Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-09

impose burdens for 4 season, is net GER
tainly very alarming.
Cuch is q glance at the material pros
peTity and wealth Of Cur country, bEt its
progres, in the cultivation OF the Arts,
Sciences, ard Religion is equally full OF
interest.
The construction Of ships, whether
wood or iron-clad, and steam engines aud
their practical adaptation; the variOu,
kinds OF :sbor saving machines, I. the
mower, reaper. aud hreshcr; the cotton
gin, power loom, spinniug-jeuney and the
sewing machine; these, with the improve.
meuts IN bleaching, dyeing and stesmiag,
and the transformations they have
wrought, are among the most wonderful
achievements oigenius.
|, The art of printing with the use of ster-
otype plates, cylinder and power presses,
lithography, mezzotlnt, and other forms
Of engraving, has been brought on this
continent 10 its highest perfection. 1t il
truly marvellous, with what dispatch,
cheapness, and beauty Of execution, print
ing is now done. The New York dailies
as the Times, Herald, and Tribune, are
printed at the rate of 10000 per hour,
aud sold to dealers at the small price of
80 80 per hundred /; while in England the
London Times is worth S3.75. In litho-
graphing such progress has been made
that American pictorials are equal or su-
peror in execution to the London WuS-
trated Ne'es the cuts in many cases be-
ing equal to mczzotint are retailed at a
small Lrice. The total number of period
icals and papers published IN the United
States is 4,05l, with circulation OF
927 ,65l ,54S copies From official sour.
ces we learn that the useful inventions,
for which patents have been issued are
AIS; that the schools and colleges Of
the country number about $4,000, EN-.
poying at least l50,0 TEACHERS, while
the number of persons and children
taught is stated in round numbers al
5000, 900, while, if possible. to place
education, the palladium of our free insti
tutious, upon permanent basis, Congress
has appropriated to the different states
) fifty millions of acres of land endowine
colleges in each State for the promotion O
agriculture and mechanic arts. Indeed
in the number aud efficiency of its agen
ces for the general diffusion of knowledge
high cultivation and development OF tn,
mind, the advancement and perfection o
literature aud science and the moral anC
social elevation of man, our country ha
no rival. Ii such nation titled order
would be valueless. Its titles in order
to rank and preferment are not Of bloot
and lineage, but ability genius and virtu
and these come often from the plain walk
OF life.
Under the inspiration Of our institu
t tions the bright eyed boy of the cottag
is more likely to rank the Newton o
Franklin or Washington of his age tina
the child of opuence, writing his nam
! higher on the pyramids Of the world
progress
n In 1868 President Lincoln on the At
e of July, in his message to Congress, a
S extraordinary session, uttered the follow
+. ing sublime truths. In referring to th
;. character of the men who had volunteere
and we're ready to die for the union, h
c said, "There are many single regiment
r whose members one and another posses
: full practical knowledge Of all the Art
$ Sciences, Profession and whatever els
whether useful or elegant is known in th
v whole world and there is scarcely Oh
:. from which there could not be selected
!. President, cabinet, a congress, and PEI
r haps court, abundantly competent I
e administer the government ITSELF" L
/ he born in such land and under instItl
: tions that thus elevate its people is u ia
\ richer Inheritance than the living Of tn
). yealthiost lords Of England. M Z
Nor are its moral forces less poten
# By way of pre-eminence we are called
: christian nation. To about every 900 IL
k babitents there is christian church
e which quite one.halfthe population steat
f lily worship, and in which an aggregate I
n over 5000, 600 of children are taught
a the Sabbath.school In no other natio
= are religious newspapers adapted to tf
IS juvenile as well as the adult mind,
G widely circulated and read, while in tt
IS general literature Of the faulty and pu|
d lie libraries the religious element large
: predominates. These and other NOR
" forces, from childhood to mature age. e.
b ert their bcnifcial power, in the NOR
10 culture of the citizen, Illuminating Il
n intellect, educating the conscience al
1t thus qualifying him to intelligently al
s. faithfully discharge every duty as chill
N narent, and member Of society.