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Christian Instruction IN Boston. - his
city contains according to the late census,
1868 inhabitants. In it are fifty prot
estant congregations, and attached to these
are supposed to be on an average l54
families, amounting in all to 1858 fami-
lies, and equal to population of 38,49O,
leaving, after deducting 10000, the esti-
mated number of Roman Catholics, 6,022
Protestant families, or 30,ll3 souls not
under the pastoral charge of any of the
ministers Of the churches. There are,
however, seven ministers at large; three
Unitarian, one Christian, one Episcopal
liam, one Baptist and one Congregation
alist-who may be supposed to afford a
measure of christian instruction to these
thousands. Still there is a fearful destltu-
ton ofthe word oflife; and christians there,
ought to feel deeply for their fellow citi-
zens, and labor to bring them under re-
ligious influence.
We fear, however, that no city of equal
size in the country is as we'll supplied
with the gospel; and so, christians in all
our cities, N York especially included,
ought to carefully investigate the condi-
ton of the population within their own
limits, and take adequate measures for
supplying the existing restitution.
We are the attached friends of missions
in heather lands, and devoted to missions
in the frontier portions of our own coun-
try; but we cannot consent that multtudeS
in our Atlantic cities should be left to per-
ish for want of christian instruction. All
these fields might be cultivated; there are
ample means for the purpose; and God
requires that the work should be DONE
Am. BGp.
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port in the hour of trial. I the sc0fer,
the ridicnler of Christ's mercies, have
found that unaided by Him, death wears
very gloomy aspect to me, cut off in the
prime of life, and my only consolation,
the thought that shall sleep and mingle
with the clay ofthe brute.
must relate the progress of my philo-
sophical- opinions, and if mistake not,
they are similar to those of most philoso-
pliers of the same school. The first step
taken was to throw off by degrees, the in
functions of the Bible; and, at length, find
ing how far | had gone, to retrace my
steps seemed difficult and unpleasant
task: to elude this step, l set about endeav-
oring to justify myself, and finding that
the word of God condemned me, l was
induced to doubt it. From doubling, | was
urged to dispute, and from disputing to de-
nying, until pride, without the truth
of philosophy taking possession ofme, |
valued myselfupon the skill with which I
could brow-beat Christianity, and cause
laugh against religion. You my friends,
were hurrying down the vortex of ruin
Will 1lle Dut PAUSE Ill4hh "HC1o YOU
Standard may the Almighty arrest your
dangerous career before you shall have
arrived so near the verge of eternity, that
few hours shall have to do the work of
conversion, or seal your doom forever.
| had not the assistance ofany one to
point out my circumstances; but taking up
the Bible was going to lay it down again,
whenthe passage of Christ's pardoning the
thief upon the cross met my sight | was
induced by this to reflect that even might
not be past the bounds of forgiveness
This idea led me on a train of reflections,
the result of which was, that again ad-
dressed God and Savior, so long un-
calledupon, and Ihaue found a relief
1t is my dying petition that you would
give this to the clergymen Of the place, and
request them to read it in the churches,
as this is the only method which is left
me to atone, in some measure, for the in
juries done to their members.
Adieu! it is past midnight, and I am
to be shot at o'clock Letthis have the
effect of directing your attention to things
spiritual as we'll as temporal, that when
death comes it will find you prepared.
From your unfortunate friend,
JAMES CRAMP.
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A GRIcULT uRAL.
SMALL FARMS.

There Is q great mistake among arm
ers. And that is, they covet too much
land. Almost all our farms are probably
from four 70 ten times too large. A Far
mer never feels that he has got land E.
nough. He adds field to field, does not
half subdue or manure. what he has got,
and still wants more. One ofthe most
productive and profitable farms / ever
Saw, contained but fourteen acres. 1t was
very much subdued, and improved and
manured; and the owner was what was
called q very thrifty, if not rich man,
while his neighbor who skins over three
hundred acres, and works full as hard,
grows poor. BY proper management, |
am satisfied every acre of land which. is
fit to raise corn upon, can be made to yield
one hundred bushels 10 the acre. Is it
not better to put the manure and care and
labor upon II, and raise the one hundred
bushels. than to spread the same over four
acres, and thus drive away three or four
ofyour sons TO the wes.f As things now
are, what is the process will tell you.
Aman owns one Of our large farms. It's
paid for. He raises up large family
The girls are married of, and he. gives
each one her portion. He himself dies,
and his farm falls to bis Eve sons. One
Of these five sons takes the farm, and a.
grees 70 pay the other sons their shares
They 60 OF 20 the west and return no
more. He undertakes by economy and
industry to keep all the farm, and send a
fourth Of rs value to the west. BY and
by, he finds he cannot do il as fast as he
agreed to do il. He goes to the Life In
. snrance Company, or somewhere else,
mortgages his farm, and starts anew to
pav Tor Il. Ar his life he tolls, pays.in-
crest. thinks the farmer has very hard
row to hoe, and h is not till near the close
a his lie that he gets free from debt
When he dies, the same process has to be
gone over again, and about every genera,
tion, we send four-6Rhs Of the value o
our lands after them. Now this Is pool
policy, and ! sometimes wonder that oul
farms are in any tolerabIe condition; fol
their worth many times over has beer
sent away, 10 the west IL instead ofthis
nur farmers would divide M their farms
and make every acre yield all il can, oul
towns would not have the appearance O
age and decay which many Of them have
sPraise great Erm.n says the inmorta
met Of Rome, ssbut cultivate d little one.''-
ihave noticed that men as they grow old
seem 10 want more land. and seldom d,
YOU find man who feels he has enough
fiknow they talk Of the fertility Of tn
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A SIGN OF THE TIMES,

Another indication that pure christiani-
ty is soon to be gloriously difused, is, the
mighty achievements Of the temperance
reformation. Those who have looked
upon this cause as ofsuhordinate and tenn
porary importance, have, it is believed,
quite overlooked the results which God
designs to produce by it. The temper
ance reformation is strictly a conquest of
the rational part of man, over his animal
nature; and from this very fact, can
scarcel y fail to make the conquest ofother
vices comparatively easy. 1t is also bas-
ed on principles which must live and de-
scend with increased power, to the chill
dren, and children's children, of those
whose consecrated efforts are now revolu-
tionizing the public mind. Moreover.
this reformation has developed the true
method of combating other powerful and
deep-rooted sins. The power of simple
union of honest men, who agree to speak
the same thing in regard to popular vice,
is now understood, as it was not, ten wears
since. And doubtless the initial sten has
been aiken, and lessons of vital importance
learned. for the banishng from our world
of other forms Of wretchedness and crime.
Home Missionary.
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Time for Painting Houses-Repeated
experiments show that paint put on hous-
es late in autumn, or in winter, will last
far longer than that put on in warm wealth.
er. In cold weather the oil dries on the
clap boards and with other ingredients
forms durable body; but in hot weather
the boards absorb the OIL and what remains
on the surface has but little substance
Gen. Farmer.
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Jo1CE HETH is no more This an
Gent of days on whose young knees the
infant WASHINGTON once rested and play
ed, has at last laid down the burden of
more than hundred and sixty years.
She was the oldest aooman IN the 1rorld,
when she met her death, which took place
on Monday last. Actual age, 1862 May
she have fitting obsequies, and repose in
peace philadelphia Gaz.
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No. 24.....VoL. VIII---March 10, ls3e
VIEW OF RELIGIONS.

The following table, compiled from the
official publications Of the several sects, is
supposed to afford affair view Of the com.
parative strength of the different religious
denominations in the United States
The figures do not of course indicate mem
bers in full communion, but the whole
number of people who manifest a prefer
ence for this or that persuasion >-New
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The Christian Pi1grimage.-If men
have been termed pilgrims, and life jour
ney, then we may add, that the christian
pilgrimage surpasses all others, in the fol-
lowing important particulars: In the good
ness of the road, in the beauty of the pros
poets, in the excellence Of the company,
and in the vast superiority of the accom-
mediation provided for the christian trav-
eler, when he has finished his Course
The Witness
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In Cornwall, Eng, the members of the
temperance society bear a larger proper
ton to the whole population than in anv
county of England; the whole population
Of Cornwall being 100000, and the mem
bersof the temperance society exceeding
l2,00o, being about l in 80 of the whole
population women and children,
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Ss.4s2 80

This is equal, we think, to any thing
800 per acre lands on Red river are ca
pable Of producing; besides, we believe that,
on Mr. Brinson's plantation, his doctors
bill would not amount, during the year,
to $40.
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we are not permitted

inquired after here; We are not permitted
to sell such book
"Ileft the place without having been a
BILE to find single Testament for sale in it,
or single person to aid our work.
Gambler Obs.
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Western Enterprise. The enterprise
of the West is not generally appreciated.
As specimen, We have from Messrs. Co.
rev & Webster the following list Of books
published by them within the last three
years These books, with the exception
ofthc life of Black Hawk, are of sterling
value.
The Western Primer, 10000; Web,
ster's Spelling, 100000; the Primary
Reader, 1900; the Elementary Reader
$4,000; Western Reader, l6,0OO Web
ster's History Of the United States, 1000
Miss Beecher's Geography, 10000
Pocket Testament, $500; Watts and Sc
lect Hymns, 5000; Beecher's Lee
lures on Sccpticism, three editions, of 1000
each; Stoves Introduction to the
Stud Of the Bible, 1900 the Christian
Lyre, 5000; Mitchell's Chemistry, 1000;
Eberle on the Diseases of Children, 1000;
Ditto Notes of Practice 1900; Young
Lady's Assistant in Drawing, 1000; Nun
sells Map, $500; Chase's Statutes of
Ohio, three volumes, 1000; Hammond S
Reports, 9th vol 500; total serem hundred
and serenty-eight thousand taco hundred
and fifty! Probably some of the many
other publishers in the city have got out
nearly or quite as many books. Truly,
we are book-making and book-readmg
nation.-Cinclnnat Journal.
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PoETRY Y.
---3i l.I a.I-# FoR TIE At n
. arHR BALL OF THE VICTIMS

GTHE BALL OF THE Vlolims
\. Al one Of The most bloody periods Of the
French RevolutioD, an assembly was stated
Lh.id ~ paris. composed Of the near rela-
49, N suck a. had fallen victims: to the
,~r~.rv ~ The times. This assembly was
,csIIsi Re aBali Of the Victims" ......
Ars these thy conquests, ruthless war o
And these the fruits thou yearnest for2
These hearts, so scared and desolate,
Are these the trophies won the state7
These tears the blood for honor shed
These weeds the wreath the soldier wed3
Tn unbidden signs that minghng hoat
Are these thy bugle's martial motel
Are these thy fruits7--alas for thee!
. Thou hollow-hearted pageantry!
Ahlv victim sire, the soldiers fate
Has made thy mansion desolate;-
And was il music sweet to thee,
That dying shout Of victory2>
Wa thine the glory when he fell,
With "victoryp his dying knel2
Or thine the conquest when twas done
Thou childless and the battle wont
Mctherl victim art thou here7
Alasl that war should bring tear
Todim in age the watchful eye
That liz the soldiers infancy!
Thy child Is fallen with the brave,
And mo1lders in the victor's grave:
VIII not the wreath that twined his brow
Console the weeping mother rnow2
Alasi the hopes that round thy child
Chung ike the woodbine's tendrils wild,
Are sundered by the sword Of war;,
And cru she'd in blood beneath his car!
And what 10 thee that on the field
kn krnSr foa 10 10
What though he led the marshalled host,
And fought where dangers threatened most
His mafchless virtues, pondered DER,
But wound the mothers heart the more.
Andmaiden victims mingle here,
With bursting heart and flowing tear;
Whose early griefs and soTows speak,
In fading eye and blanching cheek,
Ofwasting form that uought can save
OF ebbing ife-an early grave.
To them, how sad the pomp Of war;
How poor the cause they wage it for!
To them, what worthless trophies yield
The victory and the conquered field!
Its triumphs but an empty show:
It's victor wreaths but weeds Of woe.
We who have seen the soldier bear
His musket on the field OF war,
And viewed, with mingled hope and pride,
His martial air and manly stride;-
Ye who ave gazed with rapt delight
On Moslem chief or armored Knight
Or seen the royal victor come,
With mingled shout and horn and drum,
To take the circling laurel bough,
Thrice welcome, TO his monarch brow
Dream not from these that nought can mar
This sunshine on the brow Of war.
Full many soldier on the field,
And many knight in armor steeled,
IN mingled gore together lie
} For blood'sthe price Of victory.
Oil blind ambitionl-to thy ken
Are worthless thus the souls Of men7
Think that in blood thy hand can trace
"a name that time shall meier erase?--
But stained on Fame's broad tablet high,
Live, cen when better names shall die2
Alasl that e'er thy temple stood '.
Surrounded by sea Of bloodl
Greer thy red and fated star
Should CLEAN upon the hilt Of war!
~ srrf I'll rs IErl ~, y - &c. -
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FERTILITY OF MIDDLE FLORIDA LANDS

Mr. Jason Crimson, on his plantation,
on the forbes s. Co.'S purchase" Shell
Point settlement, produced this season,
and brought to market, by the 10th inst
Jan. 1885, with the following force, viz
6 men, women, and 8 girls about IL
years of age, 1853 bags of cotton, weighing
5000 lbs, worth, in this market, IA !
cents per lb.-say 1882 80
500 bush. of corn, worth 81, 500 90
Potatoes in proportion.
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west, and the beautiful land to be found
there. And I know too, that young
man going out there, ifhe does not die un-
der il, viii in few years become thrifty.
And why7. The process is easily describ-
ed. He goes into the wilderness, pur-
chases his land, lives in his log cabin,
sleeps on the floor, or more likely upon
the ground, eats upon a slab pinned up
into the logs, and eats what comes to
hand, wears what he can get, and so he
lives, working early and late, and it would
be wonderful indeed if he did not gain
property. And so would he here. Let a
young man take the poorest farm you can
name, and labor on II as hard, and live Just
as he does at the west for fifteen years,
s. he will be rich here. 1t is not so much
the land that makes the difference, as
it is the difference in the manner of living,
between the west and the east l was
struck while riding in the stage, in listen
ing to the conversation between two farm
ers, the one from Illinois, the other from
the state Of Maine. The western man
was describing the fertility of the soil,
contrasting it with New England. why,
how much corn can you raise tothe acre."
says our man from Maine, Il can raise
all Of seventy bushels with all ease.'-
And how much do you get bushel ?''
"Ninepence a bushel at my door,
WELL says the Maine farmer Il can
raise three hundred bushels of potatoes on
my land, and get twenty cents bushel at
my door, cay, but you have to dig
them" "True, and don't you have to
pick and then shell your corn, and after
all get but twelve and half cents bush
ell, and only seventy bushels on an acre "
l repeat it with the same economy, and the
same industry, a young farmer here can
get rich as easy as at the west. Whether
they will practice equal economy and
industry is more than can say. But let
the fashion once prevail of having smaller
farms and having them better cultivated,
and you will be surrounded by your own
sons, instead of large landholders, and a
floating population, who hire themselves
ont to cultivate it, and who have no land
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In the neighborhood of Philadelphia,
are the vast glass works ofMr Dyott, who
manufactures 10000 pounds weight Of
glass daily. The glass blowers and 9TH
er workmen required in this immense es-
tablishment, are at least 800; of which
two-thirds are young lads. Their habit
atoms form the village of Dyottville.-
Nearly all theyouth are boarded and lodg-
ed in separate building. Every morn
ing all the workmen assemble in chap
ell, where minister prays: after which a
hymn is sung. In the evening, the youth
60 to a regular school, kept by the minis
ter, which is closed with prayer and sing
ing. The hail is furnished with library
for the use of the workmen No strong
liquors are admitted into the mandatory.
Western Banner.
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There are chapels belonging to the
Congregationalists, 1868; Friends, 1916;
Baptists in England, l,O45; Orthodox
Presbyterians, So, do. Wales, l89; Uni
tarians, l65; Methodists, 1911; Roman
Catholics, 4O5; Home Missionary, GAL;
Small denominations, 1T; Total, $3.50.
The average number of attendants at each
ofthe above chapels is estimated at 400,
which gives a total of 100000. One
third more may be added for children, in
valids &c. making 100000 The above
statement shows an increase in the mum.
Der of dissenters' chapels since 1912, of
4,8OO.-QuGr Obs.
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MARINE STATE PRIsoN-The follow
ing statistics are obtained by the editor Of
the lions Advocate from the report Of
this institution made to the Legislature.
Since July I'd, 1884, there were COM
mitted 557-discharged 403-pardoned
7O-died l4-escaped 5-remains IS.
Ofthose now in prison, Al are Americans,
10 Irish, 6 English, and Nova-Scotians
The expenses ofthe prison the last year
were S21 ,2l5,47 and the receipts ST.
1918. The Warden says, 1.-The reduced
number of convicts at this prison has rem
dered the institution by far less productive
than was anticipated, the same number of
guards and overseers being required for
the sixty-fve convicts, as would be re-
quired for three times that number, and
the same expense for fuel, &c. &C."
Any diminution of income from such a
reason, will not be matter of regret to the
citizens generally. The average cost of
clothing for a convict for year is S14,O9,
and expenses for food II cts. and 3m. per
day.
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GREAT Corn Crop.

Mr. Philip Reybold, fred Lion Hun
dred, New Castle county, DeIaware) has
sent US the following statement of the crop
of corn produced last season in three of
his fields. Mr. Reybold is probably the
largest farmer in New Castle CO., and the
following results will show that he may
fairly claim rivalry with the best in the
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years old, the daughter of Mr. Myers, As
Bowery, was so dreadfully burned on
Thursday, by her clothes taking fire, that
she died yesterday morning, The moth
er had stepped out but for a minute, and
when she returned the child Was enyel-
oped in flames -Nenc- York pepper.
PAuPER1sM. In the city and county
OF New 4ork, during the past year, there
were, according to the official statement.
22,696 paupers, and the expense of sup
porting this number, amounted to 99l,-
8l3. The whole number in the state
was 39,362-total expense $685. 4ll2.
GRAIN 1t is a singular fact, that tive
or three cargoes of wheat rye and oats
have recently been imported from Europe
into this port, and have paid a handsome
profit to those concerned in the transac.
tions-Mcrc0ntIe.
Imp0rtant Discovery. Peter Ritner,
and Joseph Lay, of PENNSYLVANIA,
have discovered the art of smelling iron
ore with mineral coal. Immense sums
have been by others expended in vain, to
discover this important secret; which has
enabled the English to furnish us with
their iron, even at duty of $50 ton.
Gratitude. A very poor, aged man,
busted in planting and grating an apple
tree, was rudely interrupted by this inter-
rogation-" Why do you plant trees, who
cannot hope to eat the fruit of them?'
He raised himselfup, and leaning upon
his spade, replied, "Some one planted
trees for me before | was born, and 7 have
eaten the fruit; I now plant for others
that the memorial Of my gratitude NAV
exist when am dead and gone"
1t is intended, we understand, to erect
the great national monument to WASHING
TON, no less than SIC hundred and fo7tv
feet high Miles Regr
A report ofthe secretary ofthe treasury,
in compliance with a resolution of the
senate, states that the whole costs attend
ing the purchase and management of the
public lands to the 3Oth Sept. 1885, is
computed at S57 ,652, 2O7; that the whole
Quantity of land surveyed and offered for
sale to that date, was l66,897, O82 acres.
ofwhich only 44,499,620 acres have been
sold, and that the net proceeds or receipts
into the treasury therefor had been S58.-
,528.-B.
JAMAIcA-We have received by tie
Orbit file of Jamaica papers to the 18th
ut. They state that the weather was re.
markably cold, the thermometer at Kings
ton having been down to 54degrees The
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BEST TIME For MENTAL ExERT1oN.
Nature has allotted the darkness Of the
night for repose and the restortion by sleep
of the exhausted energies Of the bod y and
mind If study or composition be ardent
ly engaged in towards that period of the
day, the increased action in the brain
which always accompanies activity Of
mind requires long time to subside; and
if the individual be Of an irritable habit,
he will be sleepless for hours, or perhaps
tormented by unpleasant dreams. If, new
ertheless, the practice be continued, the
want Of refreshing repose will ultimately
induce state Of irritabiIity of the nervous
system approaching to insanity. 1t is
therefore of great advantage to engage in
severer studies early in the day, and devote
the two or three hours preceding bedtime
to light reading, music, OF amusing con-
versation-Combe's PhisloLogy.
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JAMAIcA-We have received bv tie
Orbit file Of Jamaica papers to the 18th
ut. They state that the weather was re-.
markablyco the thermometer at Kings
ton having been down to 54 degrees The