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8.03 1'2.03 0(00 31.00
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JYhtancial.
UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD CO.
CENTRAL PACIFIC R. R. CO
FIRST MORTGAGE'BONDS
This great euterpriso is approaching completion with a
rapidity that astonishes the world. 0 vorAfteera hundred
(1200)miles have been built by two (2) powerfnl coin
panics: the Union Pacific Railroad, beginning at Omaha,
building wont, and the Central Pacific Railroad, beginning
at &nutmeat°, and building cart,• until the two roads
shall tnect. Less than two hundred and fifty miles remain
to ho built. The greater part of the interval is now eluded,
and it Is reasonably expected that the through connection •
between SanFrancis'. and Now Toro.-will, lit Mlottletrdle
by July 1.
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pendent upon the length of mid curb ' , boll build, t o
compnnles are prompted to fj,:lt effort, to ,t•vo riol
titructlon awl control of w hint, %Own compb.b.(l, will be
one and t 1 only grand Railroad L(,, conn,eli.g (lr
.altlantic and Pacific coast,
One Iluntlred nud 'fon Million Dollen , (t 110, 0 ,00 " ,) in
money have already been expended by lii two pow.•rfu 1
companion on irnp , d In (ilk grout I'llt..rurke, and they uiil
teperdlly complete the peril,. yet he to built. Whim Ili
Vatted Sotto. flovertmotta fttutttl it Itt•ce.,:try to t•ot.ttot•
conu4tructlnn of tho Pnciflc ltnllnnol, to I.•eclni ninl to
tect Its own iliterevt, It gave the d
build It such ample aid as
pletiou Inormal a doubt.. Tim Govvrament :MI may I
briefly summed up a, ,
First. The right or 10:17 iwd all tholihr and
stunt , front public I: cis.
Second, It tnakt , a 111.11:Iti ,, 11 of I'4,Shn acres of land, to
tho NV/Ikb When the rood l . lollllll4llo`ll,
to twenty-time...l;lllton Gti,nao.mnanr., and all o il, w ith.
In tlrtntly (N) Intl, of the rt. nroad.
Third. It loan.. thr conipanloo fifty million dollars (11.10,
00(1,11,10), for which it oh;a ' , mind lien.
The Government hav already loaned the Talon Pad to
Railroad twiinty-four million and fifty-eight thon•anil
dollars (f2t,tviS,4lo,l and to the Central Pacific Railroad
seventeen million mix hundred and forty-eight thousand
dollars (317,619,0ird), oinotyaing in ill to fortyoine mill ton
coven hundred and Mx thou+and dollars (1,11,706,0 A).
The Companle: are permitted le Issue their own First
Mortgage Bondi , to the )intite amount its they receive friito
the United States, and no more. The companies lion'
sold to permanent Investors ebony forty million dollars
(b10,0ooto) of their First liirit i vitre The'compatiii,
have already mild In (incindiPg net earnings not divided,
grants from State of California, and Sacramento city and
San Francisco), upwards of (#2.'1,(*0,1X10) twenty-five mil
lion dollars of capital stock.
WHAT IS THERE IET TO BE DONE ?
In considering this question It must l/e remembered Eliot
all tho remaining Iron to finish the road Is contracted for,
and the largest portion paid for and now delivered oo the
Rao of tho Union liitaitic Railroad and tho Central Pacific
Railroad, and that the grading.ix almost
WHAT RESOURCES HAVE . THE COM
PANIES TO FINISH TILE ROAD?
Pint. They will receive (rein the (lerernment as the
rend pregrensea aliontlACCO,Octindilitinual.
Socond. They can Insuo their own nr„t Mort gage Bonds
for about 10,000,00 additional
Third. The companler uorr hold nhnort nil the bind they
have up to this thee received from the Governmeut t . upon
the aompletion of the road they will have I . I•CTIV ell In all
21,1170,000 acres, which at IQ 50 tutr acre would be worth
34,CaX), COO.
n• In addition to the aborc liar net carningn of tho cowls :Ind
additional capital, It necennary, could ho sailed In to fin-
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WAY BUSINESS-ACTUAL EARNINGS
No ono has over expressed a doubt That RS soon tv,i he
road to completed it, through 1,1141110.8 poll hollbllll4l/11IllY
@ME!
Gross earnings of the Union Pacific Cali- .
road Company for 81. r months, ending
January Ist, ISdi, were upwards, of $.1,000,0N3
The canting,. of Central Pa eilic'dialironii,
(or six months, nailing January lot, 1.91 - 0,
wero
Esomuxea
Interest
.r 1( Vold
4 1,04 1 "
Net profit of Central Pacific Railroad, after .
raying all lateral and extant., for •
six metal. $7.10, (Ve 14.11,1
The present groan earnings fit the rebel and Crutl 1•a
-elAa-IIulknude are 51,..)11,003 monthly.
HOW LAIBIE A BUSINESS IS IT SAFE TI) PBEDICT
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We Would gird lie follow ing foots 11,1% . frion p
ping LIMA. luquninct• an4l gyn,ral
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Ships going from the atlantic around Cal',
Horn, ICU •
Steamships connecting at Pannnut with Call
fonds ;old Chinn, fi
• Overland Trains, Stages, Hones, etc, etc.
Hero wo hove two hundred and thirty 'loot 'mot c.
carried weotwartl : ntol exporlttitco loot shown in the Lott
(ow yeara the return pa:No:Igo!, from ! me , beet
nearly nx num.un as thoPo toolog
11 710 W MANY I'ASSENOCRB' ARE THERF:t
Wu make the following eethuate,-
110 Steamships (both waye)
3.10 Vesaela
Overland
Present price (averaging half the cud of the Ntenzonhip.
.fur both jinnsongers nin.l • tonnage, gl leg tile following go
Inn
17.1,cal pfl,BoOgota at stoo
WO, OW tons, rated at per cubic foot
Dulug calculationa upou the photo Bgtreß, without al
lowing fur the large Ineremeof busineAß, whirl: cm:Fr:rely
bo looked fur, then esllulate the. running expanse s at ono
half and welave a net laconic of eiIC,SA OW; whirll, :trier
ming thoyiterest on the Pint Mortgngellonds and the nd•
ygoceX mn3o by the Government, would leave a net ntinu
n 1 Income of W1,009,01)0 over ttml.alturo all oiltenren ant
Interest. -
The First Mortgogo Bandit of Ili° Cnluu Pacific Ilitilroo
Company owl tho First Mortgogo Hoods of. the Centre
pticigcitsilros t i Company are both, princinal nod inter
est, payable in gold coin; they pay nig per coot. Interentio
gold coin, and rttu fur thirty years. nod they cannot be ,
Paid before that limo withont the consent of the holder.
Flratlfortgage (told Bonds of tho Union Pacific Railroad
for silo at par and accrued Interest, and First )arti:ago
Gold Benda of the Central Pacific Railroad at iftl and ac
crued tutored'.
DE HAVEN & BRO.,
DEALERS IN GOYBRNIIENT SECURITIES, GOLD, ETC
NO. 40 S. THIRD ST.,
PHILADELPHIA. - [Jan 27
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VOL. XXII I
THE PHANTOM OF DEAI)MOOR
At six o'clock one fine autumn morning,
Seymour and I stood on the deck of a London
strainer, which was easing, and stopping, and
turning astern, and going on, in her endeavors
to lay herself alongside the quay of a forei;ln
town, without smashing any of the smaller
vessels which were in her way..
The passage lend been very prosperous, the
weather fine and warm, the sea as smooth ns
glass, the passengers few and rather amusing.
Ana the old town looked charming ; quite n
fairy city—all cathedral, palace, mid grand
square, without black-slums, dirt, Nice, or
crime, fit to be photographed as n model for
seaport towns. Qur luggage Wf , examined,
landed, put 011 a truck, and wheeled off to the
hotel fixed upon, we tbllowing on foot at our
leisure. •
"Let us turn into the 'Place, and have a
nearer look at the cathedral," proposed 'Scy•
mour. "livery scrap of tracery looks es
sharp and clear, in this early iv air, es
if it were under a microscope. ltollua I what's
that ?"
" That" was a hum and tramp! distant
at first, then binder and nearer. When we
entered the Place, we found numerous groups
scattered about ; fresh.cbmers were perpetu
ally arriving from all the streets which con
centrated upon that large open :Tide, and prc
sently the head of the large crowd, whose
march we bad heard in the distance, debouclied
upon the scene.
In the centre of the square, a scaffold had
been erected, around which . all these people
were gathering. Seymour, a good Gemini
scholar, made inquiri , s. Yes, there NVV.3 to in - ;
an execution. A man, supdosed to 1,0 en
Englishman, had eommilled a very horrible
murder, attended by circumstances of revolt
ing treachery and ingrati hide, and his head
was to be cut off in led! ait hour at furthest.
Now, I cert.•tinly should never have gone
nut of my way to see such a sight ; but Leto;
there, a sort of fascination bound ins to the
spot. As for Seymour, he was glad of the
opportnnity of seeing any foreign 'customs ;
and since he had served is the cavalry dining
a bloody Indian campaign. it si•as beyond the
power of a headsman to spoil hi:: breakfast;
if the fellow bungled. Soots of tooi,,
languid, line gentlemen y o u meet in Pall Mall;
and think eitent;nate, have seen and done, and
suffered things which could not la. read o: by
ninny of their critics without a shudder.
'Flare were immense nrintbers of people pre-
sent, but no crowd in the English sense of the
word ; for the open Space was very extensive,
and the stage On which the tragedy was to be
perlbrnied visible 11• um every part of it, so that
ere Wad 110 reason why the 4welaton,shono
In themselves together ; and as they were
ee from that propensity to push to the front
hide animates all ranks:lllhr both sexes or
the British, there Was plenty of elbow-room,
and n sensitive holy might even have fainted
without being trodden to death in consequence.
" You will have an opportunity of seeing
with what Mice the blo o d is always pumping
through our arteries," said Seymour. " Bar
barous ? not a bit. Far more humane (hal
hanging, I take it. Curious, though, II• - t Cloy
have not introduced the guillotine into ra
country ; perhaps, because it is Ftyne'i."
"I see ❑o block."
They do nobuse one. The e.dpril. sits
that chair, and the executioner snieLs hit:hold
oil rich his sword as you would a thistle wita
your cane. But here they come."
It teas Ivith a sickening feeling' that I
watched the executioner, I m F 'is., Lad the
murderer step on to the se.t'ild. The last
teas a middle-aged man or light, age form,
ul delicate fvatures, relievol Black Lei t
nitinoustache. Ile ivas in hi, Wh'eq
'as open at the neck and turned hud
hiSIMIIS Were bound. To the Minn») wh . ch
supports many a miscreant in his last hour,
and enable 3 him to "die game," he could lay
no claim, for his face was blanched with terror,
ircniblvil in nVery and w, evidently
nearly Minting.
The mental agony of the poor It I , telt added
so touch more to the horror of the -erne, that
I could hear it no longer, rod I was turning
to go, when an exclamation friiin my comp:m
ho' stopped not. t7 , eyntour wit; habitually so
quiet, indith rent, and alinost ideu,ty in his
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one, that anything like energetic speech
ds month . Wf startling. I had
nown'hint from a boy. and never rement-
MEM
tiered his bring cm'usl before, so that I had
come to look ((1111 I in as it \t•ell-dree-ed 11ed
Indian, or dandy and half doubted at
he moment. whether t h e cry of suriiilse could
)os!-Ibly have come out ,it* his mouth. One
?lance at his race assured me or that, howe ver,
to 'was leaning forward awl at the
:colloid with parted lips and etra • tiug eves.
Lead me your he cried ; trail utter
onkiug through the binocular 0 'Winne"]es
tis the 1111111 111110 1 011 . ; 110 daub; a•: tit
But there is one thing that I watt i t make
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all, and can't. here; your eyeA n.e I j •
;nine ; tahe the glass, anti ex:lath - le his
face, it is;turned tills way now. \Veil, tlo you
see any murk upnnit
..No. Yes, Ido ; there is a broad scar eu
Mi cheek.
•' Which clicek ?" cried Seymour, growing
ny arm, so hied that it hurt me.
left," I replied.
"'then, by heavenA, I guessed right t" er-
(nrtitatt for JSC,S.
4,1U0 estimated
100,100
claimed Seymour, drawing a long brealb.
At another time, curiosity would have dic
tated a question; but at that moment the heads
man began to bind the eyes of his victim, and,
by a strange revulsion of feeling, lcou'd not
now help watching hint. The bus' see was
neatly done ; one sweep or the large sword,
and the plotting brain was separated trout the
bad, cruel heart.
-We walked to the hotel, which was close
by; and after a bath and a change, I fcund
that the sceno I hail witnessed hail made less
impression upon me than I anticipated, and
I was quite ready tin•. a gdod breakfast.
When the meal was over, and we were loll
ing in chairs in the ideasant court-yard; T re
marked on the singularity of Seymour's land
ing on that partiular morning, ill limo to as
sist at the decapitation of an old acquaintance.
" Yes," he- replied, ill his ordinary tone
now, "most extraordinary thing that ever oc
curred ; the beggar had a try at my life once
and I gave him that scar."
" Was it in India Y"
17,400.01
13 1.1,,1
CIMEM
"No ; in Yorkshire, or Lancashire ; I'm
not certain which. One August, some years
ago, when I was in the cavalry, I got two
months' leave of absence, rind thought I should
like some shooting. So I looked over the ad
vertisements in Bell, and pitched upon one in
serted by n Mr. Bantyen, who intimated that
he was ready to provide board, lodging, and
grousc•shooting, fora certain sum on the
Yorkshire moors. '
" I wrote, agreeing to his term on the sole
condition that the game proved t, , be as plen
tiful as he represented ; and rut. Lived
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b lo b r ri pot f
TOWER
ALLENTOWN, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1869
lions how to find Deadmoor Tower by return
of post.
"The nearest place of ally importance WI.I
Halifax, and that was thirty miles off: so I.
slept there, and started off early on the follow
ing morning in a gig, driven by the only urn
the people of the hotel could discover who had
the slightest idea whereabouts Deadmoor
Tower lay. Ile got on very well while w rat
they 'called roads• lasted, but when we were
well on the moors, anti had only tracks, whlch
generally led to old quarries, or rilaces where
turf had been dug, to follow, lie was naturally
puzzled. In fact, we only got on at all liy
asking our way at every opyorttuf ty, and es
we rarely met any one to ask, our progress
was tortuous. Fortunately, the home, though
very deficient in speed, was a wonderful stay
er, and we did reach the placa! we were look
ing for before sunset.
"The people who first called that tract o'
country Deadmoor hid a very fair idea oil
proper names, for a fitter place for n natiodal
cemetery I never saw. Of course, all moor
land is wild and desolate ; but it is gedurrily
broken up into steep ; and air!', sale
how, is always c anpnay,oro SO:E SO• c
thing new on the other side ; and tliot . :;11 the
two sides sometimes prove to be utt'e'r al' - e,
whe'n you get to the top, there is ly
good distant view from it ; anti at any . a
you have the sails:at:ion of hurl a; go,
But )(glamor was mos.ly table 'a r e
undulations were too gradual to please I e eye.
Doubt:our Tower just sul led Deadmoo it
wa.; a real tower, a reAto:m,
NVIi I thick IV:I
10111) - 11(11CS; and a t h at leatlen w!,'l
battlements round it.
11 The proprietor ()I' tl.'s pl, IN
a couple or c(.10 0: (0r so in :1(1v(Inr • '
certninly ; bit '4:11 he was very ()1(1.f:
Ile met u u nt tl e in the lin., .1
manner; I ion!, him at n if)
'y at,
kith What, ho ! L'A t,
t'~n•-
tnatcly, he int roduced him -!' a )1,.. I , Ity:•
.faro I hail tint , to say it
Ile sliowca me tip n 10
rxtrrnu•h' ittlxious to ma':e r • crli)Cl
a:)lt., and ul ologlzed
Ile was a portly, old gentleman, n ith gray
tair prontivent eyes, luta rather. a weal:, nn
lccidcd ettpres , :on of countenance, and hi
vas dressed in a short-waisted colt—tut Ntrry
high in the collar table-cloth rolled round
his neck for a tie, pantaloons and pump
" When I was len ;done, I inTeeted the
room, the furniture or which would have set
up a curiosity ' , hop. IL was panelled with
oak ; and the heavy high-backed chairs, tI
table, the tnlLwardrohe, were all or the same
lark material. There was a queer mirror;
composed or three pieces, set aslant the further
end of the room, so as to reflect everything in
it in a distorted fashion ; 'and a pair of duell
ing-swords were crossed over the-high, carved
chimney-piece. But' the bed filled half the
room, and must have been originally intended
fin• an entire family ; the hangings were thick
and heavy and the top like that of a hearse.
Just the bed to lie in state in.
" It was not altogether a clicet ful apart
ment, but I could hear the grouse crowing
through the open window, :Ind that sound was
lively enough to subdue any amount of uphol- ,
storing gloom.
"I was sufficiently up in history to know
that my host was dressed fin• dinner, I rut
on evening things and went down-sia , is.
" The table was laid in the hall; and as I
had to pass through it to reach the drawin. ; -
room, 1 saw that the party was to consist of
three. Mrs. Bantyen ?or a son 1 or a Lather
gun?
" On opening the drawing-room
door, I was received by a charming giO
twenty or thirty I can never guess at I.e
beardless dears' ages while tiny have !iglu e ;
and smooth eye-corners and Mr. Badlyei
intimated that he was a widower, and it .t
this young lady, his only child, kept how e
for him.
":end very well she kept it. to.), and a :lee
little dinner she gave us. A capital matr.ger
she must have been, for evetyib , ng had :c be
fetched front a tremendous distance, a.) .I a
trilling slip ()I' memory might have Lot t me
household without oil or Woree, , ,ler salee or
a week.
,f‘ She was a little hit shy :it first, quite
self-possessed, null evidently ruled the house
hold, her father included. S'ie was w rit
educated ; read the palms and Maga ztales,
played the harp, sang. and was rather glad. I
think, to have a civilized being to tali to.
" I have shot over moors in Scotland Wl'
the grouse was more plentlilll,- cote ;
still the spot was very fair, qu*te good
Iln• my purpose. The old genii( ;MIA went tat
with inc every day, and );Ittit very fa!;li to ),
with an antique Manton, W. la
locks ; he could do nothing with a pe:•cu: s'e
cap. In the evenings, I played at piquet whit
him, or at cites; with hi ; daughter; and after
a pretty surfeit of balls and dinners, rind litde
bit of domestic quiet came in m a st acceptably.
We soon got very friendly together, and in a
fortnight 1 was quite like one of the ;1...;»;':-,
and Mr. Bantycn told me all his private Mir' rs.
"The family property had once been v„ y
good, but a succession of extravagant pa. - :es
sors had mortgaged all that. part upon watch
money could be raised, and the barren heard
with its tower was all that was left. Ilea'.
ever, the old gentleman had not always liven
quite so much straitened as he was at present,
but misfortunes laid beadiest him during the,
last few years, the principal being a scampish
nephew of his dead wife's who hail glut his
unfortunate uncle-in-law to be security for
him in some affair, and hadtheo been guilty
of a dishonest trick, which that unotrending
relative had to pay. '
" You may well understand that I did not
ask for any details upon so unpleasant a sith
ject ; so, whether his black sheep had done
anything which was absolutely felonious, I
did not learn. At any - rate, it had' cost Mr.
Bant,S'en so dearly to get him out of the scrape,
and then' start hint of to America, where he
was supposed to be at present, that he hail de
termined to try and raise a little money by
letting his shooting. .
"It was an evident relict• to the old gentle-
Irdin to tell me all this, for he was a hospitable
soul,
,and . felt uncomfortable to raking my
money.
• So , to relieve him, I told him anec
dotes of rich men who let-their shootings, and
noblemen who sold their game.
" September Mne, and the birds got wild,
but I liked my quarters so well that I stopped
on. •
" Ono evening as we came towards the
tower, after a hard day's walking, we met
Tiss Bantyen, who was hi a state of great
agitation. 0 papa, Raymond is here I" she
cried. Raymond was the troublesome nephew
who ought to have bey on the other side of
the Atlantic.
" Poor Mr. Bautyen WII9 very much per
turbed by the news, and 'hegan apologizing
to mo ; but I assured him,.with perfect truth,
that /was fond of studying different samples
of my fellow-creatures, and counted several
scamps amongst my intimate acquaintances.
In truth, I have enjoyed the society of many
a man who, from his youth up, has been a
source of anxiety to his friends ; but I never
met a• cooler card than this Raymond Fletcher.
"I did not much like the look of him ; I
missed the rollicking, reckless look of the
genuine nutuvai.l Rujet. Ills expression was
crafty, greedy, end malicious as well as impu
dent, and he impressed one as being bad rather
than mad.
" He spoke of his unexpected appearance
as a good joke, and compared himself to abed
shilling. Ile did the honors of the house, and
attempted to patronize etc. lie tried likewise
to impose upon me in the matter of the society
he had mixed with, asking if I knew this man
bl' the Blues, and that man of the Bide Brigade.
At last he mentioned one of my own regiment,
and then I had to shut hint up.
"'There must, be some mistake,' said I.
' I will not deny that you are the bosom friend
of every man of position in every corps in the
service, if you say so, but none' of the —th
know you, I not certain.' . .
"'Thad cooled him a bit, and a minute or
two afterwards I intercepted a look which
told me that lie honored me with his particu
lar hatred. nivertheless, he rather courted
ate, and tried his best to make - himself agree
able.
Have you seen the ghost ?' he asked me
in the murse of the evening.
I had thought suauthing• wanting in
Domlmoor 'lower, and this question reminded.
me 'AIM it was. It ought to be haunted ;it
waF, absurd that it should not be haunted;
and I at once demanded the ghost of 31i: . 3s
llantyen. She told me that there certainly
n•as the :snap spiritual It .g.. nd connected with
the old place. A. Jesuit conspirator, priest
an I soldier, had been taken and killed, after
a desperate re , istance, in my bedroom; and
N vitne,, , „ credible upon other matters, had
declared that they had seen his spectre, en
veloped in a cloak, pistol in hand. in the fatal
chamber. and had been duly frightened into
temporary
1 I mggested that the witneises had taken
too. mitell lotor .Iviu:n they tiaw tlw ghost.
and that the after-illness mi , , , it be delirium
tremens. Mr. Banlyen smile politely, and
said it Was possible ;.but thong the considered
that the Jesuit had been laid several years,
probably by getting out of purgatory he
evidently had a latent suspiehm that he really
had haunted ti; place at olw time.
" My host had procured me some pariridge
shooting at it felt 111110 S distance, so I stopped
on, though the tower was no very agreeable
residence now. Fletcher was an odious snob,
and Mr. llantyen, instead of kicking hint out
or the house, was so weak as tc let him bully
him.
" I soon saw that the fellow wns smitten
with his pretty cousin, and hated me worse
thim ever for flirting with her, which ofcourse
one was bound to do a little; and as she evi
dently disliked and feared him, and was glEd
to talk to me in order to avoid him, I date say
there was a little apparent cause for his jeal
ousy. Besides which, the presence of a
stranger no doubt interfered %lilt his designs
on Mr. Banlyen's purse.
"My leave was thawing to a close, how
ever, and as I intended to spend the lrst
week of it in London, the time came for me
to leave Deadmoor ; and on the last night an
extraordinary th'itg happeped—l saw the
phantom.
"It.was,a wet and chilly eighi, and with
that anxlety 'to make me comfortable which
bud actuated the Bantyens thulng my stay, a
fire had been light ?d in my bedroom. Ihe
first tire or the season is always pleasant, and
I sat up later than inmal to enjoy it. I n role
several letters, and then, wheeling my chair
round to the hearth, I stirred up the coals, left
the poker between the bars, lit a cigar, took
up a book, and made oissor
I was sitting with my back to II•tt r t of .
the room where the bed was, and conseqt eaily
facing the queer old mirror I told you or,
which was set aslant at the other coil. At
alamt one o'clock one of my candles began to
splutter imits socket, and looklng up in con
sequence from my : book, I saw reflected in the
mirror the figure or the Jesuit. 1 have no
min e Inith in than a Smlducee, yet I wits
horribly frightened ; so mach so that I wt .>
(Ty near starting up. Fortunately, however,
I keld my presence of mlod, end neither did
nor stared at the but put out the
ring candle, brought t.e^ other nearer to
me, leaned back ia my c cad had another
surreptitous bad: at my mirror over the top of
my It was no fancy. There close to
1 . '2 `not of the bed, not titres yards behind me
s, sal the figure, in a shawl...fig cavaller hat,
111111 W. :111111'd in a ritling.c'olk kith buirbows
and spur:. a mast; on his Iltee, icnd• a 'pistol in
Ids hand.
". Why the mask? I was reassured ill a
mowent : it wits it burglar acting Itt gin. to
~,)
frighteh the household into non-res's. le.—
not tiw sp' ..itull fatter himself. Th
be i t,
w',ioll hat been left between the barn of t" e
grille, leas how red-hot ; I grasped the twin e,
and began stirring the tire, at the ionic tine
whistling a tune. Then I drew n common
chair towards me with my foot, as if meditat
ing putting my legs upon it, until I could get
hold of the back with my let. hand.
"'These little preparations completed I sud
denly jumped up, and turned around, with
the chair hell before me as a shield, and the
red hot poker in-my right hand.
" ' Now, my ghostly friend,' said I 'just
drop that pistol.'
"Instead of complying with this reasona
ble request, he -cocked and levelled it at my
hand.
" I instinctly 'raised the chair, mid I.hrust
the hot iron at him, touching hint on the left
cheek at the moment the pistol exploded.
"I suppOsed he cscaped through a sliding
panel or tt trap-door ; I know that I went over
backwards, chair and all. The bullet had
gone through the seat, and then grazed my
temple, not doing any scrim's damage, but
stunning me for a minute or so ; so that when
the household, alarMed by the report of the
pistol, arrived, they found me and the chair
lying all of a heap, and the poker burning a
a quiet hole in the floor.
Mr. Bantyen and his daughter. were exces
sively distressed ; and the house was searched
and a deal Of fuss made—the most energetic
member of the household beitig Raymond
Fletcher, who did not Indeed put In an ap
pearance, but whose voice was heard at the
front, door, intimating that he was going for
the police. As he would have a good fifteen
mile ride through the rain and over a dark
moor before there was a chance of hiameeting
with any member of the force, this readiness
inspired me with a suspicion, which is now
turned into a certainty. Raymond Fletcher
lost his head this mining, and I burned the
left check of it that night with a poker."
HOW THE FLORIDA lIEYS
WERE FORMED.
I=
Just outside the lower extremity of Flotit'a
are a number of isle. 2ds,—the eraie-:wost
almost touch:tag the main land, while the west•
ern lie a little off.
cniirl , yence or '::is pccu"nety in thee
disitheltioth the space left between these islands
and the Floi:da co:.', mirkellon the map al
mud tints, is broad and or m the western
tlet, but alma closed townie the east. It
isithportant •to remember th e for th of Ws
b oad intervening sythe, I:.!t.ween
the keys and the nia'r-lr.thl, becau:e ntr:-
rower and more shaltow and may easly be
tilled up with cathl, mrd, &c. If you w'll
look at the mep, you will see, by the Ants at
the eastern end of thls onceopen elir h ••c.', that
such a process is neap. "y le ng on. In :" . act,
current sets towards the en.unel, dr" !glutei
it sand, mud, nod debris of all saris. •
I hop?, to show you t !at ibeze il. iv, belug
g actually ciiiisordat rd i :io dry land, w7'l at
last make n between the le'n.nls r
the lower e.;L:.?..pty of .13!th'cla, un•.' )g them
solidly togethe., en rod the former cer:e
to Le islands a ul will become pr.: t of the mein
land.
Iliced find that Florida hee:e'r, so
far r.:4 1 - er sireele '3 'S ROO 3i Oi'y a soca .
Sion oft telt lows of Sr'a's 3 110 W lie outs'ile
her southern shcco, un'ied tlgetie,•, by Hats
ei:actly t'.ose necrinuirt'ug at i s mo
ni ••• be xci• I the preseot l'•e
co.: it 11i •:e P, ads nee all ca''L•d •e Key s
of F'o-ids, and v.::r 5 ''Sift.l 1 , 0111 one
another Ly a v•u eiy of c.: ; ?ntit:oaq, such as
Sand Key, Key West, linnut Key, Long
Key, tied ;le 11:e. Tney are of \ ;
some—like Key West, for instance— v•a
inhabl'..ed islands, plan wii i nit a n How
or gardens, where cc: n - 3 o • • palms,
orange-1 ees, and bainninr. grow •it L
luxuriance, whlie r..e• lii ••
)ckg scare , g above ii e te - , lice of 14
G bi I is wave, _h.l whey.
Mffil!Ei
es:tote of e
Soppel:. HOW t_ at ftotry We s:'l out :roin
"the keys on the'r senwm•d side, ciui::ng .
I 1011, 'tn day, \Owl ^e of the
ocean is The wafers or that region- arc
always remarkably clear; and under such
influence) or and atino ,) e.e that' arc en
1.11!.” , t“ i•: bo. :In may be seen r.t a
cot t'e dt ..t, !ci nsa picture under
gir
'ina A .to a d'sie cc of Lome four
or live m - vs : mu the l;eys we find onrselveS
in the neighborhood of a rocky wall rising
front the ocean bottom. As we approach it,
it' we look over the chic of the boat, we shall
sec that we are passing over a floating
.shrub
bery,•a branching growth spreading in every
O'rection, its lighter portions swaying gently
with the movement of the sea. It is not
green, like laud shrubbery, but has a variety
of sold bright hues,—purple, rosy, amethyst,
yellow, brown, cod orange. If circumstan
ces are favorable, and the water crystal
as it sometimes is, we shall have glimpses of
bright-colored fishes swimming in and oct
amid this tangled thicket, or here and thete
we may discern a ,variety of seadmemone3,
their soft feathery friz;es fully expanded.
This wonderful growth over which we have
imagined ourselves to be sailing is the top of
a coral wad. 'leaching the surface of the wa
ter at intervids, it forms little rock: , islands
here and there, divided front •each Other by
open channels, thromjh some of w•t•ch vessels
of considerable size may pass. T•tis wall is
;n fa•n a repetition of the same process ns that
which has formed the inner row of keys,
though in a more locomplete stage ; it is built
up by the coral animal 4 from the sea bottom.
Wherever circumstances rre most .livorable
to their development, there they grow most
rapidly. In such spots they bring the wall to
the sea: level than in others.
This done, however, the work of the coral
animals ceases, because they cannot live out of
the water. But in consequence of a process
of delay and decomposition, I shall de
scribe when we examice the structure and life
of the animals themselves, such a wall—or
cora' reef, as it is Called—is surrounded by
.coral sand and fragments worn'away from it
by the act:on of the sea.
Materials of this sort, mixed with sea-weed,
broken shells, Sze., soon gather upon the top
of the reef wherever the coral growth hits
brought it to the sea level. By degrees a soil
is collected upon such spots, raising them-mckre
and more above the surface.of the water. ft
Ill's way the islands have been formed which
we call the Keys of F'orida ; and in the same
way the little patches now rising highest on
the summit of the Reef will enlarge gradually
into more and more eNtellSiVe islands, though
at present nmny of them arc scarcely visible
above the water level.—Oar Young Folks for
March.
THE FOOLISHNESS OF INUIT
PER ANUE
That scound' al, Ilr . ek Pomeroy, is evidently
being peeked in conscience for his crimes.
Ills, first attempt at atorement is an asaitult
upon tiro Lulu ark of the Democ:atic poly.
Lear the:nilf-penitc it wretch :
The habit of liquor diiiiking is, to our ir
the most fiiors'i, iaercAable p ace of des'..i• :l
ive nonsense in the world. The money 1.1: - :: - ed
down the throats of men each ye - r is g,r: iier
than the amount extended for improvement 3.
If a man is tired, he drinks. If he is at work,
he must drink. If doing noth7ng, he must
have a nip each hour. If too maim, he iv :cs
a mint julep. If too cold, a hot wirskey. If
he is by himself; out comes a flack or bottic.
If In compahy, ' he stands treat till his niorey
Is gone : then, like a dead beat, sits cround 1
some one calls him up. A man oa a moderate
salary steps into a saloon, invites a half dozen
friends to drink,
pays half a dollar or more
and walks.out. Three or four times a day he
repeats this, and always drinks when asked.
It is social. Men mean nothing by it. But
during the week half of a man's salary has
been poured down his ikroat, destroying his
stomach, weakening his nerves, over-exciting
his brain, robbing himself and f:inlly of his
money needed for other purtoses. But it, is
social I Drink in Via morning—at amen—at
night, and then a few times iciween dri-
The brain whirls—the hard Eons unsteady—
the pocket grows empty—Cie beam ones scffer
—the eye looks red and tremulous, r.l
ed—ambition is drowned or poisoae,. P city•
soon the poor fellow is unfit for bus'a
makes mistakes.' lie is sick, tinabla to WOZ...
lie Is not the man to ho relied on. Ile lzvvo
his place, and in time finds a poorer one. Then
he feels blue—drinks still more—suffers—he
leaves his place again, and at last dies a wretch.
But it is social I
A Flu having heard the word
" &cgs" made use of—to imply persuade,
press that gentleman to take some refresh
ments, press him to stay, etc.,—thought he
would show his talents by using (what he
imagined) a synonymous form ; and he, there
fore, made no seruplo.to cry out In company,
" Pray; squeeze that lady to sing I"
AGRICULTURAL
TROROUGII DRAINING AND DEEP CULTURE
THE BASIS OF IMPROVEILINT IN AGNI-
EZMIE!
The fact is patar.t to the most suwilcial
observation, that the total sum of the vest pro
duction of our agr:culture is the yield of an
average depth of cu'ilvai...on of the call not
exceeding six inches—comparatively a mere
film of the earth's sur:ace. All 'the inorganic
matter needed by plants, and all other elements
of their nutrition and full development that
come from the earth, must be supplied within
thib limit, while all the soil below this depth is
unemployed and inert. The roots of the grain
and grasses do not ordinarily extend much
below the depth cultivated ; and the average
of this in our country is insufficient either for
protection against drought, for adequate re
turns for the labor ot cultivation, or fo: full
supplies of farm pm adn.s :or national con
sumption. We may not be able to calculate
the precise amount or increase in the produc
tion due to an add' t'opal Inch in depth of cul
tivation, but experiments have shown that in
many soy's it bears, relatively, a near propor
tion to the increase in depth of culture . ; so
that where the roil is now worked to six inches,
an inch greater depth of cultivation would give
nea :ly one-s' rill more production. The agri
clitoral c•:oduce of 1867, of those articles
which would be influenced by depth of,culti
vation, bas a total value of at leafi.sl,soo,-
000,e00. Now, an increase of even one-tenth
of 'his amount by an additional inch of culture,''
would add $150,000,600 to the • value of the
annual produCon of the country.
An erroneous impression exists relative to
the depth to which the loots o 7 the cereels and
ns we° us wr is other plants, de
mend in an aerated tied l'esithy coil. In
raN:nes that have I..!Cti tilied with surf:e3 soil,
or wherever the mould's of se':...b'e texture
and condition, carrois and parsnips are often
fodnd of a length of :;free fret or more ; clover
toots :An tbrce to four feet, and instances
have been given of siill greeter iengdt of the
the coos of wl•eat and orts. With the preva
lilt mode of culture, in very compact soils,
wite;t-rocos arc so very near the su: face as to
be thrown out by .he wechapical displacement
of fur,: 13 awl thawing, and, if not utterly de
bi 'oyee, they stru3gle fru'llessly to pierce the
tinb..o , :e i suk,", e!:ed, pert); - ps, by the
trerld of utit'd for a ceitttwy, and finally y:eld
to thesb'sstisg power 0. a
. drought,
ltr:;dtid, s7Livel'ed, l ght, worthlers for seed,
and or l'ttle va'ue ;or bread. The VI!, plant
iag reed firmly in tae earth instead of scat
tering it on the sur:ace, already saves half of
tile w•nter-killing in the fields where it is used ;
and deep culture, with proper drainisgs, would
procure exempijon from most of the remsiniug
liabilities, and, ordinarily, from all danger of
loss by drought. The advantage of additional
depth of pulverization therefore,would be often
'far greater than the proportionate increase
of depth, and the profit of the improvement
would be increased in a corresponding ratio.
In this counh•y the average yield per acre of
one of the principal sinples, wheat, under our
system of shallow thiltivathin, has been grad
ually lessened, until at the present time it does
not exceed twelve bushels per acre, while
England, with her deep tillage and rotation
system, has raised her average to 28 bushels.
Estimating our Si heat area at elghti!en millions
of acres, and allowing an increase of 10 bushels
per acre under a system of thorough and judi
cious cultivation, the increased production
would amount to 200,000,000 bushels ; and
wheat is but one of the.staples to be benelitted
by such improvemeo.
Deep cultivation is a prime necessity of root
culture, which forms the basis of English ag
ricuimre, and middies the English farmer to
pay annual rents equivalent to the fee-simple
value of our farms. The grou ins of these
"green crops" results in a ow:0 thcirough ad
mixture of the food-producing elements of the
soil and its prompt permeation by water and
the gases, which 'are so necessary to plant
growth. France, sDllowing in our .00tsteps,
or we in hers, in et least one particular—Am
want of a prdper rotative system—has reduced
the average yield of wheat to 15 bashels. The
shigle hid that, while England has two acres
in "green crops" for every acre in witeat,
ranee has three acres in wheat for every acre
in green crops, and that with us roots are
scarcely raised as a (arm crop; explains the
cause of the great discrepancy in the yield of
that valuable.cereal in those countries.—Agri
cultural Report.
-POTASH AS A FERTIL't
Fotivilt forms one of L;)e most ess n. al Con
siitl'evi,s of aN. tile in and one of the most
itepirtant, of nil ',lie fc." %leg agelts
reach of the agriculturist. In many plants it
constitutes more than one-half of thelr ash, and
in most at least one-third. In neutralizing
ac ds in tha-soil and in the liberation of am-
molia, it acts in the same manner as lime, but
when it is desired simply to etnet these last
mentioned Meets, the latter should be used,
es being elteat:or,and plash, generally, avail
able in the fo:.n of ashes, shoald be applied as
n manure, using the word in its strictest sense,
to indicrte a substance that cont,•ibutes dlreclly
to building up the steuctn:e of the pir.nis. But
considerable care should be exerc i sed in the
use of ashes, and they should never, as is the
practice with some in maiming in the
hill, be mixed with guano or the refuse of the
hen roost, inasmuch as the first rain that dis
solves them will cause the potash to displace
the ammonia in the same manner that litiS
displaces it from barnyard Manure and similar
Immures, as wo hrse just me , ltioped ;
ett ongh the potash of the asima and the phos
phoric acid of the guano, or the VIM', would be
!el to benefit the plar:7, the ammonia would
be diss'pated and lost, and the value of the
fertilizer depreciated. Analogous to potash in
its action is soils, which, however, with a few
exceptions to the rule, enters but slightly into
the Fomposition of plants, and may generally
be replaced, to a great extent, with potash.
Turnips and Mangold Wurtzel, however, re
quire is comparatively large amount of soda;
the ash of the former containing upward of 28 ,
per cent., and the latter a nearly equal amount.
This may ho most conven'eatly applied to the
soil when required lathe form of common salt.
—J. A. Whitney,' at N. Y. Flirniere Club.
A GENTLEMAN once began his letter to his
bride thus "My dearest Maria." The lady
replied : "My dear John, I beg that you will
mend either your morals or your grammar.
You call me your'dearest Maria.' Am Ito
understand that you have other Merles ?"
Wno GOVERNS BEST ? The Duchess of
Burgundy said one day to Madame do Main
tenon: "Do you know why the Queens of
England govern better than the Kings ? It
is because the Queens govern by the advice of
men, and Kings by the advice of women."
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NO: 9
BOY'S GARDENING
Mr. Edmond Morris, in a recent number of
The Journal of Efortioulture, gives an inter
esting necohnt of a boy of his acquaintance as
a gardener. Ho says: "A gentleman within
two miles of me, by way of interesting his
eon (a young lad) in agriculture, gave him the
free use of an acre to cultivate as he pleased.
This shrewd boy located a half acre on one
side of his father's barnyard, and the other on
the opposite side. He could thus trundle out
a dozen barrow loads of manure upon his
ground whenever so disposed. He planted
his acre in Lawton blackberries; cultivated
them himself ; and last year his gross sale of
fruit amounted to six hundred dollars. The
year preceedingahis clear profit from the same
acre was four hundred and fifty dollars. I
have walked through this magnificent creation
of juvenile care and shrewdness, and must
cyifess that no eaginceng of my own in the
se.ne.Yne has been equal to it. The contents
of the convenient barnyard told powerfully on
the canes, but more powerfully on the quantity
and the quality of the fruit. The fee of the
land, though in the best locaLion,`was much:
less valuable than the annual crop. Within
gun-shot of this field are teaacres of this same
berry, which last year yielded a net profit of•
four thousand two hundred dollars—more
than the land would sell for.
"The father of the lad referred to` - was en
gaged in mercantile business in Philadelphia ;
but he had never realized such profits as he
thus saw his enterprising son to be annually
securing. The example set before him by the
lad induced him to drop some one or two
branches of agriculture add take to raising
berries also. lle began his plantings several
years af4o—for the on has long been harvest
ing very paying crops—and has been planting
annually from the increase of his own fields,
until he has now thirty acres of Lawtons.
Last winter he cut down an apple orchard of
lmgc bear:ng Lees to make room for more
berries. • The profit from the latter far out
stripped the orchard in the country."
The iefluence of gardening upon the young
is ono which parelts may be truly glad to take
adva 113:e of ; rot alone for the money which
they malm by it, but :or the good health it
will give. All young boys and glr's may pro
fitably lean Low to plr. it and cultivate all
hinds of frult and vq;etubles vet): early in lire.
Eyed though they incy iillow a proihs:'mard
ca.set, their cducat on in oui-dcor• laL rr w:11
iel l favorably on their fair-e Yves. I'4f:catty
thef be s.:O r er, .1 in tEspor. ion more
Trues, a' en old aye comes on they w:11
be more heel' led .1 the re..rements of a
pecceMl rural :'Se, Er.._ounded by the trees of
their own planting. That the " Coming Edu
er..io ml Sys:em" will is elude gardening, we
have not the slightest doubt.
—MENDING ROADS.—On this important sub
ject the Springfield Republican .says : "It ought
to be made a statuatory offence to put °shovel
fu'l of dirt upon the highway after the Ist of
June, except where the ground has been view
ed by the County Commissioners, and the
work ordered for the public safety. In gene
ral, all the repairing that is done should be fin
ished three weeks earlier than that. The
true theory of road-making is tbnt the Hew
earth should be added in the spring, while the
frost is coming out of the ground, so that the
new and old shall settle down together for the
summer. :When this is done, the addition is
incorporated bodily, and never heard front
afterwards. It is the only way In which hard
firm roads can be. obtained. On the other
hand, when, as generally at present, the re
pairhig is put off till after harvesting, we have
bad roads all the fall, execrable roads all win
ter, except where the ground is deeply covered
with snow ; and, come spring, the passage to
and front even the nearest localities, becomes
a matter of serious consideration, well prepared
for If inevitable, or altogether avoided, if tl4
can ho done."
A riorEFut CONVERT. - Recently the
Methodists held a great " revivar'in Wiscon
sin. Among the converts was one whose pre
vious profession was," three card monte."
Times being somewhat hard, he found little
profit in his legitimate "practice," and became
converted, as the Elders say. One night, at
the suggestion of an Elder, he rose to-edify
the congregation with his experience ? . and
thus delivered himself:—
"Ladies and gentlemen—l Lean, brothers
and sisters ; the Lord bath blessed me very
much—l never felt se: happy before in all my
life—(embarrassed)—l say, I never felt so
happy before in all my life—(very much em
barrassed)—if any one thinks I over did, they
can get a lively bet out of me!".
NEthlll3olt. had a social party at his
house a few evenings since, and the " dear
boy,' N Orles, a five-year-old dolt, was fav
ored permission to be seen in the parlor.
" PVoa—isfmniewhat proud of his boys and
Charles was, of course, elaborately gotten up
for so great an occasion. Among other extras,
the little fellow's hair was treated to a liberal
supply of Eau do Coigne, to his huge gratifi
cation. As he entered the parlor; and made
his bow to the ladies and gentlemen—
" Lookee here," said he, proudly, "if any
of you smells a smell, than; ms/"
The effect was decided, and Charles having
thus in one brief sentence delivered an illustra
tive essay on human vanity, was the hero of
the evening.
QUIPS, Q UIRPS AND Q UODLIBETS.
The following is Aunt Betsy's description of
her milk man "Ile is the meanest man in the
world," she exclaimed. "Ho skims his milk
on the top, then turns it over and skims it on
the bottom."
Creditors are like corns : they are always
reminding one where the shoe pinches. The
only way to get rid of them is to cut them—
and that. won't prevent them coming again.
When is the book of nature studied ? When
autumn turns the leaves and they are red.
Why is a flatterer like a microscope ? Be
cause he magnifies small things.
"Birds in their nests agree," because they
would fall out if they didn't.
A Bcotehmants definition of " reel" music—
the bagpipes.
A wag call Grecian architecture the"stoops"
that ladies use at present.
Not a proper place for a naval engagement
—the Pacific Ocean.
A little tumbler will often throw down a big
man.
Tho cranium In four parts —The head-
quarters
A desirablo 'domestic bird—A duck °fa NV ifo
The bent of understanding—The Instep.
A pious perfnme--The odor of sanctity.