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Foreign News.

NEW DIRK, May IL
A cable dispatch to the Herald, dated the 18th,
says: " Notwithstanding the satisfactory solution
of the Luxembourg question by the treaty arrange
ment, fears are entertained and generally express
ed that war has been merely postponed by the
work of the diplOmatists." M
Warlike preparations are still actively carried
on in France, Germany, Russia and Greece.
1t is said that before the close Of the peace con-
ference, q proposal will likely be addressed, by
England, to all the powers inclined to belligerent
action, in which Queen Victoria will recommend
and urge general disarmament. Should this
proposal be entertained, another Congress will
probably assemble in London to secure its formal
adoption and uniform execution by all the great
powers. But it is thought that even, this propo-
sition will not be successful in securing the main
tenance of peace.
LONDON, May u.
The treaty was signed yesterday by the respec-
tive Governments. The Prussians will evacuate
Luxembourg in month.
BERLIN, May II.
The French Cabinet has made satisfactory ex-
plantations to Prussia, regarding her recent war
like preparations. 1-s-' ~
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ADVANTAGES OF pULvERIzING THE SOIL.

The advantages of pulverizing or STIR
ring the soil are numerous:
]. 1t gives free scope to the roots of
vegetables; and they become more fib-
rous in loose than in hard soil, by
which the mouths or pores become
more numerous, and such food as is in
the soil has better chance of being
sought after and taken up by them.
.. 1t admits the atmospheric air to
the spongioles Of the roots-without
which no plant can make healthy
growth.
8. 1t increases the capillary attraction
or sponge-like property of soils by
which their humidity is rendered more
uniform; and in hot season it increases
the deposit dew, and admits it to the
roots.
A. tincreases the temperature of the
soil in the spring, by admitting the
warm air and tepid rain.
5. 1t increases the supply of organic
food. The atmosphere contains carbon
ic acid, ammonia, and nitric acid, all
most powerful fertilizers and solvents.
A loose soil attracts and condenses them.
Rain and dew also contain them. And
when these fertilizing gases are carried
in to the soil by rain water, they are
absorbed and retained by the soil, for
the use of plants. On the other hand,
if the soil is hard, the water runs off the
surface and instead Of leaving these
gases in the soil, carries off some of the
best portions of the soil with it. Thus
what might be a benefit becomes an in
jury.
6. By means ofpulverizing, portion
OF the atmospheric air is buried in the
soil, and it is supposed that ammonia
and nitric acid are formed by the mutu-
al decomposition ofthe air and the mois-
ture of the soil-heat also being evolved
by the changes.
I. Pulverization ofthe surface of soils
serves to retain the moisture in the sub.
soil, and to prevent it from being pene
trated by heat from warmer, as well
as from radiating its heat to colder at
mosphere than itself. These effects are
produced by the porosity of the pulyer-
lied stratum, which acts as mulch. es.
pecially on heavy soils.
8. Pulverization, also, has the COM
bined effect of several of the preceding
causes, accelerates the decomposition Of
the organic matter in the soil, and the
disintegration of the mineral matter:
and thus prepares the inert matter of
the soil for assimilation by the plants.
-Genesee Farmer.
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WHAT HARD WORK CAN Accom-
PL1sH.-As an evidence of what an in
dustrious man can do, be he white or
black, when once he sets his mind to
hard work, we produce the case of a
freedman named Albert Woodson, who
was employed by Mr.. George NJ
Gwathmey, in Cumberland county, at
the rate Of ten dollars per month and
board, for one year. During the year,
besides his regular wages, he made one
hundred and eighty-six dollars worth of
tobacco and thirty-five dollars worth of
corn-amounting to three hundred and
forty-one dollars. This is about as much
as most good mechanics receive thorough
out the year-ineluding the board and
lodging.-Rich. Examiner. =
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Florida produces lemons that weigh over
a pound, and are twelve inches in circumfer-
ence. They are obtained by cross between
the common lemon and the sour orange.
Chief Justice Chase has appointed all the
registers Of bankruptcy needed in the State
Of New York. The New England States
will be next supplied, and then Pennsyl-
vania.
The registers of New Orleans have felt
compelled to refuse venerable colored man
his certificate on the ground that he is a
native of Guinea, and has never taken out
his naturalization papers.
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THE FRENCH IRoN-cLAD FLEET.-The
iron-clad navy of France consists of two
armorplated ships-ofthe-line, carrying 104
guns and 1858 men; IA frigates, carrying
1926 guns and S,110 men; corvette, carry
ing 10 guns and 800 men; 1 coast-guard
vessel, carrying 2 guns and 1870 men; and
Is floating batteries, carrying sO2 guns and
$3.50 men. The greater part of this fleet is
now in commission or is being fitted out, so
that the present iron-clad fleet consists in
the aggregate Of 33 vessels, carrying GAG
guns, and 13,43s men. Besides these, there
are building 4 frigates, corvettes, 8 coast
guard vessels, and 1 floating battery; and
there are eleven sectional floating batteries,
now dismantled. The aggregate armament
of these will be 143 guns, and their crews
will number 6,932. When all in commission,
the iron-clads of France will number SO
vessels, with an aggregate armament of 7S9
guns. and manned by 20,37O men. This will
certainly be the most formidable iron-clad
navy of Europe.
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ECONOMY IN CoAL.-Though coal for
many years has been an article of fuel, few
persons know enough of the different quail
ties to economist in the use of it. A leading
fact is worthy of attention. Commencing in
the longitude OF Mauch Chunk, we find the
hardest coal now used for domestic pur-
poses; running westward the density de-
creases, so that as far west as Wicanisco or
Lykens Valley, We find soft bituminous
coal weighing, bulk for bulk, with Lehigh,
about one-ffth less. To economist in the
use of coal, the consumer should have both
hard and soft; in cold weather, when the
stove doors are closed and all the draft on,
the hardest coal should be used, then there
will be no complaint about the fire "going
out" When the weather is moderating, use
the soft coal with one or but little draft,
and sufficient heat will be obtained, and tie
fire will not go out. Men do not wear winter
overcoats in spring, nor do they wear sum-
mer clothes in winter There is about the
same difference in the varieties of coal that
there is in hickory, oak, and pine wood
PhiLa. Star.
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BEET SUGAR.-The manufacture of sugar
from beet root it is believed, is destined to
become successful and an established branch
of industry in this country, especially in the
West, where land is cheap, rich, and peculiar
ly adapted to the growth of the beet. We
have several times referred to the sugar man.
ufactory in Illinois, conducted by two
Frenchmen, in which considerable capital is
invested. Owing to the difficulty of work
ing new machinery and the delay generally
attendant upon any untried enterprise it was
not profitable last year. About 100000
pounds of good sugar were produced. But
this year about one thousand acres are plant
ed with the beet, and it is confidently ex-
pected one million pounds of sugar will be
made. Our contemporaries in the West
which have the best opportunities to judge
of the state of the question have not the
shadow of doubt of the success of the pro-
ject, and that soon Illinois will be large
exporter of sugar Germantown Telegraph.
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MARI AS 4 FERT1L1zEn.-There is an

MARI AS A FERT1LIzER.-There is all
old axiom in natural philosophy, that
" nature abhors vacuum" This is also
often the case in geological point OF
view. We frequently see large tracts
Of land SO rough and barren that they
would not pay to cultivate. at gift, yet
a few feet below the surface lies, las it
by wise provision of nature, the hid
den treasure, awaiting the advance OF
civilization and science to unfold them
for the benefit of man. Such are the
coal and oil fields of Pennsylvania and
the mari beds of New jersey.
There are very few Pennsylvania far
mers who have an idea Of the impor-
lance of this New Jersey fertilizer,
which abounds especially in West Jer-
sey, in the counties of Gloucester, Salem,
Camden, &c. Mari is so far grand
desideratum, that its effects as fertili-
ger upon light, sandy soils have caused
complete revolution in the price OF
land and the profits of farming in vari-
GUS portions OF Jersey. Twenty-Five
years ago land that could be purchased
for $40 an acre cannot be had now for
$3.50. I have seen mari tried, however,
on the heavy soils in Pennsylvania, with
no visible Improvement; but on light
soils its effect on grass, rye, potatoes,
backwheat and truck generally, is like
magic. Farmers haul it from five to
fifteen miles in Jersey and provision
is made in letting farm that given
number of loads Of mari must be put on
during the term of the lease. 80
There is one popularity in this fertili-
ger, which is, that when it is put on a
barren spot of land the white clover
will spring up where no signs of vege-
tation were ever visible before. A very
respectable member of the Society of
Friends used to say that he could see
the grass seeds in the mari. .oae
Mari, or green sand, is generally
found on the banks of creeks and small
streams flowing into the land; and
though there is difference in the quail
ity of almost every deposits yet 1 believe
the presence ofphosphates, iron pyrites,
potash, clay, &C., are the principles of
its fertilizing power. Any individual
that would like to see the effects of mari
let him take trip to Woodstown, Null
lica Hill or Alawayston, all pleasant
little Quaker villages in West Jersey,
and talk with the farmers there, as well
as see the manner of digging and ap-
plying it to their crops, &c.
The landowner that has marl-bed
in West Jersey, of good quality, his
fortune is made. 1t sells from $40 to
SIS per square rood, and is uncovered
and dug, generally, by poor working
men in the neighborhood.- German
toaon Telegraph.
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From Charleston.

CHARLESTON May u.
Gen. Sickles has issued an order, requiring all
persons concerned in the seizure of any kind of
real or personal property, sequestrated by the
Confederate Government, to report in writing to
his Headquarters the amount and kind of prop
erty sequestrated, the time and place of sequcs-
tration, with the names of the original and pres
ent owners.
The Republican State Convention has adjourned
to meet in Columbia on the oath of July. A plat
form was adopted affirming adhesion to the Re
publican party of the North.
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PARTICULARS OF THE WATERSP0UT Dis
.sTER IN THE COLORADO DESERT. &.

The correspondent of The Alta Cali
fos7sid gives the following account of
the recent singular disaster on the Col
orado desert:
The unusual storm of Sunday, the
10th instant, a notice of which sent
YOU by steamer, was not confined to
this Immediate locality. On the Colo
RADIO desert, on the afternoon ofthe same
day, in what is known as waterspout,
Government train was lost.
The train consisted ofeleven wagons,
was known as Chambers train, and was
accompanied by one company, and
detachment from another company OF
the 18th United States Infantry, under
the command of Lieutenant. They
had encamped in the bed of, and just
below, the forks of a deep and broad
wash. They were marching to Date
Creek and Skull Valley, Arizona. The
camp was nine miles east OF the Los
Palmos, at Canyon Springs.
While thus encamped, a small black
cloud suddenly appeared above the hor-
lion, from which lightning and thun-
der proceeded. A sufficient time hard
ly elapsed to observe this cloud, when
it, or another one, teeming with cleo
tricity, made its appearance in almost
the opposite direction. The whole heav-
ems were overcast, and amid the vivid
flashes of lightning and deafening peals
of thunder, shower of hail commenced
falling, which soon became shower of
fiat pieces of ice, two to four inches
square. The mules instantly fled before
the pelting storm to some neighboring
hills, while the men sought shelter I'M
der wagons and the high banks of the
wash.
An employee, a Californian, who came
in with an express from the command
to the Quartermaster at Wilmington,
says he took shelter in a wagon, and in
few moments huge volume of water,
the face of which was nearly or quite
three feet high, came rushing down the
wash. This was soon followed by an
additional one which presented front
still above the waters Of the first. The
water rose in the wagon in which he was
until it nearly reached the top of the
bows of the covering, only a few inches
ofair being left to him beneath the wag-
on cover. Two men of the Fourteenth
were drowned, and the commanding
officer was carried down the wash inthe
angry and boiling flood, and was only
rescued from drowning by an Indian
vanquero, who, standing on the bank,
saw the Lieutenant completely exhaust
ed from battling with the wild waters,
amid the wreck of the trees, and threw
his RATA over his head and drew him to
the shore. Six wagons were irretrieva-
bly, lost, together with nearly all the
harness of the whole train, and the rest
of the wagons were washed down the
torrent, overturned, broken, bruised,
and scattered for miles.
Commissary stores, with which the
train had been laden, were carried into
Salt Lake (the great basin of the Colo
rado,) distance of Is miles from the
scene of disaster. The command and
the train are unable to move until re-
supplied with wagons, harness, and pro-
visions at the depot at Wilmington
The provisions were nearly all lost
Canyon Springs are about 200 miles
from this city, on the La Paz road, by
which route and place the command
was marching.
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Tennessee.



KNOXVILLE, TENN, May s.-Governor
Brownlow, through his paper, publishes an
address to his party, in lieu of a speech,
which he says he is too feeble to make. To
the blacks he says that the Radical Legisla-
ture enfranchised them, and that the section
of the law excluding them from holding Of
fee originated with rebels, and that he was
personally on the floor of the House work.
ing to strike out that odious section. His
party, he claims. has restored the State to
to peace. to the Federal Union, to financial
credit; has opened schools and courts, and
protected loyal men. The two parties are
traitors and Union men, and he warns the
former that wherever they infame the pas
sions of the people he will station State
troops whatever may be the result
The Knoxville Convention instructs its
delegates to support General Cooper for Con-
gress. The race in the convention on the
18th, between Cooper and Maynard, will be
close. ....r-
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Election of Bishop.

r AUGUSTA, GA, April IL.
Rev. John Beckwith, of New Orleans, is elected
Episcopal Bishop of Georgia.
As the Sexton of the first Baptist Church was
lighting up for the evening service, the entire
ceiling fell with loud crash, breaking the pews
and furniture. fortunately the congregation had
not assembled No person injured
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INDIANAPOLIS, May s.-A severe frost last
night, in the judgment of fruit men, lroba-
bly, killed the peaches and apples of this
section. The ice formed in the streets.
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Markets and Financial.


NEW YORK, May IL, P. M.
Cotton more active. Advanced cent. Sales
OF 900 bales Middling Uplands at %
firm, s2S,25. Il, -,
LIVERPOOL, May II.
Cotton quiet. Middling Uplands 11H Or
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1t is singular fact that while the Eng
fish have given up breech-loading artillery
in their navy, the French are introducing
guns of this description in all haste, discar-
ding muzzle-loaders as cumbersome and in
efficient. At the same time the English
War Department is busy with experiments
in needle-guns. Within short time sever
al varieties of this weapon have been sub
jected to a rigid examination by the small
arms committee, now sitting for the pur-
pose of deciding upon the best gun for the
use of the British army. The English pa
pers exhibit a good Zeal of impatience at
the committees delay. While they are
wasting time and money in experiments 9TH
er nations are actually arming; and France.
Austria and Russia will be fully provided
with breech-loadels, before England decides
upon the selection and manufacture of any
gun.
Life Insurance substitutes the certainty of
patrimony, for the uncertain continuance
of life, in which to acquire it.
Hsecures independence and domestic comfort
to the widow or orphan, when deprived of a.
fathers efforts for their support.
It is the exercise of Prudence and Benevo-
lence. It secures to ones family the .tfnan-
cial value of an acreage duration of life, in
the event Of an early death.
Call without delay and get a Policy in my
Agency. P. F. PESCUD, agent.
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Mexican News.-.Gov. ThrOckmOrt0n ON
Registration.

Registration.
NEW ORLEANS, May 10.
San Louis Potosi advices Of the 9th ult., say
that, on the 23rd, Maximilian, at Queretaro,
placed himself at the head Of q column of G, QUO
men, leading the attack on the Liberals. The
fight lasted all day. The Liberals were surprised
at first and driven back. They subsequently rail-
lied and repulsed the Imperialists, who took ref
uge in the city. slf ss,T ".
The Liberals held q portion Of the city few
hours, and then took up their old position.
Gov. Throckmorton, OF Texas, says that he has
not recommended any persons for registers and
declines to do so. As soon rs the books and
papers arrive, the work of registration will COM
mel CO. ~ r - t.s.
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2,66S,S75,09S IS

Amount of Debt, less Cash in
Treasury, 1850, 7S6, 096 25
The foregoing is q correct statement Of the
Public Debt, as appears from the Books and
Treasurer's Returns in the Department, on LIST Of
May, 1857.
HUGH MeCULLOCH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
May 9, 1867. 20-tf.
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Prussia.

LONDON, May S.-The demands of The
Prussian Cabinet in regard to Luxemburp
are assuming a menacing tone.
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Friends desiring further information with
regard to Presbytery will please address the
Stated Clerk at Asheville, N. C.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-04-19
Sidewalks Again.

VIC alluded to the state Of our sidewalks q
week or two since. Since then We have motto.
ed that in other places the matter is attracting
attention Of their citizens. In Bangor both
daily papers have been bringing the matter to
the attention Of the public. Mayor Wakefield
alluded to the subject in his recent Inaugural
He says:
A concrete sidewalk. composed Of coal tar,
small stones, coarse and fine gravel was made
on the north side of State street, between
French street and Broadway, and contains
square yards. 1t WAS laid as an experiment by
the owner or agent Of the patent. The city
furnished part Of the materials and of the Ia
Dor. Estimating the materials and labor at
their market values, it cost forty cents square.
1t makes fine walk, and appears 70 be in fine
condition this spring. 1t is said to have been
laid extensively in several cities; but have
not sufficient experience and knowledge on the
subject to commend it for general use instead
Of brick. Let me suggest that 1t Is time to en-
courage the construction Of permanent SIDE
walks. There are several streets in the city
thickly settled that the cost to the owerns OF
the lots in making permanent walks would not
be great. The city would furnish eurb-stones.
and very likely sand or gravel.
Why cannot our Sclectmen in whom all the
power there Is on the subject is lodged. in
making repairs, say to owners of land OH the
street, the town will expend the amount re-
quired to repair sidewalks alIeady established.
in making new and permanent ones, if owners
Of land will take hold and make up the balance
required to make permanent ones.
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SrAGING.-Tucsday morning at 6 O'clock n
six horse stage, and a four horse do, with sim
gle teams to take up the spare passengers
started from the Ellsworth house for Bucks
port, with passengers for the katahdin. We
thought in looking over the passenger list, that
it presented an epitome of the world. A Prus-
sian farmer. settled hereabout. who once UNDER
took the difficult task of explaining to us the
Scleswig Holstein question, and the faster he
talked the less we knew about it; Newton
Theological student returning to his studies, in
whom many Of us are interested as the future
Pastor OF one of the religious Societies here !;
an Ex minister, now in trade, going to Boston
law-student, seeking few days af recreation !;
merchant bound after new goods; minis.
ter's daughter returning TO her home; two
mourners who have visited here to pay their
last respects to deceased mother;a Lady mil
liner going after the latest fashions &c. &c.
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johnson is relief against it's execution BY
the President. A bill prayiug for an injun.
ction against the execution Of nm act oil
Congress by the incumbent Of the Presi.
dental ofice cannot he received whether j,
describes him as President or simply as a
citizen III State. The motion for leave to
file bill is therefore denied.
The opinion having been delivered the
Chief Justice announced that the Court
would not sit on next Friday. it being Good
Friday. and Thursday would be substitut-
ed as motion day. ~
He also added that in the case Of the
State OF Georgia against certain officers
the Attorney General makes no objection
to filing bill. and We will therefore gran
leave to file that bill.
Mr. Sharkey-1f the Court please the OBJ
lection to the bill which attempted to file
seems to be that it is au attempt to enjo,n
the President. The bill is not filed and
can reform it to suit the views Of the Court
and present it again.
The Chief JUST, . Leave to file the bill
is refused. When another bill is presented
it will he considered.
Mr. Sharkcy-Do understand the Court
to say that application may be made on
Thursday!
The Chief Justce-On Thursday.