand of the Panama IWlroad, ' .the Gulf of Mexico stretches southward to within 160 or 160 miles of the Patille. This is called the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, ' ' 'and is guile distinctand far removed from the Isthmus of Panama, where the Carib :- bean sea and Pacific ocean approach within forty miles of each I other, and ... • across which the Panama railroad affords ....... ta.present the great line of travel from one to the other. ' The project of uniting the Atlanticand ' . • ) .;.Pselfic.by ream:rota the Isthmus of Te • hiuntepec is an old one; but hitherto no • organisation strong enonghto accomplish ..._ it has-been formed. At length, hoerever, the government of Mexico has granted to • . t cis Don Emilio La Bore the right to coa t: , i - • stren . wrigiroad, a carriage road, end • - line of telegraph across the isthmus, to -- - • - Ober with • subsidy of eves* alternate' , ' league of the public lands of each aide of ~.the line of these roads, and exempting the • - • - entire property from taxation or imposts, except 12 cents for each through passen ger, and eight per cent, of the net prodts whenever dividends shall be declared to -- t ' . :stOckholders. Bach Is the franchise, ~4t h 1, which runs through - a teen of 70 years. ' .., .' • Mr. La Sae it is said, "has transferred this franchise, with all its privileges; to - , the Tehuantepec Railway Company, or - , rattled by him and composed entirelY'cif ' ; Aztecan capitalist& The company has inferfensded Itself under a charter from . ' the Legislature of Vermont, with a rapt . ha of fi18,000.000 in $lOO shares. It has - -- . • also entered Into a bond with the Govern , ...' meat of Kesler, in the sum of.;100,000, to construct the roads in ruxordance with the terms of the pint. The amine , road and telegraph line are to be built • . - within eighteen months, and the railroad ' . completed in 'five yeare. The tenidnis . ; aloha Atlantic Side is to beat Minatilbur, 'situated. CO the River Ommotealai, about twenty milts from the. Gulf or Mexico. . . The Pacific terminus .will he , at Salina • . . Oros.. The total distance tietween these two points is Utt milei." Salina Cruz is . •- ea a ijne inlet of the Pacific, canal the . Golf at Tehuantepec, ba north latitude 16 .. degrees, and longitude $4 degrees I* • , • . • minutes west from Greenwich. Pampa .;. •-• is In latitude 10 degrees, longitude 80 de. , pee& The one is veiy scarlet. in the meridian of Pittsburgh ; the other about ~. .' '' that of *eke. • *!;;; . The highest point of the line above ,L; tide is only 708 feet. It is mid to pats ;i . - through en emeedingly fertile and healthy 1..: . counts*, abounding In minerals, and that .; ' , t them am but few natural obstacles to be 011170311111. The highest grades, extend `" Mg %brans - di twelve or fifteen miles, is , . ' ' sixty fest to the mils, while the avenge siadewill be leas than twenty-five feet. The total cost is estimated at $8,000,000, . being an avenge of about 05,000 per mile. -, Mx. ODEON STZTEXII Is President of the . • Gesspany, and it Is from an interesting 0. • . Volime from his pen thit these facts are - gleaned. He speaks of the great &dna , tage which this mote possesses over the - ' - 'Pans= route in point of distance he. . Min. San Francisco and New York, Few Orleans and LiverpooL The redtic - don fento Heir Vark,4ll compared with . • ' the Panama Railway, is 1,477 miles, from - t .- Hew 0611111 B,Si miler, sad from Liver ' . . pooLl,llll miles. If the mold •' : ..- lin &multi infate that commerce be. tween the Pantie and Atlantic coasts, and abro between the Pacifier:oast and Europe, would naturally idea this mite rather than that of Panama, as being the short at eitifi cheapest of the two. ~. ~ . • '' 1 ' route If this be what is here represent. 4, _ ea, that road will soon be built, and be, come an important thoroughfare. This road wiille a formidable competitor of the Panama road, whirl, until this year, had a monopoly of the passenger traffic 1 between California and the Pacific States; amtalthoogh it cannot compete in point of time with the great overland road to California, yet where money. Is an ele ment In the calculation rather than time, even it will find it a sharp competitor, and may be obliged to abate its rates in, conseqnence.: . . -' It is Wonderful bow the world Is press ing towards the Pacifier It will not be many years before this continent from , r ra g et' k Sound to Pus= will be Mavens. el by numeroua great lines of trade and travel The Interior is 'found to be richer, and better adapted to settlement, than .was formerly supposed; so that whether the commerce from distant n(rrions washed by that vast ocean be more - or less, these long Interior roads will still pay, especially the one through Mew Mexico and AtinonaL although the I shortest of all routes to China and Japan is that known as the Northern' road, be• ginning in Minnesota and terminating at tuget's Sound in Waabbiliton territory. _ . It has the advantage over the Union Nellie of some seven or eight hundred THE GREAT lATATESIRAN Lm Winerrns. By GeOrge Ticknor Curtis, one of his Literary • Executor*. Vol. L. pp. 689. D. Ap. • piston & CO. New York, 1870. This groat National work boa been written in fulfillment of Mx. WI/ulna's testamentary injunctions, and will be completed with the lune of the second volume In about a month hence. The noble subject requires no laudatory com. meat from the press; we have only to congratulate the publishers upon the scholastic attainments and otherwise well merited reputation of the editorial author. Mr. Curtis was a protegi, companion and confidential friend of tho , grey. Stateranan of New England, and has de• voted himself to this work u to a labor of love. Nor tins ►e relied wholly upon his own acquaintance, with a career which ftred, for mare than fourth part. of a oeitury, the admiring regard of the civil. Iced world, but, as he gratefully aclutow. ledges in the preface to this volume, evils himself to the broadest extent of the eiperiancit and critical suggestions of many of Mr. Webster's most intimate surviving friends. - Nearly seventeen years have elapsed since the — death of this distinguished Amaticai. Although aot a few of his eotemporaries are still living, yet the events since occurring, especially those of the but decade, seem to have opened, as the author suggests, a wide chasm in the history of the • nation, separating the present from the past of seventeen years ago, as If, la fact, a century had inter. vested. Mr. Warman, par eseeflence the expounder and champion of the Con !Undies', was spared from the mahappi• mess of seeing that instrument assailed by armed traitors, whose mad folly not even his matchless eloquesthe and exhaustive logic could have availed to arrest. His dgure now stands before us, in this later hour of restored peace and of reconstitu ted and . perfected liberty, looming up from the old era of !gnomes and of par tneri expediency, like some inextinguiek able beacon, which indicated the true path of safety for the careful mariner, but was . melees to preserve the fool-hardy end per istyle]; blind from ruin. The parentage, and early education of DAixu Wxesm, hL entrance intcr professional life, hies first politial expert. vices and many of the grandest of his triumphs, either on the forensic or the popular arena; .his gradual absorption Into the highest salesmanship of the Repub lic, and the' indelible impression which its history shall bear, received from the mightiest intellect upon which the XlSth century dawned--all - these things appear in this faithful record before us, with such a wealth of incidental illustration, and of absolutely new revelations of a personal and political interest, as to render this "Life of Daniel Webster" a monument of inestimable justice to its great subject, and a contribtthon to the history of the Republic which no well-read clout!, of professional or poittical inclinations, or of a Merely literary taste; can afford to be without.. WI have to thank a 'gentleman who never brings to us any but the best books —Mr. J. R. Cunningham, Ito. 62 Fourth Avenue—for the volume before us. He states that the second and last volume will appear in Februat7, containing full one hundred mei of matter more than this, and that be proposes to submit the wort Lo the approving patronage of our citizens. ' Tax Erie Guilts, the ataunchand tell able 'exponent of the opinions of a large majority of the people of that county, notices Mr. Galbraitli'a article In favor of the enlargement of the canal, - and rer marks thereon: Give us the facts and figures to satisfy -the peoplethatthe Statetreasury Is not to kw plundered by any "ring," and we are ready heartily to advocate env prop. er law to mast the canal eniargetrodn• ment. Ls soon as the dxpecte bill Is hi oed, we propose to copy It, and comment according to Its merits. If the poblle In terests are protected, we Quill Improve in Ind if tt appears to be what good author ity predicts, a deep laid scheme to plun der the tax payers of this !Rase, we shall emphatically oppose it. Mr. W. W. Reed, who describes tim! self as "Boiertateudent of the Erie Canal,' prints a statement, from which We quote two brief patiLtsfals: He 1 49 1 f . • t I propose to simply ask the Leatalaturfr to do for the benefit of Western Pannol., what IL has donator other Improvements, and if the bonds now held by the State are exchanged for the bonds of the canal, they will be placed In the hands of true. teogi In whose honesty and Integrity the nubile will hese •eordidenoo, cud will lase that they are properly applied. •I have been arUcles denouncing Sens tor Lowry se jetting up this scheme for personal profit. Ia this they give the Senator credit for what properly belongs to me. The proposition to enlarge the: canal originated with me, and baa been mainly carried forward to the present time through my efforts. On the 18th or Jimmy. 1868, /Senator Lowry, of the Erie district, in hla place at the Capitol, made the following Mate mint: It Is but natural that the enlargement of this great work (the Erie Venal) 'horrid be near my heart. It was mycrwn child by adoption, and can a great blind Commonwealth slay It In cold blood saw the prints of the nails and the marks of the Angers of the State upon Itathroat. I r eiusouted.lt, and. blew into It the breath of Ills after ft had Wu In the grey.. I took It to my bosom and warm. edit into Wis. I will guard it la welt as / OW from a almond .death. The public bas no interest in the ques tion of the paternity of the enlargement - Scheme, upon which the Superintendent and the Senator are thus so directly at Issue. It will 'Mier the people If them . 1 gentlemen continuo to exhibit.' sincere, generous and judicious . rivalry In fur. Meting a great enterprise. In that direc tion, the Gamut will heartily secovp their efforts. Tree Baltimore American appeared, on New Year's Day, with an enlargement or four columns, "rendering it the larg est, snit Is the oldest, and," as wo say, "the best newspaper in Maryland." Tito monthly issue of Good Roan m eats a sun Mehl' development Of a most popular plan, for Waging under the pub. linijs- a aeries of well and attractively written article• on theirariout questions of hygienic, sanitary and medical knowl• edge from thi best authorities. If all the news•dcalera don't keep it for sale, they overlook a good thing. Every Saturday, in its new 'haw., c.hal lenges a vigorous rivalry with the other illustrated weeklies. It adds new and artistic attractions to a journal which already supplied one of the literary de mands of the day. Thanks to our friends of the Cluck,. anti Gazette for a copy of their "Annual Register" for 1870—a handbook of one hundred and fifteen pages, embodying a mass of useful information—an almanac, with statistics, political and general data of the greatest usefulness. If as carefully compiled as it is really likely to be, this Register is fully equal to any publication Of the kind which we have yet seen. FA.EI, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD stouszumn Imams. Wrinkled &M.—To make an which has been wrinkled and tumbled appear exactly like now, sponge it on the cur. face with a weak solution of gum arable or white glue, and Iron it on the wrong aide. Graham Bread.—Two cupseweet milk, two cups sour or buttermilk, - OM half a cup molasses, one teaspoonful sods, with unbolted wheat meal to make -a stiff bat ter. This cannot be beaten for bread. Brown Bread.—Three cups of meal, one of flour, two cups of sweet milk and one of sour, half a cup molasses, tea spoonful of soda; steam three hours. To Cleanse Blankete.—Put two large tablespoonfuls of borax and a pint bowl of soft soap into -a tub of cold water. When dissolved, put in a-pair of blankets and let them remain over night. Next day rub and drain them out, and rinse I thoroughly: in two waters; and bang them to dry. Do not wring them. Testing Flour.—An exchange gives the I following simple mode as the proper way to test flour: "Place a thimbleful in the palm of your hand and rub it gently with the linger. If the flour smooths down, feeling gentle and slippery, it is of an in ferior quality. But ifs the flour rubs rough in the palm; feeling like fine sand, and has an 'orange tint, purchase cold-' dently. It will not disappoint you." ' Molasses Pudding.—One pound of flour, one pound of molasses, one pound of suet, and four egge, very well mixed, and to be boiled from four to five hours. Add a little nutmeg, and, if necessary, halt pound of sugar. Pried Sguashss.—Pare the squashes and cut them in thinish pieces; snake a thin batter of flour and water; dip -them in it, and sprinkle with salt and pepper after you lay them in the hot butter or lard; fry brown in a rather quick oven, or on the top of the stove;-then turn and brown them on the other side. • Transparent &eq.—Shave in thin slices one pound el brown bar soap, and put in in a junk bottle with half a pint of alcohol. Without corking the' bottle piece it in a basin containing water, put the basin on the +love and boll ten min utes; then remove the bottle from the water, and turn out the liquid to . cool. Br fore cold, add a few drops of oil of bergamot or lemon to:scent. Corn Meal Stoppers.—To a quart of sweet milk, stir in sufficient meal, with one handful of wheat flour, to inks ratti er a thin batter; add a little salt and not more than halt a teaspoon soda, but you can judge better by stirring In very little at the time until the mixture feels light; Bake like buckwheat cakes. These cakes are far superior to those with eggs and butter, and certainly they are ices trouble. The flour is a great improvement Pheasant, Partridge, or Grouse Pie in a DiA.—Pick and single out two pheas ems, or four partridges or grouse; cut off tics legs at the knee; Beason with pepper, salt, o hopped parsley. thyme and mush rooms Lay a veal steak and a slice of ham at the bottom of the dish; put The partridge in, and a pint of good broth. Pat puff ' pa.;te on the sedge of the dish, and cover with the same; brnshover with egg, and bake an hoar; or place them in a raised crust. • Peet Elenip.—A. pint and a half of split pera, two email onions, pepper and salt to taste. Hee three quarts of water and boil from five to six hours. Porkis often put in, but makes the soup far less whole. some. If the water Is hard, add a piece of saleratcut not larger than a pea. It would be difficult to find a way in which the same amount of nourishment could be obtained for four times what this costs. —Hearth and Home. Queen of Puddings. - -One scant pint of grated bread crumbs, One quart milk, one cup sugar, one lemon, four eggs, butter the size of a walnut. Grate the rind of the lemon and put it with the butter, and a little salt to the bread' crumbs; then pour on the milk boiling hot. When cool add the yolks of the eggs, well beaten; beat eh thoroughly together and bake. When cold, make a meririgee of the whites of the eggs, the juice of the lemon, and half a cup of sugar beaten tilt stiff. Spread this over the top of the pudding, and set it into the oven again fors few minutes, till of a delicate brown.—Mother at Horne. To Clean Silk or iftrinoes —Grate two of three large potatoes; add to them a pint of cdid water, let them stand -a short timer, pour off the liquor clear, or strain it through a sieve, when it- will be fit for use. Lay the silk on a flat surface, and apply the liquid with a clean sponge, till he dirt is well separated; dip each piece in a pall of clear water and hang up to dry without wringing. Iron while damp, on the wrong side. Should the silk be of more than one color, it is de• sizable to wet a small piece first, lest . the dress should be spoiled by moisture, causing the colors to run, but for self colored silks, the direction is an excellent one; and aatinettes, even of light colors, if not greased or stained, make up again nearly equal to new Houseitold. An Mosul Christmas Plum Pudding.— If anybody can present a better receipt than this, I should be happy to see hand wUI try it Take a pound of bread, break It small, and 'oak in a quart •of milk; when raft smash the bread, and mix with it three large opoonhals of flour, previously mixed with a cup of milk; add half a pound of brown anger, a wine glass of wine, one of brandy, a teaspoonful of salt, the same of pulverized mace and cinnamon. or a rind of a lemon grated. The whole should be weU stirred together, with a quarter Of a pound of chopped snit or melted boner. Add ten eggs well beater, one pound of Zante currants, and the same of seeded raisins. Boil it Ina Incbag made of thick cotton cloth, and before filling it should be wrung out of hot water and floured inside. It must not be entirely filled with the pudding, as it will swell when boiling. an old late '7.g the bottom Cl the pot Place which you p boil the pudding. to keep the bag from stick ing to it and burning. Let the water boil when you put the pudding in, and ko a few minutes turn the bag over. Theta should be water enough to cover the pod ding all the time it is boiling. When yeti wish to turn out the pudding, immerse the bag in cold water a minute. and It will easily slip out.' This. pudding will reclaim three or four hours to • boll thorn It may not be amiss, perharsh * to say that this, though a Christmas pudding, may be made and eaten during any time - of the year. Curefor tatti . 7j ak t aiin pieceofcottonngeoton woo l, make a depression in the center with the finger, and till it up with as much ground pepper as will rest on a five cent piece; gather it into a ball and tie it up ; dip the ball Into sweet oil, insert it In the ear, covering the latter with the cotton wool, and use a bandage or rap to retain It In its place. Almost - Instant relief will be experienced, and the application Is so gentle that an infant will not be injured by it, but experience relief as well u adults. Winktring Sheep.—Farmers keeping sheep ought to Bee that their quarters for winter are comfortable. Plenty of room should be provided, for sheep will not do well when crowded into small quoit:as. Their pens should be wellisentliat ed. A coyering of draw makes atlnt•rate roof ing. The floor should be well litered with straw once in three or four days, and as often cleaned. They should be fed regularly. Hay should be disposed In rub, easily reached while feeding, yet blab enough to baclear of any con tact with their feet on the und. If fanners understood this fact; gro and put it more to practice than, they do, they would be g ainers by It. __Sheep should not be fed too highly. More is lost by high feeding than la gained. An old uncle of mine, hiving PITTSBURGR DAILY GAZETTE: TUESDAY MOBANG, JANUARY 4, 1%70 needexperience in sheep raising, media say that too spoonfuls of Oats • day was sufficient, an that sheep would do well on that allowance with plenty of hay. Salt should be given at least once a week. Care should be taken in building pens or sheds to make an entrance largo enough. Sheopiought not to be crowded in going in or out. Many tine animals have been Injured in that way, for sheep go in and out of their quarters, -when feeding time comes, with a rush, and huddle close to. gether. If the entrance is sufficiently large, there need be no danger of crowd ing. All weakly, scrawny lambs or sheep should be separated from those in good condition, and allowed an extra al lowance to "catch up." Poor scrawny sheep never stand much chance in a flock of fat, thrifty ones, as they are knocked around, and seldom get their share of food. I am glad to see that farmers are wak ing up to their Interest, and getting sheep of Improved breeds. The old fashioned long and coarse.wooled kinds ought to give place to such us the Southdowns, Cotswold or Merino. Not only is the yield of wool greater, but it is of so perior quality, and brings a much higher price. Coot of a Bushel of Wheat.--Tho cost of a bushel of wheat; put the value of land at fifty dollars: The Interest on 550, at 6 per cent, is is, which divided by twenty, gives 15 Cost of seed, 53 15 Cost of plowing, 51.50 7% Putting is. 51.50 • 7% Reaping, St Binding. 51.25 Shocking, 40e Boarding hands while cutting, 400... .2 Hauling and stacking, 51.25 5% Threshing, $1 Boarding hands, 52 5 Hauling to market, 5 1 Taxes on money invested In seed, plowing, harrowing and drilling.. 2;; Total coat per bushel_ 90!‘ Considering the straw and pasture worth the wear and tear of tools, har ness, etc., the above I consider a fair estimate of the coat of one bushel of wheat. ' Disturbing Sheep. —Prof. Miles, in his observations on sheep, has called atten tion ',to the of ,ct that sudden disturb• ance, or any other kind of agita tion, has on sheep. Ile found that any disturbance, such as the passing and re passing of stock, retarded the fattening and frequently threw his sheep off their feelfor a time. Mr. Julian Whittle, of Albany, confirms the correctness of this' obeervation, -and says on the subject of winter care of sheep: "Littering is something which must not be neglected. I have stood In the yard and noticed, when the littering or I bedding was getting dirty, how carefully the sheep avoided it, and how relnctautly they lay down upon it; . and as soon as.' the clean bedding was given them, I have I seen them drop down - upon it, rest as happy and contented, to all appearance, as an exhausted person upon a bed of I Straw. I believe that it is during this period of rest that they acquire flesh, and hence I would recommend that sheep be kept as free from disturbance as possible. I Never allow strangers in the yard, unless feeders. I haye forty sheep in one pen I that are kept absolutely undisturbed savB by the daily visits of their feeder, and their condition is better than those in any I other pen, which fact I attribute wholly I to the silence in which they are kept. I Advice as to florses.—ln teaching a I young horse to drive well do not hurry I to see how fast he can Irot. seep each .lace clear and distinct. from the other, that is In walking make him walk and do not allow him to trot. - While trotting be equally careful that he keeps -steady at his pace, and do not allow him to slack I into a walk. The reins while driving should be kept snug and when pushed to ' the top of his speed keep him well in hand that he mayJeartrwell to bear upon I the bit, so that when going nt a high rate of speed he can be held at his pace, but do not allow him totoo hard, for it is not only nap' t makes him often difficult to man To prevent halter-breaking procure a small, hard, strong cord, from eight to ten feet long; put the harness on the horse, heckle the girth tight, make a slipping noose on one end of the cord and ' put it around the horse's tall, close to the I body; slip the other end through the ter-' rit and bit ring, and bitch the horse to • , post, and leave him 0 - himself. Two or three Lessons will cure any horse. When a horse stands long in a stable his legs are apt tq swell. No horse which is not disabled by Bicknell; •or lameness' should be allowed to stand long in the stable. Inaction produces a dropsical condition of the dependent parts of the body, and the obvious remedy is to ex ercise the horse every day. To prevent over reaching, pare the heel of the forward foot low. This -causes the horse as he moves - forward to raise the forward foot quicker, and al lows the hind foot to remain longer, so that before the hind foot comes forward I the forefoot is out of the way. Also, I make the forward shoe long.. It my res. coning is not plain let any one try the experiment and they will be satisfied.— I Stock Journal. Care of Poultry in Winter.—Very few person( pay necessary attention to poultry in winter, although at this season they require constant care. A poultry house, to be quite warm, should be constructed with double walls and roof, like an ice house, and should have as much glass as possible to admit light and sunshine. Boards, about four inches wide, are better adapted for roosts than round poles, las the fowls sitting on them an cover their feet with their feathers-and protect ' them from frost. - Old bens ire not worth I feeding; they should be got rid of, and I young, vigorous ones substituted. When more than three years old, hens are not usually worth keeping. . Abundant food should be given in winter, as without' it very few eggs will'be obtained. Beefy poultry house ehould I be furnished with boxes for the hens to lay in, so arranged that. they cannot roost-over them. Food and water should be given with regularity, ands supply of lime, gravel, crushed bones; and charcoal should be rawer' available. Corn and Hogs.—One bushel of corn will make a little over 10} pounds of pork • —Th u. When corn costs 131 cents per bushel, pork costs 11 cents per pound. When corn costs 17 cents per bushel, pork costs 2 cents per pound. When corn costs 25 cents per bushel, pork costs 8 arils per pound. When corn costs 33 cents per bushel, pork costs 4 cents per pound. When corn costs 50 cents per bushel, pork costs 5 cents per pound. The following statements' show what the farmer realises on his corn when In the form of pork : When pork sells for 8 cents per pound, It brings 25 cents per bushel In corn. When pork sells for 4 cents per pound, It brings 33 cents per bushel In corn. When pork sells for 5 cents per pound, it brings 45 cents per bushel In corn. • AORICUINCIIIAL ITEM. From a farm in Western New York there is annually Bold ;2,000 worth of butter. The farm contains 172 acres. Thirty cows are kept. It is estimated that 20,000.000 bushels of wheat, 0,500,000 of corn, 12,000,000 of oats, and 2,000,000 of potatoes were pro. duced, last year, in Minnesota. Bootie ono of the most valuable mac noire, and nothing but the most culpable carelessness and indifference will suffer It to remain a standing menace to life and property when it can. be easily removed from chimneys, stovepipes, &c., and turned to useful account in the garden or Held. Twelve quarts of soot In & hogs head of water, will make the most vain. able liquid manure, which will Improve the growth of root crops, 'garden vegeta bla, flowers. The agricultural statistics of Great Britain for 1669 Mow 3,693,635 acres in wheat; 2,250,177 In barley; an increase of 42,906 acres in the &stand of over 100,000 acres in the hut crop over 1868. The in crease in the average in potatoes Was 63 per cent. The number of cattle has de creased, as hu the number of sheep and pigs, to a remittable degree. - Skillful fattener' aro far less common than good grain grower& Recent experi ences have proved. that animals cannot take on flesh rapidly, unless the tempera. lure is nearly uniform, and between fifty and sixty degrees. Dr. Voelcker says: "Placed In a heap with ashes or sand, occasionally moisten• ed with liquid manure or water, bone enters Into putrefaction, and becomes a more soluble and energetic manure than ordinary bone dust." A correspondent of the Germantown Teregraph says: "Some years ago I had a shade tree which split at the fork. I took an inch and a half augur, bored a hole ththugh, put a well seasoned wood; en Plug through, wedged each end, and It grew on and the crack opened no far ther." UENERAL NEWS •Wuzaurto had 288marrisgcs in 1869. Baonanica's property In Cilifornis has been found. Bourwirs.t, is lecturing on the Transi tion Period of the United States. RIBTOIII goes into raptures over the pure air and pretty sky of the United States. _ . Vicron boo and Louis Blanc have written characteristic letters about 'Mr. Peabody. OF the sixteen Governors of Pennsyl vania seven were of German descent, and of all the Governors of the Bonin, eleven are foreign to the clime. Witxxs, of the Spirit of the Timer, claims having first suggested the Pacific Railway. It was suggested by the Spirit of the Times; but not Wilkes' or arty other paper. Tim Treasury Department will put fives, twenties and fifties of the new series of legal tender notes into circulation in about ten days. They are handsome bills, made of Government bank note paper, and of much brighter appearance on the face than the new ones and twos in circulation. THE Boston Advertiser announces that I Tempel's comet (Comet 111, 1869), was observed at the obserratory at RarTard College as follows : Time, Dec. 24 - night. R. A. , 2b, am, 85s. Dec. plus 20D 5' 5". Daily motion in R. A., plus 7' 5". Daily motion in Dec., plus 6' 0". Discription, faint, diameter two minutes, J round, gradually mush brighter in the 2 middle. - • -.- IT becomes daily more certain that there will be a virorous opposition to the Samna treaty in the Senate and House. It is extremely doubtful if the House ap propriation committee will agree to the appropri masatio Mr. Fish will uk for. The St. treatyTh is to be pushed again, if Samaria goes through easily. If the gates of the Treasury are once opened, a good deal of money will escape before they are closed again. Tag Prussian needle-gun has a formida ble rivarin the form of a sundnisssergresehr, or knife-gun, the new breseh•loader in vented by Herr Mayhofer, of Eauschen, Ea s t Prussia. At a reeent trial i Ko nigsberg, twenty.tlve rounds, with full cartridge, are said to have been Aced off per minute. The missile penetrates at a distance of trio thousand yards. The piece carries with great precision, and has the great advantage of a minimum of smoke. The invention extends to the cartridge aa well as to the gun. HELP NATURE IN DISTRESS The value of DR. ICETBZWIS LUNG CUM •t be estimated In dollars mid eats. Thou• •do of people who Dave seed It can tosiLft to estrum:ll.m uscrita—ma• of them tar game Ith disease. of thtl mop and palinonaryorgas. It Is without question one of tb• Bpeedl4.t sil M!!=r1; MEM= It will ear* long.standlat cane of lirOseditils. It will core spitting of blood • It will cure so:moms coos► la a few days. It will ere the worn cue of Km-throat la • day. t will sere esterrit th the head I=l It wlll enre ehronle pleerler. Betides most other diseases of the IMP and pulmonary crrans. If any on will nlteit over the matter they will eel tent meet of their di. emu ere o ea lobed by °tot...Unit some of the channels that ci'mlnati mortal matter from the eine to. Dr. ) LTISILW'S LUC/ CURL open. out three Dr. Keyser'. Lane Cum whit= It "MOT.. ObStrlleth..4 it at the same time eves health!. hem 111 , d please= to the blood. . oa th = As =cab ourfseet of the . throat aid Istogs me Is sithal a wholesome and pleasant medlcite to tape. It in used , with gnat OrrMDAY la the ung end decay of ins Dower. of flan syetest. • d it will Impart to all OH 000.0 renewed rigor • d energy. The winter =watts are then which are anal wdediia Wm moot prottleer termite sadoulde, d comumptive Invalids de t Irg the wither am • mtly forewarned to keep Indoor., for the rsa- win that the aoldli apt to predate a teatteasca 1$ U. 'Vann to Inn Mat.) action and natter t 0... dlstsaas