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iFinancial
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO
CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. CO
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
Thle great enterprise Is approaching completion with it
rapidity that astonishes the world. °serif/Veen hundred
(ROO) mites have been built by two (2) powerful com
panies: the Union Pacific Railroad, beginning at Omaha,
building well, and the Central Pacific Railroad, beginning
at Sacramento, and building east, until the two 'reads
shall meet. Less than two hundred and fifty miles remain
to ho built. The greater part of the Interval t now Graded,
and It Is reasonably expected that the Or/inlet connection
between San Prurient. and New York will be completed
by July 1.
An the amount of Government aid given to each is do
poddent upon the length of road each shall build, both
companies are prompted to great efforts to secure the con
struction and control of what, when completed, will be
one and the only grand Railroad Line connecting the
•
Atlantic and Pattie courts.
One Hundred and Ten 311111 on Dollar., ($ 110 . 0,0 , 000 ) io
money have already been expended by the two powerful
companies engaged in thin great enterprise, end they will
speedily complete the portion yet to be built. When the
United States Government found it necessary to secure the
construction of the Pacific Railroad, to develop and pro
tect its own interest, It gave 'the companies authorized to
build It such ample aid as should render its speedy cam•
'platten beyond a doubt. The Government aid may be
briefly summed up as follows:
First. The right of way and nil necoececy, timber and
Mono from public domain.
Second, It makes a donation of 12,500 'acre. of laud to
the mile, which when the road ix completed, will amount
to twenty-three (21,000,000) acre., and all of It with
in twenty (20) mile. of the railroad.
Third. It loan. the companies fifty million dollars (p),
(C 0,000), for which It takes a second lien. -
Thu Government halt already loaned ti, Union Pacific
Railroad twenty-four million and fifty-eight thousand
dollars (VI, 068,000,1 and to the Centratyacific Railroad
seventeen million sin hundred and forty-eight thousand
dollars (417,618,000), amounting in all to forty-one million
seven hundred and Mx thousand dollars (611,7(8,000).
The Companies aro permitted to lasso their own First
Mortgage Bonds to the name amount an they receive from
the United States, and no more. The companies have
sold to permanent Investors about forty million dolfars
(640,0A00) of their First Mortgago Bonds._/(•)u• companies
have already paid In (including net earoings,not divided,
grants from State of California, and Sacramento city and
San Francisco), upwards of 1(0,000,003) twenty-five mil
lion dollars of capital stock.
WHAT IS THERE YET TO BE DONE ?
.10 considering this question it must he remembered that
trail the remaining iron to finish the road Is coutracted for,
and the largest portion paid for and uow delivered on the
lino of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific
Railroad, and that tho grading is almwd finished.
WHAT RESOURCES HAVE THE COM
PANIES TO FINISH THE ROAD ?
First. They will receive from the Government as the
road progresses &bora W. 000,000 additional.
Second. They can Issue their own First Mortgage Bonds
for about $9,000,000 additional.
Thlrd.,The compaulea now hold almost all the land they
havo op to thin. time received from the Government; upon
the completion of the road they will have received to all
72,000,000 acres, which at $1 &a per acre would ho worth
$34,600,C:1.
lu addition to the above the net earnings of the rondo and
additional capital, if necessary, could be called in to an•
iskt the road.
WAY BUSINESS-ACTUAL EARNINGS
• No one has over oxpreened a doubt that as soon as the
road le completed Its through buslnesa will be abundantly
Profitable. •
Oros. earnings . of the Union Pacific Rail
road Company for ♦fm months, ending
January Ist, 1808, were upwards of 61,000,000
The earnings of Central Pacific Railroad,
for nix months, ending January Int, 1808,
ware
Expenses
Interest
$'170,000 gold
14.'4,000 "
Net profit of Central Pacific Railroad, after
paying all littoral and expenaes for
six months trf.o,ooo gold
The present groan earnings of tho Union and Central Pa•
citio Railroads are 41,200,000 monthly.
HOW LARGE A BUSINESS IS IT SAFE TO PREDICT
FOR THE GREAT PACIFIC RAILROAD
Wo would give the following facts derived from Ship
ping Lists, Insurance Companion, Railroads and gonoral
Informatlon: •
Ships going from the Atlantic aronod Cape
Horn. 100
Steamship. connecting at Panama with Cali
feral. and China. 65
Overland Trains, Stage., Horses, etc., etc.
Horn we have two hundred and thirty thousand tons
carried westward, and experience has shown in Oro tact
few years the return passenger. from California havebeert
nearly a. numerous as those going.
HOW MARY PASSENGERS ARE THERE?
We make the following estimate:-
110 Steamships (Loth wage)
IP Wessels
Overhand
70,000 (actual for 160 A.)
4.000 eglimated "
100,000 "
. Present price ( ging half thereat of the steamships)
for both passenger. and tonnage, gives the following re
sult:—
171,000 passenger. at $lOO
1103,e03 tons, rated at gl per euble foot
4 31 . 010 . 0 Xl
814111111 calculations upon the above figures, without al•
towing for the large increase of Minium., which eau sa fel y
be looked for, then estimate the running expense a at one
half and we have a net income of $10,620,000; which, alter
paying the Interest oar the First Mortgageßunds and the ad
vances made by the Government, would leave a net anon.
al Income of 411,000,0X1 over and above all expenses and
Interest.
The First Mortgage Bond. of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company and the First Mortgage Bonds of the Ceetral
Pacific Railroad Company aro both, principal and inter
eat, payable in gold coin; they pay eix per cent. Interest In
gold coin, and.run for thirty year., and they cannot be
paid before that time without the consent of the holder.
First Mortgage (told Bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad
for sole at par and accrued interest, and First Mortgage
()old Bondi; of the Central Pacific Railroad at .103 and ac
crued interest.
DE HAVEN & BRO.,
DEALERS IN GOVNIINMENTSECURISINII, GOLD, ETC
X 70.40 S. TIIERD ST.,
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VOL. XXIII.
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WHAT DOES THE 'FACE"TELt?
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My lady sits :winsome•skly !,•7. :S
What should she know of wrinkling ear
Her brow Is smooth, ue ivory i widtei , • .
And youth and beauty both are.there. ,
A winsome sight and yet, I iyeell,
The artist, as ho draws, may tram
Some grief by men unknown, unseen
In yonder meditative face.
Some secret sorrow, which anon
Wells to the surface silently,
Turns light to gloom, like clouds upon
The depth of some fair sunlit sea.
Bat modern beauties,' lyrics say,
`l3y far too wet:lntro learnt their parts
To yield to love's old-fashioned sway,
And diamonds long have vanquished heatrs
They live so quick, there's little dine
To brood o'er sentimental wrong •
Love's scarce a theme for poet's rhyme ;
Love's torch has been extinguished long.'
Not so ; though fashion, tickle dame,
Through countless various forms mny change
In girlhood's breast the heart's the same, '
And not less wide the passionit range!
And so, methinks, Vitt his task
The artist noting sorrow's shade
On that fair face, dared pause to ask
Why oft so fitfully It played.—
The old, old,tale he still might hear,
The old wfcrbgs yet his heart might move,
Of girlish hope borne down by fear, °
Of lavished disappointed level
MR. FELIX IN STUBBLE.
ONE deception involves a thousand decep
tion's, say the approved text-books of morality.
Those who took the trouble to read the record
of Mr. Felix's adventures in the north will
easily recognize the predicament in which lid
was now placed. Me had acquired the repu
tation of being a tirst-rate shot, and there now
lay before him the option of maintaining that
reputation on some lowland pastures where no
depraved gillie could possibly become his
proxy, or of discovering and confessing the
mendacious trick by which he had sought to
impose upon his friends while on the moors.
Any one acquainted with the weaknesses of
human nature need not be told which course
of action Mr. - Felia . chose, nor that ho deter
mined, with all his energy, to acquire qkill in
shooting during the few days which had to
elapse before the slaughter of partridges com
menced.
Straightway, therefore, the incipient sports
man took to the killing of sparrows, and from
morning till night the crack of his gun resound
ed through the trees which encompass his
house. Several times, as I afterwards learned,
he had nearly added peasant-shooting to the
list of his performances; his gardener, espe
cially, having to work, during this period, ou
what might be called the edge of his grave.
Mr. Felix had begun by aiming at finches and
blackbirds as they sat on the nearest rose
bushes or hopped across the lawn ; but from
that exalting exercise he speedily divulged into
the shooting of flying birds, and here it was
that he hovered on the brink of manslaughter
for several days. Indeed, a butcher's boy,
who had a charge of .No. S shot pass just over
his shoulder, went back to the village and de:
clared that the owner of the Beeches had gone
mad ; that he was roaming through the grounds
in a semi-nude state, and trying hard to kill
whomsoever approached the house. It needed
only one or two repititions of the story to
make the whole village believe that my friend
had tarred and feathered himself in order to
represent a wild Indian, and that he hod al
ready shot two df his servants.
However, by the first of September Mr. Fe-'
lix was so convinced of his expertness that he
had now no more fear of being obliged to tell
the story of his Highland escapade. It was
arranged that in the meantime we should shoot
over a large farm in the neighborhood of the
Beeches, where the birds were known to be
plentifuL Mr. Felix had himself provided the
henaowherewith to hatch, in the meadows
around the house, some five or six dozen eggs
that had been forsaken ; and doubtless his
anticipations of easy shooting were greatly
raised by the tameness of the young birds,
which he was accustomed to take in his hand
and mentally mark as material for the exercise
of his deadly skill.
'Now,' he said, 'as soon as breakfast is over
I'll show you how far my breech-loader will
carry: I suppose the fellows who tell you
they always shoot with breech-loaders at the
beginning of the season mean you to suppose
Hutt they want to give the partridges a chance.
Don't believe 'em. It is only toaxcuse them
sel•es when they miss, for then they always
declare the birds were out of shot. But I'll
show you at what distance my breech-loader
can kill.' '
$1,7.10, EXIO gold
1,CC0.000
Mr. Felix was indeed so excited that he ven
tured to accept a cigar—always a hazardous
experiment for him. When we at length
started to meet the keeper, my friend had
loaded his gun, for .what purpoSo was not quite
apparent ; but as we arrived at the corner of
the carriage-drive he peremptorily bade mo
stop.
There's always a blackbird on that birch
type nt the end of the avenue: and when you
make any noise he flies across and gives you a
capital shot.'
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' How often have you tried ?'
' Hush I'
He crept forward a few paces, until he was
about twenty yards from the birch-tree.
You will be sure to kill somebody if you
fire through the hedge,' I said.
• ' At that moment Mr. Felix's favorite black
bird, with a loud whirr and cackle, dipped
down from the tree and flew across the avenue.
Bang ! went the right barrel, and immediately
afterwards my friend uttered a most unneces
sary ejaculation. '
But,' he said, after a moment's hesitation,
and not without a guilty look, I think I
knocked a feather out of his tall.'
$17.400,000
us, OW, OW
It was quite unnecessary to point out to him
that the blackbird was out Of Sight before he
fired, for . he' knew it. But Mr. Felix, deter
mined that he should at once show his own
dexterity and the power of his breech-loader,
was not to be baffled by the unconscionable
swiftness of a blackbird ; and the next moment
I saw him level his, gun at a robin that bad
hopped on to the top of the hedge which di
vided the carriage -drive , from the meadow
wherein some people were working.
Why, it's a robin,' I said.
'No, it isn't,' ho replied, as he screwed
down his right eye to the barrel.
Presently there was a loud report ; the un
fortunate bird tumbled down through the
bush, and the next thing we saw was the ap
parition of an old woman 'who had followed
the explosion with a loud shriek.
Oh I master, you've killed me, you've kill
ed me, indeed you've killed me I You've
slMt me through and through ; and the poor
children as hasn't a bit o' bread to put in !heir
mouths---' •
'My good woman,' said Felix, what aro
you talking about ?' .
She came forward, with her lean, brown arm
laid bare, and sure enough there was blood,
trickling down from a scratch which a event
pellet had inflicted. Felix could not ). quite
conceal his dismay, but ho affected an air of
sublime contempt.
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ALLENTOWN, PA
'Faugh ! What are you making a noise
about I' It's only a scratch, and here's live
shillings for you."
' Five shillings Oh !,you monster !"
Such was the exclamation we heard as we
moved on ; for the old woman, calculated on
the wound producing her a magnificent sum,
-was simply struck speechless by the offer of
ihiff insignificant salve. It was not until we
were almost out of hearing that she recovered
the use of her voice, and then her indignation
and sarcasm had rather lost their point.
We had not long made the acquaintance of
the keeper when Mr. Felix's brace of pointers
were at work, and my friend had both barrels
on full cock. I saw that his hand trembled,
and that there was a spasmodic action in the
front of his throat similar to that which seems
to trouble all gentleinen while making an
after-dinner speech. He affected to be particu
larly interested in the working of the dogs, and
yet there was a singular incoherence in his
remarks
Suddenly the pointer next Mr. Felix became
motionless as though struck with a paralytic
shock. Her whole frame trembled with ex
citement, and their was an involuntary crouch
ing about the shoulders, a stretching of the
neck and stiffening of the tall, which told its
own story. Felix moved forward, his retrie
ver at his heels. As he cautiously advanced
a terrific whirr of wings arose immediately In
front of him ; my friend threw his had up and
fairly dropped his gun with fright.
All right, sir,' said the keeper, coolly, as
Mr. Felix, with a crimson face, stooped down
to pick up his breech-loader. I've marked
'em. They're down near the river there ; and
we'd better follow them before going across
the meadow.'
But the rosy flush had left Mr. Felix's face:
Ile was now deadly pale. •
I'm afraid,' he said to me, in a mournful
that your cigar has not agreed with
me. Pray go on yourself, and I will rest m
this still for a little time.'
Shall I go back for some brandy; sir?' said
the keeper, mildly compassionate.
' No,' replied Felix, with %slight shudder.
Leave me here : I shall be well presently,'
He must be a very near friend Indeed whose
illness you remember when the first of Septem
ber opens with decent weather, plenty of birds,
and dogs that know their business. Mr. Felix
was very soon quite forgotten ; and the first
thing that recalled him to our recollection was
the sudden discharge of two barrels near the
spot where we had left him. The keeper was
looking in that direction'at the moment, and
saw the smoke slowly rise into the air,
I hope Mr. Felix isn't hurt,' he said.
Why ?`
' There were no birds on the wing when he
fired ; and perhaps some accident lois set his
gun oir-4eastways we'd better look: hadn't
we, sir ?'
IVhen we returned to the spot where we had
left Mr. Felix sitting, we found the sick man
not only well but in the hest spirits.
Here,' said he with a triumphant smile,
look at these !'
There could be no doubt about it : what lu
hold up were three partridges, in prime min
dition.
Where did you put 'em up, sir r inquired
the keeper.
'Here.'
, Here I"
Why,' said Mr. Felix, reddening again,
4 do you think I shot them on the ground ?`
Oh no, sir ; only I axed the question. But
they're tine birds, sir: and are you well
enough to go with us now I"
' Yes, I'm better,' said Felix, delivering up
the birds to the bag in a quite picturesque and
imposing manner.
Thereafter we began to beat up a long field
of turnips ; and Mr. Felix Htrodo out as man
fully as the graceftil rotundity of his person
permitted.
I don't think it bad,' said he, to knock
over three birds with two charges. You know
I'm not a crack shot ; and really I don't think
it bad.'
'Nor I either,' I replied. But do you
know, Mr. Felix, that Smith declares there
were no birds whatever on the wing when
you shot ?'
'•I'll tell you what it Is,' said Felix, hotly,
Smith is an impudent vagabond, who would
be a poacher but that he gets well paid for be
ing a keeper; and I assure you; he is cele
brated for being the biggest liar in Kent, and
that's saying a good deal. No birds up ?
Why, the man must either be blind or a rav
ing 'maniac. I think the disgusting imperti
nency, of fellows like him all arses from this
Reform Bill ; and I am amazed that a lot of
gentlemen and landowners should give aver
the governmeit of the country to cads and
poachers. Conservatives? Bah ! I'll tell
you what—this man is not my master yet ; and
I'll soon let him find out what his situation is
worth Who does not become a great deal more
respectful •
There is always something wrong with a
man's digestion or his temper (though these
may be considered to be synonymous terms)
when he begins to talk politics on the first of
September; and until this day I am of opinion
that had there not been some grounds for
Smith's insinuation, Mr. Felix would not have
been so angry when it was hinted that he had
butchered three sitting partridges. However,
there was no need to raise aphinnecessary dis
turbance bylnsisting on the bonviction of tile
murdererfMr Mr. Felix, as he himself ad
mitted, was not a ' crack shot,' and the con
sciousness that we believed in his prowess
might have nerved him for honester efforts. .
Now on the very edge of this field of turnips
which we had just entered lay a covey of
birds, apparently but a few yards in front of
Mr. Felix. With the tread of a cat he went
forward, until he must have been able to see
the partridges as they sat together among the
deep green leaves. They were not over
twelve yards from him when they rose, and
the sudden flutter of wings was certainly suf
ficient to startle one not much accustomed to
the sound. Up went the gun, Mr Felix
clenched his teeth, and the next moment both
barrels were sent after the birds. Not ono fell.
For a moment Felix looked after the covey
in mute and undisguised astonishment, follow
ing their low, straight flight as if lie expected
every moment tosee one of them drop. Then
he turned and walked over to me.
'l've made a mistake,' he said.
, Hon*?'
' I fancied thia gun would carry as well as
my muzzle-loader ; indeed my gunmaker war
ranted it to shoot as hard and 'close as a Joe
3lanton. Now I find it will not kill at forty
yards.' •
When did you try it ?' •
' Just, now, at the covey that rose down
my way.'
The birds were about a dozen yards from
ycu Ivlfen they rose, and about twenty when
you fired.'
Mr. Felix paused for a nibment, apparently
uncertain whether to become angry or treat.
, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1869,
the whole affair w) licontempt
' That's your fat,' he said, with a sneer, as
he walked off, ' and it's a pity you can't find
another sort ofjolit.'
There were ple4tY of birds in the turnips,
and there fell to ;he lot of Mr. Felix a suffi
cient number of Buse easy shots which even
a farmer's boy would be ashamed to take.—
Felix; neverthclets, invariably fired the
moment the birds .)se from the ground ; and
as invariably misssl. By the time we were
at the end of therurnips, he had not added
ono to
i
he bag.
He/ t down ups a stile, and put hie gun,
in a Memplative 'tilted° across his knees.
' After all,' he aid, ' doesn't it seem an
ignominious thing hr a man to be going after
these poor birds, nosed with Millie appliances
which science can hvent, and shooting them
down right and let. Why;—it's downright
slaughter : they hays not a chance.'
'Oh yes, they har,' I hinted. .
I mean, sooner a later they are sure to be
ii )
shot,' rep 'ed Felli. with a slight blush.—
' Now Ith k thero is something noble arid
fincin Lein able tcilhoot a seagull flying with'
an arrow. That is triumph of personal skill ;
whereas ere, it's yme gunmaker, or the size
of shot you use, or yaw dogs that do it all.—
I confess I don't se. the fun of this kind of
thing.'
My philosophic conpanion having for some
minutes drummed onthe stile with his heels,
proceeded to try the contents of his pocket
flask ; after which hebegan to bestir himself
froM his reverie.
' Now,' lie said, ' I'itive a proposal to make.
I don't think much of the working of these
pointers. Will you take them, and I shall go
off through this stulble up here with the
retriever only? I Ike the idea of stalking
game, because it males you independent of
dogs and adds to one'i excitement.'
Without waiting fora reply, Mr. Felix rose
and went, and I saiv him no more for about
an hour. But during hat time we heard him
firing briskly, and knee by the sound of his
gun, that he was'roarong about in every pos
sible direction, but alWtys far away from us.
The number of cartridges be expended in that
hour must have cost a fortune, and I was very
anxious to see the remit. At last we came
upon him, seated one bank, With a pocket
flask in his hand.
You have had plenty of shooting,' I sug
gested.
' Oh, yes,' said Folk, cheerfully, and
save something to shod- for it. Look there!'
He pointed to the long grass by his side ; but
his impatience to show us what he had killed
caused him to lay down Its Socket -flask and fish
out the game himself. nip gentle reader will
probably disbelieve me Irlien I say that there
was actually a smile of triibiph on his face as
he held up—a jay, a rabbl, and two house
pigeons.
' That is all you have shpt. to-day
MEM
Alas ! for the unhappy keeper. Ile burst
out into nn uncontrollable. {nigger oflaughter,
and in vain tried to counal his misdeed by
turning away his head. lie face of Mr. Felix
at thin moment was awful t behold. I believe
he would have given the of his fortune to
be allowed to ~t.oot this 3,im : cue anger re
vealed by his eyes was terrible.
Don't you think it a fair morning's work ?'
he said, with a forced smile, and with a tre
mendous effort to look as though he had. not
heard the keeper.
' 'Well, you know, Mr. Felix, you went out
part ridge•shooting.'
' But If I get a decent suit at things that are
much more difficult to kit—much more diffl
cult to kill—than partridtes, why should I not
take it ? Now look at UM rabbit. You know
how hard it is to shoot :nbbit when he's at
full speed; and I say that a dead rabbit is
worth a dead partridge alp day,'
All the time he spoke , his eyes were fixed
upon the recusant game.keeper, who now,
fearful of drawing down vengeance upon him
self, moved off under the pretence of taking
the retriever to get sonic. water. Felix fol
lowed him with that unholy look ; and pres
ently said,
' If you think it worth Arline to go over this
ground again to-morrot, instead of going at
once into Herts, I promhe you wo shall not
be troubled by this man's esuberant fun.'
' But he is the only keepte.'
' Then Mr. Summers tunic get another.'
Who will know nothing about the country.'
I tell you,' said Felix, savagely, 'that I
will not shoot another day h the company of
such a low-bred wretch—l yin not do it. I'll
go into Herbs, if you like, it anywhere else
you please ; but I come hen to-morrow only
on condition that this man is discharged to
day. Why, he has not ever offered to put the
game I've shot into the bag '
He will do so presently' I hinted ; 'and
don't you think that you yourself will be the
the only sufferer by refusingto shoot any more
here ?"
' That's all you know,' sill lie, with a hor
rible expression of malac6. We get • our
poultry from Summers, am' the moment he
becomes disobliging, not on• blessed chicken
shall enter the house.' •
After this terrible threat Mr. Felix would
speak no more, and even rehse to hear some
plea of defective education on behalf of the
poor keeper. He shouldenn his gun, called,
on the retriever to follow hin, and soon disap
peared on another of those nysterious excur- .
5i01123 which he seemed to lcve. -
Before long we again heaXl him tiring indis
criminately into space, and h) sooner was this
signal heard than the keep came up to me
and said—
"Pardon, sir, but was'Mt Felix a talking
of me when he said as how le'd ask Mr. Sum
mers to sack me ?' •
'Well, he was,' I said. You know you
displeased him by laughing; vlien lie spoko of
what he had shot.'
' But who could help sir?' asked.
the man, plaintively. !the' if Mr. Felix tries
to make trouble atween me 'lnd Mr. Summers,
I hope as you'll tell hiin, sir!, all about it, and
how it happened. If Mr. Simmers was herb
hlsself, he'd say as ho neveisee sich a sports.
man go out shooßn on the fbeit o' September.'
When we next stumbled tpon Mr. Felix, he
advanced with an easy consciousness - which
was evidently meant to coni!al his pride. He
came rapidly forward to ut holding out at
arm's length a singular-looking object which
looked more like a tattered marecrow than a
bird. .
' I've got him this time,' said he
'What is it r
`Don't you see ? A partridge l'
Sure enough he held in his Lander' partridge,
or rather the remains of a partridge, for the
unfortunate bird: had had 'ale head nearly
blown off, while the body vas fairly riddled
with shot.
'I didn't miss Aim, at all events,' said
regarding the mass of ragged and clotted
feathers ; 'doesn't he look as if he had been
speedily put out of pain ?'
' He looks as if he had been tied to the Dup.-
zle of your gun before you shot.'
Mr. Felix replied_with an uneasy laugh ;
and, having handed the bird to the keeper,
passed on with us. Not twenty yards from
where lie had met us, one of the pointers was
again struck motionless by a scent. Mr. Felix,
forgetting his contempt for partridge-shooting,
pressed cautiously forward; and as a covey of
fine birth! rose about fourteen yards ahead, he
fired both barrels right into the thick of them.
One bird fell! •
011, who shall paint the rapture that now
overspread Felix's face, and battled there with
the modest simper by which he strove to hide
his glowing satisfaction I He !make quite
kindly to the keeper, and reassured the poor
man's mind. Ile took the bird from the re
triever's mouth and regarded it with profound
wonder anil admiration ; he plucked one of its
feathers and put it in his cap ; he smoothed
down its wings and said t Poor bird' and tried
to look mournful. What struck me as being
rather peculiar was the fact that the capture of
his previous prize had not in the least affected
him in the same way.
The day's work was now about over, and
we prepared to return-for dinner. On the way
Mr. Felix had two shots, and missed. them
both ; but such a small mishap could not lessen
the self-glorification revealed by his voice and
manner. As we walked through the meadow
outside the lawn, and drew near to the house,
Mr. Felix declared that he saw a rook on the
gravel before the window, and in a jocular
way said lie would soon cure him of his impu
dence. The , bird Hopped from the path on to
the lawn, and Mr. Felix, creeping up almost
on hands and feet, soon found himself at the
railings surrounding the garden in front of the
house. I saw him rest his gun on one of the .
Smooth iron bars, and before any one could
tell him that he was pointing straigtt under
neath the window, he had tired. Tien there
was a crash i—of broken and splintero panes ;
for some of the shot had glanced 'from the
gravel and smashed the window of the draw
ing-room.
Before Mr. Felix could recover from his
surprise and dismay, a femalc figure appeared
at the door, and from the top of the steps sur
veyckus,three in awful silence. It was Mrs.
Felix, whose naturally roseate face was now
further inflamed by anger. A slight amount
of reasoning soon told her that the man from
the btirrel of whose gun smoke still ascended
was the culprit ; and indeed I was sorry for
the guilty wretch who had now to confront
this terrible creature.
This is partridge.shooting,' she said, with
a cold sarcasm which rather belied the fury of
her eyes ; 'to go and kill a poor jackdaw.. in
front of a house, and to tire through a room
in which three children are playing. This is
partride-shooting, in it, Mr. Felix ?'
My dear-' said Mr. Felix ; but he was
interrupted by a shrill .scream from his little
girl, who, running down the steps, had come
upon the mangled carcass of her pet jackdaw.
Oh ! mamma, look at Jackie,! He hasn't
got any head but a bit of his bill, and he's all
over blood. Who was it did it ?'
wn. your' paint, my glrl, who took a jack
daw for a partridge, and broke the windoW and
mantelpierr ornannnit, and nearly - killed
three of his own children !'
Another of Mr. Felix's children same run
ning out—a small hoy of nine or ten years of
age.
Papa, what did you do with the dead par
tridge that Harry was going to bury in the
meadow behind the summer-house Harry
found it this morning, and came back for a
spade ; and then he said lie saw you lift it and
carry it away.'
'1 dare say you'll tlnd it among the other
jackdaws that your papa has shof,' remarked
Mrs. Felix, cruelly. A dead partridge is n
very easy thing to shoot.'
' Mrs. Felix 1' said the irate husband, with a
face purple with rage and shame.
But Mrs. Felix turned contemptuously away
from him, and marched with the gait of a queen
along the hall and into the drawing•rootn.—
As for Felix, he looked as if he wished the
earth would cover hint ; and his embarrass
ment was not the less painful and palpable on
account of the ghastly smile with which he
spoke of 'the ridiculous things it-woman al
ways says when she is in a temper, especially
if her stock of brains be nothing to speak of.'
W. B.
SHOWMAN ELOQUENCE.—The following is
the latest pit , ce of showman eloquence : " Gen
tlemen—This is the celebrated boa constrictor ;
the finest, largest, longest, strongest, and pret
tiest animal of its species on exhibition in this
country. Me was caught in South Africa (as
he lay torpid after swallowing two oxen and
a drove of sheep) In a wire net, his capture
affording a beautiful illustration of successful
wire pulling. It was supposed that the sand
where he was found was hot enough to boil
eggs, and that his skin was at least well
done' there is proved by its highly finished ap
pearance. His color is supposed to combine
all the hues of all the snakes that ever hissed
or bit from the old serpent' to a conger eel.
His size is variable, as like most other objects
in miture, he expands with heat and contracts
with cold. For every rise of five degrees in
the thermometer, he gets a foot of longitude.
In his native sands he's a hundred- and fifty
feet long. The warm season of our own
country stretches him twenty-five feet. Last
January, when the thermometer fell to sixteen
degrees, he sank into such trifling dimensions
as to be invisible through n microscope. His
present length you can see for yourself. His
temperance principles are of the Gough-ist
kind. He is a dozen cold water societies roll
ed into one. His drink at his present dimen
sions is three gallons of water per week, his
food, three more gallons. I d le has a great nat
ural talent for politics, wholi he shows by
changing his coat four times a year. Price of
admission twenty-five cents." .
DRIED POTATOES
We bade had dried apples, and dried peaches
and dried fruits of various kinds, for a long
time in the market. But we have never lieard
of drying potatoes until now.
A Mr. Francis H. Smith, of Baltimore: has
been experimenting on potatoes, sweet and ,
Irish, with reference to preserving them fresh
and nice for an Indeflnite•time. The potato
has hitherto been good only foialimited time,
a few Months at the longest ; and the sweet
potato after a few days or weeks oven loses
BORIC of its best qualities. Mr. Smith has suc
ceeded in preserving the potato simply by dry
ing it, so that a dish of the best quality can be
had at any period of the year, as. ,fresh and
dry and sweet as though newly dug. So he
says, and so the editor of this Scientific Anier
loan seems to think ho has done. If he can
introduce his plan of curing and drying the
sweet potato into the South, he thinks he will
have furnished the planters with more than a
compensation for the loss of the cotton trail°.
I
DOES IT PAY TO RAISE TUR
KEYS?
Good turkeys have sold at wholesale, this
fall and winter, for twenty-five cents a pound.
This is what the farmers have received. The
merchant, or middle-man, has added about.
five cents more, so that the consumers in most
of the cities east of the Hudson have paid thir
ty cents a pound for their Thanksgiving and
Christmas birds. How much n4t profit do
these figures give to the man that raises them.
Suppose we start with ten turkeys on Janu
ary let, 1809. . They are worth two dollars and
a half each—twenty-five dollars for the whole.
To winter them it will require three qintrts of
corn each day. Eight and one half bushels
will bring them to April Ist iihen they will
begin to lay. They require little grain after
this time, until about the middle or 20th of
May, when, if you have had good luck, you
will have at„ least one hundred young turkeys.
Now the trouble begins. They are to be
housed each night, kept in till nine o'clock, or
ten, each day, and if wet or cold, to be kept
in all the time. They are to be watched and
waited upon ; fed a little and often ; and when,
a month biter, a cloud is coming up, giving
promise of a shower, they *are always to be
driven under some contiguous shelter.
All this, till about July Ist, when trick will
be large enough to mainly take care of them
selves. During fhis first month and a balf, or
two months, it will cost about ten dollars for
grain. Aller this, until October Ist, they need
not be fed at all, especially if they have the
ordinary range of our country farms.
With the beginning of autumn, they should
have an average, for say fifty days, of one
bushel and a half each (lay of corn, and on
November 20th, or a few days later, as the
case may be, they should be killed for Thanks
giving.
To dress and carry them to market will cost
about ten dollars, and if they were well fat
tened they will average at least ten pounds
each, or one thousand pounds in all.
Let us now bring these items of expense to
gether, and balance our account :
•
Ten Turkeys to start with $25.00
Food to April Ist, 834 bush. at $1.25 10.75
" middle of May to July let 10.00
Oct. 1 to N0v.20, 75 bush. at $1.25... 93.75
Cost of dressing and marketiog 10.00
Ily ten old Tnrkeya $25.00
" 1000 lb s., sold at 95 cents 250.00
IMINMEI
N( t profit
Of course you arc not sure of your one hun
dred turkeys at the outset, but you are, per
haps, as likely to have more as less. If they
do well, they will average eleven pounds each,
instead of ten, and your grain will not cost
you any more than the price named above—
probably a few dollars less. .
These things are to be always considered in
entering tipon this business. Turkeys are
ready for market. early. They always bring
the . cash. Thers-lictlettdr enough to supply
the demand, especially in our New-England
Thirty years ago the rich made their Thanks
giving and Christmas dinners of our national
bird, while the poor were obliged to content
themselvek with a pair of chickens or a mod
est roast. Now every manomst have his
turkey, and he will have it, and should have
it, and for years to come the price cannot be
much less than it has been during the past
five—an average of at least twenty-five cents
a pound.
We advise our country frienda to embark in
this business. The original investment is
small ; it makes pleasimt work for the children
to feed and care for the young ones, and you
are sure of good pay for your trouble, as well
as for the grain which the rearing and fatten
ing will require.—.lkarth and Home.
HOUSEHOLD RECIPES
ONE EGG CAKE.—One teacupful sugar, one
egg. one tablespoonful melted butter, one-half
teacupful sweet milk, one teaspoonful of cream
tartar, one-half teaspoonful of soda, and a lit
tle more than one cupful of Hour.
COFFEE Crux.—One cup of butter, one of
sour cream, one' of coffee, five eggs, one cup
of currants, one of stoned raisins, one tea
spoonful cinnamon, one of allspice, one nut
meg, one teaspoonful soda ; add flour to Mix
hard and bake slowly.
UNION CAKE.—One cup of butter, two cups
of powdered loaf sugar, one cup of sweet milk,.
three cups of sifted Hour, one-half cup of corn
starch, one-half teaspoonful of soda, one tea
spoonful of cream tartar, two teaspoonfuls of
lemon extract, and four eggs.
ItAn. livoDCAKE.—One cup of white sugar,
one cup of sifted flour, three beaten eggs, two
tablespoonfuls of milk, one teaspoonful of
cream tarter, one-half teaspoonful of lemon ex
tract, and a piece of butter the size of an egg.
GUARANI BREAKFAST CAKE.-00C pent of
sour milk, one half cup of cream, one table
spoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of soda, and
fresh-ground wheat meal enough to nmke a
batter a little stiffer than for griddle cakes ;
bake in shallow tins or 'cast-iron baking pans
in a hot oven.
LOVE CARES.—To one-half pound of white
sugar and three eggs, and as much flour as
will make u stiff paste ; flavor with extract bf
lemon. 11011 about baleen inch thick, cut In
small cakes the size of the top of a wine glass,
strew sugar and flour on the baking tin, and
bake the cakes on it ten or twelve minutes In
a quick oven. When cold, ice the tow with
plain white fro Sting ; dry and finish by put
ting a bit of Jelly the size of a nutmeg In the
center of each ; finish the edge with ornamem
tnl frosting. LUCY.
CfloccmATE ennimm.s.—One cup molasseS,
one cup sugar, one egg, one cake sweetchoc
olate, one-half oup boiled milk, butter size of
an egg. Let the whole boil twenty minutes.
Then pour into buttered pans to cool.
MARBLE CAKE.—One and one-half cups of
butter, .one and one-half cups of white su
gar, one cup of sweet milk, two and one-half
cups of (lour, the whites of four eggs,—one cup
of brown sugar, one cup molasses, one-half
cup sour milk, two cups 'flour, yolks of four
eggs, spico to the' taste. Bake one hour.
To RE3IOVE TIIE TASTE OF NEW WOOD.-
A new keg, churn bucket, or other wooden
vessel, will generally communicate a disagree
able taste to anything that is put into it. To
prevent this inconvenience, first scald the ves
sel well with boiling water, letting the water
remairrin it till cold; then dissolve some pearl
ash or soda in luke warm water, adding a lit
tle lime to it, and wash the inside of the vessel
well with the solution. Afterwards scald it
well,with plain hot water, and rinse it with
cold water before you use It. .
WILLS & IREDEurs
Vain and Pimp_ 3ab thintero,
N 0.47 EAST HAMILTON STREET, •
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NO. '7
SHALLOW . PLOUGHING, AND
THE N. Y. FARMERS' CLUB.
rnottuEssnio BACKWARDS
THE above Club have recently held what
may be called a sensational meeting. The
shallow system of plougfllng, which has re
duced the acreable production of all our lead
ing cropS and impoverished the lands of many
of the Atlantic States, has produced an open
advocate, and a long and elaborate essay in
its favor, by one of the members of the Club.
A visit to Salem county, N. J., by a com
mittee of which the author of the aforesaid
essay was chairman, seems to have afforded
the basis of an argument for recommending
shallow ploughing every tehcre,^ and under
all circumstances. It is not, however, denied
that in SalCin Co., New Jersey, which the
committee visited and found 00, 70 and 80
bushels of corn per acre on land ploughed
three to five inches deep, there is a sandy and
open subsoil within that distance of the sur
face. Here it seems to us is the whole ques
tion at issue, showing that there and under
similar circumstances elsewhere, deep plough
ing may not be necessary.
How is it here and through this section ?
At the same distance below the surface is a
compact and often impervious clay, through
which the rain does not flow. In a very wet
season water collects and stagnates at this Opth,
causing an excessive and injurious supply at
the roots of plants. In a period, which not
unfrequently occurs, of rain not falling but
pouring down in quantities to cause a sudden
rise in small streams, and bridges th be carried
away, within a space of a few hours, we have
seen what appeared in our rolling country to
be the whole surface soil of a field washed away
and carried off. Such a result must 'fallow,
because it is a physical impossibility for a shal
low ploughed field to absorb and hold so much
surplus water. In a level country, like Salem
county, N. J., this water would readily pass
down, without flooding the surface.
Then, again, in a very dry season, In Salem
county, N. J., plants can push their roots
down in search of moisture, which will also be
drawn up by capillary attraction through the
porous, open subsoil. It is directly the reverse
here, and our crops are burnt up. •
A farmer residing near our residence, told
us that some years ago, in the spring of the
year, for experiment he bad his men to dig
down a few rods square in his corn-field, three
feet deep. The season proved one of those
when a drouth occurred, and in the middle of
summer the standing corn in fields was not
only as brown as but was really only corn
fodder. Our neighbor, whose house was near
the road, was greatly annoyed by persons con
tinually calling him out, to ask the meaning
of a perfectly green and growing patch of corn
in a field otherwise burnt up. The corn on
these few rods square continued growing, not
withstanding the drouth, and had a full crop.
'low will the learned author of the above essay
Explain a case like this?
$149.50
$275.00
149.50
EMEEI
That there•is also sonw strength and virtue
in our subsoils hereaway. Roma imargrtnie plant
food, or inert, insoluble compounds, which
brought to the surface are elaborated by chem
ical action of the elements into fertilizing ma
terial, is proven also by the earth from cellars,
or from the bottom even of a well, enriching
the soil when spread over it. We have seen
very rank white clover in such places where
none grew before. We have no space at this
time for further• comment, but have seldom
seen, as in this essay, so illogical a case of
special pleading and conclusions arrived at,
based On a single fact, observable in a single
county in a single State, and thousands of
facts in other places and under others circumt
stances, entirely ignored, which would lead to
conclusions directly opposite.
As the proceedings of the New York Farm
ers' club are widely circulated, 'and have con
siderabk influence, it is to be presumed the
errors of this essay will btexamined and re
futed by Patrick Quinn, or ether of its mem
bers who have made their farina what they
areby deep ploughing, trenching and subsoil
ing. PASCHALL MORRIS.
HISTORY OF BOSTON
Boston, in the State of MassachUsetts, is a
city of no mean pretensions. In age it ante
dates the Pyramids.
When first discovered by the Ten Tribes,
in UM B. C., it bore the marks of extreme
antiquity. , •
Faneuil Gall is supposed to have been the
original Solomon's Temple, and Boston Com
mon is known to be the Garden of Eden with
modern improvements. The Tree orLife has.
been removed to make room for the magnifi
cent Old Elm, and the Four Rivers arc repre
sented by the beautiful fountain which squirts
continually.
Boston was named in honor of a certain
cracker, which was there mado in great per
fection by the pre-Adamito inhabitants. And
it retains the namc—and tho cracker—to this
day.
A. certain of its poets, whose nom deplume
is Holmes, has called Boston the Hub of the
Universe. Being the hub, and also a place
*ere the risible muscles arc never used, it
may fitly be termed the centre of gravity.
No one laughs in Boston, and whoever
would smile must go into a bar-room to do it.
The streets in Boston are unlike the ono .
In Damascus which was called Straight.—
When laid out, far back in the carboniferous
period, the Street Commissioner did not heed
the injunction of the "Great Expounder :"
"Ye solid men of Bostcin, drink no strong
&tuitions." And so the lanes and avenues of
ilk town stagger about after the similitude of
a ram's horn.
The principal hotel was formerly kept by
Theodore Parker, and is still called the Parker
House. It Is kept on the European plan;
which is, to charge so much for a room that
you have no money left to Invest in a break-
fast.
Boston Includes the towns of Cambridge,
Jamaica Plains, Roxbury, Framingham,
Worcester, Salem, and indeed all Massachu
setts.
—A 13Arton's WIFE at Portpatrick had Just
received intelligence that her husband had
perished•at sea. She was visited by a neigh
bor, who sympathized with her in her loss,
and expressed a fear that she would be poorly
off "'Deed I will," said the widow; "but
be did all ho could for me—he's saved me the
expense of his buryin'."
—Week doses of washboard aro now'recom-
Mended to ladies who complain of dyspepsia.'
Young men troubled in that way may be cured
by ts strong preparation of wood saw.
--,What is . the difference between a surgeon
and a wizard P—The ono Is a dapper, and the
other Is a sorcerer.
Why is America like the act of reflec
tion ?—Bccause it is a roomy-nation.