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Pig Iron

to i've dollars per ton. After long dis
cusSon a vote was taken and MIR. Kerrs
motion was rejected.
Mr.. Cox moved to reduce the duty to
6. so, and on that amendment discussion
vas renewed and continued at considerable
Ienoth. Tha amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Burdea moved TO make the duty
Mr.. Dawes remarked that placing pig
iron under the 10 per cent. reduction
clause would make the duty $3.50 per ton,
which, at the present cost OF iron in Eng
land. was only ID per cent. ad UGtQreH.
Ad;os1rnad
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Fast.

SYRACUSE, May 10.-Bngineer James
Wood ran a special train from Rochester to
Syracuse to-day, a distance of 81 miles, in
50 minutes
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The Kansas cases Of alleged bribery in
the election of Senator Pomeroy, in 1867,
and of Senator Caldwell, in 1871, viii be
taken up in the Senate Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections tomorrow, having
been postponed for the last two weeks in
consequence of the absence of Senator
Thurman, who asked to be present when it
was considered.
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On the LIST Nay the Department of Ag-
riculture completed its distribution of seeds
to the entire country. This was much
earlier than usual. The Department can
not therefore comply with present requests
for supplies.
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WYE WILL BE PREPARED TO PUR-
w chase all the WOOL that may be offered
us during the coming season, and to pay not only
the highest price in Cash, but to pay as much as
can be realized in any market when expenses OF
shipping are deducted.
win be glad to furnish quotations when Spring
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ESTABLISHED MARCH 80. 1885.
WASHINGTON.


WAsHrNaroN, May 1O.--The President
approved the bill for the relief of purcha-
sers of lands sold for direct taxes in the in
surrectionary States.
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PettIcOat Politics
Jes' So.

MEMPHIS, May 1O.-Throughout this
section of country there is universal con-
domination of the National Executive Com
mittee in calling Convention, unless the
National Democratic Convention endorse
the Cincinnati nominees. The press OF
this city and the surrounding country re-
gard the nominations at Cincinnati the
strongest that could have been made.
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PHILADELPHIA, PA, May lO.-The Re
publican convention to revise the rules
governing the Republican party, TO-DAY
adopted the Crawford county system OF
holding elections. Nominations VIII here
after be made by popular vote, delegates
and conventions being done away with.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26
A Monster Establishment.

Krupp's great iron works at Essen,
Germany, cover nearly eight square
miles, and one and a half miles are
under cover. They furnish employ
ment for 10000 men, who do their
work under discipline as strict as that
of the military service. Castings weigh
ing forty tons have been made several
times in these works, and ten and
twelve-ton blocks are everyday sights.
There are forty-nine hammers in the
works, of which four or five are twenty
five tons, three or four fifteen tons, and
large number five and ten tons. The
greatest OF all the hammers is a wonder,
and cost $500,000. It's foundations are
one hundred feet deep, consisting of
three tiers-the first constructed OF solid
masonry, the second of the heaviest and
stoutest oaks to be found in all Ger
many, and the third of cylindrical seq
ments Of cast iron upon which the anvil
block rests. The head of the hammer
weighs fifty tons. It's face is of steel,
and in making it, after the steel had
been cast, and while it was molten, cast
iron was poured into it from the back.
Everything that belongs to it, and to
the engine that operates it, is in dupl-
cate and triplicate. Four steam cranes
serve it, and tn Sc are each tested to
bear two hundred tons, and are intend
ed to bear forty-ton ingots, which are
the largest cast. In 1866 sixty-one
thousand tons Of steel were turned out
from these works.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26
What ii Costs to Die i'm the Grand Cen.
trail Hotel.

Mr.. Conner, Col. Fisk's private secre.
tary, is the administrator OF Fisk's
estate. On Friday he went to the Grand
Central hotel and demanded the per-
sonal property taken from the Colonel's
pocket after the shooting. This prop
erty included the Colonel's immense
diamond pin, his diamond sleeve but
tons, his diamond ring, and 1900 in
500 bank notes. Instead of giving up
the property, the proprietor of the
hotel presented bill of $1,000 for al
lowing Col Fisk to die in his house.
Mr.. Conner repuliated the exorbitant
bill, and again demanded the personal
property. The proprietor refused to
surrender it until his bill was paid
Mr.. Conner will take legal action to re-
cover the property. Mr.. Conner says
that Fisk's estate will not net over
100000. The lawyers have eaten up
nearly every thing he possessed. Mrs.
Fisk, has determined to sell her horses
and carriages, and has reduced her es-
Enlistment. Fisk's life was insured
for a small am cunt.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26

istration with dishonesty in the service.
the country will hardly forget that Gen.
Grant is the only President who has
strenuously insisted upon a reform of
the whole system of party patronage
to which the Senators are not
strangers-the only President who
has recommended it TO Con.
|. gress, and who only awaits the
completion of necessary details to put
it into execution. The evil practice of
the Civil service, necessarily breeding
corruption. was first formally opposed
by Gen. Grant in his first annual mes.
sage, in which he said: "There has
been no hesitation in changing officials
in order to secure an efficient execution
of the laws sometimes, too, when, in a
mere party view, undesirable political
results were likely to follow. Nor has
there been any hesitation In retaining
efficient officials against remonstrance
wholly political" That he has been
sometimes overborne by the tremendous
power of an evil system, We do not
deny. But he has not relaxed his pur.
pose to grapple with it, and, Congress
having expressly authorized him to un.
dertake the work, he states quietly in.
his third annual Message that plan of
reform shall have a fair trial" The
President is not rhetorician, but he
says what he means, and the country
understands him.
While, therefore, we all heartily agree
that iniquity shall be exposed, let us
hope that it will be done honorably, so
that the Republican Party shall not be
made responsible for evils which Il has
neither fostered nor approved, but to
the removal of which its Administration
is pledged.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26
Reception Of Gen. Sherman mt Madrid.

A Madrid special, of the 9th, states
that Gen. Sherman and Lieut.. Grant
arrived there on the 7th. They were
presented to King Amadeus by the
American charge dc6airS. The king is
reported as saying that he was "pleased
to see so famous representative of the
American army as Gen. Sherman, and
that he always entertained friendship
and admiration for the American peo-
pie. He desired the most cordial rela-
tions, as between neighbors whose in
terests can only lie in the preservation
of peace. May they always exist be-
tween the United States and Spain" !"
In the evening there was banquet at
the United States Legation, at which
were present Malcamp, Minister of Ma
rine; Topete, the Minister for the Colo
nies De Bias, the Foreign Minister, and
other. Toasts were drank and re-
sponded to: "The King;" President
Grant" and "The Armies and Navies
of the United States and Spain" The
utmost cordiality and friendship marked
the sentiments of the speakers of both
countries. Admiral Topete said that he
hoped the peace between the United
States and Spain may never be dis
tuI bed. The Foreign Minister, De
Bias, said that no difficulty between the
two countries is known here which cam
not be settled through the representa-
tive of Spain at Washington.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26

where the necessities demand it, pending
the perfecting form of Civil Service exam
ination.
f. A. MARDEN, charged with the embezzle-
ment Of $4,000 in government funds, while
employed as clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, has been convicted of the offense.
Foreign.
The captain of the ship Windsor Castle,
which ran down vessel in the Channel,
and who was reported to have passed on
without needing the cries of the drowning
mariners, has been acquitted of all blame.
.....It IS announced that the Pope will
shortly send an ultimatum to the Roman
Catholic Bishops who have not accepted the
dogma of infallibility.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the Oak
wood colliery, Wales, on Thursday, while
the men were at work. One gang was shut
off and probably perished. Eleven men
were taken out dead. Immediately after the
explosion flames broke out, and the extern
sive works and machinery were entirely
destroyed ...... Viscount Parker Millbank, NJ.
p, in an address denounces the public course
Of Sir Charles Dixie. He promised to call
on him to repeat in Parliament his decara-
tions in regard to the Crown and Govern
ment, and, on his failing TO answer, to brand
him as he deserves.
The smallpox is spreading throughout the
British Isles. Cardinal Cullen permits the
use of meat on Fridays for sanitary pur-
poses, owing to the prevalence of the dis
ease.....A committee of the French Assem-
bly, has reported in favor of repeating the
laws oquestrating the estates of the Orleans
Princess" Letters from Havana state that
the sentence of the American Doctor Howard
to eight years in the penitentiary has been
approved by the Captain General ......It is
reported that President Thers has requested
Gambetta to discontinue his public addresses
in the south of France.
NUMEROUS kilograms have been sent to
Madrid, Uia Key West, protesting against
Valmaseda's removal, and steamer, char
tered expressly for the purpose, has sailed,
carrying remonstrances of the colonels Of
volunteer regiments, as we'll as many citi-
zens......It is rumored that Minister DeLong
has accepted q mission from Japan similar
to that of Mr.. Burlingame's from China,
with a salary of $50 900 per year.
THE newspapers of Paris and all other
large towns in France oppose the taxation
of raw materials suggested by Poyer Quer-
tier. Their columns are filled with articles
foretelling the disastrous effects the impo-
siton of the tax will have upon the indus
tries of the country 1.-THE Spanish Minis
try has unanimously resolved not to remove
Count Valmaseda from Havana.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26
A Sad Story.

A painful story from one of the western
counties of New York. 1t is that Of an
old lady who had spent almost all her
property in the education of her son !;
she had sent him Us child, as, indeed,
by her husbands will she felt bound to
do. to England, there to receive his
education. At the time of her hus-
bands death the son was only ten years
old, and was her only child. The prop
erty left by the husband was not suffi-
cient, as she thought, to permit OF the
proper education of the boy in the way
desired 10y his father, and at the same
time TO allow her either to accompany
her son 10 England or to live in comfort
during his absence. She took discom-
fort and sent ner son first to England
and afterwards to Germany, where he
took a firstrate position at Heidelberg.
Lately he returned, probably with his
body OVERLOADED with beer, and his
mind swamped hopelessly in the mazes
of German metaphysics. He saluted
the old lady kindly, and then proceeded
to take from her in every possible way
all enjoyment of life. She had, by dill
gent work and strict economy, managed
to lay by something which, with her son,
should soothe her declining years but
this money he succeeded in persuading
her to make over to him, and then, by
his vicious courses and profligate ways,
he broke his mothers heart, and few
days ago the old lady died, and the son,
having accomplished his purpose of kill
ing her, has just set sail again for Eu-
rope, evidently intending there to lead
the life of an adventurer.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26
TennysOn Corrected.
The following lines are to be found in
Tennyson's last poem
Down in a easement sat.

Down in a casemen sat
A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair,
And glossy -throated grace, Isolt the Queen.
And when she heard the feet of Tristram grind
The spring stone that scaled about her tower.
Flushd, started. met him at the door. and there
Belted his body with her white embrace"
A correspondent, who has been per-
mitted to see the authors manuscript,
informs us that the poem must have
been tampered with while in the hands
of the publisher, for the lines, as origi-
nally written, were as follows:
Down in easement sat-
At low sea-sunset hour, Thomas cat:
A glossy throated Tom: the feline Boss
And when he heard the feet of Tabby grind
The garden fence and climb the wooden porch.
Forth from the easement dashed this Tom,
His dorsal bone high curved and firms
Whereat Q. fierce voice cried, 'Psh git you !
scat Y
Then quickly got this Tab. likewise this
Thomas cat"
The true northerner., 1872-01-26

The New York Star speaks of Grants
Administration as an odious one. The
severity of this criticism will be appre-
ciated when il is remembered that the
Star and its editor are both included in
the goods and chattels belonging to that
pure patriot now under cloud of in.
dictments for felony, VIM. M. Tweed.
The true northerner., 1872-01-26

A CLERGYMAN wished to know whether
the children of his parishioners under
stood their Bible. He asked lad whom
he found one day reading the Old Testa-
ment, who was the wickedest man.
" Moses, to be sure" said the boy.
"Moses," exclaimed the parson, chow
can that be p" Why" said the lad,
"he broke all the commandments at
once"
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Improved Bee Hive.

This hive is made of wood, of suitable
/ size and proportion. One side is hinged and
| swings open so as TO expose the interior.
4 aud allow OF the removal of the honey
/ frames and boxes. The top is also hinged
and fastened down by hooks. VcntilatorS
which revoive on central screw pivots, each
having one or more OritceS which register
with fly holes, are used (bv turning or re-
voving them) to either allow the bees to
pass throngho or in and out or close the holes.
Ihe Ventiatnrs in the upper portion of the
hive have screened Oritices which allows air
t" enter, but excludes The bee The friction
OF the ventlator on either side of the hive
is Ssuc"nt to hold it in any desired nositinn.
lhe honey frames are made with doubled
cross bars, and are placed side hv side in
an upright position. The upper cross rails
OF every alternate frame are dropped down,
winch allows Il free passage upward between
the frames, not only for the bees but for
ventilation. The honey boxes have slat bot
toms through which the bees gain entrance
to them. BY dropping down the upper cross
stats of every other frame, the bees the
heat, and the air are allowed free access to
the honey boxes
The Stats of the bottoms of the honey
boxes correspond with and cover the TOP
rails OF the alternate frames The bees by
this arrangement are prevented from alta CHI
ing the comb formed in the honey boxes to
the rails of the frames. The hive is so ven
ttlated, and the frames are so constructed
and arranged with regard to each other
that free access is given to every portion of
the hive, and the interior is kept at an even
temperature. William M. Henry of Leo.
Indiana, is the inventor of this hive. 1Sci-
cntitc American.
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Fine Cut Farming Wisdom.

We hardly know which is the bigger fool,
the farmer who undertakes to farm entirely
by his books and papers, or the one who
don't take any papers or read agricultural
books at all
The Inorganic portion of an ordinary
sized hens egg weighs about LOG grains :;
and if bird lays 100 eggs in year, she
produces about twenty-five ounces of near
ly pure carbonate of lime in that period of
time, which would afford chalk enough to
meet the wants off farmer, or perhaps even
of IA house carpenter Of moderate business,
for a twelvemonth.
Hog hair is recommended for hens nests,
as hens setting in these nests are never in
tested with lice. Thee nests we select for
Matching onr chickens. We have had other
nests SO infested with lice the hens aban-
| doned them.
Wheat producers lost twenty cents per
hushel on the last crop of wheat, because
| farmers were in Ignorance in relation to the
condition of the wheat crop in Europe To
| prevent this state of things, Com. M. F.
| Maury has hroached plan whereby the farm
er who reads the newspapers may be inform
ed from week to week, of the condition of
crops all over the civilized world. This he
has done in an address recently read before
several agricultural societies in the South,
in which he urges the plan of international
co operation in a general system for re-
porting the weather and the amount and
condition of crops planted.
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Waiking.

Walking hriskly, with an exciting object
or pteasurable interest ahead is the most
heaitbful OF AL forms of exercise except
that OF encoura4inelv remuneratyc, steady
labor II the open air; ANA vet multilndrs in
the city, whose health urgently require
exercise seldom walk when they can ride.
II th@ distance is a mile or more It. is
worse m the country, especially with the
Wetl-fo-'to; horse or carriage must be
brought tn the door even if less distance
have To be passed Under the conditions
nrst named, walking is "A bliss; il gives ami
nation to the mind, it WHITES the circula-
tlnh, 1t paints the cheek and sparkles the
eve and wakes mp the whole being, physical,
mental and moral. We know a family OF
children in This city who from from the ace
OF seven, had to walk nearly two miles to
school, winter and Summer; whether Slcet or
storm, or rain, or burning sun. they made
1t an ambition never to STAY away from
school on account of the weather. and never
to be 'late;" and one of them was heard to
boast that in seven years it had never been
necessary to give an t'excuse'' for being
winter it was necessary to dress by gas
hight Ihey did not average two days
sickness in year, and later they thought
nothing OF walking twelve miles ut time
in the Swiss mountains. Sometimes they
would be caught in drenching rains and
wet to the skin; on such occasions they
made IT, a point to do one thing, let it rain.
| and tlud9ed on more vigorously until every
thread was dry before they reached home.
l'alfs journal OF Health
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Orchard Grass.

Were ] to be asked, (Which of all the
grasses with which you are acquainted, do
ynu value most for pasturage?" | would
say, emphatcally, orchard grass. From
lny experience with it, think that one acre
wen seeded to orchard grass is worth, for
pasture, two of red clover or four of nerd :
grass. on land that is easily affected by
drought.
have been surprised in my intercourse
with farmers, to see how many have never
heard of such II grass, and how few of the
remainder have interest enough in it to try
70 post themselves up in regard to its real
value. Were there far more orchard grass
sown in our pastures, think there would
he less complaint of cows "falling of in
milk" as the dry season advances.
1t is better than herds grass to use with
clover in seeding down our meadows, for
these four reasons: 1t gives more hay per
acre it is in its prime for cutting Just when
clover is !; it roots much more strongly, and
consequently ''throws out" much less than
herds grass; because of its strong roots
and rapid ''after growth" it is zeal pro-
lection to the clover My advice to every
farmer is, do not raise less clover but far
more orchard grass. Rural New Yorker.
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Novel Mode of Farming.

The richness of the reclaimed swamp and
overfowed lands in most parts of this
State is proverbial At no points are they
found more so than on the ''Floral Isles. :"
so called, which lie among the Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers. A correspondent
of the Enterprise writing from Twitchel
Island, gives the following description of
how the lands are prepared, planted and the
seed ''harrowed" in: THE tuleS grow from
five to ten feet in height during the rainy
season. As soon as the water dries up in
the spring, the tules are fred and although
they look green, they burn ike wild oats.
After the burning is done there is a coating
OF ashes on the ground from two to ten
inches in depth, resembling light snow
IN" seed is sOwn on the surface, without
lurther preparation. A flock of sheep is
then driven over the ground, in a compact
body, by five or six men, in such a manner
as to compel them to go over the whole
surface. This treading serves to harrow
the grain, tramps the ashes down solid and
makes the whole surface of the ground look
as smooth AS an onion bed in well reru-
lated garden. San Francisco CAN
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13

Messrs Alvin Clark 4 Sons, are making
at their establishment in Cambridgeport
Mass, the largest retracting telescope in
the United States for the Naval Observa-
tory in Washington 1t will cost 5000
and has an object glass twentysix inches
in diameter. being eleven inches larger
than the one at Harvard University. The
glass alone when finished will be worth
$4,000. The two glasses-tor it requires
two to make an object glass-weighed in
the rough about two hundred and fifty
pounds and cost 81 600, about S2S per
pound. They arrived in this country about
six months ago, from Birmingham. Eng
land, and ever since the work of polishing
and preparing them has deem continued
unremittingly. Over fifty pounds have
been cut from the flint glass, which now
weighs one hundred and ten pounds, and
the other glass has been reduced to sew
enty-three pounds, and neither will vary
much from these weights when finished. 1t
is expected the telescope will be ready for
mounting in 1871.
The Republican journal., 1872-06-13
Afraid.

After singing, silence; after roses, thorns;
All the hlacktst midnights built DER golden
nOrnS;
Atter Towering, fading; bitter after sweet;
Yellow, withered stubble after waving wheat.
After green. the dropping of the shriveed leaf,
Like the sudden topping of some dear belief;
After gurgling waters, dry unsightly beds;
After eXutatlon, lowly hanging heads.
50 shrink and Shiver At yonr profered kiss.
knowing pain must follow on the heel of bliss {;
knowing loss must find NE sleeping on your
breast;
Leave me while you love me-thiS is surely best.
Like a hushng flower left upon its stem.
SWeetenlng the thickness Of the forests hem;
Like hidden fountain never touched his lips;
Like An unknown ocean, never sailed by ships.
Thus shall he ftirrr 10 your untrird thought
Than If all my living into yours were wrought.
Hearts dreams are the sweetest in the lonely
Leave me while you love me-thiS is surely best.