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OUR MECHANICAI. PRODUCTIvENEss

The work of preparing the statistics of the
last national census for publication has so far
progressed, as to afford valuable information TO
the Committee on Ways and Means, and the
Treasury Department, in preparing tax bill.
The different branches of manufacturing indus
try have expanded marvelousy since the CEN
sus of 1850. In that census the cotton manu-
facturers were set down at sos ,500,6S7. The
returns from New England alone in 1860
amount to $79,000,000 The wooden goods of
the United States were estimated at $3.50 ,S4S,-
557, but New England alone in 1860 returns
the value of wooden goods at S32, 100000. In
boots and shoes the census of 1850 for the
whole United States returned only $63 ,967,-
4OS; Massachusetts alone in 1860 estimates
her production in this branch of industry at
$46,060,000. Philadelphia returns nearly &c.
100000 The production of pig, bar, railroad
and rolled iron, which in 1850 was Of the value
of $30,S23,374, in 1860 has reached $62, 0j5,-
600, having doubled in ten years. The malt
liquors produced il 1850 were valued at 50,
1885, In 1860 the amount is 3, 235, 900 bar
rels, valued at SlS, 100000, or more than three
times greater. The spirituous liquors in 1850
were valued at Sl5,770,240; in 1860 the pro-
duction is S6,000,000 gallons, valued at $685.
100000. The value Of the products of indus
try of all branches in 1850 was computed al
SiOl9,106,6l6. In 1860 it will reach 81 300,
100000, or an increase of about eighty-sever
per cent The greatest increase since 1880 il
in agricultural implements, iron, malt liquors
machinery, clothing, cotton goods, refined sugar
gold mining, &c.
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"With cannon, mortar. and petard,
We send to you our Beauregard."
FEMALE AND MALE EDUCATION.

1t evidently does not occur to the Rev. DR..
Abbott that there are certain sciences which
"sons" have to learn, that would not be very
useful to daughters" Admitting that the
latter may be excellent physicians, and very
wise legislators, as well as good teachers, paint
ers, sculptors, ETC., there is yet some doubt,
even among the most ambitious and enterprs-
ing of themselves, as to their qualifications for
the business of navigating vessels, exploring
new countries, commanding large armies in
war times, on land or sea, acting as advocates
in courts of justice in dedicate" cases, or as
Judges on the bench. 1t will hardly be denied
that certain amount of study and training is
necessary for each of these positions and per-
haps some others could be added, of which the
same may be said. Undoubtedly ladies may
be, and often are, good lnguisls; they learn
nothing better than languages-the use of
tongue; yet we have no female Bopp, Grimm,
or Prichard. Comparative philology, one of
the most valuable of sciences, owes little, if
anything to the gentler sex. We have never
known a lady yet that could institute intelligent
comparisons between the Coptic, the Sanscrit.
the Zend and the Hebrew. Good female as
tronomers there have been but no female
Calico, Kepler, Copernicus, Newton, or Des-
cartes. Even in works of Imagination, they do
not altogether equal the ruder sex for we have
no female Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, or Mil
ton. What is stranger still, the world has yet
TO produce a female Phidias, Angelo, Raphael
or Canova. But assuming woman to be intel
lectually equal in every respect to man, still
there remain those positions for which women
are deemed unsuited. by the wisest of all ages
and nations and in general they are such as
require most study and preparation. What,
then, is there SO very absurd in the disparity
spoken of in the above extract? Would it not
be more absurd to require the young lady, who
has to enter on the duties of the matron per-
haps at the age of eighteen, or twenty, TO go
through as extensive "a course of study as the
young man who devotes himself to the bar, the
army, or the navyP And since it is thus clear
that females do not require as much learning as
males. why expend as much in educating the
former as the latter? Let every necessary
facility be afforded, by all means, for educating
the one as well as the other; but to maintain
that, because the education of sons costs a Ger.
tain sum, an equal sum ought to be devoted tc
the education of daughters, is about as sensible
and logical as to maintain that, because lady
sometimes pays twenty dollars for bonnet,
gentleman ought to pay an equal amount for
hat, if he has due regard for the rights ant
privileges of his sex
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The RATTLEsNAKE AND THE EAGLE.-Once
rattlesnake and eagle had a quarrel and the
rattlesnake challenged the eagle to fight.
III will show YOU" said the reptile, "that
am master of those rocks which you pretend to
rule, miserable bird Come down and fight with
me if you dare %
The bird of jove turned his head scornfully,
and looked down upon the crawling thing that
ratified and Kissed beneath the crag on which
he held his stately perch.
"When took possession of this mountain"
he replied, 81 found you inhabiting that rock,
and l have never moested you there. You
then took an oath of allegiance to me, and
promised in return for my protection TO re-
spect my eggs and young. They know where
you are; keep near that hole OF yours, and
leave the mountain to me and hiss or rattle as
you like But beware of coming near my nest
"Cowardly creature !" cried the snake, 81
scorn you! | will tear your nest, and devOur
your young, and drive you to the furtherest
par of the mountain if you resist, you shall
see that have friends to help me-"
The eagle made no answer but sat with his
piercing eye fixed on the dark clouds which
rolled over the mountain, silent, stern and
calm.
The reptile shook his rattles, and his allies,
the adder, the buzzard, the bear, the wise look
ing owl, and the alligator, with his brother the
crocodile formed a confederation to overthrow
the dominion of the eagle. And when all was
agreed, the rattlesuake, after long prepora-
ton, attacked an egg-shel of the eagle, which
was on the rock the reptile claimed for his own
and having taken possession of, held a great
jubilee with his allies and threatened to rush
with them at once upon the eagles nest.
Then the great bird spread his wings, and
uttered his Wild changing cry, and from peal,
to peak his young responded, till the mountain
rang with their war screams AMI each seized
in his talons a block or stone, and sailed ovei
the rocks where Rebels lay, dropping on every
one his laundering granite burden before The
holes by which they must come forth. Ant
the rattlesaake and his wretched friends fount
themselves shut up in their den, and starvation
awaited them while the eagles, if they chose
dropped missiles upon their heads
And the eagle said, "thus do l treat my
treacherous and presumptuous foes. Learn tC
know the eagle; and if you will not love him
then you shall fear him."
So with the great granite blocks he enclosed
and subdued his enemies. And this was
good blockade. Waterman and Reflector.
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chuckle but in the morning found in my lar
der the hind quarters of "Virginia rabbit"
with horny split hofT, and woolly fetlock,
and as nearly all the men had rabbit. for
breakfast and several rations of rabbit in
their haversacks concluded that If had had
"big knife" for all the applicants we should
have been living on rabbit yet. BY the way,
Virginia rabbit is fully as good as Vermont
mutton, and before leaving camp ascertalned
that the Second boys succeeded in finding and
securing several kinds of rabbits, some, with
horns, some with bristles, some with wool, and
some few with wings and feathers.
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CAMP lNcIDENT.-Lieut. Chas c. Spalding,
OF the Vermont Fifth, in an interesting letter
to the Montpelier freeman, relates this pleasant
incident OF camp life, near Warwick, Va.
At night we camped as best we coul |, my
own shelter consisting Of about a dozen rails
thickly matched with pine boughs with
cheerful fire in front. l slept soundly, but
about ten or eleven O'Clock one OF the boys
came to ask me for the loan of my "big knife"
gave it to him, and in few minutes another
party came or the same errand, an then anotht r,
and still another. As | had but one "big knife"
and that already loaned to the first applicant,
could not of course accommodate ALL But
"what is up" inquired, "the whole company
is after me for big knife got no reply to
my question more than significant wink and
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Now is the
CHANCE FOR AGENTS.

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Address
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WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE DOING 2

The American people are intelligent enough to APP
precate preparations that contribute much to the
happiness Of those using them, and they want them
Every mail brings us letters, ordering the TREA-
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sent bv mil; but to these we are compelled to reply
that it is impossible to send hafpnt bottle by mail
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First to urge battle, last to draw the sword;
Virgina's bully boy, so loud of mouth
Terror of Yankees, darling of the SOUTH
We think it likely that the poet knows his
man, and, when writing this, provided himself
with second hand bowie knife, with the ex-
hibition of which to calm Col. Pryor's resent
ment.
Oh that burly rebel, his Reverence General
Polk, the Richmond poet has, we are glad to
say, far higher opinion. He says -
"Let meaner talents from the Bible draw
Their faith their morals these and those their law
His livel, genius finds in deeds of war
fame, a glory which no time can mar.
How bright our warror-Bishop's fame doth shine!
So great a soldier profound divine!
Who fires his soldiers hearts with sacred texts,
Speaks peace on Sunday, and shoots Yankees next"
He seems to have some feeling against Cen
eral Toombs, whose recent address to the peo-
pie Of Georgia, advising them to gather kind
ling-wood and make ready to burn down their
towns, suits him no better than it did the
Georgians OF Toombs he writes -
"Amphious Tyre, they say, could raise town,
But this great liars worse-he burns it down."
Yet it seems that he does not so much object
to arson as to the spirit in which Toombs and
Cobb urged that crime upon their fellow cti-
zens, for a little farther on (page y he bursts
out into ardent praises of Governors Brown
and Pickens:-
Shall, Brown and Pckens-thrice, thrice honored
names,
Whose godke bosoms burn with patriotic flames;
To serve his country at her utmost need
Behold by this burning town decreed;
While that devotes, with true chivalric zeal,
Anoiher's cotton to the public veal"
And so on. He is evidently strong partisan
of Davis, and mourns that this great rebel has
fallen upon days so degenerate, abiding, pro-
badly, to the incessant abuse lavished upon him
by the Richmond Enquirer, Memphis Appeal,
and other papers. He speaks of degenerate
scribblers, and the good old times when but
few could read aud fewer write, and adds =
80, had the gods but kindly wied it so,
That thou hadst lived two hundred years ago.
No foolish editors had libeled then
No fearful rogues had spoiled thy greatest plant"
But he banishes regrets
But hence fond thought, nor be by passion hurried
Hadst thou then lived thou now vert dead andburied
Not now would armies vast thy orders own,
Not now shinplasters thy face be shown"
The allusion to "fearful tongues" above, W,
at first took to be intended for Floyd; but i
must mean some one else-perhaps Pillow O.
Letcher-for at page 10 occurs passage il
which Floyd-in disgrace for his retreat in
western virginia-appeals to Davis thus, ant
we trust not in vain =
"You slight me, Davis, and but little heed
What talents have shown, what merits Plead
How in your time of need muskets stole,
And with what genius played the traitors role
Ten thousand small arms plead my cause with you,
And prove me worthiest of your patriot crew."
In Beauregard this wrie has great conf
dence. He speaks of him several times, prais
ing his genius as the foremost military engineer
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of the age. In fact like most Of the rebels,
this gallant man likes best the man who can
put the most solid stone wall between him and
the Union troops. AT page fourteen her per-
sonifes Beauregard as the great god of forti6-
cation, and speaks of him as rushing through
the country to the defence of the people.
with gorges, scafIolds, breaches, bitches, mines,
With culvernes, whole and demi, and gabines
With trench, with co unterscarp, with esplanade,
With curtain, moat, and rhom6o and chamade,
With polygon, epaulment hedge and bank,
With salient angle and with angle flank"
And so on for half dozen lines more. We
can only say that if poor Beauregord really
goes about with such an array of defences, he
is worthy of all the reward he will get from the
southern confederacy, and all the fame con-
ferred on him by the poet Boggs But we must
hint that the above lines we're probably suggest
ed to the poet by the famous coupet which was
sent from the south after the capture of Fort
Sumter:
"With cannon, mortar. and petard,
We send to you our Beauregnrd."
Here we reluctantly close our quotations from
the southern Iiad, venturing only on one more
short extract, in which the good Boggs not only
adorns tale, but points moral:
"Ah, think what danger on debauch attends
Let Letcher drunk preach mprance to his friends
See how he stumbled to the Speakers chair
His reason drowned in whiskey cocktails rare;
Till saying to speak, he fell upon the floor,
And crawled, mid jeers, out of the chamber door"
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~ TN IIh VEN AlNIJ MN ITNNII IOlN
Y RAILR0AD.-On and after Monday June Cd, 1891
Trains will follows;
Leave Northampton 20 a. Mail and Passenger Train
for New Haven and New York; IL .05 "A. Accommodation
Train for Westiel.
Leave New Haven for Northampton Accommodation at
100 connecting with train Conn River X. r. for the
NORTH 345 p M, Mail and Passenger, arrival of 1915
= Train New York, connecting at Westleld direct
for Albany and the West.
Leave Westded 715 p. for Northampton on arrival of
train irom tlbany.
Conn, eli MS at northampton with Conn. River r. r.;
Westheld, Western Railroad; at Plainhed, Providence,
Hartford and Fshki r. RI at New Haven with New York
and New Haven r. Ri New Haven, New London ard Ston-
nngon r. r. and New Haven, Hartford and Springfield r.
X.
Tickets sold and Baggage checked to all principal points
West
Freight forwarded with equal dispatch by Express.
CIIAs. N. YEAMANS, Sup't.
Wes1ed, June 1st 1861 --tf4
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O-EVorybody and his wife in want of Dry
Goods nrc hereby notified that have now n
fall new stock and TINT shall offer ihcm
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D5-DR. HuRDs MOUTH WASH, TOOTH pow
DER, and TOOTHACllE DROPS cannot be sent by
mall but they can probably be obtained at your Drug
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,zzzzz5zzz--,=.s VERMONT VALLEY RAIL

;.sss;:fsFROAp. On and after MONDAY Nor. 18Th
EaZ--za-.1 Sol, TRAINS will run as follows;-
Leave Bellows Falls for Braeboro so A. NJ and 10 P
NJ Returning leave Brattleboro Below Falls 10 so AN
and 40 r. NJ. FREIGHT TRAIN leaves Bellows Falls at
6.15 A. VI. Brateboro II 90 =. VI.
The Passenger Trains this route connect South with
the VT Massachusetts, and Connecticut River Railroads
Springfield Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport direct to
New York. On the North with the Rutland Burlington SUI
liyan Vermont Central, Vermont Canada Connecticut and
ssumpsic Rivers Rail Roads, forming direct communication
with WHITEHALL Saratoga and schenectady, StJohnsbury and
White Mountains Burlington and Rouse's Point Ogdensburgh
and Montreal. NJ. SLOAT, Superintendent.
VT Valley X. r. Office, Nov. 10Th, 1861.
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