The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-16 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES.

The necessity of scientific instruction in agricul-
ture and mechanics is becoming recognized by the
people of America, and efforts Are making to extend
the benefits of such instruction to all classes of the
population. The following exhibits the present
condition of agricultural colleges, giving their loca-
tion, endowment, number of pupils, course of in-
struction, expense of tuition, &c. : —Sheffield Scien-
tific School of Yale College, at Newhaven, Counec-
ticut—Acres, scrip, 180,000; endowment, $160,000,;
pupils, 1867-8, 130 ; cost of tuition, per annum,
$125 and $75 for chemical apparatus; time, 3 years.
Course of study: English, chemistry, mechanics, civil
engineering, mining and metallurgy, agriculture,
natural history and geology, French and German,
&c. Number of volumes in the library, 73,000.
Institute of Technology, B ,ston, Mass.—Endow-
ment, $480,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 170 ; time, four
years. Course. of study—English mathematics,
chemistry, astronomy, surveying, modern languages,
mechanical engineering, building and architecture,
science, and literature, tactics. Agricultural Col-
lege, Amherst, Mass.—Acres, scrip, 360,000 ; en-
dowment, $116,000 ; cost of tuition per annum,
$330 ; time, four years. Course of study—Algebra,
geometry, anatomy, botany, French, German, agri-
culture, chemistry, horticulture, philosophy, &c.,
&c. Agricultural College, Cornell University,
Ithaca, N.Y.—Acres, scrip, 990,000 ; endowment,
$1,000,000 ; not opened ; cost of tuition per
annum, $3O ; time, four years. Course of study
—Agriculture, mechanic arts, civil engineering,
military engineering and tactics, mining and
practical geology, history, social and political
science, modern and ancient languages. Agri-
cultural College, Centre County, Pa.—Acres, scrip,
720,000; endowments, $2e6,000; cost of tuition
per annum, $5O, and board $BO. Courie of study
—General science, agriculture, mechanical and
civil engineering, metallurgy, mineralogy, and
mining, literature, military instruction. Agricul-
tural College, near Lansing, Mich.—Acres, scrip,
240,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 97 ; cost of tuition per
annum,' $2O, and board $l5O. Course of study
—English, mathematics, agriculture, literature,
natural history, physics, rhetoric, civil engineer-
ing, landscape gardening, philosophy, French.
Agricultural College, Prince George County,
Maryland.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment,
$101,253 ; pupils, 1867-8, 11; cost of tuition per
annum, $75 and board $225. Course of study—
Chemistry, natural philosophy, physical geogra-
phy, mineralogy, geology, ancient and modern
languages, agriculture, mathematics. Number of
volumes in the library, 1,600. College of Agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts, Hanover, N. H.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $BO,OOO ; time, four
years. Course of study—Various branches of ap-
plied science. University and State Agricultural
College, Burlington, Vt.—Acres, scrip, 150,000 ;
cost of tuition, $l5 per term, $lO for chemical ap-
paratus ; time, 3 or 4 years. Course of study
Algebra, chemistry, drawing, French, German,
natural history, minerals and metallurgy, engi-
neering. College of Arts, State University, Ma-
dison, Wis.—Acres, scrip, 286,000 ; endowment,
$300,000 ; cost of tuition per annum, $24. Course
of study —Mathematics, German, French, Latin,
rhetoric, horticulture, astronomy, logic, theology.
Agricultural College, Morgantown, Va.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000 ; endowment, $137,946 ; pupils,
1867-8, 138. State Agricultural and Mechanical
Arts College, New Brunswick, N.J.—Acres, scrip,
210,000 ; pupils, 1867-8, 26 ; cost of tuition per
annum, $B3 and $l5. Course of study.—Civil en-
gineering and mechanics, chemistry, and agricul-
cure, architecture, natural history, astronomy, and
navigation, French and German. Agricultural and
Mechanical College, Lexington, Ky.—Acres, scrip,
330,000 ; endowment, $164,960 ; pupils, 1867-8,
190; cost of tuition per annum, 300 free, others $3O.
()nurse of study—EngliSh, French, Spanish, Ger-
man, Italian; other departments as above not com-
menced ; no detail given. Agricultural, Mining, and
Mechanical Arts College, Oakland, Cal.—Acres,
scrip, 150,000. Not commenced, no detail given.
College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts,
Orono, Me.—Acres, scrip, 210,000 ; endowment,
$104,500. Course of study—Marine Architecture.
Scientific Department of Brown University, Provi-
dence, R. I.—Acres, scrip, 120,000 ; endowment,
$50,000. Opened this year, September 1, 1868.
State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas.—
Acres, scrip, 90,000 ; endowment., $500,000. Free,
except melodeon and piano ; board, $l. Coursc
of study.—Classics, agriculture, military tactics,
mechanics, &c. State Industrial University, Illi-
nois.—Acre.s, scrip, 480,000 ; cost of tuition per
annum, $2O. Course of study--Agriculture and
science, as above.

LETTER FROM GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN.

( From the Anglo-American Times.)
Dublin, Four Courts, Marshalsea,
Sept. 8, 1868.

near Anglo-American Times,—Thanks for Tem-
perance Journal. Glad you are friendly to re-
form. Men drink more than they think. 'The Mail
leader you quote gives me no credit as a reformer.
My ambition is to do good—practical and theo-
retical reform. More drunkards are made by the
apothecary and our medical men than by the rum-
shop. Up with Turkish baths and down with drugs.
Down with alcoholic medicines, and up with a cold-
water diet. Up with temperance, and down with
drunkenness. Should you have space to-day here
are some boiled-down ideas addressed to the editor
of the Herald of Health.—Sincerely,

G. F. T.
M. L. Holbrook, Esq., M.D.,
No. 15, Laight-street, New York.

Dear Sir, —" M. D." in England, means Money Down.
Physicians who have invested four thousand pounds ster-
ling for the privilege of legally poisoning
deluded huma-
nity have thick hides.
Believe in Drugs? Should think not; or rather, yes,
I do believe in them—believe that in nine cases out of ten
they kill, while the tenth lives to curse his manhood.
Drugs ! Satan's Elixir. Apothecary Shops ! blisters,
scabs on society. If riot was justifiable, I would like to
lead the mob that broke up and burned down the drug and
medicine shops of the world. Bigotry is rampant still.
The Medical College would have let Seward die the other
day rather than Surgeon-General Barnes should consult
au "irregular" physician!
Slavery abolished! let us abolish legalized poisoners.
Civil war is over! lot us settle the drug war against man-
kind. Nature has been seduced by Art ! Nature is
strong—give her diet, rest, regularity, and she recovers
rapidly, except when the system is poisoned with mer-
cury, when the constitution is macadamized with blue
pills. Ignorance is mother of impudence, and Allo-
pathic knowledge makes doctors impudent, because
ignorant. Have you never seen the drug-poisoners
quarrel over a death-bed consultation ? The faculty
are unyielding; your money or your life ! Strong-
minded patients sometimes live by refusing medi-
cine; weak ones die by taking it. Experience is the
enemy of science. How many throw the poisonous drug
under the bed and recover ! How many swallow it and
die none can tell! Nature is often too much for the doc-
tors. Not always. Who taught the Indian to avoid the
poisonous mineral—the animal to give a wide berth to the
poisonous plant? Why do you hold the infant's nose to
make him swallow the drug ? Instinct has told the baby
it is poison.

The air, the earth, the water, and the sun—these ele-
ments alone have rescued many an invalid from the
clutches and crutches of the apothecary. Four-fifths of
the world is, water and one-fifth land ; so four-fifths of
our body is water,- and but one-fifth flesh and b9.11e;
Hence water cures 'water. Your Allopathist quotes the
Bible for his system:—'6 Him that is filthy, let him
be filthy still." Your Hydropathist also quotes Scrip-
ture :—" Cleahliness is next to goiliness." The Feast
of Purification should b 3 on the banks of the Hudson
and Mississippi, as well as on the Nile and the Ganges.
Wherever I roamed in the Ancient World (and I have
been everywhere) everybody bathe 3. Russian baths in
Moscow, Turkish baths in Stamboul, were simply impor-
tations from Chinese Asia. The Siamese live in the
water, and the Japanese maiden swims like a duck. In
Java both Mack and white have their water cures. Gayety
would find no subscribers for his paper at Batavia or Sutua-
rang. Both Asiatics and Europeans use water, and ex-
press disgust at the impure habits of the Western world.
Throughout Egypt are bath houses, and one is astonished
iu lialy at the magnitude of the ruins of the bathing places
of the Roman emperors. Hippocrates favoured cold
water, and by it Severus cured the gout; while Thucy-
didas says many an Athenian during the Peloponnesian
War cured the plague by plunging into the river. Do not
the Hindoos, Mohammedans, and Jews make the use of
water, inside and out, a religious rite? Water cure was
a remedy for the pest, cold water cured the plague ; so
syphilis and smallpox aro easily mastered by hydropathy.

Water saves life, drug's destroy it. How can you clean
your dwelling by throwing dirt through all its chambers?
Take a peach, strawberry, cucumber; preserve it ie
brandy, vinegar, or suitable drugs, and if partially de-
cayed you preserve the decayed as well as the sound
part. So is it with meat; if diseased, the stronger the
compound the more perfect the preservation of the disease.
Now, then, what applies to fruits and meats more forcibly
applies to man. Stomach deranged, liver torpid, blood out
of order; does it not follow that the powerful drug of the
Allopathist preserves instead of removes the disease ?
What invalids want is sunshine, pure air, pure water, and
a protective tariff agabist drugs.
Your mission is one of mercy. A searcher for truth, I
have passed weeks at Ilkly Wells and Ben-ridden in York-
shire, Malvern in Worcestershire, where Gully, Wilson,
Stummes have cured thousands, and I have been at Beulah
Spa, near London. The man who opens a water cure is a
public benefactor. If a hydropathie establishment was
built in every place where you find a drug shop, more
robust men, more healthy women, less puny, sickly chil-
dren would walk our streets. By-the-by, why not start *
mammoth water cure on the Hudson near Central Park,
somewhere- among the trees; with cricket, base-ball arid
foot-ball, and ten-pin alleys and billiard rooms, and plentY
of Croton? It would pay.
- Your drug poisoner is always a tyrant. He works in
the dark. Ho is a Booth ; he fires his pistol into every
family. He is Payne ;be enters the house at all hours,
walks to your bedside and deliberately attempts to murder
you. If he was honest, why not move in open day ? why
write his despatches in an unspoken tongue ? He dare
not tell us his plans. Burning hotels, infecting clothe*
with yellow fever, starving prisoners, throwing trains ell
the track, assassinating chiefs, is punishable by law, but
the drug poisoner does all this under the cover of your
family physician and escapes chastisement. Ignorance is
crime ! Down with Latin, up with the American Wl'
gunge. Refuse to take a prescription that is written in
cipher.
Why not change the labels .on the drug bottles ? Call
loudly through your journal for more light. Read, reflect.,
ponder, and men can immediately digest. The doctor
frightens his patient. You can scare a scalded cat with
cold water. Few of the faculty speak well of each other.
When dog oats dog, hard times are at hand. _ _

Homoeopathy is a step in advance: less drugs, 1058
death. Statistics show a saving of nearly one-half. When
humanity takes another step, Hydropathy, the graveyards
will show a smaller population ; humanity will live to the
average age of man. We need more physical and less
mental exercise. The gymnasium is essential to the
Hydropathic system ; more muscle, more nerve, make leaf
fat and gives more energy.
I do not approve of vaccination; it is only a new way
of poisoning mankind. Jener would have been hung
among the Indians or in. Asia. How many a sound con-
stitution has been destroyed by introducing scrofula and
syphilis in the shape of vaccine matter? Who knoWs
whether it is healthy ? Those two diseases combined is
the plague. They wage eternal war and crop out in the
third and fifth generations, sometimes passing the second
and fourth.
Since Pressnitz introduced the water cure treatment
into Germany, Wilson into England, and Schieferdecker
into America, great progress has been made in hYd°;
pathy. I believe that two-thirds of the arms and logs
cu
off during the late war could hav'e been saved by COlu
water, properly administered. How many a mother has
died or lost her babe at childbirth for want of Such treat"
ment can never be recorded. Another thing,
the great
object of your allopathic or homoeopathic in our time is °
burn out the proud flesh of our society. No more ide-
mous espionage—fatal to domestic life, destructive of all
virginity, chastity, modesty—exists than the infernal con-
fessional of our day. No wonder the Divorce Court i 5
crowded; for they, twin sisters of allopathy—the
specu-
lum and blue pill—have demoralised women kind as W°'
as man.
Know thyself, said St. Paul. He was in the wets"
cure. The art of taking care of yourself can only be
learned in the hydropathie establishment. Weaned 11.°:
drugs you are half cured ; then three baths, ten glassua
of water, four walks, broad and milk for breakfast en
.
supper, roast beef and vegetables for dinner every day, 111,
bed at ten and up at six, with mind employed, plenty 0'
rubbing and wet bandages, and the sick man is well again"
There are few ailments that cold water, outside and ill;
side, will not cure. I am afraid that Jackson, Fr'ste.'
toe
Bedortha, and many of our Water-Cure leaders, give
_much attention to spiritual bathing instead of practisli
Hydropathy. A more water and a little less sP' a
should be introduced at Clifton Springs, Danville, an
Saratoga.
Some day 1 will give you a letter in reply to
yours,
I have no more time this morning than to remind 1°
that as eighty per cent.. of our make-up is water, it shld,
that Nature did not intend to fill up the vacuum v""
drugs.—Sincerely, GEORGE FRANCIS Titeinr•so
The twelve documents on which I ground 111 Y ci a
against the gentlemen lately trading under the name O
style of the Ebbw Vale Company, are —l. The Writ ~°r
,1
order of Lord Chief Justice Monahan, bearing date the
day of Marchlast. 2. The affidavit of the plaintiff, J.
son, upon which said order was granted, filed 3d March JO"
3. The attested copy of the writ of capias ad respondent
issued in this case, and the Sheriff's return thereon.
The attested copy of the capias ad satilaciendum issue
in this cause, and the return of the Sheriff there
5. The affidavit of Clark 8011, sworn at Venice,
Italy, on the 15th July last, a copy of which 1'7";
served on you in the proceedings in the Insolve,
Court. 6. The affidavit of George T. M. Davis, of Nex,"
York, sworn before the British Consulate in New 17.°r
you a copy'
on the 15th day of July last, of which I send
7. The affidavit of Thomas C. Durant, of New York, 0° a
before the British Consulate at New York, of whichl selll,
you a copy. 8. The paper signed by James W • ile„.ofhs
referred to in the said affidavit. 9. The affidavit of
Grice Fuller, filed on the 17th of August, of which
Wines'
you a copy. 10. The Garnishee order of Justice u,,f
11. The affidavit of the defendant, filed on the 15th daalthis
August, of which I have already sent you a cel:97 an
several documents therein referred to. 12. The aw
You
$
of the defendant this day sworn, of which 1 send I
copy, and the several documents therein referred to.

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